McFarlane Toys Movie Maniacs The Big Lebowski The Dude

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00:00I wonder what the chances are that that mystery bag is gonna have some Credence

00:03tapes. Here's a look at McFarlane Toys, Movie Maniacs, The Big Lebowski, The Dude.

00:23Introducing Jeff The Dude Lebowski, the iconic protagonist in The Big Lebowski,

00:28immortalized in an incredibly detailed six-inch scale figure, capturing the

00:32essence of the laid-back demeanor and unexpected adventures. Mistaken for a

00:36millionaire and thrust into a whirlwind of crime and mystery, The Dude remains

00:40the epitome of cool in the face of chaos. That rug really tied the room together.

00:45But before we start actually criticizing the kind of carpeting that this guy has

00:48in his studio right now, let's talk a little bit about the figure that's

00:51currently in front of us. A big thank you to the folks over at McFarlane Toys that

00:54did provide this sample of the Movie Maniacs, The Big Lebowskis, The Dude that

00:58we can have a look in this review. Also let's go ahead and take the tape measure

01:01just to see how tall this statue stands. I have to kind of refrain from calling

01:04these guys action figures because there's very little action happening to

01:07them right now. The Dude, though, perched on top of his stand is gonna give us a

01:11figure collectively that's six and three-quarters of an inch in height,

01:14translating though to a figure that's about sixteen and a half centimeters

01:18tall. Seeing also as they came out the same time and seeing these in the same

01:22type of display stand, why don't we though introduce The Big Lebowskis, The Dude,

01:25to the 40-year-old virgins Andy Stitzer. Could you imagine? While being from

01:30completely different films, yes, they are doing one thing in common. They're

01:33sharing the exact same type of display bases. They have, granted though, changed

01:37the flooring out. So while Andy would have had more carpeting on his, The Big

01:41Lebowski seems to have tile flooring. They've also, of course, changed the name

01:44of the characters as well. You get Andy Stitzer on the one side, The Dude on the

01:47other. In the place of Andy now, we get yourself a foil bag that comes in

01:51with The Dude. I haven't yet opened this up. I wanted to wait until, of course, the

01:54camera started rolling. I would imagine it's probably stickers. Let's just reach

01:57off to the side here. I want to bring back in the one that came in with Andy.

02:00I did also end up opening up the digital just to see if there was anything

02:03different. What I got inside though was the exact same sticker for Andy and I

02:07also got myself one that said the 40-year-old virgin pointing this way. Is

02:10that pointing over up at producer Tony? Yeah, you get a couple of stickers. All

02:15right, let's move that off to the side. Let's open up though what comes in

02:18with The Dude. I can't imagine it's money. Money would be nice. I don't think it's

02:22money though. What we get though instead is we get ourselves Dude. Is that one all

02:27is that one sticker? No, they are separate stickers. So we got Dude dot dot dot. We

02:33also got ourselves a drink and we got ourselves a bowling ball and pins. I

02:37don't think the stars around it are peelable. No, they are not. No, they are

02:40not. What else did we get? We also got ourselves the bowl. Nice-looking stickers

02:45overall. I hate to say this though. I don't have any more

02:50spaces anymore to put my stickers. I've already put them all over things I

02:53wanted to put my stickers onto. I'm gonna have to find a new place to put these.

02:56Too good to put away. In fact, I say that now. I'm gonna put them away. The

03:01other thing though that comes included with The Dude is you get yourself a big

03:04Lebowski card that serves as well to be a poster background. One side though has

03:09The Dude. The other side though has the Certificate of Authenticity. Out of the

03:13limited run of 6900, whether you think of 6900 as a limited run or not, the one

03:18that was provided to me is P4. This certifies that the limited edition

03:21worldwide product The Dude figurine is authentic and officially licensed by

03:25McFarlane Toys. The figurine was created, developed, and designed by Todd

03:29McFarlane and his award-winning design group. All figures are individually

03:33hand-painted, hand-painted, and sequentially numbered. What you can also

03:38do as well is that on the back of the stand here there's a slot. So you

03:42probably already know where this is going. You basically just take yourself

03:44the background here, slot it in place, and now The Dude has himself a dude much

03:49bigger behind him. Andy also had that as well. Where's Andy's? Andy was right over

03:53here. Andy's background just happened to be right over here. And it works the

03:57exact same way. So it seems like with the Movie Maniacs now moving forward, they

04:00are now simplifying things, getting away kind of with the idea of that curved

04:04acrylic base that of course had the displaced and had to curve around. This

04:08is just so much easier. It kind of keeps things also consistent as well, which is

04:11a good thing because like the bases up to this point have kind of all varied

04:14from one Movie Maniac to the other. Let's move Andy out of the way. I've done the

04:18review, by the way, of Andy. If you want to feel free to give that a gander. Let's

04:21go ahead and also just take off the background here and we're just gonna put

04:24off to the side here for a second. Getting a little closer look at The Dude.

04:27The Dude. Just my opinion, man. I will say like the likeness does lend well to a

04:32very young Jeff Bridges. I'm a big fan of Jeff Bridges. I know him more from Tron,

04:36but he's had a lot of great movies. Arlington Road is also a superior

04:40thriller if you never had the chance to watch that. What's your favorite Jeff

04:44Bridges movie? Let me know down below in the comment section. He certainly does

04:47though look a lot like him. Granted, though, The Dude is wearing the shades. He

04:50wears the shades a lot, really, and he's got, of course, very nicely sculpted hair.

