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McFarlane to bring back Tortured Souls, Dragons and other classic lines

Anonymous Tue 04 Dec 2018 14:17:13 No.7273023 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>7273057 >>7273074 >>7273078 >>7273184 >>7273923 >>7273928 >>7274404

https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/10/06/mcfarlane-toys-bringing-back-movie-maniacs-tortured-souls

Would you be on board with the revival of these lines? Do you own any of the original figures?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Dec 2018 14:44:11 No.7273057 Report

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>>7273023
I own a couple of different figures from different lines. The detail on these things is amazing. Articulation is a different matter obviously. Still, I'd like to see what else they could come up with.
The Dragons line in particular had some very well made sculpts & designs, and there aren't many options on the market as far as dragons go, so it's actually not a bad idea for a figure line.
Not sure how a movie maniacs line would work though. Neca's had that covered for years now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Dec 2018 14:45:04 No.7273058 Report

Quoted By: >>7276738

Washed up has been with no new ideas plans to try and fail to relive his former glories. Yep real original.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Dec 2018 15:03:03 No.7273074 Report

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>>7273023
Used to own some. I'd support a revival (MM, TS would be contingent on design, hard pass on Dragons.) if they brought their A-game articulation-wise. None of that calling an assembly point "articulation" bullshit. Oh, and pick a fucking scale already.

>>7273057
NECA has a lot of stuff from their McF-like statueshit days that I'd like to see updated. I don't so much mind if it's McFarlane doing them if they actually articulate them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Dec 2018 15:09:44 No.7273078 Report

Quoted By: >>7273197 >>7273302

>>7273023
Dragons was the one McFarlane line I bought every, single, fucking, one of. I even have the variants, exclusive color sets, and one of my dragons was signed by Todd at the factory (I'll post a pic later). If they bring that line back I'm in for it all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Dec 2018 16:35:03 No.7273184 Report

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>>7273023
If these have decent articulation and don't crumble to bits count me in, the Fortnite figs prove that McFarlane can make good figures when they put their mind to it, I'm just worried his MUH SCULPT autism might ruin them with no licensor to hold him in check.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Dec 2018 16:41:49 No.7273191 Report

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Aren't the new Star trek figures McFarlane? Those seem pretty good articulation wise.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 04 Dec 2018 16:47:26 No.7273197 Report

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>>7273078
Yeah, bringing back their dragons would be the only thing I'd really be interested in.

I loved this water clan bastard so much growing up.

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Anonymous Tue 04 Dec 2018 16:48:28 No.7273198 Report

Quoted By: >>7273203 >>7273207 >>7273225 >>7274058 >>7274574

>m-muh articulation
Why would something like pic related need articulation? It already looks good enough as is. You people need to understand that these are art pieces more so than regular figures. And the more articulation you have, the harder it is to make a detailed sculpt. As far as I'm concerned, the market needs all kinds of products, including statueshit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Dec 2018 16:52:23 No.7273203 Report

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>>7273198
Because this is /toy/ not /statueshit/.

If it doesn't have useful joints, I don't really want it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Dec 2018 16:56:11 No.7273207 Report

Quoted By: >>7273226 >>7274123 >>7276738

>>7273198
Statues are all well and good but articulated figures are better. The problem is McFarlane has a habit of making statues with obligatory joints for the sake of selling it as an action figure, thus ruining the "perfect sculpt" and making it from a decent statue into a really shitty action figure.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Dec 2018 17:15:20 No.7273225 Report

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>>7273198
It is amazing how tame this stuff seems now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Dec 2018 17:15:24 No.7273226 Report

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>>7273203
Fair enough.
>>7273207
>Statues are all well and good but articulated figures are better.
Entirely subjective, but an expected response given the board. I'd take a good sculpt over articulation any day. Ideally you'd have both, but it's a rare commodity, if we exclude Anime characters.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Dec 2018 18:17:05 No.7273302 Report

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>>7273078
I had most of them but sold them off a couple of years ago. Made quite a few bucks off'a those variant ones. There was also this particular blue variant Redeemer figure that I saw, which went for like a thousand or more bucks, can't remember the exact model though.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 00:38:43 No.7273923 Report

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>>7273023
>dragons
found pic related a couple of days ago in the back corner of my comic book store and it looked kinda cool, so yes, I'd at least be interested. The lack of articulation is a big turn off for me though...

