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[NamaNiku]

The Veers effect strikes again

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

OOOH!!! Now I get it!

[GormTransMonsters]

Ehy guys
Do you think this Ghost could be also good to purpose for the OMFG!-Line?
It's in scale with M.U.S.C.L.E. figs
Let me know what you think

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[SmokinGun]

Thank you so much!!
I'm so glad, anyway I tried to create a new version.
Here some pictures.

Leave the candleman just the way it is. It perfect. Hopefully it get casted into series 2.

[Muscle Things]

Here you go:

http://www.littlerubberguys.com/images/hosted/OMFG_2_candle_v2_1.jpg
http://www.littlerubberguys.com/images/hosted/OMFG_2_candle_v2_2.jpg
http://www.littlerubberguys.com/images/hosted/OMFG_2_candle_v2_3.jpg

that candle guy is so rad.. imagine him in gitd .. he's got my series 2 vote

[imperfecz]

Just thought I'd share what I consider to be great news. I got a hard copy of the Pantone colors!

I have to say, it seems much different from my computer screen.

Yeah you have to have a really new PMS book... and then again it's plastic versus paper sooo....



I'm sooooo envious!

[Ericnilla]

OOooo i wanna see

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Do you guys realize there are like 160+ submissions for the second series! We will probably be over 200 by the end of the pledge date.

That's crazy! How are people gonna vote? The only way I can see it going well is if we get over 200 people to vote. It will definitely be interesting.

[NamaNiku]

It would be pretty cool if one of the winning designs came from someone here on LRG! So far my favorite is the idea Soupie came up with for the Muscle Garbage can dude.

[jkaris]

On the garbage can dude, you should have it standing upright, no feet, with an evil grin, teeth and all (eyes or no eyes), with a bunch of M.U.S.C.L.E.s trying to claw their way out of the top, while the lid smashes down on them to beat them into submission. The lid should show a bunch of dents because of this.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

It would be pretty cool if one of the winning designs came from someone here on LRG! So far my favorite is the idea Soupie came up with for the Muscle Garbage can dude.

That would be great! Who all from here has entered?
You
Soupie
Me
Jkaris
GTM

With so many entries you would think they would do a top 10 between series so that the top 5 would get series 2, and the next 5 would get series 3. Then it wouldn't be such an extreme process to go through with each single set of figures.

[Bigmantoys]

This seems to be the shot of creativity this forum has been flirting with for quite some time! Nice!

Edited by HeroGladiator, 23 June 2011 - 09:23 AM.

[Ericnilla]

That would be great! Who all from here has entered?
You
Soupie
Me
Jkaris
GTM
ericnilla

With so many entries you would think they would do a top 10 between series so that the top 5 would get series 2, and the next 5 would get series 3. Then it wouldn't be such an extreme process to go through with each single set of figures.

[stoneyface]

i have been debating entering a figure. feel free to pm me if you have something to add to the argument for entering. i would like some other input actually. thanks

[Soupie]

It would be pretty cool if one of the winning designs came from someone here on LRG! So far my favorite is the idea Soupie came up with for the Muscle Garbage can dude.

Thanks Uooz!

At this point, Little George has made it pretty clear that he considers this to be the "idea" phase for series two. Series one is not even funded yet. Yes, the pledges are all in, but the pledges haven't be collected yet. Someone at OT with Kickstarter experience said that they have found that 10% of the pledges never come in. So, yeah, just the idea phase. And that's really all I can do. My drawing skills are minimal and my sculpting skills are less than minimal. So, I would love to see the MUSCLE can make it into OMFG! at some point in time, but I know it won't be in the form of either of my designs. I like Little George's idea of making it into a muscular wrestler with big arms and legs and a MUSCLE can body. It would be very MUSCLE-esque in that regard.

Like I said at OT: I'd settle for a MUSCLE-scale replica of the MUSCLE can sculpted and cast in all 8 MUSCLE colors. I think a sculpt like that would be a must for most every MUSCLE collector's collection. (I'd love a MUSCLE-scale keshi 4-pack too!)

Edited by Soupie, 23 June 2011 - 04:44 PM.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

I love that idea of a muscle man Can. He could be called Muscle King or Muscle Tai Tai.

[Red Marauder]

I honestly don't think any submission cross-referencing other toylines will be accepted. Not in good taste. This line of figures needs to be completely autonomous. I am of the same mind as others on this--and I'm certain other--forums, and agree wholeheartedly that this is the single best series of mini-figs in the M.U.S.C.L.E. tradition, but it is NOT the next MUSCLEs...it's the first OMFG.

[NamaNiku]

Not in good taste.

What is that supposed to mean?

The OMFG packaging (color and packaging design), acronym type name, size, scale and flesh color of the OMFG figures are all a HUGE nod/homage to M.U.S.C.L.E..

To copy something in idea and spirit and then say that the original inspiration has no part of the new series is a laugh.

[Red Marauder]

What is that supposed to mean?

The OMFG packaging (color and packaging design), acronym type name, size, scale and flesh color of the OMFG figures are all a HUGE nod/homage to M.U.S.C.L.E..

To copy something in idea and spirit and then say that the original inspiration has no part of the new series is a laugh.

