Darth Kustomizer
05-09-2006, 07:52 AM
So what’s the news concerning this new 12” Matrix figure that has been released?
Well, it is being produced by a company, that I had not heard of until last week, called ACI Toys out of Hong Kong.
Apparently ACI Toys have been wholesaling and retailing high quality toys from overseas for years. Recently they have moved from the retail end into design and manufacturing of products of their own this year.
One of those new areas happens to include the production of some exceptionally well done 12” figure heads that are compatible with either Dragon or DiD 12” bodies.
To give you an idea of what these heads look like I would head over to E-Bay and poke around. It will take you about two minutes to locate them. As you will see ACI is producing eight head sculpts for this introductory set. A majority of the head-sculpts 3-4of the eight are of various actors from the film “Saving Private Ryan.” One of the head-sculpts looks to be the actor Damian Lewis who played Maj. Richard Winters in “Band Of Brothers.” One I will get to further down in this post and the other three I could not place.
The first wave of figure heads are being released as a set and are called the “ACI Modern Heroes Vol.1 - 1/6 scale action figure heads collection.” This set is noted to be limited to only 100 boxes. The box itself contains a “secret accessory set” that was produced as an exclusive for the recent Hong Kong Toys Festival. A few of these sets are now making their way stateside.
The “secret accessory set” includes the following items;
1 x white long sleeve button up shirt (ACI)
1 x pair black dress pants (ACI)
1 x black suit jacket (ACI)
1 x pair black lace up leather dress shoes (ACI)
1 x pair black socks (ACI )
1 x leather belt (ACI)
1 x black tie (ACI )
1 x pair black sunglasses (ACI)
So.…you put all the parts together on a Dragon body (that is not included), along with head-sculpt #4 (Hugo Weaving) and you have yourself an incredibly cool looking 12” Agent Smith figure!
I can’t tell you how glad I am to finally see a decent looking Agent Smith head-sculpt after the character has been passed over as a 12” figure for so long.
If you’re wondering why a 12” body is not included in the set I can tell you that it is probably one of two things. First, ACI may not have any intention of producing a 12" figure body. Secondly, it may be a well thought out move to get around those pesky copyright laws.
Again, keep in mind that according to the ACI website the exclusive outfit is limited to only 100 pieces/boxes.
UPDATE
More interesting news. I just got of the phone with one of my suppliers and I learned an interesting detail that some of you might like to know.
Out of the case of 96 heads that he ordered from ACI he received 8 boxes of 12 heads each. Now, according to what he told me, out of those 8 boxes he was only able to come up with two sets of the exclusive “Agent Smith” accessory outfits. So, each box does not contain the limited edition accessory pack. Interesting!
We did discuss the head sculpts in the box and at this time, with the exception of the Hugo Weaving sculpt, it looks like the sculpts are taken directly from actors either in the movie “Saving Private Ryan” or the HBO series “Band of Brothers.”
Well, it is being produced by a company, that I had not heard of until last week, called ACI Toys out of Hong Kong.
Apparently ACI Toys have been wholesaling and retailing high quality toys from overseas for years. Recently they have moved from the retail end into design and manufacturing of products of their own this year.
One of those new areas happens to include the production of some exceptionally well done 12” figure heads that are compatible with either Dragon or DiD 12” bodies.
To give you an idea of what these heads look like I would head over to E-Bay and poke around. It will take you about two minutes to locate them. As you will see ACI is producing eight head sculpts for this introductory set. A majority of the head-sculpts 3-4of the eight are of various actors from the film “Saving Private Ryan.” One of the head-sculpts looks to be the actor Damian Lewis who played Maj. Richard Winters in “Band Of Brothers.” One I will get to further down in this post and the other three I could not place.
The first wave of figure heads are being released as a set and are called the “ACI Modern Heroes Vol.1 - 1/6 scale action figure heads collection.” This set is noted to be limited to only 100 boxes. The box itself contains a “secret accessory set” that was produced as an exclusive for the recent Hong Kong Toys Festival. A few of these sets are now making their way stateside.
The “secret accessory set” includes the following items;
1 x white long sleeve button up shirt (ACI)
1 x pair black dress pants (ACI)
1 x black suit jacket (ACI)
1 x pair black lace up leather dress shoes (ACI)
1 x pair black socks (ACI )
1 x leather belt (ACI)
1 x black tie (ACI )
1 x pair black sunglasses (ACI)
So.…you put all the parts together on a Dragon body (that is not included), along with head-sculpt #4 (Hugo Weaving) and you have yourself an incredibly cool looking 12” Agent Smith figure!
I can’t tell you how glad I am to finally see a decent looking Agent Smith head-sculpt after the character has been passed over as a 12” figure for so long.
If you’re wondering why a 12” body is not included in the set I can tell you that it is probably one of two things. First, ACI may not have any intention of producing a 12" figure body. Secondly, it may be a well thought out move to get around those pesky copyright laws.
Again, keep in mind that according to the ACI website the exclusive outfit is limited to only 100 pieces/boxes.
UPDATE
More interesting news. I just got of the phone with one of my suppliers and I learned an interesting detail that some of you might like to know.
Out of the case of 96 heads that he ordered from ACI he received 8 boxes of 12 heads each. Now, according to what he told me, out of those 8 boxes he was only able to come up with two sets of the exclusive “Agent Smith” accessory outfits. So, each box does not contain the limited edition accessory pack. Interesting!
We did discuss the head sculpts in the box and at this time, with the exception of the Hugo Weaving sculpt, it looks like the sculpts are taken directly from actors either in the movie “Saving Private Ryan” or the HBO series “Band of Brothers.”