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(...) I bought a 8774 Vladek and my 2 cents worth (is that still legal opinion tender in Oz?) is that is it a cool toy for a decent price. Not really my taste for MOC'ing with but better than Galidor. Would have liked studs on the outside of the (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Are action figures generally right-handed or left-handed like the KK maxifigs ? My local W seem to have moved KK stock, while plenty of black and brown $4.95 Rakshi are still sitting there. (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Can I resist commenting, smug in my own erudition, that there is something sinister about the KK's handedness? Probably not, and neither can I resist commenting on these "adult action figures" that James mentions... the mind boggles at the (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) In my experience, usually right handed. When I bought Vladek I dindn't really look that closely at the other sets so at first I just thought that they had made the evil one left handed (a fairly regualar practice historically to point out a (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Nope. They're still designed with righties in mind. Try holding it in your right hand and roll the thumb-wheel with your right thumb. Now try the same thing with your left hand/thumb. It whacks you in the knuckles. If you look back at the 2001 (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I'd post a link to the realdoll website except for the impressionable minds that may be lurking loc.au (...) Correct, it should read BOOOO!!! (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) I've just spend five minutes trying to write a response to this that doesn't sound sarcastic (who? me? sarcastic?), but have given up. Trust me, the following is not intended to be sarcastic: It's stuff like this that often impresses me about (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, they've got a good batch of engineers over there, and nearly everything they've designed makes sense...once you figure out why they did it the way they did. Believe me, I was pretty grumpy about this one until I'd tinkered around with my (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, was warned by Polonius to "beware the sinister sword". Kerry (20 years ago, 18-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Quite a nice play on words there by Shakespeare, since it was the second sword (held en-passant in the left hand) that was poisoned, hence sinister in both the Latin and English meanings of the word. :) It's been a while since I've read some (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Is Hairy McMary of Donaldson's Dairy handy with a sword (or two) ? (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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