Some of you (not many. ok, maybe two) will remember a little ways back I posted an image of a custom toy I made for buddy, pal, and Die Hard aficionado Nadir. No? Well, that’s probably because I snuggled it way down in one of those clever popup text links I do. Anyway, said toy mod was featured on Jailbreak Toy’s blog the other day! Check it out here.

During the recent election, Jailbreak Toys ramps up and makes a slew of Obama and McCain toys. When McCain lost, they began selling off the McCain variants en masse.  So how did I end up with a garbage bag full of them? Well, a friend of a friend had a hookup at the Conan O’Brien show and got me a backstage pass wherein O’Brien himself confided that he had aquired all these McCain toys in an ill planned business venture. Now all I had to do was score 30 grand in 4 hours in order to save Conan and get all those McCain dolls.

No not really. She and my roommate did go to the show and were picked out of the audience to hand out these McCain dolls en masse. 

I see all these toys and think ‘We gotta have a paint-a-mccain party where everybody repaints them’ a la the dunny. This grand idea became ‘Maki camps out in his dark room and customizes one’. I figured I’d send Nadir one as well, almost certain that he’d make a John McClane for obvious hilarity’s sake. Instead I stole what could have possibly been his thunder and made it myself and gave it to him as a gift! Below is the result along with the original. Classic. I even crudely painted the letters to say ‘McClane’ and pasted printouts of Bruce Willis’ face over McCain’s on the packaging.

As you can see, I had to beef up his wiry form a bit.

Fast forward to the Philadelphia Comic Con last week, where Jailbreak had a booth set up and was selling their new line along with these McCain dolls for $1 each. There were some Obama mods on the table so we brought up my McClane and I e-mailed the photo to them. Good Story. I’m going to bed. Yes, at 5. Here’s some doodles for ya.

 

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