all things McFarlane toy thread

[wormser]

anyone else a huge fan of the mcfarlane toys? i have just about every chicago sports figure made and next im looking to get into the Lost tv show figures. but they go for a ton.

WHO ELSE COLLECTS MCFARLANES????

[wormser]

I just spent 2 and a half hours logging all my mcfarlane sports figs. ive got more to add but im not touching any cubs figures....

BEARS:
2001 series 2 Brian Urlacher (blue jersey, clean)
2002 series 5 Anthony Thomas (blue jersey)
2004 12" series 2 Brian Urlacher (blue jersey)
2006 Legends series 2 Walter Payton (blue jersey)
2008 wave 2, series 18 Devin Hester (white jersey)
2009 series 21 Jay Cutler (blue jersey)
2009 series 22 Matt Forte (blue jersey)
2010 Legends series 6 Dick Butkus (blue jersey)
2010 series 24 Robbie Gould (blue jesrsey, cl chase level)
2011 series 25 Julius Peppers (blue jersey)
2011 2 pack Brian Urlacher (40's throwback jersey, 12" style pose)
2011 2 pack Dick Butkus (white jersey, dirty)
2012 series 30 Matt Forte (blue jersey)


WHITE SOX:
2003 fanfest Frank Thomas (grey jersey)
2004 series 8 Sammy Sosa (retro repaint)
2004 series 9 Magglio Ordonez (grey jersey)
2006 series 16 Scott Podsednik (black jersey)
2007 series 17 Jim Thome (white w/pinstripes jersey)
2008 series 20 Paul Konerko (white w/pinstripes jersey)
2011 cooperstown series 8 Carlton Fisk (1983 uniform)


BLACKHAWKS:
2004 series 7 Chris Chelios (red sweater, Blackhawks chase level)
2006 Legends series 6 Bobby Hull (red sweater)
2008 Legends series 7 Stan Mikita (white sweater)
2010 series 24 Jonathan Toews (white sweater)
2010 series 25 Patrick Kane (red sweater)
2011 series 27 Marty Turco (red sweater)
2011 series 28 Jonathan Toews (white sweater w/stanley cup)
2011 Canadian Tire Jonathan Toews (black sweater)
2011 series 29 Patrick Kane (red sweater)


BULLS:
2012 series 20 Derrick Rose (white jersey)


OTHER:
2000 Slap Shot movie figs. all 3 Hanson brothers (white sweaters)
2005 Barry Bonds (700th hr commemorative)
2006 Lost series 1 "hatch" set
2009 Clarktoys.com exclusive Ken Griffey jr. (white jersey)
2012 series 30 Brian Wilson (white jersey)

[Konigstiger]

They used to do some really great figures, but they've lost more than a few steps in the last decade.


Still, if that Halo Falcon ever sees the light of retail day I'll be on it like a hungry fat man on fried chicken.

[The Batman]

I got some basketball, football, and other movie mcfarlane stuff I am dying to get rid of if anyone wants it. 5.00 a figure!

[wormser]

I got some basketball, football, and other movie mcfarlane stuff I am dying to get rid of if anyone wants it. 5.00 a figure!

im looking for any chicago sports figure not listed in my "list" post. but dont bother with the cubs. i hate the cubs lol

got any of the tv show "Lost" figures?

[wormser]

i dont see the decline in quality like people have said. the sports figs are still outstanding detail and quality

[Adamassc]

I got some basketball, football, and other movie mcfarlane stuff I am dying to get rid of if anyone wants it. 5.00 a figure!

Any Danger Girl stuff?

[Trigue]

I just got my first three McFarlane figures ever, Carter, Jorge and UNSC Marine from the Halo Reach line and I am pretty impressed with them. I've never played Halo, don't know anything about it but the figures have sold me on it. After JoeCon is over I'm saving up for an xbox and the Halo games.

[pig iron grenadier]

I really want to get, again, Solid Snake , Meryl and Sniper wolf.

[wormser]

i gotta get the Lost tv show figs. what a great show!!!! the mcfarlane tv and movie figs are awesome. the sports figs are great fr a sports themed basement. i just need a house with a basement now.....

[super curry max]

The only mcfarlane figures I ever had was a medieval spawn/giant beast demon thing 2 pack. They never got much play in my toy rotation though. ven as a kid I'd look at the spawn and like wet works figures in the store and pass right by them as they looked to ridiculous to me. And this is when I was 10/11 and should have been eating that stuff up. Then they started having less and less articulation which just upped my ambivalence towards their figures.

[B and H Comics]

im looking for any chicago sports figure not listed in my "list" post. but dont bother with the cubs. i hate the cubs lol

got any of the tv show "Lost" figures?

and why do you hate the Cubs? The same reason everyone else around 40 to 35 does, you would run him from school and the stupid Cubs were on instead of Jem, Transformers and GI Joe.

Almost no one between those ages likes the Cubs, many will not know why but if you bring it up they will discover that is the reason, and yes I wrote my psychology thesis on that !

[B and H Comics]

i gotta get the Lost tv show figs. what a great show!!!! the mcfarlane tv and movie figs are awesome. the sports figs are great fr a sports themed basement. i just need a house with a basement now.....

I have the under ground tunnel thing from Lost, I took off the little lost guys and use it as a dio piece it is usually the sewer system entrance to a Terror Drome.

[wormser]

I have the under ground tunnel thing from Lost, I took off the little lost guys and use it as a dio piece it is usually the sewer system entrance to a Terror Drome.

thats actually pretty cool! looking at mine right now and joes would fit nicely around it for what you made yours into. nice work

[wormser]

anyone have any chicago sportspicks figs i dont have listed?

tony esposito
scottie pippen
patrick kane black jersey chase figure

[wormser]

tru has buy 1, get 1 50% off...

