Vinylpulse has a story about a new prototype showed at SDCC. Production pieces will be translucent and painted with a GID skull and a belly surprise. This really interests me and is probably the most appealing effort by Plaseebo for me thus far. The sculpt is really cool if you look on the side shot you can see lots of junk and tires flowing out the back. I can't wait to see the painted clear pics. If anyone can enlighten us with some more release info as it comes in I would be grateful.
Hey D, Thanks for your comments. Here is the back story for the "SUM" figure. This is a synopsis of the story of Sum on which the character development of the figure is based. " THE LEGEND OF SUM " [ copyright Bob Conge 2007] Driving home from the local red neck bar one moon lit summer night, Roy swerves his pick up toward a dark shape that is slowly moving along side the road. A loud CRACK shatters the darkness as the front tire breaks the giant snapping turtles' shell in two, right down the center. The great snapper rolls down the embankment into the stream and Roy's laughing fades as the truck turns to cross the bridge to his shabby farm house across the stream. The turtle, floating belly up is carried downstream to the other side and is swept into a quiet eddy where he sinks watching the moon fade from yellow to blood red through the darkening water. This small pool cut into the bank of the stream was at the back Roy's property and he used it as his personal dump site. The water caught in this hole became a terrible toxic soup of motor oil, fertilizer, broken toys, bones and entrails of many slaughtered animals, rusty tools and who knows what else. Over the next few months, a strange transformation took place in this evil chowder as it baked in the summer heat. A creature of revenge, born of cruelty and neglect slid its way out of the sickening mess one dark September night. Roy's body was never found, nor could anyone explain the slime trail from the bedroom through the field behind the house. Over the years that followed, other neglectful farmers vanished on moonless nights and folks reported vague sightings of a creature that seamed to be cobbled together from a collection of garbage, an old doll, bone, rotted skin, and broken tools, with a large snapping turtle skull for a head. They call him "SUM". The limited edition figure will measure 8" X 8". Available this fall from http://plaseebo.net/
Oh Hell Yes I love this guy, and that origin story is totally classy. I really wasn't expecting it to be so great... but you have me all sold. And clear green vinyl was a very nice choice too... Any word on price? I may have to set a little aside.
wow this looks really good better than plasebo (wich was a good skulpt anyway) but liking the standing pose of this better
Whoa! Wicked! Sick! Now this is a monstrous beast. Where do I stand in line to own one of these babies?
