1/6 VTS TOYS - Wasteland Ranger: The Road to Hell

[noface]

Sadly I only have two figures. Lol indy, and superman from bvs. I had more but sold them. If I had a great collection like many I would gladly show pics. But I do hope to add this and other figures in the future. Batman, daredevil, doctor strange and so many more is on my list.

Those are nice figures you have. When i get the Wasteland Ranger, idk when that will be, that'll be my 2nd one. Right now, I only have the DOFP Wolverine figure. The figures that you sold, were they really old figures?

 

[Luisenigma1]

Well like two years the oldest was my Dx06 jack sparrow which I sold. I do miss the figure, but I'm glad the person I sold it to was happy he finally got one. My indy was hot toys stock at first but became fully custom. Using yunsil set and the new sculpts.

 

[kam veitch]

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[DGSimo]

Also concerning the previous comment on where there can be one available for order. Try Man of action figures.com they have him for preorder still.

Ooo great! Thanks for the heads up. Snagged one myself!

Quite the coincidence considering the new big Mad Max High Octane blu-ray set is arriving today.

 

[Rainpaulo]

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[chobits55]

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Wooooo! Hopefully by december for the US


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[noface]

Well like two years the oldest was my Dx06 jack sparrow which I sold. I do miss the figure, but I'm glad the person I sold it to was happy he finally got one. My indy was hot toys stock at first but became fully custom. Using yunsil set and the new sculpts.

I see. I might do what you did with Indy with some other figure sometime in the future. Was it a lot of fun putting it together? It must've taken a lot of time. Anyway, I'm so freakin exited for the WR figure just by looking at the box of the figure some guy posted on here.

 

[Asta]

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Ah,the reality at last!

Spoiler

I've been watching the original Mad Max trilogy on Blu-ray for the first time today. And wondering, as I often do, how Fury Road fits in. Or how Bruce Spence appears twice as almost the same character.

And then the answer just came to me: it's four films about the same Max, but told from the point of view of an eyewitness. Stories about a 'legendary character' in which some of the facts were either misinterpreted or invented.

 

[Underworld54]

They're doing a good job hiding this figure from the studio. There hasn't been any new pics of the actual figure in months has there?

 

[Keegan]

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Nice!

Everything I have coming seems to be delayed for one reason or another. It'll be great to have fresh plastic meat.

 

[slikkerias]

 

[GuruAskew]

Ah,the reality at last!

Spoiler

I've been watching the original Mad Max trilogy on Blu-ray for the first time today. And wondering, as I often do, how Fury Road fits in. Or how Bruce Spence appears twice as almost the same character.

And then the answer just came to me: it's four films about the same Max, but told from the point of view of an eyewitness. Stories about a 'legendary character' in which some of the facts were either misinterpreted or invented.

Or it's just a straightforward series of 4 movies featuring the same character in which the main role was recast because the original actor went nuts.

That's how it's portrayed in the Vertigo comic book co-written by George Miller which pretty much lays waste to all the fan theories. Yours is probably the least-offensive though, there are people who like to think Max in Fury Road is actually a grown-up Feral Child.

 

[Asta]

Or it's just a straightforward series of 4 movies featuring the same character in which the main role was recast because the original actor went nuts.

That's how it's portrayed in the Vertigo comic book co-written by George Miller which pretty much lays waste to all the fan theories. Yours is probably the least-offensive though, there are people who like to think Max in Fury Road is actually a grown-up Feral Child.

This series? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max:_Fury_Road_(comic_book)

All of the prequel comics begin with the introduction of the “Wordburger”, an oral storyteller and historian...

That's much like the films that have a narrator, which is why I like the idea of an interpreted narrative that would take account of inconsistencies, such as Max now looking like Hardy!

But having read that, and learnt about the Glory character, it explains the daughter/son issue that seemed to be inconsistent in Fury Road.

 

[GuruAskew]

The leap that a narrator is an unreliable narrator is a huge one and one I wouldn't make unless the narrator is demonstrably unreliable like, say, The Usual Suspects. It's clear in both the Mad Max movies and the comics that the narrator exists only to establish a setting. There are few stories that actually hold up to the scrutiny of being a tale told to someone else. Do you honestly watch Fury Road and picture Max describing all the events to someone Princess Bride-style just because there's a bit of voiceover at the beginning? Obviously not.

 

[Rainpaulo]

Come on and show us the figure

 

[Asta]

The leap that a narrator is an unreliable narrator is a huge one and one I wouldn't make unless the narrator is demonstrably unreliable like, say, The Usual Suspects. It's clear in both the Mad Max movies and the comics that the narrator exists only to establish a setting. There are few stories that actually hold up to the scrutiny of being a tale told to someone else. Do you honestly watch Fury Road and picture Max describing all the events to someone Princess Bride-style just because there's a bit of voiceover at the beginning? Obviously not.

It's not so much a leap as imagining Max had plastic surgery to become Hardy. Mad Max 2, for example, was a story told by the narrator who, at the end, says,

Narrator: And the Road Warrior? That was the last we ever saw of him. He lives now... only in my memories.

In Thunderdome Savannah narrates the ending.

I've found a few Australian films tend to have a surreal quality, like Walkabout, Razorback, The Cars That Ate Paris, and so on. There is a little of this quality in the Mad Max series, that leads me to see them as not completely literal. But as legends.

Miller was cagey about how Fury Road fitted in.

It’s sort of a revisit. The [previous] three films exist in no real clear chronology, because they were always conceived as different films.

And Tom Hardy's view:

We have to take it differently as George is taking it. It’s a relaunch and revisit to the world. An entire restructuring. That’s not to say that it’s not picking up or leaving off from the Mad Max you know already, but it’s a nice re-take on the entire world using the same character, depositing him in the same world but bringing him up to date by 30 years.

https://www.slashfilm.com/is-fury-road-a-sequel/

The analogy on that site was, "James Bond", which is a more difficult conundrum if you wanted to rationalize Ian Fleming's character with the films.

Sometimes I just have to find a way to make films work to really appreciate them, and when it comes to the behemoth that is Star Wars, just throw out whole chunks of the 'official' canon.

But I digress, because the main event is that VTS is finally getting their figures out the door soon...

 

[H1mcgdnrc]

I told you folks to not worry.

 

[Asta]

Never have to worry with VTS. They always get there in the end. The good stuff is worth waiting for.

 

[Luisenigma1]

Noface, It was great putting indy together I even weathered the jacket a bit. Finally it's getting here. Glad we all had chats about this to pass the time. That comic is cool as it shows it's still max from the first three films. Also the video game that came out a last year ties in with the comics and film. That box looks great.

 

[cmiller99]

I can't wait to see pics of this.