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Robin Williams' miniature collection


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So, I don't know if anyone spotted this but Zelda Williams has been going through her old man's miniature collection and posting photos on twitter, some of the stuff that has popped up so far seems to be the old armorcast titans (reaver, 2 warhounds and one of the eldar ones so far) . Rumour has it that she will be auctioning this stuff for a children's charity in the near future.

 

She has no memory of her dad actually painting them himself but mentions there being thousands of pieces in his collection, not all of which is wathammer/40k and that is a subject she knows little about. But worth checking out for fans of his I'm sure.

I actually met him and Kirstin Dunst when they were filming Jumanji in a Games Workshop in West Vancouver Canada way back when (1994), they both came in and he was telling some stories from filming about scarign Kirstin Dunst with his miniatures since she was like 10 and he showed her how to play.

I'd love that red warhound. From a lot of what I have read over the years it sounds like lots have claimed to do commission projects for RW over the years and there is a probably a lot of truth in them.

I knew a guy that worked GW mail order back in the early nineties that swore blind he took an order from Robin Williams who was calling using a "papa nurgle voice" complete with slurps and wheezes the entire time.

That’s an Orguss mecha standing behind the Reaver, from the Animes Super-Dimensional Fortress Macross and Super-Dimensional Century Orguss. Loved the mech design back in the day. That specific model looks to be a Master Grade kit, or one of the rarer high detailed toys.

 

SJ

That’s an Orguss mecha standing behind the Reaver, from the Animes Super-Dimensional Fortress Macross and Super-Dimensional Century Orguss. Loved the mech design back in the day. That specific model looks to be a Master Grade kit, or one of the rarer high detailed toys.

 

SJ

It's one of the toys. You could actually get them at Sanrio/Hello Kitty stores and ToysRUs in the U.S. during the robot craze that hit in the early 1980's. After Transformers hit big, people were importing everything that was bipedal and mechanical, even if there was little or no English on the box.

 

I had that particular one in first grade and I've still got pieces of it somewhere. Giant chunk of die cast and super hard plastic. Thought the "crotch cockpit" was a little strange, but everything else was pretty awesome, including the fact that the gun actually shot little hard plastic darts.

 

1980-85 were weirdly awesome years to be shopping for toys. Robots from obscure sentai or anime series were on the shelf right next to Optimus and Megatron. Some even showed up in the toy aisles in supermarkets.  Nowadays in America, mecha toys/models are a standard part of pop culture, but usually confined to specific, small sections in video game stores, comic shops, or what few toy stores remain.

 

It was a whole different story back when the floodgates had just opened and the shelves at ToysRUs looked like something you'd see at ComicCon now and nobody could explain what any of the stuff even WAS. You had to buy it and take it to a comic store that had anime in order to find out. A bit of an odyssey, but pretty thrilling.

 

OK. Nostalgia over. Back to Grimdark. :smile.:

You know, having a squad or even a single miniature from his collection would be quite the reliquary to own. (And I am not one for the whole fan-girling or VIP-memorabilia thing - but he was a King among us Nerds!)

For sure. I don't even care for autographs and stuff from my favorite bands but Robin Williams was my favorite actor even before I was into all this nerd stuff and some of his movies I do rewatch at least once a year.

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