The UPS Man just dropped off the DC Direct Blackest Night: Series 7: Black Lantern Superman Action Figure
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DC Universe Classics Wave 16 Found At Target Today
Hey all you DCUC Fans!
I saw a couple reports on the Fwoosh DC Universe Classics Wave 16 Discussion Thread that collectors in the southeast were finding DCUC 16 at Targets today, so I saddled up, trucked on over to the local Target and, POW, there they were! I picked up the 3 you see in the hastily snapped pic and left Creeper, GA Head Robin and All Star Wave 10 Batman on the shelf. Mercury and Az-Bats were MIA.
I hope this means that Target has blown out all their old DCUC stock and are going to come back strong with the new Waves because the 3 Wal-Marts here have removed DCUC from their Toy Departments.
I’ll have some more DCUC 16 pics up soon!
Wayback Wednesday – Bravestarr Part 2
Continuing from last week’s Tex Hex & Skull Walker review, we now take a look at the Marshall himself and the largest vehicle from the line, the Stratocoach!
threeA Toys Tomorrow Queen Preview Pics and WWRp Update
I’ll enjoy pics of these when they come out – no sale date revealed yet for the Tomorrow Queen – but I still have been able to resist jumping onto the 1/6 3A bandwagon. And for those of you who are 1/12 WWRp fans, great news – Ash has been posting on the 3A forums … Continue reading “threeA Toys Tomorrow Queen Preview Pics and WWRp Update”
I’ll enjoy pics of these when they come out – no sale date revealed yet for the Tomorrow Queen – but I still have been able to resist jumping onto the 1/6 3A bandwagon.
And for those of you who are 1/12 WWRp fans, great news – Ash has been posting on the 3A forums that a DIY / Gebi de Plume 2-pack will be dropped soon, and a 3AA-exclusive 3-pack including a WWRp Dropcloth will be part of that drop! Could be as early as the end of this month. Wow!
The Princess is coming…soon
threeA Toys Adventure Kartel Ankous
Moldie’s got a lot to say about 3A and the Ankous, so I’ll keep the intro short. He’s done a bunch of guest reviews for us (see here, here, here, here, and here) – you think it’s time for him to become a regular on AFP?
Toy collecting is growing up. Those of us who grew up with the old Star Wars figures of the 70s and 80s and G.I. JOE and Transformers, a lot of us were sucked back in with well designed and heavily-articulated toylines like Marvel Legends, now largely considered a pivotal series in the history of action figures. All the while the whole concept of comics and pop culture as contemporary art has grown and infected the same generation, leading toys to become more and more about legitimate aesthetic and overall design and less about character recognition and franchise promotion, the toy world’s crust slowly cracked open exposing opportunities for new and diverse lines.
It’s no surprise that a company like threeA might shine under these circumstances. With the production of toy lines the likes of WWR (World War Robot, 1/6, twelve-inch scale) and WWRp (World War Robot: portable, 1/12, six-inch scale) which are promoting nothing except an artist (Ashley Wood)’s sense of aesthetic, toy collecting seems to be veering into a whole new direction of high-quality collectibles, and leaving, to some degree, the toy aisles to the kiddos.
But threeA’s not just about rendering grimy, diesel-swilling robots in vinyl. Not just about gas masks and one-sleeved renegade soldiers, nope. It turns out it’s also about an old-school classic adventure team with a contemporary, crusty twist. With a touch of “emo” for the whiney-kid set.
We’re talking Adventure Kartel, here – the details of which are fed slowly, tiny morsel by tiny morsel as new figures are released into the wild.