dvandom: (goggles)
dvandom ([personal profile] dvandom) wrote2007-08-19 07:25 pm

DC Superfriends "trading cards"

Got a couple of the new DC Superfriends figures today. They come with very thick cards that have 1/6 of a picture on one side, and individual stuff on the other. And...um....


Lex has a sort of Charlie Brown thing going on, and John looks WAY too proud of his accomplishment.

[identity profile] grant-p.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
I made a box, and I LOVE it! Now if I can just think outside it...no...no, I can't...dang...

It's not easy being green...

[identity profile] veloxiraptor.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
"When nobody was looking, Lex Luthor stole forty kryptonite diamonds. He stole forty diamonds. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible."

I lol'd at GL's picture. I imagine it's like he's just booted up 3D Studio Max for the first time.

[identity profile] sigma7.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly what I was thinking. And yeah, you'd think John would have at least moved on to phong-shaded teapots....

[identity profile] thelastsong.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
::Hit and run iconning::

[identity profile] loki-liesmith.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
Where'd you find them? I've been looking all over.

[identity profile] dvandom.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Wal-Mart. They've been resetting this week, and they're not in the aisle with the regular action figures. I found 'em between the Car-nivores and the Planet Heroes, near the new Bible toys (which, sadly, suck as toys).

[identity profile] grant-p.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
As a rather Bible-centered Christian, who's seen many versions of the idea, I can safely say that almost ALL Bible toys suck. I haven't see any yet that I'd even use in Children's Church. I use a Yugioh deck and some Harry Potter figures (it's FICTION, like Cinderella, why can't the vast majority of people in the church grasp that?!) among other things, but actual Bible-based action figures have never taken off at all (with the possible exception of Noah, a boat, and some animals, those seem to do ok, for some reason).

[identity profile] dvandom.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
This line basically has two parts. One is like Robot Heroes, but with zero poseability. The other is Bible Barbie. So, at best, they're aiming at little kids who aren't allowed small parts, and girls who are willing to play unfashionable dress-up. They need something in the regular action figure domain, or along the lines of Polly Pocket.

[identity profile] grant-p.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Bible Barbie?

Ken: "Wow, Barbie, that shapeless rode that's the only item of clothing that one can reasonably stand in this 100+ degree desert looks quite fetching!"

Barbie: "Go away. The light reflecting off your perfect teeth is messing up my shade"

[identity profile] finback.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
* Bible Barbie lays her hands upon That One Friend In The Wheelchair Noone Can Remember The Name Of.

[identity profile] aardy.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Now If John had instead made an Escher-like impossible cube, that would have been something to be way too pround of.

[identity profile] finback.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
But Lex can't be Charlie Brown! Kiteman (http://www.dcuguide.com/who.php?name=kiteman) is!

[identity profile] andrusi.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
And that's why the Kite-Eating Tree is so threatening to him.