Hairstyles of the future

[elcapitangas]

What the hell was the designer of the takara henshin cyborg thinking when he was doing the head sculpt? Hmm...what would the hairstyle of the future look like? Instead of taking a gamble and conjuring up something crazy like a cyber mohawk (i can't spell moheican), or a bald tatooed/branded head, or predator style dreads, he played it safe and decided that in the far off future world where anything can happen, androids will have a cheesy catalog pose wine bar haircut that wouldn't look out of place on a 70s porn star.

Anybody think of any other lack of creative imagination regarding toys and how their creators envisaged the future? Or any clutching at straws towards the end of a toy line when all the good ideas have been used up?

[Kidchuckle]

awww... come on don't be too harsh
I love that old school look.

Just a note... a lot of old stuff can come up again in trends. See it in fashion, see it in TV, Toys, movies etc.
Afro's had a come back, Bell bottom jeans made a come back. Big sunglasses are back (god I hate those)

[Falconhood]

i like the retro head

[Ben-Ohki]

Here in Canada when the specialty channel "Space: The Imagination Station" was showing the original Battlestar Galactica, they cut together promos featuring all the non-time-less-ness of the series - like the disco aliens, the bell-bottoms, the hair... the narrator's tag-line: "who knew the future would look like the 70's?"

[magengar]

I dig the retro look...
...on some occasions (at least Now that my hair's been cut a little shorter)
I'll shave and trim my beard into large porkchop sideburns, and mousse my
hair up, for the classic "Koji Kabuto/Tetsuya Tsurugi" look!

(of course, I gotta ditch my glasses for the full effect <LOL>)

zozo-Magengar

[boyet]

i noticed that too. some of the japanese hairs sometimes has them flying all around and it looks ok on cartoons. sometimes not in reality. sometimes it looks weird.

[Falconhood]

benohki said:

Here in Canada when the special channel "Space: The Imagination Station" was showing the original Battlestar Galactica, the cut together promos featuring all the non-time-less-ness of the series - like the disco aliens, the bell-bottoms, the hair... the narrator's tag-line: "who knew the future would look like the 70's?"

Strange....BSG is NOT in the future...they reached EARTH in 1980...that was then the present.

[00silvergt]

Ben, Falcon has made a good point. Which was an irritating plot hole. I think initially the writers intended BSG to be more like the explanation of the Atlantians, the advanced civilization that inhabited the earth during the ancient times. Whereas these colonials had designs that of the anicient civilizations of earth implying the source or origin of influence. Then comes BSG 1980. They came over only to discover that this planet is not only on the verge of destroying itself, but it really is not suitable for them. The gravitional field was less that of Capria or any of the other colonies and the air was not right (I don't remember if it was too thin or too thick for them). so that then leads to the question, WTF was wrong with all the other planets that they thought was earth which had little bit less problems that the earth, a bunch of episodes ago? Furthermore, these guys are going to the earth because the cylons destroyed their homeworlds and so they seek to find the lost colony or the 13th colony who "long" ago travellled to earth, but they are going to be bringing the cylons who are tailing there every move and wants to destroy everything with them? Thanks Starbuck, Apollo, Adama. Thanks. ;D

[GUYx1]

elcapitangas,

Please remember that the Cyborg is an old school toyline.
The headsculpt was made in the beginning of the 1970's.

Even the 1970's Microman figures have Mullets and other terrible Hairstyles that we would all like to forget about...


As much as you can critique the cyborg headsculpt,
Cyborg was actually a step up from the wide eyed combat joes of that era.




The 1999 cyborgs had a Current Japanese headsculpt and there were also cyborg style figures made of celebrities.




Later Takara joe figures would sport heads which far surpassed Action man

[00silvergt]

Combat Joes, The early Medicoms use this body for all sorts of stuff! Know anyone selling a nude one?

[Ben-Ohki]

00silvergt said:

Ben, Falcon has made a good point. Which was an irritating plot hole. I think initially the writers intended BSG to be more like the explanation of the Atlantians, the advanced civilization that inhabited the earth during the ancient times. Whereas these colonials had designs that of the anicient civilizations of earth implying the source or origin of influence. Then comes BSG 1980. They came over only to discover that this planet is not only on the verge of destroying itself, but it really is not suitable for them. The gravitional field was less that of Capria or any of the other colonies and the air was not right (I don't remember if it was too thin or too thick for them). so that then leads to the question, WTF was wrong with all the other planets that they thought was earth which had little bit less problems that the earth, a bunch of episodes ago? Furthermore, these guys are going to the earth because the cylons destroyed their homeworlds and so they seek to find the lost colony or the 13th colony who "long" ago travellled to earth, but they are going to be bringing the cylons who are tailing there every move and wants to destroy everything with them? Thanks Starbuck, Apollo, Adama. Thanks. ;D

Yeah, I knew all that. But my point is that the commercial is still funny, okay? Now I command you to laugh, damn you, laugh!