When you ’re making a line of retro action figures , you might as well go whole hog and make your TV spots expect suitably retro too — just as Warpo are doing for Legends of Cthulhu build , and their coming gigantic Old One activeness figure . Let Cthulhu warm the nostaglic cockles of your heart with this exclusive first look !
An Exclusive Look At Warpo ’s Gloriously Retro 12″ Cthulhu Figure
The 12”Cthulhu form — which made its debut on io9earlier this year — is a fantastic looking design , and is the star of this young ad , which find two kids roleplay summon the eldritch abomination into the world . There ’s something ever so wondrous creepy about hearing little minor excitedly discuss the idea of bringing forth something as hair-raising as Cthulhu , even in legal action figure kind . You just do n’t get toy advertising these daylight extolling the sexual morality of fresh human sacrifices !
Even the advert itself is optical maser - focus on hammer home that rampant 80 ’s nostalgia , to the point in time you almost wish there was a billet of Lovecraftian nightmare natural process figures when you were a kid . They might not have looked quite as good as Warpo ’s do , but they would ’ve been as awful to behold .
Warpo ’s Legend of Cthulhu is currently lying waiting in his plastic star sign at R’Lyeh , but he ’ll be usable for leverage for $ 80 — and any likely blood sacrifice you wish to tender to the Old Ones — in November . desire to preorder ? you may do so by nibble up a copy of this month’sPreviews cartridge holder .
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