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Best Tarzan Figure?

Anonymous Sat 04 Jan 2025 06:11:18 No.11284443 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11284903 >>11286936 >>11286961

I want a good Tarzan figure, highly posable, and looks good in most any pose achievable.

What options are there? Or is it best to make a custom? If best to make a custom, what are the best naked/nearly naked human male figures I could find?
Disney is barely tolerable if no other option exists, but I would prefer a more "live action" look.

And yes I am aware of masturbation action Tarzan.

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Anonymous Sat 04 Jan 2025 16:15:21 No.11284734 Report

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Anyone?

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Anonymous Sat 04 Jan 2025 18:19:36 No.11284879 Report

Quoted By: >>11286471 >>11288065 >>11289717

JOHJ

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Anonymous Sat 04 Jan 2025 18:46:39 No.11284903 Report

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>>11284443
A custom is your best bet unless you want to hold out for a Mezco or Frazetta GirlsxIcon Collectibles Tarzan. The RomankeyxCowl male blank would be pretty good as a base, especially if you want more intense poses, but I don't know about a good head sculpt that wouldn't be custom work.

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Anonymous Sat 04 Jan 2025 19:12:52 No.11284931 Report

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>>11284903
Well, that's a start at least! I'm sure I can get a loin cloth for that figure, trick would now be giving him some "scars" and a good head, any idea or info on possible heads?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Jan 2025 19:29:01 No.11284952 Report

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>>11284931
As I look I realize I'd need two or three heads, maybe four, one neutral, one scream/yelling, one smiling, and maybe one snarling.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Jan 2025 23:44:41 No.11286455 Report

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Anyone got suggestions for sourcing a loin cloth or head for the suggested RomankeyxCowl male body?

Also, how pale is the white flesh color? I'm not sure between the white and the "yellow"/tanned color which would be better.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Jan 2025 23:57:01 No.11286471 Report

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>>11284879
Doesn't Tarzan mean something along the lines of light skinned? Because he's a white baby adopted by Black people or gorilla's or something.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Jan 2025 02:04:45 No.11286616 Report

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>>11286471
He's "the great white ape" so, yeah, a nigure won't do.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Jan 2025 06:40:45 No.11286936 Report

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>>11286471
It means "white skin" in the tongue of the mangani
>>11284443
I never expected so many /toy/ soldiers to be as big as fans of ERB but we're kind of boned. There arent alot of good tarzan figures. Outside of the vintage MEGO and Mattel figures, it's all disney shit.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Jan 2025 07:26:44 No.11286961 Report

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>>11284443
>still no good posable Disney Tarzan for some reason

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Anonymous Tue 07 Jan 2025 02:32:38 No.11288065 Report

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>>11284879
WTF TÜRK??????

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Anonymous Tue 07 Jan 2025 03:29:08 No.11288126 Report

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>>11288065
Disney brain rotted fool.

Disney Tarzan is one of the worst Tarzan tales done.

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Anonymous Tue 07 Jan 2025 20:24:31 No.11288807 Report

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>>11286936
Maybe in the future Four Horsemen will do Tarzan for their Figura Obscura line, I'm kind of shocked there's really not much Tarzan out there.

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2025 03:52:03 No.11289300 Report

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>>11288807
Same, I wonder if it's difficult to work with ERB estate or something. It really feels like we should have a Tarzan or John Carter by now.

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2025 05:11:13 No.11289370 Report

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>>11288807
This would be the best outcome. There's a ton of Tarzan media in the public domain as is too, just this year the Hal Foster strip began lapsing. The four horsemen could go hog wild with Tarzan and Carter both. A figure obscurs barsoom line would really be amazing.
>>11289300
From an outside perspective they seem really cunty in the same way the Doyle estate has been for the last 70 odd years. They've trademarked the name "Tarzan" despite the character having spent nearly a century in the public domain. They also refuse to reprint alot of classic tarzan comics for whatever reason but at the same time they'll invest in making original comics following the adventures of Jane Porter or Dejah Thoris.

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2025 06:24:05 No.11289436 Report

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>>11289370
Copyright mafia, they lost their chance to close it all up before this modern era, so they're determined to cling to what they do have rights to for their shareholders sake.

