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dalekboy ([personal profile] dalekboy) wrote2008-09-15 11:01 pm

Only 14 people in the world will find this cool...

I was just putting up some stuff on eBay. In amongst the items, I have a Natural Ood and Ood Sigma from Planet of the Ood. And I noticed that they both have different head sculpts. So I went off and checked, and yes, the Series 2 Ood figure also has a different head.

Compare and contrast with the Dapol Timelord figures, and this is why I love Character Options. They are crazy and dedicated enough to producing a good product that they go to this much trouble on a figure where using the one head on all three would do.

[identity profile] ariaflame.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Really only 14?

That attention to detail is definitely impressive.

[identity profile] angriest.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
It's particularly funny given that the only reason they produced the Ood in the first place on the show was because they could produce them cheaply if all the heads were exactly the same.

[identity profile] drjon.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
You might be interested to know that they're re-engineered the 5" Dalek model to be closer to the actual prop, as well, for the next new Dalek release. Thinner skirt, rounder head, smaller sucker and gun. Stuff like that.

CO have made some bad mistakes (predominantly in the distribution area, but I'm thinking most of all of the Destroyed Cassandra figure, and Celerygate), but they also deserve to be congratulated for some of the awesomely good decisions they've made.