What the fuck happened to 3A?
>>5621516
they gave up.again.
Jesus Christ. Ash, please just go back to painting.
>>5621516
>Ash, can you finish your turret design? How will the tripod look?
>Iunno, just slap some legs on it
>>5621516
>Gets drunk and starts fucking around with parts bin
>sticks gun on legs
>lololol
>passes out
>Some guy walks past the next day and thinks that's the next project and rolls with it
>>5621516
I liked the adventure kartel 1/12 figures, isnt there supposed to be a new wave coming out soon with the cowboy?
>INB4 poorfag or whatever
Oh, and 3A wants $160 for these. EACH.
>>5621516
>what happen?
They went full Sid.
>>5621579
And the 3A fags will gobble it up and ask for moar.
>>5621516
>EVEN LESS INSPIRED THAN WARFRAME
bravado, Ashley!
>>5621596
warframes when?
>>5621579
>$160 for a gun and less than half a normal 1/6 body
Bravo.
>>5621516
This new iosbelle pascha line looks kinda weird...
>>5621516
I like the way the bullet belts drape over the crotch region in a loincloth kind of way, but that's about it as far as design goes. I agree the integration of the two parts could be a lot better.
Ashley Wood trying to tap into the robofucker market and once again disappointing everyone.
>>5621516
Art toys need to fucking die.
>>5621700
Also, can it face forward? Articulation looks awfu.
>>5621711
Looks like it. Or at least this one can. God those heels look like they were reused from another design.
>>5621732
whoops, forgot the image
>>5621732
It's threea, I'm pretty sure everything is re-used molds.
>>5621736
Ugh. I like this as a concept, but so much about this sucks donkey dick
I'm fucking tired of it.
Maybe 1 in 10 releases is something I'd want to buy
The only reason I still give a shit is the 2000AD license.
>>5622524
>I like the idea
It looks like a shitty ripoff of HR Giger.
>>5621516
They just dont give a fuck anymore
>>5621516
what am i looking at?
>>5621516
These things are going to end up in some movie's serial killer bedroom.
>>5621588
For the most part Threea fans are shitting on this left and right, a few in the cock-gobbling Ashforce are trying to defend it but mostly the reaction is overwhelmingly negative. At $160 they've gone giga-tard.
>>5621585
You never go full Sid.
At first I was okay with that design. I mean, I'm not really interested myself, but whatever, there's probably people out there who'd like this stuff.
But then I saw their asking price. 160 dollars for half a figure? Are they fucking mental?
i got my comment deleted for saying "this is really lazy" on 3a facebook post
I actually really like this, but fuck off at that price.
>>5621516
I'm sort of glad that 3A has been committing a slow suicide I mean there's only so much fund and space available for toys and I've been quite happy moving onto bigger and better things with companies that actually put some effort into their shit.
>>5622742
I don't really understand the hype about 1000Toys stuff. It really doesn't seem that interesting.
>>5622778
The head with the mask on the first synthetic human was kind of cool, nothing else has really caught my eye.
I wish they'd do more Evenfall stuff.
>>5622742
Hot Toys mainly for Iron Man (they killed it with the 1/4 mk.43) and Figuarts for smaller figures.
>>5622799
I think he meant for designer non-licensed shit. Or is that not really a hole you need to fill?
I realize this is Wood's style, but aside from this being a lazy figure you'd at least think he'd add a third leg or make it a quadruped for stability when firing the gun at least.
>>5622967
He should have given it a tripod penis and gotten that futa crowd.
>>5621516
Somehow this seems like the logical culmination of everything this company represents.
>>5622976
>a ridiculously overpriced gun with a vagina
Yeah that's pretty much threea.
>>5621516
What's the problem? 3a has always been pretentious shit
>>5621516
>>just wait 20 years... Just don't open it.
>>5621516
If it's a robot why does it have handles on the gun like someone else is supposed to fire it? Is it supposed to be fired by a separate person? Or is the gun just some re-used mold?
>>5623019
I think it's supposed to be a turret for another 1/6 figure.
Can't wait to have my RAH figures shooting this thing.
Is this 3AA exclusive?
>>5621516
>>5621734
Y'know what's icing on the cake?
