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Lars Sandmark
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| Posted: 25 March 2012 at 7:25pm | IP Logged | 1
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I've been admiring these saved images on my computer-machine for quite a while, still haven't spotted any of them in person.
 
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Nathan Greno
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| Posted: 25 March 2012 at 8:17pm | IP Logged | 2
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I'm starting with the FF (and Doom)... I'm trying to not buy the entire Marvel line-up!
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Steve Ogden
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| Posted: 28 March 2012 at 4:14pm | IP Logged | 3
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Those Fantastic Four statues are very nice. Here are a few of the DC ones that I have. Flash Gordon is there and I have a Dick Tracy one as well.
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Nathan Greno
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| Posted: 28 March 2012 at 4:46pm | IP Logged | 4
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I like the DC statues too. You still need a Wonder Woman, Steve...!
Wish they made more DC statues. I would buy Hourman and Johnny Thunder!
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Steve Ogden
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| Posted: 28 March 2012 at 10:25pm | IP Logged | 5
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Yeah, Wonder Woman is MIA for the moment, Nathan. She stood with her team mates where the batmobile is currently. I gave her to a friend whose wife is a Wonder Woman fan.
Yes, I am with you; I wish they made more too! I would love to have the whole JSA in the Syroco style. I know it would never happen but the Blackhawks would be fantastic to see as well. I think Dark Horse does a wonderful job with these figures. The whole presentation is nice, with the nicely decorated tin box, booklet and pin button.
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Nathan Greno
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| Posted: 29 March 2012 at 9:38pm | IP Logged | 6
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Do we know how many Marvel characters will be in the line?
I saw they added Thor... I think that makes a dozen?
I find these things really appealing!
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David Lopez
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| Posted: 30 March 2012 at 12:08am | IP Logged | 7
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JB - really nice replica skulls. Bone Clones make great products. I purchased a replica Gigantopithecus skull from them a few years back.
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Nathan Greno
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| Posted: 31 March 2012 at 11:55am | IP Logged | 8
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BTW I wish the Thing sculpture was a little more...
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Steve Ogden
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| Posted: 01 April 2012 at 6:03am | IP Logged | 9
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Here are three of the syroco Classic Marvel line from Dark Horse that I am definitely going to get. I think the Thor figure will be available in May.
They are all kinds of cool.
 
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 01 April 2012 at 6:49am | IP Logged | 10
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I really want to like those figures, but I just don't! The deliberate crudeness of the sculpts I find very off-putting. I mean, yes, I "get" what they're doing, but it simply doesn't work for me.
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Michael Penn
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| Posted: 01 April 2012 at 7:15am | IP Logged | 11
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I bought my little boy this bendable Popeye figure, and to a certain extent some of the rendering of these Marvel characters is similar and in a way unappealing to me. Why? Because -- and this sounds awful, because the adjective I will mention really is a badge of honor when applied to comicbooks -- they are maybe as three dimensional figures a bit too cartoonish? Dr. Strange, in particular.
These figures stand next their source illustrations, which are so refined and clean and graceful, while the figures themselves are so lumpy that, while appearing to be accurate, they just are missing an essential quality. There's cartoonish abstractions, exaggerations, integral to the look of the character, as if, for example, you were to make a figure of Elmer Fudd, who is "human" but... ya know? Whereas there's another kind of cartoonish realism, which is more in line with comicbook characters. Once you translate them to three dimensions, maybe you want to emphasize a little more a kind of a realistic verisimilitude?
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Craig Ashforth
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| Posted: 01 April 2012 at 7:41am | IP Logged | 12
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I got this guy delivered last week but just set him up. 
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