Posted May 13, 201410 yr Hey guys, I have another custom pad printed minifigure that is available now on my website that we are excited to share with you all. Here's the information and pics for you, please feel free to share your thoughts and feedback on him below! I'd love to hear what you think! American Super Soldier by Phoenix Customs Minifigures Product Description American Super Soldier is a superhero who uses his stealth movements, super strength, speed, and agility and specially crafted shield to take out enemies that threaten his country. Based on the popular comic character! This figure includes: 1 Dark Red - Star Pattern Shield Printing This figure is professionally pad printed, just like official LEGO® figures. Features top quality head, torso, back, and arm pad printing. Edited June 20, 201410 yr by DarkKnight7
May 13, 201410 yr That looks excellent, nicest custom Cap I have seen. Now how about his WW2 suit and Winter Soldier?
May 13, 201410 yr Author That looks excellent, nicest custom Cap I have seen. Now how about his WW2 suit and Winter Soldier? Thanks, Piranha! The WW2 Suit was made by Christo already and he is also planning on releasing a Winter Soldier pad printed fig very soon. But, both should compliment this fig well. I have the Christo First Avenger version and he looks excellent, you can see my picture review of him here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/phoenixcustoms/12619921624/
May 13, 201410 yr How much is he going to be going for? If you'd rather not say in the thread I'd appreciate a PM :)
May 17, 201410 yr Author Sorry I had to remove the picture above, but the Chinese knock off companies tried to steal my design (luckily they only had the front and did a crappy job printing it). I'll post it again once I officially release the fig on my site. I apologize guys, but it had to be done.
May 17, 201410 yr This is starting to get ridiculous, I mean why don't they go after designs that haven't been made, I mean C'mon they have to trace the designs, so they must have design artist on their side. How hard is it to take something from the games that hasn't been made yet. The effort is the same and their rep would go ever so slightly up with us. Plain stupid. Adam the Minifig looks excelent, first one of your lot I'm tempted to get. Edited May 19, 201410 yr by CustomJoe_MD
May 21, 201410 yr The figure on the SY set is a very pale comparison to your version. I wouldn't worry too much about it. I've got the SY set on the way for a couple of the figures alone and there was no way I was going to NOT get your version instead of theirs. Quality figures will always win out although the bootleg companies are now cloning things very quickly from official sets and also the new DeCool leaflet shows a Punisher and Bullseye which look like complete copies from customisers too.
May 28, 201410 yr DarkKnight7, heads up, your pictures of it are on google so people could still copy your minifig.
June 6, 201410 yr Author DarkKnight7, heads up, your pictures of it are on google so people could still copy your minifig. Ah, thanks for the heads up, Ryker_Hill, last time I checked it wasn't showing up! I'll contact the admins here and see if they can do something about getting rid of the residual image (because when you click on the link, it leads to a blank error Flickr page).
June 13, 201410 yr Author Well, now that I got word from the printers that it will be sent next week, it's no big deal that the pics are up now. I figure it will be for sale on my site by next weekend so there shouldn't be any issues, not yet at least
June 13, 201410 yr I've been looking forward to this figure for a while! Can't wait for it to land so I can put my order in. Edited June 13, 201410 yr by Robianco
June 13, 201410 yr That is one great Cap! I just became a owner of your Gambit Kinetic Man, which is awesome. But the Cap is not far away from that one! PM me about the price, too please! Edited June 13, 201410 yr by KCMatze
June 15, 201410 yr Author That is one great Cap! I just became a owner of your Gambit Kinetic Man, which is awesome. But the Cap is not far away from that one! PM me about the price, too please! Thanks, buddy! You have a PM. I've been looking forward to this figure for a while! Can't wait for it to land so I can put my order in. Thanks, Robianco, it'll be landing on my site this upcoming Friday.
June 20, 201410 yr Hope to be able to afford this soon! PMing me a price may help, as I may order one at some point. Bare in mind I am in the UK.
June 20, 201410 yr Hope to be able to afford this soon! PMing me a price may help, as I may order one at some point. Bare in mind I am in the UK. So am I... Mine is ordered. If you'd like I'll ask Adam to include another one in the parcel if he's happy to do that? I'll just charge £1 for postage if you arrange payment with Adam for the figure?
June 21, 201410 yr Author Hope to be able to afford this soon! PMing me a price may help, as I may order one at some point. Bare in mind I am in the UK. I sent you a PM.
July 5, 201410 yr I know Adam can answer this but I thought I'd give an answer. Pad printing is done by specialist printers... Normally for promotional items such as pens, stress toys etc... I've got about 5 or 6 designs I'd love to get printed but the cost in the UK is quite high for the right quality of print and the amount of colours needed for these figures. I've had quotes from US printers that have been much more reasonable.
July 10, 201410 yr Author Great! How do you pad print these figures? I was able to find a printer over the internet in the US who was able to print many colors and at runs of as small as 100 if I wanted, which is rare. They have lots of experience pad printing, and this shows in the low number of misprints I've had. Key is you just have to do some searching around and try to find companies that are local, as shipping your figs printed can get costly. The biggest issue is to know that it costs quite a bit, especially the more colors/printed parts have in your design. So, pad printing is more for people who plan to sell lots of them, as it's just not possible to print in low numbers and make enough money to expand, or even recover your up front costs.
July 20, 201410 yr ^ I hope there's another one soon as well, perhaps a Nightcrawler minifig, now that would be awesome!
July 21, 201410 yr Yep, some figure that will definitely NOT come in an original set ;) I LOVE that Cap, but I have 2 official ones, so I am saving money on that I guess :-/
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