Features

Toy Wars – a Star Wars Recreation with Toys by Sillof

Are you a fan of Star Wars and action figures? Then Toy Wars may just be your kind of movie. Sillof, who is widely known for his themed custom action figure creations, like the Gaslight Legion of Doom, has published the first part of his remake of Star Wars: a New Hope.

What makes it special? Toy Wars is filmed entirely with Sillof’s 3.75-inch scaled custom figures and dioramas. While I found myself missing the spoken words, I was amazed at the different set pieces that Sillof created.

Continue reading “Toy Wars – a Star Wars Recreation with Toys by Sillof”

Some Favorite Masters of the Universe Keldor Reviews

We’ll get to our own review of Keldor eventually – I’m looking at you, Sandman! – but in the meantime, we can’t deny his awesomeness. Here’s a handful of reviews from some of our favorite sites.

Poe Ghostal’s Points of Articulation

It’s funny how Mattel has twice managed to make a Skeletor figure with the head of a casino magician not only desirable, but a fun toy to own. Once I got my Keldor I opened him, fiddled around with him, posed him on the coffee table, and said to Dr. Mrs. Ghostal, “Y’know, I really like him.” There are definitely MOTUC figures I didn’t feel that way about (no offense, your Majesty), but Keldor is not one of them.

The relative lack of new tooling, particularly in regard to the swords, costs Keldor a raven. But overall, this is a fun figure.

via Review > Keldor (Masters of the Universe Classics) : Poe Ghostal’s Points of Articulation.
It’sAllTrue.Net

I’ve had mixed feelings about Keldor ever since he debuted back in February. It had little to do with the figure itself. I was glad to have Keldor in the line; it’s the swords that got under my collar. I’m not a big fan of the half swords in the toy line and Mattel’s different attempts at explaining why they couldn’t do a classicized version of the evil 200x swords were largely unsatisfactory. I think that took away from the buildup for this figure in my eyes. Instead of getting everybody’s favorite villain before that unfortunate date with a vial of acid, I felt we were getting a figure with bad accessories. I’ll still rant a bit in the accessories section, but Keldor ended up with nice representation in the Classics line despite that drawback.

via MOTUClassics.Com: Keldor Review « It’sAllTrue.Net.
TheFwoosh.com

Keldor has never really been a must have character or variant in my book, but Mattel has managed to do enough here to make the figure interesting enough to me to display.  I’m not quite sure where I’ll put him on the shelf, though.  There are a couple of obvious (to me) accessories not included and the power swords could be better, but those factors do not detract too much from the final figure.

via MOTUC Review – Keldor | TheFwoosh.com.

Hot Toys Terminator T-1000 Available for Pre-Order

Yesterday, when we first published pics of the upcoming Hot Toys T-1000 from Terminator 2, the news was so fresh that we hadn’t even seen specs for the figure. Now that the figure is available for pre-order from Sideshow, we can verify what the pics were telling us – that this figure is loaded with accessories.

There’s two complete outfits, so you’d just have to add another Hot Toys base body to have the T-1000 in his motorcycle cop duds and in a battle-damaged look. I think he’d be classified a DX figure if he had the Parallel Eyeball Rolling System (PERS).

The T-1000 is also available from AFP sponsor Big Bad Toy Store.

Sideshow Collectibles and Hot Toys are proud to present the 1/6th scale T1000 Collectible Figure from the Terminator 2: Judgment Day movie. The T1000 collectible is specially crafted based on the image of Robert Patrick in the movie, highlighting the newly sculpted head, two styles of costume, highly detailed weapons and bonus accessories.

