I didn't see a customs thread so i figured I'd just ask. I have a lot of experience printing my own figures but even with high quality stuff like PETG or ID resin I'm getting fed up with the joint wear from printed materials. Do you anons have any recommendations for prefab revoltech / figma style joints? that way tolerance isn't an issue and I can just sculpt and print the in-between parts like I'm used to. Thanks. Now I'm gonna bump the thread with some pics of my last custom.
>>11636855Are there any legal issues in regards to action figure joints? If I wanted to sell my own figures and made a mass produced mold with these things for articulation would I have to get a lisence from their manufacturer?
>>11647062>Are there any legal issues in regards to action figure jointsNo. But you sound very green. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to have any figure mass produced?
>>11647010Nope, at least not the liquid, yellow shit variant that people bring up; just the "usual" PVC-gets-kinda-sticky-and-attracts-dust one.And as said, it's ONLY that kind of joint.All the white, gold, red, yellow, etc. and matte black ones are perfectly fine.
>>11636824Looks great. Can you tell me more about whole process? I've been looking into doing something similar for some characters that don't have figs and I thought about using popular dummy-13 project as base on which I'd sculpt parts to make it look like characters I want.
>>11648970sure anon. it was a pain but i rushed it out to impress an artist connection i had made. it took about 3 weeks, but then another week or so of polish. I used the original lucky 13 skeleton, which i think is the precursor to the more popular dummy. I work in zbrush and made liberal use of booleans functions, and i printed it on a bamboo a1 mini. Zbrush is shit for tolerances and i don't know other 3d programs very well so it took a lot of trial and error.
Thoughts on the old Resident Evil line from Toybiz?
>>11638790>>11638791Love that Licker
>>11645251Those are cool!They got a bit too creative with Dr. Caligari imo, but Casare looks pretty close to how he looks in the movie.
Which McFarlane Blair Witch is a better design?
I >>11645102I found Pumpkinhead for $50, which is still expensive to me but is the cheapest I've seen him for.>>11647184I think the tree one fits better, even if the zombie one is creepier.
>>11638790I used to undress ada and have the plant monster tentacle fuck her. One day I became disgusted with the practice and threw them out. Still regret tossing them.
Any good toys to buy?
>>11644974>Everyone cheering over the death of a black teenUh racist much?
>>11644982They're not cheering, they're freaking out
>>11644617McFarlane made one in 7-inch scale. There was also the big Bandai one >>11644665 for 1/12 scale but I never got it. The Jazwares is perfectly scaled for 6-inch figures though, so while it's still pretty tall, it could look a little undersized with NECA's 7-inch offerings.
>>11637466I like the Masters of the Universe and Transformers crossovers.
>>11644982Children can be happy, anon.Let the children be happy.Do you have something against happiness, son?
I'm starting to collect Playmobil, I bought 3 of pic related, and just my luck, 2 were repeated. Any idea how to identify them?
>>11644019They are very easy to fell out
>>11644034>There should be a code stamped somewhere. Just google it.I've tried to Google that, I'm not an expert on googling but it was an exercise in frustration. a code-decoder might exist, but I couldn't find it>>11644019>Any idea how to identify them?Google did reveal characters with parts. you can usually pick a part or two from each character, and do the humiliating (your experience may vary) "feeling up the bags" maneuver in the store. it might take some practice, the arms can feel like swords or whatever. but if there's a hat shape or pole thing, it's easy to tell if you have the right piece by feeling through the bag...
>>11644889Guess is the old-fashioned way, then. Thanks for the advice
Yeah, I think the codes only bring partial clues like day of production, not a hard indication of the content.
>>11644019hands look to rigid, wish it has a slight bend nonethless they look good looks fun to collect
What is your favorite movie about toys?
>>11647229Probably get a weird infection that turns your cock purple from all the mold inside of that old ass doll that probably has 0 upkeep and sat in a moist basement for years. Your dick falling off will be the real curse.
