Playmates Goes Back In Time to Find Horrible Terminator Figures
Posted at 3:23 PM Jan 05, 2009
Playmates has Skynet's time travel technology. That's the only way they could be bringing out these action figures for the upcoming Terminator: Salvation movie, which were clearly made sometime in the '80s. Look at the lazy sculpting--that's supposed to be Christian Bale as John Connor, by the way, on the right--on these 6-inch figures. You cannot convince me they were made with today's technology. Hell, Action-Figure points out that they look slightly worse than Playmates' Virus movie toys from 1999 or so. Head over there to see both the 3 3/4-inch and the 10-inch figure sets, both of which are even worse-looking than these.
Remember, Playmates also has the new Trek movie toy license, and if these things are any indication, you might as well just hit the flea markets for Playmates' old Trek toys. They won't look any different. Maybe Playmates is spending all their cash/talent on Trek, but...that's some seriously wishful thinking right there.
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The treads on that vehicle look like they were made from bark.
Posted 01/05/2009 at 12:30:45 PMFuck! We're all gonna have deformed feet after the apocalypse........
The Endo's look ok though.....
Is Bale trying to outdo The Beef by being in everything now?
Posted 01/05/2009 at 12:31:27 PMWhaddya talking bout? Those are AWESOME!!!!
Posted 01/05/2009 at 12:32:46 PM*plays with Trendmaster's ID4 figures...*
Resaurus made Virus toys. The deluxe Goliath from that wave is awesome.
Posted 01/05/2009 at 12:51:20 PMI'm looking forward to seeing that Popeye the Sailor Man Terminator there in the film, always exciting to see lethal seaman projected up on the silver screen.
Actually, the Virus monster crab thing was pretty bad arse as I recall. Sat on my desk at work for years. Probably still there, harboring grudges like a binging teen with braces and no invites to the prom.
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Posted 01/05/2009 at 12:53:12 PMDid anyone else notice that John's (Bale's) left hand appears to be a metallic silver color? Could coincide with some movie rumors that are out there...
Posted 01/05/2009 at 12:57:48 PMActually, the cyborg-handed dude is Sam Worthington's Marcus character, not John Connor. Even so, it still looks horrible, watery diarrhea.
Posted 01/05/2009 at 01:07:44 PMChristian Bale my ass, he looks more like Brendan Fraser. And I'm so tired of action figures with the Star Wars crotch.
Posted 01/05/2009 at 01:18:11 PMErm...I might be ok if that was supposed to be Wentworth Miller (even then)...otherwise it's just sad looking.
Posted 01/05/2009 at 03:00:19 PMgood . with crap like this they will be out of buisness soon
Posted 01/05/2009 at 03:08:23 PMThe endoskeletons look decent enough that I might pick one up if they're truly in scale with Marvel Legends/DCUC. But the human figures are...not good.
Posted 01/05/2009 at 04:00:07 PMEh, they look as "good" as the recent spate of Indiana Jones figures. Where was the outrage then?
Posted 01/05/2009 at 04:22:49 PMClearly you don't remember what toys from the 80s actually looked like. Granted the Bale face sculpt is carp but these are about on par with modern average toy sculpts.
Go back and look at your precious 3 3/4 Joes and then come look at these again. You on;y think 80s Joes are cool for nostalgia's sake. These beat the crap out of anything from the 80s, sculpting wise.
Posted 01/05/2009 at 09:11:14 PMThe human faces suck, but the other figures look okay. Not great, but not bad.
Posted 01/06/2009 at 07:18:47 AMI had totally forgotten about Virus, and the movie poster reminds me that I have indeed seen it. I remember thinking it was crap, but a wiki-review of the plot makes it seem like it could have been badass. And Donald Sutherland plus.
Posted 01/06/2009 at 03:20:53 PM