An homage is one thing. But if you want to preserve the original spirit and the inspiration that this project gives all of us toyheads, please don't make this M.U.S.C.L.E. v. 2.0

[NamaNiku]

An homage is one thing. But if you want to preserve the original spirit and the inspiration that this project gives all of us toyheads, please don't make this M.U.S.C.L.E. v. 2.0

First, huge props to the peeps at October Toys for doing OMFG! They are seriously a great bunch of uber creative people, and I cannot say enough nice things about them, their board, or their toys.

I have never once looked at this project as the next M.U.S.C.L.E. or M.U.S.C.L.E. part duex. Yes it is the first OMFG, but don't pretend it could exist in its current form without M.U.S.C.L.E..

The inspiration from M.U.S.C.L.E. is so tightly intertwined into the very DNA of OMFG that there is no way you can say with a straight face that it "needs to be completely autonomous"

It is already way too late for that!

How are you overlooking the name style, M.U.S.C.L.E. blue 4-pack style packaging, M.U.S.C.L.E. figure scale, size and flesh color? Too late to separate it at this point!

October Toys has made a very conscious and vocalized nod to M.U.S.C.L.E.. To pretend like it is not already at the core of the line along with MIMP is complete and utter wackiness.

The idea of a fan created series is not new either. A healthy portion of the M.U.S.C.L.E. figures are fan submitted designs. Yudetamago held regular recruiting sessions for fans all over Japan to draw and submit their own figures in hopes that they would be made into little flesh colored figures and make it into the comic.

This does not mean that OMFG is not completely awesome. Not at all. It is amazing and exciting for the LRG community.

It does mean however that the complete autonomy you call for with OMFG is not possible. If you want a different series, then make one that is actually completely different...

[Soupie]

An homage is one thing. But if you want to preserve the original spirit and the inspiration that this project gives all of us toyheads, please don't make this M.U.S.C.L.E. v. 2.0

Well, seeing as Little George is the "unofficial" project cooridinator and it was his idea to make a MUSCLE garbage can muscle guy, I don't think "cross-referencing" other toy lines would be considered bad taste.

Also, theres no guarentee that Little George or anyone will do anything with the MUSCLE garbage can concept. Maybe all it will ever be is an idea.

As far anyone turning OMFG! into MUSCLE 2.0, from what I gather, people submit ideas, sketches, and sculpts, and members of October Toys forum vote on the ones the like. Perhaps theres a few individuals with more say than otheres, I dont know. However, it seems like OMFG! will be whatever the majority of OT toy enthusiasts want it to be.

[Soupie]

I have never once looked at this project as the next M.U.S.C.L.E. or M.U.S.C.L.E. part duex. Yes it is the first OMFG, but don't pretend it could exist in its current form without M.U.S.C.L.E.

Haha, yeah, the concept of taking pretty much any thing one can imagine and turing it into a character with arms and legs and eventually a minifig was essentially pioneered by MUSCLE/Kinnikuman.

In that sense, since thats pretty much what OMFG! Is, its already Kinnikuman 2.0

[Red Marauder]

First, huge props to the peeps at October Toys for doing OMFG! They are seriously a great bunch of uber creative people, and I cannot say enough nice things about them, their board, or their toys.

I have never once looked at this project as the next M.U.S.C.L.E. or M.U.S.C.L.E. part duex. Yes it is the first OMFG, but don't pretend it could exist in its current form without M.U.S.C.L.E..

The inspiration from M.U.S.C.L.E. is so tightly intertwined into the very DNA of OMFG that there is no way you can say with a straight face that it "needs to be completely autonomous"

It is already way too late for that!

How are you overlooking the name style, M.U.S.C.L.E. blue 4-pack style packaging, M.U.S.C.L.E. figure scale, size and flesh color? Too late to separate it at this point!

October Toys has made a very conscious and vocalized nod to M.U.S.C.L.E.. To pretend like it is not already at the core of the line along with MIMP is complete and utter wackiness.

The idea of a fan created series is not new either. A healthy portion of the M.U.S.C.L.E. figures are fan submitted designs. Yudetamago held regular recruiting sessions for fans all over Japan to draw and submit their own figures in hopes that they would be made into little flesh colored figures and make it into the comic.

This does not mean that OMFG is not completely awesome. Not at all. It is amazing and exciting for the LRG community.

It does mean however that the complete autonomy you call for with OMFG is not possible. If you want a different series, then make one that is actually completely different...

Obviously, I see the similarities. To both M.U.S.C.L.E. and MIMP. It's nostalgic and reminiscent of the figures we all love, and that was not only a conscious nod...but a terrific marketing idea. The same can be said for the fan submissions. I mean, what a wonderful way to get everyone involved in the realization of a dream: fantastic, original concepts put together by some of the very guys we talk to, trade with, and admire. The guys at October Toys are to be highly praised.
It's funny you mentioned Yudetamago and the fans that submitted the ideas that became many of the M.U.S.C.L.E. figures. All of those fan-submitted ideas were original, not heavily plagiarizing other popularly collected toylines of their time. Do you see the point I'm trying to make?
October Toys supports dozens of independent toy projects, and maybe if I'm determined enough, they'll support one of mine, as well.
Would you argue that the ZOMBIE project also borrows heavily from the same inspirations? How about the Glyos system figures? The Four Horsemen toys? Where do you draw the line between 'influenced by' and 'an obvious homage to' and a cheapening rip-off?
I believe by including obvious M.U.S.C.L.E. character references or including MUSCLE in the name of the figure, that that line will be crossed. Maybe I'm the only one who feels this way...