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lulubell
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Joined: Thu May 17, 2007 12:56 am Posts: 720 Location: tucson
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 Re: Hammerhead by Jled
I thought these were made at the same factory as most of the other "eastern" companies?
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bryce_r
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Joined: Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:57 am Posts: 7991 Location: SanJose
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 Re: Hammerhead by Jled
I don't really like the marketing behind this line of toys. I guess i understand it but meh.
I like some of the artists and some of the toys..but...a hammerhead shark?
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| Tue May 06, 2008 12:16 pm |
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---NT---
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Joined: Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:51 pm Posts: 5615 Location: PDX
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 Re: Hammerhead by Jled
Hammerhead sharks are awesome. However, Joe Ledbetter is NOT awesome. And KFGU is absolutely stupid - all of them, Biskup included. Leave hammerheads outta this, it's not their fault some lame illustrator came along and made a character and a toy based on them.
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vog_island
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Joined: Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:33 am Posts: 727 Location: Chicago, IL
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 Re: Hammerhead by Jled
I love milky usagi-gon. Biskup's & Horvath's are nice but not up my alley.
I'd rather see more from the "super market series".
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Katie
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Joined: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:40 am Posts: 124 Location: Maryland
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 Re: Hammerhead by Jled
I have a lot of jled stuff and I haven't bought any of these either...just doesn't do it for me.
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devilboy
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Joined: Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:44 pm Posts: 4644 Location: HELL
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i like jled's stuff but this was a swing and a miss to me. i also must say that the kfgu line has gotten really stale. just a money making machine with little heart... 
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playdohpunk
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Joined: Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:39 am Posts: 1358 Location: hippieland calif
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devilboy wrote: i like jled's stuff but this was a swing and a miss to me. i also must say that the kfgu line has gotten really stale. just a money making machine with little heart...  i have to agree and i actually liked some of the early stuff a lot.....i have 3 usagis and all the horvath flatwoods and mothmen and that is all now. and yeah, the mothies and flatties don't fit at all in my collection, they stand out like a sore thumb but i still like them a whole bunch. i think what really made me love them was this pic i took one afternoon in my office: 
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bansheebot
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Joined: Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:09 pm Posts: 5003
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---NT--- wrote: Hammerhead sharks are awesome. However, Joe Ledbetter is NOT awesome. This sums up my feelings exactly.
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melek_taus
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Joined: Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:48 pm Posts: 4668 Location: Where the brightest angel fell.
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Awesome pic! They're cute but don't fit my collection either. ... like that hammerhead thing.
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Gizzy
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Joined: Sun Apr 06, 2008 11:09 pm Posts: 588 Location: NY & Jpn
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The hammerhead is bleh
But that clear Flatwoods is sweet! Never seen im before.
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---NT---
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Joined: Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:51 pm Posts: 5615 Location: PDX
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I'm not a fan of Horvath's stuff, but I can see how people who are would like those Flatwoods Monsters. Still, they're not kaiju...
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VELOCITRON
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Joined: Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:49 pm Posts: 1437 Location: BURST CITY
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Was anyone else surprised by how small the Tankikazoo was? Call me simplistic, but if I'm laying down 70 clams for a figure I want it to be a little more commanding. Plus the fact that just about all of the Kaiju for Grown-Ups look more infantile than the stuff actually made for kids... 
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Autodactyl
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Joined: Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:42 am Posts: 496 Location: Berkeley, CA
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devilboy
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Joined: Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:44 pm Posts: 4644 Location: HELL
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at least it's a nice color. i still won't buy it though...
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jermy
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Joined: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:24 am Posts: 218 Location: New Orleans
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this dog toy makes me want to stick my finger in my eye.
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damaged Bryan
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Joined: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:23 am Posts: 1428 Location: Origin: 502 HQ: Chicago
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jermy wrote: this dog toy makes me want to stick my finger in my eye. THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING OF!!!! It looks like one of those plastic dog chew toys. Maybe I could get one and let my dogs go to town on it. Ahhh... Who am I kidding, my dogs wouldn't even crap on this.
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tavaro
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Joined: Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:25 pm Posts: 3165 Location: L.A.
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That thing looks dumb. period.
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Deadbone
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Joined: Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:07 am Posts: 1871 Location: Terra Australis
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jermy wrote: this dog toy makes me want to stick my finger in my eye.  Looks horrid...
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JoeMan
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Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:29 am Posts: 3818 Location: NY
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Hating away- If I ate a munny and a street shark, I imagine this is what would end up dropping in the toilet.
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JORDAN23
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Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:45 pm Posts: 2711 Location: Pasadena, CA
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You guys are brutal 
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scottygee
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Joined: Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:37 am Posts: 1351 Location: grumpy old fart headquarters
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I like Joe's work, for the most part, but marketing any of these toys under a "Kaiju For Grown-Ups" moniker is kinda silly...shouldn't grown-ups get SERIOUS monsters? I feel that a really brutal looking monster would be more acceptable as "Adult Kaiju". No offense to any of the artists involved, but any of them could clearly have marketed these toys under their own name and sold through the run just as easily as marketing them as kaiju---this is pure marketing, and that is the real monster here. In the spirit of full disclosure, that marketing monster has bitten me a time or two, but I heal quickly!
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KJB
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Joined: Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:07 am Posts: 1337 Location: Milwaukee, WI
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As much as I might admire him for creating his own niche market (yeah, I said it!) this I can only describe as craptacular.
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TrimmTrabb
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Joined: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:15 am Posts: 478 Location: Chicago!
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I guess it makes me a Sucker MC, but I really like it. It looks like a kaiju cartoon parody.
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---NT---
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Joined: Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:51 pm Posts: 5615 Location: PDX
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TrimmTrabb wrote: It looks like a kaiju cartoon parody. It looks like Power Puff Girls. Seriously, Joe should go to work for Nick Toons - in that context his work would be great, in the gallery context I find it very boring.
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leadster
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Joined: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:08 pm Posts: 931 Location: Mass: Out West
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---NT--- wrote: It looks like Power Puff Girls. Seriously, Joe should go to work for Nick Toons - in that context his work would be great, in the gallery context I find it very boring. HAH! Oh my god - that nails it completely. The pink does look like an angry Power Puff girl -- squint you'll see it.
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