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 00:40:29 No.7273928 Report

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>>7273023
I'd rather a revival of their Monsters line. Always dug their interpretations of the classic monsters.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 01:51:46 No.7274058 Report

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>>7273198
Even back then as a kid I thought this was ridiculousy tryhard edgy shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 02:17:54 No.7274106 Report

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If dragons had articulation it'd basically be my favorite toyline ever. The lack of nicely articulated dragon toys is amazingly sad. I might buy that 3P Transmetal 2 Megatron even though I already own the other 3PTM2 Megatron just because the dragon mode on the one coming out in january is nicer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 02:29:04 No.7274123 Report

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>>7273207
>Statues are all well and good but articulated figures are better.
Based on what criteria? Both have their own advantages and disadvantages. A few of the major ones off the top of my head:

Action figures have to be sculpted with neutral details in mind because they need to be able to look good in a variety of poses. They will never have the level of anatomical and sculptural detail a statue has that is made specifically to be in one pose. A dress sweeping off to the side and billowing in the wind on an action figure limits how it can be posed. Same with musculature and bones showing through skin or flexing based on a very specific pose.

All depends if someone just wants something to look nice on a shelf and in some photos or if someone wants to actively play with and pose something. Neither is "better".

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 02:42:34 No.7274149 Report

Quoted By: >>7274161 >>7274584

I wonder how the hell they will make a Tortured Soul line, since the ONLY reason it existed, was that Dimension refused to license Hellraiser/Pinhead to McFarlane for his horror line. So McFarlane paid Clive Barker a huge amount of money to write backstory for a bunch of rip-offs of Cenobites.

Dimension threatened to sue McFarlane for ripping off Hellraiser (due to Todd being dumb enough to state upfront that Tortured Souls was a Hellraiser rip-off/hiring Barker explicitly to help make the rip-off). He had to severe ties with Barker (meaning the second wave of Tortured Souls figures had zero backstory for them) and promise not to make any further Tortured Souls toys

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 02:53:21 No.7274161 Report

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>>7274149
Dimension is in a different place now than it was. They don't have the money nor resources to get into lengthy legal battles. Also, they wouldn't have won the original case either. There is no law against making a rip off of something. They changed enough of the story on Tortured Souls for it to be it's own thing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 06:53:45 No.7274404 Report

Quoted By: >>7276421

>>7273023
>Dragons
So the exact point I gave up on buying McFarlane toys as a kid?
Nice.
Do more crazy Spawn and Image comics shit Todd fuck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 08:29:27 No.7274477 Report

Quoted By: >>7274515

The one thing anyone wants from mcfarlane is a new fully articulated spawn figure. Theyve added plenty of articulation on the fortnite figures, so why he doesnt slap that on spawn and make a shit ton of money is a mystery

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 09:06:28 No.7274515 Report

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>>7274477
Thiiiiiiissssssssssssss.
I would even buy it if it was stupid giant like his Fortnite dudes even though I am a scalefag who only has imports on my superhero shelf.
Also Violator, Malbolgia, Chapel, Redeemer and medieval Spawn please.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 10:12:27 No.7274574 Report

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>>7273198
Statues are fine but if that's what Todd wants to make that's what he should make, instead of preposed figures with worthless articulation added to try and trick people into thinking they've bought something with playability.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 10:13:56 No.7274576 Report

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>>7274123
>All depends if someone just wants something to look nice on a shelf and in some photos or if someone wants to actively play with and pose something. Neither is "better".
This guy gets it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 10:20:08 No.7274584 Report

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>>7274149
The legal troubles were hardly as serious as you make them out to be, considering there was almost a Tortured Souls film at one point, which was to be made by Universal. In any case, Clive Barker can do as many Hellraiser, Nightbreed, or Candyman rip offs as he wants, considering he's the original creator.

