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pain
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 |  Subject: Dark Crystal Prototypes by Hasbro/Aviva 1983  Sun Mar 09, 2008 4:49 pm | |
| Does anyone have any of these. There were originally going to have 9 different figures. Jen, Kira, Pod Peasant, Slave Pod Peasant, Aughra, and Skeksis (Chamberlain) all came with an accessory and a piece of the Dark Crystal.
Then there was going to be 3 deluxe figures a mystic, a garthim, and a landstrider. They were never released, and I have only been able to replace these four in my collection.
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Arkangel
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| | Subject: Re: Dark Crystal Prototypes by Hasbro/Aviva 1983 Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:06 pm | |
| is that miss piggy on the inferior left?
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pain
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| | Subject: Re: Dark Crystal Prototypes by Hasbro/Aviva 1983 Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:59 pm | |
| | Arkangel wrote: | | is that miss piggy on the inferior left? |
These are all carded prototypes of characters from Jim Henson's Film Dark Crystal. (THE BEST ALL-TIME MOVIE IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The characters are Jen, Kira, Pod Peasant, and Slave Pod Peasant.
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Arkangel
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| | Subject: Re: Dark Crystal Prototypes by Hasbro/Aviva 1983 Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:31 pm | |
| | pain wrote: | | Arkangel wrote: | | is that miss piggy on the inferior left? |
These are all carded prototypes of characters from Jim Henson's Film Dark Crystal. (THE BEST ALL-TIME MOVIE IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The characters are Jen, Kira, Pod Peasant, and Slave Pod Peasant.
Tell me that you have seen the Dark Crystal |
never heard of it
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pain
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| | Subject: Re: Dark Crystal Prototypes by Hasbro/Aviva 1983 Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:35 pm | |
| Oh my god, you have to go watch it right now. Do not worry about renting it, buy it. It is so worth the money. They have a brand new 25th anniversary edition. I do not know if it was released in PAL format, so you may just have to watch it in NTSC.
It is the first full-length feature film that was all puppetry and animatronics. Unbelievably ahead of it's time. Jim Hemson at his absolute best, and CGI has nothing on this stuff. The scale of this movie is insane.
Evil looking Monsters, oh I am going to watch it right now.
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sathomaso
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| | Subject: Re: Dark Crystal Prototypes by Hasbro/Aviva 1983 Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:40 pm | |
| | pain wrote: | | Tell me that you have seen the Dark Crystal |
I have never heard of that flick too.
Neither have i ever seen the toys.
But I'm gonna look into it if you recommend it Carl!
I only think to know that I have that "DARK CRYSTAL" truetype-font somewhere on my computer. Saved it a while ago because it looked pretty cool 
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| pain wrote: | | Jim Hemson at his absolute best... |
| Arkangel wrote: | | is that miss piggy on the inferior left? |
hahaha, so there's really a connection / link between Jim Henson, DarkCrystal and the Muppets.
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leo_skeletor
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| | Subject: Re: Dark Crystal Prototypes by Hasbro/Aviva 1983 Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:53 pm | |
| | I love that 80īs movie too. Here in Spain CRISTAL OSCURO was the translation. |
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barbarian
Age : 27
Joined : 19 Jan 2008
Posts : 139
Location : France
| | Subject: Re: Dark Crystal Prototypes by Hasbro/Aviva 1983 Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:31 am | |
| | pain wrote: | Oh my god, you have to go watch it right now. Do not
worry about renting it, buy it. It is so worth the money. They have a
brand new 25th anniversary edition. I do not know if it was released in
PAL format, so you may just have to watch it in NTSC.
It is
the first full-length feature film that was all puppetry and
animatronics. Unbelievably ahead of it's time. Jim Hemson at his
absolute best, and CGI has nothing on this stuff. The scale of this
movie is insane.
Evil looking Monsters, oh I am going to watch it right now.
Later |
i don't know if the brand new 25th anniversary edition exist in Pal ,
but the simple edition exist i have it , and i 'm ok with Pain , this
movie is fantastic !!!! I have the 2 sideshow dolls Jen and Kira in my
collection, but i never saw the action figures you have , thanks dude.
An other cool movie from Jim Henson is Labyrinth with David Bowie and a
series named "Monstres et merveilles" in France. Jim Henson was a
fabulous dreamer . RIP Jim . |
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Arkangel
Age : 25
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| | Subject: Re: Dark Crystal Prototypes by Hasbro/Aviva 1983 Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:22 pm | |
| | pain wrote: | Oh my god, you have to go watch it right now. Do not worry about renting it, buy it. It is so worth the money. They have a brand new 25th anniversary edition. I do not know if it was released in PAL format, so you may just have to watch it in NTSC.
It is the first full-length feature film that was all puppetry and animatronics. Unbelievably ahead of it's time. Jim Hemson at his absolute best, and CGI has nothing on this stuff. The scale of this movie is insane.
Evil looking Monsters, oh I am going to watch it right now.
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now that i think of it, i may have that film sumwhere around, i remember now that i downloaded along with return to oz, still havent seen any
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U.S.E.R.
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| | Subject: Re: Dark Crystal Prototypes by Hasbro/Aviva 1983 Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:50 pm | |
| I have seen "Dark Crystal" or "Labyrinth" not in full length, only pieces when it was in TV years ago.
http://www.fast-rewind.com/darkcrystal.htm
http://www.fast-rewind.com/labyrinth.htm
Does anybody know, that there are also "Lord of the Rings" Actionfigures, not from the new movie,...
And there exist a boxed Gift-Set with 4 ActionFigures (a yellowed one in a vienna comicshop) and a second series,...
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barbarian
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| | Subject: Re: Dark Crystal Prototypes by Hasbro/Aviva 1983 Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:20 pm | |
|  strange small Balrog, i haven't seen it before , thanks for pics. When this figures came in store ? |
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sathomaso
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| | Subject: Re: Dark Crystal Prototypes by Hasbro/Aviva 1983 Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:09 pm | |
| Hey, just some small talk:
I just watched the "Dark Crystal" DVD today evening with two buddies, and the animations and costumes were really amazing compared to the standards back then. Top notch stuff!
Only wished the story had a little more depth (the plot would easily fit on 1 sheet of paper), but nontheless a flick you should have seen at least once in your life.
Thanks for the recommendation, I guess otherwise I would have never have heard of it.
Oh and Carl - by the way: When the castle/maintower was shown in the very first scene the 3 of us watching the DVD instantly had the same idea that it reminded us all of the castle from the "The Neverending Story" ... lol
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U.S.E.R.
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| | Subject: Re: Dark Crystal Prototypes by Hasbro/Aviva 1983 Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:36 pm | |
| | sathomaso wrote: | When the castle/maintower was shown in the very first scene the 3 of us watching the DVD instantly had the same idea that it reminded us all of the castle from the "The Neverending Story" ... lol
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have you got a screenshot from the DVD 
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| | Subject: Re: Dark Crystal Prototypes by Hasbro/Aviva 1983 Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:55 pm | |
| | U.S.E.R. wrote: | | sathomaso wrote: | When the castle/maintower was shown in the very first scene the 3 of us watching the DVD instantly had the same idea that it reminded us all of the castle from the "The Neverending Story" ... lol
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have you got a screenshot from the DVD |
Too lazy to make a screen capture now, here's the googled picture from the storyboard:
and also this thing:
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