For me the problem is how they'd look as 1/6th figures. Personally, the appeal of the scale and nature of these figures is getting the realistic sculpts of the actors and the soft goods. Raziel is a walking corpse who'd need a special body and essentially he'd be an all-plastic figure. Kain would fare better, but he'd have to either look like an oversized action figure with joints all over and whatnot, or go with one of those seamless body which risk cracking. And then there's the pleather.
I guess it depends. Like, yes, sometimes you just have to go with all-plastic for certain creature characters. But if it looks good, I don’t mind. The Mondo Creature from the Black Lagoon is great, regardless of his plastic nature. I just saw the Neca 1/4 Ninja Turtles; they’re so detailed and a great value. And then you have good hybrids like HT’s Hulk and Thanos, or Maul and Venom. The sculpt may be broken up, but they still “work”.For me the problem is how they'd look as 1/6th figures. Personally, the appeal of the scale and nature of these figures is getting the realistic sculpts of the actors and the soft goods. Raziel is a walking corpse who'd need a special body and essentially he'd be an all-plastic figure. Kain would fare better, but he'd have to either look like an oversized action figure with joints all over and whatnot, or go with one of those seamless body which risk cracking. And then there's the pleather.
A part of me would love them, another thinks it'd be useless to want them in such a format. My "solution" is to hope MCU Dracula has the Curse Of The Mutants redesign, since he's similar to Kain. It wouldn't surprise me if they were inspired by Kain, who in turn always seemed like a mix of Stoker Dracula and Elric Of Melnibone to me, bringing the thing full circle.
Still, I think that even if LoK figures were to happen, I wouldn't be able to put them next to an InArt Joker, you know? Not that I'd put them there, but you get the point. They'd be too toyetic and fragile. Maybe if a reboot/continuation happens and they make everything a bit more realistic and stylized to gain a new audience, so that their designs would lead themselves better to this scale.
I get your point. But personally speaking Venom and Hulk are the type of HTs I was never going to buy in any case. They look great and everything, but the visible joints, the fragility of the materials, it's too much for me. My kind of figures are the ones with as much tailoring and soft goods as possible. I bought an Endgame Thanos but that's more or less my limit of figures with no soft goods; I need some armour and a "human" face at least. So I'd surely buy an Apocalypse, but the Venoms and the Carnages lose me.I guess it depends. Like, yes, sometimes you just have to go with all-plastic for certain creature characters. But if it looks good, I don’t mind. The Mondo Creature from the Black Lagoon is great, regardless of his plastic nature. I just saw the Neca 1/4 Ninja Turtles; they’re so detailed and a great value. And then you have good hybrids like HT’s Hulk and Thanos, or Maul and Venom. The sculpt may be broken up, but they still “work”.
Like, I have the Neca figures and Raziel has so much awesome detail. The sinew and muscle and bones. The wet, oily strands of hair. And I imagine those eerie eyes with a light-up feature, or poseable tattered wings, or a real soft-goods cloak… and it makes me really want it.
7” is just not good enough.
''7 inches is just not good enough''. That's what she said........I guess it depends. Like, yes, sometimes you just have to go with all-plastic for certain creature characters. But if it looks good, I don’t mind. The Mondo Creature from the Black Lagoon is great, regardless of his plastic nature. I just saw the Neca 1/4 Ninja Turtles; they’re so detailed and a great value. And then you have good hybrids like HT’s Hulk and Thanos, or Maul and Venom. The sculpt may be broken up, but they still “work”.
Like, I have the Neca figures and Raziel has so much awesome detail. The sinew and muscle and bones. The wet, oily strands of hair. And I imagine those eerie eyes with a light-up feature, or poseable tattered wings, or a real soft-goods cloak… and it makes me really want it.
7” is just not good enough.
I would LOOOVE to get me a Kain from Blood Omen 1.For me the problem is how they'd look as 1/6th figures. Personally, the appeal of the scale and nature of these figures is getting the realistic sculpts of the actors and the soft goods. Raziel is a walking corpse who'd need a special body and essentially he'd be an all-plastic figure. Kain would fare better, but he'd have to either look like an oversized action figure with joints all over and whatnot, or go with one of those seamless body which risk cracking. And then there's the pleather.
A part of me would love them, another thinks it'd be useless to want them in such a format. My "solution" is to hope MCU Dracula has the Curse Of The Mutants redesign, since he's similar to Kain. It wouldn't surprise me if they were inspired by Kain, who in turn always seemed like a mix of Stoker Dracula and Elric Of Melnibone to me, bringing the thing full circle.
Still, I think that even if LoK figures were to happen, I wouldn't be able to put them next to an InArt Joker, you know? Not that I'd put them there, but you get the point. They'd be too toyetic and fragile. Maybe if a reboot/continuation happens and they make everything a bit more realistic and stylized to gain a new audience, so that their designs would lead themselves better to this scale.
''7 inches is just not good enough''. That's what she said........
BO's design is the one that would make for a "better" figure in terms of being translated from games to the physical world. It's a bit of a more boring design compared to the other, more monstrous one, but it works better in that sense. As I've said before, I hope MCU Dracula sports the CotM/Modern look so that he can "double" as a Kain of sorts in my collection.
Lim Toys is making one. There's a thread on here called Unmarked Thievery - "Oh Crap!" Guy.
Oh thank you very much!!! Even happier Limtoys is making him bc I know he will look amazing!!! (Happy I'm not late lol)
Reminds me I still haven’t played this game. I hear it’s good.A Plague Tale- Amicia
