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The Best of 2025 (So Far) - Top 10 Picks Feat. Preternia
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Somehow we're already halfway through 2025 - how does that even happen?!? Well we're continuing our annual tradition of naming our top 10 releases of the year here at the midway point, but this time, we're joined by longtime friend and first time guest, the man behind all those juicy links, John of Preternia fame! Who made the list? Who didn't? Listen and find out!
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Introduction to 'Adventures in Collecting' Podcast
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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.
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And I'm Dave. Welcome to Adventures in Collecting, where we talk toy news, culture, and hauls, along with our journeys as collectors.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Adventures in Collecting podcast. We are yeah back. ah It is our annual celebration of the first half of 2025.
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um The first six months of this year has been quite the decade. Wrapping, everybody.
Special Guest Introduction: A Longtime Friend
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Buckle up. But ah and but we're here. I'm sweating. We're here. So much that my hair is like...
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um Yes, summer has has hit in New Jersey, at least like that pre that pre summer. Like it's just suddenly hot um is happening. It's happening. But ah really excited. We have a longtime friend of the show as a guest time ah for this special episode.
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Yeah. first First longtime listener. First time caller. um But before we hop into our list, he's not going to hang up and listen. You're You're part of the show.
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Yes, yes. He's going to be very much so engaged and part of the show. A little bit of housekeeping.
Labubu Giveaway Announcement
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ah So first and foremost, ah it is June. We have our giveaway for the month is live and...
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It's labubu. We have a labubu. um As promised on previous episodes on our on our video about my my trip to Vietnam and Japan, um you have your chance at winning a labubu with a 1 in 72 chance of getting the super rare. Have a seat.
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This is Mace Windu's favorite um version of Labubu because it's having a seat. he can tell it to He can tell it to have a seat and it will successfully have a seat.
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um So yeah, so you can visit us at AIC underscore podcast on Instagram. There is a pinned post where you can enter to win yourself a Labubu. So go do that. You have the entire month to do it. ah it is Like i said it's a pinned post. The rules are there.
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we will randomly select i ah somebody who followed the rules and you'll win a labubu. It's that simple. I
Popularity of Labubu and Its Impact
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don't know if there's anything really, really else to add there.
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I opened mine. i got he, he little gray one. It's great. Love these, love these things. I'm on board. and the kids I'm on the labubu train. Kids got them too.
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ah One sleeps with it every night. The other one ah does not, but yeah. Yeah. they ah They love their LaBuboos. are LaBubo house. there might be LaBubo fever-y situation happening.
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so we're worried that there might be a libubo fevery situation happening Due to popularity. So, um, so Lububu is not allowed to go to school.
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It's fair. So we enjoy, we enjoy Lububu at home, which is really funny because mine is attached to my backpack. So I feel like an absolute jerk, but like,
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yeah I'm almost 40. I know where my backpack is all the time. um But yeah. So ah yeah. Win little boo boo. All right. So with that, ah like I said, we we have a ah we have a very special guest with us today.
Guest Spotlight: John Preternia
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Somebody that has been our friend um pretty much since the beginning, since we started doing this. One of the first friends that we made ah in in the toy.
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ah journalism sphere content creating sphere whatever you want to call it um he is he is the source of links no one gets links up faster than this guy um he is a hoot an amazing human being we love seeing him in person and now we get to have him on the show uh welcome to the podcast uh john Preternia himself.
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He's here. There is a real person behind this this account. um And he's he's now joining us. Welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. Hello.
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always yeah Always a pleasure to chat it up with you. um It's nice to to not be doing this, waiting for the next like big toy event to do it in person. So, um yeah, so we're we're excited to excited for your perspective you know in the for the first half of the the year.
Top 10 Toy Releases Introduction
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We've had some other ah people from the the toy world on to do this in the past with us. We've had Jay Hernandez. We've had, ah I think, MCU Collector did it with us.
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one year if i'm not mistaken um so we're excited to uh excited to have you much today man i'm really excited to do this khalil has done this with us oh cool yeah that's right caster's corner yeah all these people i know from in the internet world it's exciting Yeah.
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Yeah. All right. So um for those that are are listening or watching for the first time, what what we'll do is we have each compiled a list of 10 of our favorite releases. We all have our own kind of individual rules. um In my case, I do not have rules this year. It just had to be something that came out within the calendar year.
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that's literally my only rule this year. um but, uh, what we'll do is we'll, we'll start at 10. We'll work our way up and through. And if there's any kind of overlap, uh, we'll, we'll just kind of hop in and say like, Hey, that's on my list too. It's in this spot.
