I apologize if this is old news, but I've just discovered the limited edition Blu-ray packaging for The Walking Dead season 2 (which you can pre-order here for $70). As you can see, it's a mini-bust of the screwdriver zombie, in which you flip up the head to get to the Blu-rays inside. Obviously, some people like these sorts of things, and if you do, I don't begrudge it of you. But personally, as a person who values uniformity in my DVDs and Blu-ray packaging, who needs to maximize his shelf space, and who doesn't care to have baseball-sized, mediocre sculptures of zombie heads in his living area, I hate it. Like, it makes me angry just to look at it. Even though there's virtually no chance I'll ever own it. I think I need to up my medication. (Via Geeks Are Sexy)
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Did I read somewhere that McFarlane designed this? If so, the final product will be made of that 70's Halloween mask material and be sloppily painted by seven year old Chinese kids with big brushes and therefore will be a wild disappointment, much like his last 50 waves of toys.
Ofcourse this will suck when the show gets cancelled and we have to start completing the rest of the zombie with pieces from the MadMen blue-ray statue.
Okay, on one level I can acknowledge it as something I would have thought cool as a twelve year old. Putting zombie DVDs in a zombie head. That's something you'd go "Dude, wouldn't it be cool if..." But it's one of those things that is better if it never gets past the "what if" stage.
Because it's disturbing both in terms of content and execution. It's gross, but it's also plasticy-gross, like a cut-rate wax museum. I don't really want that staring out at me. I'd be afraid it would start talking to me all Wonderfalls-like, commenting on my TV programs.
"This one? But you've seen it twice already!"
"So what? I see dead people all the time"
"If you're going to watch this *again*, could you stick a screwdriver in my other eye?"
If you get another head, you might be able to live an awful nightmare that bears a faint resemblance to MST3K.
I'm sorry, but that right there screams COMPLETE SERIES COLLECTION! That should in no way be used for a single season.
i hear in the bricken household, a varient of that design is used to house the Tranformers DVDs (he won't pay for the blurays)
Sigh. There's more zombie on the season 2 case there there was in season 2. Why not just make it to look like the sheriff's hat?
nobody is up in arms about the fact that they want SEVENTY DOLLARS for season 2 of the Walking Dead? Yeah, no. Pretty sure I can go watch paint dry for free.
This is kinda cool.
For that matter, re: boxsets, I would have loved to have had the chance to get the Invader Zim house boxset instead of the uniform DVD boxset. And though it's bulky as hell, the Matrix of Leadership DVD set for Transformers is nice.
Let me solve your problem... Take out the rather standard case that i on the inside, do with the head as you please (keep it for halloween?).
Either that or use it as a prop for your one-man show "Vignettes from the Childhood of the Nightstalker".
I confess that I did buy the Futurama collection that comes inside Bender's head. It turned out to be about $100 cheaper than buying all of the seasons individually, so I didn't really have a choice. Also, Bender's head is about 1,000 x more awesome than this weird zombie box. So.
Baseball sized? Rob, I realize this is a nerd site, but that's at least basketball size, maybe even beach ball size.
I know all this because I played catch one day in 1987 and my shoulder is still a bit sore.
In all honesty, I've always been a nerd and I've always loved to play sports. I refuse to believe I'm the only one who has that Good Kirk / Evil Kirk thing going on.
You're not alone. My nerdy passion for Star Wars, mutant enemy and comic books transfers right over to baseball quite well.
I think this novelty case only makes sense in the living room of your creepy friend who takes pride in the "creepy" part; or, failing that, in the home of one of those pedophiles who overdecorates his house for Halloween.
