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About 6 years ago, DSTChuck wanted to design a house brand focusing on the popularity of ‘goth’ products.  The plan was to take some of the public domain fairy tale characters and give them a more modern look and feel.  A lot of people spent a lot of time at DST working on proposals for buyers, package concepts, category options, and marketing strategies.  Unfortunately, unavoidable circumstances caused the project to go to the backburner.  Now that the Femme Fatales line has taken off, DSTChuck is looking to reinvent some of the reinventions and use them in this PVC line.  Kicking things off is the new Little Red Riding Hood (Li’l Red, for short).  The images I’ve included show you how we went from the original concept sketch to Sam Greenwell’s sculpt and finished with Kat Sapene’s paint.

Afraid of a Covenant invasion?  Concerned about the Flood taking over your local financial institution?  Well worry no more, the Spartan Mark VI bust bank is here to solve your problems.  This iconic character from the Halo video game series was digitally sculpted by Oluf Hartvigson and painted by Ed Wires.  The best part is, with the entire multi-player spectrum at our fingertips, there will be no problem creating enough color variations over the next couple of years to help build a UNSC bank army.

It’s been a long time since anyone released really good and affordable action figures based on the classic Universal Monsters.  So, with that in mind, I give to you the first assortment in the line.  Coming soon to a Toys R Us near you.  We’ve got the star of the Best Movie EVER, Creature From the  Black Lagoon;  we’ve got Imhotep the Mummy; and we’ve got the Wolfman.  Creature and Mummy were sculpted by Rudy Garcia and painted by Eddie Wires.  Wolfman was sculpted and painted by Jean St. Jean.  The Creature is going to stand about 7.5″ tall, so that should give you an idea of the scale for the rest of the line.  Be on the lookout for info regarding the deluxe specialty-market exclusives and early hints about Series 2.

This week in the AskDST feature, DSTChuck tackles all the miscellaneous questions left over. Want to see the answers? Jump in after the break.

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It seems like everyone is getting into neon signs these days.  I’m not entirely sure when the trend kicked in, but seeing as how I have a license that was born for neon, I’m jumpin’ on the bandwagon.  This little beauty is going to be about 12″ wide and roughly 15″ tall in the base.  You’re seeing a prototype, so the base may look a bit different in production, but the logo is final.  The coolest thing about this is that it will come with a auto voltage switch (probably not the technical term, but whatever).  That means international customers and internet retailers are going to LOVE this item because, unlike most electronic items, you do NOT have to worry about different versions for different countries.  Yeah, it makes it a hair more expensive to make them that way, but in the long run we think it is worth it.

Really, it explains everything about this newest addition to the Marvel Select line.  Why does he look like he’s about to destroy everyone? Why is he standing over the wreckage of the X-Mansion?  Why does he have such an angry look?  Why is his back turned when clearly someone is trapped in the rubble?  The answer to all of these questions is “Because he’s EVIL”  Well, truth be told, the whole arm-of-Colossus thing on the base is because yours truly is a little whcked in the head and felt like having some sick fun with the fans (I guess this means I’ll have to do a Colossus Select figure as a future make-good, huh?).  The Master of Magnetism is sculpted by Gabriel Marquez and painted by Ed Wires.

Ghostbuster Minimates Covered in Marshmallow Goop!

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This week in the Q&A, DSTChuck hammers out your Battlestar Galactica questions. So say we all… after the break!

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Here it is. New pics of the latest Tricorder replica from DST, the Geolical Tricoder. Features two opening compartments and removable vials of mineral samples!