The "Less Than High Speed" 1/6th Military Product Archive

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Last one for today. Fun stuff. What if you are 12 or under, like the little girl in the video above, and you want your own Travis Scott action figure?

These were the thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools.....

 

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This one requires a bit of explanation. Dragon Models released a female figure roughly based on Jennifer Garner ( based on her popularity with JJ Abram's show, Alias, which was a huge hit in the US, but also in Asia) DML had huge success with the Amy National Guard release ( based off of Jessica Alba) that sold really well and fast and probably felt there was a market for more female modern military figures.

Well, the Jennifer headsculpt ended up as a disaster. I mean look at it. So what DML did, which was unprecedented, was send all dealers another "updated" loose headsculpt to match their order amounts of Jennifer, to issue to customers as a replacement head. To some controversy, some dealers just outright listed that extra head into their loose parts sections for sale. Since DML had likely a backlog of these Jennifer figures and sculpts ( remember, back then, edition runs were much larger, wasn't a surprise to see a run of 8000 to 10000 of a given figure back in the day, this is how they could drag down prices to 30 bucks a boxed set...), so looks like they created a "Special Edition", which was an AA version of Jennifer. Which looked like a glossed over bronzed repaint of Jennifer. Just about all the gear was recycled/reuse from other figures in their lineup. Notice DML didn't even change the box, they left the Caucasian Jennifer picture in the box art, for the newly released AA version)

Point to note, Jennifer Garner is actually, IMHO, a good looking person. But she has a unique jawline and her look can shift dramatically from angle to angle, which might have been hard to capture for a sculptor. Also the technology then didn't have the facial scanning that something like Star Wars Black Series can use today. Some believed that, as a theory, that some factory mixed up the Dennis Rodman looking sculpt from the Jackson And Pollack DML 2 pack, and then this morphed into the Jennifer original sculpt.

The answer is no one really knows. However, it should be said that DML had a vicious reputation of nickel and diming customers and fans non stop. Vicious. Ruthless. Petty even. So to get to the point where they ate the cost of sending out a new headsculpt later, that should indicate how badly this all turned out. Even DML, who would squeeze a nickel until it bled out, couldn't justify going this far with running over their customer base. I'm not sure, in the modern 1/6th era of the hobby, that we've ever had this before, nor that we might see it again.

 

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The tight blue dress video is for my friend @jye4ever All for you buddy. All for you. Please don't let the police ever find one of your hard drives.

 

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Photos courtesy of long time OSWer Jeffajab

 

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Last one to today. Fun stuff. A 1/6th human heart.