CHRISTMAS '09
Live “Avatar” Action Figure at Sundance Film Festival
Published January 28th, 2010 in Sean, Avatar, Film, Moore, Anthony, Moran, Waste, Festival, Sundance, Fike, Christian, E., Family, Land, Play, Edition, Room, this!, figures, Collector's, Hobbyist, Action, Toys
This past week I attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City to get away from the toy industry for a few days and to catch up with friends from my previous life in the entertainment industry. But it seems that, even on top of a mountain in Utah, the world of toys was still able to find me.
On a short shuttle ride to a screening of the documentary, "Waste Land" (excellent, by the way), I struck up a conversation with a group of people from Los Angeles, one of whom was an actor named Sean Moran. His friends informed me that Sean not only plays Private Fike in the mega-successful film, "Avatar," but his likeness was also made into one of the action figures for the film. (They apparently even incorporated Sean's own tattoos onto the action figure as well.) It didn't occur to me to interview Sean about the process until after I was already in the screening (Sorry -- I was on vacation, remember?) but I'll try to contact him and ask him about the experience of becoming an action figure. Stay tuned. -- E. Christian Moore.
