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@Blue_Thark: You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?
Should I have?
It's the ship that made of over 5,000 Legos. Not the local bulk bricks mind you, I'm talking about the custom pieces now. She's got enough pieces for you old man?
Just be advice about the pre-order on the pulse replica:
If this company is new, check with BBB if said company used to have the name Icon.
Icon went under, filed bankcruptcy, leaving folks with their pre-orders in limbo. Icon had two versions:
Stunt Version is the cheaper, balsa wood version
Hero version comes with all bells & whistles...actual Thompson Shell & parts from a shotgun (non-functioning of course)
If you really want one, just got to Comi-Con where some of these rifle would occasionally pop up. At least it, physically there and not a $ 899.95 pre-order that may not appear.
Wow... at first that Aliens gun looks appealing, until of course you see the $899 price tag. Sheesh, talk about a buzz kill. "The LED display lights up 95 when you insert a magazine." Ooooh, so that $2 component at Radio Shack is a selling point? Worse still is the "sign your life away" 6 easy monthly payments of $150 schtick they're trying to make sound like a reasonable offer.
I'm really not sure where the breakdown in communication is, but apparently these prop replica people are forgetting that nobody who'd be geeky enough to purchase this is in a position to in this economy. Is Trump gonna buy one? While Bill Gates was in the Doom game for a presentation, he doesn't strike me as a diehard fan of scifi weaponry. Sure, all you have to do is sell a few and you've more than covered your costs... but for the love of CROM... why not offer something normal fans can afford?
Yeah yeah... I know. There's a market there somewhere... or it wouldn't exist. I'm sure a lot of that price point is to get back the money spent on the original prop they got to model these versions off of. To each their own.
At $45 a pop, the Ashley Wood robots are a pretty interesting idea though. Nice to see something of that quality for a decent price point.
@Akitsu: Great comment - and totally agree. There's a reason we have the phrase "starving artist" - it's because they think their stuff is typically worth more than most people are willing to pay. I saw a painting once "valued" at $1500.00 up for silent auction. I put in for $200 because it was an awesome painting - I won... but then the artist fought back and pulled the item saying he'd put in a minimum bid of $1000. I told the artist to keep his $1000 painting and that, quite frankly, his stuff was never going to be worth those prices - seriously, he wasn't THAT good.
Check out www.therpf.com for their excellent mockups of the pulse rifle - you're likely to find instructions for building your own or someone willing to sell you a casting.
@MacnairCorinthus: The sound you hear is the artist's collective groan... too tired to explain what the term "starving artist" really means... see you at the animal shelter, working for food stamps because of the commodity/value/consumer model you participate in deems Culture Workers as dead weight.
Where is the pollice verso button on comments? I'd pay $200 for that. #art
@MacnairCorinthus: Heh... sounds like a typical egomaniac. He should have been happy someone was buying it out of a genuine like for his work.
Me? I'm an artist... but I'm also a realist. When I did a Munny show at a local gallery, some artists were asking for close to a grand for their work. I foolishly decided $150 would be a good minimum considering the sea of insane prices... but in the end it was the humble artists in the $100 or less catagory that sold the most Munnys. That said, I was quite happy to take mine home again.
I'm currently selling anime con style fleece hats for less than the $30 they were charging 5 years ago (they've since upped their prices $10, despite the bad economy), and that includes the shipping. My Exposed Brain Fleece (and yes, it's as awesome as it sounds) makes a brilliant gift... heh. Check 'em out over at akitsu.etsy.com if you have a minute.
I don't really think it has to be an even/or situation though. "Culture Workers" as GnC dubbed them, aren't dead weight... but at the same time they really do need examine the marketability of things. Wood shows good taste as an artist in actually making books and products people can afford. Hell, even Walker's raygun shows the good taste of saying "Hey, you may be paying $300... but there's only 25 of these in existence!"
In the words of the poet, "Can't we all just get along"?
Looking at that Devastator reminds me that I saw an ad for Transformers Toys the other day and at the end the V.O. guy quickly said "Actual changing times may vary."
So sad. In my day you either understood they were only that fast in the cartoons and commercials or you broke your toys trying. You would never whine about it though.
For those of us who like to see the Spirit of Christmas sodomized be sure to check out A Very Sunny Christmas, which is the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Christmas special that was meant to air last year but was deemed too demented to air and had to be sold as a dvd. And before people freak, yes I enjoy the classical aspects of Christmas but I also enjoy mocking it.
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i must admit i didn't much care for the abrupted chronology of this season's opener. it felt gratuitous and overwrought. the choice to display the time sequence via a real-time apprasial of an issue one comic was inspired. i suspect that was the reason for the choice to go with the format and i only wish they had applied it to something more appropriate.
