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The Best Toys of 2026 (So Far) Feat. Preternia
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We're half way through 2026 — we made it! That also means it's time to revisit the year with our friend Preternia and tell you what we think were the best toys of the year up to this point! Did any of your favorites make the list?
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Introduction to 'Adventures in Collecting'
00:00:03
Speaker
Are you ready, kids? Get your parents' permission, check your mailbox, and grab your shopping cart. It's time for the Adventures in Collecting podcast. I'm Eric.
00:00:15
Speaker
And I'm Dave. Welcome to Adventures in Collecting, where we talk toy news, culture, and hauls, along with our journeys as collectors.
Celebratory Mood and Sports Talk
00:00:28
Speaker
Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Adventures in Collecting. Dave, you're in celebratory space.
00:00:40
Speaker
Well, the good news was we were no longer playing by the time the weekend hit, which was great. um Or by the time the episode aired, which was great, which was great news.
00:00:53
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Yeah.
00:00:56
Speaker
Congratulations work, except for in one really strange instance. um Well, well, no, I think that one strange instance just proves that there is something strong, stronger than I'm stronger than curses. Yeah. ah ah um Oh, man.
00:01:12
Speaker
But I am very happy. I did not go to the parade because I'm 45 and have arthritis in multiple locations. um That is not an environment conducive to me now.
00:01:25
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However... Very fair. My 14 and or and self would have totally been So... Well, congratulations. I'm very happy for you. As as a non-basketball fan, but brother of a big basketball fan, i got to enjoy this vicariously. It was an extremely entertaining, like...
00:01:52
Speaker
couple weeks there for basketball sure one um as even as a non-fan so uh and the fact that it's kind of the you know for us one of the hometown teams that uh that won you know that's that's always fun it's it's weird thinking about it like i've never seen an nba championship for a team that i've rooted for in my lifetime
00:02:15
Speaker
and i'm sure that's like common for a lot of people but You know, yeah the cut quote unquote New York mentality, like everybody's seen a championship. Yeah, you have. That's actually that's a that's a really good point. You have you've seen a ace a soccer one men's men's or
Toy Space Celebrations and Giveaways
00:02:32
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woman women's. You've seen a soccer championship. You've seen a hockey championship.
00:02:37
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. You've seen ah technically you're alive for World Series. Yep. um I remember it. Yeah. OK. Yeah. uh yeah now it was alive for a super bowl super bowl yep and uh and now yeah you've you've hit for the cycle yeah i mean the liberty where it was cool but like it wasn't the knicks yeah like nothing is the knicks and in this area Yeah.
00:03:03
Speaker
Yeah. Bing bong. But i yeah. So we're we're also in a celebratory mood and in the toy space because, of course, I know it's that um both Jimmy Kimmel and um and John Oliver both make fun of this statement. But like somehow it's June um because it is. i But yeah, seriously, like.
00:03:28
Speaker
The first six months has been quite ah quite a decade um of 2026. Sure has. But we're here, which means which means that we have lists.
00:03:41
Speaker
It's already pretty great. I'm going to be honest. yeah Yeah, it's been good month. um but Yeah, so of course we are back with our halfway through 2026 list. We are continuing our tradition with our special guest who we'll bring on in just a moment.
00:03:57
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But before we... New tradition? I guess it's technically a new tradition. But before we we jump into that... It's been a few lists now that he's been a part of our guest has been a part of this.
00:04:09
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Yeah, ah last year was in both of them. So, yeah. Yeah. little bit of housekeeping. So it is still June. There is still some days left. I think this is going to air on what?
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June 29th. You have precisely 48 hours left to enter to win one of two. That's right, Dave. Not one, but two Mandalorian and Grogu Vintage Collection Deluxe Editions. We have partnered with our friends at SWTVC over on Instagram to give away two of these Vintage Collection two packs. Awesome figure.
00:04:45
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um figures. Yeah. Awesome. Awesome figures. a Great little, ah you know, vintage collection piece and looks great, both opened and on card.
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So you have... we'll be We'll be selecting two winners at random. um Each one will get one of these. And ah and yeah, and and make sure you stick around for July. ah July's giveaway is going to be really cool. It is going to be one of two things, depending on some things that may or may not be shipping very soon.
00:05:18
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um so I plan. i have i have a plan And then I have a backup, but the backup is, is also very cool. So, um, you definitely want to make sure you're following us at AIC underscore podcast on, uh, on Instagram, look for those pinned posts, um, and make sure you, you follow the rules and enter your, enter to win because.
Guest Introduction and Collecting Preferences
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We've got, I can tell you this much without giving it away. um Well, we are going to give it away. Literally, we're going to give it away. but um i had away I have the giveaways mapped out for the rest of the year. I'll put it that way. Like, like it's I have it figured out.
00:06:03
Speaker
The back half of the the first half of 2026 was strong when it came to giveaways. The back half of 2026 is bananas. We've got some some crazy stuff that we're giving away some, you know, like we always say with this time a year to kind of segue in the first half of the year is always like it's tough putting the list together.
00:06:24
Speaker
But then you're the second half of the year always somehow manages to like decimate the first half of the year list. Yeah, and that's... Yeah.
00:06:35
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The lists... This is going interesting episode, I think, in terms of of lists. I think... I know, me personally, I've got...
00:06:46
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and Eric, we're hanging heading into Comic-Con, too, so there's going to be some candidates getting announced. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And they've already potentially been so far with, like, Yojo Joon and stuff like that. And if I'm talking about Yojo Joon...
00:07:02
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Like, yeah, yeah. Lara Croft, Cyndi Lauper. getting We're getting we're getting some we're getting some bangers. But there's there's somebody who's inconspicuously without a figure who's pictured right now.
00:07:15
Speaker
That is. Yeah, probably two going to. Also, who inconspicuously without a figure. I have been i have completely been bitten by the wwe WWE Supercard bug. Like it is like deep in my veins. I spend way too much time playing it. Thank you for describing this, by the way, for those of us that are just listening. Because I guess the um this month's event is Dan Housen's Toy Box.
00:07:47
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And it's partnered with Mattel. And i can only imagine that we're teasing into something that's going to be revealed at Comic-Con. For a man without toys, that's an interesting.
00:08:01
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Yeah, that's an interesting um sub game. But from a man without toys, Dave, to a man with a lot of toys. To the man with links.
00:08:13
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The links. i have I have the proverbial question. and i if a link gets if a If a link goes live, but our guest doesn't share it, did the link actually go live?
00:08:27
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That's the question that we all ask ourselves when we, of course, are talking about our friend friend, Paternia. John, welcome back to to Adventures in Collecting, buddy.
00:08:39
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Thanks for having me again. This has been a a nice little tradition we've been doing lately. Yeah, I like this. I like this. I like this for
Top Toy Lists and Unique Picks
00:08:47
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sure. Yeah, because it this is also always very interesting, too, because I feel like Dave and I tend to exist in like the mass market, like mainstream toy collecting space and you always come in with some some fun like I don't want to say weirdo picks but like you you you explore other other other areas of the the toy industry that um that Dave and I are not so adventurous so uh this is exciting I always look forward to your list because I always find out about learn things that I don't even know exists so yeah I hope to I hope to uh continue that I think I got I think I got some stuff
00:09:31
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I love your your Resident Evil lady with all of your badges on it. Thank you. She's certainly tall enough, isn isn't she? Yeah, she's huge. And she's also like she's strategically, because my wife's desk is like right over here. So like whenever she has an actual real-life work meeting, she has to see Lady D sitting there in the background. And she's been slowly turning her computer to like get it out of her picture for like a while now. but I'm glad. torturing my office mate.
00:10:01
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that shares. so my the way that because like my ceiling is right here. It's pretty low. So the way that we have our office set up, just the way that the furniture worked out with the desks is the back of my monitor faces her back.
00:10:19
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So when she when she's on call, if she has to turn her camera on, most times she doesn't. The only thing that that's behind her is the back of my monitor. She doesn't see the madness. that she's very She's very happy about that. You're protecting her. That's nice that's good.
00:10:35
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Her desk literally has nothing on it. It's like it's the most minimalist. It just misses the MCU villains. Yeah, all the MCU villains. I had to take them down.
00:10:47
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Oh, temporarily, at least. um Right now it's Ghostbusters. I needed somewhere to put my my Ecto-1, and that was I ah volunteered that as tribute. So I just have MCU heroes right now on display. But.
00:11:00
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We'll see. We'll see. I'm trying to figure out how to bring that back into the fold. um Anyway, we are here to discuss our our top tens for ah the the first half of 2026. The last time we gathered was for the end 2025. think that was... That was pretty, a pretty exciting episode, pretty well received. So I am really excited to see what you guys have put together for the first half of the year. um As we say, kind of ad nauseum on this this show, it is a wonderful time to be an action figure collector. really cool stuff out there.
00:11:39
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um So, yeah. i So I guess for those that have not listened, we'll, you know, just some personal rules that we have kind of put together here. In general, the things that we ah will all have on our lists.
00:11:56
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are things that were released in 2026. So, um, if it is a figure that maybe is a little bit older, but you got it in 2026, that doesn't count. It's gotta be something that was released in this calendar year. So, um, as early as, as January one, um,
00:12:13
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And then for me personally, my my rules that I did this year, every year i kind of tweak it a little bit, but um this year i i literally don't have any guardrails on it. Like if I wanted to put...
00:12:28
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If my top 10 was five vintage collection figures or five Marvel legends, so be it. That's the way it was. um And they also are complete releases. So if there is something um that's like a two pack or multi pack or something like that, i'm I'm counting it as a single release. Yeah.
00:12:47
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So if i if I chose to keep one of those on my my top 10, which I have actually one game time decision I am going to make live, one of those decisions might be a three pack. So we'll we'll see.
00:13:01
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um But ah yeah, that's that's it for my rules. If you guys want to go and, you know. Yeah, I um use the previous generation Dan Larson rules. um Had to have come out within this year. It had to have been purchased in this year if it was given to me it had would have had to have been something that i would have purchased anyway uh nothing on this list has been given to me though um and i uh added a steve ozer rule from our best of wrestling rule 2026 must be on the box
00:13:35
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Oh, interesting. Okay, that's fun. so so So you're going with the model line, the 2026 model line year rule. Okay, okay. Cause ah that was, yeah, um you know, ringside gets stuff when ringside gets stuff, but I liked Steve's rule there. I thought that was that was good to carry into this.
00:13:56
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That was good, that was good. John, any particular rules on your end? No, I just follow loosely mostly. I mean, obviously, it's stuff I got in 2026 that came out this year. um I do try to kind of do like one thing per property just as my own guideline. I kind of pick the best because otherwise I could just end up with like 10 Street Fighters and I'd be like, well, this is this is a pretty dumb list at this point. So cool yeah, so, you know, one one line for, you know, there's obviously different companies doing different things. So but
00:14:30
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Yeah, I got a pretty eclectic mix here, I think. OK, so I I'm not going to show it, but I did a randomizer to see which one of us is going to go first. And Dave, I like you. You actually you got you got picked.
00:14:47
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So um are I meant to do it on screen, but it already ran. So. Oh, that's fun. So. bem yeah Hey, all right, I'll take it. um All right. So number 10, I'm I'm starting with e the Hasbro Marvel legends ghost rider. We're talking about Johnny blaze here, original ghost rider.
00:15:10
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um With the red bike, it, it reminds me very much of the old toy biz phasing bike, which is cool, but that was a Danny catch. So um this is pretty great. It looks like it popped straight out of 1970 with the high collar and the,
00:15:30
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the kind of like, I'll say Jim Morrison looking belt. um I like, and I didn't grab a picture of it, but I love the kind of translucent, almost like steel looking skull, but it's like a, like a kind of charred skull head.
00:15:46
Speaker
That's part of it. and I feel like that as lots of fire effects, just, you everything you could want in the box to get yourself like a, you know,
00:16:00
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another Skullman on a bike. And, you know, considering Skullman on bike is my favorite comic book character of all time. um I mean, the fact that the each release has kind of brought more to the table is really cool.
00:16:16
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And I think this has been as much as Danny is my favorite ghost rider. This, I think, has been the best one so far. Yeah, that alternate head is gross and I love it.
00:16:28
Speaker
It's an awesome alternate head.
00:16:32
Speaker
Have you have you like put this next to the um the retro Marvel of Legends version yet?
In-depth Toy Discussions
00:16:39
Speaker
I have not because I don't have right now like where my Ghost Riders live because it's all it's three bikes right now.
00:16:48
Speaker
All my Hasbro ones are still like kind of near it, but not open. Got it. Because all the Toy Biz ones are bikes. Yeah, it's true. It's true.
