I figured I'd throw this in here and see if it stuck... First off, I'm lazy. Lazy as shit. If I can get away with making a good toy better by just adding one or two things, I will. Painting a whole vinyl just...smacks of effort. Anyway, I picked up that translucent-ish pink glow Blobpus Andagon from a year or two ago...and I got pretty bored with it almost immediately. I mean...it's aiight...but it's glow isn't very bright, and that fucking over-sized eye at the end of his forehead lure-stick-thing was stoopit as hell. Thing is, I'm fucking BANANAS over deep sea angler fish. No, not sauteed or grilled or fried...I just love the animals, themselves. Freaky little shits. So, when they made a kaiju toy of one (sorta), I had to get it. ...'Course, when it turned out kinda lame, I need to do something about it. First of all, an eye at the end of the stalk? It's supposed to be a glowy lure. On a supposedly-glowie Andagon, you'd think that Blobpus would *at least* make the eye glow. Nope. And he's got no normal eyes at all...I know, I know: it's not meant to depict a real deep sea angler, but it's just annoying that the real animal is so much freakier than the supposedly daemonic toy thereof... So I tweaked some things... First, the glow was WAY too weak. Sure, it was kinda interesting to have a semi-translucent pink vinyl glow *at all*...but as with so many clear-glow toys (I'm looking at you, Gargamel), the glow just wasn't bright at all. So, the first thing I did was fill him with glow gravel. Now, he's quite a bit brighter, but more importantly, he glows at that level of brightness for hours longer! Then, I just scuffed up the black paint a little in the eye sockets and dabbed some aqua glow paint in there to give him eyes and some contrast in there while glowing. Lastly, I took a pair of pliers and ripped out that fucking lame-ass eyeball at the end of the stalk. I got these tiny plastic GID skulls from some gaming store that would be PERFECT to replace the eye. They came painted sorta grey with a black wash, so I just acetoned all that crap off, re-washed it in black, then picked out the raised edges in aqua-glow hand paints. Krazy glue that shit in and BOOM...instant daemonic lure-thingy! Lemme know what y'all think!
Awesome! I really like the head sculpt on this figure (but that body, geesh!). I haven't paid close enough attention to really notice the eye ball that you removed - but it sounds like you really improved this figure. The aqua glow is great! Very intense!
Thanks! You can see the original here. The body took a *while* to grow on me. I don't totally love it, but it's not bad, in my opinion. I think if they kept to that same style, but gave the figure slightly more slender fight figure proportions (like a stretched out RxH figure), I think it woulda been a winner.
Very cool. I applaud your effort. Never bought one of these because of that eyeball. Just didn't seem right. Really diggin' your version though.
I really enjoyed your story. Not so keen on the skull, but the glow rocks are great! Mainly, I loved the story.
Thanks for the comments, guys! I was really kinda meh on the sculpt, but now, he pulls his weight on my glowie shelf. Just different and interesting enough. Glad you enjoyed the story, backtrack...I always try to add background like that to "humanize" my reviews and whatnot. Otherwise, they're just toy porn...no plot...just fucking. I want it to be steamy and passionate...that fulfilling sorta love...not staring off into space shit... What the fuck am I talking about?
Love the toy, thanks for the blow-by-blow on the work! Useful, interesting, stuff. Full of steam and passion! Glow always good! Glow pron is best!