>>11647088These movies were ass but they're fun enjoyable ass>TAKUUUUUUAAAAAAA>key to nonguAnd then there's Legend Reborn which was just boring unfun ass.
>>11643660EVERYTHING IS AWESOME
>>11643714I'm pissed no company has made new figures for this movie
>>11647088You forgot the Glatorian movie.
So are these dedicated joint tightening liquids actually worthwhile or is floor polish good enough? Does it work better? Does it last longer? Does it do less/more damage to the figure long term?
>>11644485>>11644485You dont, but it's always better to pop it out. Especially if it's a ball joint that goes into a socket. If it's a ball joint that you manage to pop out, it's better to use the water texture. It leaves a transparent flexible layer that creates more friction. For other joints, you can apply the reducer. Of course, always start small, if you need more friction, add more and let it dry. I usually apply it, pose it, put it back in my display and forget about it lolThe more you can dismantle a joint, the better. Pic related, Zodd's shoulder joint was loose so I completely dismantled it for better results.
>>11642291Are there fake of these? I'm eyeing on buying exactly this but I wanna be sure I get the authentic brand
>>11645241Kiki doesn't disclose its ingredients or have a MSDS, so how do you even check its authenticity?
Just use elmers glue
>>11645241man, you people really need to stop being fooled into buying overpriced acrylic.It's literally just cheapo acrylic with maybe a surfactant to make it runny. You can make your own high premium joint tightener using any Walmart acrylic paint and 60% alcohol. Or you can add the acrylic paint without watering it down, because it really doesn't matter.You buy a little bottle of acrylic paint in any color or in clear gloss/matte acrylic varnish for $1-5 and it'll last you a lifetime.No need to special order anything. Just buy acrylic paint next time you're at walmart or near a michaels or next to hobbylobby.>>11647191white glue works too, but it wears out faster. BUT it's so cheap and you have enough supply to last you a lifetime with your $2 bottle.pic is what i use. Super fucking premium and overpriced just to tighten joints, but i also use it for painting. So many uses, instead of buying an overpriced acrylic "joint tightener" that's loaded with surfactants and who knows what else so i can't use it for anything else.
My kid is obsessed with this green poofter. What are the highest quality toys of the Grinch available?
>>11648292First prove you have a kid but no firends to help you with this
>>11648303Anon don't be cruel to OP he obviously has no internet with which to search for the answer and has to use the carrier pigeon feature of 4chan.
>>11648303 People with kids have no friends because taking care of the kids eats up all our time. Checkmate.>>11648327Google only brings up trash toys. I'm hoping you homosexuals know of obscure figures from Japan or something.
>>11648292The Jim Carrey movie had a surprisingly decent toy line. I had the Santa Grinch as a kid.
>>11648447Fugggg that slutty Who in the red dress.I've never understood the concept of hot glue until this moment.>my coom grew three sizes that day
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Do the instructions for combining SS86 Devastator have Scrapper's foot mode wrong? I was wondering why mine tended to lean forward a little (but still noticeably) and I noticed the Scrapper leg did not sit completely flat. He does, however if you set his heels (scrapper arms) the opposite way to what the instructions show (with the little clips on Scrapper's hands on top instead of down). On second thought it's kinda obvious since the other side of his arm is uneven and causes the foot to not be completely flat.
>>11650290The final figure is not missing that panel.
>>11650401Did you turn the little bucket at the front around 180 and lock it in place between his legs? I noticed he will not align properly if you do not. You can tell when you did it properly because it will click in place.
>>11650401Yeah, I noticed that too and thought it was an error, BUT the Mixmaster foot is designed to tilt forward the exact same way, so I'm guessing they actually designed Scrapper to transform like that to make the thing slightly more stable. It compensates the small heel spurs and weight of the backpack so no dumb kid makes it fall backwards.At first I was transforming it so Scrapper was flat to not stress his shovel, but after noticing that Mixmaster is the same I follow the instructions. Shovel doesn't hold that much weight anyways.
