A Nag Pa I Root (NAGNAGNAG) and der Angora Patio

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This thread is getting waaaaay too long.

 

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Huh... look at that. I guess I could say something about the whole process surrounding the figure turning me off. Maybe it was just how gross the Meat version was, but I have lost interest for the sculpt... it just weirds me out now.

 

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This is unbeleivably ugly.
Putting this on my shelve would make my kids scared for life

 

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"RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!" Oh wait, erm I mean.....What the FUCK?! Get that pic of that TOY outa here! This shit aint about TOYS M-A-N!

 

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There's something completely unnerving about the giant extended lips and mouth of the Siamese head. It's just too much for me.

 

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The features on both heads, particularly the nose, make me think it was sculpted to look like a caucasian.

 

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That's NagNagNag? I remember talking with that guy for a while last time I was in Tokyo. He was a total weirdo! It's awesome to know he created this.

 

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I want to see one in person.

The face is like a mishapen head from Angkor Wat.

Someone's already mentioned atomic bomb victim and that gets my vote.

Roger, where are you going with the caucasian comment?

 

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So I was combing through the thread to try and pluck out the pics of the figure (which is a task because too much of this thread is about stupid shit that has little to do with the toy) to compile a photo list of the versions so far just to see them all together. Sadly a lot are now gone and I'm too lazy to browse Flickr too (so hint hint, Alice or Joe maybe? Got all the release pics?!)

ANYWAY while doing so I realized that one of the first versions was a Frankenruge already, and to try and get things back on course thought it'd be cool to compare.

 

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"Sometimes a NagNagNag is just a NagNagNag" - Sigmund Freud

 

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Here are the ones I found.

 

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Just that it looks like a monstrous gaijin, the way the old depictions of the oni were supposed to look with their big noses. That and the "FUCK USA" print on the feet, "Made on Occupied Japan," the barbarian/caveman references, and so on does make it look like a criticism of Western culture, but I don't think I'm saying anything that wasn't pointed out in the first ten pages of this thread.

 

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I forgot about that last one Bryce, thanks! I was mainly interested in hunting down pics of the earlier versions. I can't locate a pic of the orange right now myself, though I'm looking.

 

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I like this sculpt. And I'm not bashing it for this, but the crude style of this guy really masks a level of ability in the sculptor, or at least the effort put in. Just things like the hands and feet- the symmetry is off the forms are basic. The face isn't clearly structured more like a lump with a brow nose and lips plopped on. You can tell by how low the lips are placed and the lack of any chin or jaw.
And all that is what gives this toy its character. But IMHO I doubt this figure is meant to resemble any ethnicity. And Japanese came from Cavemen too, right?

 

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here you go,,the second release "hello cowboy" version...



there is also the 1st version siamese on pink/red vinyl,,which was the secret release with the orange...

 

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Spring was never waiting for us, girl
it ran one step ahead
as we followed in the dance.

Between the parted pages
we were pressed,
in love's hot, fevered iron
like a striped pair of pants.

Mac Arthur's Park is melting in the dark
all the sweet green icing flowing down
someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
and I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, nooo!


I recall the yellow cotton dress
foaming like a wave
on the ground beneath your knees
birds like tender babies in your hands
and the old men playing
Chinese checkers
by the trees


Mac Arthur's Park is melting in the dark
all the sweet green icing flowing down
someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
and I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, nooo!

There'll be another song for me
and I will sing it
there'll be another dream for me
someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
and never let you catch me
looking at the sun, oh yeah
and after all the loves of my life
after all loves in my life
you'll be the one


I will take my life into my hands
and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes
and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
and my passion flow
like rivers through the sky
oh and after all the loves in my life
after all the loves in my life
you'll still be the one
and I'll ask myself why.


Mac Arthur's Park is melting in the dark
all the sweet green icing flowing down
someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
and I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, nooo!

 

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Sure, we all did, but it wasn't too long ago, during World War 2, when white foreigners were frequently labeled "savages." The first Europeans were referred to as "barbarians." The Japanese have a pretty long history of stuff like that, so when I see a figure with a face like that and words like "caveman" attached, my mind makes the connection. Don't have a problem with it, I'm just pointing out what I think I'm seeing.

(of course, I realize that other cultures like my own do similar things, it's human nature)

 

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dammit, I really like the paul kaiju version...

 

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But I hate MacArthur Park.
What's up with that fucking cake?

 

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That cake got fucked up!

 

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Nice P40 get!

 

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super crazy dude for sure.
met him everywhere where rare stuff was released when in tokyo.
remember he was called flipperking, doubt it is mr. n.

 

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judging by the way this figure has been rolled out over recent months, I would think someone called flipperking had to be the guy.

btw - who gives a shit who the guy is?

like the effing toy?!?