LOST! Anybody picking up this license???

[meth head]

WOW! Nice repaint! How much?

$85 shipped matey

 

[Jay1138]

McFarlane was doing just fine until they screwed up the line with delays and its cancellation.

Add that to the list of licenses McF has screwed up.

 

[Maglor]

I love my McF Locke!

 

[David Dunn]

I have the first series of figs and the Hatch diorama and they are some of my favorite collectibles! The limited prints that came out late last year were really cool!! Maglor, Locke is my favorite fig in that series!! Excellent detail and I love the fact that he is holding a water bottle and a knife. One of the best things about these figs was the little items that came with each figure (Locke's Walkabout brochure, Kate's toy plane, Jack's pic of Kate's mugshot, etc.). Someone please pick this up!!! The new figs coming out from Big Bang Boom (or whoever it is) are TERRIBLE!!!

 

[ShortRound]

I have the first series of figs and the Hatch diorama and they are some of my favorite collectibles! The limited prints that came out late last year were really cool!! Maglor, Locke is my favorite fig in that series!! Excellent detail and I love the fact that he is holding a water bottle and a knife. One of the best things about these figs was the little items that came with each figure (Locke's Walkabout brochure, Kate's toy plane, Jack's pic of Kate's mugshot, etc.). Someone please pick this up!!! The new figs coming out from Big Bang Boom (or whoever it is) are TERRIBLE!!!

Agree. My mcfar Locke is thee favorite out of the five(or 6, forgot).

 

[beeshaw]

Eko's my fave of the McF line.

 

[Maglor]

Eko's my fave of the McF line.

Do you have any good pics of him.

Was never impressed when I saw the promo pics.

 

[beeshaw]

Do you have any good pics of him.

Was never impressed when I saw the promo pics.

Seriously? I think it's the best likeness of them all! Can't vouch for my photography skills though...

 

[Maglor]

I have to admit, the likeness is quite good there, but there is just something about this Locke:

I definitely like Locks dio better. More iconic and not distracting.

 

[beeshaw]

The bases on series 2 sucked. I wish they carried on with the shorter bases.

I love my Locke as well, but Eko just looks so imposing. Also I don't think the likeness is as strong as Eko.

 

[Kuzeh]

Big Bang Pow are doing figures. Like MEGOs, and they suck. . . tremendously.

The first figures are Hurley in his bathrobe from the mental institution and Ben in his Others disguise, tatttered clothes. Ridiculous choices.

McFarlane drove this licenese into the ground, and really showed how much of a lack of interest there is. Just because a show is popular doesn't mean a line of action figures will be successful.

How About the SDCC exclusive, Jacob and Man in Black..

Also... these are the pics you're referring to...

!!

 

[IKE-CON]

Actually, I know Mcfarlane had the license, not sure if they still do. Even if they produce
12 inch figures, normally they're like NECA's, done in vinyl with little to no articulation.

They did mostly 7 inch, some with dio's. Here's a picture.

Even if they did do 12 inch, not sure I would want them anyway.

 

[ShortRound]

Lol!! those mego-style figures are horrible!! I hadn't seen the Locke, Ben and hurley. Wow those made me laugh!! Thanks for the pics kuzeh.

All in all I guess nothing good is coming out for LOST. Tragic!
Let's wait for comic con I guess.

 

[The Entity]

Sorry for this kind of necropost, but I just saw the finale of this awesome show last night and now I'm more in the mood for some amazing 1/6th Lost figures than I ever was...

So here I'll just post some ideas I have for the main characters... hoping that someone, at Hot Toys preferably, reads this and sees reason to make some figures...

Jack
- Give him 2 headsculpts, one with the really short hair, one with the slightly longer one as seen in the last season.
- A more casual outfit than the suit for which McFarlane went, because he only wears that for 10 minutes or so. Just a pair of blue jeans, T-shirt, stuff like that.
- Accessories: Handgun, Rifle, Backpack, Satellitephone/walkie-talkie and a torch (fire on a stick kind, no flashlight)
- a couple of pairs of hands to go with weapons, torch and relaxed poses

Kate
- Headsculpt with hair tied in knot/ponytail, and one with loose hair. Preferably rooted due to head movement.
- Casual outfit consisting of cargo pants, top/T-shirt, shirt.
- Accessories: Handgun, Rifle, Backpack, Oceanic Water Bottle
- pairs of hands to go with weapons and relaxed poses

Sawyer
- 2 headsculpts, one serious with hair back like in S1 and one smirking with looser hair like lateron in the series.
- Blue Jeans, with T-shirt and buttoned shirt to swap out, Dharma-jumpsuit.
- Accessories: Multiple rifles and handguns (since he pulled the long con in S2), Sawyer letter
- Pairs of hands, to go with weapons, reading the letter and relaxed poses.

