CUSTOM MARY JANE THOR ACTION FIGURE TOY [MARVEL LEGENDS SCALE] BY DSNG!

After much work, today I have..... a simple head swap!! LOL!! And It's a damn good one too! That's one of my fav body molds, the Lady Thor / Moonstone / Spider Woman body! The head came from the Retro Black Widow. The battleaxe came from Thor Odison. Maybe I'll upgrade her costume later... we'll see....

    

Not too long ago, I posted a pic that showed some comparisons in female body molds for the Marvel Legends toys [the base figures that I use the most, as opposed to using the DC comics figures]. And the pic came from the cool guy Boog_ACBA, who is on Youtube and Instagram. He's been taking pics of his action figures for over 10 years. And that comparison pic is over here on my Twitter.
Anyway, thanks for looking, enjoy and share!

CUSTOM FIREFLY G.I.JOE / COBRA TOY [MARVEL LEGENDS SCALE] BY DSNG!

Another new villain, today we have the infiltrator Firefly!
The base body was Marvel Legends X-Force Deadpool. And the lower legs were from Scourge / Demolition Man. His head came from Demolition Man as well, while I added some sculpt to it. His entire costume was sculpted as well and his customized guns came from ebay. Lots of fodder was added to his gear, while there were some sculpting details added to his boots and belt. He has five guns and no swords. Thanks for looking, enjoy and share!
And check out the former GIJoe Beachead toy over Here!

    

    

CUSTOM SNAKE EYES G.I.JOE TOY Ver3.0 [MARVEL LEGENDS SCALE] BY DSNG!

This is the third Snake Eyes I've made; the rest are in my blog / gallery.
The base body was Marvel Legends Paladin. The swords and shoulder harness came from Deadpool. His helmet and armor and all the pouches were sculpted from putty. His guns came from Paladin and ebay, but they were all modified. The dagger on his thigh and the handgun on his chest are all removable. He was hand-painted with Tamiya paints. He has six guns, two daggers & two swords. There's some other guy that has more guns than that, somewhere in my gallery. Thanks for checking him out! YOOO JOE!! Enjoy and Share!!
BTW: The gallery with the second Snake Eyes toy [Ver 1.0] is over HERE!
And Snake Eyes Ver 2.0 is HERE!

    

 

FLASHBACK - THE WILDC.A.T.S CARTOON! BASED ON JIM LEE'S WILDCATS COMIC SERIES!

Basic Series Background Intro:
Back in October 1994, an action sci fi cartoon series was launched on the CBS TV channel, which aired along with TMNT and Skeleton Warriors. And that cartoon was titled WildCats, which was based on the comic series created by the ultra-talented artist Jim Lee [his artwork is shown on the left, from the mid-90s]. The comics in the first series ran for 50 issues, and it was the beginning of the Wildstorm Universe created by Jim. And the cartoon ran for just 13 episodes. And it had a brief toy-line created by Playmates Toys.

The first issue of WildCats Covert Action Teams was published by Jim Lee and Image comics back in 1992. By then, Jim Lee was already known for his artwork on Marvel's X-men. And Jim teamed up with his buddy, Brandon Choi, to create the WildCats indy comic series, which became an instant hit.

And while being a teenager back in the 90s [the good old days!], I got to know about the WildCats comics through the cartoon series, which had a badass gritty feel to it, along with a rock & roll soundtrack with lots of electric guitar riffs. And over the years, some of the voice actors from WildCats were tied to other animated series like: X-men, Ultra Force, Care Bears, RoboCop, Totally Spies and Rescue Heroes.

The Core Story-line:
The cartoon series featured two ancient races fighting across the galaxy and traveling in spaceships that crashed down to Earth [just like the original Transformers cartoon, released almost 9 years earlier]. And the good guys were called the Kherubim [almost pronounced as "Cherubim"], while the bad guys were the Daemonites [aka Day-mon-ites].
We are not told what galactic sector that they originally came from; but that's not really important in these classic cartoons... plus you need to remember that "a universe" and "a galaxy" are not the same thing..... but maybe I'll explain later.

Moving along, after the two separate spaceship crashes, the two alien races continued to evolve and battle on Earth behind the scenes, for over 100,000 years. And the good guys are able to take on human appearances, while the bad guys have to possess certain human bodies, in order to turn them into Daemonite soldiers. But the mortals descendants with Kherubim blood seem to be the best vessels for the Daemonites to possess / dominate and take over, since those mortals tend to have dormant mutant / psychic powers that can be activated by a few different means.

   

  

  

The WildCats Superhero Team Consisted of: 
Lord Emp / Jacob Marlowe - An ancient Kherubim warrior in the comics, and an ordinary mortal in the cartoon. He is the multimillionaire team sponsor, & the owner of Halo Corporation. And he creates the team's jet, like the Avengers Quinjet.

Spartan - the bold team leader with orange hair and the red cowl, whose body was damaged in an accident; and his mind was transferred into his living cyborg shell. But in the comics, he is more of an android, not a mortal. He has flight and red thermal energy projection powers.

Zealot - the red ninja gal / the hardcore Lieutenant, with long white hair. She is a master swordswoman with elite combat skills. She's single in the cartoon. But she does have a daughter with another hero, in the comics.

Maul - a mutant "Hulk" kinda guy that can grow to become 30 - 50 feet tall, & he's the big boyfriend of Voodoo. He has purpleish skin and he cannot transform into a regular human.

Voodoo - the Telepath / Jean Gray Type. She has long blue hair. She can levitate and toss objects at her foes. And she can see Daemonites moving about in disguise as humans. She can also read minds to an extent... and in the comics, she was an exotic dancer who does sexy strip teases... so basically, she was a stripper :)

WarBlade - the First Wolverine type / badass guy. He wears the white & blue costume, and his hands can morph into liquid metal like a Terminator, and then instantly harden to become blades and piercing claws.