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Um, unless it is your number one, everyone hold your number one sacred. Even if somebody else mentions it, when we get, when you get to your number one, we'll, we'll reveal it then.
John's #10 Pick: Four Horsemen's Necronomicus
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Um, yeah. Does anyone else want to go over their personal rules before we we hop into our ah our 30 picks? The old version of the what I refer to as modified Dan Larson rules.
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um If it was given to me, I would have had to have wanted to buy it. um Nothing on this list has been given to me, though, um and it had to have been released within this year.
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I don't have any rules. Yeah, just John. Any any person any. personal bought this year Pretty much. I hope I think everything I bought this year, sometimes like you forget, like you're like, did I get it last year or did it come out last year? But I think everything is from this year. So I think I'm good.
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Like i always have to look like when was it shipped or did it like did did I buy it this year? But it yeah, the last year's. Yeah. So I will say there is at least one thing. I'm just looking around real quick. There is at least one thing on my list that was supposed to arrive at the end of 2024 and it didn't until 2025. So I'm counting it, even though some people may have gotten it.
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Actually, not may have. Some people definitely got it 2024. Mine just did not arrive in 2024, so i couldn't I couldn't qualify it for that year's list. So it it arrived like in January. There's one you thought would have been mine, yeah but it was 100% of 2024.
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OK, all right. So ah why don't we do when we let our our guest ah kick us off here with with ah the number ten picks. OK, I'm going to start off.
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um First of all, I don't even know what this thing is actually called, but this is one of the four horsemen's. um You may know it from the think it was the Necronut something wave. um Yes, yes. Necronomicus. So and I just love this thing because like it's just it kind of shows like, again, I don't know its name and I think that speaks to how fun it is um because it's just like it has all these arms, those crazy bone wings. um
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It's just a thing. It falls apart. It's just a fantastic little figure. um Like legitimately, I just like have it. I sit it on my desk. I mess around with him, make him move around. It's just it's a lovely little figure like their little bone guys are just so fun. So this one was a surprise because I don't buy a ton of mythic legions, but I really like him.
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So he's my ah he's my number ten.
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The the Turpically. Is his name. The Terpik Hooli. Those four horsemen names are not... they They're hard to remember. Yeah.
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Not only are they hard to remember, but they're also challenging to... to um to pronounce, even if you can, even if you're reading them. um So it's funny. We actually we posted a story up on Instagram about, ah you know, looking for people to respond with some of their favorite releases of the year.
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And I believe somebody somebody else did pick this. um Let's see, I'm going to to the comments here or rarely happens.
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Where is... This makes for absolutely riveting, riveting audio. Great video, too. I know... i know somebody picked this. Hold on. the street um Oh, my Mythic Legion's Necronomicus was the actual figure. So I guess they meant...
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Okay, so there's actually a character called Necronominus. Yeah, that's like one their leader. Necronominus. That they have going on, yeah. Okay. I don't think I got him. yeah But it's from that wave. It's a good wave. He's got little skeleton, boys. From that wave. It's definitely one of the best. I don't buy a lot of Mythic Legions, but I like their skeleton, guys. They're cool.
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Yeah. ah Dave, do you want to go next? Do you want to go with your 10? Yeah. I was kind of back and forth you know between a couple of things for 10. And I decided on this because I think it's the best version of this person so far.
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um This is the first time in a while we're like heavy in a few years where we're like heavy wrestling again um because. OK, I didn't get a lot of like non wrestling stuff because nothing really kind of jumped out at me.
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Um, usually there's something that has. also haven't been out a lot. I've been, like, kind of busy. So, um, number 10.
Dave's #10 Pick: AEW Supreme Jon Moxley
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We have the AEW... Jazzwear's AEW Supreme, uh, Jon Moxley.
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it's It's the best Moxley. Um, definitely the best heads, I think. Um, especially the extras. But even this one where you're, like, the default head, um...
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Best mocks. He's kind of tall anyway, like but it's he actually looks like in proportion for the first time, which is really cool. You get the extra ah shirts and stuff. and you know I know we're all stoked on seeing him week after week, but um as the champion still.
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um But this is... Yeah, it's it's still BCC, so it's still like it's not Deathriders Moxley, but that's my number 10. I just think
Eric's #10 Pick: McFarlane Toys Fleischer Superman
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it's a great package.
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I actually have. I have one loose here. yeah That is a much nicer head sculpt than the've had they've done before.
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Yeah, it doesn't look it looks but it does look really good. And I think that's no. And he's got his skin tone is much improved. um I love the alternate gray pants.
