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Rey Mysterio WWE All Scale Set

Rey Mysterio WWE All Scale Set

One of the last lines of product from Jakks Pacific before their WWE license went belly up, was the WWE All Scale sets, containing three incarnations of a single wrestler from their Ruthless Aggression, Micro Aggression and Build N’ Brawl collections.

January 28, 2011 | By | 2 Replies More
Sgt. Airborne

Sgt. Airborne

Airborne is one my favorite of the original GI Joe team members. I can’t really say why, but I have an idea. Most of his original contemporaries were highly specialized, and slightly over the top. Airborne, or Sgt. Airborne in this release, is fairly normal looking as far as soldiers go. My vintage Airborne spent […]

January 26, 2011 | By | 1 Reply More
Iron Man Mark 1 – Iron Man 2 (Comic Version)

Iron Man Mark 1 – Iron Man 2 (Comic Version)

This wasn’t a figure I had planned on getting. If anything, I planned on getting the movie version. However, after finishing Essential Iron Man Volume 1, I changed my mind. I’d never really been an Iron Man fan. I’d be lying if I said the movie didn’t have anything to do with it. Of course, […]

January 24, 2011 | By | 1 Reply More
Is NBC’s “The Cape” just “Diet Spawn”?

Is NBC’s “The Cape” just “Diet Spawn”?

There just seemed to be something familiar to me about “The Cape” that I couldn’t put my finger on. Then it hit me, the show was like the “lite” version of Spawn.

January 23, 2011 | By | Reply More
Thi-Sen (Clone Wars)

Thi-Sen (Clone Wars)

For me, one of the most interesting episodes in the second season of Clone Wars was Trespass, were we get to see new environments and more importantly, new character models developed for the CGI series.

January 22, 2011 | By | Reply More
Rinzler

Rinzler

The Emperor had Darth Vader. Cobra Commander had Storm Shadow. Mr. Burns had Smithers. Clu, the villain from the TRON Legacy movie has Rinzler

January 21, 2011 | By | 2 Replies More
Storm Shadow (Arctic Assault)

Storm Shadow (Arctic Assault)

Arctic Assault Storm Shadow was released in 2009 as part of wave 3 of Hasbro’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra toy line. Even though the name is somewhat misleading, Storm Shadow did appear in the movie dressed (or undressed) like this in the movie, while in the arctic Cobra base, so technically, so the Artic Assault moniker is correct.

January 19, 2011 | By | 1 Reply More
Captain Britain

Captain Britain

For some reason, I have always had a certain fascination with flag-costumed superheroes, and Marvel Comics is the only big publisher I know of that can blatantly rip-off the color scheme of any flag and turn it into a striking costume.

January 17, 2011 | By | 2 Replies More
Admiral Ackbar

Admiral Ackbar

You know in the last few years it seems Admiral Ackbar has been gaining in popularity. I don’t know if it’s people finally are seeing him has a brilliant strategist or Sheldon Cooper’s excellent mimicry. I’m glad for the aquatic admiral. I have to say I’ve always kind of liked Ackbar. He’s one of the […]

January 16, 2011 | By | 7 Replies More
Kevin Flynn

Kevin Flynn

For the new TRON Legacy movie, Spin Master managed to deliver a pretty decent line up of figures in the 4 inch scale range but even though most of the figures are actually pretty good…

January 14, 2011 | By | 2 Replies More
Ripper (Dreadnok)

Ripper (Dreadnok)

Ripper is the first Dreadnok in my small GI Joe collection. I just never really understood them. They are essentially an Aussie motorcycle gang. I’m sure they were styled after the baddies in the Mad Max series of films. It’s not that they aren’t entertaining, but other than a diversion what military purpose would they […]

January 12, 2011 | By | 3 Replies More
Archangel

Archangel

One of the most sought after figures in Marvel Universe Series 2, Archangel was a Fan’s Choice winner in 2009.

January 10, 2011 | By | 1 Reply More
Gelagrub Patrol

Gelagrub Patrol

Generally, the Star Wars Battlepack format has been good to fans. In a box you get several figures and accessories for a cost that oftentimes is lower than what you’d pay for each individually carded figure.

January 8, 2011 | By | Reply More
Sam Flynn

Sam Flynn

Despite the rather limited impact they had with their Last Airbender toy line, Spin Master got the license to produce toys for the upcoming TRON: Legacy movie by Disney.

January 7, 2011 | By | Reply More
Arctic Assault Snake Eyes

Arctic Assault Snake Eyes

Since this is a movie inspired figure, the silent commando dispenses with the black ensemble he normally wears pretty much everywhere in comic books and cartoons, and instead comes attired with proper cold weather garments.

January 5, 2011 | By | 1 Reply More
Spiderman (House of M)

Spiderman (House of M)

Of late, I find that collecting Hasbro Marvel Universe figures is becoming a lot like collecting Star Wars Clone Troopers, in the sense that there are only a few new molds developed each year and then we get to buy a lot of repaints with minimal changes done to them for quite some time.

January 3, 2011 | By | 2 Replies More
Iron Man Mk.VI (Power Up Glow)

Iron Man Mk.VI (Power Up Glow)

As a matter of principle, I usually shun gimmick figures. In most cases these features are either hideous to look at or mess with the articulation in some way. In the case of this Iron Man figure it is the later scenario but as it turns out, the end result is quite above tolerable in that regard.

December 19, 2010 | By | Reply More
Black Guard

Black Guard

Without knowing yet much about the plot of the movie, I can venture a guess that the Black Guard is part of a much larger cadre of troops in the service of the bad guy (red and black as a color scheme kind of give away their allegiance),

December 17, 2010 | By | Reply More
Clu’s Sentry

Clu’s Sentry

Well, you know that whenever an action figure is named after his job description the character it’s based on must be some kind of minion with a very low life expectancy when facing hero-type characters, kind of like Imperial Stormtroopers or Trek red shirts.

December 15, 2010 | By | Reply More
Clu

Clu

In the original TRON movie, programs in the inner computer world tended to look like the people who wrote them, so actor Jeff Bridges got to play two roles, that of Flynn, the digitized user trapped in the system and Clu, the program he wrote to hack into the ENCOM mainframe.

December 11, 2010 | By | 2 Replies More