00:16:59
Speaker
Well, good first pick, Dave. ah John, it is it is to you next. Okay, so I thought my first pick is one I actually got quite recently, but it was kind of a surprise and really cool. It was only announced like a week ago, and I wanted to bring a wrestler to this list because I never bring a wrestler. So this is actually by, there's a guy on Instagram, it's called HealyMade, and he makes these wrestling 3.75 inch Star Wars figures. So they're kind of like wrestlers, but they're Star Wars figures. And he made a Man A Man. Amazing.
00:17:31
Speaker
when I found out that he was going to make this and I bought it and it just showed up like two days ago and it is like literally one of my favorite ones in the collection. So yeah, so like I've been, I've been collecting these for a long time and they are absolutely not like they're, they're expensive. They're niche toys and all that stuff, but definitely, you know, if you want to, if you want to check them out at any point, they're not going to move or anything. They're all just, you know, they're like whatever he like casts them or whatever he does. But yeah,
00:17:59
Speaker
Yeah, they're great. And it's just, you know, you don't get a very, if we don't get a man-to-man action figures much. Let alone doing the Iron Claw. Right. And then, yeah, he is. and um And so like, you know, even with the ah the new movie had a bunch of them, but you know, still no toys.
00:18:16
Speaker
Hopefully that changes. Yeah. Yeah, yeah i still have I still have my power of the Force one is like hanging out in the back of, looking at him right now, is hanging out in the back of Jabba's palace. That's great. um the piece of He's like one of, it's just one of like, just it's just like one of those weird aliens that like, you know, yeah we don't get a lot of, we get so many humans in the Star Wars like toy world. And you'd think, you'd think you'd get more aliens.
00:18:43
Speaker
And he only makes some cool stuff. Yeah, they do. yeah and He does. He makes really neat stuff. It's definitely worth checking out if you ever, a you know, on Instagram or whatever. So perfect segue into my number 10 pick because my number 10 pick is a first time um on my list. ah Not a property that is that is unique, um but a a manufacturer that is unique. It is the blockies.
00:19:09
Speaker
it just fell off the stand. um It is the blockies Mandalorian and Grogu. So all this is what just happened.
00:19:21
Speaker
Yeah, this this model kit is ah is fantastic. ah The shine on the figure alone is ridiculous. Like, it really does have that, like, best car shine. my My favorite thing about this is...
00:19:39
Speaker
The way that they did um Grogu here, and i'll I'll make myself big here for this so that you can see it better. but So um they actually give you two different Grogu's that you that you ah build or construct. And the one that sits on the jat jet pack, he actually just has kind of like a groove in him. That's cool.
00:20:04
Speaker
And it naturally... kind of just like locks in there and it looks great once it's on the expressions are changeable so you can use this expression like the smiling expression they give you a like eyes closed force expression and then they give you a neutral one um they can all be swapped between the two like grogu figures that uh that come with with the kit um And it's it's really it's really just incredible. i've seen I've seen some people take the cape off and and do like a cloth goods cape on it or even just swap it with the Black Series one.
00:20:40
Speaker
um They are almost exactly the same size. I don't have the the Black Series one handy at the moment, but i it is this is really, really, really cool. I know um you know some of the like face characters have that kind of cartoony look to them.
00:20:57
Speaker
um by the nature of it just being ah model kit. You know, it's it's not something, it's a snap-together model kit. But the ah the the, like, helmeted characters, so... um uh mandalorian grogu bo katan darth vader stormtrooper they all look fantastic uh i'm really really excited for some of the stuff that blockies has in in the pipeline um and their price point is just insane like for what you get i think this is this is like a 16 model kit or something like that and they're everywhere now like they're in walmart they're it's awesome
00:21:34
Speaker
And like I've been playing with it. This is one of the things that um part of the reason fell off the stand was I was literally just playing with it before we started recording. But um it's one of those things that like I haven't been able to put down and I just keep screwing around with it.
00:21:49
Speaker
And like the armor has stayed shiny. Nothing is like smudgy. It's just it's just a really, really cool figure. So, yeah, that's my ah number 10. How did you like building them?
00:22:02
Speaker
So I am admittedly not a model kit person. Um, that's not like a ah thing that I typically enjoy. um but the way that these go together is actually a lot of fun. You don't need any tools.
00:22:16
Speaker
Um, like you don't need those like nipper things that I have a set. It does make it go faster. um but you you really don't even need them. You can just twist the pieces off. My first experience with blockies was actually when I went to Vietnam in 2025, in May of 2025. I had no idea that they even existed, and they had these, the blind boxes,
00:22:42
Speaker
of mcu figures and there's still ones that have like never come out here uh but they had their they were selling them in vietnam in one of the toy stores that i went to and i was putting them together in my hotel room while i was like watching tv and super fun like it's they're they are like legitimately super fun to put together and if you screw up like if you are looking at you know not paying attention and put something in the wrong way it's not like once it's in it's like a forever fit um it's easy to take it take it back apart and fix it if you're a scatterbrain like me so um yeah i enjoy it yeah so it's good i was gonna say it's more lego enthusiast friendly than model kit enthusiast friendly yeah it's like i i would say it's between the two for for sure it exists somewhere in the realm between the two
00:23:30
Speaker
I built one of the Rivals ones and ah the thing I like the most about it is like the sprues come off so easy. Like you don't actually need like nippers or anything for it. It's like they literally like come off and there's no there's no like residual plastic or anything. It's pretty it's pretty amazing how they do that.
00:23:47
Speaker
It's actually almost it spoils you because like then I bought I bought a few of those um new DC figures that come with this the stuff on the sprues. was like, oh, these are hard to get off compared to like a bloke's which it just like pops right off.
00:23:57
Speaker
Yeah, seriously. yeah like or not get off them these bloies are blockies. i would say when i was When I was trying to take the spurs apart on on those Mattel figures, I actually had the same exact thought. I was like, I thought we were past this. like You made it harder for the kids. than yeah oh's like ah It's like an old turtle's weapon tree where it's just like difficult.
00:24:22
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. okay they They will come off like you don't need scissors for the instructions actually in the Mattel ones, say to cut them like to use scissors. But you can twist them off the same way that you previously could do the the turtles ones.
00:24:38
Speaker
Yeah, but good point. ah Dave, we're back to you. um So speaking of DC, this is. um Something we've asked for, if you know the history of the show for a long time.
00:24:51
Speaker
We are going to McFarlane Toys, DC Multiverse, Batman 89, The Joker. The closest thing we could get to Batman 89 Joker without it costing a lot of people a lot of money.
00:25:07
Speaker
um But I think it was great regardless. It was perfect. um I mean, it's...
00:25:17
Speaker
leapt straight off of like the comic version of it and good enough to fit into the movie realm as well. So yeah. Yeah. he key Yeah.
00:25:31
Speaker
It was, it was one of those things where when we saw it was announced, everybody kind of knew, Hey, this isn't going to be Jack Nicholson, but it's going to be close enough. And yeah,
00:25:42
Speaker
I think it's, as far as close enough goes, it's pretty spot on. Yeah, and and I was fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time when um Plastic RG put out his those custom heads. um And I was able to secure a set of them.
00:26:06
Speaker
it's and it just becomes It goes from being like a very good figure to being a lights-out figure as soon as you put one of those heads on it. But it's one of those like nice to have, but you don't need it to like enjoy it. Yeah, correct. And I think that was that was the important thing was that this had to be close enough where you can enjoy it and somebody could go like, oh, that's I know what that is.
00:26:32
Speaker
Yeah. What's what's the phrase? Don't let perfection get in the way of good enough. And this is certainly good enough. So yeah. And considering they couldn't do perfection, like literally you yeah I mean, it's it's likeness rights. Yeah.
00:26:47
Speaker
Yep. All right, John, that takes us back to you for your number nine. Okay. ah My number nine is my one Marvel legend for the list, and that is the Punisher mech.
00:27:02
Speaker
um So, I mean, like, you know, it's like it's not like the most poseable Marvel legend you'd ever get. But at the same time, it has such like presence to it. um You know, it's just like it you you put it on the shelf and it looks great.
00:27:17
Speaker
um It's very imposing. and It comes with like one of the best Frank heads I think they've ever made. It's great man. Yeah. so So, I mean, I think like yeah when I was like when I was making my list, I was like thinking like back to all the Marvel Legends that have come out so far this year. And was like, the one that I really stick to is like is I think is him just because, again, it's like a bigger size. it takes up a different dimension on the shelf. And I just, you know, it it has that it has that what it what what do they say aura about it?
00:27:49
Speaker
It's just yeah it's a really nice figure. Yeah. i'm so I'm super bummed. i For whatever reason, i so things have not been like selling out instantly on Pulse these days. So I was just going to wait for that to come in stock, figuring like, oh I'll get it when I get it.
00:28:06
Speaker
And it sold out everywhere and then never came back in stock. So that is now – I consider that to be part of – Hulk collection like it should be in my whole collection because he fights Red Hulk in that so I do need it so if anyone out there listening has an extra one it's always it's always the ones you say you're gonna get later that disappear yeah and I don't know it's like that like that two pack with a muse everyone was like oh it'll sit around forever and it was gone immediately
00:28:39
Speaker
Yeah. Are you kidding me? making Them making Marvel Legends figures with blood accents on it? That that is like an instant sellout. I know. It's instant. daredevil it's It's something with Daredevil and like Marvel Legends. It's just they never they never can they never stick around. like there's Such a good figure. It's a really good figure.
00:28:57
Speaker
it's really so good It was like that probably would have been my next choice had I like, you know, but I kind of like i like the i like the presence of the Punisher mech. Yeah, he he was full disclosure. He's out because he was on my list up until about. 12 hours ago, this wasn't it wasn't easy to pick. Like there's a lot of stuff this year. Really, it's been ah it's been a good year. I have a feeling it's only going to get harder, you know yeah you know, six months, guys. Good luck.
00:29:31
Speaker
Alright, so that takes us to my number nine, um which is the ah and also a first time for me, I think. i don't I don't think I've ever had anything from this property on my ah on my list. ah We're going with Masters of the Universe Chronicles.
00:29:48
Speaker
Skeletor. um Full disclosure, I have not had the opportunity to see the movie yet. I really, really, really want to. um I've heard literally nothing but amazing and great things about it.
00:30:00
Speaker
But this figure talk about you want to talk about aura. This Skeletor figure or when you do, i'll say that is is insane. It's just insane.
00:30:13
Speaker
um They did some kind of as somebody who has a lot of Mattel collector figures, right? Like ah a lot of, you know, wrestling figures and everything. The way that they engineered this is so markedly different than.
00:30:29
Speaker
anything else that they're doing in any other line like i can't i can't say it any other way but like it's got like the mofex elbows those like like deeply embedded like pinless elbows just just the way that it moves the way that it feels um the the textured uh like i i i'm kind of over plastic capes but like the way that they did this cape it it's just it's just a plastic Yeah, it's ah it's just a really nice figure. Like, it's just a really good figure. is He-Man. They both could have been on the on this list. um
00:31:06
Speaker
but ah But, yeah, i'm I'm obsessed with this figure. i i cannot put it down. it has not left my desk since I got it. And I haven't even seen the movie yet. So... um Mattel's taking swings with their collector lines.
00:31:20
Speaker
There's a lot of good, like, I mean, just, you know, you know, the Chronicles stuff came out, but like, there's a lot of stuff coming from them that looks really good. Like, I mean, even just like, you know, like we said, we saw that K-pop Demon Hunter stuff at Toy Fair.
00:31:35
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Really excited. is Another, another one 12th line that just, and not only like it, I think they're only like 20, $23, something like that. They're for what you get there. That's pretty wild.
00:31:48
Speaker
And then they got DC coming next year in the collector's line and Turtles we all kind of forget about that. Yeah, they're going to they got some wild stuff coming. And it between this, like between the Skeletor and the core figures that we've seen from DC,
00:32:07
Speaker
um i i think I think they're going to surprise a lot of people. I'll put it that way. That's and once you watch the movie, John, I don't know if you've seen it yet. I've not. Yeah. OK. Biggest He-Man fan hasn't. I know. Well, I had to say his name. Name is literally Eternia has not seen it. I was like surprised. I, you know, I like cried in multiple like non emotional spots in it.
00:32:38
Speaker
those you're going to want to fill that collection. and That's the reason why I haven't picked any up yet is because it's not going to stop at like two. Yeah. So I have, I have a weird thing for somebody who is not a big masters in the universe guy.
00:32:55
Speaker
I have a few different iterations of just He-Man and Skeletor from different things. So like I have like the Dof Lundgren and the, the Frank Langella, uh, He-Man and Skeletor. i have like an origins He-Man and Skeletor.
