WHY ARE THERE STILL NO ODDWORLD ACTION FIGURES? SIGN THE CHANGE.ORG PETITION!
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WHY ARE THERE STILL NO ODDWORLD ACTION FIGURES? SIGN THE CHANGE.ORG PETITION!
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Well, the title says it all. Recently, during one of those fun “Ask me anything” in Instagram stories, a follower asked about what would be the franchise that never had any toys made that I would want to see toys from. It led me to think about it for a while, but I kept coming back to one answer: The Oddworld games.
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The first game, Abe’s Oddyssey, made by Oddworld Inhabitants, came out on the Playstation (first of the name!) in 1997, and was followed by Abe’s Exodus in 1998. Then, Munch’s Oddyssey came out in 2001 on the XBox (first of the name, too!), along with Stranger’s Wrath in 2005. Then… nothing. Nothing happened until 2014, when the first game would be re-issued in a re-vamped “New’n’Tasty” version, for the consoles of that generation (PS3, XBox 360). And now, the re-vamped second game, now called “SoulStorm” came out in April, while a physical version of it comes out tomorrow (July 6th). The stories were great, the characters memorable, and you really wanted to save as many mudokons as you could! According to wikipedia, they have sold over 7 million copies overall. Those games (the first two, at least) figure in most of the “Top video games of all time” lists and i’m sure that a huge number of people remember Abe, the mudokons and all the other characters very fondly.
BUT… There has never been any action figures made for that franchise! A few plushes, and a couple of statues (which all came within the last decade) are the only official merch we ever got (The collector’s edition of SoulStorm which comes out tomorrow will have a statue of Abe). The game was successful, Abe is an iconic character for an entire generation of gamers who played all the games since the PS1, so why did we never get any plastic representation of those characters to put on our shelves?
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The characters are as TOYETIC (potentially marketable as a toy) as toyetic can be! Here’s a rundown, only from the first 2 games:
The hero, Abe, savior of the mudokons. He can have a bottle of SoulStorm Brew as an accessory, or psychic effects!
The Sligs were a super pain in ass in the video games. There are several types of them also (flying ones, baseball bat, shotgun), so more figures waiting to be made!
The Sligs were sometimes accompanied by Slogs, which were basically big angry dogs.
The Glukkons were the “corporate bosses”. They look like triangle facing down with a head at the top and feet. Different colors, cigars, hats… many possibilities too.
The wildlife of the games also had some interesting (and terrifying) species, such as the Scrabs, who gave us nightmares, running after our character anytime they spotted us. It would be nice to have one on our desk, as a trophy!
The Paramites were equally vicious. Multiple mudokon deaths happen because of those.
Munch, from the later game “Munch’s oddyssey”, could come with the little wheelchair he uses in the game to move around faster as an accessory.
Army builder: the mudokons. There were so many different ones in the game! They can reuse most of the parts from Abe’s sculpt, and be painted a slightly different lighter shade. Add accessories to them and you can make as many as you want.
Different jobs
or the native ones
And don’t forget about the Shaman that helps us!
Abe can also get a vehicle/playset with an Elum, which he gets to ride in the games.
And tell me this doesn’t SCREAM “SDCC Exclusive”! I dare you!
And that is just from the first 2-3 games. There’s plenty more characters in the Stranger’s Wrath too. We can get to those later, after doing all the previous ones!
IS THERE A DEMAND FOR THAT?
In 2019, there was a Kickstarter project to make a big art book about the game, with a goal of 45,000£ (about $60,000) that collected over 154,000£ (nearly $215,000). So there is definitely an audience for that.
In order to see if there is any interest in it, I took the liberty to start a change.org petition, which you can sign here
TO ODDWORLD INHABITANTS:
Please, give us a chance to get plastic representations of Mudokons, Sligs, Glukkons, Scrabs, Paramites and other creatures from those beloved video games!
TO NECA, MCFARLANE TOYS, SUPER7, THE LOYAL SUBJECTS OR ANYBODY SUSCEPTIBLE TO PICK UP THE FRANCHISE:
We’ve been waiting since 1997 for those! Get on it, please!
And if we still don’t hear anything about all Abe’s Oddyssey action figures in a while, maybe we’ll ask to a few friends that had successful Kickstarter campaigns how that whole damn thing works… Who knows? Sometimes, if you want things done right…
CHANGE.ORG PETITION: Sign here: http://chng.it/PX9NX5FnL2 and please, don’t hesitate to share to as many people as you can!
More news at 11:00… *Fart noise* - Haha hahaha! (actual dialogue from the game).
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