Close Up: Solid Snake from the Konami Doll Collection
Made in 2002 by Yamato Toys, the Konami Doll Collection included 4 different figures representing characters from the original Metal Gear Solid: Solid Snake, Meryl Silverburgh, Liquid Snake and Sniper Wolf. The 1/6 scale (12” / 30 cm tall) dolls are fully articulated and come with removable outfits and several accessories. For the close up article on the Liquid Snake Doll from the same line, go here. Now, onto the subject of this article, which is the game’s protagonist Solid Snake.
They come in a box decorated with artwork from the game and a window in the front, as well as a short description of the character in question.
The doll itself has joints in his elbows, knees, wrists and neck. However it can be a bit difficult to pose the figure as it is quite stiff (at least while wearing the full equipment) and it stands a bit wobbly on its feet.
The body armor can be taken off, as well as the belts holding the pouches and gun holsters. Solid Snake comes with his favorite weapon, the SOCOM, which can be disassembled as well. Another way to customize the figures is by adding the two ends of the bandana that are included in the box and which can be attached to make it look like they are blowing in the wind.
The cool thing about these dolls is the amount of details, from all the little pouches, holsters, zippers and buckles, and the fact that the clothing is made from real fabric, rather than plastic.
All in all a neat figure, and quite impressive in terms of size and attention to detail. Like most Metal Gear merchandise these dolls are usually hard to find for decent prices, so unless you’re lucky you’re going to have to be prepared to pay if you want to obtain one of them.
‘Warning: Chocking Hazard’ – the Genome Soldiers can relate!
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Nice ! Looks indeed steep, but very fair for a 2002 figure…
Checked also Liquid’s and his awesomely well looking FAMAS 5.56 G2… Very nice too !
Thx for the close-up. Did you just received it, or did you finally decided to cover your good old figure ? Cool anyways !
Just got it two days ago. Someone on a forum was selling it for cheap, along with another MGS figure.
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Thx for answers. Cool acquisition ! Another step for you huge collection ! ;D
Along with this Liquid ? Something like 1/8 right ?
Is it Yamato too or another manufacturer ? ;D
Liquid Snake is by McFarlane Toys: http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/McFarlane_Toys
Thx for the info ! I guess you’ll cover it soon as well. ;D
Not sure, don’t want to open it. 😛
Ya you are right.. Don’t do that, I forgot it looks heavily sealed… ;D
Found this pic on Ebay, though (24.9$ btw) :
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The accessories are a bit weird. Liquid never used night vision goggles (or whatever it is) in the game, did he? And what is that pedestal supposed to be?
Lol, also noticed that this FAMAS 5.56 is somehow something nuts between the F1 and G2 model.. Can tell coz I did my damn 10 months long military service in France and we had the F1. Liquid’s is G2…
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/FAMAS-F1_vs_G2.svg/2447px-FAMAS-F1_vs_G2.svg.png
Or was it that the genome soldiers choked on their aspirations, according to Darth Vader?
I’ve seen Ghost in the shell (the 1995 movie) recently for the first time, Mokoto’s battle suit it’s basically the sneaking suit from mgs:
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Kojima clearly has been influenced a lot by that movie, both esthetically and philosophically
That’s what I’ve been saying (and using that exact image as visual reference)!
Haha sorry, didn’t see that
No, I meant elsewhere. Not here. I’m not saying you’re plagiarizing or anything.
How they say: “great minds think alike” 😉
Ohohoho
I never even noticed how similar they looked until now…
Yup, even the stealth mechanic(which fades greenish is from GiTS).
GiTS had a lot of influence on MGS. I would recommend watching Stand Alone Complex. It deals with information manipulation much more effectively than MGS2 did(still did a great job though).
I watched 3 episodes and it felt like a very standard anime, i should continue watching the series, they say it’s good…
Definitely do! 2nd GiG and Solid State Society is even better!
Lots of mindufuckkery throughtout!
Looking good there boss :D! I have to start collecting MGS figures too <3.
Looks like action man with the wrong clothes.
Mmmm… Curious to see how this tastes… ;D
https://twitter.com/MeshModeler/status/822719584335630336
One can imagine what the Konami one would taste like
Not sure why I am laughing that loud, but I am sure you know… xD
I don’t know what it tastes like, but I’ll be really upset if after they bring you the drink and you try it, they don’t say “Did you rike it?” lol
That’s indeed how it should be normally served, you are right…
A “Ditchuu Rike it ?” after the first gulps… xD
Lol, how he cropped the image to spell “COCK”
xD I also noticed it afterwards, but nah… Lex, I don’t think it was intentional, haha… That’s true that if we just give a quick look at this page, we can hardly avoid it… xD
MGS4 secrets. I know it’s an old game and probably everyone should know this. But they are some interesting easter eggs I didn’t caught on.
It’s in Japanese, but very self explanatory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz2qdNU6G1w
The Idol song from the Ipod. Still can’t believe MGS4 had an Ipod in-game let alone Apple allowing Sony or Konami to use it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4-tPCWqtio
Fun reminder to everyone that Konami is still interested in videogames for big consoles:
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xD Thx for the reminder… Early fan of Bomber Man here, but soooo faaaar to acquire a switch… 😀 This concept is very multi-player friendly, though… So a good strategic fit for Switch casual gamers target..
Is this the middle term between developing for mobile and still being interested in the console market?
Yeah. Something like that.
Also this: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/business/japan-legalize-casino-gambling.html?_r=0
Konami will be jumping on board with this… Probably MGS Poker themed Casino or smth xD
“Kept you betting uh?”
Looks fun but it’s supposed to cost you 50 bucks….
博客不错哟~会经常来逛逛的。
Here’s what I have to say the sneaking suit designer
You just went full beefcake
Never go full beefcake
Ot: For the people who enjoyed hannibal, I think you will like the show “The fall”. With agent Scully being a detective who tries to capture a fetichist killer. The killer is more protagonist than Gillian. There are only 17 episodes, I have to watch the last 4.
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Done!
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