The T-1000 12 inch Figure features:

  • Authentic, hand-painted likeness of Robert Patrick as T-1000 in the movie Terminator 2
  • Movie-accurate facial expression with detailed wrinkles and skin texture
  • Interchangeable bullet damaged head
  • Dark brown hair sculpture
  • Stands approximately 30 cm tall
  • TrueType body with over 30 points of articulations
  • Four (4) pairs of interchangeable palms including
  • One (1) pair of open palms
  • One (1) pair of relaxed palms
  • One (1) pair for holding guns
  • One (1) right pin palm
  • One (1) left palm with pointing forefinger
  • One (1) dark blue police officer shirt with badge
  • One (1) pair of dark blue police officer pants
  • One (1) black highway patrol officer jacket with badge
  • One (1) pair of dark blue highway patrol officer pants with white stripes on both sides
  • One (1) pair of faux-leather black shoes
  • One (1) pair of faux-leather black boots
  • One (1) faux-leather black buckled belt
  • One (1) faux-leather black buckled police belt with pouches for pistol, magazines, walkie-talkie, handcuffs, and torch holder
  • One (1) pistol
  • One (1) submachine gun
  • Two (2) magazines
  • One (1) pair of metallic handcuffs
  • One (1) pair of metallic hook arms
  • One (1) metallic blade arm
  • Three (3) small-size, two (2) medium-size and two (2) large-size detachable magnetic bullet wounds
  • One (1) pair of sunglasses
  • One (1) helmet
  • One (1) torch
  • One (1) walkie-talkie
  • One (1) ball pen
  • Figure stand with T1000 nameplate and the movie logo

via Sideshow Collectibles, Inc. – T-1000 / 12 inch Figure.

Heroclix Web of Spider-Man Preview of Carnage and Cardiac

I’ve just got an excerpt from WizKid’s preview of two of the figures from the upcoming Heroclix Web of Spider-Man set that was announced back in late April – Carnage and Cardiac. But you should really check out the full article, especially if you’re interested in the product planning that goes into producing a set of figures like this.

Today, I have two sneak peaks of figs for you to look at, one from each category.  First up, I have a “need.”  If you’re going to do a Spider-Man set, you got to have representatives on the Symbiote front.  Fans have been bugging (okay, asking) me for a new Carnage since I began working on Clix years ago.  Web of Spider-Man includes a powerhouse version of Cletus Kasady that is sure to guarantee “maximum carnage.”  Equipped with a vicious Special “Symbiote Blade,” Carnage is a worthy adversary.  Next up on my preview board is another fan-demanded piece that conveniently happens to be from the Spider-verse.

Wow, that sculpt is a real shocker!  All bad puns aside, what a breath-taking sculpt and paint for this awesome frie-nemy of Spider-Man.  While Carnage is a top-line Spider enemy with a couple of major cross-over stories under his belt, Cardiac has a slightly longer and more nuanced relationship with our favorite webhead.  He’s a perfect example of the supporting cast that makes Spider-Man’s world so rich and interesting. I can’t wait to show you more figs from the set, and in my next article, we’ll get into one of the meaty mechanics that makes Web truly innovative.

via Web of Spider-Man Previews Are Here! : Heroclix.com – Wizkids/NECA, Inc.

Jazwares 3-Inch Sonic the Hedgehog Preview of Espio, Vector, Super Sonic, and Super Shadow

Our own Sandman has given us some good looks at Sonic and Knuckles and Tails and Silver. Now our good friends at Jazwares have given us a preview of some more 3-inch scaled Sonic the Hedgehog figures that are coming out later this year. Since they’re all pending licensor approval, don’t consider these final prototypes.

Sonic is still going strong and we have many new items on the way!

I wanted to give you a sneak peek of some Sonic figures due later this year.

You are free to show these just make sure you say they are “Pending Licensor Approval”.

  • 3in Espio – Comic Book Pack with Vector (We will also have a clear “Invisible Espio” on single card later on.)
  • 4in Vector – Comic Book Pack with Espio
  • 3in Super Sonic – Included in a three figure set called “Super Pack” with Super Shadow and Super Silver. The set also includes 7 Chaos Emeralds.
  • 3in Super Shadow – Super Pack
Scroll Up