Mezco Donates Green Hornet Prototype Action Figures to Museum of Moving Image

Friday, March 11, 2011 4:01 PM By dwi

 

Standing in Museum of the Moving Image's set aggregation Behind the Screen, enclosed by Star Wars and Star Trek state figures, Mike Drake, Mezco's Director of Special Projects, "handed off" several valuable items from the newborn flick The Green Hornet to Dr. Barbara Miller, the Museum's Collection Curator. The donated items allow two prototypes state figures of the newborn film's stars; the Green Hornet and Kato.

Mezco has produced 1/6th scale figures, and the example prototypes have been donated to the Museum. The towering 12-inch-scale figures feature film-accurate detail, numerous points of articulation, and actual cloth components. The Green Hornet amount comes rank with his trademark "gas gun" and reciprocal hands. Kato comes with reciprocal safekeeping and a film-accurate firearm.

Set to be released in theaters on Friday, Jan 14th 2011, the Green Hornet is thoughtful by some state fans to be the must-see flick of 2011. Starring Negro Rogan, Jay Chou, and Cameron Diaz, the newborn big-budget flick tells the tale of Britt Reid the son of LA's most striking and reputable media magnate; he is perfectly happy to maintain a directionless existence on the band environs until his father mysteriously dies, leaving Britt his vast media empire. Striking an implausible friendship with digit of his father's more industrious and inventive employees, Kato, they wager their quantity to do something meaning for the prototypal instance in their lives: fisticuffs crime. In visit to do this, they end to become criminals themselves -- protecting the accumulation by breaking it, Britt becomes the vigilante, The Green Hornet. Using every his ingenuity and skill, Kato builds the ultimate in modern retro weaponry, The Black Beauty, an undestroyable car, prefabricated of coequal parts firepower and horsepower. Rolling in a ambulatory defence on wheels and striking the intense guys with Kato's clever gadgets, The Green Hornet and Kato apace move making a study for themselves, and with the help of Britt's newborn secretary, Lenore Case. They begin hunting down the Negro who controls LA's gritty underworld: patriarch Chudnofsky. But Chudnofsky has plans of his own: to swat down The Green Hornet once and for all.

"The trailers for The Green Hornet countenance amazing," says Gordon McAlpin of Multiplexcomic.com, "Michel Gondry is an awful administrator and I can't wait to wager what he has crafted with the Green Hornet's flush mythos!"

The Museum of the Moving Image is only museum sacred to the prowess and business of every of screen culture, from the early unhearable films to today's recording games. It holds a assemblage of more than 130,000 artifacts from motion pictures, television, and digital media. Among these, the museum's licensed merchandise holdings are specially noteworthy with more than 17,000 artifacts dating from 1914 to present. More than 1,000 of these artifacts module be on pass in the Museum's set aggregation "Behind the Screen" first Jan 15, 2011 when the museum reopens to the public after a major improvement and expansion. The Museum of the Moving Image provides admittance to the assemblage through its website, exhibitions, and education programs.

Both Green Hornet amount prototypes module be reachable on the Museum's online Collection Catalog at http://collection.movingimage.us/.

 

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