The engineering that went into him being able to arch back so surprisingly far is what tells me that whoever worked on him really cared to a degree that belied the “we all woulda bought any ROM anyway” thing.
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The engineering that went into him being able to arch back so surprisingly far is what tells me that whoever worked on him really cared to a degree that belied the “we all woulda bought any ROM anyway” thing.
SCALE CHANGE! I’m a 1:12 guy but our household is an even split between 1:12 and 1:6. RNG Vault 489/680, 1/18/25, delves into that scale, as I pull out the custom Danhausen that Partner made for my birthday in ‘23, in order to show off the results of a big World’s Smallest binge. #toyphotography
And, like his buddy, it’s never the “get to hear about him again” you’d like.
JD Vance has no idea Trump left instructions that Vance be entombed with him like an Egyptian king
I love the smell of potato wedges in the evening. It smells like… victory.
Two pics means you get the word “Scale” twice!” It’s all intentional. Nothing to do with being ancient and blind.
Time to blanch and pop two bags of edamame pods from the farm box…
GOT: Willow Nightingale and Skye Blue! Took almost five months but they finally arrived. So you get a twofer today. These are solid 7’s on the Jazwares Effort Scale Scale. You want action figures of these wrestlers? You got ‘em! One Pounce, one Code Blue. #toyphotography #actionfigures
Oh, man, that moment when you finally get out the figure and the two unrelated objects you want to use with that figure and find out they’re both sized to fit in the fig’s hands PERFECTLY.’ Glorious.
Just had a monkeys paw thought about Trump dying in office… what if we learn the hard way that our bullshit systems would, in fact, let JD Fucking Vance get away with all this too?
This CL0N thing is 100% my shit and I am here for all of it. Hologram was already the most Lucha Underground-coded guy on the roster and this just runs with that. #AEWCollision
Those soft goods really help show off those hard goods.
RNG Toy Vault 226/679 is a bit of a milestone, from 11/26/23. It’s more ambitious than it looks, because the tool I had at the time for compositing was hella limited. All it could make was drop shadows - the partial arm shadow over the well edge was the fanciest thing I’d ever done #toyphotography
Holy shit that surfboard sequence between Bandido and Hechicero was unreal. #ROHDeathBeforeDishonor
I felt that second pic in my BONES.
I’d honestly suspect a lookalike except you literally cannot recreate his look without the entire life full of poor choices and resulting medical interventions that led to it.
Yeah anything over a foot in any dimension I gotta think hard about and reduces the number of foot-plus thing slots I ultimately have available to me in my life. BUT SKULL FINS CLAWS.
GOT: The Collector! This was a mistake. Not because it’s not an awesome three-seater skull with shark fins and crab claws - IT IS. But it’s also very big and it’s gonna end up hung from the ceiling cuz it’s not the kind of thing I can easily display/store. BUT SALE. #toyphotography #actionfigures
I feel like it’ll happen organically. Like the stars aligning. It’ll even correct for distance and the speed of sound.
On the bright side, “Embarrassingly, and on camera” is still on the table!
Wake up. Catch up on Blluesky. Idly realize that I don’t own an outdoor speaker big enough to blast Kool And The Gang on a loop in my front lawn. Realize I’m unprepared for the eventuality. Consider shopping.
I’ve thought about adding my cooking nerd bullshit into my general Bluesky bullshit mix but then I’d have to remember to take pictures of things plus my food ambition levels have been way down since 2020.
Mayo-based potato salads suck. Now, vinaigrette, bacon chunks, and shallots? That’s a potato salad.
I learned a lesson back during the Covid episode. I’ll save all my hopes up energy for the dancing after.
RNG Vault 399/675 hails from Sept 15, 2024, and is the gotchpic for Retro Card Scarlett. One of the things I’m working on, slowly and badly, is matching the tone and texture of my shots to the background. It’s especially tough when I pull animated BGs. This could be worse tho. #toyphotography
I guess this afternoon I’m blocking allegedly “liberal” suckers who think sweeping homeless encampments are an effective way to connect the unhoused with services. Fuckin’ suckers.
He looks shinier than the others I’ve seen, which appeals to me. Also the head sculpt looks like Schwarzenegger’s accent sounds.
Which Conan is that? There have been so many and I haven’t really been in the market for a barbarian so I haven’t been tracking them that closely.
Basic cable needs things to play on Sunday afternoons, MIchael.
At this point, I’m gonna finish off the New Challengers from Jada, but for Street Fighter going forward, I think it needs to be just the MvC2 ones, from Storm Arena or Jada, whoever gets to them first. (he said, having just preordered Storm’s Charlie/Nash).
