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I'll buy it.

Sure, it's a McStatue, but it looks amazing and doesn't cost a lot.

Fuck, I'd buy an actual statueshit again.

But yeah, I'd wish they'd make fully articulated Spawn (again) instead of placing swivels everywhere with a smattering of ballhinges.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 08:45:52 No.5815558 Report

Quoted By: >>5815567

>>5815553
This particular statue doesn't look that impressive, though.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 08:52:00 No.5815567 Report

Quoted By: >>5815571 >>5815732

>>5815558
I hope you're talking about Spawn, and that's only because you're ignorant of actually seeing the figure, because that Conan figure is easily better than most statues costing 5x at that time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 09:00:52 No.5815571 Report

Quoted By: >>5815572

>>5815567
I assumed you were talking about Spawn, yes.
>and that's only because you're ignorant of actually seeing the figure,
How?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 09:03:13 No.5815572 Report

Quoted By: >>5815580

>>5815571
Looks better in person.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 09:13:23 No.5815580 Report

Quoted By: >>5815583 >>5829325

>>5815572
Seeing it in-person doesn't make it look any more visually interesting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 09:16:24 No.5815583 Report

Quoted By: >>5815588

>>5815580
oh, s o you just dont like the more classic spawn?

go back to thinking capullo is the greetest, newfag.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 09:20:49 No.5815588 Report

Quoted By: >>5815606

>>5815583
No, I just don't like boring looking statues.

They could have done something more interesting than him just a generic standing pose. It's not a bad looking statue by any means (aside from retarded swivel placement), just that there's a lot of better options.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 09:31:25 No.5815606 Report

Quoted By: >>5815622

>>5815588
>that pose
>not generic
You know, i actually dislike McFarlane doing their Walking Dead and Game of Throne figures looking too dynamic.

I also hated Hasbro's Unleashed line because of that too

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 09:36:27 No.5815609 Report

Quoted By: >>5815613

holy shit, its $6 more than the fully articulated ones.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 09:43:08 No.5815613 Report

Quoted By: >>5815618

>>5815609
>makes mixed up line of figures named for the color of the packaging

lost his mind

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 09:47:50 No.5815618 Report

Quoted By: >>5816889

>>5815613
ever gone to the store looking for a toy and wished you could tell one wave from another?
Pretty easy to tell at a glance what wave is on the pegs at a glance with colors, instead of looking for the numbers on the side of the box or needing to move them around to see the box art.

of course, this is just moot if you prefer box art to just genericness.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 09:53:15 No.5815622 Report

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>>5815606
If you aren't into the dynamic shit, I guess that's fair enough.

I prefer my Spawns doing at least something than just >>5815515. I'd like it more if they made the cape a bit more swooshy or something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 12:30:17 No.5815726 Report

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>>5815515
>Implying he does it to save money.

I don't think, you don't have a leg to stand on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 12:40:02 No.5815728 Report

Quoted By: >>5815836

>>5815515

Rubber stink statues.

I bet he can't draw to save his life these days.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 12:41:43 No.5815729 Report

Quoted By: >>5816100 >>5816901 >>5827225

>>5815515
Todd has been interviewed on this subject multiple times. It's not about saving money for him. He doesn't believe in using joints unless they can be hidden by the costume.

Costs also come into play because unless he can budget in proper ankles the knees/hips would be useless. Which in turn makes any torso articulation worthless. Which in turn makes arm articulation worthless.

He also doesn't believe he can get proper ankles into the toys without breaking sculpt (which he refuses to do) and therefore all other articulation is removed as well even if it can work within the design. He has weird opinions on articulation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 12:44:16 No.5815732 Report

Quoted By:

>>5815553
>>5815567
I love that Conan. Great display piece.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 14:15:08 No.5815836 Report

Quoted By: >>5816257

>>5815728
https://twitter.com/Todd_McFarlane/status/755195526220541952/photo/1
https://twitter.com/Todd_McFarlane/status/756656381424435200

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 14:19:26 No.5815844 Report

Quoted By:

>>5815553
What is this and how do I throw money at it

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 16:45:37 No.5816100 Report

Quoted By: >>5818714

>>5815729
>He doesn't believe in using joints unless they can be hidden by the costume.
So he likes to make action figures...that can't actually be played with.
THEN WHY DOES HE EVEN MAKE TOYS? THIS HAS BEEN DRIVING ME NUTS FOR 20 YEARS! FUCKING TODD! FUCK! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 17:55:56 No.5816257 Report

Quoted By: >>5816959 >>5828029

>>5815836

Hmmmm not bad. Still relies too much on ink but not bad at all.

Meanwhile the rest of the industry forgot how to draw once the premadonna writers starting eating up all the budget.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 22:50:46 No.5816889 Report

Quoted By:

>>5815618
no....

...lol never

takes 3 seconds to see whats going on no matter what they put on the box

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 22:59:29 No.5816901 Report

Quoted By:

>>5815729
>unless he can budget

>figures are $20

this is a guy that spent 3 million on a baseball

this art angle is a clever story he's always used to cut costs. He knows what this current market wants.

to say walking dead figures are like Michaelangelos David is just ridiculous. He's pocketing a lot of money is what hes doing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jul 2016 23:42:10 No.5816959 Report

Quoted By: >>5817023

>>5816257
>premadonna
Illiterate shit-heap.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Jul 2016 00:17:12 No.5817023 Report

Quoted By:

>>5816959
looks like someone fell out of the /co/ hugbox ! poor baby!

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Jul 2016 00:31:55 No.5817049 Report

Quoted By: >>5817077 >>5817991

>>5815525
What's the point of the thigh cut anyway? So you can make him less stable?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Jul 2016 00:45:49 No.5817077 Report

Quoted By:

>>5817049
so the leg could be painted quicker and thrown into a pile

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Jul 2016 10:06:33 No.5817991 Report

Quoted By:

>>5817049
They're actually pretty important, since you need to shift the weight depending on how the arms and torso are posed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Jul 2016 19:20:23 No.5818714 Report

Quoted By: >>5818735 >>5834677

>>5816100

believe it or not, some collectors prefer this sculpt style over mostly ugly articulation points. especially for collectors like me who keeps 90% of his figures MOC, they just look better imo.

I have an almost full set of the old Resaurus Street Fighter figures, they have terrible articulation, but they are fantastic looking figures. Im glad they went this route with those

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Jul 2016 19:35:01 No.5818735 Report

Quoted By: >>5818939

>>5818714
Just buy fucking statues in the 6 inch scale then. Don't make "action figures" that aren't action figures. Make statues with removable parts to get different poses.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Jul 2016 21:22:51 No.5818939 Report

Quoted By: >>5819976 >>5835755

>>5818735
>>5818735
except, how much do actual statues cost?

McFarlane pretty much outdoes practically all budget and midrange statues at the price of an action figure. Or at least, that's how these production test figures look to be.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Jul 2016 22:12:59 No.5819052 Report

Quoted By: >>5819107 >>5819239 >>5819263

Does Todd have any direct involvement with the toy division anymore?

Also

>make sports toys
>dont give them great articulation to recreate the action of the game

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Jul 2016 22:38:55 No.5819107 Report

Quoted By:

>>5819052
I think that's actually the problem. He IS involved.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 27 Jul 2016 00:17:42 No.5819239 Report

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>>5819052
are you fucking kidding? his company isn't very big all.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 27 Jul 2016 00:38:53 No.5819263 Report

Quoted By: >>5819702

>>5819052
>>dont give them great articulation to recreate the action of the game
uhhh....

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 27 Jul 2016 05:36:13 No.5819702 Report

Quoted By:

>>5819263

>Sportspicks

I said great

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 27 Jul 2016 11:03:27 No.5819976 Report

Quoted By:

>>5818939
Figuarts Zero were priced really fairly for a long time. Around $25-30, prices only started going up due to the whole economy situation in Japan. The first batch of releases was shit but they got really fucking good over time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2016 17:23:10 No.5824676 Report

Quoted By: >>5827673

>>5815515
>stupidity
I know /toy/ is insanely autistic but it's just an action figure. I see absolutely nothing wrong with it but you sperg retards will nitpick anything made out of plastic

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2016 17:55:31 No.5824739 Report

Quoted By:

