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Fake Baron pachi in your face! You can't get pachi-er than this, love it.
Medicom and Lulubell are taking pre-orders for this fella. According to Lulubell its by Awesome Toy, a HK based company but this toy is made in Japan?!!! I would love a Made in Hong Kong fake toys from the olden days but to have this made in Japan is kinda neat.
This guy seems to takes reference from the old menko cards with all the pachi heroes. Interesting figure.
Cool looking sculpt.
Thu Mar 20, 2014 4:26 am
lurker
S7 Royalty
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Re: Awesome Toy Fake Baron
Cant imagine how annoying it is to paint all those rivots.
When I saw this it was an instant want. Unfortunately I'm quite poor for now. I think it's the goofy proportions or the boyish face, but I really like this one.
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Re: Awesome Toy Fake Baron
Pre-ordered!
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Thu Mar 20, 2014 11:29 am
Sanjeev
Post Pimp
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Re: Awesome Toy Fake Baron
This is gonna be a great figure. I hope it comes out in all sorts of different color schemes--the simplicity and cleanliness of the design would really lend to nice, vibrant primary colors...
No...that's not all I got. Eat a three inch dick footlong you prick.
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Thu Mar 20, 2014 6:01 pm
BOObotcher
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Re: Awesome Toy Fake Baron
Only the waist and arms are articulated? Can the head or waist rotate 360?
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Thu Mar 20, 2014 6:19 pm
ultrakaiju
Vintage
Joined: Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:51 pm Posts: 7316
Re: Awesome Toy Fake Baron
To me, there doesn't seem to be any articulation at the legs either, but I am also not sure the waist is even jointed. Sure does affect this guys playability - you know, for people who like that kind of thing in toys. I really want to get in on this pre-order but that seems like an obvious (and extremely unfortunate) oversight.
Looks to me from one of the photo that it'll be a seven parts figure, cool!
Also love the Zollmen font rip off!!Haha! The illustration with blue clouds is really good too.
It'll be great if those menko cards reference are somehow incorporated into the packaging.
Fri Mar 21, 2014 12:02 am
maxaltoman
Side Dealer
Joined: Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:11 pm Posts: 2162 Location: Land of unfree
Re: Awesome Toy Fake Baron
Sanjeev wrote:
I hope it comes out in all sorts of different color schemes
Can't see them going through so much effort in producing and marketing the product just for a single run. So I hope for a black baron, I think would be quite cool
Fri Mar 21, 2014 12:17 am
kurumonz
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Joined: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:57 pm Posts: 2414
Re: Awesome Toy Fake Baron
^Joe and his black fix
Fri Mar 21, 2014 12:28 am
Sanjeev
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Re: Awesome Toy Fake Baron
psilo110 wrote:
awesome toy unfollowed me this week. I am spending my night un-liking every pic of the production process out of spite.
For every fake baron sold, awesome toy buys a bowl of sharkfin soup, then dumps it into our natural springs and reservoirs.
Yeah, and "Fuck the USA" is engraved on the bottom of one of the feet. So screw these guys.....
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Re: Awesome Toy Fake Baron
BOObotcher wrote:
Only the waist and arms are articulated? Can the head or waist rotate 360?
Here's a shot of the wax:
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Fri Mar 21, 2014 8:51 am
ultrakaiju
Vintage
Joined: Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:51 pm Posts: 7316
Re: Awesome Toy Fake Baron
Well colour me corrected and extremely impressed and elated. This is going on the 'definite' list now. I love the boot design and was thinking it would be a great toy even as is.
A few menko cards included would be the perfect addition to this toy. I would love the idea of randomly inserted ones we could trade around. Couldn't be that hard to knock together some repros I am thinking, given the relatively cheap quality of the normal menko cardstock.
I also might as well post up this excellent illustration of Fake Baron by Michael. It has his own great style, but also would fit right in with some menko monsters.
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Re: Awesome Toy Fake Baron
Medicom made this available to us, but I hesitated in posting it here for pre-orders just because I can't ever seem to make the minimums and get stuck with extra figures... Crap, had I known I could have helped out.
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pachi in your face! You can't get pachi-er than this, love it.
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