GOT: J. Jonaah Jameson! I don’t use my fig of me unless it’s something I can do, and man can I get him pictures of Spider-Man. Blue Bastards finally got some on shelves, thank fuck. Now for Mysterio at some point. #toyphotography #actionfigures
Working on my pitch around a freelance medical examiner who lives above a chocolate shop. Gonna call it “Around The Coroner Fudge Is Made”.
Oh, man. This is one fo the handful of anime VHS’s that was circulating back in the day. Haven’t seen it in ages and have only the vaguest memory of the plot.
Sometimes you have the skill and tools but you don’t have the energy or motivation so even though it looks janky you say it’s done. Hence the gotchapic for Gunther, RNG Vault #463/672, 12/28/24. Each element - posing, scaling, positioning, etc. is just a bit off and it adds up. #toyphotography
He tried hard, but his Hegseth was trash.
I can fudge the scale so that’s not a dealbreaker for me. It’s the sense (and Im repeating myself I know) of joylessness that kills me. I have a bunch of DCM but I have a total of one that I’d consider “fun” or “surprising” and it’s the Adam West Batman. The rest are competently meh at best.
I’ve been finding myself jonesing for just proper comic figs of Supes, Bats, and WW that do all the posing. I love my Kaiyodo Batman but he’s not comics. Multiverse Detective 1000 Bats is OK but plastic cape and weird hips. McF has made one proper WW ever and I missed it.
See, I’d be on board with more Tron if it were proper Tron but proper Tron is almost impossible to do. Not so much “worn out its welcome” or “exhausted its possibilities” as “stop putting fucking Jared Leto in things” and “Tron is supposed to be dumbsmart”.
Downton Abbey was very much one of those things I enjoyed (mostly by osmosis rather than choice) at the time, but now it’s a “wait, another movie? Weren’t we, as a society, done with this?”
Just realized today that if someone non-Todd did Maximum-style DC figures of the Big Three at a Maximum price point I would be overjoyed and snap them up immediately. Because right now we’re stuck between Multiverse and MAFEX with no middle ground.
GOT: Han Solo! OK. Chewie is on the way. Just give me a newly engineered C3P0 and an all-new Obi-Wan and we’re good, Hasbro. Pic is an emulation oft he Walking Carpet moment, not a recreation, because that’s kind of the direction my preferences are moving in lately. #toyphotography #actionfigures
Non-dipshits understand 2024 was the result of dozens of failures, even if they fixate on addressing one or two of them. It’s super easy to tell the difference.
A big tipoff that a dipshit has entered political discourse is that they know the one and only reason Trump won in 2024 and iare intent on blaming whoever they associate with that reason.
Conceptually, I stand by this. Slapdash as fuck tho. RNG Vault #180/672, July 30, 2023, a bonus pic of The Marvels’ Ms. Marvel with included Goose. Goose is eating Krist Statlander, who’d given up her Galaxy’s Greatest Alien gimmick by this point, but her action figure hadn’t. #toyphotography
We have a thing called a “hamburger sandwich” that’s kind of like a pasty that’s open in the middle. It’s a bit of an acquired taste, admittedly.
GOT: Cover Girl! She came with a sledgehammer. I am of a certain age. This was… inevitable. The “watermelon” is in fact an actual Mexican sour gherkin, aka “cuke nut”, from our garden. Gallagher turned out to be a super-racist asshat but he’s dead now! #toyphotography #actionfigures
Right. Just saying unless you have a specific aversion to animated musicals based in the “youth” culture of like the last decade there are demonstrably worse ways you could spend 95 minutes.
Honestly for an audience like us I think it depends on whether or not you can unironically, noncynically appreciate the music and just get into the world/vibe. But also didn’t you watch the Amazon War of the Worlds?
VERY expensive week for people without enough 3D Liefeld designs in their life.
Neither? Honestly it’s kind of like Spider-Verse in that it’s very much unlike anything previously seen, and it’s tonally a bit like one of the weird Disney musicals that comes out of nowhere like Encanto. It’s tough to find things to compare it to.
It’s way down the list of crimes. Near the bottom, even. But Trump turning me into a “grind my own beans” cold brew guy isn’t NOT on his list of crimes.
