The Action Figure and Toy Collecting and Discussion Thread!

[LordMudd]

The AMC Theater diorama would be entertaining with a bunch of Stormtroopers lining up to buy popcorn and boxes of candy.

For mine, I added the miniature candy I got on ebay. What's a theater without candy?

Sadly it's not that big but it does give me some ideas to make my own miniature theater room for a future project. here's the whole thing in it's entirety. The phone clip it comes with to imitate a theater screen was ingenious.

Just curious, is there any decoration on the outside of the walls?


CCC.

 

[CaptainMurdock]

Just curious, is there any decoration on the outside of the walls?

No, like all the other Miworld diorama's they are blank on the outside. I was considering getting another AMC theater set to make a larger theater room. The miworld stuff in general is neat because you can hook them side by side and on top of eachother. The point of the line is to simulate like a miniature shopping mall. There's a little bit of everything for everyone.

 

[cooleddie74]

I'd surround such a diorama or playset with other things, anyways, so you don't have to look at blank walls with no details. What's most important is the attention to detail inside the diorama and not so much what it looks like from the side or behind.

 

[CaptainMurdock]

I'd surround such a diorama or playset with other things, anyways, so you don't have to look at blank walls with no details. What's most important is the attention to detail inside the diorama and not so much what it looks like from the side or behind.

Such was the case for my Miworld pizza shop.
I had some floor and wall tile sheets from Hobby lobby and a Barbie pizza oven I put beside it and extended it out. Poor Harry. He used to have it all, now he has to make pizza for another Greedy mustachioed villain.

 

[cooleddie74]

Harry Mudd seems like the kind of man who'd have a lot of personal experience with pizzas.

 

[LordMudd]

I spent 3 years on the local con circuit as Harry Mudd, undefeated. At one con I was approached at the buffet table and responded, in true Mudd fashion, "I have to sustain my character."

CCC.

 

[LordMudd]

Just curious, is there any decoration on the outside of the walls?

No, like all the other Miworld diorama's they are blank on the outside. I was considering getting another AMC theater set to make a larger theater room. The miworld stuff in general is neat because you can hook them side by side and on top of eachother. The point of the line is to simulate like a miniature shopping mall. There's a little bit of everything for everyone.

That's what I was thinking, if the theater wall was 2 sided, just put another one next to it to have a multiplex. Maybe make a print of the wall panels and paste them on the other side?


CCC.

 

[CaptainMurdock]

Just curious, is there any decoration on the outside of the walls?

No, like all the other Miworld diorama's they are blank on the outside. I was considering getting another AMC theater set to make a larger theater room. The miworld stuff in general is neat because you can hook them side by side and on top of eachother. The point of the line is to simulate like a miniature shopping mall. There's a little bit of everything for everyone.

That's what I was thinking, if the theater wall was 2 sided, just put another one next to it to have a multiplex. Maybe make a print of the wall panels and paste them on the other side?


CCC.

I think that would work out nicely. That way you could make a double wide theater room and a double wide lobby.

 

[cooleddie74]

I spent 3 years on the local con circuit as Harry Mudd, undefeated. At one con I was approached at the buffet table and responded, in true Mudd fashion, "I have to sustain my character."

CCC.

I sympathize with that sentiment.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I wrote up a review of the Sphero BB-8
Link

 

[CaptainMurdock]

Since Halloween is coming up, I had to cook up something spooky.

 

[cooleddie74]

I wrote up a review of the Sphero BB-8
Link

Great review as usual! I didn't know that saying the Admiral Ackbar line made him roll away from you at high speed. That's cool. Thanks for posting that!

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Thanks so much! There are a few other pre-programed voice commands (maybe like 12) but they all do a limited number of functions. For example, "Run away" and "it's a trap!" both make BB-8 do the same thing. So there might be two or three commands that make him do one thing.

 

[Admiral_Young]

General Hux wave of the Black Series.

http://news.toyark.com/2015/10/08/s...orce-awakens-official-images-from-nycc-177665

Han!!!

http://news.toyark.com/2015/10/07/nycc-2015-star-wars-at-hasbro-preview-night-177590

 

[cooleddie74]

The best-looking 6" Han Solo figure yet made! The hair could probably stand to be a little greyer or more silver, but that is easily the most accurate Harrison Ford head sculpt in the entire Black Series line.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Yep I agree. The previous versions have been okay but lacking Harrison's likeness...but this is pretty much spot on! General Hux also has Domhall's likeness from the few pics that have been released of his character so far.

 

[cooleddie74]

If the new Han looks this good then I'm hoping the eventual 6" General Leia and Jedi Master Luke figures from the new movie are just as impressive.

 

[Chris3123]

Sideshow/Hot Toys and Kotobukiya displayed some Star Wars stuff at NYCC:

Sideshow Collectibles
Kotobukiya

I'm liking that McQuarrie concept Stormtrooper. The Phasma looks great, too.

 

[LordMudd]

I got the Yeti playset Thursday but won't be able to open it until Sunday due to work.

CCC.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

http://toyland.gizmodo.com/mega-bloks-new-star-trek-construction-sets-are-all-abou-1735626046

Wow 3,100 blocks to make the TOS Enterprise.

I won't buy it though as it's not up to the quality of LEGO.. It's fricking Mega Bloks. Every time I have had a set of theirs for a large model I have had missing parts. In fact that's one of their biggest complaints.

They do make nice models on occasion though like this Ford GT I made.

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash2/t31.0-8/1244195_10201402297612430_1921191178_o.jpg


https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t31.0-8/1268771_10201402297292422_1792722734_o.jpg

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