Any love for the Toybiz line???

[Glennfett]

Here are just some of mine......

 

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[Geb]

Great pics GlennFett...I have some serious love for these figures...

You guys been to The Green Dragon...I have a pretty extensive library growing over there for the Toybiz line...some awesome figures!!

 

[DaveMac]

wow there's loads of stuff i never even knew existed! Like that Sam and Frodo in a boat in the pic.... any photos of this or any of the dio's?

The Frodo at BE dio has the Front door of BE on a base with some vines and grass wall framing. There is a replica 'one ring' which you insert into a fitting near the door and it turns it to reveal a Ringwraith.

Mines in the original; 'half moon' box so it hasn't been opened or tried out. Maybe someone else can post a pic?

 

[Geb]

The Frodo at BE dio has the Front door of BE on a base with some vines and grass wall framing. There is a replica 'one ring' which you insert into a fitting near the door and it turns it to reveal a Ringwraith.

Not completely true.

The original FOTR Half-Moon Frodo came with a diorama/base that had some trees and the one-ring twisting mechanism and a window that changed from a forest scene to a picture of the Ringwraith.

The Traveling Bilbo figure came with the Bag End Door...a static base, but had some nice detailing on it.

Geb

 

[FlyAndFight]

I have the following:

1) Frodo that was a gift,

2) Talking Sauron that was pretty cool,

3) SCREAMING Gandalf which yells out, "YOU SHALL NOT PASS" at about the same decibel level as a jet engine on afterburner...

And finally the amazingly cool talking Treebeard, which I ended up getting Merry and Pippin and resting them on the top branches, like in the films.

 

[DaveMac]

Not completely true.

The original FOTR Half-Moon Frodo came with a diorama/base that had some trees and the one-ring twisting mechanism and a window that changed from a forest scene to a picture of the Ringwraith.
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The Traveling Bilbo figure came with the Bag End Door...a static base, but had some nice detailing on it.
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Geb

Ahh. Cheers Geb
You can tell it's been a while since I opened the storage boxes

I never managed to get the 'Battle cry' Uruk Hai which I thought was a cool/ creepy figure.

 

[Geb]

THe Battle-Cry Uruk is one of the FINEST...with the exception of that silly RUBBER face and lack of head articulation...

 

[Fritz]

...2) Talking Sauron that was pretty cool...

I still have that Sauron as well. I press the button every once in a while when going into my basement.

...oh and I also have an Easterling still in the half moon box in my closet for some reason.

 

[Rogar]

Another problem with these figures is the cheapo plastic they are made of. They don't hold up well and are prone to decay. The king of the dead is awful for this - plastic reactions.

Can you tell more about the decay that you mentioned? My toy biz are displayed away from direct sunlight and except for the swords that have a tendency to bend with the gravity there is no real decay on them, it is as simple as reorienting the swords so that gravity can start bending them th opposite way.

 

[Rogar]

I love the ToyBiz LOTR. I have the majority of them, if not all. They are very detailed and there are tons of secondary characters.

I also have the smaller scale Armies of Middle Earth which I also think are excellent. They had some great playsets. Anyone have those?

Armies of middle earth really suck, their plastic breaks easily and their casts left lots of ridges. The only one I like is the FellBeast on Osgilath, it matches perfectly the Sideshow WitchKing on FellBeast.

 

[Rogar]

My collection consists of Weta/Sideshow Environments displayed along the representative ToyBiz characters and their matching Sideshow Helms from the Sideshow Helm collection.

I have decided not to pursue Sideshow statues, I never liked their lack of scale and their dolls like faces, instead I decided to stick to ToyBiz characters which they all follow good scale patterns. (6 inches height for men, 7 for elves, 10 for Trolls, 4 for Hobbits).
I own all the LOTR Toy Biz characters and nowadays I combine them with the shields produced by Weta.
I only own certain statues of Sideshow, mostly of creatures that sort of match (at least visually) in size with my ToyBiz characters. Therefore I own Shelob's statue, the original "daddy" Balrog, Mumak of Harad and the Watcher of the Water.
I do not own Sideshow Cave Troll as I rather prefer the Trolls made by ToyBiz!!! I have 2 armoured trolls (the ones that open the huge black gates with their chains), one Attack troll that is displayed matching his Troll Battle Helm from Sideshow and one ToyBiz Cave Troll which has better face detail, body posture and even sounds compared to the very expensive and much bigger in scale Sideshow Cave Troll.
I do own The Stone Trolls and the Combat Troll, they are smaller than the Toy Biz Trolls but not that much, I think I can do something about it, plus Stono Trolls is too good to let it pass.

 

[FrodoEyes]

Displaying SSW museum quality statues with Toybiz action figures...... shudder!!

 

[Rogar]

Love your open mindness Frodo Eyes, (yes I am sarcastic), I invite you to see my collection before you do premature judgement! Y/F Rogar

 

[FrodoEyes]

Love your open mindness Frodo Eyes, (yes I am sarcastic), I invite you to see my collection before you do premature judgement! Y/F Rogar

Would love to! Just a personal preference. I got a couple of Toybiz figures back in the day - Sauron, Grima, Galadriel..... don't have them any more though, but they were good..

 

[DaveMac]

Love your open mindness Frodo Eyes, (yes I am sarcastic), I invite you to see my collection before you do premature judgement! Y/F Rogar

Post them thar pics !!!!

Sounds like a cool concept

 

[jlprjlpr]

Armies of middle earth really suck, their plastic breaks easily and their casts left lots of ridges. The only one I like is the FellBeast on Osgilath, it matches perfectly the Sideshow WitchKing on FellBeast.

I never had the breakage problems you speak of. And they are pretty darn good for one inch tall!