00:33:10
Speaker
And now I have this He-Man and Skeletor. So I just keep getting like those two just cause they're, they're such iconic characters. I almost consider that to just be like a pair that I can continue The movie is going to make you love some characters to the point point where it's like, I need that.
00:33:28
Speaker
OK, well, I did see. i mean, I know, i guess spoiler, but like Mattel Creations posted the the the Chronicles Orko figure.
00:33:40
Speaker
So Orko, I didn't I had no idea that character made it into the movie. So that's really exciting because love me smorco. That's that's a great it's a great character. hmm. So, yeah, that's my ah that's my number nine, which sends us back to you, Dave, for your number eight.
00:33:59
Speaker
All right. So number eight, I'm going into the indie world. um Zombie sailor toys, wrestling seals and faces, the road warriors.
00:34:11
Speaker
You we've we've seen a couple road warriors lately, but I love those. Early 80s, kind of early iteration road warriors. And, you know, it's funny, these were my probably least favorite as a kid because they didn't look like the guys on the video game, you know, like or they had Hawk had the different makeup at that point um and animals was a bit more refined. But the older I've gotten, the more I appreciate early Road Warriors because it was just like.
00:34:45
Speaker
This is like the destruction era, like they would just come in and win in 30 seconds and leave people in a heap. Um, and that was, that's awesome. Like, they're just awesome characters. This is a, they're another aura pick. Like, you see these, these guys and it's just like, oh, bad things are going to happen. So, um, and.
00:35:08
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The real chains too on the, on these. Yeah. As, as with, you know with Josh's stuff, it's just. It's, they turn out amazing. Like, it's.
00:35:21
Speaker
They're there. They're made really well. You know, there's there's a weight to them. And, you know, you got to love the war you got to love the road warriors. Yeah. Solid pick, Dave.
00:35:32
Speaker
Solid pick. John, back to you for your number eight. Number eight. What do I have here? OK, so number eight. We're going to go with our first Street Fighter, which first, that's... Never mind. Our Street Fighter. So this is Dan. Spoiler. Yeah. um I would have actually put him higher, but they did a little bit of a dirty thing here, is that they they waited they waited to do the variant to give him, like, the crying and the real good Dan faces.
00:36:04
Speaker
So... um Yeah, I would have probably put him higher. But, you know, this one I had to like you have to you have to import these ones because they're all like for like random conventions in Hong Kong or something like that. But I mean, the Storm thing the the Storm Arena thing has been great because every single one I think like would make my list.
00:36:25
Speaker
um as i get them so it's kind of like i get a new one i'm like oh this is my favorite then this one's my favorite this is my favorite but um dan holds a special place in my heart so i really like him so yeah storm uh storm dan this is a variant but you know there's the one with the pinky and uh you could get that one but you really do want to probably search out, they'll probably have variants available at US conventions throughout the year. well yeah And then they include that. Yeah, it's kind of like, it's a weird thing. Like they're including the better faces with the variants now. So it seems to be model of business, but they're still cheap. I mean, like if you can buy like the regular ones, I mean, there's a $30 figure. So it's like a $30 import.
00:37:07
Speaker
It's well, yeah they're well worth it. But yeah, that's my guy, Dan. And there are now they're on of the other MV, the other end of the MVC stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I knew that was it, Morgan when when that eventually comes out. We saw that at a toy fair.
00:37:25
Speaker
Was that a toy fair or Comic-Con? I thought it was Comic-Con, I think. Yeah. Yeah. cause Yeah. The storm doesn't typically they don't typically display at U.S. shows where they send them to like with like an anime, anime company or something usually brings them over.
00:37:39
Speaker
But yeah, they yeah i don't know. They actually, for some reason, they haven't, like, they got Darkstalkers. There's a few other, like, King of Fighters. None of that stuff's come out yet, or even a lot of it hasn't pre-ordered yet. So I don't know what the holdup is or if we're just going to all get hit with it all at once. i don't know.
00:37:55
Speaker
But yeah theres what's that one? There's that one character that was always in Marvel versus Capcom that it's like, a is it Captain? Not Captain Falcon. Captain, Captain Commando. Yeah. Captain Commando.
00:38:09
Speaker
Yeah. I'm hoping I'm hoping they get to him as well. brighter If you want one, 52 toys just released a one to or put up a preorder for a one twelve scale one.
00:38:20
Speaker
Oh, okay. I got to go. They're the guys that do this beast box. Do you you know yeah what I'm talking about? They have a 112th line and they just started. So they put up Captain Commando and like the, I don't know who the woman is in the Captain Commando game, but she's like pretty much naked. And then they also are doing like a Sodom and a guy.
00:38:42
Speaker
Oh, okay. like There's a bunch of them coming up. that I think, you know on this you know, BBTS probably has them up for pre-order right now stuff like that. So, yeah, I just ordered. They have um some Street Fighter 6 figures coming, too, that I just ah have them maybe show up one of these days.
00:38:59
Speaker
There's a lot of fun weirdos, too, and, like, MVC and CVS and all those games where it's like, yeah you know, you need Jill. Like, ji but you need MVC Jill Valentine, not Resident Evil Jill Valentine.
00:39:13
Speaker
yeah Yeah. Yeah. Good luck at getting Capcom to ever, like, sign off on an action figure for Resident Evil stuff. Yeah. Yeah. i need I really need them to do that. And you're finally getting the Final Fantasy Street Fighter crossover because Tifa's in it.
00:39:27
Speaker
So hopefully they... start making some of these weird crossovers. Was it Palisades that made those Resident Evil figures back in the day? those were Those really good ones? Yeah. I think those were the last ones. Palisades.
00:39:41
Speaker
yeah that's Yeah. I mean, besides like Hot Toys and stuff like that doing an occasional thing, it's been, yeah, there was the Palisades line, then but prior to that was Toy Biz. Yeah, they're like Marvel versus Capcom line. And I think maybe there was a recipe dedicated Resident Evil line. But and then there was also a company overseas called Moby Dick that did quite a few things. They did. They had like a build a figure type three nemesis.
00:40:05
Speaker
It was a wild thing it was really hard. to It was like back when like importing was kind of like not easy to do. so yeah, that was when that was way back in the day. But they were almost like statue figures.
00:40:16
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, like they were they were like McFarlane movie maniac almost style. Yeah, where they would five like yeah like they have like T-joints and stuff like that. there were They were, you know, best you could do at the time. Pops have been the only mass market thing like in a while.
00:40:31
Speaker
Crazy, crazy. All right, so that takes us to what? where ah Where are we at? My number eight. So my number eight is Nacelle Toys Star Trek.
00:40:44
Speaker
Hikaru Sulu, my favorite Star Trek character um with one of the greatest accessories. He's got the Excelsior tea set.
00:40:55
Speaker
um it's
00:40:59
Speaker
It's just so good. This is another one where, like, for a figure that pretty much stands there and holds a ah teacup. um I love the likeness. I love the neutral expression. He's got some cool ah cool other accessories, too, so, like, you can...
00:41:14
Speaker
um you can take like the shirt flap off and they give you the version that's like flapped down that you can pour it in. So like, it's like, oh you know, like ah off, off deck, you know, relaxing. um the little thing. And Brian being attention to detail, the teacup has tea in it.
00:41:34
Speaker
Teacup has does indeed have tea in it. It's got a really nice ah friction fit on the um saucer. So like the saucer does come off and ports into the cup. um He does come with other more, I guess you could say, useful accessories. Like he comes with like his phaser and his communicator and stuff like that.
00:41:55
Speaker
um But this first wave of Star Trek figures, like, again, something that we've said on the show countless times, like the sell toys, one of our favorite companies, like it feels like they're like a, you know, family member.
00:42:11
Speaker
Um, watching them grow from a company that made documentaries about toys to actually making really, really good, uh, toys and like attention to detail on them.
00:42:23
Speaker
It's awesome. I, we've seen now at multiple shows, like kind of what they have in the pipeline for, for Star Trek, the like build a bridge system they're coming out with is insane. yeah,
00:42:35
Speaker
You know, they listen to fan feedback. The waves are all like going forward. They're like massive amounts of figures, like 10, 12 figures per wave, which is great. um Yeah, they they I'm really excited. And the the rest of the wave is great, too. But this is Sulu is just my favorite character. And to and to have a version from God, was this part five? I think or no part six. um It's just just crazy, crazy.
00:43:02
Speaker
yeah it's my number eight Sulu. Very cool.
00:43:06
Speaker
Dave, that takes us back to you now for your number seven. um So number seven, i I'm going with my first toy on the list that is like a statue of somebody.
00:43:22
Speaker
you know, i would every year i go, my favorite thing is when we can have a small version, like just a shrunken down version of a human being. And that's ah Mattel, w WWE Elite, 125, Julia.
00:43:35
Speaker
um Somebody who I, as a fan of wrestling, like just Japanese wrestling too, like I'll watch pretty much anything.
00:43:46
Speaker
Somebody who's followed Julia in so in stardom, just instant aura in a human being. And, you know, I know this was a Bill special, but... um It's it's just an awesome figure. I'm a big Julia fan, so this is really cool. It's really cool to see her perform here, have seen her wrestle. um Yeah. So I wrestling NXT at that the theater at MSG. So that was really cool. um
00:44:20
Speaker
But actually, it's a it's an awesome figure.
Toy Aesthetics and Gaming Influence
00:44:24
Speaker
Yeah, this is one of those ones that feels special for an elite like every now and then there's an there's an ah like ah an elite or even a main event that like feels like an up leveled version of that thing. Like its like the Nile main event is one of them.
00:44:39
Speaker
Yeah, the the Cody Rhodes and the tracksuit one for me like that, like every now and then they they seemingly do something that's like you you almost feel like you're getting more than what you paid for.
00:44:51
Speaker
And this is like the wave budget went into her. like Yeah, the wave budget definitely went into Julia. For sure. yeah There's been a few of the female wrestlers that have like the more like colorful and like elaborate costumes. I feel like they really nailed for the most part.
00:45:09
Speaker
I forget. yeah there was another There was another one, I think, in the next. Eosky is always like that, too. Kairi was one. Kairi. The Stephanie Vicker that's in this wave is another one. like That could have been...
00:45:25
Speaker
you know probably could have been this pick too. but yeah The Roxy that's kind of hitting now, I think.
00:45:33
Speaker
Yeah, they definitely they definitely do they do well with them. All right, John, that takes us back to you for your number seven. Number seven, okay. Number seven, I'm going to go with McFarlane here, and I'm going to go with the Lich King from World of Warcraft. This is the elite edition, and I'm sure it's 50 bucks for a McFarlane, but at the same time, there's just been like a cavalcade of like third party, like Lich Kings that just suck when you buy them, and then you're out like 100 bucks or whatever. And I mean, this is not to say it's perfect. There's a little thing like I think he's a little bit more leggy than he should be. But I mean, he's got the he's got the wired cape. He's got he's got the look. He's got a bunch of hand expressions. um He looks really nice. And I think originally I was going to pass on him on my list, but he's been sitting on my desk since I got him. And.
00:46:25
Speaker
I mean, you know, I just I fiddle with him and I'm like, you know what? He really is actually pretty good. And they kind of planned him out well, like, you know, they actually kind of made concessions for like.
00:46:37
Speaker
they They planned out like, because armored figures oftentimes can't really move much, but they actually did kind of give him like range and little areas. I mean, maybe maybe it didn't work down here because he can kind of see the joint down here, but it does give him a lot of, you know, ankle movement and stuff like this. So, you know, I think they tried to like actually make a decent one. And I think this is the best Arthas you can get right now.
00:47:03
Speaker
So I'm pretty happy with it. And I like my Warcraft figures, so, you know. Yeah. I'd say this one is pretty good. How does he scale with some of the other third-party stuff? Like, does he does he work, like, fit in well?
00:47:17
Speaker
Just about, per yeah. it's ah It's just about, like, McFarlane stuff's just about the same scale as, like, the, like, orcs and stuff that I buy. So, it all, it's, right you know, it's really, it it kind of works out well. Awesome.
00:47:29
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I've seen him on a couple of people's lists, like, like early lists. where it's a surprise, like people who typically don't buy McFarlane stuff are have gone in and and gotten him. So, yeah. um Yeah. I mean, he's such an iconic. he's an icon He's such an iconic character to like. I mean, he's kind of like one of like the most popular villains in the series. So it's just, you know, people want a good figure of him. And i and there's never really been.
00:47:58
Speaker
I mean, for instance there's never really been video game stuff is so hard. It's so like hard to get really good figures on. And then I know you you nowadays there's a lot of third party stuff out there, but there's a lot of there's a lot of lot of stuff can just be crap, too. So you really kind of got to roll the dice.
00:48:13
Speaker
But even like as me, who's not a Warcraft person, like I know who that is. Yeah. Yeah. so he's like an iconic character in. Yeah. Just like the gaming space.
