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MovieGuy
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| Quote: | Disney/ABC's Touchstone TV has partnered with McFarlane Toys to create a line of action figures based on characters from the hit skein "Lost."
The toys will be released this fall, timed to "Lost's" third-season premiere. First batch of six-inch figures includes Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly), Hurley (Jorge Garcia), Locke (Terry O'Quinn), Charlie (Dominic Monaghan) and Shannon (Maggie Grace).
Each toy will include a full-scale prop that jibes with the character. Kate's figure will include the toy lead plane the character tracked down in season one; Hurley will come with a lottery ticket.
And the for the "Lost" fan who has time to spare - when not chasing down the latest wild Dharma Initiative/Hanso Foundation piece of speculation floating through the biosphere - McFarlane will sell deluxe boxed sets that include dioramas of "Lost" locations (think the hatch or the beach) and also re-create famous scenes from the show.
For Jack, that means showing the character moments after the plane crashed; with Locke, it's when he first found the hatch. And Hurley is depicted creating his stranded island golf course (from season one).
"As long as we have him saying 'dude,' then we're capturing who the character is," said McFarlane Toys CEO Todd McFarlane.
Future lines of "Lost" figures will include characters such as Sawyer and Mr. Eko.
McFarlane, whose recent toy tie-ins have included "Napoleon Dynamite," "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride" and "The Simpsons," traveled to "Lost's" Hawaii set earlier this year to take body scans of the show's stars.
He said Monahgan, Garcia and Daniel Dae Kim were particularly excited to be immortalized as toys.
"The younger guys get it," McFarlane said. "Hurley, his face scanned the best. There's a lot going on there. When he smiles, a lot happens to his face."
McFarlane said few TV shows work as action fitures - monsters and animated characters usually work better. But the sci-fi elements behind "Lost" - not to mention its large ensemble cast - make "Lost" a rare candidate for turning into toys.
"This is right up the alley of people who are already buying our products," he said." |
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Aislynn
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 12:45 am Post subject: |
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Yippee! I looooooooove action figures!
But you know what I'm going to say next:
WHERE'S THE SAWYER ACTION FIGURE????
Otherwise, awesome news!  |
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MovieGuy
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 12:46 am Post subject: |
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| LOL I know. He'll prolly be in series two |
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ebizmybef74
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 12:53 am Post subject: |
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Damn...if only they could make a Claire too so that I could make my own Charlie and Claire scenarios that the show won't do....
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 3:20 am Post subject: |
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ew Liz I can't imagine what you'd make them do 
I won't be rushing out to buy the action figures. They sound cool though.
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 3:34 am Post subject: |
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Yeah and UbiSoft is making a LOst Videogame!!
I'm so looking forward to the game!!
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Yeah I heard about the video game. They traditionally make first person shooters though don't they not really my thing. I think a Lost game should be less action more mystery 
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well didn't they also make Far Cry?
if its anything like Far Cry, it should be interesting.
I always like Those Tom Clancy games too.
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 5:12 am Post subject: |
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I guess that woman at CooHoos wasn't lying after all huh? LOL
Looking forward to getting these. 
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 6:16 am Post subject: |
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LOL. ah..
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McFarlane said few TV shows work as action fitures - monsters and animated characters usually work better. |
Tell me about it. The faces usually look pretty bad on figures like these. Well, at least McFarlane is doing them so we can hope. Not that I will be rushing out to get them. 
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 6:57 am Post subject: |
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Hehe... I'd sooo love to see a picture of the Hurley figure
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| Polarbear wrote: | ew Liz I can't imagine what you'd make them do
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| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 4:32 am Post subject: |
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Let's see Liz try and have her LOST action figure sex orgy with this!
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| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 5:26 am Post subject: |
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| Woah, I thought that was a real, from-the-show picture for a second |
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