Statue Gentle Giant: "Honey Trap" line

[cr`]

Fire Ball = LeMans
Kat-Ya = The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Derby = The Warriors
Whisper = Thunderball
Lucky = Predator

of the 5, the obvious ones is lemans and thunderball. i think lucky is too generic a concept, she can be just from any b-grade action movie. katya is spaghetti western concept as seen from tarantino's eye(incidentally 'the good, the bad, the ugly' is number 1 on tarantino's list of greatest films ever made). derby, i still insist she's closer to a cyberpunk genre than the warriors; the bold japanese letters on the shield also means she's partially anime-inspired.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbyHm9JabEI

My vid. The two on the right are my favourites.

Really not digging the dog. Looks like a Hasbro toy from the 80s. Real plastic looking...hopefully they will fix that....unless of course its meant to be a bit like Scooby Doo hahahahh

i think the dog is a nod to a very popular japanese samurai story, lone wolf and cub. now with the western setting, it's doberman and pup.

I was thinking about getting only Fire Ball and Whisper until I saw your comment then I took a closer look at Fire Ball. IMO she's still hot with her assault rifle and tight little ass but her face is kinda dull. So I think I'll throw in Katya to balance it out. Getting Whisper is a no brainer.

her face you cant see due to the black shade. whisper is top of my list too.

personally I view this as a Christian-inspired line.
After all it was God who created the lovely female form and also man's strong instinct to mate and reproduce with said form.

After all, man/woman werent aware they were naked until sin was introduced correct? Therefore the the less clothes the statues have on the closer to something divine they become, with it being man's given duty to celebrate these divine creations.

Any collector with any degree of faith should feel obligated to collect this line.

amen.

 

[cr`]

Respect for either gender is not a given. It has to be earned.

Has nothing at all to do with sexy statues.

"respect" is the mod's choice of word, not mine. my point is buying all these honeys up has nothing to do with respect/disrespecting women. at all. it's all about appreciating the divine's creations, like our father occulum so eloquently pointed out.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

Anyway, back onto the main topic...

I won't be getting any statue from this line but I do think that this line will sell very well and, if successful, it may lead into a third line down the road for Gentle Giant.

 

[MasterSafara]

Well we know GG is going to add more characters. They've said that. So we can expect more sexy girls with guns statues to follow!

 

[comicbookguy]

Anyway, back onto the main topic...

I won't be getting any statue from this line but I do think that this line will sell very well and, if successful, it may lead into a third line down the road for Gentle Giant.

Yeah then a fourth, fifth, sixth, on and on..... means= no more $$$$$.

 

[tylerdurden]

hmm, i find these fascinating. and although they're not really in line with my collecting theme of characters/props from movies, i might consider getting whisper.

what i wanna know is, what's the scale and what's the price? anyone here can enlighten me?

 

[TechLife]

What's the scale and what's the price? anyone here can enlighten me?

Scale is 1/4. Plenty of speculation (go back through the thread) on the price but nothing firm (or even a ballpark) from GG yet.

 

[Khev]

"respecting women"? so if you can appreciate female form in a piece of art, you're disrespecting women?

I didn't say that. I said if you display it in your house chances are you're probably giving off the vibe of someone's who's desperate or disrespectful. I didn't say you per se, and I was quite clear that it's a stigma that can be overcome, so I really don't see what your issue is.

*I* am not accusing you of anything. I'm talking about a stereotype that tends to be less than flattering, not unlike "crazy cat lady" or "sci-fi nerd." Do you ever see "self-assured badasses" in movies with art/figures of chicks in bikinis displayed in their rooms? No, that's pretty much reserved for teenagers and losers and it's because that's how society tends to generalize people who do such things.

