Brick Bardo
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Brick Bardo is a fiction
al diminutive alien lawman in the Full Moon Features
universe, who comes from the fictional planet
Arturus. He is not to be confused with the Doll Man
of Quality Comics
.
Not unlike Clint Eastwood
's character in the Dirty Harry
films, he is the owner of a 596.8 Ruger; "the most powerful handgun in the known universe." His name is based on an ongoing writers trademark by director Albert Pyun
.
Tim Thomerson
of Trancers
popularity played the character in Dollman
, Bad Channels
and Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
. As with other Full Moon franchises, the Dollman character later became a comic adaption, with four full color issues released from Malibu Comics
.
Dollman was to appear in another crossover film titled Legion of Doom. However, the project was abandoned.
cop
living on Arturus, a planet much like Earth
, who is very good at nailing the city's criminal population. But this seems to upset his superiors and the Mayor.
One day, Bardo saves a room full of hostages at a laundromat while serving out a suspension. This inadvertently leads to his framing of the death of several people, as reported on the news Bardo is listening to in his apartment. Just then, Cally, an enemy of Bardo's begins shooting at him, and temporarily stuns him using a small device. When Bardo awakens, he finds himself surrounded by his archenemy Stolvan Sprug and his henchmen (Cally and Fisher) on a desert plain in the middle of nowhere. Sprug wants revenge on Bardo for shooting off most of his body parts, leaving him only a floating hi-tech head. He reveals that he is in possession of a powerful dimensional bomb
that he will use if the city does not pay the fifty thousand ions he is demanding.
Before Sprug's goons can finish off Bardo, Bardo uses a magnetic
-like force that appears as a disc-shaped glowing
on the palm
of his hand to retrieve his gun and proceeds to blast Cally and Fisher into bloody chunks. While Bardo's handgun is not capable of doing this to humans, its bullets can still do significant damage on Earth.
Sprug makes a fast getaway in his spaceship. Bardo steals a ship from a nearby police garage and chases Sprug through a glowing anomaly. Following their crash landing on Earth, they discover that they are now only a few inches tall. Earth is approximately 10,000 Light Years from Arturus.
Bardo soon gains a friend in an impoverished
woman named Debi Alejandro, by saving her life from three gang members who attack her close to his spaceship. From here on, the villains refer to Bardo as being a "Dollman" because of his size. Although Bardo takes a liking to this name in the movies, he does not like it in the comic books.
Debi lives in a crime-ridden part of the South Bronx with her young son Kevin, and is part of a Neighborhood Watch
team who are just trying to make a difference. Knowing that the gang members will return, Debi takes Dollman and his ship to her home, where he becomes a major attraction for the noisy neighbors. Meanwhile, Sprug has enlisted the help of a local gang led by Braxton Red, and Dollman is not safe for long when the gang regroup and lead a vengeful assault, as payback for the previous attack on their men.
Braxton and his gang go to Debi's house demanding to know where Dollman is. Just then, Dollman kills all the bad guys, save for Braxton, who barely escapes with his life, and is left fatally wounded.
Braxton makes it back to his hideout, but is about to die. Sprug offers to save his life by healing his injury, only if he will obey his every command. After partially healing the wound, Sprug is squashed by Braxton when Sprug demands that he now work for him. Braxton further declares war on the Dollman.
During a conversation with Debi that night, Dollman confirms that he once had a wife, son and baby daughter, who were murdered by someone to get back at him (possibly Sprug). Debi also confesses that her husband was killed holding up a liquor store
, and that Kevin doesn't remember much about his father.
While Debi is returning home from work the next day, Braxton (now close to death) leads his goons in kidnapping her to lure Dollman into a trap. Hearing the commotion outside in the street, Dollman dives through a window and narrowly grabs on to the side of their car, as they speed off and stop at the city outskirts where they first encountered Dollman. Once there, they await Dollman's arrival. But Dollman is aware of their plan to take him out, and does a surprise attack of his own on the bad guys from above, laying waste to all of them. Dollman manages to overcome the odds, and saves Debi from Braxton by shooting his right arm off.
