Guys, I'm crying right now...
>>84379846
I have the willykit one
>>84379887
These are the cancelled 6 inch figures m8
Bigger, more detailed, more articulation
Yours is the dinky 4 inch one
>>84380253
well you could write what the fuck are you talking about first tho.
>>84380274
it says cancelled right in the filename dipshit
>>84379846
I really really want this.
>>84380388
we'll never have it
>>84379846
still not really good enough. the designers on these really are incompetent.
>>84380388
i really want a GOOD wilykit figure.
>>84379846
As a /toy/fag who waifued Wilykit pretty hard this picture makes me sad.
>>84382228
it is a real pain in the ass that good shows keep getting canceled because they dont sell toys, but the toys are shit or worse they don't exist.
that's not the show's fault! they did their DAMNEDest to make us want toys. it's pretty fucking clear who didnt pick up their end on this one.
![Kaj Pindal Goldtooth [480p].mp4_snapshot_25.02.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/BIlTPiJ.jpg "Kaj Pindal Goldtooth [480p].mp4_snapshot_25.02.jpg")
>hot glue never
>>84380419
3d printing is a thing anon.
Become a 3d modeler, print the individual pieces. $500 is a cheap investment for being able to make your own action figures.
>>84382317
Yeah, I'm sick of "Five points of articulation" crap. Why do execs think that hips, shoulders. and Neck is acceptable in this day and age? We've had GI Joe since the 80's! that should be your minimum standard for articulation
>>84382394
that would be true if not for the requirement that the plastic be soft and shitty
>>84382431
the sad thing is the most recent generation actually thinks kids WANT shitty simple crap. if you look at transformers from the last couple years, compared to the HUGE strides they made in the years prior. they're back to one-step bricks
>>84382440
Use it for prototyping, then make molds from the prototypes and resin-cast. Christ, it's like i have to think of everything for you.
America isn't competent enough at figure making to be trying anymore.
>>84380388
I want to fuck that cat.
ITT: Pedofurs
>>84382815
I never asked for this. It was just shoved in my face.
>>84382530
resin's even worse! and have you tried that? fucking bubbles everywhere, only one in four, MAYBE one in three come out okay.. and the molds are only good for like five uses.
>>84382755
she's ready
>>84382725
which is fine, cmon japan do this for us
>>84382815
You're just stating the obvious, if you want more (you)s you have to say something like "filthy pedo scum get the heck out of MY board"
these aren't even well designed characters.
>>84379846
it looks as if they misinterpreted the crest of hair at the bottom of her hair as two side-fins of hair..
whatever i'd still have bought it.. repainted it a bit to fix the missing trim.. well i would if paint was easier to find in colors you want..
Would you give Kit the barbs, /co/?
>>84386733
>>84382440
>>84382934
As a semi-pro model builder, that's a poor excuse. Learn to use the right products and methods and you shouldn't have any problems you haven't already solved 5 steps before.
>>84389374
yeah but best case scenario you still have resin, not proper plastic. shit's gonna break like a goddamn candle. i'm just sayin, man.
>>84389374
also if youre a semi pro, can you explain to me how people cut through plastic with a hobby knife? i mean yeah it's sharp but it's not serrated, so sawing back and forth doesn't work. you can keep scoring and scoring the same spot and hope someday it cuts through, but it doesn't. not on plastic that's hard enough to be worth a damn.
>>84382465
I remember buying Star Wars figures in the 90's compared to the ones that were coming out during the Prequels. The 90's ones had shoulder, hip, and leg articulation and that was back then (the sculpts were about as good as today, too). The figures coming out in the early-mid 00's had wrist, elbow, shoulder, neck, chest, hip, leg, knee and foot articulation (some of those were ball joint, even), and the sculpts were really good (or at least for only costing about $8).
Those 6'' Star Wars figures from ten years back are of almost the same quality as the Star Wars Black sets from today, which cost $50 despite only being 2 inches taller and having slightly more texture to the clothing.
How did this happen, where what used to be the base standard of quality in action figures is now considered the high-end deluxe alternative?
>>84390159
Acrylic Plastic Cutter
Wilykit a cute
>>84390181
for a while, plastic costs skyrocketed. the same pressures that took GI joe from barbie-scale down to 'tiniest action figures around' had no further outlet really. nowhere else to go.
still, each manufacturer is different. playmates gives no fucks about scale, doesn't understand how to make articulation useful, and generally sculpts everything in an actiony pose that it is now unable to get out of.. that and terrible gimmicks, and it's amazing they've been in business long enough to get to the point where they're now actively worse than ever (leaving out tons of vital paint apps on each figure)
but they're artisans compared to jakks pacific, who thinks it's okay to build spindly-limbed characters like from adventure time or sonic out of the plastic equivalent of biscotti.
is this kenner you're talking about, in both cases? because i haven't seen much from kenner in some time, it might be that the rights have changed hands
but when you look at takara tomy you can see the real changes over a long period working on similar products.
