Showing posts with label custom action figure cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label custom action figure cards. Show all posts

Monday, September 19, 2016

Pop Culture League: Aliens Stand No Chance - WOLVERINES!!!!



This week's assignment from the PCL is an interesting one: Aliens Among Us

“If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.” –Stephen Hawking

I guess the intent of this assignment is to acknowledge we (as humans and residents of the planet Earth) are basically toast if aliens ever arrive to this planet. The colonists wiped out the Native Americans, so aliens will do the same to us. It's a given.

Or is it?

I don't think it is...and I'll tell you why. Will Smith, Bruce Willis, and Wolverines

We know exactly what's going to happen if aliens attack us.

First - we have Will Smith, Bill Pullman, and Jeff Goldblum. Independence Day

These guys are so bad ass - they have action figures.



Next, we have Bruce Willis...AND...Ben Affleck. Whether it is an asteroid or alien, they'll ride up there in titanium space shuttles and drill the threat right in the ass. Armageddon

These guys also have action figures.


But now, the most important reason why aliens could never kick our ass, besides our Second Amendment rights, are the Wolverines!

A high school football team and high school class president kicked the Soviet army out of Colorado. Think what will happen to the aliens.




Red Dawn is the one movie that is at the top of my ReAction wishlist. Years ago, I made some custom cards. Someday....I need a 3D printer.




More from the League

Brother Midnight agrees we are toast!

The Toybox 1138 turns to another American hero.

Toy Break figured out the conspiracy. It was right in front of us all along.






Thursday, February 24, 2011

Varsity Blues Custom Action Figure Cards

One of my favorite movies of all time. Varsity Blues - the trials and tribulations of playing high school football in Texas. Great cast. Great entertainment. May have to customize the new 4 inch McFarlane Playmakers and make some actual figures for these cards, but here is what the cards would look like, once again, in the vintage Star Wars style.

Quarterback Jon Moxon



Cheerleader Darcy Sears (Ali Larter)



Quarterback Lance Harbor


Lineman Billy Bob



Running Back Wendell Brown


Coach Bud Kilmer


Wide Receiver Charlie Tweeder


Jules Harbor (Moxon's Girlfriend)



Miss Davis
GT Mustang/Strip Club Playset in the Future?



Nothing else to Say...




Custom Predator Action Figure Cards

Here is another great movie where action figures (6 inch or 3 3/4 inch) would have rocked, including the vintage style Star Wars Kenner carding. McFarlane released 6 inch versions of the Predator, but never the soldiers.


























Since We Were Talking Earlier About Custom Aliens Figure Cards

How about a chase/variant figure of Ripley from Alien?






Friday, February 18, 2011

Custom Aliens Action Figure Cards

I always loved the cards that the vintage Star Wars and Indiana Jones action figures came on. Very happy to see the vintage style return with the new Star Wars figures. I can't stand the card width bubbles you see on most figures now, though that has mostly to do with preventing theft more than anything else. Product packaging can be artwork in itself.

Aliens is one of my favorite movies, so I thought, what if they released 3 3/4" action figures for the Aliens movie on vintage style cards. Here is what I thought they would look like.

Hot Toys released some snap kits of 3 3/4" figures. They didn't come on a card. They came in a 1/6th scale alien egg. The box of 12 included Hicks, Apone, Drake and Ripley. They are very delicate. I broke Hicks into pieces trying to put him together. I put together an alien and used a lot of care, and vaseline, to get the pieces to snap together without breaking them. Wish they would come out with the rest of the Marines.


Ellen Ripley (Advisor)

Newt (Survivor)


Vasquez (Smart Gunner)


Vasquez Card 2 (Smart Gunner)


Spunkmeyer (Dropship Crew Chief)





Van Leuwan (Company Executive) (Peg Warmer)


Hudson (Communications)
Would be great with a voice chip!
"Game Over, Man!"



CPL Hicks



LT Gorman (Platoon Leader)



PVT Frost 1


PVT Frost 2



CPL Ferro (Dropship Pilot)



Drake (Smart Gunner)


CPL Dietrich (Medic)


Private Crowe




Cocooned Woman



Cocooned Burke (Deleted Scene)



Burke (Company Man)



Bishop (Artificial Person)


Ripped in Half Bishop


Gunnery Sergeant Apone