00:48:25
Speaker
yeah he's He's almost like the the like de facto Blizzard mascot. like I feel like when I think of like the logo, i can I can vividly remember that box art from when that version of the game came out. and sure I've actually never even played World of Warcraft, so... yeah um yeah uh oh awesome pick uh so that takes us over to me and we are headed to the world of gi joe classified um talking about a figure that that has not left my my desk since i got it um and now it's been it's been months this this this uh cobra law guard has been sitting on my desk in in various forms for the better part of of six months
00:49:08
Speaker
um because I did get this back in January or February. It was pretty early on the year. i Cobra Law is um unapologetically, unironically my favorite part of G.I. Joe.
00:49:21
Speaker
um I love the like weird bug, ah reptile aesthetic of everything, and I love how it's been translated into G.I. Joe Classified. like i am...
00:49:34
Speaker
I am so excited to see the eventuality of how they handle Globulus. um It's going to be gross and big, and I can't wait.
00:49:46
Speaker
But, um yeah, the I love this guard. The alternate head on it, that's almost like... um it's it's It almost reminds me of the the the Prometheus like creator people, like the big the big like aliens. that yours yeah um The alternate head almost looks looks similar to that. The translucent plastic on the wings, the ah the soft goods cape. I also love that...
00:50:12
Speaker
I'm not an army builder, but this is one where I considered buying a couple of them only because they give you so many different parts to like get out the figure and make it look different that like you could buy easily by two to three of these and have three very different like armored figures, you know, with the shoulder pads. Have the engineer head like for lack of a better name. Yeah. totally Yeah, that was totally my thinking, too. I was like, I should get a few of these. And then I'm like, oh, wait, there's no way. Like the G.I. Joe collection has just exploded in like size. So like it's like, yeah, like I mean, I could get a bunch of these guys, but at the same time, I want to make room for like every other like cool thing that's coming out.
00:50:56
Speaker
Yeah, there are there are very few characters that I've gotten multiples of, like in terms of like army building. Like I think I have like a couple of Cobra troopers, a couple of Crimson Guard for the purposes of photography, really. Because like, yeah you know, if you're going to have two Crimson, like a Crimson Guard in a picture with, you know, Cobra commander having two flanking him makes it's more aesthetically pleasing. But um but yeah, that's a.
00:51:23
Speaker
The Cobra La Guard is my my pick, um which Dave sends us back to you for your number six. Yeah. um I know we've talked about this, I think, on the show.
00:51:36
Speaker
We're on Mattel w WWE Ultimate Edition 30 Rhea Ripley. I think you've called it the best. Ultimate possibly ever. I think it's the second best, which we will see what I mean later. um But this is by far one of the all time best.
00:51:55
Speaker
I'm still waiting for like a great normal Rhea. Like ah I just want a great standard Rhea. we still haven't gotten that. But if we're going to go ultimate of like a great gear, like just really cool look for Rhea, this is it.
00:52:13
Speaker
Oh yeah. and And I still maintain that this is the best Ultimate Edition that they, in my in my personal opinion, this is still the best Ultimate Edition figure that they have ever done.
00:52:26
Speaker
Like I, the whole thing, the way that they constructed. The amount of deco on her in general is a lot anyway, but yeah. The combination of the the shell with the soft goods, the way that it fits, the way that everything works so well.
00:52:44
Speaker
Yeah, it's. It's like the mask is near perfect in yeah in execution. Yeah. And the way that like what to get either it was always like just you do with it would just be like a matter of like so it would always sell out anywhere you get anywhere it was listed.
00:53:02
Speaker
Yeah, this is this is destined for a greatest hits release. They they got to put this one back out. 100 because That other the greatest hits Rhea, the thing that's closest to a kind of standard Rhea, the one and even even that one, she has like more makeup on than she typically does, like more like eye makeup, I think.
00:53:21
Speaker
But the one from that um that Perth. No, the one from the one from Elimination Chamber, I believe it was. um That's the closest thing for her match against Nia.
00:53:35
Speaker
Or umm I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah, Nia Jax. Yeah, her match against Nia Jax at Elimination Chamber. um That's the closest thing we have to like a standard Rhea where she's just in kind of like the the black leather, you know, gear. Um...
00:53:53
Speaker
um Yeah.
00:53:58
Speaker
Yeah, but I would like like a regular ultimate just like. Standard Monday area. Yeah, who I hear think that's like the big thing missing from from a lot of people's collection.
00:54:12
Speaker
Yeah, it's true. ah John, that takes us back to you now for your number six. Number six. OK. Is that where we're at? Yeah, no, that's right. we were at six.
00:54:25
Speaker
I think i read I numbered my things wrong. OK, so we are going to go with the Metacom Mafex movie venom. I originally wanted to grab. i had I have a bag of all of his parts because that's kind of the whole thing with this. Like there's been movie Venoms and they look great. This one looks great.
00:54:42
Speaker
But this comes with so much stuff comes with. It's the only one that has Tom Hardy heads. um It comes with like a venom shield. It comes with arm attachments comes feet attachments. It comes with different. It comes with the back attachment that you can make with tentacles and stuff like that. It's just like it's like the box that it came in is like almost three times the size of a normal Mafex box. So it's just like I feel like this is like You know, the movies, the movies are done now. So we got this is pretty much the perfect one.
00:55:12
Speaker
It's got, you know, it's and it's it's nice looking. i It's really good looking on its own. Like, I think this is easily my favorite of of the bunch, but just the amount of stuff it comes with. You get the spear.
00:55:23
Speaker
um Yeah, you know, and it's it's it's nice that they finally were able to get some one of them with like a Tom Hardy head. Well, at least a part of it's like the Tom Hardy head inside of like the. Yeah. um Yeah. So, yeah, I really like this one. If I if I had the if I could have found the bag that I had all all this stuff in, but I recently cleaning my desk and I probably put it in a bin somewhere.
00:55:47
Speaker
I also like the the color and the finish on it. I yeah think that's the first time that it's it's not been too blue. It's, you know, very clearly black and, you know, has that kind of like.
00:56:00
Speaker
That like polish to it. Yeah. Isn't it funny how that happens, though? Like you just get like movie stuff that like it's like a weird color for some reason. Like I think like one of the figure arts was blue and then they went back and did it blacker later on.
00:56:12
Speaker
And I bought all of them because I don't know why I'm glutton for punishing myself with movie Venom figures. I love, like, again, like, unapologetically, yeah i love those movies.
00:56:24
Speaker
They're good. I love the design. You didn't see the third one? I didn't see the third one, though. Is it good? It's better than the second one. oh Really? Okay, so it's it's not as good. It's not as good as the first one the first one still like by far the best but the third one is like a fever dream of a movie I mean it looked like that for the previews. It's just one of those things. i don't know why i never get to movies. i always mean to The whole thing with the venom horse is I
00:56:56
Speaker
I cannot remember the last time I laughed so hard in a movie theater than I did when the venom horse sequence happens because like the way that the way that it happens and how fast it happens and it's over.
00:57:11
Speaker
and And Tom, Tom Hardy, just like, what's what's the term? Chewing chewing the scenery. he was. Yeah. yeah Yeah. Yeah. Fabulous. Just have to go watch it. then I also love the voice they gave Venom like it's it's great, but it's also funny, like.
00:57:29
Speaker
Yeah. And I love that it's Tom Hardy doing it too. That's the other thing that like, yeah, it's, it's just, it's so good. So good. yeah Um, which takes us to my number six from Moff X to, uh, to Figma, um, Ganondorf.
00:57:48
Speaker
So the, uh, the legend of Zelda, uh, tears, the kingdom Ganondorf. I, I can't remember the last time i have bought so many import figures. Like, I feel like I i have really, like, gone in pretty hard on on imports the past couple years. Welcome the But this, the the the trifecta, these three Figma figures, um...
00:58:19
Speaker
from Tears of the Kingdom, so Zelda, Link, and now Ganondorf, are three of like, literally like house on fire, like three figures I'm i'm grabbing.
00:58:31
Speaker
um These things are gorgeous. Like the amount of detail on them. um I had very, like few experiences with Figma prior to these I like how big they are um which probably drives big for Figma's because Figma's typically scale smaller so yeah yeah because I have well I have Link I haven't opened Zelda or Ganondorf I'll get to it one day but um yeah Link is huge he's a hefty Ganondorf is hefty he's a hefty figure to Link correctly too yes so he he must be really big
00:59:09
Speaker
Yeah, here. ill I actually have Link handy. So here, I'll... Because remember, in Tears the Kingdom, Link is not really, like, a teen... He's beyond a teenager, so he is a little bit... But, like... Yeah, okay. Yeah, he's pretty big.
00:59:26
Speaker
So he's... got I gotta pull him out one of these days. Yeah, he's got he's got great um expressions. ah The neutral one is really great. I this fight in the game, too. i'm I'm a big Zelda fan, like in general, from like ah a gaming standpoint. um The fight against Ganondorf in Tears the Kingdom was one of the more stressful, like final bosses in recent memory, too. So like, yeah.
00:59:50
Speaker
you know having this and you know your typical like Legend of Zelda multi-phase boss battle. um But like this version of Ganon is is like downright terrifying in the game.
Nostalgia in Collectibles
01:00:04
Speaker
like the What he's capable of doing, like his power-ups and everything, is is he's he is truly like a force to be reckoned with. And I just i love how they did...
01:00:16
Speaker
the things like the sleeve and like where they've hidden some articulation and like the skirt and like even like the amount of detail that they have on the inside of it. It's it's just, it is ah an absolutely gorgeous figure and I'm sure it drives Figma collectors nuts how big these figures are. yeah But for me as as somebody who doesn't have many of them, it makes them scale perfectly with like everything else that I have. So yeah, Figma Ganon.
01:00:47
Speaker
um Dave I think that sends us back to you already for your number five so this is um from one of my least favorite movies of all time but a figure that um I think was really great um great performance in the movie.
01:01:06
Speaker
But, um yeah, just based off of Eric's response, this one was surprising. But I think this is another one that they nailed. um And I was either going to go here or Benoist Supergirl, but I like this figure a lot more.
01:01:21
Speaker
And that's the DC Multiverse Superman Returns Superman. um It's just, Routh was one of those ones that even... even though the movie's not great, he's great in it.
01:01:34
Speaker
And he did a great job as Superman. Um, and just to see him have, having seen him like come back a couple times is really cool.
01:01:45
Speaker
Um, goes great with like that line of Superman. Now cinematic Superman. Now they have, they have Christopher Reeve, you have Cavill, you have, um, corn sweat. Now you got,
01:01:58
Speaker
you know, Brandon Routh in there. So he was he was like the last one you were missing, shy of George Reeves, which is never going to happen. So. um But no love for Dean Cain, Dave.
01:02:13
Speaker
Yeah, moving on. So.
01:02:21
Speaker
i mean, i can't imagine it costs a lot to get to get it. on his life it It'll cost some, but it's. yeah Well, ship's are already passed. I mean, we're not going to win. We're not going to. I don't think I don't think they can go in unless they can hop in a time machine.
01:02:38
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But this this is sister it was just a really cool surprise. And, um you know, yeah, it's Superman, but it nailed the likeness from the movie. And, you know, I'm a big fan of vibes. And when figures are, you know,
01:02:57
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basically shrunken down versions of their human counterparts. Yeah. Yeah. So I, I actually really enjoy that movie. Like the, especially with it being kind of that like spiritual successor to i wanted to Superman two, right? No Superman.
01:03:14
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It's, I think it's supposed to follow two, right? No, because remember, two is not like Donner didn't. mean It's supposed to be. Oh, that's right.
01:03:27
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ah You're right. You're right. pretty sure it's supposed to be after Superman the movie. Yeah. Yeah. But he is great. and And I watched a little bit of the CW stuff. I didn't watch all of it. But when he came, when they had him come back as like Kingdom Come Superman.
01:03:41
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ah was Yeah. That was And, you know, it's another. it's another Lex Luthor land deal. And like, you know, but yeah, it's, he's still great in it. Like he nailed Christopher Reeve-ness of it.
01:03:56
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For sure. And I think that's the thing i took out of it the most. And the fact that they brought the John Williams music back, like, There's there's the fan service part of it is good. It's just the rest of it. That's not.
01:04:11
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It's a little boring. It is a little boring. and give you I'll give you that. All right. much Todd focused on like how much of like the legacy DC media Todd managed to do now that, you know, it's kind of coming to an end.
01:04:26
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Like he really he really did like go out and get like like he did all the Batman movies. like Yeah. um You know, he got as much Superman as he could. he's got he to He did a lot.