Dollman is about to finish Braxton, but Debi resents the unnecessary violence and Dollman agrees not to kill him. Braxton then activates Sprug's dimensional bomb, forcing Debi and Dollman to run for cover as the area is destroyed in the blast. Following this, Dollman bids farewell to Debi.
, but remained trapped at 12 inches in a glass bubble at the outcome of the movie. Bardo learns of her circumstances through the tabloid press
.
Dollman contributes a post-credits cameo, which is presented as an epilogue to his own movie, and also as a set-up (stinger) for the sequel, Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
. The same cameo from Bad Channels
is also in the next film. But Tim Thomerson redubs the dialogue mentioning Bunny.
In Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
, Bardo learns of the whereabouts of Nurse Ginger (played by Melissa Behr
) instead of Bunny. Ginger's change in size is never provided with an on screen explanation in the movie, as Ginger and another girl named Cookie were later unshrunk in Bad Channels
after the DJ fought the alien. As such, it has been suggested by Full Moon fans that the producers deliberately ignored the outcome of Ginger's fate, and cast her in the next movie anyway instead of Bunny, either because Daryl Strauss couldn't return, or because Ginger was the obvious odds-on favorite.
is the sequel to Dollman
(1991), Demonic Toys
(1992) and Bad Channels
(1992). It was one of Charles Band's first attempts at combining characters from his different franchises.
The story surrounds police officer Judith Gray's obsession with destroying the titular toys, while Dollman's search for Ginger (later nicknamed "Dollchick" by the baby doll Oopsie Daisy) leads him to Pahoota, upon finding out there was a girl his size. Dollman shows up just in time to save Ginger from impending doom when a spider
attacks. After relating their predicaments on Ginger's kitchen counter, they share a brief moment of intimacy
before Judith Gray shows up. Being a cop in peril, she seeks Dollman's help in battling the toys because she is serving out a suspension. She found out where they were by smooth talking a reporter who had been interviewing them.
Since Dollman is similarly sized, he can use the ventilation shafts to move around in and hunt the toy
s. He quips a joke about how he hasn't been hunting since he landed on the planet, and that'd be fun. Ginger insisted on tagging along with the two cops, to help out if they get hurt.
The toys somehow returned when a drunken hobo
had a gruesome accident inside their warehouse
, while sheltering from the rain
. Since human blood is able to summon the demonic toys, four of these toys magically appear. Only this time, the Teddy Bear from the first movie is replaced by an angry looking combat doll, named Zombietoid.
After transporting Dollman and Ginger into the warehouse inside a suitcase, they are confronted by a dwarf security guard whom the toys have recruited to do their dirty work. After easily taking him out, Judith is shot and killed by Mr. Static (a toy robot that fires laser beams) and the toys capture Dollman and Ginger by outnumbering them in the air vents, when Dollman's gun gets stuck between a pile of crates.
Baby Oopsie explains that Ginger will be impregnated at midnight. This is a crucial part of the toys' plan to resurrect their demon master, so that he may finally get the human body he sought out. Thus why the toys captured Ginger (as The Kid had failed to be reborn through Judith's unborn baby in Demonic Toys
). Their plan is ultimately thwarted by Dollman, who eliminates the toys one by one. Dollman and Ginger alert the police that Judith has died, and then hire a taxi to take them back to Pahoota.
Dollman defeats the toys in the following order: Mr. Static (Toy Robot), Zombietoid (Action Figure), Jack Attack
(Jack-In-The-Box), and finally, Baby Oopsie Daisy (Baby-Doll).
released four separate issues in the early 1990s, chronicalling the battle between Brick Bardo and his archnemesis, Stolvan Sprug. In this story, Sprug uses a human gang to market a drug called Blaze. Bardo is partnered up with a lady called Toni Costa and Ferguson, a fellow cop. Readers learn that Bardo's late wife was called Vicki.
Full Moon Features
produced a series of collectible trading cards based on Dollman and their other movies at the height of their popularity. They included a card about the film (#16), plus Brick Bardo (#17), Sprug (#18), Braxton Red (#19), and The Mark V Speedsnake (#20), which is the name of Sprug's illegal spaceship.
Written by Bill Spangler and illustrated by Marcelo Campos, the comics also featured poster art between pages for upcoming Full Moon Features
releases. Although Malibu Comics also released comics based on Demonic Toys
, there was no crossover with Dollman.
