Actually, I find the Kenner Star Wars figures are pretty good. Very true to the character models, accessorized with things they actually used, and the characters at least wore different clothes throughout the movies so they could change it up.
But like . . . if they made a "Frontline Assault Mace Windu" action figure with grey, boxy armour and some sort of machine-gun/repeating-blaster rig harnessed over his shoulders, then they will have crossed a line.
Same with X-Men action figures like when they package Cyclops with some sort of pistol. Why the crap would Cyclops need a gun? He shoots laser beams from his flippin' eyes!
...but you see, most children are dumbasses, as well as their parents who buy the stuff for them. I can understand a select few for the hardcore obsessives, but I agree that toy marketing can easily go spinning out of control.
Indiana Jones? Oh yeah. Star Wars? Uh-huh... and these are movies that the seven-to-eleven-year-olds in which these toys are being marketed to shouldn't really be watching. Well... the prequel trilogy of Star Wars anyways.
At least it is better than the Naruto my mother and I found while shopping one day that had interchangeable hands. They came off at the wrist and you could make different hand signals and be all cool and summon things. My mom laughed; I rolled my eyes.
Shi Bum Bumm
Otaku Eternal | Posted 12/05/08 | Reply
wth.....
disgrace.
bellpickle
Pickle of the Year (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 12/05/08 | Reply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1gBlkXv8Sc
jomz
Otaku Summoner (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 12/04/08 | Reply
For some reason, toys always go to creative lengths to make up stuff, you know?
"hey look, I got a unique Dark Knight toy that you have never seen before, he can do this, and that and has this cool looking accessory..."
ShadowLight
Otaku Eternal | Posted 12/04/08 | Reply
If I saw that I would just end up pointing it and laughing because it's so damn silly. But hey its what kids like right? >_>;
The crazy bubbly shadow
Miss Anonymous
Vagrant AI (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 12/04/08 | Reply
All I can think is: Batman + Naruto = Bastard child
TimeChaser
Madman With a Box (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 12/04/08 | Reply
I can't stop thinking of the Mads' action figure from an episode of MST:
Johnny Long-Torso, Johnny Long-Torso,
The man who comes in pieces! Wh-tsh!
Last edited by TimeChaser at 2:56:16 PM EST on December 4, 2008.
Bazinga!
red tigress
Raid Boss (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 12/04/08 | Reply
How about the part where he wears a jetpack that shoots a foot long rocket at the joker?
That might have been the Ninja Turtles though, I'm not sure.
NightBeck
Otaku Eternal | Posted 12/04/08 | Reply
@Shinmaru:
HAHA, SECONDING THIS.
Dagger IX1
Team | Posted 12/04/08 | Reply
More power to them, I say. :D If I could make money that way...
Ace
Senile Hipster (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 12/04/08 | Reply
@SomeGuy:
But.... But it's Samuel L. Mutha effin' Jackson.
He escapes raptors with three limbs intact. The lack of those accessories may well be the only things that kept Windu from surviving the third movie.
Also, I'm very disappointed in the lack of Indiana Joker.
Nehszriah
Hits Self With Axe (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 12/04/08 | Reply
@SomeGuy:
Yeah, I totally see what you're getting at. *watches too many toy commercials that she'll willingly admit to*
Be true, be you and of course, be otaku.
SomeGuy
Canadian Liaison (Team) | Posted 12/04/08 | Reply
@Nehszriah:
Actually, I find the Kenner Star Wars figures are pretty good. Very true to the character models, accessorized with things they actually used, and the characters at least wore different clothes throughout the movies so they could change it up.
But like . . . if they made a "Frontline Assault Mace Windu" action figure with grey, boxy armour and some sort of machine-gun/repeating-blaster rig harnessed over his shoulders, then they will have crossed a line.
Same with X-Men action figures like when they package Cyclops with some sort of pistol. Why the crap would Cyclops need a gun? He shoots laser beams from his flippin' eyes!
Kinda see what I'm gettin' at?
Shinmaru
Baron of Terribad (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 12/04/08 | Reply
needs moar Joker w/ pencil accessory
Love thy Evangelion.
Nehszriah
Hits Self With Axe (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 12/04/08 | Reply
...but you see, most children are dumbasses, as well as their parents who buy the stuff for them. I can understand a select few for the hardcore obsessives, but I agree that toy marketing can easily go spinning out of control.
Indiana Jones? Oh yeah. Star Wars? Uh-huh... and these are movies that the seven-to-eleven-year-olds in which these toys are being marketed to shouldn't really be watching. Well... the prequel trilogy of Star Wars anyways.
At least it is better than the Naruto my mother and I found while shopping one day that had interchangeable hands. They came off at the wrist and you could make different hand signals and be all cool and summon things. My mom laughed; I rolled my eyes.
Children.
Be true, be you and of course, be otaku.