04:53I would love to have a little plastic comb to comb that hair. That looks like

04:57that would be very soft hair to comb. Of course, he also does have in his hand his

05:01half-and-half. It's nicely painted there as well. It's not removable. Don't try to

05:05force whatever you do. It looks though like it may have been a separate piece

05:08and they probably would have adhered it inside his hand. It almost does look like

05:12I'm so really tempted to start prying this away from his hand. Do I want to do

05:16that? Do I want to do that? Stop it. Stop it. Just leave it alone. I feel like

05:21there would be a good likelihood that you'd be able to remove the half-and-half,

05:24but I think once you take that off, would it be so easy to put back in his hand? I

05:27don't know. I don't know. We'll just kind of leave it to the unknowns. Of course, he

05:31does have himself the housecoat on there and the white shirt underneath. The white

05:35shirt generally is quite clean. The pants down below, or they should say the

05:38shorts down below, again look very much like they did in the film. Down below, of

05:42course, he got himself as well the sandals. I think for this being

05:45hand-painted, I didn't realize these were actually hand-painted. I think they've

05:49done a really nice job on the figure. Of course, on the feature on the front, we've

05:52already looked at the fact he does have the dude tile flooring there as well.

05:55You've got the big Lebowski. You know, it's again one of these weird things that

05:58when I mentioned this with Andy, which Andy's just right over there, Andy has

06:02again a very small square here. You would think that they would probably

06:05have occupied more space. I guess they want to kind of keep it a little bit

06:08more minimalistic in size. So again, you've only got yourself the floor

06:11tiling right here. You've got the big Lebowski raised up there as well. Again,

06:14nicely painted. I feel like they probably could have. I know it's a little bit

06:17harder to do had they found a way to maybe paint the sides of the letters

06:20because, you know, with the letters being gray, the tiling being gray, it kind of

06:23just looks like from the side you can't quite really make out that there's any

06:26font there. For the rest of the, again, I don't want to say figure, but for the

06:31rest of the statue because, again, like he's got no head articulation at all. I

06:34think what we get though instead is a really nicely sculpted. I mean, how many

06:38how many dude collectibles do we have really out in the market? There's been

06:42very few companies really tackling the big Lebowski. If you are a big fan though

06:46of the film and a big fan of Jeff Burgess, it's a really nice

06:49looking statue. One thing though really is the question is, is it truly though a

06:54movie maniac? I mean, it really wasn't at all the case. When we looked at Andy

06:58Stitzer, movie maniac I think applies more the idea that they're actually from

07:01characters from the films. Not that they're necessarily maniacs, but

07:05just like the banner of what they're doing now with this line is that they're

07:08movie maniacs and there's basically characters from any movie that they're

07:11choosing. You know, again, like while I would question whether these would be

07:15true maniacs like horror characters, I do actually like the fact that we are

07:19getting things like this. You know, Andy Stitzer, when would be the ever the time

07:22we'd ever have a discussion about having a 40 year old virgin statue? The same

07:26could also be said for the dude. I think if anything, dude's probably got more

07:29collectibles out there on the market than Andy does, but he's a nice looking

07:32little statue. Smaller in size too, so one of the beauties of it though is also if

07:36you don't choose to have them with the backgrounds here, for example, they

07:39certainly take up a lot less space. I mean, you can really put them side to

07:42side and one thing I do like that Todd and his team are doing moving forward

07:46with the movie maniacs is that they're keeping the display base footprint small.

07:49Before when we looked at these things, the display stands varied from character

07:52to character. There really wasn't a consistent look to them. You know, if you

07:56had like the the witch, the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz,

08:01or you had yourself like, I'm just trying to think of another guy like Pennywise

08:04the Clown, all of their display stands, all of their display stands varied from

08:08one to the other that it never really felt concrete like they were all from the

08:11same wave. Now that we're getting like display stands like this, I think they

08:15look a little bit more like they all belong in the same universe, even if the

08:19characters themselves don't inhabit the same film verse. How could I even start

08:23the conversation of favorite Jeff Bridges movies and not even mention

08:25Blown Away? Blown Away and the classic Tron are probably my top two favorite

08:30Jeff Bridges movies. And while we do get a movie maniac of Jeff, unfortunately

08:34though, it's not a character from either one of my favorite films. Big Lebowski

08:37though is still pretty high on my list. It's certainly now a cult favorite to

08:41finally now get ourselves a statue release of him. It goes well then with the

08:44Andy Stitz we've gotten before. And I mentioned those two movie maniacs

08:47specifically because it seems to be the trend that with Todd and his team they're

08:50moving forward with the movie maniacs, kind of giving now consistent display

08:53stands, where I feel like that was one thing that kind of derailed the movie

08:57maniacs when they kind of rebooted this line. That each of the stands were so

09:00different from one another. You had Harry Potter, you had the Wicked Witch of the

09:03West. You know, you didn't have characters where all the stands were

09:06consistent with one another. By keeping it like this, not only do they keep the

09:10cost down because they're just using the molds again, but it keeps more like this

09:14line looking like it's part of one line and not made of many. What do you guys

09:17think of Big Lebowski, the dude? Let me know down below in the comment section.

09:20What's your top three favorite Jeff Bridges movies? Let me also know down

09:24below in the comment section. And also a big thank you to the folks over at

09:27McFarland Toys. Yeah, they did provide this sample of the new movie maniacs, the

09:31Big Lebowski, the dude, that we had the chance to have a look in this review. If

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