Locke
- Beige Cargopants, T-shirt, removable outdoor vest.
- Accessories: A couple of knives with sheaths to hang on belt, handgun, compass to attach to vest, backpack, torch.
- Pairs of hands to go with weapons, knives, torch and relaxed.

All figures could have different jungle bases, or just plain black ones. But not one figure on a jungle base and the other on a plain black because that would throw off the look IMO.



Anyway, this is what I came up with. I kept it realistic for now, because these are the most popular and logical characters to make first IMO. Should these ever be made and popular enough, then there could always be room for more characters even with specially designed bodies like Hurley.

I know this is probably wishful thinking, but I figured there's no harm in posting this anyway

If anyone else has some good idea's that might work, then feel free to add

 

[creature4000]

no way... don't waist SS or HT time doing Lost figs.

 

[sladesuperagent]

no way... don't waist SS or HT time doing Lost figs.

Agreed.

 

[Buttmunch]

LOST just isn't a show that works well with 1:6 scale. There are just too many 'main' characters on the show to make. You'd have to be as successful as the SS Star Wars line to get a decent amount of them.

To be honest, 3 3/4" scale is where a LOST series needs to be. Its worked for Star Wars for over 30 years. You can get multiple characters and variant outfits, playsets, vehicles, and best of all, they are cheap enough you can get lots of characters. So frankly I'd love to see a 3 3/4" LOST line because otherwise any other scale/line will die before it gets to everyone's favorite characters. McFarlane only lasted 2 series at the 6-7" scale. Plus nobody could go together. They were all stand alones.

 

[a-dev]

I couldn't see a 3 3/4" line doing any better than 7" or 1/6th. That scale is really aimed at kids and you can barely approximate a likeness at that size. For a lot of kids the show was probably too boring for them to want toys from it and the adult market for anything other than Star Wars at 3 3/4" I expect is quite small. Would any of us really be interested in finger sized Jack and Locke figures that can only have a passing resemblance to the actors and would probably have ugly joints all over the place?

 

[ShortRound]

Ide go for mcfarlane style figures but with super articulation. That'd be sweet. I think. Of course though, 1/6 would be a dream come true.

 

[JRSly]

LOST just isn't a show that works well with 1:6 scale. There are just too many 'main' characters on the show to make. You'd have to be as successful as the SS Star Wars line to get a decent amount of them.

To be honest, 3 3/4" scale is where a LOST series needs to be. Its worked for Star Wars for over 30 years. You can get multiple characters and variant outfits, playsets, vehicles, and best of all, they are cheap enough you can get lots of characters. So frankly I'd love to see a 3 3/4" LOST line because otherwise any other scale/line will die before it gets to everyone's favorite characters. McFarlane only lasted 2 series at the 6-7" scale. Plus nobody could go together. They were all stand alones.

Exactly the post I was going to make.

At least for me, the attraction is having a wide variety of characters with a lot of variants and some of the iconic scenes recreated in playsets...and that means the best choice is 3.75". Again for me, the ability to create a large group shot and recreate scenes would trump perfect likenesses and more detailed sculpts in a 6-7". And forget 12", sheesh, sure I'd probably buy a Jack or a Locke from Hot Toys, but again my desire is to have the entire show well represented, and that would never happen in 1/6 scale.

Spot on critique of McFarlane's too. I guess there are probably a lot of collectors out there who just want their favorite characters and were content with the wildly specific figures McFarlane gave, but it's not a strategy I liked. You can't even sensibly display Sun and Jin together! It's just goofiness.

A couple months ago I finally started on my own dream line of 3.75" figures using Jakks Build N' Brawl figures as bases. Unfortunately some other projects and work stuff has kept me from working on my first figure, season 3 Jack, for a few weeks but I'm hoping to get back to it soon. I've compiled a ton of reference photos, created a spreadsheet of all possible characters and potential variants, drew up a size chart for all the character's heights relative to each other, bought a couple lots of BnB figures off eBay, and bought some paints and Apoxie Sculpt. I've got some ideas for playsets-the Swan computer, frozen donkey wheel. I plan on making a large 'beach base' by sculpting over a thin sheet of metal and using magnets in every figures' feet to help them stay in place.

All I need now is a lot of time and motivation. But imagining a shelf filled with LOST figures, of all their iconic looks and some of the most memorable scenes and locations...that helps. Hopefully I'll be able to get back onto this project in a couple weeks.