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[riot_control]

I have a crap load of twisted oz, fairy tales, and the tortured souls stuff. trying to sell it. lol

[HueyCobra AH-1]

i still have some of my old Spawn figures.
i still own the first one i ever bought- Series 7 Zombie Spawn (bad ass even today).

when they became too statue-y, coming with bases and you couldn't reposition them, i quit. no matter how good a sculpt, if you can't pose it, it sucks as a toy.

[wormser]

when they became too statue-y, coming with bases and you couldn't reposition them, i quit. no matter how good a sculpt, if you can't pose it, it sucks as a toy.

but they are already posed. and they arent really playable so thats why i dont consider them "toys". but whats the difference between a mcfarlane that is in a pose and you display or a figure you pose and display?

[HueyCobra AH-1]

i would like to be able to change the poses every so often.
that is the difference.

[Shipshape1983]

I picked up a Prince of Persia Daston figure on clearance for 2 dollars.

I was pleasantly surprised! A very well made and articulated figure with great details! A pretty accurate sculpt of Jake Jillenhall too.

Might pick up more for my Barbarians customs.

[HueyCobra AH-1]

Angela Simmons figure. It's a brick. pretty, but not much else.
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/523886_10151044682139653_1656572362_n.jpg

[pryorstemmed]

I have quite a few MOC/MISB Spawn figures. I also have quite a few Wetworks and a Twisted Land of Oz Dorothy all MOC/MISB. McFarlane rocks!

[wormser]

i would like to be able to change the poses every so often.
that is the difference.

i just dont get how not being able to change the pose would stop you from buying them. its not that you dont like the quality or detail, its just that you cant change the pose? i dont get it lol

[wormser]

I have quite a few MOC/MISB Spawn figures. I also have quite a few Wetworks and a Twisted Land of Oz Dorothy all MOC/MISB. McFarlane rocks!

i went on the spawn website and checked those out. pretty cool. never seen them before. i have a couple of the iron maiden figs they made. they also did other cool metal band fig. like the metallica ones.

[pryorstemmed]

i went on the spawn website and checked those out. pretty cool. never seen them before. i have a couple of the iron maiden figs they made. they also did other cool metal band fig. like the metallica ones.

Yeah, McFarlane did so many different categories, it's unreal. Total lack of articulation, but the detail and face sculpts were #1 in their day.

[wormser]

why does everyone keep bringing up articulation??? they are already posed

[Konigstiger]

Because they prefer action figures to nerd Hummels, which is what McFarlane tended to do.


Spawn series 22: The Viking Age Skullsplitter is arguably the best figure that company ever did, and, surprise, surprise, it's articulated. Oddly so in some spots, but articulted none-the-less. Personally McFarlane's old reasoning of the artistic aesthetic of the design would always trump articulation was joke when ugly (and useless) assembly joints started marring the torsos of figures and they started dumping painted clothes so Walmart would carry them.

[TheSerpentKing]

I used to have a few of the early Spawn figures and several of the Movie Maniacs figures. The Movie Maniacs line was one of my favorite toy lines when I was younger. I wish I still had them.

McFarlane really had some awesome stuff back in the day. I really wanted to like their Walking Dead line. The sculpts looked nice but the paint on all the one I saw were sloppy as hell.

[Adamassc]

I used to have a few of the early Spawn figures and several of the Movie Maniacs figures. The Movie Maniacs line was one of my favorite toy lines when I was younger. I wish I still had them.

McFarlane really had some awesome stuff back in the day. I really wanted to like their Walking Dead line. The sculpts looked nice but the paint on all the one I saw were sloppy as hell.

I agree on the paint issues for TWD, but I lucked out with having a large enough pool to select from. Managed to get the whole wave of comic figures with great paint. The TV figures, sadly, seemed to be overall much more poorly painted.

[TheSerpentKing]

I agree on the paint issues for TWD, but I lucked out with having a large enough pool to select from. Managed to get the whole wave of comic figures with great paint. The TV figures, sadly, seemed to be overall much more poorly painted.

Yeah the comic TWD figures looked alright paint wise but I the TV series figures were awful which really sucks cause the sculpts looked really nice but the paint made them look cartoony..

[pryorstemmed]

why does everyone keep bringing up articulation??? they are already posed

I didn't mind them not being articulated. I collected them carded and loved the poses.

My nephew, who I would buy an extra figure for, would open them and did not like the lack of articulation. The fact that they were unequipped with moveable limbs and joints to battle other figures took the imagination out of it and he just thought of them as boring and static (same for much of his generation).

Plus they would break all the damn time :D

[HueyCobra AH-1]

do you know how many times i have had to explain to kids why i don't play with my Spawn figures?

you ever tried to teach algehra to a dog?
you can repeat yourself ad nauseum and the fact remains, they don't get it.
what kind of toy doesn't move amd just stands there? why can't i play with it?

the first 5, maybe 10 lines from Todd and Co were "toys". even the metal Gear Solid figures had accessories out the wazaoo.
but somewhere, it changed.
who plays with their Sports Pics figures? nobody i know.

all the macfarlane stuff was inexpensive figurines, as opposed to buying pricey maquettes or busts.

[B and H Comics]

Does anyone have any Mcfarlane NFL Legends figures? hit me up with a pm if you do. Looking for Hall of fame guys.

[wormser]

NFL 30 hits stores! my Forte preorder from clarktoys ships monday