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The Origin of Toy Sean |
May 9th 2006 |
I found out about
Shocker Toys when I heard they were going to be making GWAR figures.
Then I lurked the forums for a bit until i saw that if you join the
forum you get a free Shockini after twenty posts. Free toy? Sign me up! Twenty posts later I'm still posting on the Shocker Toys Forum, since I fled blamo, my message board is slower than.. something really slow, and horror high took their board down. And I have a new addiction. To the right you can see what a shockini looks like in it's unpainted form. It's a little blocky, i wasn't too crazy about it until I saw the little guy in person. But hey, free toy. Although it's blocky, it's not as extreme as a lego figure. Extremely poseable. When I checked the mail after a day of lazer tag, i saw my free Shockini waiting for me and i knew that it was indeed, on. I was wondering what to make at first. I didn't want to make any pre-existing characters. The fanboy inside of me wanted to make a Michale Graves figure or some other icon. So I asked for advice and Adam said to me "Make yourself. THINK ABOUT IT. It writes itself" Or something like that, and then he went on about the differences between Sean and Toy Sean. |
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| Here "I" am scattered in pieces, i wish i would have taken pictures before hand instead of using the stock picture up there, but oh well. You can see the paintjob starting, the shockini package in the background as well as a terrible wrestling DVD that i paid a dollar for. It wasn't worth it at all. I could have had a taco instead. | |
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At this point I probably could have called it a day and said "hey look, it's me" but the minimalist approach wasn't going to cut it. Not for me, and not for the toy-me. |
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| At first i wanted to give me the stubble haircut, but it ended up looking live liverspots, No Dice. No there is no product placement in any of these pictures. Not at all. | |
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From there on it it was just about all
detail work. Everything in is just painted on. except for the scope on
the laser tag gun. that's actually one half of the binoculars that came
with the 'kini figure itself. I chopped it in half, and glued it to the
gun that also came with it. I was going to just cut the skull out of a Brutal Fattery sticker and put it on the base, but then i figured that I deserved better, so i did my best to recreate the Brutal Fattery skull. |
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Hopefully this will be the first of
many custom figures. thanks to Shocker Toys for the sweet shockini that gave me a whole new way to play with myself. Yeah, i had to say it at some point. Everyone should join the forums and tell them Sean sent you. Yeah that's my name on the board. It could land you a free shockini. It might even help me get another free one. Oh and Adam, thanks for encouraging my egomania. st www.shockertoys.com st www.shockertoys.com/forums a www.myspace.com/iconsofhorrorrock
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