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Post by coldiron on Sept 13, 2008 12:52:29 GMT -5
I saw these in a mag yesterday. Some of them look pretty good but some also look like the borrowed some other robot designs. www.spawn.com/news/news2.aspx?id=13384A couple have Gurren Lagann torso influences and another has TF movie Jazz's head. The QC will determine if I get any of these. A version of one of these was in the Magna Spawn collection. It looked great except for the paint was horrible. The face looked half melted cause the paint app was so bad. I look at several from different stores and they all had the same problem. I almost got it anyway and was going to repaint the head. I still might if it goes on clearance. |
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Post by xiombarg on Sept 13, 2008 14:28:39 GMT -5
All of them have the same kind of design.
They look ok, but there isn't a lot of originality as they all have that generic rounded vinyl robot look that you see floating around in animation and custom vinyl. I swear it all stems from Megaman..
Also, can't McFarlane just drop the whole "Spawn" name being a part of every toy series? Spawn was never really that great, and it's so overused and done.. I don't know if he realizes that having Spawn associated with his toy designs actually makes them less interesting?
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Post by mechaboy1 on Sept 14, 2008 17:14:43 GMT -5
Didn't McFarlane do a combiner robot a few years back?
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Post by coldiron on Sept 14, 2008 17:39:33 GMT -5
Yeah. It was a techno organic machine. I only liked one of them when it was out. It looks like it would have been massive when combined. Each figure was ~7" by itself. www.spawn.com/toys/series.aspx?series=42 |
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Post by mechaboy1 on Sept 15, 2008 13:33:57 GMT -5
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Post by tanrover on Sept 18, 2008 21:05:21 GMT -5
I second that- they should drop the spawn name. And, license some characters from anime.
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Post by xiombarg on Sept 18, 2008 22:55:29 GMT -5
Looking at the Spawn link for this new robot series, it makes me laugh how Mecha Spawn is the designated "team leader" while other the other robots actually have designated skills... This sort of sums up Spawn in general in my mind. He's "all hype but no substance", yet still the team leader (in McFarlane's mind) *wink, wink*.
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Post by mechamasterj on Sept 24, 2008 11:56:04 GMT -5
yeah i dont know why he sticks to spawn series i think hes only done a few other non-spawn lines (i think he does the dragons, and a lot of horror film villains) And i agree, i never knew any series that did so many damn iterations of itself, does he have comics to back them up or is he just doing them for the $hell$ of it$$$$. I also think he did a small line of manga/anime figures too
Still he makes pretty detailed and well painted figs. Just not poseable (though they have like three points of articulation, what for, hell if i know).
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Post by Ben-Ohki on Sept 25, 2008 13:11:30 GMT -5
Say what you will, McFarlane certainly carved out a nice chunk of the market in both comics and toys. And while Spawn hasn't made headlines in... forever, the comic is STILL published regularly (IIRC, the oldest continuously running Image book). And the MacFarlane figures paved the way for North American acceptance of statue-collecting (witness the boom in PVC anime-figure collecting in the last few years).
As for that big combiner bot thing that MacFarlane Toys did ...yes, it was freaking huge. I saw it myself at Silver Snail comics shop in Toronto. So huge it was only possible to be free-standing because there were several parts that snapped on to become struts and a display base (i.e.: the base was part of the figure itself and the feet were not really holding it up).
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Post by admin1 aka Ed on Oct 3, 2008 22:04:49 GMT -5
Interesting bot guys.... I just hate PVC  |
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Post by hellric on Oct 7, 2008 2:32:58 GMT -5
Say what you will, McFarlane certainly carved out a nice chunk of the market in both comics and toys. And while Spawn hasn't made headlines in... forever, the comic is STILL published regularly (IIRC, the oldest continuously running Image book). And the MacFarlane figures paved the way for North American acceptance of statue-collecting (witness the boom in PVC anime-figure collecting in the last few years). As for that big combiner bot thing that MacFarlane Toys did ...yes, it was freaking huge. I saw it myself at Silver Snail comics shop in Toronto. So huge it was only possible to be free-standing because there were several parts that snapped on to become struts and a display base (i.e.: the base was part of the figure itself and the feet were not really holding it up). It's one of my first robots of my collection, and one of the most impressive and intricated stuff I've seen : hellric.over-blog.com/article-3805922.html |
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