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08-30-2011, 05:35 PM
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ludovicotek
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MegsTriggerMan
Ludo, that Scooby Doo mansion idea is Awesome! You need to make it happen!!
Having worked retail for way too long I realized a long time ago the value of styrofoam blocks! Various shapes and sizes that come in all sorts of packages. Ill post some pics, im generally too lazy to paint them but just some spray paint and they are perfect. Thy are however still white in all my displays.
Yeah! I remember one of the first little playsets I made when I was younger was the Penguin's lair based off Batman Returns. I loved that movie and the toys soooo much. The little Penguin commandos were one of my first instances of intentionally army building. Anyway, I just used those styrofoam inserts and carved pieces with a pocket knife to make it look like ice/rock. No painting required! I was actually really proud of it. That is until...
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Originally Posted by
Boba Fettuccini
...Inevitably my mom would throw them away after a month or two... but it rocked.
This happened.
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thechris
That Scooby Doo mansion looks great. What scale is it? I can see doing a Spider-man and his Amazing Friends display in that with Doc Strange, Namor and the others that appeared on the show.
The figures shown in the picture are just about the size of MU figures. Maybe just a
little
taller. So it's cutting it close. Actually, the way they sell this playset now is with images of smaller, Super Hero Squad-sized Scooby figures on the packages. And for the sake of not having to go back to find the pic, here it is again:
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