The battle music from Dollman can be heard in one scene during Trancers III
. A trailer for Dollman features music from RoboCop
.
In 2005, Full Moon Features
released a DVD box set that contains Dollman
, Demonic Toys
and the previously unreleased Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
in NTSC form (Region 0). Each DVD also included the Videozone / Making Of feature. Dollman vs. Demonic Toys was finally released on its own in 2008.
may also refer to the comic book character of the same name, created by Will Eisner
and published by DC Comics
. This can cause confusion, as the movie character has its own comic spin off as well.
used by cameraman/actor Joseph "Joe" Bardo who was very helpful to Dollman director Albert Pyun
early in his career, and it was used in the film both as an homage
to the him and because Pyun always thought it sounded cool.
Fiction
Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...
al diminutive alien lawman in the Full Moon Features
Full Moon Features
Full Moon Features is a motion picture production and distribution company headed by B-movie veteran Charles Band. It is known for the direct-to-video series Puppet Master and Subspecies, as well as the innovative VideoZone featurette at the end of films through 1989 to 2000.-Full Moon...
universe, who comes from the fictional planet
Planet
A planet is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
Arturus. He is not to be confused with the Doll Man
Doll Man
Note: This article is about the Quality Comics character. For the Full Moon Features film Dollman, see Dollman . For the article on the movie's titular character, please see Brick Bardo....
of Quality Comics
Quality Comics
Quality Comics was an American comic book publishing company that operated from 1939 to 1956 and was an influential creative force in what historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books....
.
Not unlike Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...
's character in the Dirty Harry
Dirty Harry
Dirty Harry is a 1971 American crime thriller produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan....
films, he is the owner of a 596.8 Ruger; "the most powerful handgun in the known universe." His name is based on an ongoing writers trademark by director Albert Pyun
Albert Pyun
Albert Pyun is an American film director best known for having made many low-budget B-movies and direct-to-video action films. He frequently blends kickboxing and hybrid martial arts with science fiction and dystopic or post-apocalyptic themes, which often include cyborgs...
.
Tim Thomerson
Tim Thomerson
Joseph Timothy “Tim” Thomerson is an American actor and comedian.Thomerson is most famous for his role as Jack Deth in the Trancers film series and is renowned for his work in numerous low-budget movies and his comedic television roles.-Early life:Tim Thomerson was born in Coronado, California. He...
of Trancers
Trancers
Trancers is a 1985 science fiction film. It was directed by Charles Band and stars Tim Thomerson and Helen Hunt. It is the first film in a series of six: Trancers , and the direct-to-video releases; Trancers II , Trancers III , Trancers 4: Jack of Swords , Trancers 5: Sudden Deth and Trancers 6...
popularity played the character in Dollman
Dollman (film)
Note: This article is about the Full Moon Features film Dollman. For the film's title character, please see Brick Bardo. For the Quality Comics character, see Doll Man....
, Bad Channels
Bad Channels (film)
Bad Channels is a 1992 science-fiction spoof, released by Full Moon Features. It is about two aliens who invade a radio station with the intention of capturing female humans, by using radio broadcasts.The film is followed by Dollman vs...
and Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys is a low-budget independent 1993 horror film in the B movie category, that went straight to video and never had a theatrical release...
. As with other Full Moon franchises, the Dollman character later became a comic adaption, with four full color issues released from Malibu Comics
Malibu Comics
Malibu Comics was an American comic book publisher active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, best known for its Ultraverse line of superhero titles. The company's headquarters was in Calabasas, California. Malibu imprints included Aircel Comics and Eternity Comics...
.
Dollman was to appear in another crossover film titled Legion of Doom. However, the project was abandoned.
Dollman
Brick Bardo is a hard-boiledHardboiled
Hardboiled crime fiction is a literary style, most commonly associated with detective stories, distinguished by the unsentimental portrayal of violence and sex. The style was pioneered by Carroll John Daly in the mid-1920s, popularized by Dashiell Hammett over the course of the decade, and refined...
cop
Police officer
A police officer is a warranted employee of a police force...
living on Arturus, a planet much like Earth
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
, who is very good at nailing the city's criminal population. But this seems to upset his superiors and the Mayor.