>>84390181
They realized they could get away with selling the standard as premium, and peddle shlock as the base version.
Toy companies basically took a page from the EA playbook, sell the full thing as premium, like you're doing them a favor, even though the same thing was either:1.Previously sold in its whole form in the past as base model, And/Or 2. Is still made by other companies in its full regular form.
It's brilliantly unethical.
>>84390221
i knew it!!
okay that and a small dremel drill and i'll be ready.. someday. so many spare parts.. i know i'll be a model customizer.. someday.. so many ideas.. fuckers telling me an x-acto and a pin vise would be enough.. i knew they were wrong.
>>84390355
hell most toy companies i'd THANK them to do that. they refuse to even HAVE tiers, as if they're some kind of rabid net neutrality protestors.
they cram everything into one rank. one size class. one level of paint application. nevermind you're adapting a tv show or whatever, so accuracy should be the #1 priority.. they bend over fucking backwards to force that shitty stalinesque conformity and put everything in a box.
>>84390181
I'd gladly take fewer joints if it means a better sculpt.
Too often I find that joints on lower end toys are ugly as sin and either feel super breaky or won't support its own weight. I mean on something under $10.
As long as the neck, hips, and shoulders move, I'm happy.
>>84390463
the problem there is you might as well have a statch if the movements look terrible and always inappropriate. what's the point of being able to pose something to walk like a 30s movie mummy?
>>84380388
>>84391033
>>84391046
Still think Wilykit was gonna be revealed via bullshit to be Panthera's reincarnation or somethiCATS HAVE NINE LIVES
>>84391118
>>84391170
oh my.
>>84391217
Seeing how she was the only character who didn't hate Lion-o and spurred him to action against Mumm-ra, the similarities are uncanny.And the irony of the kid ending up dwarving Lion-o is humorous to me
>>84390463
That was the beauty about the Star Wars figures. Because of the armor and ribbed clothing most of the characters wore (or weirdly textured skin in the case of aliens), the joints were easily hidden or meshed naturally with the clothes. In the case of Jedi, they always gave them a cloak which covered up everything unless you took it off.
As for how they hold up, I still have most of my old ones in a box in my attic. Use to play with them all the time, and they're still all in one piece.
The weapons they came with may have been a bit cheap though, I'm not sure. As a kid, dumb as i was, i managed to break a number of the accessories either by stepping on them or slamming them into things too rough. But considering how small they were, i suppose that was bound to happen.
>>84379846
This show is agony for me because it's pilot is literally one of the greatest animated pilots that has been produced in the last 20 years.
It literally has everything: Complex setting lore, mature issues with some degree of nuance,good villains characters teeming with narrative hooks for future development, and material for good intergroup interaction.
It should have written itself, and yet immediately after the pilot the show swerves and plummets so far in quality so quickly that only the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger could possibly outmatch it.
>>84380388
>>84391603
Thats a good one
>>84382118
>a GOOD wilykit figure.
What, anatomically correct, with flocked fur, and with fabric clothes that you can take off and put back on...?
>>84382118
>>84392120
Well, if you don't mind old school. There are SDCC 2016 Thunder Cat figures.
>Of course, they are all sold out and will be a mint to buy on the secondary market but what can you do?
>>84379846
What were the initial ones that were released in the states like?
I only saw the 2011 Lion-O and Thunder Tank selling online once.
So if Lion-o was in the past as his ancestor, and did it with Panthera...does that mean he's like Fry from Futurama? He is his own grandpa!
>subscribed to Mattel Thundercats line
>my first sub ever
>Mattel Thundercats will 100% certainly be cancelled before the main cast is made
>will never get SDCC wilykittens due to scalper prices
>>84379846
wilykute
>>84392321
That tumor on Wilykat's hand should be looked at.
>>84392975
He didn't really go back in time, he was just experiencing the past through the eyes of his ancestor.
>>84391217
Words cannot describe how much I love art that highlights the physique of a character that can do what Wilykit can do.
I feel like this show was never given a proper chance. yeah it wasn't great, but it was at least different from most of the crap we have now. Fucking /co/ expects perfection too much when I'm just grateful for variety.
>>84393031
With a massive comic book crossover coming between He-Man and the Thundercats, it's unlikely that Mattel will cancel the Thundercats line now.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/exclusive-dc-teams-up-toy-titans-for-he-man-thundercats
>>84396024
I don't think people outright hate it, it's more like wasted potential especially in the direction it was going
>>84391217
>muscle toned Wilykit
I didn't even know I wanted this
>>84396024
Yeah I never got all the hate. I guess one of the creators was a dick or something?
