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*sigh* Yeah, you’re right, but I don’t know why they can’t make at least Indy and tie it into the lucasfilm thing. I’m not asking for a whole line dang it! I wish ReAction stuff wasn’t so expensive, that’d be ideal (with maybe knee articulation).
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The problem with an Indiana Jones line is that it's not really toy-etic. Indiana Jones himself, is loving awesome, but who's after that? Belloq? Dude in an ascot isn't a cool figure. Donovan from Last Crusade? Again, just a guy in a suit. The And then the vehicles. A truck from Raiders, a inflatable raft from Temple? The tank from Crusade might be cool, but that's it. And since no one does playsets anymore, forget about a Well of Souls, or Temple of Doom, or Grail Temple. Plus, I really doubt you're going to get a major company to mass produce for retailers one figure for an entire line (unless it's someone like NECA) Davros1 fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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Oct 6, 2021 04:02
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I could picture Super 7 or maybe Neca doing an Indiana Jones figure aimed at adult collectors. It's failed twice already as a kid's toy, so I don't think it would ever do the numbers you need for Hasbro to try it again. As popular as the movies have been, it's not "toyetic" in the way other big franchises are. I think it's the same reason you don't see a ton of James Bond toys.
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Oct 6, 2021 04:04
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Only way I see Indiana Jones working as a toy besides a NECA release, is like a Mighty Max style mini play set.
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Oct 6, 2021 04:09
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Wave 1 Indiana Jones (Hovitos Temple) Marian Ravenwood (Cairo Chase) Colonel Toht Belloq (Ark Ritual) Dr. Henry Jones, Jr. (Professor) Sallah (Tanis Dig-site) BAF: German Mechanic Wave 2 Indiana Jones (Bridge Showdown) Short Round Willie Scott (Shanghai) Thuggee Guard Indiana Jones (Shanghai) Mola Ram BAF: Lao Che Wave 3 Indiana Jones (Grail Temple) Dr. Henry Jones, Sr. Elsa Schneider German Motorcycle Soldier Indiana Jones (Boy Scout) Kazim (Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword) BAF: Grail Knight It’s so simple, now do it already Hasbro you fucks  I would argue that Crusade is actually the least toyetic and hardest to figure out.
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Oct 6, 2021 04:47
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I would argue that Crusade is actually the least toyetic and hardest to figure out. It's also the worst of the original three movies... 
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Oct 6, 2021 05:05
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Indiana Jones has a breakdown where Raiders is basically a perfect adventure movie, then there is a group of okay to good, mediocre to dull and poo poo ones following it. The biggest dispute is which of the other three you place on each slot. (Crystal Skull is the second best, Crusade is Raiders but worse and Temple of Doom is awful.)
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Oct 6, 2021 06:03
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I’m staying out of any further Indy discussions because there’s been fightin’ words uttered already, but to change direction, NofP you have a point about James Bond figures, but that seems even less of a problem than Indiana Jones, as far as being toy-etic. Just the Connery era alone would be enough for a couple waves. We can expand it to George Lazenby and (lame rear end) Roger Moore just for the villains, but also to have a Bond in each wave. ^^what big mean jerk said. Lay out a three wave Bond proposal and let’s start making calls in the morning! Clearly we know what the kids these days want! Bulgaroctonus fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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Oct 6, 2021 06:41
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I'd love a 6" Raiders Indy... and while the sculptors are at it, a 6" Rick Deckard (2019 version)
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Oct 6, 2021 07:13
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6 inch scale Jaws (Bond henchman, not shark) to put with my Black Series Chewbacca, please.
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Oct 6, 2021 07:21
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Bulgaroctonus posted:I’m staying out of any further Indy discussions because there’s been fightin’ words uttered already, but to change direction, NofP you have a point about James Bond figures, but that seems even less of a problem than Indiana Jones, as far as being toy-etic. Just the Connery era alone would be enough for a couple waves. We can expand it to George Lazenby and (lame rear end) Roger Moore just for the villains, but also to have a Bond in each wave. Needs a wave done in a retro polygon style for characters from Goldeneye 64
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Oct 6, 2021 07:38
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Yessss!! Exactly! Who actually owns the rights for Bond figures? Seeing as how no one has made poo poo for what, decades? I think there were some Barbie Ken dolls awhile back? Maybe they’re cheap. I dunno, has BSS ever had an official Goon Project?
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Oct 6, 2021 07:51
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There’s a company that’s been doing 1:6 Bond figured but they’ve been slow to come out and what came out had problems. If they make a Craig I’m preordering immediately
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thiccabod posted:It's also the worst of the original three movies... I will cut you, TLC is awesome.