One day, Bardo saves a room full of hostages at a laundromat while serving out a suspension. This inadvertently leads to his framing of the death of several people, as reported on the news Bardo is listening to in his apartment. Just then, Cally, an enemy of Bardo's begins shooting at him, and temporarily stuns him using a small device. When Bardo awakens, he finds himself surrounded by his archenemy Stolvan Sprug and his henchmen (Cally and Fisher) on a desert plain in the middle of nowhere. Sprug wants revenge on Bardo for shooting off most of his body parts, leaving him only a floating hi-tech head. He reveals that he is in possession of a powerful dimensional bomb
Bomb
A bomb is any of a range of explosive weapons that only rely on the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy...
that he will use if the city does not pay the fifty thousand ions he is demanding.
Before Sprug's goons can finish off Bardo, Bardo uses a magnetic
Magnetism
Magnetism is a property of materials that respond at an atomic or subatomic level to an applied magnetic field. Ferromagnetism is the strongest and most familiar type of magnetism. It is responsible for the behavior of permanent magnets, which produce their own persistent magnetic fields, as well...
-like force that appears as a disc-shaped glowing
Phosphorescence
Phosphorescence is a specific type of photoluminescence related to fluorescence. Unlike fluorescence, a phosphorescent material does not immediately re-emit the radiation it absorbs. The slower time scales of the re-emission are associated with "forbidden" energy state transitions in quantum...
on the palm
Hand
A hand is a prehensile, multi-fingered extremity located at the end of an arm or forelimb of primates such as humans, chimpanzees, monkeys, and lemurs...
of his hand to retrieve his gun and proceeds to blast Cally and Fisher into bloody chunks. While Bardo's handgun is not capable of doing this to humans, its bullets can still do significant damage on Earth.
Sprug makes a fast getaway in his spaceship. Bardo steals a ship from a nearby police garage and chases Sprug through a glowing anomaly. Following their crash landing on Earth, they discover that they are now only a few inches tall. Earth is approximately 10,000 Light Years from Arturus.
Bardo soon gains a friend in an impoverished
Poverty
Poverty is the lack of a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution is inability to afford basic human needs, which commonly includes clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter. About 1.7 billion people are estimated to live...
woman named Debi Alejandro, by saving her life from three gang members who attack her close to his spaceship. From here on, the villains refer to Bardo as being a "Dollman" because of his size. Although Bardo takes a liking to this name in the movies, he does not like it in the comic books.
Debi lives in a crime-ridden part of the South Bronx with her young son Kevin, and is part of a Neighborhood Watch
Neighborhood watch
A neighborhood watch or neighbourhood watch , also called a crime watch or neighborhood crime watch, is an organized group of citizens devoted to crime and vandalism prevention within a neighborhood...
team who are just trying to make a difference. Knowing that the gang members will return, Debi takes Dollman and his ship to her home, where he becomes a major attraction for the noisy neighbors. Meanwhile, Sprug has enlisted the help of a local gang led by Braxton Red, and Dollman is not safe for long when the gang regroup and lead a vengeful assault, as payback for the previous attack on their men.
Braxton and his gang go to Debi's house demanding to know where Dollman is. Just then, Dollman kills all the bad guys, save for Braxton, who barely escapes with his life, and is left fatally wounded.
Braxton makes it back to his hideout, but is about to die. Sprug offers to save his life by healing his injury, only if he will obey his every command. After partially healing the wound, Sprug is squashed by Braxton when Sprug demands that he now work for him. Braxton further declares war on the Dollman.
During a conversation with Debi that night, Dollman confirms that he once had a wife, son and baby daughter, who were murdered by someone to get back at him (possibly Sprug). Debi also confesses that her husband was killed holding up a liquor store
Liquor store
In the United States, Australia and Canada, a liquor store is a type of store that specializes in the sale of alcoholic beverages. In South Africa and Namibia these stores are generally called bottle stores....
, and that Kevin doesn't remember much about his father.