Mr. Majestic - a former leader of the Kherubim, who is featured more in the comics, than in the cartoons, since the leader in the cartoon series is Spartan.

Void - Teleporter / sexy living computer / naked silver android, in the cartoons. But in the comics, her powers come from an Orb of Power that crashed into her military team's space exploring vessel, killing everyone except her. And that orb fused with her body & gave her the powers of precognition, so she can see glimpses of the future, and she can fly. I've added a pic of her on the left.


Grifter - the smart-ass / Second Wolverine type / bad-ass hitman of the group. He has blonde hair and he wears the red bandanna over his face. He's a former soldier with the Navy's Seal Team 7, and he's an expert marksman that uses laser guns.

** Helspont - an ancient Warlord / General for the Daemonites, the main bad guy in the cartoon. He took possession of an Acurian body, sometime after the fall of the Roman Empire. Shown on the right, his black skull face looks like it's permanently on fire... whitish-gray fire. Other bad guys in the cartoon were Slag, Harm, Pike, Taboo, Devin and Attica.

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MOVIE REVIEW - MY THOUGHTS ON TERMINATOR DARK FATE: WHY IT GOT TERMINATED, & SOME FOREIGN BOX OFFICE FACTS!

All right guys, I haven't done a detailed movie review in a long time..... today I'll talk about Terminator Dark Fate, which came out this past weekend.  And there will be some SPOILERS, because I can't avoid it as I explain some issues / problems with the flick. And I'll give you 5 Points in my long rant.

That's one of the promotional shots for the movie shown on the right, featuring Dani, Grace and Sarah Connor. I'll talk about them later.

[1.] First of all... the movie bombed, really bad. And apart from a few young-hearted fanboys that give a thumbs-up to everything [you can find a few of them on Youtube too], the general consensus was that the movie had a strong feminist agenda behind it. Btw, strong / courageous female leads in action movies is not a new concept... there was a movie called Alien, released almost 40 years ago in 1979, which had a female lead.

Anyway, the former Terminator movie released back in 2015 called Terminator Genisys made 27 Million dollars in the opening weekend, before making 89 million domestically in the summer of 2015, and also 440 million globally.
And this new movie Terminator Dark Fate has made 28 - 29 million in its opening weekend, although exact numbers are still being awaited at this time. And it was projected to make 125 million globally by Hollywood forecasters... and that didn't happen.

This new movie wasn't expected by the studio or even the critics to open that low - they were hoping for 50 - 60 million domestically. And when the prices are adjusted for inflation, then the older older Terminator Genisys movie from 2015 did better. Plus Terminator Dark Fate had a budget of 185 million Dollars, before the extra marketing budget, which can run up to 50 million.... so.... damn, they're in trouble.

[2.]  Sometimes fans think that the foreign box office will save a movie... but that's not always the case... You see, a movie exec / an insider talked about it some years ago in an article for an entertainment Website. Can't remember who the guy was. But what he said was very insightful to me. He revealed that every foreign country takes a cut of the imported movie's profits; hence the American Studio is not allowed to go to China, Indonesia or Belgium, and milk them dry and take away 100% of the foreign gross, and depart with it.
Instead, the foreign country and its government take roughly 60% of any Profit that comes from the American movie, and then they give the rest of the money to the American Studio. Often, the American Studio has to establish a foreign office that receives the money first; and in that case, even less of the 40% gets back to the American branch, because of foreign Taxes.

Even when you sit and think about it, you realize the truth in what that executive was saying... after all, you can't take a product overseas, sell it in a foreign mall, get all the money, and never pay a dime to the people that hosted you over there or to their government. It's like you came to steal from their economy and go back to your country with their wealth....

[3.]  So now that you consider that issue, and you realize that Terminator Dark Fate has made 28.5 million [estimated] domestically in the USA, and it has made 94 million Overseas so far, then that really does not help the fact that the stated budget was 185 million or more, [and the marketing over several months is at least 50 million extra, for foreign and domestic showcases].
Hence from the foreign / overseas movie ticket sales, the movie is going to take Less Than Half of the 94 million, because all the foreign territories will take different cuts and they never share it 50 - 50 with the American Studio.

Thus the American movie studios always want to make as much profit as possible in the first few days / first weeks from the overseas markets, because it really helps them in their overall gains, when the movie is very profitable. And ticket sales tend to go down from week to week, since newer movies keep coming out to draw away the audience.

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KOLIDER - ORIGINAL CHARACTER, G.I.JOE CUSTOM ACTION FIGURES BY DSNG!

Another new Custom! Introducing Kolider, one of my Original Characters from the DSNG Sci Fi Series! He is a mercenary and a former Army Ranger / Commando.
The base body of the character was Marvel Legends Thor. I sculpted his armor and added the shoulder spikes and the gauntlets / arm-bands. His knee-pads, shin-guards, belt and boots were sculpted, as was his hair and beard. Plus his chainsaw blaster was custom made, while the other weapons were from ebay. He was hand-painted with Tamiya paints. Thanks for looking, please Like and Share!

 

  

SPIDER-GWEN FAN ART SKETCHES - PENCILS BY DSNG!

I've been posting more regularly at Instagram [clean art] and at Patreon [exclusive art, clean & uncensored]. And these are some sketches of Spider-Gwen that I did a while back. I made her thicc / thick per my art style. The first two pics show some anime-styled eyes, and the middle pic is more of a serious face. The fourth & fifth pics are more comedy, for a past April fools joke.
Plus there's an older blog article that I posted that shows pencils, inks and colors for a Spider-man poster that I drew over HERE!