Jul 30, 2018

it came from the toy chest: This is not a toy, but fits great with toys.

Joe Amaro of Amaro Studios  has made a few pieces sculpted and cast by hand of a certain character of a toyline that Mattel killed the same year they got the license...
The ITEM IN QUESTION IS NOT A TOY. It's a Resin display piece. It's NOT TO BE PLAYED WITH as it may break if it were to fall. It's not a statue, since it has Articulation. I don't want to call it a figure, since it's not meant to be played with...

Snarf: Y-you gotta snap out of it
Lion-O! Call the Thundercats before-
Lion-O: Shut up you F-
Yes, it's Snarf... It's freaking Snarf...
I know what you are wondering: A Third Party Custom item? Are you serious?
Dudes, I know, but Amaro is the real deal... What if I told you he's assisted THE FOUR HORSEMEN? Yes, Those Four Horsemen and the projects have been MOTU related. He also does custom items. I think I've shown his Custom Filmation Attak Trak before. If not here's a link to his old blog. He's done a bunch of cool stuff throughout the years. He did Berbils last year, but this year he made Annoying Nanny Osbert and I needed to get in on that. I got lucky...


So, how awesome is this Snarf?
Pics don't do him justice. Normally this is the part where I go about Articulation, paint, sculpt, etc.
Seeing this is a third party hand crafted Item I will not use the traditional 5-point system.

Articulation:
 I'm surprised of the amount of articulation that he has. Head is in a sort of ball-joint. Arms, legs and tail are on a cut joint. One could say that this is a "Classicized" LJN Snarf. Now If this were a mass produced toy made by an actual Toy company like, say, Mattel, then the 6poa wouldn't cut it. He would need balljoint shoulders, interchangeable heads (one for bipedal mode and one for quadruped mode) Interchangeable tails. to recreate the standing on his tail pose from the intro. Since this is not a mass produced toy, but a poseable resin diorama piece, all those theoretical nitpicks do not matter. He could have easily been a statue like Cringer, but Mr. Amaro went above and beyond and gave us a "Classicized LJN Snarf"

Paint and Sculpt:
Mr. Amaro molded most of the pieces in the appropriate colors to reduce paint rub.
You look at him and you can see Annoying Nanny Osbert, quite easily. If it looks like a Snarf, walks like a Snarf, Snarfs like a Snarf, shuts up like a F-

it's a Snarf!
This part here is a knock out...
Now we needs a Mumm-Ra...

Overall:
Yes, he's a bit expensive, but taking into consideration the whole Hand Made, hand cast LIMITED availability of this item, it's pretty reasonable...
Now to figure out how to remove the crotch covering of a Mutant Leader from DKR and put his crotch covering on a Terror Claws Skeletor to make a Tygra...



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