01:04:39
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You know, he he went he went in that backlog quite a bit. so I feel like when the timeline shrank, he was like, all right, time to get all the stuff that was supposed to happen a couple years from now. Yeah. So, I mean, we don't talk about, like, leak lists and stuff on this on the show. Like, it's not not a thing that, a territory we like to get into. But, like, yeah there are a couple of things on some of those leak lists from people that have typically...
01:05:04
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You know, and there are less leaks and more like international listings that just go live. and so i most yeah Yeah, most of that stuff out there is pretty much because I mean, McFarlane McFarlane solicits all that stuff so early in advance. So we get the names.
01:05:18
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Yeah, typically weigh ands if you're paying attention to it, typically way ahead of time. Yeah. And there's still like. Yeah. And there's a couple on there, especially a particular villain from the film Batman and Robin.
01:05:34
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that has never had an action figure in that version. if If that's real. I cannot wait to get his inflated green. Yep. but and that pretty much covers, I mean, because we got we got Poison Ivy. we got i think we got Visage, I guess. we go And that Poison Ivy is really good. Poison Ivy is great. for like like I mean, I know Todd doesn't always use like the face printing, but I feel like he like nailed that one.
01:06:00
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Same with the Mr. Freeze from that wave. The Arnold like this is really good. But yeah with there's basically the Alfred is low key. One of the best cinematic figures.
01:06:13
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Yeah, he's just the one that came in the Batmobile, right? He's a little too gray. He looks a little dead. looks little long e I also think sometimes he he uses the same suited body for everybody. So like everybody, all the suited people are like the exact same bill, but yeah everybody, and they all have, they all have bell bottoms. Cause for some reason he made flares on the legs.
01:06:36
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um No, but like with the exception of Batman and Robin Bane, who has, who has literally never that version from that movie has never had a licensed figure ever. Yeah.
01:06:47
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yeah So if he manages to get that done, the only other thing I think that's on a lot of people's checklists and the the Joker, I think the 89 comic Joker has a lot of people, you know,
01:07:02
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scratching their chin, wondering if it's possible. But to do the Billy Dee Williams Harvey Dent, um Harvey Dent slash two face from that comic. I think that would make a lot of people very happy to.
01:07:14
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So to I feel like did somebody tried to do that. it so Oh, it was Lego Lego did the Billy Dee Williams. Yeah, that's what it was. OK. Yep. Not really the same. It's like a fun. But that was.
01:07:26
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if If they did those, if those two figures come out, that that literally completes the, like, Schumacher-Tim Burton-verse with the exception of, you know, a couple of side characters like a, you know... Vicki Vale.
01:07:40
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Vicki Vale. Yeah. um what ah You know, they didn't do Commissioner Gordon from the the Tim Burton-Schumacher movies, but, like...
01:07:51
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do Maybe we'll get Gary Oldman. Yeah, they got everybody that has a costume. I still can't believe they did like the the like the penguin duck car. That's it's instant it like he's in his pajamas.
01:08:05
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And no ah Aaron Eckhart either. Yeah, they didn't. Yeah. Two-Face.
01:08:14
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They did him. No, they did Two-Face. oh did they? Yeah, he was in the first, he was in the Build-A-Figure Batman movie. I have it. I'm looking at it. He was like one he was like one of the he was one of the first movie movie movie guys they did.
01:08:27
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Yeah, he was in that same wave with Scarecrow. Yes, you're right. Yep. Yeah, he really covered a lot of ground. Yeah. And then he did all he did all of the characters from the new Batman, like the Pattinson one. Like, he did Zoe Kravitz. He did um Colin Farrell's Penguin. yeah He did that that red Paul Dano's Riddler. Like, he did he did all of that. So, I mean, like, and even, like, Supergirl. All the Snyder.
01:08:53
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Lobo. Oh, every Snyder. And... and And that email, I don't know if did you back that? Did you back the Harley Quinn thing? I did. I did, yeah. Yeah, so I got the email about the shipping update, so.
01:09:04
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Did you back the full package or did you do just the Harley? I did the full. I did the full. I did the, three it's three figures, I think? Yeah. It's either three figures. And ah and a Leto. The two Harleys and a Leto, yeah.
01:09:19
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Yeah. Okay, no, I just did the. worker I did the one Harley and the Leto. The movie Harley and the Jared Leto, not the comic colorway. I did the third one for the extra accessories. Yeah, whatever the weird decoed Harley kind of looked neat. So I like, you know what? Whatever. If I don't like it, somebody's got one. Yeah, it's supposed to be Margot Robbie in comic colors. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:09:47
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Actually, I could tell you we're missing Peacemaker show people. That's really it. well we need You know what? We need vigilante. I think if we got vigilante and I've heard that I've heard that possibly he's coming. So I don't know.
01:09:59
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Yeah, he's on one of those solicitation lists. So he's also on another solicitation list. Oh, for. yeah Oh, yeah. Yes, I got you.
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01:11:02
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And now, back to the show. So we're to you, John, for your number five, actually. Oh, geez. Number five already. Okay. So
01:11:14
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this one, this is a hot toys. This is life-size stitch from the movie. And I bring this because this is, this is the most satisfying, like plush thing you will ever get.
01:11:27
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It's built like one of those, you know, there's like tripods that have like, that have like um That you can like wire bendy things. this is like He just moves around like this. he is so cool.
01:11:41
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I require this. i will i i require this Yeah, it is so cool. And the funny thing is that like i was actually running my I was working on my list last week and I was running it by a friend of mine and he knew I had bought this, but I hadn't opened it because he knows I'm a terrible person that buys things and just forgets to open them forever. And he's like, he's like, dude, you got to open. You got to open up Stitch.
01:12:04
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And I was like, fine, because I always get I always like I i have trouble opening up hot toys because I guess you could ask me why I keep buying them, but if there's just so much stuff there and then I have to find a place to put them.
01:12:16
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But like I open this and it is just, you know, it comes with different, you know, these are just the hands for when I have them down in like his like crouching pose, but like it has alternate hands, it has the luau, he has sunglasses, he has a little like inflatable like swimmies you can put on his arms.
01:12:32
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It's just like, and he likes, he's, stay you know, it's hard to see because he's very nice my computer, but you can kind of see here like he can, he'll stand up fine. He has like, you know, pivots on his. It is so cool. So, yeah, it's the life sized stitch replica.
01:12:46
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And like if there was ever like a way to do stuff like, say, like Gremlins or Gizmo or whatever, like this would be the way to do it because it is just so cool. It moves so fluidly that you'd be like you're shocked at like how well it does and then just holds in the two its positions.
01:13:03
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And it is just it is an absolutely awesome figure. That is outrageously good. And I loved that movie too. Like the the live action movie I thought was very good.
01:13:15
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Yeah. I mean, it wasn't the cartoon, but it was, it was, still it was fun. are Are the ears articulating? Can like he do sad ears? Yep.
01:13:26
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Oh my God. Yeah. They can and go back. You can do whatever you want. It's a it's it's like, again, like, I mean, again, this stuff's expensive, but if like if you can swing it and you're fan of it, this is really it is a really, really cool.
01:13:42
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Eric's doing math in his head right now.
01:13:47
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Yeah. It's so bad. You can sit in the living room next to my life size Garfield. Yeah, there you go. See, I'm telling you, man. But yeah, I thought I was going to get in so much trouble when that life as Garfield came.
01:14:02
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But is that boss? Yeah, he's just become he's just become part of the house. It's what happens, though, because like now, like my ah my ah my oldest daughter graduated from eighth grade into like high school. So she puts her like little like graduation cap on him and the the girls, whenever they come into the office, they just sit there like pet him or like move him around and stuff like that. They love having him around.
01:14:27
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Garfield is currently wearing a graduation cap because in a way and but we had a kindergarten we had a pre-K graduation. We had a grammar school graduation. So, yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
01:14:39
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Absolutely fabulous pick. fabulous And that's that's the thing from your list this year, by the way. That's that's the that's the thing I'm dog earring.
01:14:52
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ah My next pick, ah number five, also is animal related, but in a different way. um a WWE w lead figure that I have wanted for a very, very long time.
01:15:04
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um And one of my favorite WWE elites, I think ever of all time, period. Um, Coco Beware and, and, and Frankie. And I love, I love the way that they designed this, this figure in general. Like again, like just the deco is perfectly, you know, that late eighties, early nineties Coco Beware. um the swappable hair.
01:15:28
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i love when they do that on on these figures. I love the way that the sunglasses fit. um You know, a lot of times they can be a little oversized, but also the fact that he's got the ability, they gave they gave him the the flat chopping hands and they made Frankie's um ah talons the right size to just port onto the hand, like it's just, it's very natural. He also does come with the stand. So you can put the, the stand up and Mount Frankie on that too, which is just, it's just so good. Um, and nobody does action figure soft goods, like quite like Mattel, everything always fits really nicely. It it drapes really well.
01:16:10
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Uh, Yeah, I know this is Coco Beware has been on i want lists, mine included, for a very long time, for for years now.
01:16:20
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ah So the fact that we've we've got them, i Birdman, number five, Coco Beware. If you got two of those Jim Neidhart legends, one to have who, you could, in theory, put the pants on.
01:16:36
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You know I did, and you know that picture is coming because I also have a very, very good custom Owen Hart. So, yeah, high energy, right? High energy.
01:16:47
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um is is That picture is is coming. It's coming. I'm telling you, man, Mattel really excels at those... like I guess like really bright costumes and stuff like that they really like they really stick out it always kind of makes you feel bad because like a lot of modern day like especially male wrestlers are very boring something they're just kind of dudes in tights yep but um like yeah like you get some of those you know those legends and stuff that just have those really like bombacious outfits and like they really do them justice when they do them yeah there's fewer Cody's and punks and more you know dudes in tights
01:17:26
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Yeah. yeah But the dudes in tights are important, though, because they're cheap to make in
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01:17:32
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the line. And they allow the budget. If you see a Gunther in there, you know you're getting like a Rhea. If you see Gunther or Roman.
01:17:43
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No, not. Yeah, that's true. It's one tattoo. Black, black pants. One tattoo. um Dave, we're to you for your number four. And I went there early on my screen. And this does not surprise me in the least bit. Speaking, speaking of a low deco budget.
01:17:59
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um yeah But, you know. When I saw this at, I think, Toy Fair, i was like, yes. ah Phantom Rider, Hasbro Marvel Legends.
01:18:12
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How cool can a figure that's mostly white, how cool can that figure be? the answer is very. um as As Dwight was saying, I wish we had a horse, but yeah, the fact that he's got the guns, they can holster, you know it adds a little bit of contrast. The silver in it is really cool. um the black and white eyes. It's, I mean, it's fantastic. Like it's just a it's, it's that deep cut that you didn't think, you know Hey, is this ever going to happen? And it does. And it's, it's pretty excellent. It's a, it's a banger figure, I think.
01:18:53
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um And, and that's Phantom Rider and it goes right into my oops, all midnight suns collection. I would I really want to find a figma horse.
01:19:06
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So figma made some they made some really nice horses. They never made a white one. But like, I just want to get one to get you one of those white horses and spray paint it white.
01:19:18
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Have you looked? Does four horsemen have a horse are they too big? Way too big. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It would look like he was riding like an elephant. It's like a little kid riding horse.
01:19:31
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Yeah, it looks like he's riding our techs. Yeah. tried As opposed to a tree. Yes, yes. ah That that takes us number four for you, John.
01:19:45
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okay number four do we got here all right so we are going to go to bandai and the sh figure arts and we're going to do the jujitsu kaisen toji um this is one of my favorite my son actually turned me on to this he started here when he was he got when he was getting into anime he had me take him to some of the uh movies and stuff for this stuff so i really dig him i dig his vibe I love I think this is one of my favorite ones that Bandai's done a while. It's a little bit shiny But other than that it really expressive moves really good holds his weapons really well He also comes with like the cursed spirit that you you can wrap around him and just you know There's a lot, you know, I just I've actually really enjoyed the JJK line that uh that figure arts has going so but um this one by far is a it's one of my favorites.
01:20:35
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I like the new articulation they've been using on people with baggy pants. Like the new like knee articulation. It's really nice. It's also like it's a single joint too. it's It's kind of funny how we've gone back to like finding ways to make single joints out of certain things. And they do that a lot, like, especially the Dragon Ball line. There's a lot of, one of the guys that have baggy pants, they do a lot of single joints. It's interesting how they kind of go back and revisit what works and what doesn't. And yeah, I think they're, I don't know if maybe it's a sensibility of trying to
01:21:06
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streamline the sculpt or whatever. But yeah, single joints have come have come back a bit for certain things, which I think drives some people crazy, but it doesn't bother me. Yeah, I mean, if it looks good and can do what it what the character can do, then who cares? Yeah, it's exactly. it um Which takes us to my number four.