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2025 06:35:21 No.11289443 Report

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This does make me wonder, what would be a good Jane figure? I figure she'd need flexible hair and good if not equal to Tarzan's articulation, but would it be more fitting for her to have some torn Victorian dress clothing or a similar "animal skin" look to Tarzan? Short hair, long hair, what color hair, etc?

I guess part of Jane would be picking an era to be based in, but like, the other aspects seem to be the troublesome aspects.

Heck, part of the trouble for a good Jane is deciding how scratched/scarred/sunburnt she should be, given that Jane would join Tarzan in washing via rivers and lakes.

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2025 07:23:01 No.11289468 Report

Quoted By: >>11289588

>>11289436
every year they lose more ground. that is the only upside to the whole mess. if they were atleast good stewards of ERB's works I'd respect them but all of their decisions reek of incompetent greed. remember that god awful sony film? the disney john carter flick? the netflix tarzan and jane cartoon? all them, all equally shit, and all because they dont care who they lease out their rights to so long as they get a big payday. It's as bad as the seuss and tolkien stuff.
>>11289443
see those are the sort of details more creatives should prioritize when working with these characters. ideally I would like to see a tarzan line that covers all the most iconic incarnations of the character, like what boss fight has done with popeye and the other KFS heroes upto this point. We could have a hal foster series, a filmation series, another line that takes more after the books, and a few different tv and movie figures here and there. the book line could stand to include a handful of different jane variants based on the titles they pull from. a victorian jane modelled after the first book, a jungle jane from subsequent titles, etc. John Carter and Dejah could be handled in much the same way.

In the event that all this pays off what Id kill for most is a huge tree house playset for to house the two of them along with various jungle companions.

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2025 10:06:39 No.11289588 Report

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>>11289468
I kinda want to use actual tree stuff for Tarzan figures like bonsai and random sticks with thin twine to be "vine rope" and maybe thin branches for the vines he swings on.

My main trouble would be that, ideally, I'd have a scaled down Lincoln logs set to be able to build the tree house and then glue and wrap twine where it would hold the place together, but I think Lincoln logs would be overly large and thick to be "jungle wood"

I have no idea if there even is an articulate ape to pair with him for cheeta/book chimp friend, but king Kong can be any big apes I want.

Maybe this could be a fun project for y'all make a Tarzan display with toys that fit the concept.

I would really like a good Jane figure who would be the designer of the jungle tech.

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2025 10:18:16 No.11289597 Report

Quoted By: >>11292504

Boss Fight Studio's HERO H.A.C.K.S if you want a 4inch figure

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2025 14:56:48 No.11289717 Report

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>>11284879
looks great akshually

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2025 00:17:29 No.11290312 Report

Quoted By: >>11291088 >>11291094 >>11292504 >>11292505

Customize a marvel legends Kazar

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2025 17:46:32 No.11291088 Report

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>>11290312
Hm, that could be a suitable resource, thank you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2025 17:54:04 No.11291094 Report

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>>11290312
Original isn't suitable for harvesting resources beyond the knife.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jan 2025 21:31:49 No.11292504 Report

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>>11286961
at least that had some accessories but it looks crappier than some of the worse of the wrestling toys, which often look like junk because companies can get away with that due to having the sole license and collectors having limited options.

>>11288126
I wouldn't mind a live action figure, but only NECA would likely do one for a - what, almost 20 year old movie now?

>>11289597
That looks a little better except for the head

>>11290312
The body would work.
Probably overpriced from scalpers, though.

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Anonymous Fri 10 Jan 2025 21:32:20 No.11292505 Report

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>>11290312
Curious what's under the cloth. Brown painted pants I guess?
.Was going to suggest "Savage He-Man", but yeah, KaZar (oy vey!) looks like the better model.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Jan 2025 05:23:57 No.11292871 Report

Quoted By: >>11295410

>>11292505
>Savage He-Man
possibly too beefy

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Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2025 09:18:02 No.11295410 Report

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>>11292871
Definitely too beefy unless you want him wresting king Kong figures for an excuse.

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