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Anthony Warlow
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Posted: 21 September 2010 at 10:50am | IP Logged | 1 post reply


 Al Burr wrote:
John - Your Eternity concept is interesting, but I still can't figure it out....


Al, imagine you're sitting in a round room with one window that looks to the outside.  If the room were to be turned around you, the view outside the window would change, but would always be the same as the window moved past the same point to where you're sitting, i.e. your view when the window is immediately to your left is always the same since the outside scenery is fixed.  Now imagine you can go walk around in the room and look out the window -- same thing, the view is the same but at different angles of perspective - as the room turns around, you see different things that always circle around again as the window passes the same fixed point outside.

Eternity is the window.  The Universe is the fixed scenery outside the window.

That's why JB posted a picture of three "transparent" Enternity figures with a fixed larger image of a galaxy behind the transparent figure - like you're looking through Enternity as if he were a window...




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Posted: 21 September 2010 at 12:39pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Upcoming Kotobukiya Marvel Bishoujo Black Cat:


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Posted: 21 September 2010 at 12:50pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

Hmm. Is the little building made of lead?
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Bill Mimbu
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Posted: 21 September 2010 at 1:09pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

That's a good point, JB... 

BTW, the DC Bishoujo Cat Woman is now available for preorders  [HLJ Link]   

Edit - Forgot to add the Marvel Bishoujo Black Cat  [HLJ Link]

Regrettably I'm gonna have to pass up on ordering both these kitties (begs the question if Cat Woman is that "bouncy" in bishoujo form, how's a bishoujo Power Girl going to look, if they decide to create one?).



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I've never seen or heard of these guys before until they popped up in a gumball machine at a local restaurant.  They're about 2.5" tall.  Pretty impressive sculps for the scale:


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Joe,

Those bring back memories of going to the grocery store with my mom and always making sure to take a look at the gumball machines for anything superhero-related. 

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Speaking of gumball machine toys, my local Best Buy had these in their machines. I got the whole set and only got 2 doubles. I sent some to my son so I don't have the whole set to share. But I really liked them and at 75 cents a real bargain. they gave me a Mighty Mugg vibe


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I took a chance and googled if I could find a pic of the whole set. Here they are:


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Thor's big white "mustache" still doesn't work for me.
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Chad Carter
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Posted: 22 September 2010 at 7:11pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply

 

Gumball Hulk has a Kirby vibe going. Like that!

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With the size of these, doing a custom Puck to go with the Mighty Muggs may be pretty cool. 
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My Sci-Fi Revoltech Mothra and Mogera figures arrived today.

Coming on the heels of Baragon, these ended up being a bit disappointing due to some production fit-up problems. 

Mothra was good to go right out of the box, but in order to make her perch on her Tokyo Tower stand, you had to pull off her abdomen, insert an adaptor piece, and and try to reattach it without other body parts falling off.  Then discovered that the Revoltech peg will not fit into the hole on the stand without some modifications with a sharp knife, nor will her giant cocoon attach to the stand for similar reasons.  So for now, she's hugging the ground.

Mogera starts off in five separate components that had to be assembled in a frustrating way (and the tabs on the back fin had to be shaved down a tad with a knife to get it into the slots...  Ended up breaking the top tab off in the attempt, but the lower one still holds it in place).  Looks great once you got it put together, but changing poses in the future will be a bit of a pain.

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