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[deecee4]

beautiful! Is it die cast?

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Yep! Part of the Metal build line.

[Black Dynomite]

Hey y'all, 1st post since 2016. That day was my 1st post since like 2012. I've had to get out of the hobby a few times but I keep creeping back in. Competed this guy last week on a fluke trip to Target. Instantly got the urge to do some quick customizing...

[Augustus_Cole]

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Cannot wait to open this one. Nice posing DTL and I really like the dio in the top pic.

[Brownfinger]

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Hey y'all, 1st post since 2016. That day was my 1st post since like 2012. I've had to get out of the hobby a few times but I keep creeping back in. Competed this guy last week on a fluke trip to Target. Instantly got the urge to do some quick customizing...

No one quits forever, moo hoo haa haaaaa.
Looks good, man. I still have Sludge and Snarl on pre-order, but people are finding them out in the wild and I'm getting twitchy. Awesome set, though. Never thought I'd see the day.

I haven't had much time for toy photos, but I thought I'd make art with this stuff because the mania behind it just a few months ago was fascinating. And really weird.





Someone sold their car for it. Insanity.

[Augustus_Cole]

^^^
laughing at that goofy shit that makes no sense but is so damn amusing..lolol
i'm sitting here like WHY would someone even think of doing that..haha..man was you blowing trees at the time..i know it sparks creativity




@kuma...thnx chief.

[Astra]

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I haven't had much time for toy photos, but I thought I'd make art with this stuff because the mania behind it just a few months ago was fascinating. And really weird.
Someone sold their car for it. Insanity.

What is it? I've never seen it before. Nice pics!

Today marks the day of "Gotham" finally returning to TV. To celebrate that, I recreated a scene from a few months ago where Bruce had left Alfred in the middle of the woods to go to a party, and when Alfred arrived he was not amused and smashed the record player so that pieces of the record were flying everywhere. I made some from FIMO so that I could break them.





And then the day was made awesome by a comment from the man himself:

[Brownfinger]

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Originally Posted by DarkToyLord

^^^
haha..man was you blowing trees at the time..i know it sparks creativity

One would think so, right? I can do weird all by myself, my man. I get accused of that a lot, though. No finer compliment.

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What is it? I've never seen it before. Nice pics!

Oh, man. It's really dumb, so I'll try and give you the short version. Essentially, the cartoon "Rick and Morty" created an absurd phenomenon by having the main character obsess over the Mulan Szechuan sauce from McDonalds that circulated for only a few months twenty years ago. And all of his time-travelling endeavors in the show revolved around getting back to 1998 for that sauce. So McDonalds was tickled by this and brought the sauce back last year to select stores. They underestimated what a pop culture monster this had become, and sent like twenty packets of the stuff to stores. This didn't go over well with the screaming, entitled internet masses. People chanted outside the stores, one jackass leapt onto a store counter and shouted lines from the show, it was a mess. The sauce was selling for obscene amounts on eBay, and someone admitted to selling their car. Seeing their mistake, McDonalds decided that they'd bring the sauce back full time. Fast forward a few months later, and there it is. Destroying something that was so precious a few months ago felt like the only artistic direction to go with it.
So, yeah. I mean, the stuff is basically Teriyaki sauce. People are silly.

And thanks! I like your setup as well, I wish I had more environment pieces and backdrops like that. Accessories really tie it all together.

[Astra]

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Oh, man. It's really dumb, so I'll try and give you the short version. ...
The sauce was selling for obscene amounts on eBay, and someone admitted to selling their car....
Destroying something that was so precious a few months ago felt like the only artistic direction to go with it.

Thank you very much for the explanation! Now I do get your pictures and what you were doing.
I wonder if it even made its way to Germany. Probably not.
I'm also wondering what kind of building blocks you have behind it?

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And thanks! I like your setup as well, I wish I had more environment pieces and backdrops like that. Accessories really tie it all together.

Thank you! Diamond Select Toys are really good in giving backdrops with their figures, the book case comes with young Bruce Wayne. This is actually how I became a Gotham fan, I saw the figures and did not want to buy them without at least having a little look. I had fallen especially in love with this Arkham Asylum sign. Then I fell down the rabbit hole.



The wooden floor in the Alfred picture or the water in the one where Jim shoots Penguin are photo cardboards, there are also brick walls and sky and anything else, or you could look for scrapbook paper. It helps a lot to set up a scene.

[Brownfinger]

The show itself has been dubbed into German, but I'm not sure if the sauce made it out that way. Of course people hyped it beyond all rationality, so now they're disappointed that it's just a sweeter version of Teriyaki. It is good, though. I don't go to McDonalds often, so I couldn't say whether or not it compares favorably to other McNugget sauces. The whole thing was a fascinating car crash.

Man, that fire escape/brick wall backdrop is beautiful. I need that, those are great shots. I've tried to get away from the white light box background that all my photos are taken in and do more outdoor stuff. We've only been to cold weather places on vacation recently, but I have some ideas for next time I'm on a beach. I took these last year, which I've already posted before.

[Augustus_Cole]

show her the ice cream one ..SHOW HER THE ICE CREAM ONE... it's my all time fav.