>>5815547
CARLOS

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2016 19:02:25 No.5827225 Report

Quoted By:

>>5815729
Jesus christ, he's literally Subjectanon/MUH SCULPT anon in charge of a toy company.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2016 22:46:50 No.5827673 Report

Quoted By: >>5827677 >>5828777 >>5828881

>>5824676
It's because they're autists who need 30 points of articulation so their batman can feed hatsune miku a cheeseburger

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2016 22:52:30 No.5827677 Report

Quoted By:

>>5827673
>articulation is bad
You're on the wrong board.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 Jul 2016 02:56:25 No.5828029 Report

Quoted By:

>>5816257
He works 100% digitally nowadays. Go on his Facebook, those sketches take him literally 4 or 5 minutes each on a Cintiq.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 Jul 2016 12:46:36 No.5828777 Report

Quoted By:

>>5827673
>implying the points of articulation matter as much as the usable range of motion
Points of articulation mean jack shit. I can put 30 points of articulation in a toy and if each joint has a few degrees of motion it means nothing. Points of articulation is literally a gimmick buzzword/phrase.

That said...if you don't want articulation you can buy a statue. I myself love statues and have a bunch of them. I like the dynamic sculpts, the realistic folds, the proper anatomy, etc. However, when I buy an action figure I want it to actually be capable of EXPRESSIVE movement.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 Jul 2016 14:34:53 No.5828881 Report

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>>5827673
he doesnt make his figures feeding other figures with burgers
i pity you

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Anonymous Sun 31 Jul 2016 16:33:13 No.5829039 Report

Quoted By: >>5829083

>>5815515
>Another Spawn figure with like 2 points of articulation.

It's sad that the best Spawn figure ever was 10th Anniversary Spawn and it came out over 11 years ago.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 Jul 2016 17:00:37 No.5829083 Report

Quoted By: >>5834659

>>5829039
How does it feel knowing that McFarlane hates the figure you love most? It's been brought up with him in interviews and he has expressed his disdain for it and how he will never let another Spawn figure have that much articulation again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 Jul 2016 19:42:02 No.5829325 Report

Quoted By:

>>5815580
I have that figure but mine doesn't have the base.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Aug 2016 08:53:46 No.5834659 Report

Quoted By:

>>5829083
The fucking faggot could at least rerelease it

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Aug 2016 09:55:07 No.5834677 Report

Quoted By:

>>5818714
too bad the poses are shitty

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Aug 2016 10:20:31 No.5834690 Report

Quoted By: >>5835539

McFarlane thinks this is what people actually want... wow. Well, have fun losing even more money Todd. Companies like NECA and Mezco will continue to eat your lunch.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Aug 2016 14:10:40 No.5834880 Report

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Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3KY46nXfH4

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Aug 2016 20:30:15 No.5835539 Report

Quoted By: >>5835924

>>5834690
>McFarlane thinks this is what people actually want
well...its true

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Aug 2016 22:16:11 No.5835755 Report

Quoted By: >>5835924 >>5836474

>>5818939
the point remains

DON'T call them "action figures" when there's no actual action.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Aug 2016 23:40:50 No.5835924 Report

Quoted By: >>5836022 >>5836043

>>5835755
>they're not action figures because i say so
STFU God. No one cares about you anymore!

>>5835539
Sure, it's true, and I'll be buying some of them, but it's disappointing to see such beautifully sculpted toys wasted on something only a 90s kids would like.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2016 00:40:34 No.5836022 Report

Quoted By:

>>5835924
>they're not action figures because i say so
No, they're not action figures because statues with a single swivel or maybe two aren't action figures.

>STFU God
And if you can't deal with that, maybe you should go back to Tumblr.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2016 00:49:35 No.5836043 Report

Quoted By: >>5836064

>>5835924
action figures=articulated
statueshit/figures=op pic related

I'm not even him but get it right

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2016 00:59:04 No.5836064 Report

Quoted By:

>>5836043
but his figures do feature a lot of swivels and even ball-hinges.
More features than action figures from the 90s

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2016 04:30:33 No.5836474 Report

Quoted By:

>>5835755

Definitely not. These are sculptures or statues. Not action figures.

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