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Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 10:38:14 No.7274602 Report

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>>7274515
I'd like to see a new Overtkill too, though they more or less nailed it already.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 17:01:13 No.7274899 Report

Quoted By: >>7275052

>>7274123
Love my Revoltech's, but the level of detail on the Spawn stuff was insanely great. They're obviously meant for different markets and personally I think that the statues for $7 at the time was a steal, maybe he can break up the lines into Classics & all new articulated figures. Either way I'm excited, I just hope they all come with their own little display base diorama as opposed to the current one size fits all bases they've been using recently.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 18:53:23 No.7275052 Report

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>>7274899
I actually own a 12 inch version of the figure in OP's pic, and I can attest that it looks just as good, if not better, in person. Same goes for the Spawn stuff. I'm mostly a Figma collector, and their articulation has spoiled me a bit by now, but the McSculpts still catch the eye and look amazing for pre-posed figures. That's why it's nice to have options.

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Boco !sCZ24qY6KY Wed 05 Dec 2018 20:43:52 No.7275204 Report

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About damn time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 20:47:59 No.7275213 Report

Quoted By: >>7275237 >>7275251

Edgelord garbage. You see a guy with this stuff on display and you just know he’s a virgin.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 21:05:41 No.7275237 Report

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>>7275213
t. NPC

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Dec 2018 21:12:48 No.7275251 Report

Quoted By: >>7276755

>>7275213
That's rich coming from someone who browses /toy/. Make sure to dress in a pink unitard when you go outside tomorrow, lest you be judged as an edgy tryhard, you faggot.

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Anonymous Thu 06 Dec 2018 14:00:01 No.7276421 Report

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>>7274404
>Do more crazy Spawn and Image comics shit Todd fuck.
Well I wish him the best, and hopefully his direct to consumer idea pans out. If it does maybe some of those in-house lines would get made again. Those were my favorite too, the stuff like Techno Spawn, Dark Ages Spawn, and Total Chaos. To generate interest, it might be good to bring back the Spawn forum that he took down years ago.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Dec 2018 17:03:42 No.7276738 Report

Quoted By: >>7276751 >>7277190

>>7273058
Who fucking cares. This is great news. Especially if it grabs any new, interesting licenses. Although considering this is all their own IP, generic, or Clive Barker... No wait, they said Movie Maniacs too. When WoW started doing figure I had hopes they would be like McFarlane stuff, but the paint they used was horrible, so all the sculpting detail was lost.
Heh. I wonder if they'll still be using Four Horsemen for most of this. I wouldn't complain.

>>7273207
Yeah. I hope they only do articulation when it makes sense, and never ruin a sculpt with it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Dec 2018 17:11:45 No.7276751 Report

Quoted By: >>7277190

>>7276738
>I hope they only do articulation when it makes sense, and never ruin a sculpt with it.
Oh, hi Todd.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Dec 2018 17:13:15 No.7276755 Report

Quoted By: >>7277199

>>7275251
Seething edgelord

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Dec 2018 17:37:31 No.7276788 Report

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I love articulation, but eh, I also love cool monster sculpts. Sign me the fuck up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Dec 2018 22:44:47 No.7277190 Report

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>>7276738
4H lost its edge long ago. Their designs are so generic and boring now.
And considering their last Spawn figures, McFarlane still has some great artists in their employ.

>>7276751
Not everyone needs articulation 24/7. I've actually been buying a couple of his dragons that i missed the first time.
I love his two modern releases for Spawn. I would not mind a super articulated Spawn though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Dec 2018 23:05:32 No.7277199 Report

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>>7276755
Go dust off your Sailor Moon collection. We both know you've been postponing it for months now.

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