While Debi is returning home from work the next day, Braxton (now close to death) leads his goons in kidnapping her to lure Dollman into a trap. Hearing the commotion outside in the street, Dollman dives through a window and narrowly grabs on to the side of their car, as they speed off and stop at the city outskirts where they first encountered Dollman. Once there, they await Dollman's arrival. But Dollman is aware of their plan to take him out, and does a surprise attack of his own on the bad guys from above, laying waste to all of them. Dollman manages to overcome the odds, and saves Debi from Braxton by shooting his right arm off.
Dollman is about to finish Braxton, but Debi resents the unnecessary violence and Dollman agrees not to kill him. Braxton then activates Sprug's dimensional bomb, forcing Debi and Dollman to run for cover as the area is destroyed in the blast. Following this, Dollman bids farewell to Debi.
Bad Channels
Unable to leave Earth, Bardo sets out to Pahoota to find Bunny (Daryl Strauss) - a character who survived an alien encounter in Bad ChannelsBad Channels (film)
Bad Channels is a 1992 science-fiction spoof, released by Full Moon Features. It is about two aliens who invade a radio station with the intention of capturing female humans, by using radio broadcasts.The film is followed by Dollman vs...
, but remained trapped at 12 inches in a glass bubble at the outcome of the movie. Bardo learns of her circumstances through the tabloid press
Tabloid journalism
Tabloid journalism tends to emphasize topics such as sensational crime stories, astrology, gossip columns about the personal lives of celebrities and sports stars, and junk food news...
.
Dollman contributes a post-credits cameo, which is presented as an epilogue to his own movie, and also as a set-up (stinger) for the sequel, Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys is a low-budget independent 1993 horror film in the B movie category, that went straight to video and never had a theatrical release...
. The same cameo from Bad Channels
Bad Channels (film)
Bad Channels is a 1992 science-fiction spoof, released by Full Moon Features. It is about two aliens who invade a radio station with the intention of capturing female humans, by using radio broadcasts.The film is followed by Dollman vs...
is also in the next film. But Tim Thomerson redubs the dialogue mentioning Bunny.
In Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys is a low-budget independent 1993 horror film in the B movie category, that went straight to video and never had a theatrical release...
, Bardo learns of the whereabouts of Nurse Ginger (played by Melissa Behr
Melissa Behr
Melissa Ivy Behr is an American actress, model, media artist, film producer and director.One of her most notable roles is that of Nurse Ginger in the 1992 B movie Bad Channels, which was produced by Full Moon Features. She returned to this role in Dollman vs...
) instead of Bunny. Ginger's change in size is never provided with an on screen explanation in the movie, as Ginger and another girl named Cookie were later unshrunk in Bad Channels
Bad Channels (film)
Bad Channels is a 1992 science-fiction spoof, released by Full Moon Features. It is about two aliens who invade a radio station with the intention of capturing female humans, by using radio broadcasts.The film is followed by Dollman vs...
after the DJ fought the alien. As such, it has been suggested by Full Moon fans that the producers deliberately ignored the outcome of Ginger's fate, and cast her in the next movie anyway instead of Bunny, either because Daryl Strauss couldn't return, or because Ginger was the obvious odds-on favorite.
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
Dollman vs. Demonic ToysDollman vs. Demonic Toys
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys is a low-budget independent 1993 horror film in the B movie category, that went straight to video and never had a theatrical release...
is the sequel to Dollman
Doll Man
Note: This article is about the Quality Comics character. For the Full Moon Features film Dollman, see Dollman . For the article on the movie's titular character, please see Brick Bardo....
(1991), Demonic Toys
Demonic Toys
Demonic Toys is a film produced by Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment and released in 1992. The film features small, killer toys similar to those seen in Puppet Master, a film which Band produced in 1989. Demonic Toys, like many other Full Moon releases, never had a theatrical release and went...
(1992) and Bad Channels
Bad Channels
Bad Channels is the soundtrack album of the science fiction spoof film of the same name, It featuring songs by the bands Blue Öyster Cult, Fair Game and Sykotik Sinfoney, and released in 1992.-Track listing:...
(1992). It was one of Charles Band's first attempts at combining characters from his different franchises.
