The Action Figure and Toy Collecting and Discussion Thread!

Unfortunately, they announced on social media that the announcement will be delayed and have not given a new announcement date. They will still be streaming on May 4th.

 

Thank you. Don't normally watch but the pilot 4 pack, as well as the new playset reveal are pretty nice.

 

Upon seeing this thread, and then searching to see if I'd already posted in here, I was surprised to see no results. So anyway, here's my story about this kind of thing...

My family was never rich growing up, but I did have some action figures and related toys as a kid. It was mostly normal pop-culture 1990s stuff though, like Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, He-Man, etc. But back then, I just opened and played with them as any other child would - the concept of preserving or "collecting" them never entered my mind. Fast forward to now, and I don't really buy figures on a regular basis anymore. However, I did make two notable exceptions last year: Hot Toys' version of Doc Brown from the original Back to the Future, and a company called Mezco's 12-inch design of Eric Draven from The Crow. The former ran me about $300, which I'd never spent on a single figure at the time (and don't plan on repeating any time soon). The latter was only about $125, a tremendous relief by comparison. Here's some pics; I hope you like them.

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Yea, Hot Toys usually make a very good product. I've got an Endgame Captain America from them that I'm very happy with.

I've also got a very good Man with No Name from Sideshow Collectibles, and a Commander Shepard from ThreeZero in the same 1/6th scale.


Mezco does make a very good product. I've got one of their 1/12th Spock figures that impressed me with with its detail, dispite its size. I've put it with a much cheaper Kirk figure of similar scale in my little shrine to TOS.

I'm also very pleased with my set of Luke and Vader from Hasbro's Hyperreal series. They also get their own little shrine.

 

New Toy Ventures episode, just in time for the theatrical release of Furiosa, goes into Tonka's Mad Max-inspired STEEL MONSTERS toy line:

 

I am surprised someone didn’t pick up Aqua Teen Hunger Force…

A lovely space toy from yesterday
https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2024/06/astro-launch-and-vigilante.html?m=1

Here is a trek toy review
https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/mego-star-trek-andorian-talosian-review-mint-off-card/

Batman Beyond’s ride coming
https://toynewsi.com/14-52999

If only I had a Time Machine
https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/214341/

 

Well, I'm not collecting Star Wars, but this seems dope:

Anybody here signing up for that?

 

I'll admit that my preference in Star Wars action figure is slanted but is this a big deal?

 

It is for Star Wars collectors, especially those collecting the Cantina characters. Because the actresses involved demanded too much money for their likeness rights, Kenner/Hasbro has simply not done them ever, making any Cantina character collection seemingly eternally incomplete.

 

Obi-Wan: Curious.

Did we have all the other cantina patrons and this was the last hold out?

 

If I've been informed correctly (again, I don't collect SW myself), most if not all the Cantina aliens were done, but very few if any human characters. Because, well, human looking action figures aren't as interesting to kids and casual collectors as the aliens.

 

They're doing a Funko Pop! video gamed called Funko Fusion, with characters from a TON of properties. I think they're all owned by Universal, but I'm not positive.
Here's the list from Wikipedia:
Back to The Future
Battlestar Galactica (original)
Child's Play
Five Nights at Freddy's
Hot Fuzz
Invincible
Jaws
Knight Rider
M3GAN
The Mummy
Nope
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
The Thing
The Umbrella Academy
Univeral Classic Monsters
The Walking Dead
Voltron: Legendary Defender
Xena: Warrior Princess

Here's the trailer:

And some work in progress gameplay