01:21:26
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My number four is my ah it my only? I think it is My only entry from McFarlane on on my first half of the list. um The Elite Edition Spawn.
01:21:41
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um This is another one that's been on the list for months now. i Listen, i they keep taking stabs at spawn. you know ah the The Kickstarter kickstarter was was really good for you know the fact that it's a statue. You can't really do much of it much with it once you once you have it on display. I have very limited display space, and I can't put it out. like The cape is too cumbersome.
01:22:14
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It's too large. um I don't like that the reds are like... are so dark. I don't like that he's got the big like V2 boot on him. Like I want a classic like violent red spawn.
01:22:29
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And this figure did that. ah It's got the the the nice big cape. It's got the big um whatever you call the things on the side of the cape.
01:22:40
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and I was just thought it was like the craziest pop collar of all time. like Yeah, collar collar. That's the word I was looking for. um I made one teeny tiny modification to this figure, which is the clasp.
01:22:54
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um i it drove me nuts that everything else was real chains on it except for that so all i did was um snip the plastic chain off and i i literally took a couple of i borrowed a couple of links from one of the chains that's hanging on him and i i clipped it and i glued it into place and Now it's it's as as perfect as I think you could get for ah you know a mass market spawn. Again, part of the Elite Collection. So you know this did run, think it was like 50, 55, something like that. yeah um
01:23:31
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But it's got it's got the hamburger head. It's got the ah the different hands. It's got planck with plank with nail, which is we've gone back and forth over the years.
01:23:42
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saying plank with nail is one of the greatest accessories ever made in action figure line. um And, and yeah, he just has that nice, like perfect silhouette. So ah yes, my number four, the the apology spawn for the, ah after, after we, after we back the Kickstarter, we get the one without the big shell.
01:24:01
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Yep. So May that forever live in a box in my basement. I know. Same. i so I came upon it the other day and I was like, oh, I really should try to get rid this thing. It's like that in the year two Batman. Like, I don't know where it's going to go.
01:24:18
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Yeah. it big I don't even know. i don't even know what the aftermarket is on on that Kickstarter spawn. I don't want to look. I think it's, yeah I don't think it exists anymore. You could probably just donate it at this point.
01:24:30
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i'm I'm just going to leave it in the box. just It's just because here's the thing. Ultimately, it still looks really cool. It's just i have nowhere to put it right now. Like even like like I have the Kickstarter medieval spawn out like I think displaying it in the clay shell is actually the way to go.
01:24:48
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Probably. I actually pulled the cape off of my Kickstarter one. is I know it's glued in there, but I just pulled it off. and It's a fine lead. It's a McFarlane articulated figure underneath, so yeah fine but it was fine. Then it didn't have the cape. and i was like At some point, I was like, should I get like a third-party cape? but i just never did. and then He's just capeless sponge. he exist i mean I actually wonder if I transfer the cape from the Elite onto the ah onto that one if it would look any good.
01:25:15
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You could. The reds would be light. That's the only issue. The red's not going to... I can send you... there's I bought a $20 cape because prior to this, prior to this elite one, i had a... I used the Call of Duty spawn, maybe? The first spawn that they put out that had the cloth cloth cape because it wasn't glued on. You could literally just slip it off of his head and you had like just a spawn body. um I bought a really nice $20 cape.
01:25:46
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cape that i put on that figure and it looks fantastic it would it would also look really good on the kickstarter spawn i'll send you link okay thank you um dave we're back to you for number three um all right i alluded to this earlier greatest ultimate edition figure of the year so far mattel wwe ultimate 29 dirty dom the greatest dirty dom of all time You no longer need to buy another dirty Dom unless they make one with the AAA Mega Championship, which I hope they do. But yeah, it's perfect. It's his goofy face. That's why I picked this photo.
01:26:32
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Like it's the perfect figure for Mattel for WWE wwe happens More often than you'd think, but not as often as you'd hope.
01:26:47
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And this is this is one of them. This is one of those ones where when they first showed it, I'm like, oh, they they made the best dom. Like they made you're the last dom you need. And this is it's 100 percent accurate. You know, the shirt.
01:27:04
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the The vest is part like it's just great. Yeah. the only The only thing that we're missing it from like our Dirty Dom collection, we need the like scared heel face.
01:27:17
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but like like the like we need We need that expression at some point, and then we've we've got everything covered. But I feel like this is the tongue-out doofus face is is the best.
01:27:34
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like I'd want to play chicken nuggets before... Yeah. Yep. Well, if you have your if you have your Happy Meal, mini McDonald's. That's true. I have that.
01:27:46
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I took I took that picture. I took the picture of Roxanne of Roxy giving him the nuggets. Yeah. So, um but yeah, I he's like one of my favorite stories in wrestling in general. so Like just he's still one of the most entertaining people on TV. Like, yep.
01:28:04
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Every week. Who would have thought? Every week. um Yeah. Fabulous. ah John, that's to you for your number three. Okay, number three. Coming back to Street Fighter.
01:28:18
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So we're going to go with the Jada Toys Balrog. um I think the thing is, you know, ah like, you know, with the storm stuff, it was all very exciting because you're getting all these all at once. But I think because Jada takes so long to get stuff out, you kind of forget how good they really are. And there's just so much like here to this one. Like um I got him and E-Honda about the same time. And realistically, like, don't know.
01:28:43
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they They probably could, you know, I could go either way with either of them, but just the way they are able to make it articulate such a big guy like him. But they're really neat stuff in here, like how you can kind of hide the butterfly is kind of hidden by the is basically his shirt.
01:28:58
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So you never have like that break in sculpt. And it's always just, you know, it's always just there. um But man, he gets into great. He gets into really good poses and he has great facial expressions.
01:29:09
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And on top of that, like at San Diego, we're going to get an entire head pack of all the beat up faces. It's so cool that you lose and he actually comes with you lose boxing gloves that are damaged.
01:29:23
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Yeah. So like, that yeah, they I mean, you know, credit where credit's due. They, you know, they they really do kind of I mean, first of all, they're the only company that's ever completed a Street Fighter line.
01:29:35
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Like now that Zangief preorder, I think that's the that's the entire roster. So then. Now they're going to do that like head pack to, you know, kind of finish it off. But it's impressive that they did that.
01:29:48
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I mean, yeah, they take ah you know they take a little bit of time to get stuff out, but when you get it, it's generally good. And I feel like. It's almost funny because it's like the like when they did like Ken and Ryu at the beginning, it's like they're almost like a different line because like of how much the company has improved since yeah they started. um Yeah, they're just, you know, they've mostly kept the prices, you know, pretty good for these. I think like this is like 30 or 35. Yeah, the bigger characters are like, I think 30. Yeah. Yeah, like 40 at most, I think. so and it's like And again, that's just kind of like in line with what things cost nowadays.
01:30:23
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um But you know they're great. they really they They put a lot of thought into like how these guys move and like where the exposed joints would be and stuff like that. And it's it's really impressive stuff. And I think it's just, you know, in general, like just them completing this line is impressive in itself. Like I know they take a long time to do stuff, but at the same time, you know, they did it.
01:30:45
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And you don't get that very often, especially for a video game license. Like a Street Fighter line will get like Chun-Li, Ken, Ryu, and then it'll die. And Bison. But yeah, yeah. And Bison. And so, got got them yeah yeah, we got them all. We got like we got the first like DJ that's ever been made. We got. um I mean, I think everyone else has been made in something. But yeah, DJ was not a figure. i think Phelong too. I don't think there's ever been a Phelong. I think that was the first. You might be right. Yeah.
01:31:13
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Phelong. I also like how they did the player two fire effects. They did some player twos like. Yeah. Yeah. like we got Yeah. And that the the as San Diego set last year, we got like the like what bison, like whatever fired or effect person thing. Yeah.
01:31:32
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Like, and and I think, and they they also, you know, they did like a couple variants for everybody, but they didn't go crazy with it And I think i actually kind of like that, because like, I don't need, with Storm, I'm getting seven color variants for each person. And it's it might actually be too much. But no, ah yeah. ah Balrog is great. Like, I think probably, maybe one of my favorites in the line.
01:31:57
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Yeah, the E-Honda, if we had done superlatives for the halfway point, E-Honda would have been on my list for the best action, like frozen in at frozen in time accessory. That multiple hand strike thing, the way that that works is...
01:32:18
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unreal it's on and it photographed so well like i i was completely blown away like when i when i took it out of the box i was like how does this work and then like you pop his hand off like slide the wrist in and then put the hand back on to like lock it into place yeah just master class of it's crazy even with their megaman stuff like they've done if i'm surprised i wouldn't be surprised if they continued on with capcom in some form or fashion I mean, I have I have yet to get a Jada figure that I don't like.
01:32:51
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There isn't a single Jada release that I ah that I own that I dislike. All I got down to the new figures. so I wanted of the four new challengers. She's my favorite new challenger.
01:33:05
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So I wanted to get I was like, I'll get Cammy, you know, and it's so good. When I opened Akuma and realized that his... The way they articulated his feet, he can do stand on his toes and lift his heel out of the the sandal, but the sandal doesn't actually come off his foot. I literally just sat there and looked at him pose like that for...
01:33:25
Speaker
like 10 minutes. I was like, how, how did we, how did we get here? This is crazy. Um, yeah, just the fact that Jada was like making it, I was tempted to buy those figures from that, the goat movie, that basketball goat movie that they made. They they like out of the blue. They just, they're like Jada made figures for these. So like, yeah, mean I don't have anything for it, but they kind of look pretty good, but I, I didn't, but it was definitely, I did soon and did not get the goat figures. I didn't, you didn't get the goat.
01:33:55
Speaker
I did not spring for the goat. um That takes us to what? My number three? Are we at my number three? You're number three. three My number three is my ah my representation for the vintage collection on this list.
01:34:09
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um This is literally one of my favorite Star Wars characters of all time. And... long overdue for the vintage collection bays malbus from ah rogue one i love this pair so cheroot and and bays i i love this duo from rogue one and the likenesses that they are pulling off on these three and three quarter inch figures it's in it's basically magic um
01:34:40
Speaker
It looks like just a little version of him. And now that they've fixed the articulation in the hips and like you don't have to do that weird like swivel the leg to like kick it out like it's just like a normal like articulation. um It looks like a black series.
01:34:58
Speaker
it's it's it's on It's unbelievable, and it moves really, really well. There are little things that they did in this, and I'll just... I will make this quick because I don't want to belabor it, but like little things that they did. like He's got his um his little like taser shocker that ah that sticks on the back of his belt there. Mm-hmm.
01:35:23
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They actually made the plastic in this, so it has a lot of give, and you can actually mount the the gun into the backpack, and it's completely hidden. like it took It took me like it took me like maybe ah couple minutes to figure out, like okay, so what do I do with the gun when he's not holding it? like It can't just like dangle there, but like the scope part actually ports...
01:35:53
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really nicely into the into the back of the tank there. um Again, you know use of a little soft goods. i the It articulates really well. like He's got a full um ball joint at the waist.
01:36:09
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So like he's he's got a ton of articulation in there. ah Great balance. I was able to get him on like the one foot like running pose. um Yeah, just just another another like banger from the the Star Wars team on the vintage collection. So we are now one character away from having the full team in vintage collection from Rogue One. And he was announced. So Bodhi Rook is coming. That's right.
01:36:36
Speaker
um i would really like them to go back and redo jenner so though um they did her prior to like the photo reel stuff so when you put them all together you have these really nice like you know um printed faces and then you kind of have like the deer in headlights yeah because bode rook was an original movie figure like he was he was a 5poa yeah ah all they made the entire rogue one team in five poa um and the reason i know that was because yuma could not find that out on the west coast and i found yeah out east we out here we had love had them by the armful so i remember boody was tough to find out here too like i remember finding him i found multiples in clifton
01:37:24
Speaker
I saw him once and I scooped it up. But um yeah, that's the the and the first two to get the vintage collection treatment were gin and um and Cassian obvious reasons.
01:37:40
Speaker
But um and so that was a weird time back then because it was almost like they were trying to phase out the vintage collection. It seemed like like they were really trying to make that five POA line like the thing. And like the Vintage Collection, remember, they were coming in, they were Walmart exclusives and they were coming in little Black Series boxes. Right.
Unique Figure Designs and Enthusiasm
01:37:58
Speaker
I think they called them Black Series, didn't they? And that was like really confusing.
01:38:02
Speaker
i mean it was They were Black Series 375. Yeah, terrible. there is And that Jyn Erso, so like the Jyn Erso that is it is it was in one of those Black Series boxes, that same exact figure with no changes was repackaged as Vintage Collection.
