{"id":1012,"date":"2010-08-07T07:34:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T14:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2011-02-01T19:58:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T02:58:41","slug":"minimate-spotlight-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/minimate-spotlight-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimate Spotlight #14 Gorilla Grodd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Action figures have long been a perfect compliment to comic books, since every kid (or kid at heart) has that natural desire to act out adventures with their favorite heroes off the drawn page. <\/span>Every so often, a unique style of figure comes along that breaks the mold, so to speak. Each Saturday, Donny B<\/a> will be showcasing various offerings from Art Asylum’s take on the ‘block figure’, with a weekly spotlight on Minimates<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not every Minimate\u00a0is welcomed with open arms.\u00a0Sometimes, Art Asylum\u00a0releases a character that\u00a0just plain stinks.\u00a0The Hulk\u00a0is a prime example of this, since many of his releases are experimentations with “bulking up”\u00a0the look of a Minimate without\u00a0changing it too drastically. Many fans feel that his first release was the best, and every attempt to “improve” him have failed\u00a0horribly…\u00a0but the Hulk isn’t alone. In DC’s second Minimate outing, they introduced the larger sized bodies for appropriately larger character. On top of doing that, they added on\u00a0rather encumbering pieces that hid a large amount of the distinctive blocky look that\u00a0Minimates were built to embody. We are going to see that concept as we\u00a0examine\u00a0Gorilla Grodd.<\/p>\n

Grodd,\u00a0from\u00a0the Flash’s rogues gallery, is a big character. To\u00a0convey the bulkiness\u00a0of his\u00a0hairy physique, his Minimate form was “over dressed” as some fans would argue. It caused a small outcry from the Minimate community, many of whom had no hatred for the release aside from how it simply didn’t look much like a Minimate:<\/p>\n

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Behind the Image:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve shown off several photoshop-heavy images over the last couple of weeks, so this time I went for one that had no post production work whatsoever. I wanted a very ‘organic’ feel for this week’s photo, just to keep from\u00a0getting in a rut of over-producing my shots (which I am very fond of doing). And what better way to give a very ‘real’ feeling to a photo than to surround the subject in nature?<\/p>\n

So I took my Gorilla Grodd ‘mate outside and placed him in a tree. ’nuff said \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

On Ebay<\/span>: Gorilla Grodd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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