Fine Art Becomes Finer (and Hilarious) Action Figures

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Good Smile Company's Figma The Table figures of Tutankhamun, a Moai Head Statue, Munch's The Scream, and Michaelangelo's David.

Figma: The Table Museum enactment fig series, wherever person you been each my life? I americium shocked and saddened to larn that I’ve been missing retired connected these toys based connected works of important and/or fine art from the Good Smile Company’s Figma line, but utter delighted to observe their existence. But I’m adjacent more delighted to find retired idiosyncratic astatine the Figma selling section is simply a drama genius, truthful I highly urge checking retired this astonishing assemblage of each of these fantastic figures here. (Warning: NSFW good creation boobs and genitals successful integrative signifier follow.)

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David present wants you to cognize everything is A-OK. David is precise naive.

Good Smile has fixed the renowned, elephantine Moai statues of Easter Island precise adjuvant limbs to determination astir with, but seemingly each they privation to bash is inactive astir and daydream.

While the statue of Venus de Milo famously mislaid its arms centuries agone and this fig represents that, Good Smile has besides added a brace of functional arms truthful Venus present tin bash functional things similar desperately trying to support her butt covered up.

These cherubs are the lone figures successful the enactment not based connected a circumstantial statue oregon paintings, but are conscionable inspired by the prolific cherubs seen successful Renaissance art. There was a representation of 1 peeing—yes, there’s an accessory for that—like into a fountain, but I preferred this li’l guy’s “Come astatine me, bro!” vibe.

Leonardo da Vinci’s enigmatic coating gets a small little enigmatic with this figure. Despite the image, she does travel with legs truthful she tin beryllium posed wrong her framework and extracurricular it. Also, if you’ve ever wanted an accessory of an highly tiny information of a chair, this is the artifact for you.

On the near is the ghostly Yurei-zu, painted by Maruyama Okyo. Her fig comes with a little terrifying face. The gent connected the close is Sharaku’s painting of Kabuki histrion Otani Oniji III playing the relation of Yakko Edobei in The Colored Reins of a Loving Wife. They some look arsenic displeased to spot each other.

Sometimes you person to scream, but sometimes you conscionable privation to perceive different people’s screams. Holla!

No 1 knows wherefore 18,000 Dogu statues were crafted each implicit prehistoric Japan, but this is surely the archetypal mentation to prevarication seductively connected the crushed astatine look astatine you with elephantine “come hither” eyes.

The past statue of Greek goddess of victory, Nike (from whence the sanction of the footwear institution came) was recovered connected the land of Samothrace and rediscovered successful the 19th period sans arms and legs. But adhd the caput and bonus arms of Venus de Milo and you person a full woman who thinks she hears her cellphone ringing successful different room!

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If I ever person the accidental to look retired of a giant half-shell, I anticipation I person the motivation fortitude to bash jazz hands arsenic I exit.

Note 1: Not each of King Tut’s casket is successful this photo. Note 2: The casket is truly a precise awesome accessory, and the enactment fig is of the mummified Tut. Note 3: A generic Figma fig has stolen Tut’s ceremonial disguise and this is highly comic to me.

Sure, Good Smile could person made a two-armed, two-legged mentation of da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, but that’s not what da Vinci sketched. He sketched 4 arms and 4 legs, mostly to exemplify quality anatomy... but who’s to accidental helium wasn’t besides dreaming up the cleanable warrior who could suplex Michelangelo’s David successful a no-holds-barred wrestling match? Not me, certainly.

If you emotion these figures arsenic overmuch arsenic I do, you tin bid immoderate of them here—or conscionable spell cheque retired much of these fantastic photos.

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