Collin says :

Adult Superstars Series FOUR

It is with a unique and very private kind of pleasure that I bring you near-release reviews and previews of Adult Superstars Series 4 from Plastic Fantasy. Outside of Japan, these are the most revealing and mature figures released onto the mass market by any toy company. Oh, you've seen some of the stuff that comes out of Japan. Do I need to explain? Surely you don't need to be told what a bold move this is in an era where mothers are threatening to sue KayBee Toys because their little boy saw some Tortured Souls figures on the shelf and the little dweeb felt faint.

See, if she had a dungeon, the kid would be a bit tougher. Those toys would be nothing compared to the hell of the Stretcher. Perforation from an oldschool Iron Maiden can really change your worldview. You'd eat your damned green beans, I'll tell you what, and you'd walk that stupid dog if you didn't want his next meal to be your lazy legs.

It's too easy to launch into sociopolitical rantings when faced with an action figure series like this, and I think that I did enough of it in the original reviews. To briefly reiterate, before I focus upon the quality of the figures themselves, I don't see these as objectifying (except in the most literal sense), these women agreed to have their likenesses used for these figures, and it's a very American, or possibly very male, viewpoint that women cannot appreciate and enjoy sex. This is what these are all about, after all. THE SEX. (Editor's note : the word 'SEX' is used purely for the purpose of getting more pageviews through Google searches and should not be taken internally, unless recommended by your physician.) They're figures of women who entertain by displaying themselves sexually and performing sexual acts in various forms of media. (Editor's other note : The following words are also being used to popularize All Nerd Review in websearches. Hardcore wet teen young microwave panties Luke Skywalker naked ass mandible perplex spread shaved pink albatross digital redhead small bifocal college spycam sorority. Thank you.)

Well, rock out! Good money and power there. It's an industry in which the women are paid more than the men, and I'll be damned if it's hurting anyone. NOW, feel free to send offended letters. I'll respond to them on-site in a hilarious manner, no doubt..

Series Four of Adult Superstars is composed of five different figures. Instead of drawing their stock of characters entirely from the currently active stars of pornography, Plastic Fantasy has reached back into the hallowed halls of porn stars past as well. The figures included in the set are listed below.

[jasmin st. claire] [chloe] [inari vachs] [ginger lynn] [asia carrera]

Click in the above links for photo galleries of these figures and individual comments. Warning : may contain peanuts. I mean explicit images, or as explicit as you can get with a plastic figure. Kids like that KayBee dweeb should not enter. Anywhere. Ever.

Series Four continues to use the wonderful RealScan technology that's made many of the toys of this millennium so accurate and detailed, from Lord of the Rings to these. This fully three-dimensional scanning technology, as well as some minor digital retouching after the scan is done, results in figure sculpts that can't be beaten in their adherence to reality. This kind of accuracy is especially important when you're depending on the subtle differences between different naked bodies to represent different women. No, they DON'T all look the same. Wait till you see a few, junior.

This is the first indication of quality in a toy line : creating new sculpts for every figure, even when they're very similar in their general form. Every figure that has come from Plastic Fantasy has been a distinctly different woman, and any connoisseur of fine erotica will be able to tell them apart. They'll KNOW when Jenna's left nipple is a centimeter higher on the figure than in her 'cinematic performances'.

As with the other lines, the focus is not on poseability, but on being a statuesque form with as few discontinuities as possible - a body, plain and simple. In this, the figures are poseable at the shoulders and head, which are also the parts that you pop out of their sockets in order to remove their clothes. I still can't emotionally reconcile having a eviscerated torso in front of me during this process, but it's usually brief. The limbs, as usual, are pretty firmly in place and you need to really grab hold of them to yank them out, but all the better that way. It's kind of like a childproof cap.

The painting on the first series, and even a bit on the second series, was a bit exaggerated around the faces, making these women into something more cartoonish than realistic, despite the accurate sculpt. This detail is quickly clearing up, as eyeliner is applied lighter and things are becoming more delicate. The skintones have always been great, and are also a detail that varies in very subtle shades from figure to figure. They are, after all, entirely skin. The skin shades are so delicate and smooth that they'll pick up things they're rubbed against very easily. This is no fault of the manufacturer, just a warning to keep them from being in busy toy drawers without protection. This is not some kind of twisted sex pun, either.

The clothing, as mentioned in pervious reviews, is made of a stretchy rubber. It's strong, until a tear forms. After that, the clothes will split more and more when they're stretched. Last time I checked my Jenna Jameson from series one, her underpants had spontaneously snapped off and broken. Be careful with the clothes, boys. In most cases, they can be removed and replaced with only minimal stretching.

All figures comes with black plastic stage-like bases with name stickers and a cardboard card that slips into them, naming the figure series that they are from. The bases also have pegs to hold them in place.

Of course, you won't be fighting battles with these ladies, but they're fun regardless. If you don't live with your parents, they're a neat side display amid the superheroes and robots. It's hard for me to take these seriously as objects of sex. When I first began to review these, back at series one, they made me a bit uneasy. I'd hide them in drawers when people came in. Ultimately, they're little plastic figures that are anatomically correct. There's nothing especially perverse about them, and there's really nothing arousing either, personally.

They're made well, and the quality of these is improving consistently with each wave. I don't think that there's very far to go before these are visually indistinguishable from reality. My main interest is in who they'll come out with next. I still maintain the fact that I don't really know any porn names, but I may know a few faces. And other parts.

[...or see reviews of series one and two]

[pssst... buy these at Dr. Tongue's!]