i said sun ra! good idea tho. grace jones too. should be posed as in THAT PICTURE, w microphone and blue display stand/wall.
there has to have been an mf doom doll though, right? like, i'm sure cartoon network or somebody has made one. if not, they are sleeping on their responsibilities and need to wake the fuck up.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Thursday, 29 March 2012 08:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
done: devo, kraftwerk, gorillaz
needs to be done if they haven't already: daft punk, gaga, LAURIE FUCKING ANDERSON (such a great idea!), residents, white stripes
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Thursday, 29 March 2012 08:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ned Raggett
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 29 March 2012 08:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Metal bands also provide lots of content apt for action figures:
Anna from Sopor AeternusBirdfleshGhoulGreen JellŸGwarManowarPortal
There's also Momoiro Clover Z. I'm pretty sure there's better examples in Japan but their whole look seems completely lifted from mazinger z / power rangers / sailor moon.
And of course: Hevisaurus!
― Moka, Thursday, 29 March 2012 08:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
There totally already is an Aphex Twin action figure. It was Windowlicker Aphex IIRC.
(posts very much in character.)
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 29 March 2012 08:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:11 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer)
Ok just checked and apparently there's a Madvillain action figure and it's as perfect as I imagined:
Happy to see there's already kraftwerk and devo figurines! Also double checked and you're right Daft Punk has action figures. Loads of different ones, even as legos.. The rest haven't been done as action figures but I found this cute White Stripes finger puppets:
Shit it seems my hevisaurus image is heavy indeed and is making the page load slowly.
― Moka, Thursday, 29 March 2012 08:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
dang, want those white stripes marital aids finger puppets
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Thursday, 29 March 2012 08:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
GwarManowar
shit yeah, stat
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Thursday, 29 March 2012 08:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
poison idea (cast in lead)
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Thursday, 29 March 2012 08:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
gg allinklaus nomidivine
― cock chirea, Thursday, 29 March 2012 10:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
ow...
The collectibles company Aggronautix is releasing their very first female throbblehead, Wendy O. Williams “1982″, in the limited capacity of 2000 numbered units.[...]Wendy is the sixth punk personality to be polyresinated by Aggronautix. In May of 2009, the company launched with a highly popular GG Allin “1991″ figure, which was limited to 2000 numbered units. That figure has since sold out… or you could say, in words suiting GG, it “expired.”
― meisenfek, Thursday, 29 March 2012 13:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
If there aren't already gwar action figures I'll be shocked
― the penultimate prophets (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 March 2012 14:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Minority interest perhaps, but one of my proudest moments...
That is...amazing.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 29 March 2012 14:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Shonen Knife.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 29 March 2012 14:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Looking at the Bobbleheads site, there are categories for movies, television, politics, cartoons, religion, military, but none for music/rock stars. Lame!
Some of the suggestions above are entertaining, but would never, ever happen as they're far too obscure for most toy companies to mass market, as most people wouldn't recognize them. I suppose someone could start a boutique shop that puts out limited editions that would cost hundreds of dollars, but, meh.
Joan Jett
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Abbath
― Thu'um gang (jjjusten), Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
A good friend of mine named her cats Iggy and Angus last year. We rescued a cat last month and named him Ozzy. I'm still thinking Lemmy and Bootsy are the next best names after that. She was given this Iggy doll for her birthday, which inspired me to start this thread.
I considered getting her this, but it's a bit pricey:
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Kinda funny how the Iggy doll is the 50+ year-old version (he's 64 now and is way more wrinkly/leathery).
I'd personally rather have Ozzy, Lemmy and Bootsy before Jimmy Page, and most of the list before Kurt Cobain, but I can see how the above would sell better.
Remember the Bongwater song about Nick Cave dolls? "They make Nick Cave dolls? I want one..."
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
I want an Aphex Twin action figure with the accessories of a group of disabled people playing volleyball, based on the shit Mike Skinner was talking about him recently.
― viborg, Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
That Kurt Cobain doll is not scaled right. Kurt was actually 5'7", not 6'4"
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
i have an ozzy figure, todd macfarlane has done tons of rock ones, it even comes with a bats and a dove w/the head bitten off and a crucifix for ozzy to hold in his kung fu grip
― the penultimate prophets (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
ah cool there are gwar action figures all is right w/the universe:
― the penultimate prophets (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wow, lots of McFarlane stuff.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 29 March 2012 22:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Tons of great images of Le Petit Prince!
http://troygua.com/work/le-petit-prince/
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 29 March 2012 22:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Friday, 30 March 2012 00:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
What, no Blackie Lawless??
― jpattzlovevampz 2 hours ago (Phil D.), Friday, 30 March 2012 00:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ha! Does anyone under 40 remember him?
Yeah the assless outfit, priceless. Did Prince really wear that?