@tetracycloide: Nothing could be more appropriate than to use the gradual degradation and destruction of a fannish object of desire as a way of pointing to the true sequence of events in the universe of the Venture Brothers.
@Briareosdx: i know! the count down was perfection. i just wish they had applied it to a plot that actually made sense with a disjointed time sequence. although it was probably a parody of adventure shows that do the same thing i just found it more annoying than funny. #theventurebros
@tetracycloide: I spent like, 30 minutes chronicling the order of all the pop-ups. Brock's sequences with the title chyrons (e.g. "The Human Torch", "The Angel", et cetera) proceed in a forward linear fashion along the table of contents of Marvel #1; the Ventures' story proceeds as the value of Marvel #1 decreases. I felt so smart for figuring it out, and then @JamesUrbaniak tweeted this morning, "Brock story runs forward from season 3 finale, Venture family story runs backwards to season 3 finale." Everything seems so much simpler when someone else can say it in 140 characters. #theventurebros
Poor west coasters. As if last night's episode wasn't confusing enough already. Or maybe I'm just not good with a disjointed temporal continuity. #theventurebros
@OW-Holmes: Bringer of Fear: Well, we have seen the boys mom. At least genetically speaking. She was Doc. V's first bodyguard. Hank takes after her, Dean takes after Dr. Venture. #theventurebros
Aren't they supposed to have a sister or something? Maybe she is the sexy/competent sister that actually has the ability to carry on the badass Venture tradition and gets shit done but that no one listens to because she is just a hot chick. Or maybe its just someone Brock bangs. Or both! #theventurebros
@CoffeyWasHere: The sister thing came from "Love-Bheits" when Baron Unterbheit was going to marry Dean and mistook his name for "Dawn", and Hank thought he had a hidden sister. #theventurebros
11/28/09
This is how I ended up with, like, a dozen flamingo teenie beanie babies; I was trying to get the cat one.
Maybe I'll just go look for left over Cylons. They make good tree ornaments.
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Should I have?
It's the ship that made of over 5,000 Legos. Not the local bulk bricks mind you, I'm talking about the custom pieces now. She's got enough pieces for you old man?
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11/28/09
It's the ship that I can build in 12 parsecs!
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If this company is new, check with BBB if said company used to have the name Icon.
Icon went under, filed bankcruptcy, leaving folks with their pre-orders in limbo. Icon had two versions:
Stunt Version is the cheaper, balsa wood version
Hero version comes with all bells & whistles...actual Thompson Shell & parts from a shotgun (non-functioning of course)
If you really want one, just got to Comi-Con where some of these rifle would occasionally pop up. At least it, physically there and not a $ 899.95 pre-order that may not appear.
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I'm really not sure where the breakdown in communication is, but apparently these prop replica people are forgetting that nobody who'd be geeky enough to purchase this is in a position to in this economy. Is Trump gonna buy one? While Bill Gates was in the Doom game for a presentation, he doesn't strike me as a diehard fan of scifi weaponry. Sure, all you have to do is sell a few and you've more than covered your costs... but for the love of CROM... why not offer something normal fans can afford?
Yeah yeah... I know. There's a market there somewhere... or it wouldn't exist. I'm sure a lot of that price point is to get back the money spent on the original prop they got to model these versions off of. To each their own.
At $45 a pop, the Ashley Wood robots are a pretty interesting idea though. Nice to see something of that quality for a decent price point.
11/28/09
Check out www.therpf.com for their excellent mockups of the pulse rifle - you're likely to find instructions for building your own or someone willing to sell you a casting.
11/28/09
Where is the pollice verso button on comments? I'd pay $200 for that.
#art
11/28/09
Me? I'm an artist... but I'm also a realist. When I did a Munny show at a local gallery, some artists were asking for close to a grand for their work. I foolishly decided $150 would be a good minimum considering the sea of insane prices... but in the end it was the humble artists in the $100 or less catagory that sold the most Munnys. That said, I was quite happy to take mine home again.
I'm currently selling anime con style fleece hats for less than the $30 they were charging 5 years ago (they've since upped their prices $10, despite the bad economy), and that includes the shipping. My Exposed Brain Fleece (and yes, it's as awesome as it sounds) makes a brilliant gift... heh. Check 'em out over at akitsu.etsy.com if you have a minute.
I don't really think it has to be an even/or situation though. "Culture Workers" as GnC dubbed them, aren't dead weight... but at the same time they really do need examine the marketability of things. Wood shows good taste as an artist in actually making books and products people can afford. Hell, even Walker's raygun shows the good taste of saying "Hey, you may be paying $300... but there's only 25 of these in existence!"
In the words of the poet, "Can't we all just get along"?
11/28/09
So sad. In my day you either understood they were only that fast in the cartoons and commercials or you broke your toys trying. You would never whine about it though.
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