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January 06 2006

BTVSFigs take a look at the new Spike bust. It's really more of a statue since it models him right to the waist, but never mind.

Craig Oxbrow | Collectibles | 23:24 CET | 20 comments total | tags: statues, spike, dst, btvsfigs

I'm really looking forward to getting this one, despite the slightly weird paint job they've given his face.

At least the facial sculpt is right as I know that they have a scan of him to work from.

sueworld2003 | January 06, 23:36 CET

Firstly I find these things scarily surreal and I'm not sure about his face.

Simon | January 07, 00:20 CET

I get why people like the action figures and some of the other memorabilia, but I don't understand wanting to own the busts.

killinj | January 07, 00:27 CET

At least he has arms! Those armless busts scare me...

I guess I don't see the point of doing something like this and not making it a full body. I mean, looks to me that lil' Spike got chopped!

Rogue Slayer | January 07, 00:36 CET

''Firstly I find these things scarily surreal and I'm not sure about his face.

Simon''

Well I for one know the head is a worked over scan as all the six inch action figs were created from that. The paint job is rubbish, but underneath all that is a pretty good likeness.

I have to say though the stained glass effect window doesn't really work, and the colours are a little 'grating'.

I know these 'busts' seem odd, but people do collect them...including me it seems.

sueworld2003 | January 07, 00:42 CET

But Sue, it's only half a Spike!! :~)

Rogue Slayer | January 07, 00:49 CET

Why is it that when i look at that bust it makes me think that Spike has seriously pissed off some mob boss and he is about to be sleeping with the fishes?

"Concrete Boots Spike" (TM).

Buffysmglover | January 07, 01:12 CET

VWAG I'm thinking it's more of a "I must resist the urge to snuggle with Angel, afterall we are in a meeting right now." sort of a way. ;0)

exoticmushroom | January 07, 01:17 CET

Rogue Slayer, I couldn't agree more. That's why no Buffy ornaments on my tree. All they make are those scary "Boxing Helena" busts! Yeep!

Now if they make ornaments out of these? I could see that working...

Willowy | January 07, 01:29 CET

At least he has arms! Those armless busts scare me...

Well, I've always thought that a "real" bust is only supposed to be the person's head and a small bit of their shoulders. Personally, I always find it funny how far various companies push the whole concept of the bust by adding more and more of a figure to it, including arms and legs. I mean at this point why not just give Spike the rest of his legs and some feet and make him a small statue figurine instead of a bust?

Matt_Fabb | January 07, 01:54 CET

''But Sue, it's only half a Spike!! :~)

Rogue Slayer''

Ah but half a Spike is better then nothing love!

'I mean at this point why not just give Spike the rest of his legs and some feet and make him a small statue figurine instead of a bust?''

Beacuse it's costly to produce. That coat and the rest of him would have a lot of 'under cuts' in the mold. The way that sculpt is shaped and divided up in the manufacturing means the casting process is more simplified and so keeps the cost down.

[ edited by sueworld2003 on 2006-01-07 00:01 ]

sueworld2003 | January 07, 01:55 CET

Sometimes I wonder why the Buffyverse doesn't get more of the treatment as other fandoms in terms of high price merchandise.

I only mention this cause I looked at Quint's 2005 Holiday Shopping Guide over at AICN and there's some really good looking quality items there.

Simon | January 07, 02:32 CET

Maybe because the audience isn't big enough to tempt some of the more 'superior' manufactures to purchase a license.

For all our love of it, it still isn't as well known as the Star Wars or Star Trek series.

sueworld2003 | January 07, 02:51 CET

I'd give him a Santa hat cos he looks like he's climbing out of a chimney ! Very odd indeed

debw | January 07, 03:24 CET

Well, I've always thought that a "real" bust is only supposed to be the person's head and a small bit of their shoulders.

I think a bust is called a bust because it features everything from the bustline up: chest, shoulders and head. Bust being an alternate term for breast.

My Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it thusly: a sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure including the head and neck and usually part of the shoulders and breast.

I don't know what you you would call something from the waistline up, but there be another word for it. Perhaps we can invent one.

killinj | January 07, 04:32 CET

Well, given that they were careful to end at the crotch, I'm calling it a 'lust' instead of a 'bust'....

Rogue Slayer | January 07, 04:37 CET

Maybe because the audience isn't big enough to tempt some of the more 'superior' manufactures to purchase a license.

It annoys me, sometimes I think we as a fandom get short changed. Ah well. I'm sure the marketing and licensing people at 20th Century Fox know exactly what they're doing. Probably.

Simon | January 07, 04:38 CET

Yes, and pigs will probaly fly first I fear....:)

sueworld2003 | January 07, 04:52 CET

I immediately thought of ghost Spike standing in the middle of Angel's desk...

newcj | January 07, 07:23 CET

I like it, but the window confuses me. It's too colory.

annosuperstar | January 07, 09:47 CET

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