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 30 March 2012 02:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Nick Cave and Nick Cave doll from this fabulous web page.
― Did you drop some flug in my cup? (Abbbottt), Friday, 30 March 2012 02:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
I love the first one, but a bit pricey at $115. The mid-80s Freddie is even more. <img src=http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41IlJTuDxSL._SY355_.jpg>;<img src=http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41zR%2Bq9EIcL._SL500_AA300_.jpg>;
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 31 March 2012 00:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
I love the first one, but a bit pricey at $115. The mid-80s Freddie is even more.;;
Too many of these aren't articulated. Not action figures, IMO.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 31 March 2012 16:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Flavor Flav, obviously. Ghostface, Eazy-E and Kool Keith as Black Elvis, too.
I'd be shocked if Bootsy Collins didn't already have an action figure/doll out there somewhere.
And yeah, Prince really did wear those chaps.
― do dat do dat do do dat dat dat (thewufs), Saturday, 31 March 2012 18:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
ZZ Top - the whole band - would be another good one.
― do dat do dat do do dat dat dat (thewufs), Saturday, 31 March 2012 18:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Gary NumanRoy Wood circa Wizzard
― neutral sequence for flute (blank), Sunday, 1 April 2012 00:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jerry Garcia - pot smoke could come out of his head when you pushed in his belly
― Darin, Sunday, 1 April 2012 02:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Buckingham/Nicks era Fleetwood Mac (patch of "tall grass" included; Record Plant replica sold separately)
Buzz Osborne & Tina Turner 2-pack (with interchangeable hairpiece)
― collardio gelatinous, Sunday, 1 April 2012 15:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
i would definitely buy the led zeppelin 4-pack
― caulk the wagon and float it, Sunday, 1 April 2012 16:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Would you want a Captain Beefheart circa 1969 or Captain Beefheart circa 1981/82?
I used to have one of those Lemmy figures on my desk at Metal Edge, but I didn't take it with me when I left.
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 1 April 2012 18:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
tiny tim
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Sunday, 1 April 2012 18:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
throbbing gristle in 20 jazz funk greats costume, with range rover and decorative nude
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Sunday, 1 April 2012 18:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Gary Numan
Yes, with WWII fighter plane as accessory.
anyone got a photo or link for the Kraftwerk ones?
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Sunday, 1 April 2012 19:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
i claimed that they existed. i may have been mistaken. can only find this one-off art project:
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Anybody say Diamanda Galas yet?
Or Wesley Willis?
― Nate Carson, Monday, 2 April 2012 05:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Fastnbulbous.
I took it as which icons would make cool-looking action figures/dolls not which icons would make the best-selling figures. I'm assuming people don't know any of them. If you want to change the question to best-selling figures then (and assuming they haven't been done yet):
BeyonceColdplayLady GagaRadioheadKaty PerrySnoop DoggRihannaBlack Eyed PeasBrandon FlowersEminemThe BeatlesMusePink FloydQueen Led Zeppelin
― Moka, Monday, 2 April 2012 06:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
yes, thought about Diamanda Galas!but her figure should have some functional sound module for distinctional reasons (Maila Nurmi/Vampira, Morticia Jones and so on)
calling.....Chris & Cosey (twice the price, a lot of LED blinking hardware as stage set)
― meisenfek, Monday, 2 April 2012 07:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
It would be great if you could pull a string in Diamanda's back and she'd start chanting in multi-octave Latin.
― Nate Carson, Monday, 2 April 2012 09:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yma Sumac
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Monday, 2 April 2012 09:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
I watched the Lemmy documentary last night, and he had a kick-ass figure of himself, still in the box amidst all his clutter. It looked cooler than the all silver/gold/black versions posted above. Must be long gone to the land of collector scum now.
This one looks to me like King Diamond, if he was barrel-chested like the abomidable snowman in Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer:
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 6 April 2012 22:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Do Frankie Goes To Hollywood count as "rock icons"?
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Friday, 6 April 2012 22:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Nah. And I even kind of like that one album, sorta. But no. Not even a crappy one.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 6 April 2012 23:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 7 May 2012 22:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Phil Spector would be scary
― Lee593 (Lee626), Monday, 7 May 2012 22:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Something like this?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 7 May 2012 22:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
King Diamond would be rad, but Glenn Danzig, despite getting knocked out by that dude from Northside Kings(which actually makes this better) is the hands down winner here...
― SeanWayne, Monday, 7 May 2012 23:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
yuck no. might as well just buy a skeletor and call it a day.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
the irony is way better than have it be a ligit superhero... Everytime he says his catch phrase, "fuck you, Mothefucker" POW!!...he gets knocked out!!
― SeanWayne, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 06:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
this came first to my mind as an answer to the thread question:
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 07:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
These are actual Barbies by Mattel!
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 12:29 (7 months ago) Permalink