News Archives - Page 145 of 311 - ActionFigurePics.com

Hot Toys Reveals Wolverine from X-Men: The Last Stand

As much as my wallet hates me, I’ve become a huge fan of Hot Toys – but I am trying to figure out what’s off about their X-Men: The Last Stand Wolverine’s head sculpt. I have no doubt that based on the feedback they’ll get from these reveals that they’ll go back and rework it.

Wolvie will come with a severed Sentinel head for a base, and it will have light up eyes, just like from the Danger Room sequence at the start of the movie. Come to think of it, it’s about time to watch X3 again.

Continue reading “Hot Toys Reveals Wolverine from X-Men: The Last Stand”

Pop Culture Shock Reveals Street Fighter Sagat and ThunderCats Tygra Statues

Pop Culture Shock’s Jerry Macaluso sure has a way of making me want to plunk down a whole wad of cash on these statues from Street Fighter and ThunderCats. But as these are wayyyy out of my price range, all I can do is feel nostalgic about the heyday of SOTA’s Street Fighter action figure line and feel a bit letdown that Bandai’s ThunderCats line didn’t really deliver on the classics front, despite releasing Tygra (it missed the mark for me.)

Both of these statues are in 1/4 scale, and will be available through Sideshow Toys and specialty retailers.

Continue reading “Pop Culture Shock Reveals Street Fighter Sagat and ThunderCats Tygra Statues”

DC Universe Classics Mirror Master Headlines Matty Sales Day on 8/15 and Young Justice 2-Pack Gets a Reprieve

It’s sales day on MattyCollector.com – something I often and gladly forget because I’m subbed up like a toy gangsta – and DC Universe Classics Mirror Master from Club Infinite Earths is the headliner. Here’s the link to the handy August 15 bundle page. Due to our arch-enemy, Logistics, there’s no figure from the Club Eternia subscription, but if you still need a Masters of the Universe Classics fix, you can pick up this month’s figure from the 30th Anniversary sub, Sir Laser-Lot.

I’m not a big fan of the design Geoff Johns came up with when he was 8 years old. To some of you I know that means I’m a cranky old guy who doesn’t doesn’t know how to have fun with toys (yes, I also was underwhelmed by Vykron). But to each his own – if you’re a Laser-Lot fan, I’m glad Mattel made him for you.

Also, with Young Justice subscriptions at the halfway point to hit the minimums for the green light, Mattel extended the sub order window by 2 weeks – and delayed the ship date (only if YJ fans buy enough, we keep getting reminded) by three months. I’ll keep hoping that Mattel eventually gets to the point where they’ll do a true pre-order – that means no thermometer – because it will mean they’ve made a good enough product that they trust we’ll buy in mass quantities.

Continue reading “DC Universe Classics Mirror Master Headlines Matty Sales Day on 8/15 and Young Justice 2-Pack Gets a Reprieve”

Five Takeaways from the Batman and DC Unlimited Reveals

A couple of days back, BigBadToyStore listed the second waves of Batman Unlimited and DC Unlimited, with estimated arrival in the 1st quarter of 2013. For Batman Unlimited, we’re getting the garishly colored Planet X Batman (I guess “Zur-En-Arrh” isn’t packaging friendly) and the Dark Knight Returns Batman. And in DC Unlimited, we’re getting Batman from Injustice: Gods Among Us and Wonder Woman in her New 52 costume.

There’s been a lot of flux in Mattel’s DC collector-oriented retail offerings – here are the five key takeaways from these reveals:

1) Thank Grodd that the DC Universe Club Infinite Earths subscription went through, because Mattel’s DC collector-oriented offerings at retail haven’t been this limited since before Classics launched five years ago.

It wasn’t that long ago that we were seeing waves of seven figures, with retailer exclusive waves and two packs – so we’ll be suffering withdrawal going down to waves of four figures. The first waves of Batman and DC Unlimited had 3 figures each, but if retail has pushed that down to 2, Mattel DC is at the stage in the retail channel that Hasbro was at a few years back with their 2-pack offerings. It took a couple of lean years before Hasbro came back with a reinvigorated Legends re-launch, and we’re probably just at the start with DC.

Continue reading “Five Takeaways from the Batman and DC Unlimited Reveals”

Hot Toys Avengers Hulk is Always Angry

We got our first full look at the upcoming Hot Toys Hulk at Ani-Com, and with the official release pics I continue to be impressed. Some folks in the 1/6 community are a little jarred by the visible articulation points – but I figure this is a big green mostly naked guy, so there isn’t a lot of opportunity to hide those joints. Hot Toys did implement a “seamless” articulated elbow, but that raises the concern of possible rips in the “skin” and hindrances to posing.

One surprise – does “rolling eyeballs” mean full PERS or just some side to side action? Either way, Hulk likey! I mean SMASH!

Continue reading “Hot Toys Avengers Hulk is Always Angry”