Ironically, two Newsomstan types blocked me for blocking them, bringing my blocked by total from 45 to 47. Pretty questionable numbers for people so obsessed with laying blame for Trump being the 45th and 47th president…
Big effort swing in the RNG Vault from Loki. #562/771, from4/13 of this year, is part of one of those things I do where I have a dumb idea (send Vincent Price and ALF on a road trip) and run with it to a degree no human should. I think the BG was a Japanese 7-Eleven - prophetic. #toyphotography
Look, I had a choice. I could hobby or I could finally get around to KPop Demon Hunters. I made the right choice. Also I’m still ahead on pics.
Man, I wasn’t planning on getting any of these before this review but now I’m in on Caligari and Donner.
Does anyone with experience buying #toys from Hobby Link Japan have any advice given the current mail sitch? I have a preorder for sometime in Sept. I could cancel it and get the earlier version (it’s a Sentinel reissue) for $30 more. Even assuming shipping resumes, how much is it normally?
Heh, we were much the same. Took advantage of the duty free when we could, but it was never a dealbreaker.
Honestly relieved that pouchy, chunky Deadpool isn’t “my” Deadpool so I don’t have to worry about the Maximum release. I’ll miss the Doop, but that’s about it.
And here’s the BTS shot. Mezco stand hanging through top of the light box, Lego structure to do the lifting effect without going insane, stands to keep Sue and Reed from falling the fuck over.
GOT: F4 She Hulk! I’m on the every other She Hulk plan. Got the MCU, passed on the Iron Man, got the F4. Ponytail head has some Soft Peg Syndrome going on so getting it in / keeping it in is a hassle but otherwise, really like it. #toyphotography #actionfigures
Gonna sound petty, but frankly, if “not sure if E at end” was enough to sink Dan Quayle, it should be enough to torpedo Gavin Newsom(e)
I already wasn’t regretting Golden Circle-ing this year but if the decision could be cemented any further it just was.
JAMESON.
Does anyone with experience buying #toys from Hobby Link Japan have any advice given the current mail sitch? I have a preorder for sometime in Sept. I could cancel it and get the earlier version (it’s a Sentinel reissue) for $30 more. Even assuming shipping resumes, how much is it normally?
Do they? I dropped Rupar like a year ago for reasons I don’t even remember and don’t fuck with Acyn at all (I think he’s Meidas?) so…
Without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?
From March 9, 2023, at the height of my “buy it, shoot it, cut it out, slap it on a thematic background, put it on IG” phase. RNG Vault 104/671 is the Richard E. Grant Loki. Got on impulse on clearance. I think I went the extra mile amile to find the Thanos Copter background. #toyphotography
No billionaire is your friend, no billionaire can be trusted. BUT. Pritzker is welcome to slot in right behind Tony Khan on my “You? You we’ll deal with later. When we’re not so busy.” list.
I do with it had a drawstring at the opening, mainly because it LOOKS like it has a drawstring at the opening so I keep wanting to pull it closed.
At this point, I’m straight up burned out on the routine where Trump spends a few hours in his dumbshit Oval Office spewing dumb shit and nobody there says “hey this is dumb shit” and then Clip Guy posts the dumb shit and everyone here says “Oh man more dumb shit!” Just an endless pointless loop.
Belated #ForbiddenDOor thoughts: TBS 4-Way was my match of the night. Was way more into the Copetian tag match than I expected thanks to Luchasaurus. Don’t care about Wardlow being back, didn’t realize Hayter was gone. Generally though very solid show with “everyone on their A game” vibes.
GOT: Mad Marauders Sgr. Slaughter. A Daily Deal impulse buy, mainly for the accessories, and then mainly for the mini action figure. Yes I stole this joke from the Naked Gun trailer. No, I’m not sorry. #toyphotography #actionfigures
While I dodge Forbidden Door spoilers until life allows me to catch a replay, here’s RNG Vault pic 136/671, from 4/23/23, gotchapic for a Biker Scout. At the time, I knew that if I got rid of parts of the feet it’d look like he was standing in the foliage - I just did it poorly. #toyphotography
GOT: Crystal Ball. Which feels like a brag I feel bad about because the blue bastards screwed so many people out of theirs. Failure to honor a preorder is always bullshit. Anyway, Partner had a little fake poop but it was pink so I fixed that in post. #toyphotography #actionfigures
Trump: [spends six months somehow managing to tarnish cop’s image even more than the cops themselves could] Jeffries, meeting the moment: “Look, obviously, cops are great. Everyone loves cops, and nobody loves cops more than I do.”
OH SHIT Luke keeps the belt on all the way to fuckin’ Yavin. At which point he has a poncho and then a pilot suit and then the medal ceremony. Which means the three of them are -never- on screen in their Action Figure Outfits at the same time.
