Edited by jack cambrian, 11 October 2008 - 01:01 AM.
Anyone seen this freaky little blue beast?
#1
Posted 09 October 2008 - 05:29 PM
#2
Posted 09 October 2008 - 07:36 PM
http://www.bogleech..../scraprust.html
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#3
Posted 09 October 2008 - 07:44 PM
The creature now known as a Bulette was just another in a generic "dinosaur" toy from China. It's a mold that doesn't really see use today for some odd reason. Been a couple years since I've seen one in a store, I think. But I do have a brown version that matches one I used to have during my childhood, as well as the one pictured on the site. Funny little bugger.
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#4
Posted 09 October 2008 - 07:59 PM
#5
Posted 09 October 2008 - 08:01 PM
Could someone tell me if thats's awesome, or just sad?
As for Gygax "stealing" the figures, I look at it like this, if he hadnt named them and fleshed out a story to go along with the creatures, they would just be some nameless, unextraordinay, unknown, pieces of plastic. I like to think that he gave those figures a life and reputation they could be proud of.
Edited by asator, 09 October 2008 - 08:10 PM.
#6
Posted 09 October 2008 - 09:13 PM
I never knew anything about him being a bulette though, I just thought he was a weird imaginary dinosaur, lol.
#7
Posted 09 October 2008 - 09:51 PM
I didn't mean any necessarily negative connotations in the word 'stealing'. I love the strange way that these generic figures have become a real entity in people's minds. I looked up 'Bulette' on google image search and all these badarse, detailed interpretations came up. It's completely in reverse to the normal way of the world - instead of a sophisticated, multifaceted creature being turned into a cheap plastic simulacra, they've taken the cheap plastic toy and turned it into a sophisticated, multifaceted creature. It's deep man.As for Gygax "stealing" the figures, I look at it like this, if he hadnt named them and fleshed out a story to go along with the creatures, they would just be some nameless, unextraordinay, unknown, pieces of plastic. I like to think that he gave those figures a life and reputation they could be proud of.
#9
Posted 10 October 2008 - 06:27 AM
Sorry.
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#10
Posted 10 October 2008 - 02:20 PM
Interestingly, Gygax said in some interview that D&D's single most iconic monster, the Beholder, was ALSO inspired by a generic toy, but I've never seen anything like one.
i don't have nearly enough beholder toys. i'm a sucker for anything with lots of eyes and beholders have eyes in spades.
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#12
Posted 16 October 2008 - 03:36 PM
plush beholder.
Edited by dankingery, 16 October 2008 - 03:38 PM.
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#13
Posted 16 October 2008 - 03:41 PM
Scythemantis, I know you've moved around a lot recently, but I can't see April anywhere in your "horrible home" gallery. Where did you get that Bosch bird/helmet thingy?
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#14
Posted 19 October 2008 - 09:57 AM
In the old photos April should be fairly visible riding a Brood
#15
Posted 19 October 2008 - 11:13 AM
if i encounter the demons in hell, i will kill them all..
vi veri veniversum vivus vici.
#16
Posted 19 October 2008 - 12:17 PM
Now then, in the picture of the horror shelf, what - in the realms of "what the hell?" - is that yellow vagina monster thing with the long neck and a little head at the top?
And, the big thing behind it with lots of teeth? And that big bulbous white thing next to that? And the tentacled-egg thing with a little hat on? And the brain-in-a-jar with arms and legs? Not Mutagen Man, the one down front. And that green thing that's eating spandex-wearing being?
Various questions, with answers to be had.
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#17
Posted 19 October 2008 - 03:42 PM
2 - William Birkin from Resident Evil. He goes through lots of weird mutations. The multi-toothed form is his second to last, but no figure was every made of the very last, perhaps because it's just a mountain of slime and guts (I'd have bought one anyway)
3 - a Flood Carrier from the Halo games. I've never played the series, but I had to have this figure of what is essentially a human corpse transformed into a giant spore-sac by an alien parasite.
4 - "Lumpity Grumpity" from a line of Grimm's Fairy Tale/Nursery Rhyme themed Tech Deck dudes.
5 - a great little Stretch Screamers Mcdonald's toy. When you press the button on its chest, a jet of water flings the brain around.
6 - another Resident Evil monster, the "Ivy," a walking plant. It's eating the human figure it came with, who used to have a red fabric dress that sort of snapped off. I bought the two-pack only for the monster, anyway. It has a button to open and close its three-petaled mouth (like a Dune Sandworm). It's a nicely seamless action feature as the mouth consists of a soft rubber skin over a frame. Its arms are bendy!
Edited by scythemantis, 19 October 2008 - 03:47 PM.
#18
Posted 20 October 2008 - 01:55 PM
Have a look for pictures of kangaroo embryos, they look a lot like your Mort creature thingies.
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#19
Posted 21 October 2008 - 11:21 AM
I've had a lot of luck just searching "rubber monsters" or "rubber creatures" in the past though.
Edited by scythemantis, 21 October 2008 - 11:22 AM.