#D&D Action Figures

[dragoryu3000]

Zarak takes it pretty far, but half-orcs being shorter than humans is accurate for the time. First Edition AD&D was kind of weird about orc/half-orc height, though.

The Player’s Handbook and Dungeon Master’s Guide both seem to proceed from more Tolkienian conception. Since "orc” is mostly just another term for goblin in The Lord of the Rings, Middle Earth half-orcs aren't bigger than humans. Instead, The Two Towers describes them as "man-high, but with goblin-faces." The PHB takes things a step further (or smaller?), depicting its smiley half-orc as shorter than the human in its drawing of various races standing together:

The DMG’s height and weight tables support this, listing orcs as shorter than humans on average:

This fits with a more goblin-adjacent idea of orcs. These half-orcs are presumably taller than the average orc and shorter than the average human...

…except that the Monster Manual lists orcs as being 6'+ tall, making them as tall or taller than the DMG's average human man:

You could chalk this up to how our cultural conception of orcs moved away from Tolkien's goblins and towards a "big and brutish" archetype/stereotype... but the Monster Manual actually came out before the PHB and DMG. As far as I can tell, orcs were first declared to be tall, then half-orcs were later made shorter than humans. You could maybe be generous and call it a quirk of hybrid genetics (like how ligers are larger than tigers or lions, ignoring the fact that tigons aren't), but I'm guessing it's just inconsistency.

Hey, it’s Zarak, everybody’s favorite half-orc assassin. He’s another of the smaller scaled figures from the LJN Dungeons & Dragons toy line. Like the others so far this week, he is also first wave, from 1983. I never understood why they made the half-orc smaller than the humans, but the choice does make for a nice skulking sculpt — he’s the only thief-ish character in the line. Unlike just about every other toy in the action figure line, he only has one accessory — his often-lost dagger.

He’s got an odd, lop-sided thing going on that I think is supposed to evoke a hunched posture and an uneven gait, and which is a pretty unusual design decision for a toy. His outfit is great, I love the pointy hood, and red and black are always a smart combo. Green skin, warts, lots of detail, though I feel like the facial sculpt is more reminiscent of the sort of gruff, middle-aged minor antagonist in a bad suit that would be a gadfly for a TV character like Magnum or Michael Knight before getting knocked off a pier or something. Anyway, a solid, fairly malevolent looking creep.

I will say, though, that the NECA Ultimates of Zarak is a massive upgrade. Holy wow, he looks dangerous. Like, as is ��� I can picture that little weirdo running around my house causing trouble like the goblin in Cat’s Eye.

[govthookercoulson]

It has been suggested I make a side tumblr for transformers reasons.

Saw Transformers One, got Yolopark figures of Orion and D16 and have been putting my dollfie photostory skills to use after dusting them off.

They are.. so much more receptive to posing than my dollfies or even my Hot Toys. They can hold each other's weight, zero issue.

[bisexualmultifandommess]

The way Shanks hugs Luffy and puts his hand in his hair after he saved him in the live action is so cute 😭 he looks so relieved that his kid is okay

[p-sheisty]

It's called the Time of My Life and I have been thanking my dad all day for doing this with me. I had a great time!

Also, LOOK AT MY LIL SKRUNKLY 🙏🙏🙏

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[unhookingstarswithoutpermission]

okay but listen. one piece au where everything happens the same way, as in luffy sees zoro for the first time and decides right there. that’s his person. that’s his soulmate.

and like their journey through east blue is totally the same but. luffy has, legally, been adopted by shanks before garp sent him to dadan’s. so like, shanks is his legal guardian just as much as dadan is, but no one really knows how to find the mountain bandits hideout, right? but shanks has a huge ship and a huge crew and technically luffy is still a minor so like. garp’s after him, he calls him every other day to tell shanks to keep luffy under control and shanks just. refuses to go against luffy’s dream.

AND THEN. mihawk is also somehow zoro’s guardian (the whole debacle where zoro and perona were sent to his castle happened when they were kids because I say so) but zoro still spent years with kuina and wants to uphold her dream and if that means he has to fight his almost-dad then so be it. so he becomes a pirate hunter to get stronger and mihawk just lets him, because he’s not about to betray his almost-son’s dream. baratie happens and he has no idea this newcomer strawhat has shanks’ hat and zoro on his crew but he won’t refuse a challenge from zoro and he still strikes him down and then lets him go because he sees the growth in him, and he wants zoro to get even better.

and maybe mihawk sees the way zoro and luffy exist in the same space, the way they don’t have to talk to understand each other, the way luffy lets zoro run towards his dream even if it could mean he has to see him die right before his eyes.

and it reminds him of himself and shanks, because they had a thing when they were younger - before shanks was captain and before mihawk became a warlord - and the way zoro and luffy gravitate towards each other is just so similar to what they had, except. Except luffy and zoro’s dreams can live together, are living together, so mihawk sees what could have been between him and shanks if they were the right person at the right time, like their almost-sons are.

AND that’s why mihawk brings luffy’s bounty to shanks. that’s why he stops for a drink. that’s why he spends the whole night hearing complaints about how the rest of luffy’s family wants him to look after him, but really, luffy would never forgive shanks if he got in the way of his dreams. and mihawk, too, talks about how it was to know that he was standing in the way of his own son’s dream. and then, because they understand each other now in a way they didn’t when they were younger and together, mihawk talks about what the relationship zoro and luffy seem to have. how it resembles what they had, but better, because they aren’t fighting each other - they are working together.

and that opens up a whole new way of seeing stuff, for shanks. because it wasn’t the right time, when they were younger and had different goals and expectations, but maybe that doesn’t mean him and mihawk are doomed for the start. maybe they can have something, too, maybe it was just a matter of the context they were in, maybe they were the right person for each other all along.

[im-thekeeper]

my son's at home! :з

(yes I'm weak, I purchased the action figure)

[software-bugs-b-gon]

would you like a first addition miku action figure?

Thanks for the offer though! And thanks for letting me see it I really--

INTERNAL CONSTIPATED SCREAMING

--appreciate it!

[catcake24]

I have received the boys!!

(Pls ignore the messy table)

Somehow I didn’t realize D-16 was actually taller than Orion! It’s a detail I like though :)

I also have two more figures that need to be assembled…

[acesluvrxx]

WANO ACE IS HOMEEHH 😻😻

[knitpool]

I bought some tiny dice from Etsy! (1337Geekery)

[thewormsdontstop]

so he is also his grandpa in the manga!!!

[netohllnd]

★ itachi and zoro !

~ like or reblog if your save ᰔᩚ

[gijoe-toy-photography]

Luffy: Think you can keep up pops?

Sgt. Slaughter: I let my fist do the talking monkey boy.

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[bisexualmultifandommess]

I love Shanks in the live action One Piece I think he’s great!

I love his relationship with Luffy and how he hugged him after saving him