It’s insane to me how few seconds the three main characters in A New Hope are on-screen together in their “definitive looks” - farm boy, hooded cloak, vest. It’s literally a handful of seconds on the Falcon post-Death Star because after they rescue Leia Han and Luke have Stormtrooper belts on.
Try explaining why my instinctive reaction to this was “but Rod and Todd aree the Ass Boys!:
More Zombie Sailor Danhausen in the RNG Vault, as pic 098/668 brings us another Danhausen Lifts A Series Of Increasingly Improbable Things - Darth Vader. From Feb 19, 2023, this is the sixth improbable thing, slightly less improbable than Shao Kahn on his throne. #toyphotography
EVIL UNO gotta be the most Technical Wrestler of all time!! Cause the amount of precision & Timing needs to pull off this sequence was crazy If you fumble for a few seconds the Sequence could be Ruined OSPREAY himself Praised UNO for this
GOT: Flint! He’s Flint! He has… a hat! That you want to call a beret! But you’re like 80% sure that’s wrong! And he points! That’s what I settled on. Flint pointing at stuff. #toyphotography #actionfigures #dondeestalabiblioteca
Well, at least unlike Sandman and Jameson, this is getting a pre-order? I “love” that Hasbro is really committing to doing the thing I’ve been most desperate for them to do, but in the worst possible way (except Electro).
The UK is showing us that a centrist government that constantly adopts far-right framing and policies in an attempt to keep the far right out of power is increasingly indistinguishable from a far-right party. And I’d bet money the % of Newom stans who know what’s happening there is single digits.
Your “who is Bryan blocking” update for this week: Anyone who can’t tell the difference between a nihilistic accelerationist and a trans persion trying to point out that a piece of shit is a piece of shit. Gavin Newsom isn’t Al Gore 2004. He’s Keir Starmer 2024.
I love Tron. It’s not a -good- movie, but it’s full of so much greatness that it overwhelms swaths of dumb. Also the swaths of dumb are fun dumb not boring dumb or annoying dumb.
I think two of the three could be free feeders if Oliver the Beef Barrel wasn’t around. But he’ll eat his fill at the expense of the others, so…
The cats have once again stumbled across our secret plan to never feed them again. They discover this three times a day, so we’re forced to postpone our plan every time.
Whenever I get a new Bounty Hunter or two I have a much more elaborate one from late last year. I make one of these. Like I did in RNG Vault pic 131 / 667, 4/18/23. I think I got Dengar, 4–Lom, and Zuckuss either at the same time or very close to each other. #toyphotography
ALF’s mic stand comes up to Sgt. Slaughter’s dick. These are the problems I struggle with on a regular basis, you know.
Mini Brands is American Gatchapon. Slightly worse, more expensive, more wasteful, less convenient, which all tracks, but still.
GOT: Retro Card Sandman! The Jameson reissue still eludes me and I’m not seeing any evidence of it beyond a bunch more $45 ones on eBay, but I got Flint. No updates but he must have been a damn good fig to start with. #toyphotography #actionfigures
I’m a fan of the rule of law, I’m just not a “go to bat for John Bolton” level fan. If that makes me a “casual”, then so be it.
I’m not a cynic. I’m an optimist, cursed by a witch to believe in evidence.
It’s not even a direct quite. We just pronounce “sleepy” as “sleppy” all the time because of the “if it had one E’ line from “Creepy Girl”.
From August 29, 2024, almost one full year ago, the RNG Vault gives us #393/667, the MJF/ Jon Moxley Full Gear 2-pack I bought mostly for the robe. This is, I belief, my second use of my overly elaborate crowd graphics that I created from my mostly normal-looking figures. #toyphotography
Supreme Court Justice Who Also Can’t Do Anything About It Agrees With Us Randos That Ruling Sucks.
Social media is ultimately disposable and ephemeral, but if you’re spending any time on here being mad at people celebrating James Dobson’s death maybe sit down and have a long chat with your fucking priorities.
GOT: Ghost Riders! This was the first reinstituted Daily Deals do get me. Love the effects, needed a GR, the bike is gratuitous. I’ve repurposed the wheelie effect in a horrible manner to satisfy my inner 12 year old. Those burgers know their sins. #toyphotography #actionfigures
Three. The number of licks to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop. Also the number of replies it takes for a “pragmatic, anti-fascist” Newsom supporter to reveal their transphobia.
If Alex Windsor says her name any more, people are gonna figure out she’s a Pokemon.