| Peter Parker/Spider-Man: "Wallopin' Web-Snappers!" This is my favorite phrase from any superhero ever. It's well known that it wasn't the comics, but rather, the Fliescher studios cartoons that gave Superman the immortal tag line: "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive...." If only the Ralph Bakshi directed cartoons of Spiderman could have done the same for this great phrase... sigh. I painted Shazam's head over to make Petey, but I gave him lighter brown hair b/c I noticed that, when I did, he vaguely resembled Nicholas Hammond who played Spidey on the live-action 70s series. He carries his mask around in his backpack (kinldy provided by the love of my life, from her Barbie collection), and when his Spider Sense starts to tingle, he can quickly shuck his outer garments to reveal the Spidey suit underneath! |
| The Keeper: Not sure this counts as a custom per se' but I decided to list it anyway. I found the body a year ago without the head or costume, and bought it for $8. Then, just about 2 weeks ago, I found the head in a box of parts and bought it for $5. I then went to the fabric store, picked up some remnants, went home and sewed the robe from scratch. I think very few people can tell the difference, so basically I got a Keeper for about $15! Thaty ranks up ther with my custom where basically I put a Starskey head on a Scotty body, and he suddenly became "Red Shirt on the Away Team Guy who always dies." |
| The
Mummy:
This is actually kind of funny... I hate the orginal figure of this so
much because he looks like he's wearing jammies. So after I bought him
a a few yaers ago, I gave him to my two little nephew's in disgust, saying
"here, play with this!."
After about a half year, I began to regret this decision, because, jammies or no, I still needed him to complete my Monster collection. Therefore rather than be an Indian giver, I bought another one. Funny thing was, I grew to despise him again! But before I could get rid of him, I went over to my nephew's house and I was lookign through his toys, and by chance I came across this Mummy again, and CRAP! Did he ever play with this thing to death! |
| I finally realized what was wrong with this figure originally... it was
too pristine! Too clean! But in this child's hands, he had been severly beat
up and finally looked as if he had spent 1500 years in a Tomb devoid of air!
The costume all over was soiled, it had taers and rips, split seams, and
what looked like Kool-Aid and Marker stains.
So when my nephew came back, I produced my brand new, pristine Mummy, held it out to him, with the beat-up one in the other hand, and said, "Trade ya!" My Monster collection has been happier ever since.... I added some more bandages as well. |
| The Wolf Man II: You all know the history of me and The Wolf Man if you saw my first custom of him. When I saw this figure in the store about a week ago, I nearly wept with happiness. Finally.... someone had captured this figure beautifully, perfectly.... flawlessly. And he was in 8-inch scale. And best of all, he came with a bear trap and the silver cane that was used to kill him in the movie (1941). The name of the company was Sideshow Toys, and I'll expect that, after these little works of art, we'll be hearing great things from them. In order to make him into a Mego however, I sewed him a shirt in white cotton and some blue jeans, both of which I promptly dyed grey. |
| I grabbed
a POTA ape body and set to work. To fit the head on the body, I gave the
neck a rounded base with miliput and attached it via elastic to the pelvic
post (A).
I pulled the soldier ape hands out and simply popped the Wolfman hands in the sockets. they fit quite nicely (B) For the feet, I popped the ape feet off the ankle, used a coping saw to saw the feet off of the Wolfman, then used my drill to hollow them out, so that they simply slip on like a boot. This way, they can fit on the display stand. While this may have required the least amount of original work by me, and though it only took me about 1.5 hours to do, this has since become my favorite custom (replacing the Shadow). It may be my favorite action figure. |
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