The story surrounds police officer Judith Gray's obsession with destroying the titular toys, while Dollman's search for Ginger (later nicknamed "Dollchick" by the baby doll Oopsie Daisy) leads him to Pahoota, upon finding out there was a girl his size. Dollman shows up just in time to save Ginger from impending doom when a spider
Spider
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...
attacks. After relating their predicaments on Ginger's kitchen counter, they share a brief moment of intimacy
Intimate relationship
An intimate relationship is a particularly close interpersonal relationship that involves physical or emotional intimacy. Physical intimacy is characterized by romantic or passionate love and attachment, or sexual activity. The term is also sometimes used euphemistically for a sexual...
before Judith Gray shows up. Being a cop in peril, she seeks Dollman's help in battling the toys because she is serving out a suspension. She found out where they were by smooth talking a reporter who had been interviewing them.
Since Dollman is similarly sized, he can use the ventilation shafts to move around in and hunt the toy
Toy
A toy is any object that can be used for play. Toys are associated commonly with children and pets. Playing with toys is often thought to be an enjoyable means of training the young for life in human society. Different materials are used to make toys enjoyable and cuddly to both young and old...
s. He quips a joke about how he hasn't been hunting since he landed on the planet, and that'd be fun. Ginger insisted on tagging along with the two cops, to help out if they get hurt.
The toys somehow returned when a drunken hobo
Hobo
A hobo is a term which is often applied to a migratory worker or homeless vagabond, often penniless. The term originated in the Western—probably Northwestern—United States during the last decade of the 19th century. Unlike 'tramps', who work only when they are forced to, and 'bums', who do not...
had a gruesome accident inside their warehouse
Warehouse
A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial areas of cities and towns. They usually have loading docks to load and unload...
, while sheltering from the rain
Rain
Rain is liquid precipitation, as opposed to non-liquid kinds of precipitation such as snow, hail and sleet. Rain requires the presence of a thick layer of the atmosphere to have temperatures above the melting point of water near and above the Earth's surface...
. Since human blood is able to summon the demonic toys, four of these toys magically appear. Only this time, the Teddy Bear from the first movie is replaced by an angry looking combat doll, named Zombietoid.
After transporting Dollman and Ginger into the warehouse inside a suitcase, they are confronted by a dwarf security guard whom the toys have recruited to do their dirty work. After easily taking him out, Judith is shot and killed by Mr. Static (a toy robot that fires laser beams) and the toys capture Dollman and Ginger by outnumbering them in the air vents, when Dollman's gun gets stuck between a pile of crates.
Baby Oopsie explains that Ginger will be impregnated at midnight. This is a crucial part of the toys' plan to resurrect their demon master, so that he may finally get the human body he sought out. Thus why the toys captured Ginger (as The Kid had failed to be reborn through Judith's unborn baby in Demonic Toys
Demonic Toys
Demonic Toys is a film produced by Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment and released in 1992. The film features small, killer toys similar to those seen in Puppet Master, a film which Band produced in 1989. Demonic Toys, like many other Full Moon releases, never had a theatrical release and went...
). Their plan is ultimately thwarted by Dollman, who eliminates the toys one by one. Dollman and Ginger alert the police that Judith has died, and then hire a taxi to take them back to Pahoota.
Dollman defeats the toys in the following order: Mr. Static (Toy Robot), Zombietoid (Action Figure), Jack Attack
Jack Attack (Demonic Toys)
Jack Attack is a demonic Jack-in-the-box that appears in the Demonic Toys line of horror films. He also makes a cameo appearance in Evil Bong, along with other Full Moon Features characters. He is voiced by legendary voice actor Frank Welker....
(Jack-In-The-Box), and finally, Baby Oopsie Daisy (Baby-Doll).
Abilities
Dollman has no real abilities, other than a magnetic like action that can return his Proto Blaster gun directly back into his hand when it is out of his reach.In other media
Malibu ComicsMalibu Comics
Malibu Comics was an American comic book publisher active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, best known for its Ultraverse line of superhero titles. The company's headquarters was in Calabasas, California. Malibu imprints included Aircel Comics and Eternity Comics...
released four separate issues in the early 1990s, chronicalling the battle between Brick Bardo and his archnemesis, Stolvan Sprug. In this story, Sprug uses a human gang to market a drug called Blaze. Bardo is partnered up with a lady called Toni Costa and Ferguson, a fellow cop. Readers learn that Bardo's late wife was called Vicki.