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Oct 6, 2021 09:13
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Last Crusade is my favourite Indy film.
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CelticPredator posted:There’s a company that’s been doing 1:6 Bond figured but they’ve been slow to come out and what came out had problems. Dunno how you feel about unlicensed figures but this looks pretty slick: https://onesixthkit.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2757&search=Eleven
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Oct 6, 2021 10:12
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I'm with the other bods - TLC is just a lame re-tread, with added Comedy Dad. Raiders is the only truly great Indy film. As for figures, other than the man himself, the only one that would interest me would be a Pat Roach
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Oct 6, 2021 10:34
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That’s very close. I don’t mind 3rd parties, but I just haven’t seen a Craig sculpt that really works for me. The man is super hard to capture lol
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Oct 6, 2021 10:35
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Davros1 posted:Plus, I really doubt you're going to get a major company to mass produce for retailers one figure for an entire line (unless it's someone like NECA) Indiana Jones was in one of the Lego Star Wars, so they can just do his figure in The Black Series and call it "Lego Star Wars Tribute" A couple of heads (one with hat and one without), a couple of hands, a removable jacket, throw in a few little bits like the headpiece, one of the stones from TOD, the cross from TLC, a gun and some sculpted whips and it'd be sorted.
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Oct 6, 2021 11:38
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Davros1 posted:The problem with an Indiana Jones line is that it's not really toy-etic. Indiana Jones himself, is loving awesome, but who's after that? Belloq? Dude in an ascot isn't a cool figure. Donovan from Last Crusade? Again, just a guy in a suit. The Dude a Mola Ram figure would be dope. Same for Marian, Sullah, and Dietrich, especially if he has a melting milk head.
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Bulgaroctonus posted:^^what big mean jerk said. Lay out a three wave Bond proposal and let’s start making calls in the morning! Clearly we know what the kids these days want! Wave 1: Connery Bond in classic black tux Goldfinger Dr No Blofeld (You Only Live Twice, maybe has a Diamonds are Forever head swap) Pussy Galore Q Optional #7: Emil Largo BAF: Oddjob Wave 2: Moore Bond in grey suit (can head swap with Connery) Baron Samedi Francisco Scaramanca Max Zorin May Day Felix Leiter Optional #7: Bond in astronaut suit BAF: Jaws Wave 3: Dalton Bond in casualish clothes Franz Sanchez or Necros, I guess Brosnan Bond in winter coat BORIS Xenia Onatopp Wai Lin (because Michelle Yeoh rules) Optional #7: John Cleese Q BAF: Trevelyn Wave 4: Craig Bond in collared white shirt sleeve shirt and slacks Le Chiffre M (Judi Dench) Vesper Lynd Waltz Blofeld Skinny Q Optional #7: Dominic Green BAF: Raoul Silva All the Bonds can easily head swap ship you theoretically have 5 looks for any given bond, ideally each with two expressions/heads, fist hands, gun hands, and a variety of guns, though the walther should come with more than one of them. Yeah a bunch of good movies were skipped with their villains. It's mainly because they amounted to "guy in suit," thus way at least you're getting most of the iconic looking villains. Brosnan's later 2 film's are ignored because they were loving trash. Realistically speaking, no one would buy figures for most Bond girls, unfortunately. BAFs are dickishly iconic villains because that's the only way you recover the cost of the waves. (Or in Jaws' case, he's huge) Fuzz fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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Oct 6, 2021 13:47
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Well a big reason why the Indy line died a death the last time is that 3.75 lines across the board were dying a death as the market in general had moved on, they were too expensive and very poor quality. It didn’t help that Crystal Skull was badd. As someone else said I don’t know if a 6 inch line could survive now. You’d have everyone looking for a Indy and there are a small handful of others that might have some interest but by and large you are going to have something that will pegwarm badly. James Bond I hate to say would be the same way. Few people under 40 care about any of the old Bond stuff and I don’t see fans of the new Bond movies clamoring for merchandise. While I think it would be cool to have all the Bonds on a shelf beyond that there isn’t a whole lot else to bother with there.
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Was all set to poo poo on the idea of Bond waves but hell yeah, I'd buy a BORIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS in a heartbeat. And take great pleasure in picking up a cheap pegwarming Just watched a review of the new classic Hercules and he looks really nice but something about Hasbro's 6" thigh swivels just ruins the whole thing for me. The silly thing is I don't even mind it on biceps, just the thigh makes me irrationally 'ugh'. Anyway, I've just seen that the Mafex Gambit is out and has a card attack piece so big it needs its own stand and I'm already reaching for my wallet. Hopefully they'll finish the classic 90s line up before we start drawing our pensions...
