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Immortal 7 inch Series 1 Action Figure from 300 by Frank Miller by NECA
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Toys and Games Reviews of Immortal 7 inch Series 1 Action Figure from 300 by Frank MillerCustomer Review: Immortal Beloved! Summary: 5 Stars
Can I make a confession? No? Too bad: when I was young, I had all sorts of bizarro fantasies. Now that I'm a wicked old sinner, I have more. One of them involved the Wicked Witch of the West, from "Wizard of Oz."
No, silly, it wasn't that kind of fantasy. Though to a 5-year-old boy, the Witch was total hotness. I mean, dig it: she was lanky. She was green (big plus!). She had nice long slender girl-hands and fingers, and a happening chin, and she was Goth when Goth wasn't cool, and though she took pains to hide it, you just knew underneath all those black robes she had a kickin' bod.
But no, it wasn't Witch widdershins I was craving, baby: it was the fantasy of having my own flying monkey. Imagine, having your own flying monkey, or an army of the nasty, hairy, but nonetheless adroitly attired little brutes, to dispatch at your whim and terrorize the playground.
With that said, having a little Persian Immortal from Frank Miller's juicy "300" is the next best thing to having your own flying monkey.
Just check out the things you can do with your own little psychotic killing machine courtesy of the Ancient World:
1)Ugly your colleagues to death. The Immortal, without his silver mask, is dog ugly. Hoooooo boy! Hideous, actually. They go on about the Greeks and the "love that dare not speak its name" (which in our own far more advanced society, won't shut the Hell up), but what were the Persians up to with these guys? No wonder they had to wear masks.
2) He's got, uh, all two points of articulation. It's sufficient. True, you can make him do a little waddle-shift around the hips, but that's not what the Immortal is all about.
The important thing is that all the articulation here is in the arms: you can raise his arms---preparatory to the whirling arc of death & dismemberment, so he can swing a few pounds of Persian pig-iron down upon his cowering souvlaki-swilling foe. Or you can lower them, a fitting coda to the slaughter and a happy entra'cte before he sets his vorpal sword a snicker-snacking again, the better to make some more Greek shish-kebab!
3)He has two happily pointy slicey-dicey blades, ideal for truly surgical strikes on the Greeks achey-breakey hearts.
You can remove the swords from his nasty little talons and sheath them in the twin black scabbards affixed to his back. Alas, one of them, poorly glued by a child's hands in some Kowloon sweat shop no doubt, popped off, leaving my guy with just one scabbard.
But that's fine! The Immortal don't need no steenkin' scabbards! The Immortal's hands should always be doubly full of whirling Eastern death, to bring low all those vile scurvy dogs who would challenge his Mighty Master, the Emperor Xerxes, Sun of the East!
Think of it this way: the Immortal is here to kick axx and take names. He never should have both blades sheathed---I mean, what the Hell is he gonna do then, write traffic tickets? With one blade scabbarded, he can kick axx; with the other, he can jot down names for future reference. At a certain point---not in 300, of course, but that was BS---he's kicking so much axx that he doesn't have time to take names. So you might as well tear off the other scabbard, lock and load your boy like the proper Persian two-fisted slaughterer he is, and go to WAR!
4) He's a gas at board meetings. Particularly important ones. I take him to all of them where I work. When some gasbag is touting some critical presentation, I let my immortal poke and stab and slash at my copy of the proposal, until it's nothing but a little brutalized, bloodied origami. Show that up and coming rising star what the furies of the King of the East think about his high and mighty Hebensweitzer Report! Watch the Chairman of the Board (nervously) deep-six it. Score!
5) It's also fun to make the Immortal do little riffs on "Glengarry Glen Ross". Never gets old. The Immortal in the pivotal motivational sales meeting: "First prize, [EXPLETIVES], is a Cadillac Chariot El-Dorado; second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is: you're dead. And I've already GOT the set of steak knives right here!
6) You can't take the Immortal clubbing. I mean, seriously, look at his big, ugly, scabrous feet. You want this guy to be your wingman? I'm thinking: Yes! What chick in her right mind is gonna dance with this guy? She's mine! Game, set, & match!
7) With that in mind, there is no way the Greeks in "300", who were dancing to "Hallelujah it's Raining Men" outside the Hot Gates, could have won over an army of these things. I mean, great Zeus, look at the feet! Suffice it to say, my little Immortal doesn't have wings or an adorable prehensile tail, but he's a barrel of (flying, killer) monkeys all the same.
Maybe he's not a Prince of Persia, baby, but this guy is still a Prince.
JSG
Description of Immortal 7 inch Series 1 Action Figure from 300 by Frank MillerThis series comes from the highly anticipated film coming out on the Spartan War drama based on Frank Miller's graphic novel. Written and illustrated by Frank Miller, the story of 300 depicts the Battle of Thermopylae and the events leading up to it from the perspective of Leonidas I, king of Sparta. The comic was inspired by the 1962 film, The 300 Spartans , a movie that Miller watched as a young boy. These highly detailed figures come with alternate heads and movie accurate accessories.
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