That gun doesn't even make sense, the ammo feed and ejection are nowhere near where the barrel actually is, unless this is some kind of bullet powered laser gun according to those power cables.
>>5622994
Just because you don't personally like a thing, that doesn't make it pretentious.
If anything early ThreeA was the exact opposite, they were offering interesting, well-designed 1/6 figures in a completely different style from the likes of Hot Toys or Enterbay, for far cheaper prices, and building their own little world out of them. They were toys to have fun with, something that hit its peak with the Adventure Kartel figures.
Where it all started to go downhill is when Ash started chasing licenses. Too many people buying/too much exposure led to a drop in quality, spiralling delays and less resources (already spread far too thin) to do any of their original properties justice any more, and most of their licensed stuff has been subpar anyway.
It's like a lesson in how to kill a promising company.
>>5623199
So 3A is McFarlane 2.0
>>5623019
>the gun like someone else is supposed to fire it?
You are supposed to fuck it and fire it at the same time. Isn't it evident?
>>5624062
That's what I thought at first but the recoil would destroy your junk wouldn't it?
>>5624065
Not if it fires the whole bullet, which would be 65% more bullet.
I just want to be free...
>>5622735
Me too. I'd buy it for 60 to 70 but 160 is to much.
>>5624065
Have you ever seen that guy on xvideos who dresses in women's underwear and sticks a goat milker on his dick?
It's like that.
>>5623199
3A is killing itself by biting more than it can chew
would pay 40 dollars for those legs.
>>5621549
answer my question nerds
>>5621516
What's the matter, pleb? If you can't appreciate art figures then maybe you should go back to Wal-mart were you belong. I've heard they have plenty of Transformers shelfwarming for manchildren like you.
>>5621744
This basically. There's kind of a creepy weaponized-mannequin vibe here that could be cool, but the execution is just so LAZY. I'm kind of amazed the gun is even a new mold. The legs are a clear reuse from the standard female buck. With better integration of the machine parts, a clearer concept, and for god's sake, a cheaper price, I might have been on board.
>>5622514
This basically. ThreeA's biggest problem used to be that they reused molds so much, but at least the molds were all GREAT back then. He needs to go back to WWR, it's what he did best honestly.
>>5624410
Did the TK Hunter come out yet? That's a mold I'm actually still interested in. That dark colorway looks great too.
>>5629390
He tried going back to WWR
Did you see how awfully boring the design of Von De Plume was?
>>5630900
Yeah, Von was pretty bad. I think honestly, he should go back to designing bots. There are still variations from comics and paintings that have not been committed to plastic, and I'm always down for new designs in the WWR aesthetic. I got into ThreeA for the bots, and I feel like lately we haven't been seeing many of those.
Everything about this is cringe inducing.
Especially the poetry or whatever the 'fuk' the writing is.
And holy shit, the 'haute couture' brand labels on the image are a joke. Why do people buy this shit again?
>>5621734
I really think Ashley Wood dismembers hooker's legs and rubs his cock all over them.
There's no other explanation for his design choices at this point.
>>5630983
>Especially the poetry or whatever the 'fuk' the writing is.
Yeah somebody above had the gull to claim 3A wasn't pretentious. The false pretenses come under classifying these as art and the retarded mind numbingly stupid poetry that goes along with them.
Does 3A do sales? I'd pick one of these for maybe like... half of this asking price. I don't think they're going to sell as well as planned.
>>5633862
No sales but if you stalk the second hand market you can get good deals.
Really I don't see what's so super lazy about the machine gun legs really? They look like the painting and why wouldn't you just reuse an existing bucks legs when all your trying to accomplish is a pair of female legs stuck to a gun? I think the price is way to high for a figure with such limited use but I don't think the execution is so lazy it deserves to be sperghed out over.
I find it sort of strange how /toy is so enraged by 3As reusing of molds when lines like transformers, he-man and dcu do it all the time. Is it just cause 3A stuff is expensive therefore people have higher expectations?
>>5634043
It's because the concept itself is fucking lazy. They could do a new mold for the legs and people would still complain how lazy it is.
>>5634043
People complain about most of those lines mold re-use too, just less because they cost 1/10 as much. And the design is just lazy, it's a gun with legs. Maybe if there was like a little robot that sat on them and fired the gun or the legs were cool robot legs or there was a cool paintjob that made the gun look like a face or just literally anything else people would be more on board with it but it's just a gun attached to half a figure with a retarded price.
Wait did they fucking sell out already!? How?
>>5637065
>>5630957
New tank tread squares soon, friend
>>5629390
Adventure Kartel was pretty cool, at least the robots were.
>>5637127
I only know of the Ankou EX, the other boys are just heads/hands slapped onto generic human bodies
>>5637106
Just goes to show people have shit tier taste. Why should ashley wood change his ways when people gobble up the shit he makes? Fucking disgusting.
>>5637135
Yeah but some of them worked. Also most of the ankous had robot feet too.
>>5629368
Why would no one here answer a legitimate question?
>>5623102
> 'How unrealistic!'
> On a toy
>>5638048
Might as well give up anon, threea is like pak around these parts. You're not allowed to like it or think it's worth the money because /toy thinks its trash.
>>5638089
Like it all you want, but don't pretend it isn't overpriced as fuck.
This series seems really cool, but I've never heard of it outside /toy/. What is it and who is this Ashley person?
>>5638723
Ashley Wood is a comic book artist who designs toys for his company ThreeA, although the 'comics' the toys themselves are based on are basically 2 pages of comics plus tons of illustrations.
>>5638048
>suspension of disbelief doesn't apply to toys
Okay.
>>5623102
You hit the nail on the head but in the wrong board.
>>5629379
This is probably bait, but it's true. This board is full of fucking plebs
>>5639188
When 3A makes something like this and that Star Wars stripper line, I don't think their fans have the right to call anyone else plebs/manchildren.
>>5639201
Back to the Black series and marvel thread, kid.
>>5637065
Limited preorder period, doesn't mean they sold any particularly high number.
>>5639207
You are aware you're pretty much proving him right if you have to fall back on an ad-hominem, yes?
>>5639313
Mad that you can't afford superior figures?
>>5639313
didn't disney say they'd stop making lewd black series figures?
you cant even play with this shit. lines like acid rain are much more fun and cool. screw art shit
In other news, that new Ricky Gervais movie that just got put on Netflix has an appearance of Ash's Iron Man.
So that's a thing.
>>5639692
>playing with your toys
Autism
>>5639692
Wait what? I repose my threea figs all the time and set them up for photos. Unless you mean banging them together while making pewpew sounds which acid rain wouldn't stand up to either.
A while ago I asked whether or not the 1:36 Evenfall totem was worth getting, and someone told me it was fun to paint; so I thought what the hell and pulled the trigger.
>>5639201
>not wanting bondage dolls in scale with your action figures and stormtrooper stripper assassins
Do your parents know you're a rollerblader?
>>5641312
>tfw passed on the chance to buy the orange one way back when
eh, scale looks good. is it good anon?
>>5641337
Scale's kind of hard to get used to, since all my actual threeA figures are (of course) so damn big next to it. Kind of disorienting since in my mind it should be a menacing and massive badass. If you're intending to just display it alone or just paint it for fun though, I think it's worth purchasing.
>>5641342
scale aside, I think they're really fun.
I'm not really into models but these are so simple and easy to paint that I want a whole bunch of them.
2 isnt enough
>>5640234
Where do you think you are?
>>5641312
Reminds me of Maschinen Krieger stuff.
>>5639201
Really hoping this head sculpt appears on some TQs. Best since Irimi imo.
>>5638089
Tons of people here openly admit to liking 3A BEFORE it turned to shit over the past couple years (shipping delays yet tons of con exclusive, QA issues, more delays...etc). Only your 3A worship forums see no wrong or decline in what 3A's been putting out/doing to their fanbase.
>>5643183
>Maschinen Krieger
the stuff is so much better. ashley is a fat fucking hack
>>5643761
there were some japanese members who were extremely mad because the wooden apples 3a made had knots on them.
Like, its fucking wood, what do you expect?
>>5621516
I'm surprised this hasn't been turned into a meme yet. Would someone try to do this with a figma?
>>5622526
Which they are canning soon.
>>5641312
Thanks for reminding me I have a few of these stashed away somewhere. Think I might paint one up as a diving suit and make some kind of shipwreck base.