01:38:21
Speaker
So like no aesthetic changes. They literally just put that... It was one of those early Vintage Collection ones. Cassian... cassian It took them a little bit and when they put him back out they at least gave him the photo real deco so off they're If they're doing Bodhi they gotta go back and do Jin I don't see why they wouldn't Yeah Dave that takes us to your number two Oh dear god okay
01:38:52
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This isn't even that crazy of one. um I forgot that this even came out. Yeah, it did. i forgot it came out, too, until it showed up in my They're one of your favorite music bands of all time, cinematic music bands. You know them as Scott Pilgrim, Stephen Stills, and Kim Pine.
01:39:13
Speaker
Together, they are Sex Bob-omb, and they are here to watch Scott Pilgrim kick Gideon's butt. um You need to bring this. So I need to take pictures of this set. Yeah, I'll bring it. you got to bring you need to you need to come over with this. Yeah, these bottleneck gallery ish figures have been awesome of Scott Pilgrim. They're all the ah manga versions of it.
01:39:37
Speaker
But um once they announced the band three pack, I'm like, yes. And I saw the drums and everybody had their own stands and stuff like it's perfect. It really is. It's for Steven, who's like a very and under unheralded character, and Kim, who's, you know, the one of the best characters in the series. Like, you can't... You can't pass it by. But all all of these figures from this line have been incredible.
01:40:08
Speaker
um I stopped being a completist once they made like 17 different versions of Mega Scott. Like, I didn't need that. um I just needed one.
01:40:19
Speaker
But... Yeah, they've they've they've hit some home runs with these. And this is no different. You know, you're not getting you're not getting tons of articulation out of them. They are effectively little statues, but.
01:40:34
Speaker
You know, based off of what you can do, they're they're cool. They're they're a little they're tad on the the fragile side. They always they have been. But like they do what you need them to.
01:40:47
Speaker
OK, so you can move the arms, though. Like, it it's, you know, it's it's it's a very niche property, but it's cool that somebody is doing them. Yeah, you can get like Scott to play. You can.
01:41:00
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You know, yeah, have they have the ones with the coats from the previous series like it's it's they're they're great for what they do. I would love to see bottleneck to the gorillas. Pretty cool.
01:41:13
Speaker
Somebody needs to make gorillas figures. killing that one who made those have ages ago you have i have the astronaut ones um they're massive i think i think that's all that's ever been out yeah i want like actual action figures though they don't move they're just big vinyl statue they're gorgeous and i got them at 75 off when that when super plastic went out of business Maybe Todd do him.
01:41:44
Speaker
Todd will part of the music. I don't even know if he's still doing those music maniacs. I think that kind of came and went. I wouldn't hate that. That would be in his wheelhouse. They're like weird, lanky monster-like characters. I'm sure he's looking for properties.
01:41:59
Speaker
I could see those being a NECA or a Mondo, too. yeah Yeah. Possibly, yeah. um John, it takes us to your number two. Oh my gosh, number two. right Where'd I go?
01:42:11
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Oh, goodness. All right, so number two, I'm going back to my Warcraft stuff. So this and this is um this is an Imani bear. So this is this was like my favorite, like you ride on things in the game, and this is like my favorite mountain in the game i ever I ever got. So I was thrilled that they decided to make this thing. So literally, it's like it's this giant bear. It weighs like 10 pounds.
01:42:39
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And then, like, you can have the guy riding on it, and so you can have... i don't have an orc handy at the moment, but but not only that, all this armor comes off, and... That is really cool.
01:42:56
Speaker
He literally... Now you just have, like, a sweet, super excited bear. And, like... Like, so he can... You can actually have him be, like, a standing bear, he can be, like, a dancing bear. Like, you can, like...
01:43:10
Speaker
He's um Brian Danielson can wrestle him. Yeah. So and it does come with like alternate like if you wanted to have him standing up, it comes with alternate paws and stuff like that. So you can kind of have him in different poses.
01:43:23
Speaker
So like they actually they actually made him so like you can you know, you can do both. um So, yeah. So this was. a
01:43:33
Speaker
I love this guy because, again, I kind of had a sentimental value in it because it was like the one like. mount that I really enjoy that I really enjoyed using in the game. But then and then they like they made it. They made that specific one for some reason. And then the fact that you can just like actually have like a bear that can just, you know, exist and be gigantic.
01:43:54
Speaker
Like he's like, Like he's that's a big that is a big bear. Do you have a Brian Danielson? You know what? I don't. But if I ever run into one, i will take some pictures of him wrestling.
01:44:10
Speaker
I might mail you one. just Yeah,
01:44:15
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yeah that's fantastic. Yeah, that's good this a good bear
01:44:24
Speaker
yeah I may have just a bit Danielson on my person just to give you next time I see. It's good thing you're going see him in.
01:44:34
Speaker
Are you going to be at Sweet Sweet? I'm not going to be it Sweet. Not at Sweet Sweet. Okay. I'll tell you about it afterwards. Okay. of So that takes takes us to what? that's ah That's my number... Your number two.
01:44:50
Speaker
Number two. um My number two is a household favorite. ah ah Something that has been on the shelf that i my kids love. It has become their favorite version of this character for all the insane reasons. But the SH Monster Arts ah Shin Godzilla. Yeah.
01:45:13
Speaker
I love this this movie. It's it's ridiculous. The design of Godzilla in this movie, their designs, plural, um are ridiculous.
01:45:24
Speaker
ah It's so gross. um I love the the the colorway on this, like the the kind of pearlescent purple, um the amount of articulation that they added to ah to Shin Godzilla here is just it's gross. It's crazy. I love it.
01:45:43
Speaker
Um, the whole figure kind of has this like translucent to it. I don't know how, how well it's coming across on, on camera here, but, um, if you are at all familiar with how weird and gross this movie is, uh, this, this is the figure that I think best captures that, ah that weirdness, um, especially like the, like the anaconda, like unhinged jaw. um,
01:46:11
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Yeah, it's like.
01:46:14
Speaker
It's just it's so gross and I love it. um I'm still holding out hope for doofy slug Godzilla. Oh, they they're it's coming. it's up for okay It's up for preorder.
01:46:26
Speaker
It's a it's like a three pack, right? You get you get you get the three phases before this. The three previous phase. I have rules. I might need that. Yeah. um But like it. it One of the things that I love about action figures is when they can hit a silhouette.
01:46:45
Speaker
And like if you're at all familiar with that, know, the movie poster like it, it is right there. um Yeah, I just, I love this figure.
01:46:57
Speaker
Weird T-Rex arms, like it's so good. I like that you almost need a stand for his tail. It's so big. The new articulation that they add, because I know this is technically a re-release. It's a different colorway and it's a new new articulation scheme. But um I had the older one.
01:47:15
Speaker
You could not keep the tail like this. It would it would literally like... fall apart under its own weight. This thing, yeah they they completely re-engineered this. Did they? read did they yeah i have the Yeah, I have the original release, so yeah.
01:47:28
Speaker
And it it holds that position. That's nice. and And stands. Like, you know, I've had it on display like like this for, again, for months, um and it it stays there. love that that's everyone's favorite now.
01:47:46
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. We've got a, we've got a, speaking of bottleneck gallery, we have a bottleneck gallery gallery poster of Shin Godzilla hanging in our living room. Um, that was a gift for a five-year-old.
01:47:57
Speaker
And it's her, it's her favorite version of Godzilla. She, she thinks it's hilarious. Like she doesn't understand the, the body horror of it yet, but like, yeah, she thinks that the, the, the eye, like its eyes are weird. Like she just thinks it's, it's like the, the, the little kid, du Cassie from Ant-Man, you know, it's gross. I love it.
01:48:18
Speaker
i Yeah. So that's my number two. Bandai, Bandai, SH Monster Arts, Shin Godzilla. Yeah. Um, and we are we have arrived at our number ones, gentlemen.
01:48:32
Speaker
Wow. Dave, you're number one. This should come as no surprise. It's been my favorite since I've gotten it. Mattel w WWE ringside exclusive defining moments Penta.
01:48:47
Speaker
um It's debut Penta from his first night in the company. Sarah Miedo. um it's such a good figure. Like, you know, we've, we've seen great pentas and now we've seen like greater pentas, but the thing that I think is the coolest about it is the mouth, uh, swappable mouths for different expressions on Penta. Cause Penta is very, is a very expressive, um, wrestler, very facially expressive. Like he, a, he looks cool. Like he's one of the coolest looking wrestlers on the planet.
01:49:26
Speaker
Super toyetic and they have now the new swappable mouths, but the swappable mouths exist on all three pentas that exist. So every mouth that you get moving forward is going to be swappable with every penta, including the main event, including the red one that just came out.
01:49:47
Speaker
um That tease of an ultimate, hopefully that's coming and hopefully that has the same tech. Yeah. But yeah and the other thing is, he doesn't change his mouth makeup either, which is great.
01:50:00
Speaker
Yeah. It's it's just so. Like, based off of what they've done with Penta, um you know. I can only hope that Dan Housen is going to like have some cool stuff, too, but the pent it's it's single handedly the coolest wrestling figure that exists, I think.
01:50:20
Speaker
um I just love it. I. I've been blown away from it by it from day one of having it. You got the hands you got it. i mean, the tattoo um deco is great. Like the fact that it's in a two figure line means that they could do everything that they needed to with it.
01:50:41
Speaker
um And, you know, the the proof is in the pudding because it can't stay in stock. So. And you mentioned you did mention the red one. is so just showing people that you have the different um faces, but also this figure can actually hit his walk.
01:50:59
Speaker
Mm hmm. So this is the same body as the black and white one, but like this is not this. I did not. There was no use of any. so And there was no use of any stands in this or strings in this picture. Like you can actually balance this figure in his like creepy like ring walk, you know, his aura mining yeah walk. Yeah.
01:51:21
Speaker
and And again, you can see like in you know in in this one, he's got the kind of like ooh lips on. So you now have neutral, you have a mouth open, you have an ooh, and then I think the main event one is an even different expression. So yeah, it's ah it's they they really deserve it number one, Dave.
01:51:43
Speaker
Kudos to the the wwe WWE team, to to Magic and Bill, Steve, like just... Incredible figure. bet they were excited when they signed him.
01:51:55
Speaker
They were just like, yeah, we can't wait to make a toy of this guy. Yep. Yep. It's another instance of magic just coming up with stuff, cooler stuff to getting another crack at it. You know, like.
01:52:06
Speaker
And did you see the video from ah kind of not to derail this conversation, but did you see what they're what they introduced to the ultimates moving forward? Yeah, um it's things are looking a little supreme over there.
01:52:20
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they ah John, I don't know if you saw this, but the they they showed a new Goldberg Ultimate Edition. They pop at the waist now. And people are like, you can do that. So you can swap the trunks or something like that if you wanted to.
01:52:35
Speaker
You can do that at your own risk. like ah Well, I guess the other line is dead at this point, so though why not take scavenge from other... but ah But yeah, that coming to to Ultimate Editions, that's a game changer. Because like now you can swap arms and effectively legs. And yeah, that's that's a big... that's a That is a game changer for for Ultimate Edition. Because there's a lot of figures out there that like...
01:53:04
Speaker
You know, especially some of the um when you go between like ring gear and and ah what do you call it? ah Like promo gear, like being able to do like sculpted pants. And yeah, there's.
01:53:20
Speaker
Game changer for sure. Cool. John, that takes us to your number one. OK, my number one is I'm finally doing a Masters of the Universe and it is Clawful from the Mondo 112 scale Masters the Universe line.
01:53:38
Speaker
And this is my number one because i think when I got this, i kind of realized like how like I've really been impressed with all I've been. I mean, I've been collecting the Ghostbusters 112 line and then, you know, i was kind of like Masters universe is expensive, but they really do look good and then cloth will ended up being exclusive and I was like well You know what I guess like, you know, what's what's another $300 on universe figures? But anyway, so yeah, so it showed up and I was blown away by it like it moves well It's got he's got like he's got three different heads It's just like, you know, you just think about like when the 2000 cartoon was going on and like you I remember back just seeing like those early four horsemen sculpts and stuff like that and how they never really translated to the toys like scale wise and stuff like that. Like, I think like this is like, you know, Mondo's going to like focus on like the scale, the detail and all that kind of stuff that was kind of left off of the toy line.
01:54:40
Speaker
And um I think this is like I mean, He-Man's also good, too. But um you know, i have a, have a thousand He-Mans. Um, probably have a thousand clawfuls too, but it's just like, you know, the, the Skeletor's minions and, um, the like monsters and stuff are like the real, I think the real draw to master the universe for me. So I was, you know, I got this, I was like, we're in good hands for this line, this line, you know, I'm going to be, I'm going to be buying every single one that comes out. Um,
01:55:12
Speaker
And yeah like, I mean, I just, again, i think I mentioned it one with the Ghostbusters last time we talked. just like the stuff's great quality. I don't feel like, you know, you are going to spend more on it, but you're not really making any compromises either.
