It was made for me after I saw a 'shopped image of a wokiee monster. A Cookie Monster toy was taken apart to get the pattern (and eyes). There's even a Millennium Falcon shaped cookie in the bag.
It's a commonly misheard line. Jabba the Cat is actually asking for a snack.
Bespin Luke was a collaboration between Hot Toys and Sideshow Collectibles themselves - not an actual Hot Toys release (although muddied by the fact Sideshow releases Hot Toys stuff in the west anyway). It was a one off for them.
They're okay. I like my Wookiee Monster better.
I was going to say stringy and tough.
I tend not to buy stuff like this for the sake of having stuff like this, but holy shit I fucking want a print of the Escher-Vader-Yoda piece. Goddamn!
If that last one were an actual blanket and/or area rug I would buy it.
Thank you for these. They are going on rotation with my school laptop. Should make for interesting discussion.
I need that Vader/Yoda/Escher! Brilliant!
I love the last one.
I think this has more to do with the company building it than the consumers. They don't want to have to figure out how to do a complex transformation, so they make it as simple as they can and then try to tout it as an advantage.
"Listen, Charlie: we want you to make this training video wildly, inexplicably popular with the kids for some reason. The kids like that, right?"
This reminds me of a psych 101 course I took in college, where the professor dissected Woody Allen's film Sleeper, trying to explain what made it funny. I guess he never heard the saying, "If you have to explain a joke, it's not funny".
Agreed. I vividly remember needing my Mom's help to transform Omega Supreme, after receiving it as a birthday gift. Took like 45 minutes to set up the train mode. After that I was like "okay let's do the robot mode!" My Mom just got up and left. LOL.
Given that the thinkpieces attempting to do the same are more or less endless, I guess a university-level course was pretty much inevitable.
I think part of it is cost. It's cheaper to make the single action (static) figures. There's always the Masterpiece line for complex transforming, but it comes with a price (that is totally worth it IMO)
Heh, I used to do this back in the 80's combining parts from the Lego Constructor series sets. Made a transforming jet, helicopter, triceratops, etc. Though not as intricate as what this guy did; this is quite well done!
Well we don't want kids trying to work things out for themselves. They might start to question things and think critically. Better to give them a big switch saying 'push here' so none of that ever happens.