Just like only "geeks" in movies like Live Free Die Hard or The Forty Year Old Virgin are seen with Sideshow sci-fi figures and whatnot. It's not condemnation to simply make the observation that that's the perception of society.

tell me, have you browsed for porn?
say yes, and that would make you a hypocrite after everything you just said; say no and that makes you gay

Wrong, for two reasons. "Browsing for porn" is something guys do while hunched over their computer screens in secret. Displaying a statue on a shelf clearly is not. And the second reason you're off point with that is because, again, I'm not condemning you. I assume you've never read a single Sucker Punch thread? I'm actually a pretty big fan of the movie and currently have the BD PF on preorder. Did I have a chat with the missus about it, uh YEAH, but we keep going back and forth on whether or not it's appropriate for our house. I mean, we're like two of the 10 people who actually saw that movie. To everyone else BD just looks like some slutty chick along the lines of these Honey Trap gals.

So relax. We're all faced with the same decisions and have to come to terms with how far we want to "geek out" or look like 40 year old virgin losers with our collections vs. not caring because the collectibles are so damn cool or not caring because we make up for it in other ways.

 

[EnShinNoi]

Khev I think your way of thinking is a little old fashioned. Stereotypes, especially those that are "geekish", have shifted dramatically over the past 10 years and they're continuing to do so.

 

[MasterSafara]

If you like it you buy it. ____ it. Do whatever makes you happy.

 

[Khev]

Khev I think your way of thinking is a little old fashioned. Stereotypes, especially those that are "geekish", have shifted dramatically over the past 10 years and they're continuing to do so.

I know video games have gone mainstream in a HUGE way and are no longer considered juvenile male pursuits but I haven't seen the pendulum shifting with regard to collectibles. I see references to collecting figures on current shows like The Office as still pretty "loser-ish behavior" or as jokes on Conan O'Brien.

Do you have any specific examples that indicate otherwise?

 

[The Josh]

I thought maybe a sequel to sucker punch was coming. That's totally what these reminded me of. I looked at them and thought a bunch of cool sexy looking females kicking ass and then went to look at The Hobbit and Marvel stuff at the GG booth.

 

[SwedishHeat]

I think these are totally bad-ass. Unfortunately at 1/4, these are too big and too pricey for me. Make these as 1/6 and I'm all for it.

Just kinda funny to me though. I didn't 'get' Sucker Punch and I'm not interested in any of that merch, but these. . . I totally 'get', I'm just drawn to original ideas. The fact that these are 'based on' male heroes totally works for me.

 

[MasterSafara]

I feel for all these collectors I see keep on saying I would but I don't have the room. Man... I hope I never get there one day... Or maybe I do. Man I this hobby!

 

[Centurion]

I thought maybe a sequel to sucker punch was coming. That's totally what these reminded me of. I looked at them and thought a bunch of cool sexy looking females kicking ass and then went to look at The Hobbit and Marvel stuff at the GG booth.

At first, I didn't even realize that these were just made-up characters. I thought each was from a popular franchise.

I saw Whisper for the first time and thought, "Lara Croft" with a new tat.

 

[MasterSafara]

There will be short videos of these characters as time goes on to give us a storyline to follow. Looking forward to that.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

I thought maybe a sequel to sucker punch was coming. That's totally what these reminded me of. I looked at them and thought a bunch of cool sexy looking females kicking ass and then went to look at The Hobbit and Marvel stuff at the GG booth.

I thought it was a sucker punch sequel too

 

[MasterSafara]

it could have been a prequel! I guess people are generally inclined to think sequel by default. I don't think figures of any kind have ever been released prior to a sequel even being made.

 

[tylerdurden]

Scale is 1/4. Plenty of speculation (go back hrough the thread) on the price but nothing firm (or even a ballpark) from GG yet.

thanks. i kinda guessed it was 1/4, looking at the videos but wasn't sure. in that scale, whisper just might complement my darth talon, since she's not canonical star wars anyway. i could always bs anyone who asks that whisper is a bond-inspired character, which is sorta true... -ish.

as for the whole stigma of having figures of scantily-clad figures or just figures in general in your home, i do agree with those who say the perception is slowly but surely shifting. the trick is to not have too many of the figures cluttering up your decor. displayed sparingly and tastefully, they can even give the impression of museum-level classiness.

 

[MasterSafara]

I don't care what people say about my displays or what they include. It's my house damnit!