The Prisoner figures, Wandering Planet toys

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These look great and I see a decent base for a Jason Blood custom in there but, man, $65 is steep. Similar in style to BigBad Workshop's Operation: Monster Force but those come loaded with accessories and are almost $30 cheaper. Even the Laurel and Hardy figures from this same Wandering Planet company came to $45 apiece. Whe is the Prisoner stuff so expensive?
 
I saw these on BBTS yesterday. I had no idea they were based on existing IP.

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It was a KS that might have ended by now, which is why BBTS put up preorders (and at a higher cost).

I backed for Laurel and Hardy, but have no clue what this IP was, so I passed on it.
 
The first two batches of The Prisoner toys were 3 3/4" and were from two Kickstarter campaigns - the ones on BBTS are all from the second Kickstarter I believe. They just introduced the 6" figures recently - not sure how they did as folks like me were already were a dozen characters deep with the 3 3/4" waves.

The Prisoner is one of the greatest TV shows ever, absolutely groundbreaking and unique from 1967 - 17 episodes total. The main gist - a presumed secret agent resigns from his agency and is kidnapped and placed in The Village and branded #6, where a procession of people in the role of #2 attempt to determine his loyalty and allegiance, while he fights against their efforts - and the question remains if he is a prisoner of his own government or another. Very science fiction and surreal at times. Patrick McGoohan, who played a spy for years on British TV (Danger Man), created the series and wrote and directed parts of it - it is purposely unclear if this a sequel to that show.
 
Oh, you folks gotta watch Prisoner. It's wild. Also, it has an opening title sequence that is such efficient storytelling that a modern version of this show would take a full season to do the same work it does. I'm legit surprised so few folks around here know about it.
 
This might have to be a case where I don't need an action figure for every ip I like. Maybe at a better price or in a different time when there weren't so many other figures being pumped out.
I'm going to try to make time for another watch through.
 
mrboshek said:
This might have to be a case where I don't need an action figure for every ip I like. Maybe at a better price or in a different time when there weren't so many other figures being pumped out.
I'm going to try to make time for another watch through.
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Yeah. The price is steep. I get it, it's new sculpts on a very boutique brand. While I know they probably can't offer it for much less, I also don't feel a strong pull to pick them up.
 
I don’t think either of them are quite there looks wise but I do think the Leo McKern one is closer that the Patrick McGoohan one and it’s a bit pointless having one without the other.
 
JakeEkiss said:
Oh, you folks gotta watch Prisoner. It's wild. Also, it has an opening title sequence that is such efficient storytelling that a modern version of this show would take a full season to do the same work it does. I'm legit surprised so few folks around here know about it.
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Yeah, the opening is perfect and I also was surprised it is was not better known on this forum - thought this was a geek standard!

The likenesses in the 3 3/4" line is pretty good for the scale, I picked up two versions of #6, and all the #2 characters they have released (5 so far), plus The Butler and Number 28 (Controller). Missed out on the inflatable Rover. I'd likely continue to get #2's and some of the support team...but if they never made any more I'd be OK.
 
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Rover was a stretch goal of the first Kickstarter, it was basically a small vinyl inflatable beach ball. I missed the first KS, so didn't get it.

They also had the Rover edition with a #6 in a plastic round packaging - that was a limited add-on if you backed the second KS so I got that. I think I prefer it, it looks like #6 is trapped by Rover...
 
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