BBP BSG second wave?

[Vinny0026]

if your paying for those rights - you better be pushing out as much as you can! or you should be.
sucks when you start a line and than is cancelled - really does.

only line I was ever happy to see get shut down was the mattel justice league and unlimted line
all those exclusives, and target exclusives drove me nuts. I would never find a figure on the peg! got stuck getting most of them from e bay. I was happy they killed it so i did not have to worry about it anymore.

I'm Up for some custom BSG heads.
Just wondering if NBC cancelled the deal with BBP or the contract is ending and they don't want to renew?
Also if you only have a contract for 2 years you really need to push out characters faster before your contract expires.
That goes for BSG and SMDM and Doctor Who. A shame we only got what we did when the fans would have kept these lines going.

[megotastic]

ive edited this because it was too harsh-or sounded too harsh- i have to say i think bbp figures are fantastic- i know there were problems with whos second wave being delayed on a ship or something and i know many colectors are disapointed that planned figures arent coming out- but it happens all the time guys- if the demand isnt there we cant expect them to be made- and if they dont have the licence what else can they do?

i count my blessings that the bbp figures that did come out are some of the best-if no the best figures ever made for those licences

the who figures kick *** over the originals bbp- we salute you.

i think theyre the best re megos on the market.

[Hedji]

The Ovion we all know and love came from the Galactica trading cards (deleted pre production photos)

??? Do you mean the Mattel Ovion, or is there a BBP Prototype I'm not aware of? Can you explain what you mean, and maybe give a Topps card number reference? I'm intrigued!

[megotastic]

re buck rogers i think it was a really bad idea to do tigerman as one of the first 2- it needed to be Twiki even tho it would have been expensive,

[GUYx1]

One of the Topps cards


The BBP Prototype you were unaware of...

If you go through the cards there are many Ovion scenes

If you watch the 1st BSG film,
you actually see more of the dressed up ovions looking like this

This is designated as an OVION GUARD.

There is also an Ovion Queen, as shown with her drones


The variations are kinda trivial, but you could go nuts with it if you wanted.
Which is why I was hoping that ONE might get made so I could go crazy making robes, painting them GOLD and adding harps, etc.
I'd be happy to geek out about ANY Ovion at this point. Anyone considering making them seems to want to invest a lot of time
& $$$ into making it right (even as a custom) , which means it wall take a lengthy time and may not actually happen, due to all the work involved and all the parts.

[Hedji]

That's very cool. Thanks for taking the time to post the pics.

[Chris]

That's very cool. Thanks for taking the time to post the pics.

Agreed! I love and share your enthusiasm for the BSG retro line.

[skullface]

I dont know why the the prototype has the feelers o n the head none of the pics show them, one shows something but its on the nose but not on the back of the head. Seems like a modded hulk body could be used. Along with a vest from planet of the apes mego.

[GUYx1]

Technically the Ovions are a tad shorter than humans. Hopefully this can all turn out cool. Well Nobody came up with heads on the board, so I shopped around professional sculptors.
I'm a little woosy as the costs for human sculpts and such are adding up.
I am trying to find a good way to make certain the head ends up in proper mego proportion right off the bat when it gets manufactured. Anybody have any tips on what advise to give the 3-D sculptors and manufacturers? Which head do you recommend as being the best Mego scale to compare with? John Boy? Alan Verdon? I am trying to avoid losing money on heads that are the wrong scale.

[VulcansFury]

We do not sell prototypes. Additionally, it is our understanding that the view of NBC is to not renew this particular license for BSG at this time - to anyone. This is our understanding but this may or may not reflect the official view of NBC/Universal.

It blows my mind to think that NBC doesnt want to license out classic BSG to anyone with cash in hand asking for it. I'm such a sucker for BSG that I want the 8inch stuff, but I also want Funko to do 3 3/4" retro AND 6inch Legacy!

[megotastic]

still waiting

[JediJaida]

Technically the Ovions are a tad shorter than humans. Hopefully this can all turn out cool. Well Nobody came up with heads on the board, so I shopped around professional sculptors.
I'm a little woosy as the costs for human sculpts and such are adding up.
I am trying to find a good way to make certain the head ends up in proper mego proportion right off the bat when it gets manufactured. Anybody have any tips on what advise to give the 3-D sculptors and manufacturers? Which head do you recommend as being the best Mego scale to compare with? John Boy? Alan Verdon? I am trying to avoid losing money on heads that are the wrong scale.

I'd look at the first generation of Mego heads. Like Superman or even Mr. Fantastic. Both were excellent sculpts.

The ones that you REALLY have to look out for, are the female sculpts. Dinah's head, in comparison to the heads of the Supergals, or even the Waltons gals, was rather tiny looking. I took a measurement of the head circumference and it turned out that there was a significant difference between them.

Dinah's head, with hair, is roughly 3.5" in circumference.

A Doc Mego head, without hair is about the same.

The height of the head is what you want to watch out for. A DM head is four inches tall, while Dinah is 3.5" tall.

To keep a proper scale for a female head, you'd have to make sure that the head was that height, without sacrificing any detail.

[nobody]

When I shrink I use Kirk as my prototype.

[GUYx1]

The person I am working with makes Hot Toys quality sculpts. His female characters will be photo realistic likenesses, but have hair wigs.
This kinda presents some issues with MEGO downsizing. Someone would need to sculpt hair on the female figures.
The fact that he is having to pay out of his own pocket to get each of the heads made means that he is starting from scratch with
the initial characters. So it could be years before we get to Baltar & the aliens.
Making sculpts like that isn't cheap. I'm just hoping he doesn't run out of money to fund as many characters as he wants to do.
The 1/6 sculpts are on another level to BBP sculpts.
However we still may only see exactly the same characters BBP made or even less characters,
because there simply isn't enough of a market to warrant additional Galactica figures.
Not to mention it will probably be towards the end of the year at best before anything is even available in 1/6 scale, much less
attempting to resize them. Just trying to stay positive.

[VulcansFury]

Well, now we know why Universal isn't interested in licensing out classic BSG any more:

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/battlestar-galactica-movie-gets-new-life-at-universal-exclusive-1201153687/