Gollum

[Dark Horse]

Here's a quick review of Bridge creation's 1:18 scale Gollum.

I won't get into the packaging too much. It's pretty standard and nothing jumps out. Gollum comes in a two pack with Bilbo, but I don't really give a crap about Bilbo so I'll get straight on with Gollum ;D

He small - about 2 1/2 inches and doesn't have much articulation. Ball head, torso, shoulders and hips. It's a bit of a shame he dooesn't have a thigh cut, because you can't get many good poses out of him.

That said, the sculpt and paint are off the hook, and he's a fun character so I say buy the bastard!

 

[Obi-Shinobi]

Damn, those look lame as shit compared to just about anything else out there. I'm focusing on articulation and design of it. Pass for me.

 

[snakeling]

Gollum would make a great prisoner in chains in a dio.

 

[Videoviper]

I forsee Gollum poping up in random dios

 

[Monkeywrench]

I forsee Gollum poping up in random dios

this^^

 

[lancelot]

Why is Gollum under articulated? He is the one figure with a character design that would allow for maximum articulaton. All the Dwarfves, Wizards, Hobbits, Orcs/Goblins/whatthefuckever, etc have better articulation, but their sculpting conflicts with itself so much that some of the articulation becomes redundant. What a weird decision.

Despite that one thing I've seen the figures in TRU and I think they as an action figure line look better than both Pirates of The Caribean and Marvel Movie figures, both in detail and articulation (Gollum being an exception).

 

[Mandingo Rex]

Why the fuck would they give him a torso joint and not at the very least single knees?

Gollum really needs full articulation for all the weird squatty poses he gets into. What a shame. Good sculpt/paint otherwise, and of all the LOTR figures I'd want, he's one of them. (For comic purposes, of course.)

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

All I saw when I first looked at him was zombie base...he'd be perfect!

 

[Fled74]

The sculpt and paint job are awesome. Shame about the articulation though.

 

[lancelot]

Gollum really needs full articulation for all the weird squatty poses he gets into. What a shame.

basically this ^^^

 

[Dr Syn]

Why the fuck would they give him a torso joint and not at the very least single knees?

Gollum really needs full articulation for all the weird squatty poses he gets into. What a shame. Good sculpt/paint otherwise, and of all the LOTR figures I'd want, he's one of them. (For comic purposes, of course.)

Because he's tiny as and thin.



Also these look pretty good in hand, for me anyway.

 

[Dark Horse]

^^^^

Yeah, I doubt any company could have got any articulation on his knees or elbows with out the joint being easily broken. His elbows and wrists are like 2mm. They could have managed a thigh cut though.

 

[K-Tiger]

Pretty much.

Elbow and knee joints on a figure that size would have been an engineering and later on a returns nightmare.

 

[Dropshipbob]

They could have easily put joints on him even with those points being thin. Look what was done with the Terminator endoskeletons from a few years back. Their joints were articulated and they were basicly skeletons!

They probably skipped articulation on Gollum so they could do more with the other figures, figures they thought were probably going to be better sellers.

 

[Dark Horse]

They could have easily put joints on him even with those points being thin. Look what was done with the Terminator endoskeletons from a few years back. Their joints were articulated and they were basicly skeletons!

They probably skipped articulation on Gollum so they could do more with the other figures, figures they thought were probably going to be better sellers.

Nah, Gollum's knees and elbows are like a 1/4 size of the endoskeletons.

 

[K-Tiger]

Sure, lots of spindly characters have toys with joints. Bridge was probably just saving themselves a headache. Shit, maybe they're planning a "super articulated" Gollum.


Wish I could recall the failure rate on the undead figures in the Army of Darkness line.

 

[Dark Horse]

Wish I could recall the failure rate on the undead figures in the Army of Darkness line.

It was 100% fail if you're talking about the Deadites lol.

 

[Mandingo Rex]

I've got little tiny 3rd part Spike and Sparkplug Witwicky (roughly the same scale that came with the latest Masterpiece Prime) and they have hips, knees, and shoulders with simple single-pegs. Not the prettiest, but at least the knees move.

I'm not talking ratcheting double-knees with swivel hips and ankles, just something better than what they did.

This isn't a line I'd be into, but I just hate seeing figures of characters that need articulation who end up missing it. It's 2012, not 1978.

 

[Dr Syn]

I've got little tiny 3rd part Spike and Sparkplug Witwicky (roughly the same scale that came with the latest Masterpiece Prime) and they have hips, knees, and shoulders with simple single-pegs. Not the prettiest, but at least the knees move.

I'm not talking ratcheting double-knees with swivel hips and ankles, just something better than what they did.

This isn't a line I'd be into, but I just hate seeing figures of characters that need articulation who end up missing it. It's 2012, not 1978.

I understand where you are coming from.


But Gollum is a kid's toy and those Witwicky 3rd party figures are for collectors.

 

[Mandingo Rex]

Yeah, I get you. I just think of all the figures, it's a shame. 1:18th Gollum would've been great, articulated.

Hell, if I can find 2, I may just mod them together into one with full articulation. I'm sure one could achieve it without much effort.

 

[Meddatron]

All I saw when I first looked at him was zombie base...he'd be perfect!

zombie hands!!!! DH, how are the hand size comparison to a Joe. would they work for Joes? If so, someone mod a set and get them to jesse so i can buy the crap out of them.

 

[xxxx]

freaky.

 

[Dark Horse]

zombie hands!!!! DH, how are the hand size comparison to a Joe. would they work for Joes? If so, someone mod a set and get them to jesse so i can buy the crap out of them.

I lent some Z hands to Asphalt so he could cast and sell them mate -

http://hunterartworks.ecrater.com/p/10360388/grasping-hands

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

What did those hands come off of DH?

 

[Dark Horse]

A Microman wrestler. Impossible to come by these days without plonking down serious $$$.

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

Those are cool, but $5?!...ouch!

 

[K-Tiger]

Similar ones come with the Micro Catwoman.

 

[Dark Horse]

The wrestler hands don't have a hinge so they're more durable. Plus they are bigger than Catwoman's.

 

[K-Tiger]

The hands on Micromen are one of the parts I never heard of going bad. Then again, I didn't play with them like an 8 year old.

They may be more "durable" but the lack of that joint hurts the pose options. Anyhoo, different strokes and all that, uses what you like.

 

[K-Tiger]

Looks like a fella on JoeCustoms got two Gollums and sacked one to add elbows and knees to the other.

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

That ^^ quote is useless w/o links

 

[K-Tiger]

Blow me!

http://www.joecustoms.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=32697&start=150

Scroll down, homo.

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

It even looks pretty decent...

 

[lancelot]

there is a version with bending limbs?

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

Only if you make one