Not to say /co/ doesn't have some valid points, just when watching it I always remember enjoying myself most episodes than not.
>>84396035
Even as a Kid I kept thinking Lion O was a clown or at least Ronald McDonald
>>84395760
The artist who drew this also wrote a fanfic where WilyKit gets sucked through a portal and comes back as a bitter adult. Lion-O flirts with her a lot in it. Unfortunately it was never finished
>>84379846
honestly it's not even that good.
still it would have been better than nothing, but the figures hardly do the two hotties justice.
>>84391410
Even in the pilot there were a few hints of the shitshow that was to come. Like when the bad guy they were beating to the arena teleported ahead of them with no explanation. And when that crowd ran into a tunnel that got bombed and it was really unclear if they were supposed to have died or what was going on.
>>84396396
It's a shame all the Older Wilykit stuff I find is so...rapey.
>>84379887
Is that tou, Dogma?Draw some Wilykit lewds.
>>84396623
Who over at WildStorm seriously thought The Return was a good idea?
>>84391344
yeah nobody does cloth on figures anymore. i guess that has probably become even MORE expensive, and really most of it looks lousy (mainly because it's too thick when you mentally scale it up. it drapes wrong. the only good one was the oldschool splinter figure, who basically had a chamois cloth on.. but then that got so grimy. i mean that suits that character, but)
>>84392120
just.. better than that. i guarantee there's little range of motion for the legs unless that's VERY soft rubber on the skirt. the clothes are missing lots of paint apps. the tail appears to be a tripod leg, probably just on a rotating cut joint.. there's no wrist movement, the hands are weirdly open, and the feet aren't painted. other than that I guess it's okay, aside from the offmodel hair.
>>84392321
yeah see these look to be of higher quality. i'd love 2011kit like this.
>>84396024
this. 2011 was NO time to be bitching about action shows not having a good enough plot, and 2016 sure as fuck isnt
>>84393688
Im more for him than wilykat
>>84398110
Unfortunately he has next to no good solo lewds.
>>84398110
>i will never find a girlfriend who's as into kat as i am into kit and we can enjoy them together
sads
>>84391118
>>84391132
Can we address the manlet in the room?
>>84382815
Thanks.
>>84399118
She's like 9ft tall.
>>84399130
Where did this outfit come from? I don't remember it in the show
>>84399370
There was an edgy comic where she was being kept by Mum-Rah as a fucktoy.
>>84399400
>>84399400
>>84399468
Oh wow that's extremely lewd
>>84396282
Song of the Petalars is one of my favorite episodes of animation. The Duelist and the Drifter was great too.
The show took a nosedive, but I still would have liked to see where it would have gone.
>>84397646
People really don't seem to understand that you have to support this stuff. If you want to see more action shows on TV, watch the ones that are already there. Even if it isn't perfect, it's better than nothing at all. If the show does well, other studios will try to follow suit with their own action series, which means more shows to choose from. Then, and only then, you can be picky.
>>84399726
exactly
though it's not like any amount of 'support' would help when CN obviously hated it, wanted it gone, and bandai did a cruddy job on the toys.. though in a lot of ways they were trying. i dunno, i just know they can do a lot better.
one thing we need to stop seeing is multiple sizes of the same characters. what the shit is the point? there's VERY limited shelf space, you don't want to be competing with yourself.
Okay yeah, not all families can afford the same shit, but in general the more efficient you are the better you can be with your pricing.
and considering you have characters as tiny as the kittens and as big as grune and panthro, it makes sense to stick with ONE scale and try to put everyone to rights with each other. a parent might say "you can have a big one and a small one or two regular ones" and then there you go. they can build their collection.
if you design ONE good toy, then everyone will need to have it. better that (which costs less to produce) than trying to make a million extraneous things
>>84398191
Does he wear briefs at least?
>>84396282
>Yeah I never got all the hate. I guess one of the creators was a dick or something?
It was written like garbage. You have to be pretty dumb to not notice.
The creator who was a dick was actually the character designer and one of the only people on the show who did a good job, despite being a massive tool.
>tfw you want to save some of these images but you don't know if it's illegal since US has no clear law on lolicon
Shit makes me way too paranoid, too. Anyone else feel the same?
Don't know if I'll go to jail for this comment.
>>84400157
name two shows written better
avatar yeah but you cant name a second
>>84400253
the fuck is wrong with you? america has extremely clear laws on freedom of expression. you can't ban a drawing. fuck you cant even ban an album cover or a straight up live action movie as long as it's clear it's not porn and no actual sex is happening to the actual childrens.
you're thinking of russia maybe
>>84391410
>swerves and plummets so far in quality so quickly that only the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger could possibly outmatch it
Though the Challenger, while doomed, continued traveling upward before it began tumbling down to the ocean.
This was a shitshow the next fucking episode.
