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Post by kgchampion on Mar 14, 2024 18:38:45 GMT -5
I just got the new Sami Zayn and I had to say something about it. This headscan looks like Sami Zayn was cursed by an evil wizard and turned into a toy. It looks exactly like Sami to the point that it’s slightly creepy. This thing is going to kill me in my sleep. Or I’m going to fall asleep and when I wake up, I’ll be a toy, too. Is that why this figure looks so forlorn? Because it’s a real guy turned into a toy and it can’t scream because we’re in the Twilight Zone?
Can we get Bret Hart scanned with this alien technology you’re using, Mattel?
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Post by shanieomaniac on Mar 16, 2024 17:54:05 GMT -5
I just got the new Sami Zayn and I had to say something about it. This headscan looks like Sami Zayn was cursed by an evil wizard and turned into a toy. It looks exactly like Sami to the point that it’s slightly creepy. This thing is going to kill me in my sleep. Or I’m going to fall asleep and when I wake up, I’ll be a toy, too. Is that why this figure looks so forlorn? Because it’s a real guy turned into a toy and it can’t scream because we’re in the Twilight Zone? Can we get Bret Hart scanned with this alien technology you’re using, Mattel? The figure looks forlorn because they decided that they were going to swap his hair and beard color and then give him the paint apps out of an 80s cop drama. No but really, if you repaint the Sami heads to fix the colors, it does looks frighteningly accurate. I remember when I was a teenager and the original TTL Real Scan technology came out. I remember the first time I walked into a KB Toys and saw a Rikishi figure sitting there that looked EXACTLY like Rikishi. Took my damn breath away. I was like "Did someone shrink him???" And then I remember also seeing a Tazz figure around that time and yeah, it was kind of creepy. I wasn't use to seeing toys that actually looked like the people they were supposed to be. So what does it say about action figures today that, when they somehow get it right like that again, it creeps us out all over again? I get that you can't head-scan a 1990's Bret Hart, but I see some of the work that the 3D print community is doing and I wonder "Why doesn't Mattel just hire these people?" because I swear time and time again the online 3D head printers are doing much better work than Mattel is doing for many of their 'professional' quality legends. I don't know, not trying to bash Mattel, but in the 90s, when the TV Show Xena: Warrior Princess needed some fresh blood in the writing room, the hired the most famous fan fiction author that the community had produced. She went on to pen some of the most well received Xena episodes out there. When Doctor Who was having problems with their color restorations of lost episodes, they hired the most famous fan-restorer on the internet to come do them. There is a precedent. Maybe Mattel should look into it. ETA: All that said, the new Sami figure IS so lifelike that, well, I'm currently sick right now, as in HELLA sick, and I had a literal fever dream last night that my one Sami figure came to life, turned into life size, and then cared for me. Like, he hopped off the shelf, turned into actual Sami, and was like "OK, we're gonna get you some chicken soup now. It'll be good, I won't even make it vegan..." Wild friggin dream, probably because when I woke up and took my temperature, I had a degree and a half worth of fever still going strong. |
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