01:55:26
Speaker
So, you know, you're kind of getting what you set out to get the first time without, you know, without having to, you know. worry about, you know, is it going be less or going to more? No, they give you, they give you like a really nice solid figure. It also, it has a base. It has a couple of heads.
01:55:42
Speaker
I got He-Man over here. So, you know, you get like this, this collection's already, you know, it's shaping up and it's, it's really, think Clothful kind of shows what they can do. And, um, I'm excited for where it's going to go.
01:55:58
Speaker
I think we're hitting that point with some of these lines, and i I think Mondo is a really good example of, like, what doing it right the first time really looks like. Because, like, those Ghostbusters figures, those real Ghostbusters figures, if you bought those four and, like, real Ghostbusters is your thing, you will never need and another...
01:56:24
Speaker
Like, they did it. They did it. it's it it it They are aesthetically pleasing. They move well. You know, unless they suddenly turn to, like, sand and fall apart, like, you are never going to need another one. And, it like, to your point, right, like, how many times have we gotten these characters from the Masters of Universe world?
01:56:45
Speaker
But, like... these versions are now going to be the quintessential versions of those yeah iterations of the characters. Yeah. Yeah. So... but yeah Yeah. And Alex and, you know, Peter and and Hector, all those guys over at Mondo, they...
01:57:04
Speaker
clearly have a passion so it's it's cool to see them i really i really think they're just doing great things and again you know like it's it's there's a higher point there's a higher price point of entry but at the same time you don't have to make those compromises and stuff like you think like you know like for like a mass market line like if they're going to do real go ghostbusters maybe hasbro would just paint over like their plasma collection guys instead of actually doing like dedicated cartoon sculpts for that stuff like that it's like You know, give me it right the first time and then, you know, I'll be happy with it it doesn't have to be a giant collection, even though the Ghostbusters one is kind of turning into a giant collection at this point, because like now I have like like you you get each of the but the Busters, but then you got like a ghost that's like gigantic with them.
01:57:51
Speaker
yeah So it's like now I've got and now i've got like an alternate Sam Hay that has a couple of other ghosts. And Mondo just announced their Citizen Ghost 4-pack. And I'm like, I spent another $500 on Ghostbusters. But then that one had new ghosts in it. So it's like, I got to get them because I love those animated ghost designs. It's just one of those fun things from...
01:58:12
Speaker
Like, i I try not to look back at nostalgia too much, but, like, I just i there's just... They're just fun designs, and there's stuff that I actually did collect at the time when I was a kid, so... Yeah.
01:58:23
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That's awesome. Yeah. right. That takes us to my number one. i think my number one is going to be controversial, because i I feel like a lot of people who have gotten their hands on this are not happy with it, but I am...
01:58:36
Speaker
much like my number one pick from last year, i am through the moon um on it. But it is a figure that I thought in a million years I'd actually never get in this. Yeah, in this line. um Hulk 2099. You must have just gotten that. It literally it literally came in the mail from Hasbro Pulse like...
01:59:01
Speaker
two days ago so um I have always loved this design like I i love the 2099 universe yes it's a little small like 2099 Hulk was basically a Tyrannosaurus Rex on like you know gamma steroids but uh this figure is gross I love the way that they engineered his weird back mullet um it being like you know ah a separate piece from the head like it actually almost my mohawk well when you when you get that when you get the figure um it's actually like this and in order to fit in the package this is shipped separately smart or um uh packed separately so uh once you poured it on
01:59:49
Speaker
it gives him the impression it gives you the impression that it's it's a mullet um both expressions are fabulous i love the the long tongue though it's the the hands are are great for grabbing spider-man 2099 um you know they they get you know they they can go all the way together which is nice um you know You don't have to worry about so much gamma clapping with him, but um i think it it is worth noting that
02:00:22
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the body that they used for this, the hands, this is that solid, a solid body and the hands do kind of come together. So, um, there definitely is some additional carving out happening here in the, uh, the, the butterflies on the solid body they used here.
02:00:39
Speaker
But, um, yeah, the, the head is so good. And the, the other expression is, is also great. Um, I love the feet. Um, He's got really great balance. Like the heels are kind of always up, but he's got these really nice, big, like flat. ah You know, he hasn't, he has no problem standing.
02:00:55
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um Yeah. Again, this is just as, as Hulk is my favorite superhero. um I will happily take any and all versions of him. um And I, I never thought that they would bother trying to do this one. Um, um,
02:01:12
Speaker
I was shocked. Not only did they do it, but like they did it really, really well. Again, like I said, that my my one my one piece of feedback with it, like is like, sure, it could have been a little bit larger.
02:01:25
Speaker
um But i yeah, he's he's great. He has this is the painted on arm hair. Like how much larger could they have done it and still been a retail figure and still like.
02:01:39
Speaker
They could have made him as big as they could have put him in the same size box as they did Juggernaut. So like the the game reverse Juggernaut that they put out, that figure is very large.
02:01:49
Speaker
Okay. he's he's he's He's a big boy. um And that was that was at retail. Like that figure was. Yeah. You know, um but that being said, you know, I think there's probably a little reuse here. i didn't I haven't really like overanalyzed it, but I'm pretty sure the legs are legs are probably reused because you can see our reuse. so Yeah.
02:02:10
Speaker
Yeah. If it's new, typically they wouldn't have a pinhole, but. um I think these are the standard Hulk legs, but i yeah, this is i I've had this figure for two days and literally aside from um not bringing it to bed with me and sleeping with it,
02:02:29
Speaker
It has not left my hand. I just, he's really sharp, John. It's really, it's really pointy. Um, it also made me realize that I didn't get the new Spider-Man 2099.
02:02:42
Speaker
So it was still in stock on Hasbro pulse. So I grabbed it. The one that was part of the most recent legends wave. I still have like the, the, the old retro, um, Spider-Man 2099. Yeah.
02:02:54
Speaker
And I realized very quickly once I had it with this one, like, wow, he's really tiny. Like he's very, very, very tiny. Makes more sense though. But yeah.
02:03:05
Speaker
So that's my number one. How are you liking that Hulk program this year? Has it been checking things off your list? So he actually bumped Abomination was was was going to be my number one. Okay.
02:03:18
Speaker
I like Abomination. I like his, i like his what's it that that immortal Hulk head there? Oh, Yeah. it makes me It just makes me hope that they finally do like an immortal Hulk.
02:03:29
Speaker
Yeah, like a real dedicated one. A real a real old one gross immortal Hulk would be would be fantastic. But i love that we're getting Doc Samson. I'm hoping this means more 2099, because...
02:03:41
Speaker
How much is left for 2019? Well, I guess i think if they got to do Dr. Doom at some point, I would think. Doom? Yeah, the three big ones that they that are kind of on the table that I would say are are definitely more popular than Hulk 2099. Again, this is I find this genuinely shocking. it's Yeah.
02:04:00
Speaker
Ghost Rider. Venom 2099 is the biggest one. I mean, that's one that like people have requested like over and over and over and over and over again. The Mayfax style.
02:04:11
Speaker
yeah um doom 2099 and ghost rider 2099 are probably the the three have they done punisher no i think punisher probably be one that people would want to yeah yeah for the 2099 crew yeah i doubt they'll touch any of the ravage stuff but that's another og 2099 if they wanted to yeah But yeah, to your point, if they, I mean, granted, they had the whole program happen.
02:04:40
Speaker
ah Doom, yeah. I have a feeling and ah in in just a few months' time, any and all things, Dr. Doom are going to be very sought after. Oh, sure.
02:04:50
Speaker
No doubt. I'm sure we're going to get inundated with Doom action figures, too, of all all kinds. Yep. and if the you know i try I try to stay away from anything that could potentially spoil the movie for me, but um it does seem like there's going to be quite a few, but potentially, at least if if one of the rumors is true, quite a few dooms from multiversal activities. It's such a huge cast.
02:05:20
Speaker
How many waves are there going to like how many figures like how many waves are there going to be Well, I'm it's the MCU stuff has been kind of dry lately.
02:05:32
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Like there's there hasn't been a whole lot. um but You got a new movie coming next month. Yeah, so i'm i mean I'm excited for the Cavalry and um Dan actually posted just I think yesterday, two days ago, um this week. So if you're listening to this episode now, the the Thunderbolts 2-pack will be going up this week. actually i This is actually this this week or I guess technically last week, we finally broke the streak of the Marvel Legends pre-orders every single week in 2026. This is the first week without a Marvel of Legends pre-order.
02:06:07
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That's ah that good a good. I can't believe they can move one of those Deadpools just into like this week just to keep it going. Yeah. Yeah. But it's it's smart putting um putting Val in that two pack is.
02:06:22
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As much as I want that figure and I love that movie, um she would not sell as a single card figure. No, no, absolutely not. and And we've got a Spider-Man coming soon, too, so.
02:06:34
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Yep, yep, yep. That whole figure, I'm very, very much looking forward towards to that whole figure that I have pre-ordered. Potentially another Punisher. No, that's We've got a lot of Punishers this year.
02:06:47
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They put out the the... The Punisher that they put out for pre-order is technically a two-in-one. It's one last kill. It's the special presentation one and Spider-Man.
02:06:59
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And Spider-Man. Yeah. Yeah. it looks It looks like what we've seen in the trailer because that's kind of how looks. new character who we may know who it is but also may not know who it is.
02:07:10
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I think McDonald's almost spoiled it again. Like they did with Red Hulk. Yeah. They put out the... Yeah, they put out the Happy Meal...
02:07:22
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toys like the Happy Meal toy like this so solicitation and I think it almost spoiled who Sadie Sink is okay I'll have to look that up yeah I think if if one of them actually gets out, like if if the toy gets out, it will it will be spoiled. Like it's still like shadowed on the solicitation.
02:07:48
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But like if those things are sitting in a McDonald's somewhere, it's only a matter of time before somebody opens one. Oh, we're only a couple weeks away. So yeah. Yeah. Because you guys remember the Red Hulk thing, right? With with ah Captain America Brave New World. The Red Hulk was spoiled by McDonald's.
02:08:08
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Yeah, that's right. Well, that's also because yeah, because like they delayed the movie and then McDonald's was like, but we're still we got we're just going to put out the toys anyway because we can't sit on this stuff any longer. And there is characters that weren't in the movie anymore if that were. Yeah.
02:08:21
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Yeah. and Not that we didn't know that like Red Hulk was coming. It was like very obvious, but they're just like. Yeah. Well. This is this is our halfway list. um yeah We hope we hope everybody enjoyed it. um Remember these because a lot of these probably will not be on our year end list. Or maybe all of them will be. Who knows? this is, I think, the first time we've had zero crossover to like we had nobody.
02:08:50
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Nobody had somebody else's. And no, at least one. No, we didn't. Good job, everybody. i go to yeah i think this is I think this is also the first year in a while where there's been no Papa Emeritus on anyone's list.
02:09:02
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Some version of Papa Emeritus. Come on, Super 7. What are you doing? Get some Papas out there. Oh, it came They're there. those are the The purple Papa V came out. It's unfortunately...
02:09:15
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it's ah fi It's fine. It's fine. i got you. We'll see. We'll see about the Batwing one. Yeah. I enjoy it with the rest of them. Yeah. I love Ghost.
02:09:28
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It's in my display. I'm actually wearing the Papa V shirt too, which is funny. um But ah for those that that are listening that clearly live under a rock, John, where can they find you on the internet?
02:09:41
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um You can find me on most socials as Preternia.com or you can go to my website Preternia.com. I don't really update it much, but you know, it'll lead you in the right direction. But yeah, follow me on socials if you want.
02:09:54
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If not, it's no big deal. Well, you have that awesome San Diego Comic-Con exclusive list on your website. The thing that I do, the things that I look forward to every year. Yes. keep your track Are you guys going to San Diego this year?
02:10:05
Speaker
No. No? Oh. Neither are you. No. Oh, not. I see my list. Yep. I'd love to one of these times, but I know. Yeah. But yeah, no. Yeah. i keep trying. I like to keep track of all that stuff. I like I like a reason to make a list. It makes me feel good.
02:10:23
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So that's always a good one. Hey, that's what we're here for. That's what we're here for. We. I'm glad you guys found me to make lists. I love it. There we go. Well, we we as we did last year, we will come back at the end of the year and we'll revisit this top 10.
02:10:39
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um But ah thank you everybody for for watching, for listening. We hope you enjoyed the list. Dave, send us home. Enjoy the second half of the year, everybody. It's going to be a good one, I think.
02:10:54
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