Happy New Year! AFP’s Best of 2010

As we kick off the new year, I asked the guys to make their picks for for best [insert anything toy-related] for 2010. I wasn’t sure, since we just picked our “most thankful for” figures a few weeks ago at Thanksgiving, if we’d have much to add. Turns out there was plenty that impressed us above and beyond our Thanksgiving picks.

I’ll get us started.

Best of 2010 - Iron Man 2 - Iron Monger

Ron’s pick – Hasbro Iron Man 2 – Iron Monger

I don’t want to get typecast, because I picked the Marvel Legends Iron Man as one of Fwoosh’s Best of 2009. But this year, I think that the Iron Man 2 line from Hasbro, in particular the Comic series, went a long way in winning over fans who were missing their 6-inch Legends to the 4-inch scale.

The line has some really great sculpts, decent enough paint apps, and some fantastic articulation at that size. And, of course, it brought us this awesome Iron Monger – the huge, classic, comic-based blue version that I never thought we’d get, since the movie-based Iron Monger lined shelves for a while.

There were lots of Hasbro Iron Man news and reviews this year, but one of my favorite posts was highlighting this custom Iron Man armory by Thor-El.

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Marvel Legends vs. DCUC Crossover Part 3 – BillsComics.com

Bill has shared part three of his latest Action Figure Comic, ML vs DCUC Crossover, with us. Be sure to check out part one and part two, and more of his comics at Bill’s Comics.

Marvel Legends vs. DCUC Crossover Part 3

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Watch “Marvel Super Heroes: What The–?!” Episode 16: A Very Merry Spidey Day

If you missed this special holiday episode of “Marvel Super Heroes: What The–?!” like we did – better late than never! Glad to see some of the new Marvel Legends figures making their way into these.

“Marvel Super Heroes: What The–?!” Episode 16: A Very Merry Spidey Day Premieres on Marvel.com

The holidays have arrived and everybody’s in a festive mood—except for Spider-Man in the latest episode of Marvel Super Heroes: What The?! only on Marvel.com! As related by M.O.D.O.K. in a seminal holiday tale, Spidey’s not feeling too jolly thanks to the Avengers’ refusal to let him join their fun.What will it take for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes to accept the Webslinger? Will M.O.D.O.K.’s story have a happy ending? And what’s up with Deadpool and the Island of Secret Defenders? All this and much more holiday cheer in this special episode of Marvel Super Heroes: What The?!, which you can watch right now: http://marvel.com/news/story/14904/watch_marvel_super_heroes_what_the-_episode_16.

Did we mention the very special cameo? No, not the Luke Cage one.

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DC Universe Classics Custom Starfire

About a year and a half ago my good friend Xavion2004 said to me; “I’m really unhappy with the DC Universe Classics version of Starfire, would you be interested in making a custom of her for me?” and, feeling overconfident about my customizing skills at the time, I said; “Sure, she can’t be too hard to do.” Ha! 18 months and 3 revisions later, I finally finished her…

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Marvel Legends Deadpool Comparison Pics

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When Hasbro announced the winners of their Marvel Legends Fan’s Choice poll wayyyy back in August – and that’s 2009, not this year – there was a very polarized reaction. Cheering were the folks who never had the chance to pick up the original Marvel Legends Deadpool from wave 6 in the Toy Biz run. And jeering were the folks who may already have had Deadpool but were regardless upset that one of the few slots for Marvel Legends, which under Hasbro has been limited to a handful of 2-packs over the course of the past couple of years, was going to be used for a re-do.

I was lucky enough to find the highly coveted RedPool 2-pack recently and wanted to snap some pictures comparing the new figures with the original release.

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