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  • Type3Toys
    Home Of The Type3 Body
    • Jan 18, 2005
    • 619

    #16
    Originally posted by ODBJBG
    Definitely had this debate before.

    Type 3.
    Try again. As mentioned before, I created and have been using the Type 3 body for the last 15 years.
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    • Brown Bear
      Still Old School
      • Feb 14, 2008
      • 7057

      #17
      Originally posted by thunderbolt
      Amen, the type 3 needs to be left out of this discussion.
      I agree but for different reasons. Why is a custom body never manufactured by the company were talking about factor in to the discussion? I thought we were naming bodies made by Mego, not customs made with a mego-style? I don't see why ppl are so touchy about it.

      If someone has made a custom body inspired by the Mego type 1 and type 2 bodies and logically called them type 3 then why would that affect anyone referring to the REAL thing using the logical term. Collectors have united on using type 0/1/2, so not calling the next one in line a 3 imo is a bit much to ask for a professional courtesy to our friend.

      I intend on calling them type 3 and I also intend on continue calling John's cool customs "type3toys". If anyone feels strongly one way or the other, here's a suggestion: call it whatever ya want.
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      • CrimsonGhost
        Often invisible
        • Jul 18, 2002
        • 3568

        #18
        I'm either going with Type 2K and most likely I'll just continue saying "the new one with the reverse neck plug."
        Expectation is the death of discovery.

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        • LonnieFisher
          Eloquent Member
          • Jan 19, 2008
          • 10814

          #19
          I think everybody should call it something different!

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          • EMCE Hammer
            Moderation Engineer
            • Aug 14, 2003
            • 25679

            #20
            Originally posted by hedrap
            Type 3 is Farley's. You can't invert a neck plug and call it a 3rd version.

            I'm with Jimbutsu. 2K works the best.

            Didn't we have this debate?
            I typed this earlier but must have failed to hit enter. I think you're really understating the differences present in the new Mego body.

            male neck plug
            hard plastic torso and pelvis
            solid limbs made out of a flexible material different from the torso and pelvis
            flexible hands that grip better than original Mego ever did
            different innards
            different pins connecting joints
            lower center of gravity due different weight distribution

            The evolution is significant IMO. Also, IMHO, there's nothing "original" about referring to a scratch-built body as "type 3" when there's already an established type 0, 1, and 2. If I threw together an engine and some sheet metal and called it a "Mach 15" and said the name was an "original idea" people would laugh. All that being said I don't see why the new bodies aren't simply referred to as "the new bodies." I am a simple caveman collector and your complicated debates frighten and confuse me.

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            • hedrap
              Permanent Member
              • Feb 10, 2009
              • 4825

              #21
              ^You're right on the changeups. To me, those are modern adaptations of the T2 build. Like T0 to T1: the same thing but metal joints.

              When it comes to T3, what John is doing carries on from what Flatt was doing. The articulation, the dimensions. If the new Mego's had ball mount necks, swivel biceps, etc...they would be T3 in design. John would still be Type3, just as ZICA and Type S are themselves.

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              • EMCE Hammer
                Moderation Engineer
                • Aug 14, 2003
                • 25679

                #22
                Now that I think about it, John's body is more of a Type2F. Charlee's first efforts were Mego/LJN hybrids with his own hands and feet. I'll call that Type0F. I'll call the Flattworld bodies Type1F, and the Farley bodies Type2F. Somebody can come along and make an 8" scale hyper-articulated body with knees and elbows like the 14" Mego knee joint, and it can be called Type3F, as but whoever creates it must have a last name that begins with the letter 'F.'

                If I had created a body like John's, I'd prefer that people referred to it as a 'Steve' instead of a type 3. I refer to all of the figures I own of John's as "Farleys." I call my Jason Roberts figures "BKs" and my Scott Pierce figures "Axels." I've got "Dunsels" and "McDaves" and "Grimjohns" and "Houghnagels."

                No, you're not getting that three minutes of your life back.

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                • TRDouble
                  Permanent Member
                  • Jul 10, 2012
                  • 2525

                  #23
                  Originally posted by EMCE Hammer
                  ...No, you're not getting that three minutes of your life back.
                  Dang I needed those three minutes too...

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                  • Brue
                    User without title
                    • Sep 29, 2005
                    • 4241

                    #24
                    Originally posted by EMCE Hammer
                    I'll talk to Brian. I think the best thing to do is go through every single reference on the museum and change them:

                    V1 - Plastic pin AJ body
                    V2 - Metal rivet body
                    V3A - Standard plastic body
                    V3B - OMBC body
                    V3C - Fonzie body
                    V3D - Fist Fighter body

                    I'll leave females. muscle bodies, and teens for another day.

                    I forgot that there really are several variants if the T2 figure:

                    what is OMBC? original body, BC? cave men?

                    Fat Bodies.

                    Trek bodies. Does a different lower leg make it differernt enough?

                    other body variations? (Lizard)

                    Foreign versions?

                    Colors?

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                    • SeattleEd
                      SynthoRes Transmigrator
                      • Oct 24, 2007
                      • 4350

                      #25
                      OMBC=One Million BC line.

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                      • megowgsh
                        Customego HoF Curator
                        • Nov 19, 2003
                        • 7420

                        #26
                        Don't even think about calling it Type 3. Farley has been using that for years and is legally his "brand". So just cut it out right now!
                        Check out ALL my customs at https://www.facebook.com/megowgshcustoms

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                        • megowgsh
                          Customego HoF Curator
                          • Nov 19, 2003
                          • 7420

                          #27
                          Originally posted by EMCE Hammer
                          If I had created a body like John's, I'd prefer that people referred to it as a 'Steve' instead of a type 3. I refer to all of the figures I own of John's as "Farleys." I call my Jason Roberts figures "BKs" and my Scott Pierce figures "Axels." I've got "Dunsels" and "McDaves" and "Grimjohns" and "Houghnagels."
                          Never take my name in vain again!
                          Check out ALL my customs at https://www.facebook.com/megowgshcustoms

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                          • Brue
                            User without title
                            • Sep 29, 2005
                            • 4241

                            #28
                            Originally posted by Type3Toys
                            I suggest we call them something else. We have type o, type 1, type 2 vintage and now type 2 new.
                            I have Type 3. I have had Type 3 since January 2004. That's 15 years of Type 3.
                            Please, someone come up with an original idea for a body name, like I did 15 years ago when I named the body I designed the Type 3.
                            Thanks.
                            yer biased.

                            but i will side with you if you feel we can get some money out of the naming rights.

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                            • EMCE Hammer
                              Moderation Engineer
                              • Aug 14, 2003
                              • 25679

                              #29
                              Originally posted by megowgsh
                              Never take my name in vain again!
                              "Toughbagels"

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                              • Mego Milk
                                Custom Mego Maker
                                • Jun 3, 2007
                                • 2842

                                #30
                                Type '18.

                                as in 2018.

                                BAM!

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