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01-05-2010, 11:04 AM | #11 |
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These customs are fantastic. They look like they were plucked right from the 80s. And I mean that in a good way. |
01-06-2010, 11:29 AM | #12 |
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Im glad you like them. They were completely designed to look like they were "plucked from the 80's" as you say, because I wanted them to look as though they were long lost vintage prototypes that never made it to market. Looks like I succeeded.
I have never understood why they never had authorized versions of Visitor figures for sale. V was a big hit back then, the networks thought is was worth reviving into a new series, so even new modern versions of the characters in toy form are in order. What gives? Did Kenneth Johnson piss someone off at Hasbro or Kenner back in the day? I really dont get it. Which is why I made it instead.
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01-06-2010, 11:31 AM | #13 |
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By the way, I do know about the 12" Visitor figure by LJN from 1984, I have one ;)
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01-06-2010, 01:01 PM | #14 |
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I think the network may not have been used to doing licensed spinoff toys. It seems to me there weren't a lot of toys based on the cool shows back then, and when there were they were either small lines, crappy, or sometimes both. They probably didn't realize just how popular V was with us kids then! The toys would have done well.
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01-06-2010, 01:11 PM | #15 |
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Hopefully if toys are made from the new V series they will make something like this for fans of the old series. Great work btw!
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01-06-2010, 01:14 PM | #16 |
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I have never understood why they never had authorized versions of Visitor figures for sale. V was a big hit back then, the networks thought is was worth reviving into a new series, so even new modern versions of the characters in toy form are in order. What gives? Did Kenneth Johnson piss someone off at Hasbro or Kenner back in the day? I really dont get it. Which is why I made it instead.
And that 12" Visitor is an great figure. |
01-07-2010, 03:29 AM | #17 |
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Yeah, but take Mego, for example. They were making all KINDS of crazy figures back in the seventies and early eighties based on everything from Happy Days to Dukes of Hazzard to freakin' Love Boat! Maybe the action figure mania had died down by the mid-80's after Star Wars figure sales started slumping. Mego went out of business, I think, in the mid eighties, right?
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01-07-2010, 03:37 AM | #18 |
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by the way, an interesting bit of toy trivia: Mego passed on the licensing for the original Star Wars figures. That fateful decision sealed their coffin for the toy biz, Im afraid!
Honestly though, I can't believe after V proved to be a hit back in the day, a cult hit now, and now a mainstream revived modern series on ABC, and still NO COMPANY has made figures in the 25+ years its been out, except for that one cool 12" figure. Hell, they even have new Art Asylum Flash Gordon 1980 movie figures out now! Just crazy..
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01-07-2010, 10:36 AM | #19 |
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I agree it would be cool, and that V figures would be hot sellers even today, but I can easily see why the owners of the property don't "get it" and won't consider licensing toys for collectors.
Of course maybe there's something in the works even now and I will be proven wrong... I'd imagine that if the new show is popular and some company gets the rights to make figures based on it, they could use the license to make vintage ones as well. Things like that have happened with other properties, such as Battlestar Galactica. When the new show came out they made miniature ships from it, but also produced the classic versions. Quote:
And by the way, can you imagine if Mego had gotten the Star Wars rights? They would most likely have made them in the same style as their previous figures with clothes and all, and the 3 3/4 inch figure revolution would not have happened. And that means Hasbro would not have reinvented GI Joe at that scale... Last edited by blackbarn; 01-07-2010 at 10:41 AM.. |
01-07-2010, 10:49 AM | #20 |
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Fantastic!
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