>>84395760
>ears
No, >>84391170 got it right.
>>84399878
Really, they should just stick to one size action figure (kid characters can be an inch or so shorter, but proportionally still fit with the others) and make all the playlets and vehicles compatible with the figures.
It creates a "collect them all" mentality to the figures, and kids will be more likely to choose them over other toys.
It also makes it really easy to expand upon the line. Just about any new character can get a figure, and any new vehicle can get a toy which the figures can sit in.
Other toys should then really be kept to a minimum, with only sure fire things like the characters weapons getting toys made of them (those usually sell pretty well).
>>84400332
You could still be arrested and taken to court, maybe even jailed depending on the judge's feelings.
Imagine explaining it to your family and friends if that happens.
>>84400253
As long as you're not intending to publish it, you should be fine. Drawings are ok in the USA as long as they aren't published, and even that is a gray area.
>>84400253
Hundreds of thousands of Americans download loli every day with no issue. Why would you be paranoid of being the first and only person to ever be prosecuted for doing so?
All of the US cases against loli involved physically sending it through the mail service or used as additional charges against someone that had actual CP. Prosecutors know that if they ever tried to go after someone for JUST loli they would get shot down.
>>84399570
If TC 2011 would've kept going, I would think this is the route they'd take.
But with Lion-O warped to the future and Tigra and Cheetara forced working with Mum-Ra.
>>84399726
Great post!
>>84400349
this. why do the same main characters in 4 different sizes when you can just have the various sidecharacters?
idiotic moron executives now think 'less important characters don't sell'.. fuck you, characters you already have don't sell. the only reason to periodically reissue the main characters is that their first wave tends to sell out quickly and late-joiners like me miss out on those.
>>84400389
in the same way you can be arrested for buying a funny-looking pipe ostensibly meant for tobacco, yeah. police can do whatever they want. and rightly so. but you won't be convicted.
the fact that being involved whatsoever in the legal process is such a life-ruining experience is not a problem with law or law enforcement, but with the judicial system and to an even greater extent, lawyers.
my family and friends don't have 5-minute memories. they remember when nobody gave any fucks about this and there were naked cartoon kids everywhere you look.
>>84400569
I tended to ignore the main characters as a kid, because i knew that even if they sold out, there'd be a new toy of them eventually. It's the side characters that are rare.
>>84402044
well the problem is like, i mean, i was able to get cheetor but that was it. rattrap and rhinox were nowhere to be found. i loved these guys but i couldnt get em. ever. i managed to get a remold of terrorsaur at least.
the only tv characters i managed to grab were scorponok and inferno (big sizes helped keep them on shelves longer) and optimus and megatron (even moreso).. and like, i managed airazor and quickstrike but those were later releases so it was easier.
shit i remember when i tried my ass best to collect street sharks, and by the time I got to the store they were fresh out of normals, so I got the metallic alternates (which were better anyway) but even THOSE were gone by the time I got to streex, and I had to get yet another alternate xtreme-sports-version new mold of him.. which didnt have the claws, so I was disappointed. then i managed one villain (who was shelfwarming) before the whole fucking line disappeared.
the most successful i ever was, and this is pretty sad, was getting four earthworm jim figures before that line vanished. i remember around that time i tried getting the ronin warriors figures too, got three of em.. i was flabbergasted when they were re-released 6ish years later, but in the wrong colors.. and by then I had painfully realized how bad their heads looked
anyone else used to design their own toys?
i drew a complex articulated power rangers figure that could still have removable armor, so each limb segment had to have its own part. I was too Eight to understand that that wouldn't work for several reasons including plastic thickness and the need for joints to be covered.. I still felt proud of myself.
i also designed my own beanie babies (somewhat more believable and onmodel this time, I think I was about 12) because i didnt like the existing animal choices. then later, similar ones actually came out (still cant believe they made a goddamn scorpion)
What was Wilykit and Willykat like in the 80's one?
>>84382317
>it is a real pain in the ass that good shows keep getting canceled because they dont sell toys, but the toys are shit or worse they don't exist.
This wasn't a good show though. The quality declined dramatically after the pilot and it the writing seemed like a bad fanfic.
>>84406827
same as everyone else: a clown with a block of wood for personality
>>84407611
false
>>84400472
>Tigra forced to watch Cheetara taking old Mumm-Ra dick
>then is shocked when he's also forced to take old Mumm-Ra dick
I might look over the early show Tigra dick-sucking if that happened.
It needs a 3rd season.
>>84409279
just skip the 2nd and go straight to 3rd?
>>84410622
eyeroll
>>84397630
>yeah see these look to be of higher quality. i'd love 2011kit like this.
It's mattel, youre expecting too much.
>>84390181
Kids aren't that interested in action figures anymore. Shit isn't selling as it was on the 90s.