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You're not alone in hating thigh swivels. They are pretty much always ugly and bad. On more than one custom figure I have glued them in place and puttied over them. A few toy lines have managed to hide the joint pretty well, like MOTU Classics (and Thundercats, now using the same buck). It's usually way better to put the leg on a ball joint with a little bit of wiggle room. I think it's funny that I offhandedly mentioned James Bond as an example of a property that would never sell toys to kids, and kicked off a dozen posts about why we need James Bond toys. I still have the old Sideshow doll of Connery as Bond, which was really nice for its time. (Fun fact: I also bought one of those for my mom, a big Bond fan from way back. She displays it to this day! She was so bummed when Connery died.)
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Davros1 posted:The problem with an Indiana Jones line is that it's not really toy-etic. Indiana Jones himself, is loving awesome, but who's after that? Belloq? Dude in an ascot isn't a cool figure. Donovan from Last Crusade? Again, just a guy in a suit. The The Lost Ark had some cool toys, can't remember if I got then as a Christmas thing or from the 'Toy Lady'(most of the toys my brothers and I got in the early 80s were from a woman with grandkids around the same age as us who visited her once or twice a year. She'd buy them toys to play with and after they left she'd flip them at the flea market.) I had Indy, the burly shirtless nazi and a covered truck. The truck was awesome because it had a string in the back to hook Indy to drag him around. Then, if you applied a little pressure on the back axel it would spool up the string while the truck moved to make simulate Indy crawling up his whip.
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There’s a “toy museum” in Austin that doesn’t take care of any of their poo poo at all, but they had a bunch of prototypes for the Kenner Raiders of the Lost Ark line when I was there and that’s the closest I’ve ever been to one of those figures. That whole Kenner Raiders line is a bit of a white whale for me. You’ll see hosed up Indys on eBay occasionally (usually with broken hands or legs), or Marian/Swordsman/Toht missing all of their accessories. Everything else goes for way more than I’m willing to spend. Someone also did a line of slightly larger figures for Temple, but you rarely see them pop up on eBay and I can’t find good info on the line as a whole.
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Not a figure, but my Godzilla SP wallpaper came in and today I was finally able to unroll it while I got an estimate for framing. It's just over 5.5' long and 3.5' tall. 
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BooDooBoo posted:Indiana Jones was in one of the Lego Star Wars, so they can just do his figure in The Black Series and call it "Lego Star Wars Tribute" That or from that one non-canon crossover comic they did where Indy finds the wreck of the Millennium Falcon
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https://twitter.com/super7store/status/1445781036944658432 Rita's coming from Super7
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They made a figure of trump jr's girlfriend?
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:They made a figure of trump jr's girlfriend? Be nice! This lump of plastic has far more charisma and charm
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Oct 6, 2021 22:39
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Sideshow emailed me to say Hot Toys Lando will ship next week.
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Found a flocked Panthor at Walmart today. Am I a monster for wanting to open it? I feel like it's rare enough that it shouldn't be opened, but at the same time leaving him on the box completely defeats the purpose of the flocking. Also, he is $15 more than the regular Panthor for some reason. Shiftypenguin fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Oct 7, 2021 |
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Joe Fisto posted:Sideshow emailed me to say Hot Toys Lando will ship next week. Me too. Finally my Hot Toys will be complete. I just got good deals on Mythic Legions Gold skeleton and silver knight so now I've got them all once my All Stars 4 and BBTS orders come in!
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Is anyone interested in an instant GI Joe Classified collection? I'm looking to offload mine, not because they're bad figures, they just don't bring me joy like the rest. 
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Oct 7, 2021 13:46
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I don't really give a poo poo about Bond as a franchise at all but for some reason I just preordered the Playmobil Aston Martin from Goldfinger set
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Joe Fisto posted:Is anyone interested in an instant GI Joe Classified collection? I'm looking to offload mine, not because they're bad figures, they just don't bring me joy like the rest. I've got about half of it already so I could never justify going all in on that, but if you reach a point of parceling it out I'd want at least four of them. I totally understand if that's not what you want to do though.
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Oct 7, 2021 18:41
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Esp if you decided to part with that stormshadow and the red ninja…
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   Woo! New base form Goku with manga colors, armorless base form Vegeta and manga-accurate Piccolo! And first form Cell!  Gonna get all of these. Those smirking faces for Goku and Piccolo are awesome. Plus, the colors are awesome. I’m such a mark for these. 
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I manifested the Vegeta that I wanted with the power of dreams.
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