Full Moon Features
Full Moon Features
Full Moon Features is a motion picture production and distribution company headed by B-movie veteran Charles Band. It is known for the direct-to-video series Puppet Master and Subspecies, as well as the innovative VideoZone featurette at the end of films through 1989 to 2000.-Full Moon...
produced a series of collectible trading cards based on Dollman and their other movies at the height of their popularity. They included a card about the film (#16), plus Brick Bardo (#17), Sprug (#18), Braxton Red (#19), and The Mark V Speedsnake (#20), which is the name of Sprug's illegal spaceship.
Written by Bill Spangler and illustrated by Marcelo Campos, the comics also featured poster art between pages for upcoming Full Moon Features
Full Moon Features
Full Moon Features is a motion picture production and distribution company headed by B-movie veteran Charles Band. It is known for the direct-to-video series Puppet Master and Subspecies, as well as the innovative VideoZone featurette at the end of films through 1989 to 2000.-Full Moon...
releases. Although Malibu Comics also released comics based on Demonic Toys
Demonic Toys
Demonic Toys is a film produced by Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment and released in 1992. The film features small, killer toys similar to those seen in Puppet Master, a film which Band produced in 1989. Demonic Toys, like many other Full Moon releases, never had a theatrical release and went...
, there was no crossover with Dollman.
The battle music from Dollman can be heard in one scene during Trancers III
Trancers III
Trancers III is the second sequel of the Trancers series and went straight-to-video in 1992.-Plot:Tagline: "The end of time is just beginning. Deth lives."...
. A trailer for Dollman features music from RoboCop
RoboCop
RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction-action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in the near future, RoboCop centers on a police officer who is brutally murdered and subsequently re-created as a super-human cyborg known as "RoboCop"...
.
In 2005, Full Moon Features
Full Moon Features
Full Moon Features is a motion picture production and distribution company headed by B-movie veteran Charles Band. It is known for the direct-to-video series Puppet Master and Subspecies, as well as the innovative VideoZone featurette at the end of films through 1989 to 2000.-Full Moon...
released a DVD box set that contains Dollman
Doll Man
Note: This article is about the Quality Comics character. For the Full Moon Features film Dollman, see Dollman . For the article on the movie's titular character, please see Brick Bardo....
, Demonic Toys
Demonic Toys
Demonic Toys is a film produced by Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment and released in 1992. The film features small, killer toys similar to those seen in Puppet Master, a film which Band produced in 1989. Demonic Toys, like many other Full Moon releases, never had a theatrical release and went...
and the previously unreleased Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys is a low-budget independent 1993 horror film in the B movie category, that went straight to video and never had a theatrical release...
in NTSC form (Region 0). Each DVD also included the Videozone / Making Of feature. Dollman vs. Demonic Toys was finally released on its own in 2008.
Other uses
DollmanDoll Man
Note: This article is about the Quality Comics character. For the Full Moon Features film Dollman, see Dollman . For the article on the movie's titular character, please see Brick Bardo....
may also refer to the comic book character of the same name, created by Will Eisner
Will Eisner
William Erwin "Will" Eisner was an American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. He is considered one of the most important contributors to the development of the medium and is known for the cartooning studio he founded; for his highly influential series The Spirit; for his use of comics as an...
and published by DC Comics
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
. This can cause confusion, as the movie character has its own comic spin off as well.
Trivia
"Brick Bardo" was originally the stage nameStage name
A stage name, also called a showbiz name or screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers such as actors, wrestlers, comedians, and musicians.-Motivation to use a stage name:...
used by cameraman/actor Joseph "Joe" Bardo who was very helpful to Dollman director Albert Pyun
Albert Pyun
Albert Pyun is an American film director best known for having made many low-budget B-movies and direct-to-video action films. He frequently blends kickboxing and hybrid martial arts with science fiction and dystopic or post-apocalyptic themes, which often include cyborgs...
early in his career, and it was used in the film both as an homage
Homage
Homage is a show or demonstration of respect or dedication to someone or something, sometimes by simple declaration but often by some more oblique reference, artistic or poetic....
to the him and because Pyun always thought it sounded cool.