I haven't seen it, but apparently one of the characters in the new movie Young Adult customizes GI Joes. The bad news? We don't come off that great. The good news, the character is played by Patton Oswalt (who is awesome), who seems to actually know something about the hobby.
From an interview on Ain't It Cool News:
Quote:
Capone: Did the fact that this character was a basement-dwelling, action-figure-assembling guy, ever make you pause and go “I'm afraid people might think this is a little closer to me than it actually is.”?
PO: Well except that the bourbon making and the action figure stuff was all brilliant subtext to the character, I thought. It was actually kind of necessary, and I mean that is a very real person. That is a person that exists, and the one thing that I added to the scene was that when he mixes and matches the action figures' [body parts] to make them. That’s a very real thing that happens in the action-figure world with these guys that make the custom figures, and I was like, “Oh, how symbolic of what Matt wishes for his own life:'Why can’t I switch these legs out with a pair that works?'”
Rest of the interview here
http://aicn-prod1.elasticbeanstalk.com/node/52198