mister64 said:Are those the sets that had the motorcycle/sidecar that people customized into a TLC version?
Stoo said:Not being a follower of this thread nor an action figure guy, perhaps this has already been mentioned but...
In a Swiss department store (Co-Op, I think it's also a chain in the UK) there was some African-themed stuff by a German company called, Schleich. They had in stock:
-an African tree (looks like a baobab tree to me).
-an VERY LARGE African outpost complete with thatched roof & fenced veranda.
-a plane (looks like a Piper Cub) painted with a zebra pattern. With a new paint job, this would be perfect for a Harry Steele "Secret of the Incas" diorama!
-a large truck with an Indy-ish looking driver. The cab is a flat-front (green with a silver grille) and the back of the truck has high walls of 'wooden' slats for containing cargo.
Each item looked compatible with the Hasbro figres so I just thought the info would be worth passing along to you folks.
Stoo said:-a plane (looks like a Piper Cub) painted with a zebra pattern. With a new paint job, this would be perfect for a Harry Steele "Secret of the Incas" diorama!
Lance Quazar said:^Cooool! Might even be better for the smaller action figures. Would feel more like an "environment" than just a sliver of a wall as it towered over a tiny Indy.
Billy Ray said:Check out these 1:18 scale WWII German Soldiers from the "Our War" line, recently revealed at Toy Fair:
Saw these posted over at Jedi Defender and did a little digging, apparently they are from a company called Tieka Toys. They have made some modern US Army figures that look pretty darn cool and are sold out everywhere online.
Montana Smith said:Never heard of that company before. They have cartoony faces, but their hairstyles are dead accurate! They might even have pop-on heads compatible with Hasbro, so could make useful custom fodder.
inky_skin said:Interesting - Tieka actually display their product alongside Hasbro Indy figures standing in for generic "Middle Eastern" bad guys... http://www.tiekatoys.com/news.asp?id=166
Lance Quazar said:Well, I happened to stumble onto the figures for the new "Pirates of the Carbibbean" movie in the store the other day.
Unfortunately, Zazzle, the company that made figures for the first three movies, is NOT making the new line.
While the Zazzle figures were not blessed with great articulation and never managed to make a decent Jack Sparrow headsculpt, the new figures are utter garbage in comparison.
Sadly, the scale is off- they are a little bit too big to stand alongside Indy, Star Wars and the Zazzle figures. But more noticeably, they are just BAD looking figures. Crap faces, really indistinct, cruddy detailing. They look almost like preschool aged toys - big, thick, ugly.
Ick.