Terry Gilliam action figures

Friday, April 10, 2009


Toymania.com is featuring amazingly detailed action figures based on the films of Terry Gilliam. The figures are the work of a fellow called Sillof, and they're painstakingly created through a mix of original sculpture and parts of existing action figures. (Sillof has also posted a brief how-to, explaining which toy parts he used to make his own figures.)

So far we're a little confused about whether these figures will be for sale or not. Here's the copy from the site:


Finally, a line of figures will be released to celebrate the wonderfully rich & imaginative worlds of the films of Terry Gilliam. Mr. Gilliam is one of Sillof's favorite directors. The cinematic realms of Gilliam are rich with dystopian, baroque, and anachronistic details. This is the first wave in the series. It includes Sam Lowry the disaffected worker struggling against the bureaucracy of a nightmarish future, Jack Lint Harry's "friend" and fellow government worker, and Harry Tuttle the renegade terrorist air condition technician!


That makes it sound like these characters are going to be for sale, but we don't get the impression that these are officially licensed products. Frankly, part of us hopes these won't be for sale... It would be hard to resist them at any price, and we're already wondering where we're going to find room for all the Labyrinth swag we were dorking out over the other day.
Sillof is apparently working on more Gilliam figures, including Randall from Time Bandits and Johnny Depp as Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. To see more of his work, you can visit his site.


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