Enterbay - Green Hornet

Enterbay's next Bruce Lee chapter will be Kato in Green Hornt. Here are the details:

1. Product：BRUCE LEE - KATO from THE GREEN HORNET
2. Release Date：2009-06
3. Edition：WORLDWIDE LIMITED EDITION OF 5000
4. Product Status：Pre-Order NOW!
5. MSRP：$190 USD

N.B: Price listed above excludes shipping

• Approximately 30 cm Tall
• Authentic likeness of Bruce Lee as "KATO" (one head sculpt)
• 2 x hair styles (One for posing with hat and one for without)
• Movie-accurate KATO outfit ( 2 different looks)
• Removable as-seen-on screen Mask and old style chauffeurs hat
• 2 x KATO Throwing Darts

• 10 interchangeable hands ( 8 black gloved hands)
• Technologically advanced new Original Action Body BL 3.5 (improved ankle joints)
• Features 15 points of Articulation
• Bonus Paper Binocular
• New high-performance Original Figure Stand FS-200 (100% All metal and extra foldable base)
• ENTERBAY's 360°Eye Ball System
• Certificate of Authenticity Card The Green Hornet Exclusive Design Premium Packaging Box Set (each edition comes with it’s own carry bag)
• Worldwide limited edition of 5000 pcs

Officially sculpted by: ARNIE KIM

Arnie Kim has worked his magic once again, with a younger version of Bruce Lee. The details are amazing as always. What I like with this is the improved ankle joints, which is bit of a nightmare with the early BL bodies. The joint aren't stiff enough to hold any decent position and the figure usually takes a dive to the ground. It's good the R&D team have sorted something out, but it's yet to be seen if the joints holds out.

(The sculptor Arnie Kim)

Enterbay - 龍爭虎鬥

In 2007 Enterbay released their third series of Bruce Lee figures from the film Enter The Dragon (龍 爭虎鬥). Two versions were made, A and B. The B version comes with a different headsculpt, a white tunic, a black catsuit, a nunchuck and a few hands. The best thing about version B was the catsuit, as my most memorable moment of the film was when Bruce Lee was in the catsuit sneaking into the enemy's base.

Version A consist of:

Blue suit
Brown suit
Extra pair of hands
Boxing Gloves

I chose Version A because I like the plain expression. Also if I wanted the catsuit I can always try and make one.

The headsculpt was produced by Arnie Kim, an South Korean sculptor, he has been sculpting Bruce Lee heads for a long time, but now I feel he has started to capture Bruce Lee's essence.
The nice thing about the headsculpt is the moveable eyeball system, which gives the character more expression. The paint job is excellent compared to other companies, though they seemed to have given my Bruce Lee extra blushes than required.

The body is beautifully sculpted, but the articulation is limited compared to Hot Toys True Type. One minor fault of the body is the feet joints which is quite loose, therefore it would not hold some poses upright. I think the best way Enterbay can retify this problem is by using the ball-joint system like Hot Toy, as it provide more poses for the figure and keeps it in posture.

It's quite cool that they've included the boxing gloves as they were used near the beginning of the film when Bruce was sparing.

Enterbay and Arnie Kim have done an excellent job in bringing a realistic 1/6 version of Bruce Lee. It's one of my favorite figures so far, just with the craftsmanship that has gone into it.

Darren Carnall's Creative Corner

Just wanted to introduce a fellow Englishman, Darren Carnall.

The guy is a wizard at painting headsculpt as well as resculpting. He's resculpted few headsculpts from Sideshow including Legolas, Ewan McGergor as Obi-Wan and Arnold Schwarzenegger from Terminator 2, all look hundred times better than the original. Also his paint application on these are truely amazing with life-like resembalance.

A top bloke to talk to, though at the moment he's got like a million comissions to do. Shows how much people like his work.

Check out his work through here: http://www.darrencarnall.com/

(Aragorn Repainted head)

(Original Sideshow headsculpt on the right, DC's magic work on the left)

H1N1 Flu Mutation!

News report of the H1N1 flu outbreak. Click link to see.

www.bbc.co.uk


'There has been a small outbreak of “zombism” in London due to mutation of the H1N1 virus into new strain: H1Z1.

Similar to a scare originally found in Cambodia back in 2005, victims of a new strain of the swine flu virus H1N1 have been reported in London.

After death, this virus is able to restart the heart of it’s victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believe to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during “resurrection.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the alert to phase six, its highest level, and advised governments to activate pandemic contingency plans.

In Mexico, the epicentre of the outbreak, President Felipe Calderon urged people to stay at home over the next five days.

There are many cases elsewhere - including the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Israel, and New Zealand.

BBC health correspondent Mark McGrith says the raising of the WHO alert on Wednesday suggests a global epidemic, or pandemic, is imminent.

In the latest developments:

* The Netherlands confirms its first case of zombie swine flu, in a three-year-old boy recently returned from Mexico. After passing away early this morning, he rose from the dead and lunged at his mother.
* Ghana has become the latest country to ban pork imports as a precaution against swine flu, though no cases have been found in the West African country
* China's health minister says that the country's scientists have developed a "sensitive and fast" test for spotting swine flu in conjunction with US scientists and the WHO. The country has recorded no incidence of the flu yet. There methods, however, have been uneffective in spotting the H1Z1 strain.

At the meeting of health ministers in Luxembourg, a French proposal for a continent-wide travel advisory for Mexico will be discussed.



It is unclear whether the EU executive has the power to impose a travel ban.

Several countries have restricted travel to Mexico and many tour operators have cancelled holidays.

Other members are resisting calls to implement travel bans or close borders, on the grounds - backed by the WHO - that there is little evidence of their efficacy.

The EU ministers will also try to agree on how to refer to the new virus.

The European Commission has been calling it "novel flu", replacing the word "swine" to avoid prompting a fall in demand for pork and bacon.

On Wednesday, Egypt began a mass slaughter of its pigs - even though the WHO says the virus was now being transmitted from human to human. '

Zombies alert!!!! Luckily the website is a hoax or I'll be getting my Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide out to read. The weblink posted is the cached of the original website, since the original has been taken down by government officials. Slags!

Hot Toys - Marcus Wright

Should really be keeping up with my blog, what a slacker!

Well the next Hot Toys release will be Terminator Salvation's Marcus Wright. The figure will include:

· Dressed in his movie accurate trench coat, t-shirt, pants, leather-like leggings and boots, and also interchangeable leather-like jacket.

· Accessories include harness, knife, shotgun and 3 sets of interchangeable hands.

· Interchangeable Marcus head featuring skeletal face

· Articulated and battle damaged left arm

· Authentic Sam Worthington likeness.

· Figure stand with Terminator Salvation logo and Marcus Wright nameplate

Artist info: -Head Sculpt by GOX (Eom Jae Sung) -Head Art Directed by JC. Hong -Head Paint by JC.Hong

The figure looks amazing and looks screen accurate, though shame they couldn't get the face accurate to Sam Worthington. The trench coat is a killer and makes this is one of the coolest figure around. The figure doesn't have much accessories, but Hot Toys have included a lot with this set with the extra head and outfit, all you need is to purchase an extra True type body.

I hope the movie lives up to expectation after seeing the crap that is T3!