Steal this toy: GTA Vice City action figures [update 1]
Rockstar Games and Medicom Toy Company have teamed up to release a set of action figures inspired by Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The limited edition set is part of the famous Kubrick line of toys. The set of five includes Tommy Vercetti, Lance Vance, Ricardo Diaz, Candi Suxx, and Ken Rosenberg, scruples-free attorney.Toys teach kids to kill? Barbie caught in hot coffee scandal? The bad jokes are limitless.
The set will be available this fall, but you can pre-order now for $35 -- that's nearly one-fourth the cost of the Fierce Deity Link. How often do you get to say that a Sony (inspired) product is vastly cheaper than a Nintendo (inspired) product?
[via PSP Fanboy]
[update 1: Misread the sales page; the entire Grand Theft Auto Kubrick line has been in development for two years, not just this Vice City set. Snark removed.]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
AoE @ Aug 7th 2006 4:35PM
What Sony inspired product? I thought this was a post about GTA toys... Last I checked GTA started on PC and has seen life on most consoles since... or was that a joke about the price difference between cold-cast statues and lego-man knock-offs?
Crazylink @ Aug 7th 2006 4:50PM
They may be 1/4 the price but they're less than 1/4 as cool.
Jeff @ Aug 7th 2006 4:50PM
"According to the sales page, the action figure line has been in development for two years. Judging by the images, we're going to assume it wasn't a full-time project."
Not sure you read the description page right:
"The Grand Theft Auto Kubrick line has been in development for two years, with each figure lavished with the legendary attention to detail that both Rockstar Games and Medicom Toy Corporation are known for.
Following in the success of the Grand Theft Auto III Kubrick (released late 2005), we are proud to announce the release of the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Kubricks."
2 years for the whole line, which includes the previously-released GTA3 Kubrick figures.
Devwar @ Aug 7th 2006 4:57PM
Store near me has the GTA3 ones that came out last year. $50 for them, for 5 fake-lego "things".
Joe @ Aug 7th 2006 5:19PM
Do people actually buy these things? I see them in clearance bins all the time. Frankly, if they were giving them away I still can't see myself picking up a set no matter what popular license they were based on.
Jacob Gonzalez @ Aug 7th 2006 6:05PM
First was Lego Star Wars now this... Lego GTA anyone?
Sev @ Aug 7th 2006 6:16PM
The tower records in my area has been selling these for a couple of years now. Nobody ever buys them though. Might pick them up next time.
Rare Hare @ Aug 8th 2006 1:14AM
Sorry, Ross, but I belive AoE (#1) has pwned you.
x4str0m3ch @ Aug 8th 2006 2:17AM
"Barbie caught in hot coffee scandal?"
....If you play with barbies and legos simultaneously, you would probably create an inter-dimensional rift around your house, sucking you and your family back to the dinosaur age.
Or so I've heard.