You guys are probably aware, I'm into the whole Borg craze about assembling my own little collective. I've been doing a lot of online research, and after Seven of Nine, my next aquisition will be Playmates' Locutus and Borg Drone.
But which one?
Over the years, Playmates has reissued these two molds every now and then, in slightly different paint schemes and accessories. I need to pick one of each, but which, to you, looks best?
Gah! I'm torn! On the one hand, I'd like to have the action figure display bases (choices 1 & 2), but on the other, #3 has BOTH figures in the same 2-Pack, with display background, but no display bases.
If you were in my position, which ones would you choose? Anyone here have them and can provide a commentary?
[ June 24, 2002, 11:59: Message edited by: Starship Voyager ]
Posted by Ultimate Magnus (Member # 239) on :
*Sets up anti-Lee defense v2.0*
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Posted by Starship Voyager (Member # 177) on :
Why is it everyone keeps posting that? What's an anti-Lee defense system anyway? Can't I get a decent response, from one Trekkie to another?
[ June 24, 2002, 12:28: Message edited by: Starship Voyager ]
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
They do it because they know when Lee sees this, he's going to go to town. Also because decisions like this are usually made in the toy aisle at Meijer.
Are you asking which we think you should buy? Buy them both, man. How expensive can they be?
Posted by David Templar (Member # 580) on :
Why buy them? With your degree of "dedication", you might as well mold them yourself for extra effect. Imagine having Borg drones from many different races, with different implants.
Posted by Starship Voyager (Member # 177) on :
Lee's going to go to town? Who's Lee?
I'll be getting both Locutus and Borg Drone. I just don't know which variations to get -- one has an action base, the other has a firing arm, and still the third is packaged together but without accessories.
This is where YOU guys come in.
Help me decide! Which ones come off to you as more aesthetically pleasing than the others? They're all the same molds, so it's primarily the colours I'm concerned with. If YOU had the three Borg Drones and Locutus(es) staring at you, which ones will you get?
Posted by BWC (Member # 818) on :
For good ol Locust, go with the one that looks the most like him.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
OK, then.... Eeny...Meany... Miney...
Number 2.
I would go with the sculpting them yourself option, though. There's this stuff called Sculpy... it's like a pinkish kind of clay. you get get really detailed with it then throw it in your oven, bake it, and paint it. The stuff rocks.
Locust?
Posted by BWC (Member # 818) on :
Oh god. I mean Locutus. Sorry. Posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov (Member # 742) on :
Let's see - Captain Chrome Dome with chrome armor was my first action figure. I have Worf with chrome armor, too.
The third Locutus image showing him and the Drone is from the double-feature box (they also had Dixon Hill and Guinan or Kirk and Spock fighting each other with Vulcan Lirpas). I have that pack too, along with some others, but my favourite, Harry Kim and Species 8472, are still missing in my collection.
The chrome Locutus is awesome, but I think previous editions featured the different arm-pieces, too. It also has some cables and such stuff. The two-pack has a nice background (Borg-corridor with alcove), but no accessoires.
One question though: where do you want to buy them? Other than ebay, I can't think of a place where you can find those figures (maybe specialized comic shops, but even those have difficulties getting them).
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
quote:You guys are probably aware, I'm into the whole Borg craze about assembling my own little collective.
So the free-love cult based on your charismatic personality and the hypnotic power to attract women didn't work out, huh?
Posted by Starship Voyager (Member # 177) on :
Indeed, eBay's the place I'm planning on getting these. I can't really go the sculpty way, simply because I'm not that great when it comes to paint and molding. And, since I don't have these figures on hand to look at (i.e. the decision-to-be-made-at-Meijer as suggested earlier), all I rely on are the pics and all your good opinions, anti-Lee defense systems aside.
Seeing you have a few of the figures yourself, Cpt. Kyle Amasov, which ones do you suggest? Also, assuming you have him, is Hugh Borg worth it?
[ June 24, 2002, 14:57: Message edited by: Starship Voyager ]
Posted by Ultimate Magnus (Member # 239) on :
We certainly need to find a better deterrent. He's found sYzTeKPHYbROsIS' crack for v3.141.
Posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov (Member # 742) on :
Nope, don't have Hugh, sorry. Personally, I'd try to get chrome-Locutus, allthough I think it will be more expensive than the others (don't have the current collectors prices, but I think that one was the most expensive). I know that the first Borg (the one that came out with the first wave sometime back in the early 90's with the Ferengi and the Romulan and the Cast) didn't have anything else, I'm not even sure if it had a base. Later editions had the standard card and those bionic arms (you can replace both hands with other 'extras' like some chainsaw extraction thing or a clamp). The other two releases where the two-part set and the chrome edition, AFAIK.
Besides those mentioned above, I have Seven as Drone and the Queen, both were newer releases from '98 I think. If you can't decide, tell me which figure you want to examine closely, I can try to shoot some pics with my webcam (don't know if it works, but you'd get a better impression of it.)
Posted by Starship Voyager (Member # 177) on :
Great! E-mail sent!
And Ultimate Magnus, one question: why? Posted by Thoughtchopper (Member # 480) on :
Installing anti-U.Mag-V.1
What? Jokes over?
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Oh well, at least we know the gene pool will be spared.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I wouldn't be too confident. Give these people a setof Akira blueprints and you could keep sperm banks supplied for months.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
quote: There's this stuff called Sculpy... it's like a pinkish kind of clay. you get get really detailed with it then throw it in your oven, bake it, and paint it.
Oh, yes, a brilliant idea. I wish I had done that when I was a kid, so that I could have played with shapeless lumps of hardened clay painted up like Parisian whores with detached retinas. I would have had better luck just looking for a vaguely Picardish rock in the driveway.*
As it turns out, because I had no flip-top communicator toy as a child, I was forced to use the plastic trailer to a toy semi-truck, one of the kinds they use to move large numbers of cars from place to place. It looked surprisingly unlike a communicator, but the ramp flipped open, which was good enough for me.
*: You see, because my art skills aren't. Get it? Get it?
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
I had a hinge-piece of Lego.
Posted by Nim Pim (Member # 205) on :
I need blueprints for the LEGO-codpiece.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
As subtle as that was Sol, I wasn't suggesting trying to recreate Picard. He's trying to build his "own little collective"... so I was suggesting sculpting his own drones.
You don't like getting people's specific advice? That's cool. But that's what happens when nonsense like this gets encouraged.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Uh, Aban, that was a joke, based on your status as a known artist type. See? Because of the things you could do that Joe Random couldn't. Or so it was intended.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Gotcha
Sorry... this day job o' mine has me looking for heads to take off..
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Imagine having Borg drones from many different races, with different implants.
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