I saw the Diamond Select Trek figures at the New York Comicon. It was like looking at Mego prototypes just sitting behind the glass. They looked just like I remembered them from my youth. Then I went home and dug out my Mego bin to see the real ones.
Yes, PZ, more Sideshow gorillas!!
Jungle Jom, I had an Urko head custom made to fit a Sideshow body when this thread first started. If you're interested, email me.
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Stickman, over in the Whedonverse area of the forums they are now experiencing what we have been battling the last 2 years. Buffy and Angel have been placed on hold and they fear the worst. And, the way Sideshow treats non big $ licenses, they may have been lucky to get the revival they did. Nevertheless, they have quickly grabbed the bull by the horns and are already having additional heads made to fill in the gaps. Perhaps we could do this as well and, at least, fill in some of the missing humans, should we not find anyone willing to sculpt a simian head.
What do you all think?
I'd really like to see more done. I was disappointed in the way the Urko project went. Not in the sculpt, that came out great, but that not many seemed to actually follow thru with purchasing one which would have gotten the next sculpt underway. I propose that, if we proceed on this new venture, we do it for only unpainted sculpts and it all gets paid upfront. That way the sculptor doesn't get turned off to doing another and it would be up to each individual apeophile to get his or her sculpt painted. And we try and use sculptors from the board, that way we help out a fellow board member with a little cash and we'll already know his work.
I can see Virdon and Burke in the distance now, finally becoming obtainable. And there!! Not far behind, Virgil, MacDonald, Breck and Aldo!!
