Big Chief Studios - 1/6 Doctor Who - #10 David Tennant

[Sirjediknighttim]

So not happy that I missed the signature edition But I have to place my pre-order for the regular edition asap.

 

[kl241]

I wish they would fix their site so I can check my order.

 

[Ex-Parrot]

+1

The site has been like that for far too long now, too. Pretty much ever since they announced the upcoming improvements/redesign. *sigh*

They really need to not let things like that fester for too long, it doesn't do them any favours in collectors/customers eyes.

 

[DVD1]

The site is unfortunately a big let down. It needs to be kept up to date, and if they post on FB, it should be RSSd to the web site. So to speak.

 

[Captain Britain]

I wonder if they new about Tennant's return or if that's just a lucky coincidence?

 

[DGTWoodward]

The site is unfortunately a big let down. It needs to be kept up to date, and if they post on FB, it should be RSSd to the web site. So to speak.

This is one of the things that really annoys me about 'social media' (a pretentious designation if ever there was one!), and this is not about BCS as such but all companies these days...what's the point of having your own, dedicated web site if all your updates and very latest news goes straight to FARTbook to Twatter, first?

I hate FB at the best of times and only really joined because I wanted to enter a competition, when directed there from...yep you guessed it, a company's own dedicated web-site...other than that, I see it as a phenomenal waste of a person's life.

 

[ProgMatinee]

This is one of the things that really annoys me about 'social media' (a pretentious designation if ever there was one!), and this is not about BCS as such but all companies these days...what's the point of having your own, dedicated web site if all your updates and very latest news goes straight to FARTbook to Twatter, first?

I hate FB at the best of times and only really joined because I wanted to enter a competition, when directed there from...yep you guessed it, a company's own dedicated web-site...other than that, I see it as a phenomenal waste of a person's life.

Well, who wants to have to visit 4000 webpages all the time to see what the hell is going on?

I remember the earlier days of "I wonder when such and such bands are going to release an album or go on tour" and having to check like 30 of my favorite bands websites to find out. Now you just like each of them on facebook and you get all the info straight to you.

 

[DGTWoodward]

Well, who wants to have to visit 4000 webpages all the time to see what the hell is going on?

I remember the earlier days of "I wonder when such and such bands are going to release an album or go on tour" and having to check like 30 of my favorite bands websites to find out. Now you just like each of them on facebook and you get all the info straight to you.

Well that is a valid point, to which I'd say that I'd do what we have done here regarding SSC/HT/Medicom/etc 1:6 scale figures...I'd join a dedicated fan forum.

I was more leaning towards the observation that these days, there seems to be little choice, if you don't join FB or such...you will miss out on things.

But I still don't like being strong armed into something I did not want to do.

 

[thedarkknight]

All the advertising for products and services is why I almost never use facebook anymore. It's just free marketing for companies that are fleecing us already.

 

[DVD1]

I utterly refuse to use FB and Twit .
I watch others using it daily. Updating thir status for all the world to know that the farted, or are pissed off, or have had their second cup of Starbucks. Who the hell cares.
Back to my point again, which has basically been addressed, but it is so annoying that I visit the BC website, to regularly find, nothing, but here, I get updates from their social networking sites. I really don't get it. They have a nicely set up web site. It takes seconds to update the latest news. I should know, I administer two for our foundation. I daily add the latest bulletin with updates, news and videos. It's the first thing I do in the morning after I've been passed off after farting during my second Starbucks.

 

[JonWes]

I utterly refuse to use FB and Twit .
I watch others using it daily. Updating thir status for all the world to know that the farted, or are pissed off, or have had their second cup of Starbucks. Who the hell cares.

You might just need more interesting friends.

I think FB and Twitter are fine. They keep me in touch with some more casual fans, and some creators, and it's been great for networking on different projects and things. If someone is a boring Facebooker I either put them on ignore or defriend them. I actually like hearing about offers and contests from certain companies, so I only like and then follow the companies I actually want to hear from.

 

[Captain Britain]

There's been some absolutely mental stuff happening in Who fandom:

https://whistleblowerfive.blogspot.co.uk/2013_05_01_archive.html

A fake whistleblower feeding fake spoilers, which Steven Hill and the creepy 'Who Nazis' at Gallifrey Base then delete as if they were true... lovely stuff, which really puts arguments in the 1/6 world in perspective.

 

[pixletwin]

 

[Ex-Parrot]

Steven Hill is such a ****. That is all.

*Steven Hill now instantly shows up and deletes this post, and at least a dozen others, for daring to be ever-so-slightly off topic and not something he personally wants to read*

That said, Who fandom in general is right up there with the Trekkers, Whedonites/Browncoats, Star Wars fanatics, and DC/Marvel diehards in it's ability to attract absolute nutcases with practically zero social skills. I mean is it really too much to as to just enjoy the thing you claim to love, and discuss aspects of it with other fans without going into full meltdown mode all the damn time?

Oh. Apparently, according to the internet, the answer is 'yes'. Unfortunately.

 

[DGTWoodward]

Who fandom in general is right up there with the Trekkers, Whedonites/Browncoats, Star Wars fanatics, and DC/Marvel diehards in it's ability to attract absolute nutcases with practically zero social skills. I mean is it really too much to as to just enjoy the thing you claim to love, and discuss aspects of it with other fans without going into full meltdown mode all the damn time?

I am so glad you missed out us BABYLON 5 fans.

On those forums you get a much higher quality of absurd Bollocks...

 

[Ex-Parrot]

Back in the day on the official B5 forum site the vast majority of fans were reasonably normal (not including me... ). Given that the show has been dead and gone for a decade or so, can't say I run across too many fans these days, and when I do they don't tend to be deliberately acting like *****. Similar deal with most Farscape, Stargate, and X-Files fans.

I mean there's obviously good and bad in any section of fandom, I'd never pretend that there wasn't, but it just seems to me that certain fandoms tend to produce way more than their fair share of hostile, bile-fueled, over-the-top nutters. And those few I've listed previously always seem to go pretty far above their quota in that regard. And I say this as a member of most of those fandoms myself.

 

[DGTWoodward]

Back in the day on the official B5 forum site the vast majority of fans were reasonably normal (not including me... ). Given that the show has been dead and gone for a decade or so, can't say I run across too many fans these days, and when I do they don't tend to be deliberately acting like *****. Similar deal with most Farscape, Stargate, and X-Files fans.

I mean there's obviously good and bad in any section of fandom, I'd never pretend that there wasn't, but it just seems to me that certain fandoms tend to produce way more than their fair share of hostile, bile-fueled, over-the-top nutters. And those few I've listed previously always seem to go pretty far above their quota in that regard. And I say this as a member of most of those fandoms myself.

The successor to B5, another quality show that 'died' but got a reprieve to tell the final chapter of its story. And starred Ben Browder, who was in Dr WHO and so we are back full circle.

Thanks Ex-P!

 

[kojirex20]

Anyone know of a safe gloss or glaze that I can apply to the eys without damaging the paint. Not having that wetness look to the eyes gives them a sort of dead look

 

[lerath666]

Look into Games Workshop ( Company) Citadel minatures ( brand) 'Ardcoat ( Color)

or, you know, i could just give you a link,

https://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1500292a&_requestid=2154729

 

[pixletwin]

I like GB. Sure the mods can be condescendingly robotic in how they execute their role, but I imagine a site of that size with as much traffic as they get you have to assume an atmosphere of strict adherence to rules or else it would spin out into something akin to spawn.