Hm, I dunno. Sucky has been doing Star Wars riffs for a lot longer than S7, unless you meant to refer to how S7 used to sell non-S7 Star Wars toys.

Habbit was referring to Gentle Giant not Sucklord.

Perils of expediency!

damn, those resin Jamungo Buds look serious...!!! want...!!!

blame it on kirkland. he fooled me.

from having played with these all through childhood,
id say foto looks stretched photoshopped whatever,
out of proportion.

Huh. Now that ya mention it, it does look a wee bit stretched....but all the details are otherwise identical to the original figure...and I see none of Gentle Giant's joints they supposedly are adding.

Anyway, I just hope we can all agree that the spraycan dude is awful. When the fuck did graf writing become stupid hipster self-promotion?

about 25 years ago:



but hipsters were fresher back then

i don't think this is a picture of a 3.75" trooper. I think this is the 12" toy. why would Gentle Giant show a picture of the original 3.75" toy to promote it's new 12" toy for SDCC?

Well, was the Gentle Giant toy supposed to be JUST a blown up version of the original figure? I got the impression that "scanned...then reproduced to a fully articulated 12" tall figure" implied that they were gonna add some joints. If so, I don't see any joints.

Here's your pic next to a photo of the original figure:



Look pretty fucking identical to me...albeit a bit stretched vertically...

my read is that it was going to be EXACTLY like the 3.75" vintage but in 12" form.

I mean despite where he is now, Fairey has been involved with graffiti as a whole for quite a long time so as dumb as this toy is, I can't say he is outside of his zone with this.

Good call. I just read some press release thing (on RebelScum?) that said pretty much that. So...if that is truly an unaltered photograph, you're right: the proportions have been stretched out a tiny bit. Looks like the Stormtrooper's been doing the South Beach diet!

Alex, fair enough regarding this dude's writing career...can't take that away from the man. But like they're discussing in the other thread, the brand-is-art thing is pretty disgusting...and is hardly "street".

^^^^^^^^
Bizzarely, this I like!

Yeah, that's pretty genius!
BTW, I've got a loose one for sale if anyone needs one.

i'm with you on this andy... so ridiculous, but i love it. more conceptual cool than a gaggle of 'art' toys.

Love it.^^^^
I want a Susan Storm to go with it

Looks like Frank is doing a rainbow series like Marusan.

The orange version is set to drop at SDCC 2010 for $200 a pop and is going to be limited to only 100pcs

They are the first toys from a series called "Stolle’s Neighborhood", with this duo made available as a set and are made of roto vinyl.
Standing at approx. 2.5” ~ this colorway is limited to only 200 pieces of which only 40 will be available at Booth # 4834 @ San Diego Comic Con 2010.

Is that a baseball cap??

The Papa Sama saga continues with the newest character in the series...Mama Sama.
This Blazing Mama Sama colorway is a SDCC 2010 release and limited to 30pcs worldwide.
Less than 30pcs will be available at the DKE booth #4732.

Each 6.5" handpainted resin figure somes with removable "Mama's Friend" spear accessory,
and is signed, numbered and packaged in the "Scarecrow" box by artist.
SRP is US$150 per.

included!

GENIUS!

Never thought I would come to Frank's defense, but didn't he do all the busts in a rainbow of colors?

Did Marusan invent the color spectrum?

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