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Post by Manson's inverted cross on Jul 23, 2005 21:39:37 GMT -5
What ever happened to Moore Action Collectibles? Have they gone bankrupt?
Now a new company (Diamond Select) seems to be doing the main-line of Buffy/Angel figures. These new ones don't look too good either.
The Sideshow Buffy figs look awesome, but they are so damn expensive! I only buy X-Files figures from Sideshow.
And the Palisades figs suck... even The X-Files ones. What's the point of them, anyway?
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Post by King Bálor (CM)™ on Jul 23, 2005 23:02:05 GMT -5
What ever happened to Moore Action Collectibles? Have they gone bankrupt? Now a new company (Diamond Select) seems to be doing the main-line of Buffy/Angel figures. These new ones don't look too good either. The Sideshow Buffy figs look awesome, but they are so damn expensive! I only buy X-Files figures from Sideshow. And the Palisades figs suck... even The X-Files ones. What's the point of them, anyway? The Diamond Select are way better. Have you seen Spike? Awesome! |
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Post by cosmicspidey on Jul 23, 2005 23:24:30 GMT -5
MAC did indeed go out of business. DST bought up the 6" Buffy license from them, as well as the sculpts MAC had done but not produced. DST released the MAC-sculpted Willows, Taras, Anyas, and Darlas. They contracted the sculpted of all future figures, including the Spikes, Wesleys, Lornes, Angels, Freds, Buffys and Dawns, to Gentle Giant Studios. Gentle Giant is primarily known for their scanning technology, used on pretty much every movie nowadays as well as for the JAKKs WWE line, but do a lot of sculpting as well, such as in the line of Star Wars busts they produce.
I like the GG sculpted figures more than the MAC ones. For one thing, the "generic" action figure stance allows for a greater variety of possible variants, as well as posing the figure as the collector chooses. MAC sculpts never looked good in any pose but the one it was sculpted in. GG scuplts do, plus the joints are a lot less obvious because the figures are sculpted with the articulation in mind. And have you seen that Illyria?
I also like the Sideshow figures, but they're too damn expensive for me to get every one. I've only gotten 6 so far (GD Buffy, Angel, Spike, Faith, PG Buffy, The Master), and I don't plan to get another one until Drusilla is released at the end of the year.
I love Palz. The point of them is to have stylized versions of your favorite characters. There will certainly be more characters released in the Palz line than any other. You think we'd ever get a Jenny Calendar, The Judge, Mayor Wilkins, or Der Kindstod from DST? Not likely. And Palisades has already released many different versions of the main charcaters. Xander has 6 variations, Cordelia and Willow have 4, and Buffy has 8, and that after only 2 series!
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