>>5645265
Seriously? Are they at least finishing the Dark Juges?
>>5645333
Fear and Mortis are on the way, but i don't think they'll finish them and do Fire as well.
>>5645352
I finally understand what it feels like to have Ash betray me.
>>5645265
Nah. No truth to this one
>>5643761
As a person who just discovered threea alot of the criticisms don't really have any impact on me. All the releases are new to me and mold reuse isn't a problem when you don't have any of the previous releases anyway. I can see how it would be frustrating to a long time collector though.
Really I wonder what percentage of sales are from newbies like me discovering threea first the first time.
Oh jeez, will you look at that. Ultron still set to Q2 for retooling. Year is almost half way over, Ash, how long is your Q2 period going to last?
>mfw thread shitting on 3a is now 3a general
>>5649589
People just kept bumping it.
Did they ever make "tin can shaped robots" or "gas mask trench coat men" figures in their "portable" scale? I've only got one figure, it was a Zomb in a yellow boiler suit. He's fucking amazing, but I'd like some more. (I really like the smaller scale ones, but most are made in Barbie size unfortunately.)
>>5649781
Yeah they made some 6'' and 8'' gas mask guys, the WWRP NOM Commanders(6''), 3AGO Duo De Plume(8'') and DIY De Plume(6''). Not sure which tin can robots you mean, if it's Caeser's then they have 1/12 scale ones but they're still pretty big.
>>5649797
Thanks for the info!
I feel like I see them making these cylindrical robots a lot, whether they have slight differences in their specific releases or whatever, lots of them look kind of like a can, lol. Have any that had that look been made in the 6" form?
>>5649815
Those are dropcloths, they made 1/12s of them but they're like 8'' I think.
>>5649529
I imagine his Q2 period lasts from April 1 through to June 30. You know, Q2.
>>5649818
Portables are 6", Droppies are human-height.
>>5649834
>>5649818
Are all the cylindrical robots called drop cloths? Or just that specific model from the picture? I've seen some with a rounded top, and others without the apron, but shorter arms and legs. Also one with a huge chain gun. Are absolutely none of those bots made in mini form? Anything close?
>>5650180
Just that specific model. The one in your pic with the shorter legs is called a Bertie, there are some miniature versions available, there's an 8'' one available for pre-order in a set right now on bambaland. There's also Caesers, which look like dropcloths but with bulkier arms and a shield attached to one or both arms and can have either flat or round heads. All three of them have tons of versions with different weapons and paintjobs and shit available in both scales.
>>5650180
Dropcloths are named for the "dropcloth" loincloth thing and are 6"
Berties (your pic is the MK II) have longer bodies, domes, and arms, but shorter legs. MK IIIs are bigger and have proportionally longer bodies.
Armstrongs are similar to Bertie MK IIs but with even shorter legs and longer bodies. They have giant backpacks for flight.
Squares are the smallest ones with either stubby legs or long legs.
Caesars are basically larger Dropcloths with shields on the arms and the option of a flattop or dome for the head.
Harolds are flattop Caesars with treads instead of legs and three fingers instead of four.
Brambles are like fatter Dropcloths.
Large Martins are the thickest with heavy artillery stuck to their heads.
If they have hands, they usually come with differing accessories.
>>5650180
Here's a visual catalog of everything WWR they've done at 1/12 scale - should get you across all the various bots
http://www.worldofthreea.com/catalog/wwrp
>>5650342
Woooaahhh! Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a ton for all the help, everyone!
I dropped out of 3A for awhile. Is 3AGO a new scale?
>>5652600
Yeah. Mego-style throwback line. Aside from the Bertie don't waste your time, the humans are a step backwards.
>>5652608
Dissapointing, Duo De Plume looks pretty cool but he has worse articulation than the smaller 1/12 De Plumes.
>>5645026
I would if I had the proper gun for it.
I'm honestly kinda bummed out. I just recently found out about 3A because I'm a neanderthaler who lives under a rock. Seems like the more recent releases are pretty disappointing. ($160 dollars for a gun on legs that aren't even aesthetically pleasing is kinda eeeehhh)
Now here's to me trying my luck on the aftermarket with the older releases
