Medicom RAH Mick Jagger

[Collector Freak]

I like the Rolling Stones, but... now way. This is a really weird figure to own.

 

[Jiminydog]

I don't know. The Stones are iconic rockers, and the early seventies period is definitely their iconic look. I need to see the faces close up but I'd consider these.

 

[maatuu52]

it does look like him and know way and i putting him in a display case with darth vader.. luke if i can't get you to turn to the darkside . i will get your gay looking brother to start wearing darker clothes..
i would like to see jim morisson of the doors represented....

 

[Geb]

Medicom RAH METALLICA!!!

Now that would ROCK!!

Geb

 

[Batty]

I'm a big Stones fan, but I'm not crazy about these. Mick's mouth is weird if you don't have the mic in front of it. I definitely wouldn't pay $100 for them.

 

[ProgMatinee]

The girlish Medicom body really works well with Mic.

Actually, the outfits of both look terrific, but its the anime-nization of the faces that I just can't dig.

Besides, the Stones suck balls big enough to fit Jaggers lips anyways.

 

[Batty]

Besides, the Stones suck balls big enough to fit Jaggers lips anyways.

Right. Not like some boring and pretentious Rick Wakeman album.

 

[ProgMatinee]

Right. Not like some boring and pretentious Rick Wakeman album.

a 30 minute solo using 5 keyboards > all the Stones songs put together

Especially when played with inflatable seamonsters in the background.

 

[Jiminydog]

ok now that I've seen the faces, never mind.

Mick looks like one of thsoe blow-up dolls.

 

[EVILFACE]

ok now that I've seen the faces, never mind.

Mick looks like one of thsoe blow-up dolls.

 

[Mudshark]

Have to agree with everyone else, these just don't do it for me either. Kind of interesting that someone would even consider doing the Stones as 12" figures, but there are other musicians I'd much rather see done. The Lizard King would be one, and Jimi would seriously get my attention, but I'd want to see much better quality in the likenesses. Medicom stuff always has a hefty price tag, and for figures like these, they'd really have to be pretty special for me to cough up that much cash.

 

[abstractharmony]

The Keef figure is great.

They should've gone for a 69 era stones though.

There was a really good Charlie Watts headsculpt on the bay the other week too.

 

[Gruff Old Bear]

Pre-Review of RAH Glimmer Twins

Kind of interesting that someone would even consider doing the Stones as 12" figures, but there are other musicians I'd much rather see done.

Mud, it's also kind of interesting that Martin Scorsese's next picture is a Stones concert film, especially since there've been a few of those made already. Or that there was a photo book about the making of Exile on Main Street just five years ago. It appears many of you guys aren't fans of the Stones, and I think you underestimate their appeal to some of us who scratch our heads at all the Kiss stuff out there. That's fine, but guys, don't mix it up with the execution of the figures.

These are Medicom figures. They will be on RAH bodies, which means they'll be fragile, short (fine in the case of these guys), have ugly neck cuts and wrist posts, and use unpainted flesh-colored vinyl. A lot of us would much rather have seen the Sideshow approach. (And I agree with Abstract, because 1969 would have left the door open to a Brian Jones figure.)

But these face sculpts are very good -- they're supposed to be the Exile tour of 1972, when the guys were 35 years younger. I think Jagger will look exactly like Jagger -- with his mouth open, singing -- as soon as his eyes are repainted the right color, pale blue:

Someone in an earlier thread when these were first announced said Keith looked like Ron Wood. Ron Wood wasn't in the band when they did Exile, but the fact that he seemed to "fit right in" helped him become Mick Taylor's successor and may have been in part because he looked so much like Keith. The change in Keith Richards' appearance over 35 years is one of the strangest public spectacles in memory, but this figure captures him in the good old days:

Despite the apparently low interest in our Freaks community, these figures will sell out -- and they'll be $150 like the Pistols, not $100 like Peter Parker. I'd really love it if it prompted Hot Toys to make Morrison, Hendrix, and Joplin.

 

[EVILFACE]

KISS has far more appeal because they are characters. People would take a Gene Simmons Demon figure of a Mick Jagger any day.

They Keith Richards figure looks decent, but they just have too much of a funky animated toy look.

 

[OSCORP]

Wake me when they do a RAH Hendrix.

 

[Mudshark]

Re: Pre-Review of RAH Glimmer Twins

Mud, it's also kind of interesting that Martin Scorsese's next picture is a Stones concert film, especially since there've been a few of those made already. Or that there was a photo book about the making of Exile on Main Street just five years ago. It appears many of you guys aren't fans of the Stones, and I think you underestimate their appeal to some of us who scratch our heads at all the Kiss stuff out there. That's fine, but guys, don't mix it up with the execution of the figures.

These are Medicom figures. They will be on RAH bodies, which means they'll be fragile, short (fine in the case of these guys), have ugly neck cuts and wrist posts, and use unpainted flesh-colored vinyl. A lot of us would much rather have seen the Sideshow approach. (And I agree with Abstract, because 1969 would have left the door open to a Brian Jones figure.)

Despite the apparently low interest in our Freaks community, these figures will sell out -- and they'll be $150 like the Pistols, not $100 like Peter Parker. I'd really love it if it prompted Hot Toys to make Morrison, Hendrix, and Joplin.

I hear ya, Gruff. I've liked the Stones since the Brian Jones era, so... I'm certainly not raining on anyone's parade here, but I really have no interest in Kiss figures, no matter how well they are done. Rock bands of the 60's and 70's are my primary interest, so any figures from that era, done well, would most certainly get my attention. These Stones figures will no doubt sell out in a heartbeat, but I think I'll wait and see what else comes along. I have lots of Medicom figures and I love 'em all, but I'd really like to see Sideshow do figures like this, or Hot Toys. As Gruff said, I think their approach (and basic figures) would probably be more to our liking.

 

[pixletwin]

Kiss has been over done.

I want Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Doors, and even Buddy Holly would be nice.

 

[Batty]

Not to turn this into another "wish-list", but besides the Beatles (which is happening), I'd like a 1:6 David Bowie. I could see Medicom making one.

 

[Gruff Old Bear]

After Basquiat and Warhol, Bowie seems like a natural for Medicom...but I really don't want them touching Hendrix with that RAH body, because pose-ability will be paramount for him...he may be an automatic swap to the ACE Workshop body...gotta play that 'caster behind his head, doncha know...

 

[Boba Fett]

Not to turn this into another "wish-list", but besides the Beatles (which is happening), I'd like a 1:6 David Bowie. I could see Medicom making one.

Exactly like I mentioned a few posts back. I think a 1:6 Ziggy Stardust would be awesome.