Wanna Pay $375 for an Anti-Corporatist Ralph Bakshi Wizards Necron 99 Statue?
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It’s funny – the one time I ever interviewed Ralph Bakshi, the beatnik, boundary-pushing auteur of adult animation, he railed against cartoons that fill Walmart shelves with merchandise, before conceding that if he ever got to make Wizards 2, he’d probably have to agree to some, and that might be okay if it got his political/social messages out to a wider audience.
At 6:30 p.m. Pacific Time, just under an hour from now, he’s going to make 15 9″ resin statues of Necron 99 from Wizards available via his eBay store for $375, promising smaller, cheaper ones (by which he means $100-$150) later in the year. It seems to me that he knows how to work the system of supply and demand pretty well.
Though I guess with only 15 of them, he can’t literally fill a Walmart shelf.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist