Welcome to the toy aisle, Duff McKagan. The Guns N’ Roses bassist is the most recent rock star to hitch Funko’s Gold premium vinyl determine line, which beforehand miniaturized singer Axl Rose and guitarist Slash.
The new McKagan figurine stands 5 inches tall and sports activities black boots, black pants and a black leather-based jacket, together with a padlock necklace and voluminous blonde hair. It’s out there for preorder now at varied on-line retailers and is about to ship in April.
Along with the common determine, Funko has made a particular “chase” variant that portrays McKagan because the skull-faced avatar that graced the long-lasting cowl of Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction. Customers have a one-in-six likelihood of acquiring the Chase variant (or they will get rid of the ingredient of shock and shell out some extra cash to preorder the limited-edition model at sure web sites).
McKagan changed authentic Guns N’ Roses bassist Ole Beich nearly instantly after the band’s formation in early 1985. His preliminary tenure lasted till 1997, throughout which he performed on the band’s landmark Appetite — which grew to become the bestselling debut album in historical past — together with its multiplatinum follow-ups, 1988’s GN’R Lies and 1991’s Use Your Illusion I and II. In 2016, McKagan reunited with Rose and Slash, and the semi-reconstituted lineup launched the profitable Not in This Lifetime … Tour.
The bassist stayed energetic exterior of Guns N’ Roses as properly, releasing two solo albums, fronting the band Loaded and enjoying within the supergroup Velvet Revolver, that includes GNR alumni Slash and Matt Sorum and ex-Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland. More just lately, McKagan contributed bass to Ozzy Osbourne’s Patient Number 9 and Iggy Pop’s Every Loser.
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