Pacack
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As many of you know, Sakurai has a history of using poseable figurines to visualize how a character would move and play in Super Smash Bros. before he goes through complete animation.
As I was perusing his twitter page, I came across come interesting information.
Look at the following tweets:
Now, I know you probably don't read Japanese, so here's a (rough) translation of the tweets.
1. This figure's moving body, while lacking personality, can withstand a variety of poses and movements. I wonder if they were sold in other places. It'll be needed at work soon.
2. (Having difficulty translating, but he doesn't seem to mention the figure itself. It's just talking about Uprising and its cards.)
3. I bought a Figma "Archetype" (right) (which, no, had nothing to do with Pit's Figma). I wonder if I can use it like my "make your own" Microman figure (left).
(This is irrelevant to the point I'm going to be making, but, thanks to the information given about the figures in the third tweet, I can safely identify the figures as the following:
Tweets 1 and 2: Microman Material Force 2004 Blank White Figure
Tweet 3 (Left): Microman Material Force 2004 Blank Flesh Tone Figure
Tweet 3 (Right): Figma Archetype Male
The Microman figures were sold exclusively at Japanese Toys R Us stores and were surprisingly successful (source). You can find similar ones on ebay for about $30 today.
The Figma Archetype isproof that Sakurai has cash to spend a similar figure to the blank Micromen that boasts extreme poseability and endurance. It seems like Sakurai bought it when it came out in 2012. I believe it's a Japan-exclusive product. You can find this on Amazon for the perfectly reasonable price of $140.)
You may be wondering, "Why are you bringing these tweets up, Pacack?" Well, good question! I would like to direct your attention to the first tweet again.
Tell me, have you ever seen a pose like this before?
No?
Never once in your life...
...have you ever seen a pose even remotely similar to this one?
...Not once?
Yes, I am proposing that Sakurai showed us the figure that he was using to visualize Little Mac's animations. While none of these are a perfect match, this is probably what he initially used to envision either Little Mac's Star K.O. or one of his other moves. (My personal bet is that he started out imagining his Star K.O. before doing some boxing research and redoing the pose to more closely resemble real-world boxing techniques. It would explain Little Mac's arms being slightly closer to his body than the figure's.)
Assuming I'm right, let's look at these other two pictures.
I think it's entirely plausible that at least one of these figures is making a pose of a currently unrevealed newcomer. My question to you all is, who?
As I was perusing his twitter page, I came across come interesting information.
Look at the following tweets:
Now, I know you probably don't read Japanese, so here's a (rough) translation of the tweets.
1. This figure's moving body, while lacking personality, can withstand a variety of poses and movements. I wonder if they were sold in other places. It'll be needed at work soon.
2. (Having difficulty translating, but he doesn't seem to mention the figure itself. It's just talking about Uprising and its cards.)
3. I bought a Figma "Archetype" (right) (which, no, had nothing to do with Pit's Figma). I wonder if I can use it like my "make your own" Microman figure (left).
(This is irrelevant to the point I'm going to be making, but, thanks to the information given about the figures in the third tweet, I can safely identify the figures as the following:
Tweets 1 and 2: Microman Material Force 2004 Blank White Figure
Tweet 3 (Left): Microman Material Force 2004 Blank Flesh Tone Figure
Tweet 3 (Right): Figma Archetype Male
The Microman figures were sold exclusively at Japanese Toys R Us stores and were surprisingly successful (source). You can find similar ones on ebay for about $30 today.
The Figma Archetype is
You may be wondering, "Why are you bringing these tweets up, Pacack?" Well, good question! I would like to direct your attention to the first tweet again.
Tell me, have you ever seen a pose like this before?
No?
Never once in your life...
...have you ever seen a pose even remotely similar to this one?
...Not once?
Yes, I am proposing that Sakurai showed us the figure that he was using to visualize Little Mac's animations. While none of these are a perfect match, this is probably what he initially used to envision either Little Mac's Star K.O. or one of his other moves. (My personal bet is that he started out imagining his Star K.O. before doing some boxing research and redoing the pose to more closely resemble real-world boxing techniques. It would explain Little Mac's arms being slightly closer to his body than the figure's.)
Assuming I'm right, let's look at these other two pictures.
I think it's entirely plausible that at least one of these figures is making a pose of a currently unrevealed newcomer. My question to you all is, who?
