Is a new 8" body needed or wanted?

[JediJaida]

I know. Those are just squicky.

[jwyblejr]

When someone does do a new 8" body please don't put any mini "manhood" on it like I've seen on 12" figures. *shudders*

[Bronxboykev]

Thanks Lonnie. I found the Castaway site first but I just posted that I just discovered this site with Yvonne. Is this your site? I don't know the difference between Castaway and Zica. I will try to PM you. I could not figure out how to PM on my phone. Thank you!

The Zica site would be Craig

8inchsuperstore.com would be David Lee

[cdhall]

Thanks Lonnie. I found the Castaway site first but I just posted that I just discovered this site with Yvonne. Is this your site? I don't know the difference between Castaway and Zica. I will try to PM you. I could not figure out how to PM on my phone. Thank you!

[LonnieFisher]

Where do I buy Type S bodies?

http://zica-toys-direct7.mybigcommerce.com/

[cdhall]

Type-s is the best body on the market,

Where do I buy Type S bodies?

[LonnieFisher]

I can make heads hollow by hand, but they aren't soft. I just use regular casting resin.

[JediJaida]

I wonder if you could make hollow heads in Mego scale this way?

[pmwasson]

It's way too expensive to produce the molds to have the kind of competition. There's not enough of a market to handle that many new bodies and have the investment pay off.

Its getting cheaper all the time. There are now desktop CNC mills to make molds and desktop injection machines to produce parts. They are expensive, but if someone could make a few molds on their own, it would pay for the costs of the machines. Obviously the quality won't be the same as an industrial machine, but for certain designs it could work. Nice thing about a Mego body is that is it covered up with clothes, so the surface texture may be less of an issue.

[ZICA]

Hope I'm not being a pest. Any idea when customers (I) mite be able to get our mitts on 'em?

I'm shooting for the 1st Quarter of next year. I've got two other projects I want to get completed first, one of which is the 4" Adventure People figures, and the other one is being kept under wraps for now.

[nubee]

I'm not going to spill all of the beans just yet but I will say that a new, modern 8" male body is currently in the works. Its proportions are perfect for a super hero type figure and it's got plenty of articulation.

Hope I'm not being a pest. Any idea when customers (I) mite be able to get our mitts on 'em?

[Spyweb007]

I agree a new 8" body needs to get away from the rubber bands, I loved he old Mego body as a kid but all the repro bodies that still use bands have issues with the tension and usually have less range of motion and pose-ability than the original Mego design they are emulating. More muscle definition would also help to let the muscles show through the cloth costumes a bit. I thnk the Mego body has a decent amount of articulation as is, maybe just a tweak or two in that area would be ok, but too many joints start to ruin the look of the body sometimes.

[ZICA]

Sounds Great!!! Can't wait for the revealing. I wonder will this be a joint effort akin to the Type S with Casteaway.

No, this is solely a ZICA Toys project.

[LonnieFisher]

You can still produce your own Lonnie. In this field, the more the merrier. Craig's stuff is great and yours will be as well. Maybe you can produce clothes that fit instead of being saggy and baggy.

It's way too expensive to produce the molds to have the kind of competition. There's not enough of a market to handle that many new bodies and have the investment pay off.

[nubee]

I'm not going to spill all of the beans just yet but I will say that a new, modern 8" male body is currently in the works. Its proportions are perfect for a super hero type figure and it's got plenty of articulation.

Sounds Great!!! Can't wait for the revealing. I wonder will this be a joint effort akin to the Type S with Casteaway.