>>11650229i'm glad i finally secured the narutoformers at a pretty low price, but you are reminding me just how much cooler it still could be...god, the tm2 mold is flawed and STILL so cool that I never stop wanting both of them
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>>11647256I have ghost gundam, it is alright and does whatever you need it to do but ill never fucking use the transformation gimmick. If you insist on getting it, get the latest phantom gundam repair one as it comes with the most accessories
Metal build Nirvash redesign sucks, but I'm still buying it. We will never get another option. I'm sorry for being part of the problem.
>>11646376Realizing this, I've now become somewhat un-hyped for the possibility of a Ver ANIME MP Guncannon. I figured that might be next in the line up considering Bandai backtracked and released all the other missing MS. But the MP Guncannon is only ever shown using one machine gun. No shield no beam saber, no bazooka. If it does get made. It will only come with like a few sets of hands, one machine gun, firing effects pieces, and that's it. But I'll still cost 80-100 dollars I bet.
i think im just moving over to gunpla at this pointA.N.I.M.E. isn't getting much, the other lines are expensive, lmao metal build/robo-dou
>>11648040Robo-dou is a fucking bargain compared to ANIME at this point.
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>>11649723I know, but I save on shipping with Prime.
>>11649744They are giving out free replacements.
>>11649928Nice
do you see yourself ever stopping your collecting of Marvel Legends?
>>11650394Probably not completely. I've already gotten most of the characters/teams I want so I don't buy as many as I used to but every now and then there's still something where I think "that's a great figure I kind of want it" or they redo a character that's on my list and it's just head and shoulders above the one I already have
what was the weirdest toy you has as a kid?I remember this trunks figure that came with a skinsuit of his super saiyan form. I thought the gimmick was neat but also a huge pain in the ass and frankly kinda creepy. after a certain point it just became a manlet trunks figure to hang out with the normal-sized super saiyan gokus and vegetas I had
Saw this at a supermarket in the Whitehall Mall in PA decades ago. Bought it as a gag gift for my brother. Such beautiful idiocy.
>>11645234Idk, probably a knock off go bot from a drug store. There was a christmas where i got things they found at yard sales and while i understood the reality of it i guess it kinda bothered me to get just random stuff and a han solo mego sized figure. The han was strange since she knew i did not like dolls in any way so yeah, that was weird.
>>11647438My aunt did that to us. Had gotten me that tall Luke Skywalker doll, and my older brother... the Princess Leia doll? lol... it was probably all they had left of the big ones, due to the christmas Star Wars toy craze.
>>11647454Your bro ended up with a Leia fetish, didn't he?
>>11647483with fuckable hair like that, who could blame him?
Was this a good idea for a toy?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ERuhks3GNk
I wish Walmart continued making exclusive holiday release toys like they did back in 2021 with Robby and the Iron Giant. We could have had Johnny 5, Skyscraper-bot, and who knows what else by now if they had.
>>11636765I approve of these alterations
>>11646474What about >>11646467?
>>11635624>only now do I see the dick-shaped entrance
>>11647456it's cool but I still want a full size recreation
I think I am one of a handful of people who actually know why this toyline failed in short The toy line was pure insanity somehow the managers did think that kids will love mutants who look like crap thrown together!The only colors are shit green, shit gold/brown and 4 of the mutants look almost identical meaning like generic crap thrown together.Not only this the mutants are fully unique (have their own molds)!!!!!!1111one one oneIf you did not know the original toy line did reuse like 4 molds they pressed differently colored plastic out.This is why the le skeleton scare glow literally has abbs and flesh on him! They only painted the skeleton in. This was super cheep to produce.However the 90s toyline decided to have these mutants. And wasted unique molds on EVERY body part they have.This character? Looks totally different in the show and is not even really named. Also all the mutants except 4 are background characters and one of them is not even drawn in model or his colors?The most memorable are>Flog (red leader)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>11638396 I think that the weird retro apocalypse futurism - in a strongly Kirby way was part of it's charm. Thundarr rides over a desk in the middle of a swamp (that has stood there for a thousand years.) and the wood freshly smashes. SPEED BUGGY is petrified in a rock - but can still be driven. Subway posters for JAWS 10. And they are all mixed in with MASSIVE geological shift. It's literally A WORLD GONE MAD. and that makes it better. (and that's not even the aliens and cyber mages) This isn't 200 years in the future. Magic fucked things. what magic didn't fuck science and radiation did. the interactions are why it's like that and bits of the past preserved.
