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Post by wildojinx on Apr 25, 2015 22:29:30 GMT -5
Lets go full circle, whats the worst merchandise you've seen for movies/tv/music/comics/video games?
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Apr 25, 2015 23:17:50 GMT -5
I rememeber when Jurassic Park was released, the Dennis Nedry action figure was this....  Great likeness, isn't it? Did the designers even watch the film? |
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Post by agent817 on Apr 25, 2015 23:34:53 GMT -5
I rememeber when Jurassic Park was released, the Dennis Nedry action figure was this.... Great likeness, isn't it? Did the designers even watch the film? I remember that. I even remember thinking "Wasn't he a lot fatter than that?" |
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Apr 25, 2015 23:37:20 GMT -5
Looks like a repainted Dr. Octopus minus the arms.
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Post by Vampiro138 on Apr 25, 2015 23:55:12 GMT -5
caus we all remmeber Billy Dee Williams being more built than Scott Steiner...  the Jerry Only edit of the Evilive album cover on a shirt...  KISS action figure of Peter Criss base on the Psycho Circus tour outfit...  |
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Apr 26, 2015 1:05:40 GMT -5
caus we all remmeber Billy Dee Williams being more built than Scott Steiner... Good old Power of the Force figures, where even Luke Skywalker was built. |
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Apr 26, 2015 1:29:04 GMT -5
I rememeber when Jurassic Park was released, the Dennis Nedry action figure was this.... Great likeness, isn't it? Did the designers even watch the film? I suspect that the makers wanted to start making the toys early, so they went with descriptions from the Michael Crighton novel... I suspect. Cause in the toylike there is juvenile t.rex and and older looking Tim like in the book. But Nedry in the book was still the programmer and not a mercenary like he looks in the figure line. |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 26, 2015 2:29:37 GMT -5
I rememeber when Jurassic Park was released, the Dennis Nedry action figure was this.... Great likeness, isn't it? Did the designers even watch the film? I suspect that the makers wanted to start making the toys early, so they went with descriptions from the Michael Crighton novel... I suspect. Cause in the toylike there is juvenile t.rex and and older looking Tim like in the book. But Nedry in the book was still the programmer and not a mercenary like he looks in the figure line. I remember the Jurassic Park toy commercials before I saw the movie or read the book, from those toy commercials, you'd have no earthly idea what the movie was about. |
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Apr 26, 2015 2:34:09 GMT -5
I suspect that the makers wanted to start making the toys early, so they went with descriptions from the Michael Crighton novel... I suspect. Cause in the toylike there is juvenile t.rex and and older looking Tim like in the book. But Nedry in the book was still the programmer and not a mercenary like he looks in the figure line. Maybe they got Nedry muddled up with Muldoon? |
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Apr 26, 2015 3:00:04 GMT -5
I suspect that the makers wanted to start making the toys early, so they went with descriptions from the Michael Crighton novel... I suspect. Cause in the toylike there is juvenile t.rex and and older looking Tim like in the book. But Nedry in the book was still the programmer and not a mercenary like he looks in the figure line. Maybe they got Nedry muddled up with Muldoon? Don't think so. I had the Muldon figure, did not look like the actor that played him, but did look like a park warden. My other guess for Nedry is that the toy makers read that he was doing a bit of corporate espionage, and decided to make look like a old school movie spy. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 26, 2015 3:00:11 GMT -5
I assume they also might have just not wanted to make a mold for a fat guy and used an existing or modified one.
Besides, that looks like if Hot Toys made a version compared to Terminator Salvation's figure for John Connor.
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Post by Evilution E5150 on Apr 26, 2015 3:06:38 GMT -5
caus we all remmeber Billy Dee Williams being more built than Scott Steiner... Good old Power of the Force figures, where even Luke Skywalker was built. i had this Luke who resembles a gorilla more than it does Mark Hamill  |
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Apr 26, 2015 3:16:18 GMT -5
Good old Power of the Force figures, where even Luke Skywalker was built. i had this Luke who resembles a gorilla more than it does Mark Hamill The lightsaber is taller than him! Looking back at some of those Power of the Force figures especially makes me appreciate the Star Wars Black Series even more. |
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Post by Jonathan Michaels on Apr 26, 2015 4:24:38 GMT -5
How about the audiobook of the novelization of film version of The Beverly Hillbillies.
That is a thing that exists.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Apr 26, 2015 4:25:38 GMT -5
i had this Luke who resembles a gorilla more than it does Mark Hamill The lightsaber is taller than him! Looking back at some of those Power of the Force figures especially makes me appreciate the Star Wars Black Series even more. I heart the Black Series |
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Apr 26, 2015 4:49:32 GMT -5
The lightsaber is taller than him! Looking back at some of those Power of the Force figures especially makes me appreciate the Star Wars Black Series even more. I heart the Black Series I agree.. Need to fight temptation to spend $80 on Jabba The Hutt or the Trooper on a Speederbike. |
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Post by wildojinx on Apr 26, 2015 6:38:24 GMT -5
Platoon: the NES game. Platoon was based off Oliver Stone's experiences in the Vietnam war. This would be the 80s equivalent of making a video games based off Saving Private Ryan or The Hurt Locker or American Sniper. Not to mention that the game itself pretty much sucked.
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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 26, 2015 7:01:09 GMT -5
I hate any toy from a film that has the name of the film written on it.
Like when I bought a Smokey and the Bandit cop car, and it had "Smokey and the Bandit" on the hood.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Apr 26, 2015 7:33:24 GMT -5
Platoon: the NES game. Platoon was based off Oliver Stone's experiences in the Vietnam war. This would be the 80s equivalent of making a video games based off Saving Private Ryan or The Hurt Locker or American Sniper. Not to mention that the game itself pretty much sucked. Going with video games, Superman Returns. It's got Mongul, Metallo, and Bizarro which is awesome for a game to have them, Metropolis has a health bar which is a nice fix on Superman's powers, but it's so f***ing boring and horrible. Also the final boss is a f***ing tornado, yeah cause that's what I want to face as the final boss of a Superman game. Screw Lex Luthor in the power armor, Brainiac, Doomsday, Darkseid, Metallo, Mongul, Bizarro, or General Zod as the final boss, give me a tornado. |
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Apr 26, 2015 7:45:34 GMT -5
Another one from the "design based on early concept for the character", the villain from The Simpsons Movie - Russ Cargill. In the movie....  Toy that came with Burger King meals....  |
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