Big Bad Workshop General

Fletch said:
From BBWS's Facebook reels, something more like a packaging contents shot. Still no view of the alternate head they listed, but at least an idea of the map and golden dagger.

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To be honest, this doesn't scratch my Adventure Team itch like I want it to. With my old AT dolls, it was all about the gear. The map is cool, but Adventure means a canteen and rucksack and coiled rope. Some binoculars and a flashlight/ lantern/torch. A pith helmet. I'd even rather a bolt action hunting rifle than an AR.

It's cool that they're including things like a giant snake, but they've picked an awkward head angle for it to be stuck in forever.

All-told, those are some really cool photos, but imagining it in-hand doesn't excite me. I'm also not inspired by a new line announced with a single figure. Even a small wave would give me a better idea of what the line's about. I bet I'd feel more enthusiastic if there were also, like, a daring pilot and a crusty riverboat captain. And maybe a competing team of evil treasure hunters.
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That knife design is from something, or heavily reminiscent of something. I just can't quite place it. Driving me nuts. I feel like it might be a video game dagger of some sort, but that shape reads very familiar to me.
GrumpyMatt said:
I wonder if the second head is the first head in camo makeup to match the set of camo hands.
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I think those are gloved hands and not camo. Would be very weird to have camo hands.
 
Pre-ordered this as soon as it went up. I've always been a big fan of the pulp and two-fisted adventure kind of stuff. I think this will be a lot of fun to play around with, and hopefully there's more cool stuff coming within this subline. This interests me WAY more than generic soldier guys and generic zombie soldier guys.
 
Do they typically produce the 1/12th Santa hats pretty consistently or was that a once or twice off? I always forget to order some for my figures around this time of year.
 
Spongyblue said:
Kirk being a giant ham sandwich is what makes TOS for me.
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Heh. Kirk being a swaggering macho fuckboy jackass kills it for me. One of my least-favorite major fictional characters of all time.
And also Shatner couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag with a gun to his back.

I know, I know. I’m sorry, guys.
 
altcunningham said:
But what about when Kirk had that dogfight to Sabotage?
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I’ll make some more enemies and state definitively that while I kinda liked those Abrams ST movies and *definitely* think Pine is the superior Kirk by lightyears, I also don’t listen to post-1980s Beastie Boys because 1980s Beastie Boys are the only good Beastie Boys.
 
The original Star Trek has an added aura from just how it was even made. Each episode cost, like, $1.60 to make and I love it for that.

And talk about art holding a mirror up to society. It wasn't subtle; you could not avoid being confronted by racism or classism or whatever. They were like "does a white kissing a negro make you uncomfortable? Well too damn bad, 'cause here it is!"

The cast was equally unsubtle, but there's a reason people have been trying to recreate that Kirk/Spock dynamic ever since.

Maybe the show's artistic merit shouldn't have to require consideration of the time it's made, but the premise of an egalitarian, post-scarcity society still resonates. And I appreciate it for how it can show us where we were versus where we are now in social issues (and VFX).
 
Oh absolutely. As a piece of art and a social commentary, Star Trek is incredible and very important and relevant, and deserves to be respected for what it chose to do and say.
As a piece of entertainment, it is hot steaming fucking garbage and bores me to fucking tears.
 
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