General Toy Nostalgia

[SalemCrow]

Not to get too far off topic, but The Crow is a favorite of mine and it's also one of my daughter's favorite movies ever. My daughter has an entire shelf of Eric Draven figures and I was looking at them yesterday and thinking about how that movie would have been ripped apart in pre-production by 'fans' if it were being made today.

People would have complained about the choice of leading actor, about the difference between the comic costume and the movie costume, about the casting of the gang members, about changes to the story... it never would have been faithful enough for anyone. But it is one of the finest comic adaptations ever made. And maybe there's a lesson there that I am not enough of a cinephile to parse.

<--------- Look at screen name, yeah, safe to assume I love the movie and the book.

I was around a HEAVY focused fan board when the film was released (it was named AFTER THE CROW, so...), and the fandom THEN was crazy when the sequels started coming, even COA, arguably the best of the sequels.

 

[Ultra Seven]

Somebody out there needs to start making a pulp line, whether licensed or some Fresh Monkey homages. I mean Dick Tracy, The Shadow, Doc Savage? We get onsie twosie one offs here and there, but I need a line dammit.

The Mezco Doc Savage makes me REALLY want someone to take a crack at his Fabulous Five:

Preferably with multiple heads to cover multiple covers/ eras.

 

[Alt]

Dude. I almost exclusively preferred the syndicated shows over the network stuff.

The aforementioned King Arthur, Killer Tomatoes, Skeleton Warriors, Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys, WMAC Masters, Ultraforce, Zorro, Flash Gordon, Phantom 2040, Pirates of Dark Water, Stunt Dawgs, Conan the Adventurer, Biker Mice, Mutant League, Double Dragon, Mighty Max, ExoSquad, Action Man, Skysurfer Strikeforce, GI Joe Extreme, Darkstalkers...

...sigh...we had it so good.

For sure. But something that hit hard when I moved as often as I did was the realization that so many of those shows never hit other regions to catch on.

One of my friends thought I was lying about Samurai Pizza Cats and Exo Squad.