>>11638407 It's possible that you could reboot Thundarr today because it didn't have the toys then.
>>11638402I don't think having to feature specific characters in a series due to a new toy coming is a bad thing. aiming a cartoon to sell a toyline doesnt have to be bad. lazy writers might complain but when you have the talent you can add new characters and get a new spin on the series with it
>>11639154>That's how Harmony Gold stole Macross from Big West/Tastonoku with changing the name to "Robotech," re-editing the cartoons, and changing most character names.This is inaccurate. The way they stole it was they purchased the rights to localize Macross, but the wording in the contract was vague and so they argued they bought the rights to the IP it'self. They ended up settling for ownership of the distribution rights in the western hemisphere, but I think now even that is no longer the case because they haven't done anything with the rights other than sue people for distributing/producing anything even Macross adjacent for the past 3 decades. Now they only block any Macross content from the 80s era.
>>11637488it's like they wanted to be GI Joe and TMNT simultaneously
>biggest toy store in the city is closing>go check it out>this is their Marvel Legends sectionWhat the fuck
>>11644340I went to a Ross today that was filthy with NECA's. I'm not interested but I dropped a post to their GEN. They had DC, ML (not many), but a lot of Bandai and other imports, Transformers, I saw GI Joe's today as well, plus a ton of Beastmaster Super7, and some random ReActions (the Office and Parks and Rec?), so you're right. However, we have what passes for toy stores in my metro area, plus WalMart in the suburbs and Targets. In fact, this Ross was right next to a hge Target (about four small stores apart since Target has their own building).>>11644382Yup, I saved that picture to shitpost on Toddster Patio Gen here but I see if I blow it up you can clearly see the BA logo. Sabac also had a boring design. I've seen people do displays without any DC capes but using the pirate from Aquaman or using Swamp Thing or even Darkseid to tower over shit and it looks good, so I could see someone buying him but it's so fucking static. These are just cheap PVC statues.I just realized that the vehicle on the bottom of that display in the Batpatz Drifter bike, I just grabbed that off Target for $14, free shipping since I was buying other crap. I can see people picking that up cheaply if they understand it's just a generic Honda or similar bike, there's not even a fucking bat logo on it.
>>11645430Wouldnt mind getting Demona if i didnt have to shave her wings down again
>>11645711I was really impressed with how good some of those look. I keep seeing just The Black Noir and no other boys (maybe they never made any?) and I think it would make a great basic generic buck for a head minion or something like that in a crowd scene. But I'm not paying $17 because he's on some Amazon Prime show that I've never even really paid attention to the memes that stemmed from it.
>>11636190It's fucking insane. They'll make figures for literally who characters, but you'd be lucky to find an Iron Man or Wolverine.
>>11645989>literally who characterssome of that is contractually. some of it you have to wonder.I mean look at all the Metamorpho's that are peg warming all over the place half a year after the movie came out. They might as well have made a Jimmy Olsen figure.
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>>11644465Todd can beat up Matt any day
>>11645885>>11645888are they purposely fucking up the sword design or something?
>>11642681>>11642723>>11642734>enjoy your dead line, friend.Mattel made a Signature release of Freddie. For all I know, there's also a DCUC version as well, since there was for Mary. There was also a DC Direct version.You literally are just a zoomie imbecile.
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