Big Bad Workshop General

Are those jockey shorts the ones he wore for the pinup shoots? I can’t imagine anyone wanting to buy those!

Or any of that stuff to be honest. Bootleg Suicide Girls website t-shirts likely has a very niche market.
 
All right, I need like a quick lesson and who this guy is and why suicide girls entered the conversation.

I don't like what I inferred.
 
Oh man... Geoff Beckett could be a whole book. Suffice to say he started a company called Shocker Toys. at first they came up with a Stikfa ripoff toy. Later they launched an action figure line of Indy Comics characters that actually started off good. Scud, Maxx, the Tick.... but then he started getting crooked with folks about exclusives. He offered pre-orders for a second wave of figures and took money and then never made the figures, though he alleged that the boat they were on sunk in the Pacific.

Then he changed the company name and resolicited some figures and then did a preorder for some public domain characters and he never made any of it. He denied that his new company had anything to do with Shocker Toys and he wasnt the one who stole peoples money... but then he stole more people's money. Oh and he stiffed the creators he worked with too.

He then disappeared for a second and then showed up trying to peddle his knockoff suicide girls thing and has withered away into increasing irrelevance, but refuses to disappear completely

I'm sure I missed something. But dude still owes me $100 worth of figures... like a moron I paid him up front for Grendel, Barry from The Tick and golden age Blue Beetle...sigh
 
Last edited:
I totally forgot we had like two years of 'pirates attacked my toys!' Goddamn. Looking back, we didn't know how good we had it with the comedy. Because after Geoff, all we got was fucking Premium DNA/Megalopolis. They were JUST scumbag liars and thieves. We didn't even get the fun excuses like pirates.
 
...and all that @PantherCult laid out is just a summary. Like @Damien noted, he had ALLLLLLL sorts of excuses and crazy stories he came up with. He used the "pirates attacked the shipping boat" thing and he somehow thought folks would buy it. He also claimed that the factories he used had stolen his stuff/went out of business/got shut down, etc. over and over again. It was amazing, really, the level of bullshittery he managed to spew out in such a short time. I'm honestly surprised he doesn't have a cabinet position in the current administration!
 
Wild.

I remember when the mezco purple Catwoman went out, there was talk in the scene that the reason it had such an extended delay was the original shipping container fell overboard so they had to go back to factory.
 
TheGillMan said:
...and all that @PantherCult laid out is just a summary. Like @Damien noted, he had ALLLLLLL sorts of excuses and crazy stories he came up with. He used the "pirates attacked the shipping boat" thing and he somehow thought folks would buy it. He also claimed that the factories he used had stolen his stuff/went out of business/got shut down, etc. over and over again. It was amazing, really, the level of bullshittery he managed to spew out in such a short time. I'm honestly surprised he doesn't have a cabinet position in the current administration!
Click to expand...
Didn't he also produce a line of Shoulder Action Figures, designed to sit on one's shoulder? Fun!

I didn't buy anything from him because my whole experience with him was through forum posts detailing his grifts. However, I found 3 things intriguing and from time to time considered looking at eBay for (but haven't):
1. Scud looked good and I like the dystopic idea of a vending machine assassin.
2. I saw his Maxx figure in person once, displayed by person unknown in a laboratory downstairs from my lab when I was a postdoc. It looked good and better articulated than the (low bar for articulation) McF Maxx that I own.
3. He advertised a mailaway Mr. Gone figure but I don't know if that ever came out or was an empty promise.
 
Last edited:
Can confirm the Maxx is a good figure. Honestly, the Tick figures he made are good. And Scud and Sol were good figures as well.

I honestly forgot Shadowhawk was in there along with Kabuki and Katchoo

Its why he suckered me into pre-ordering his Grendel, Barry Tick and Blue Beetle - he delivered a wave of decent figures

I think Tick and Dick Tracy were the only Wave 2 figures to get made. Pretty sure Jack Staff, King Zombie and Ignacia never made it out.

Mr.Gone was garbage though. It was a mail away figure if you bought all of Wave 1 - but then it was just a head on a generic black body covered in a terrible soft goods overcoat.
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: bat
I actually bought the Maxx figure way back before we knew what a loser Geoff was. It was actually not a bad figure. Did some things I hadn't seen from domestic companies ever, at that point in time. The joints loosened up over time because of how it was constructed, but I still stand by that being a good figure for the year it came out. Very good.

Everyone I know of that got Scud said he was also a really nice figure.

But the argument is no different from 'Earthworm Jim is a nice figure.' It IS a nice figure (not perfect, not even great, but it's nice). Premium DNA are still absolute pieces of shit that deserve nothing but failure and poverty. Just like Geoff. Fuck everybody that uses this hobby to steal from people.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top