Custom 1/6 Merry / Pippin ?
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thenammagazine
Super Freak
Galdalf's hash-bag stick (I used the one with the crystal and just melted off the top). There might still be some extras lying around on TA's website if you want to have a go at a Bilbo.
Everyone's got their custom Bilbo's smoking the "Old Toby"... 
galactiboy
OT Preferist
Oh and I think the sculpt is passable Chibischmoo... sure its not perfect, but I think with paint and on the body he'd be recognizable.
thenammagazine
Super Freak
A quick search of this board will reveal about 6 threads where this topic has been brought up. To date, while there is a small amount of interest on the collector level, there seems to be little to none from the professional level. And with the recent "trend" of customizer bashing that's been plaguing this forum unattended like a bad case of Herpes Simplex 2, frankly, I don't blame them.
thenammagazine
Super Freak
When Sideshow announced that they were canceling the 1:6 line, I was devastated. I helped as much as I could with getting custom Gimlis to fill that hole and was one of the people who helped with Bilbo to fill that gap too. Trust me. I want Merry and Pippin equally, if not moreso, than you. As a matter of fact, do a search for custom Merry and Pippin and see who started the very first thread requesting getting them done.
When Sideshow announced that they were canceling the 1:6 line, I was devastated. I helped as much as I could with getting custom Gimlis to fill that hole and was one of the people who helped with Bilbo to fill that gap too. Trust me. I want Merry and Pippin equally, if not moreso, than you. As a matter of fact, do a search for custom Merry and Pippin and see who started the very first thread requesting getting them done.
I hear you.
And I get it... I should have searched before asking.
Sometimes it's just easier to ask a question of those who are discussing a topic rather than running around asking someone else who already discussed it.
thenammagazine
Super Freak
I hear you.
And I get it... I should have searched before asking.
Sometimes it's just easier to ask a question of those who are discussing a topic rather than running around asking someone else who already discussed it.
Sorry if you thought that. That wasn't my point. My point is as sad as it seems, at this point, it's just...well...beating a:
Every year around Christmas, I watch the Extended versions of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. So of course, my interest in LOTR is renewed. I puchased a Legolas and a Gimli recently, and was going to pick up a Merry and Pippen and was shocked to read the Sideshow never made them, no one has made them, even customizers.
Maybe with the Hobbit movie coming out, some more people will have a renewed interest in LOTR and we might see some Merry and Pippen customs.
Maybe with the Hobbit movie coming out, some more people will have a renewed interest in LOTR and we might see some Merry and Pippen customs.
We can hope.
Should we start a list for a group commission and then find an artist?
If I commissioned two LOTR heads out of my own pocket in their entirety, I would choose Eowyn and Arwen.
If I commissioned two LOTR heads out of my own pocket in their entirety, I would choose Eowyn and Arwen.
SHIN AKUMA
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Haha, I misread the title and thought it said "Custom 1/6 Mary Poppins". Who would want that??!
lerath666
Super Freak
That's alot harder than you might think.
Honestly I'd probably be down for any group commission for lotr
Well mainly because the artists here that offer things of their own volition seem to have no interest in LOTR.
The Red Planet Toy's Aragorn sculpt happened, but they seem to be exclusively focused on 'tough-guy' characters. Pippin and Merry do not quite qualify.
I think Sideshow's handling, then whimpering abadonment of the licence really soured a lot of people. I know it did me for a long time. The LOTR sig group got me ineterested again.
lerath666
Super Freak
it's not so much that. it's also that while sideshow isn't doing 1/6th, they DO hold the license to it. As such, people like Trev and andy CAN'T do those sculps without potentially getting into trouble with sideshow.
