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12-23-2021, 09:40 AM | #1 |
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Mega Made “The Special” Collectors Statue Unidentified Alien
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Wow, is this the first officially licensed collectible from a Mel Brooks film?
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12-23-2021, 10:39 AM | #3 |
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Check please.
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Wow, is this the first officially licensed collectible from a Mel Brooks film?
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Strangely lack of merchandise from Mel Brook's Space Balls considering they had a whole scene on "Merchandising! Merchandising!". But I'm sure Lucas (now Disney) had a lot to do with that. Maybe this is a good sign for future Space Balls items?
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Strangely lack of merchandise from Mel Brook's Space Balls considering they had a whole scene on "Merchandising! Merchandising!". But I'm sure Lucas (now Disney) had a lot to do with that. Maybe this is a good sign for future Space Balls items?
I'm ready for NECA to do some action figures of President Skroob, Dark Helmet, Lone Starr, Barf, Princess Vespa, and Dot Matrix. |
12-23-2021, 01:48 PM | #7 |
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Mel Brooks went to Lucas and told him, in exchange for his blessing, that he would NEVER merchandise any part of Spaceballs. I love Mel Brooks bbut I think he went WAAAAY overbboard there with Lucas....
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Yeah pretty blatant cocktease that we get scenes spoofing merchandising and dark helmet playing with spaceballs action figures but nothing until now.
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12-23-2021, 03:44 PM | #11 |
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It’s definitely not an officially licensed Space Balls item. But a fun homage. When making the movie, Brooks got permission to spoof anything Star Wars so long as he never releases merchandise from the film. The merchandising scene is a poke at that. Brooks is still honoring that agreement, even after Lucasfilm was sold.
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Yeah that's just silly, parody falls under Fair Use and, while it's certainly nice to have George's blessing, it was absolutely unnecessary in my opinion!
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Maybe it has to do with not just Star Wars/Lucasfilm rights, but also Fox/Alien and Warner Bros/Looney Tunes as well?
I can never tell if people know this was a a Michigan J Frog homage as much as an Alien one. I'd always thought One Froggy Evening was a classic! |
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Holy crap, that's freaking awesome!
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Strangely lack of merchandise from Mel Brook's Space Balls considering they had a whole scene on "Merchandising! Merchandising!". But I'm sure Lucas (now Disney) had a lot to do with that. Maybe this is a good sign for future Space Balls items?
I'm ready for NECA to do some action figures of President Skroob, Dark Helmet, Lone Starr, Barf, Princess Vespa, and Dot Matrix. |
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Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal!
As someone who found the xenomorphs horrifying and scary as a kid, this scene helped a lot in making them funny. I guess it having eyes helps... as well as that straw hat. :P I still crack up each time it just speeds out of the room super fast after a wave at the end. Makes me wonder if each one in the "today's special" comes pre-hatched with a tiny hat and cane. Btw, I am surprised Spaceballs as a whole does not have a Neca toyline or something. Or it did, I just never knew? Last edited by BB Shockwave; 01-06-2022 at 03:56 PM.. |
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Very Interesting....
Will Keep tabs on this "Alien"... Looks Pretty Cool for sure ;^)
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