Wired Magazine stories on Action Figure customizing

Wired has a few stories today about customizing:

Main:
http://www.wired.com/

Story:
http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2007/08/gallery_action_figures

A dedicated subculture of craftspeople have been frankensteining, kitbashing, boiling-and-popping, sculpting and painting one-of-a-kind figures for years. Their efforts are bringing to life characters that don't enjoy enough of a following to justify mass production -- think the 1950s Batman foe the Killer Moth -- or which, like the Watchmen figures, are tied up by copyright and creative differences.

Gallery:
http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multim ... on_figures

A really cool Spirit:
http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multim ... lideView=2

That Spirit is off the hook. Amazing.

If this were to come out in 25th, it would be on my "must have at any cost" list.

- R

[joemichaels70]

i want to read that story... links not there....

Haha! See, all you fools voting for links opening in new windows! What do you do when the link is truncated? NOTHING!!!!! You have to deal with it! When the link is there, you can still open it in a new window, but when it's truncated you can do nothing! Let this be a lesson to think before you vote!

[joemichaels70]

Haha! See, all you fools voting for links opening in new windows! What do you do when the link is truncated? NOTHING!!!!! You have to deal with it! When the link is there, you can still open it in a new window, but when it's truncated you can do nothing! Let this be a lesson to think before you vote!

so, um... what's the full link?

It's yo momma!

[joemichaels70]

It's yo momma!

oh. you had to go there.














you ready for this?

I said yo momma so fat, she made Jabba the Hutt go "DAAAAAAAMN"!!

(this should be a good distraction until the truncated links are fixed)

[joemichaels70]

I said yo momma so fat, she got her own moon!


(this should be a good distraction until the truncated links are fixed)[/quote]

[joemichaels70]

I said, yo momma so fat, she fell in love... and broke it!

[pluv]

Mod speak: Could you two please try to stay on topic. The link works after I googled it just fine. Now don't make me have to Mod slap you guys again.

[joemichaels70]

sorry pluv


this is pretty cool -- Mattel steps up!

But the mass marketers of action figures, including Mattel, don't really mind the customizers much, says Jim Murphy, a marketing manager for the action-play division at Mattel.

"Some one making a one-off isn't hurting us -- it's a matter of quantity," Murphy says. "Someone doing art as a hobby, well, we have bigger things on our minds."

Customizers actually mean a lot to his business, Murphy adds.

"It's really interesting to me to see what the fans want and sometimes that prompts us to do figures," he says. "It's nice to see the passion of the fans -- they love the characters and the stories."

Mod speak: Could you two please try to stay on topic. The link works after I googled it just fine. Now don't make me have to Mod slap you guys again.

You want me to bring up yo momma, now?

Anyway, yes, this is a pretty cool article. I like that toy companies think what we do is cool. It makes me think maybe that's why Hasbro made those Comic Con customs.

P-LUV is Yo MOMMA!

-CJack

Sorry:

http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2007/08/action_figures