!!!General Custer Exclusive coming in 5 days!!!

[screamingmetal]

Edit: I thought I should just edit the page then start a new one, I just received notice that Custer should be coming in this week or the next.
I didn't cancel my order, and plan on buying this one.
Unfortunately, I have canceled the General Ursus exclusive and planned on buying him now, but I'll just get Custer and hope that Excl. Ursus will be available in a month or so.
"Fingers crossed"












Thank you for your pre-order of our 12" General George A.Custer-Sideshow Exclusive (item#42211) from our Brotherhood in Arms-Civil War Figure Collection. We appreciate your patience in waiting for the arrival of this Limited Edition item and we would like to inform you that the item will be arriving in our Los Angeles warehouse within approximately the next 20-24 days.

I just received notice, and I can't say I'm excited now.
I have the SDCC exclusives (3 of them), Excl. Oz, Excl. General Ursus also coming from Sideshow soon, and I'm going to have to cancel at least one of them, quite possibly two. And unfortunately, poor General George A.Custer will be the first one getting the axe. :(

[WestDan76]

Sorry, I can't say the same thing as I will be keeping my Custer and Washington order and cancelling everything else. I've been gradually narrowing down my 1/6th collection to only real life historic figures. I just sold off on ebay all of my platoon figures, generic Civil war private figures, ignite Knight figures and all other stuff that is not a genuine real life (name in the encyclopedia) historic war figure. I've even cancelled out my order for John Wayne since he was an actor and not a real life war figure. However, if they ever release Audi Murphy who was also an actor, I will buy him since he was also a genuine historic war figure. I can't wait till dragon releases 44' Patton with his leather sheep skin coat.

Movie figures do not interest me at all as I would rather spend the money on the dvd's of the movie's or TV shows that they were in. To each his own.

To be honest, I have been spending thousands of dollars on TV shows on DVD at the moment such as Twilight zone definitive edtions season sets, Night Gallery, Hogan's Heroes, Seinfeld, Outer Limits, News Radio, Green Acres, Bewitched, Gilligan's Island, Star Trek, Next Generation ect ect ect ect and thus the need to have a more narrow foucus on figure collecting. I am quite glad that I will be buying a total of 3 or 4 figures this year.

[Doomhammer]

Not really interested in Custer, here's hoping Washington will come soon :banana

[Bonehead15]

I got my notice also.

SS is really pumping out products "left and right" recently. In the last month I've got notices for 4 or 5 Apes figures, PE Luke, the SDCC exclusives, and now Custer.:thud :sick I just received my PE Freedy, Doggett, and Der Kinderstood in the last two weeks.:thud :thud

I already canceled Luke :( but Custer looks great and I certainly won't be passing him up. This version of Custer is far better than the Six Guns Legends version.

[screamingmetal]

That's a great way to keep your collection focused WestDan76. For me it's the opposite, I like the occasional historical figure every now and then but my main focus is movie and modern military figures. Which means I have to buy the ones that will be harder to find as time goes on. I learned this from buying King and Rhah when they just came out instead of Red O'Neill and Four Lerner when they where in stock. The Exclusive of Custer is still in stock, so there is a chance I can pick this one up at a later date when money isn't so tight. same goes for Excl. General Ursus, but that one I'm anticipating more.

By the way, did you pick up the Cyber-Hobby Lee Marvin figure? It may have made him appear like he walked off the set of the Dirty Dozen, but Lee was a Marine in WWII (Although not really an historical one).


Not really interested in Custer, here's hoping Washington will come soon

Aggghhh! I hope not! I'd hate to cancel another figure! :bang

[WestDan76]

Yes I sure do have the Lee Marvin figure along with the addional resin head sculpt by frontline heroheads.

don't get me wrong as I do love TV shows and movies but for me if I can see an actor for 900 hours on a TV show, it is less important to collect him as a figure. Part of the thrill for me with collecting historic real life figures is to have the oportunity to see a three dimensional view of what they may have looked like as in most cases all we have are old black and white photos to go by.

I can't understand at all why people are interested in Sideshow making figures from the movie tombstone rather than the real life figures. The actors in the movie did everything they knew to look like the real life figures from tombstone. However, they did not look like them exactly, and I for one care much more to see what Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and even Patton really look like rather than their holywood counterpart. This is why I ONLY post on the historic figures forum and not on the movie one as movie figures do not interest me at all.

[screamingmetal]

It's hard to explain West Dan, when it comes to the ladies, I want the actresses likeness to be spot on. same goes for the men only because I'd expect perfection. I don't hold actors on pedestals, but there are some I do greatly respect such as Bruce Lee, Lee Marvin, and some I admire like Clint Eastwood, Seth Green and Brad Pitt. With the ladies, I really admire them and wouldn't mind seeing them a fifteen hours a day. :p
I just love the characters that have been portrayed in some of my favorite movies and TV shows and like having little representations of them.
I don't watch the TV shows or movies as often as I like but I feel that is a different sort of entertainment then toys or collectables and I get a different sort of enjoyment out of them. with Collectables you don't have to look at a TV screen, you have something more tangible and sold then a DVD. Sometimes I get disappointed when I spend a lot on a bunch of DVDs and have only little plastic shells, pictures on paper and little silicon disks to admire for all the money I spent. I then think about spending the same amount on collectables and think of how much more satisfyingly tangible it would be to have a statue or a toy or a action figure then it would be with the DVDs. But that's just me I guess.

[WestDan76]

Yeah, I guess we all collect for different reasons. I may still break down and get the duke when he comes out. My favorite part on getting a historic figure is seeing how well they compare to the old black and white photos and even taking black and white photos of the figure to see how well they resemble who they are suppose to resemble. Sideshow has done a fantastic job on Grant and Lincoln. A few years back I commissioned a project of the Little Bighorn Custer with the goal in mind of just what would Custer look like if he were standing in front of me in color in modern times. Custer had more photos taken of him than any other figure besides Lincoln during that time but they were all old black and white photos. I was quite pleased with the result and had a great deal of fun in working with getting it right.

Custum Custer head sculpt (http://webpages.charter.net/dan76/LonnieCuster1.jpg)

However, with a platoon figure, I can see exactly how they look on the big screen and for me at least it takes out some of the fun for me as a collector.