[Astra]

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show her the ice cream one ..SHOW HER THE ICE CREAM ONE... it's my all time fav.

Please do! I love the frog one, the blue color is great against the green.

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Man, that fire escape/brick wall backdrop is beautiful. I need that, those are great shots.

See, that's what I was saying! I was following Diamond Select Toys because I already collected their Stargate and Star Trek line, but somehow the Gotham figures had escaped me until there was wave 3 already.

You need to get either Selina Kyle and Jim Gordon for the one in my picture above, to combine the two sets, or they also have a newer one now, repainted that comes with Azrael and Mr Freeze:



And I haven't even shown you the chair that comes with Dr. Strange!

[Brownfinger]

You had me at "Selina Kyle", this is something I'll be looking into. I didn't realize they had such elaborate inclusions with their figures, clearly I'm not buying enough Diamond Select stuff. I have a few of their "junk pile" stands, but that's it.

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show her the ice cream one ..SHOW HER THE ICE CREAM ONE... it's my all time fav.

Welllll okay, you talked me into it!





I took those a couple weeks apart nearly five (!!!) years ago, they were the first toy photos I took with my cheap, crappy camera that I didn't hate.

[Monte Williams]

Welcome back, Dyno!

Brown, I love the shot of the bee couple.

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[Astra]

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Originally Posted by Brownfinger

Welllll okay, you talked me into it!

Love Love Love the ice cream picture! That is a real one, right? My what a big figure you have there!
This is what I love most about toy photography - people being silly, having fun, the weirder, the better.
The bee one is indeed very cute and brought a smile to my face. Thank you!

And in all this excitement I forgot to comment on DarkToyLord's fight in the subway station. Those stands do blend in really well and are almost invisible so on first glance one just sees the figure flying in the air. Looks good!

Another thing you can look into Brownfinger: https://extreme-sets.com/
I have their Deranged Alley and the Asylum and I love them.

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You had me at "Selina Kyle", this is something I'll be looking into. I didn't realize they had such elaborate inclusions with their figures, clearly I'm not buying enough Diamond Select stuff. I have a few of their "junk pile" stands, but that's it.

You need to look for the Select Line. There are stripped down versions for Toys R Us that don't have those pieces. But the big huge boxes that are called Gotham Select or there is also Marvel Select if you are into that. If you need office stuff, there are 7" Mulder and Scully figures from the new series.

The desk in my next picture came with Ed Nygma from Gotham, and Scully has the same desk but in brown. The round fence was scratchbuilt by me, and I also made the police files. Somehow the woman that works for the show's prop department and has made the real police files found this on Twitter and also was excited. My five minutes of fame!

The file cabinet and many other things I own, like hospital beds, a wheelchair, gurney or also the construction fence in my other pictures, these are 6" Wrestling figures accessories. Some sellers sell them loose.

[Augustus_Cole]

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Those stands do blend in really well and are almost invisible so on first glance one just sees the figure flying in the air. Looks good!

oh i can make them totally disappear...just depends on how much effort i feel like putting into the final pic.

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Another thing you can look into Brownfinger: https://extreme-sets.com/
I have their Deranged Alley and the Asylum and I love them.

annoyed the alley didn't come with a "ground". I tried to make one once with some realistic looking "street" spray-paint. was going well until the entire board i sprayed warped from the wet paint...
grrr

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[Astra]

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oh i can make them totally disappear...just depends on how much effort i feel like putting into the final pic.

I know but what I meant, when I first look at such pictures, I really only see the flying figure, and only later the stand, when I actively start looking for it.

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annoyed the alley didn't come with a "ground". I tried to make one once with some realistic looking "street" spray-paint. was going well until the entire board i sprayed warped from the wet paint...
grrr

The alley 2.0 has one.
There is also a special ground pack though that you can purchase, just different grounds. The asylum did come with one but still I am not happy as the cardboard is not flat but also warped, and if you try to put several next to each other they are all wobbly. Not sure yet what to do about that. Taping them together I guess.

[Tomax]

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Originally Posted by Brownfinger

You had me at "Selina Kyle", this is something I'll be looking into. I didn't realize they had such elaborate inclusions with their figures, clearly I'm not buying enough Diamond Select stuff. I have a few of their "junk pile" stands, but that's it.

kool bee shot

[webz]

Prime: Give me your face!
Barricade: EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!

[tgbobafett]

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No one quits forever, moo hoo haa haaaaa.
Looks good, man. I still have Sludge and Snarl on pre-order, but people are finding them out in the wild and I'm getting twitchy. Awesome set, though. Never thought I'd see the day.

I haven't had much time for toy photos, but I thought I'd make art with this stuff because the mania behind it just a few months ago was fascinating. And really weird.





Someone sold their car for it. Insanity.

that sauce is hard to find and yet you waste it on a figure instead of selling it on ebay! haha awesome!

if you get another sauce packet, you need to take pics of it with rick and morty!

[webz]

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that sauce is hard to find and yet you waste it on a figure instead of selling it on ebay! haha awesome!

if you get another sauce packet, you need to take pics of it with rick and morty!

Nah, I heard a few days ago on the radio that McD’s re-released it nationwide. It’s no longer sacred like a McRib.