FINAL FANTASY IV
SORCERER PROJECT #657 CREATED: SEPTEMBER 2020 Some creatures of the world were powerful fighters in their own right, while a select few had to manipulate others to do their bidding. The Sorcerer was a master of mind control, capable of putting a spell over other beings and convincing them to fight in his stead. Cecil Harvey and his friends would encounter the Sorcerer while traversing the deepest part of the Tower of Bab-il. Though not powerful on his own, he was capable of bringing forth a Q.Lamia or even a rampaging MadOgre, commanding them to destroy Cecil and his companions. (The Sorcerer was one of the very few monsters who retained his original name in all the various versions of Final Fantasy IV.) In order to construct an action figure of the Sorcerer, I started with a Dr. Teeth action figure from the Muppets. I sculpted some new shoes, shortened his legs, and repositioned his arms. Now, by accident or design, the Sorcerer has always looked to me like Muckman from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toy line. I'm sure it's the colors. I did turn to Ninja Turtles to build part of him, namely the head, which I got from the Scumbug toy from 1991. To attach the bird to his back, I hid a neodymium magnet inside the Sorcerer's body and stuck some pieces of metal inside the bird's feet, so he would stay propped up on the figure like a good little sorcerer's apprentice. |
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