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Thanks! That might be my favorite, too. I cheated it a bit, adding some more clouds via PicMonkey and then saturating the colors. It hasn't gotten much traction on Instagram; a ninja turtles photo that I like well enough but which strikes me as rather average has five times the likes. I have...

Seems no one has posted in this thread for months. However, I just procured Bilbo this week; I was initially scared away by photos wherein the face looked much stranger than it actually looks in-hand. A good sale at Amazon convinced me to go for it, and I am glad I did! Despite the fact that...

Belated thanks, Baggins! Ol' Luke has been on the back burner as of late in favor of NECA Jim Henson Turtles and Mezco's Popeye, but I took him out for a hasty shoot this evening to capture him with his cloak (a first for me) and with a new buddy, courtesy of Lanard. I also photographed his wee...

Judith Hoag tells a fun story of feeling apprehensive about having signed on for this obscure, stupid movie called Ninja Turtles, and telling Robin Williams about it and him excitedly replying, "Ooh, are you going to be April O'Neil?"

Now that you mention it, has there ever been a figure with an accurate likeness to Robin Williams?

While I might get Mezco's Bluto, if only because the figure I chose as the base has such limited articulation, I am otherwise quite content with the awesome custom Bluto @toyotter created for me: I definitely think he got the body shape right in a way Mezco didn't; I suspect they sacrificed...

Thinking of using Luke's half-dozen or so tiny doohickey tools as accessories for a TMNT Donatello figure, but then, looking at them, I got to thinking: I'm sure this has been covered, but where the hell are they supposed to go?!? They're so damn small! UPDATE: I looked at the instructions...

For those who don't remember the shot TaliBane and I are talking about, it's from 0:12 to 0:18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD7bpG-zDJQ I actually find this trailer to be quite effective in general, but that mood-setting opener remains the highlight.

Thanks, everybody! Yeah, it pretty much does. It's a damn weird design. While I find The Phantom Menace to be underrated, I will happily concede that it is a seriously flawed movie... but man, that moment in the trailer is one of my favorite Star Wars moments. I tend to assume a given Star...

Finally got to take the giant kaadu on a shoot; these are my favorite shots. He looks substantially more toylike than Luke, of course, being a twenty-year-old Hasbro product, but I like to think they go well together nonetheless. If I hadn't been in something of a rush and...

Thank you very much!

Thanks for the kind words, man. A very generous suggestion, but those jobs typically involve indoor photography, which I am comically ignorant of; I don't know anything about camera settings or lights or any of that hocus-pocus, I just let nature do all the work for me, ha ha.

Yeah, it's a sharp figure. I ended up selling it to a friend, if memory serves. I like articulation, but increasingly I am more concerned with sculpt; Walking Dead collectors were upset when McFarlane changed the scale and limited the articulation of those figures, but they looked better and...

There were variants; this one didn’t have the shirt. As for issues: Articulation was VERY limited; some parts were rotoscope/hollow if memory serves. No leg articulation at all, I’m pretty sure. The head broke off mine, but I fixed it. So basically it was best served looking pretty on the...

Ha. I got the email notification of your reply, Anakin, and I thought to myself, "That sounds like a thread I'd have started." Lo and behold, I did start this thread! ...and I never did end up getting Hellboy, mostly because Mezco's looked pretty damn good for such a tiny fraction of the cost...

I love that idea, but I'll probably just stick with this Luke; my budget is just limited enough that any given Hot Toys figure is a rare treat, so even buying more than one version of a character is unlikely for me, let alone buying a second version of a character and an additional head. Still...

Ha ha, good point! I don’t care for the head sculpt on that figure, but he is basically wearing his RotJ duds.

I definitely prefer this look to what he wore in Force Awakens. I’d like to see Old Luke in his black Return of the Jedi robes.

Lovely shot, Comatoast! And thanks so much for the kind words, jedibear! I have since done some minor additional work on the dewback's tail, stuffing it more thoroughly and gluing the slit sealed. I don't paint toys, though, so his sheen is for keeps, alas. Probably a moot point, as I may...

I forgot to add: I've discovered a new editing trick, for those of you who use PicMonkey (and I'm sure the rest of you can find an equivalent gimmick in whatever editing software you favor): from their Themes menu, in the "Demons" sub-category, I used the green option in the Harrowing Hue tool...