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too like there it does this is a really good figure this this was at one point on my top 10 but it it did get it did get bumped great figure absolutely great figure um so my first pick for uh for my number 10 is the fleischer superman so um this is the superman body from mcfarland toys that everyone has been kind of you know gaga about i think the the um it was the fidgetal figure Superman. So the one in like the classic colors, of course we got the wired Cape.
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um I just loved the, the Fleischer cartoons. Like I remember um going to McCory's back in the day um and there was that like bargain bin of VHS's that were that was always like, you know, in like the roller cart.
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And um I remember watching all of these on VHS. ah They were probably like bootlegs, um but it was it was probably a public domain at that point, potentially.
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i These these cartoons are they still rock. There's only like nine of them. um and you know, with the state of the DC license and the future of how this, you know, is going to shake out, I doubt we'll get like the robots or, you know, the, the mummy that, ah that the Fleischer Superman fights, but um they absolutely crushed this, ah this design here, the proportions, they finally fixed the ankles, swappable hands. And those that absolutely like squinty odd Superman, like just,
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it's almost like his eyes were closed all the time. I just I loved this design, love the colors and i was super happy. i was able to get it. So that's ah that's my number. I considered that one, too.
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So it is. It's a great figure. I know. Great. with capes mcfarlane ah That takes us back around to you, John. Let me see here. Yeah, that is a good one.
John's Pick: Rackham Toys' Mighty Maniacs
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Oh, this is a weird one that nobody might not have. But OK, so this is by a company called Rackham Rackham Toys.
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um They have a little line of like little three inch guys. they' called Mighty Maniacs. um And I've just fallen in love with this duck head sculpt they have. um They're essentially like Glias figures like you can um swap the parts out.
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from them and with other things you can build whatever you want. um So, you know, I like this. I like this Ultra Magnus with the duck head. um It was a drop that they did this year. um You know, it's almost Battle Beast like, um but it's just like it's just a really fun line with like, you know, i mean, you know, with those like, you know,
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Indie companies, they do all those images and stuff like that. um But you know, these guys, these guys are really stuck with me. And, um you know, I end up buying, you know, or grabbing a few other things from every one of their drops. And it's become, ah it's become quite a collection for me. But yeah, this guy is fun.
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ah just always have him on my desk. He's a good time.
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That's really cool. That's awesome. Yeah, i've I've several times almost picked up the one that's like Friday 13th. Yeah. Homage. Like there's like the one that has like the hot. I don't know whether it's supposed to be Friday 13th or um the video game.
00:15:29
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i Splatterhouse. Oh, yeah. I mean, you kind of go either way. Splatterhouse. I got yeah and kind of sitting on my desk here. Well, at the Jason head anyway, it's kind of like sitting on my desk here. It is kind of the I think it's more Slaughterhouse than it is Friday the 13th.
00:15:44
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yeah Yeah, looking at it up close. But yeah, they do some really cool stuff. They have that whole, that other line, the larger figures that look like Jet Jaguar and Ultraman and stuff. They do some really cool stuff. They're really fun
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All right, Dave, you're up with your number
Dave's Pick: Power Town Ultras 2-pack
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nine. So talking again about the best versions of somebody. um This is the best version of these two fine individuals. um I, of course, am talking about the Power Town Ultras, Tupac, Matt Cardona, Brian Myers.
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um Matt comes with the NWA title in the robe. but Brian Myers comes with his like and yeah general entrance gear in the Impact. ah Digital Media Championship, which no longer exists.
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um But yeah, it's... I think the best Matt and Brian since Natal. um And you know, I thought pretty well of those... ah The first run of Super 7s.
00:16:47
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But I just think these are awesome. um Power Town, for what they've put out so far, has done very well. um You know, just hoping that we get that that TNA series and then that next series um soonish.
00:17:07
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Because I am looking forward to those. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, at this at this point, you know, the most of the people in that TNA wave or at least half ah two of them, right, are no longer at TNA. One's in WWE. So.
00:17:25
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Yeah, but ah yeah, I mean, ah um'm I'm also pulling for them. They make a really good product i and they're, know, ah outside of the long delays, they've been very transparent with, you know, and in kind of giving to the community, you know, the people who are delayed, they gave them the free figures and stuff like that. Like figures were ready to be shipped and You know, Matt and Brian found us structural flaw. And so they were like, all right, we're pulling these. We're not even going to ship them out and we'll just remake new ones.
00:17:57
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Yeah, that was crazy. I've never seen another toy company do that. Like, literally, that's I've never seen that. um
Eric's Pick: Road Warriors from Ringside Collectibles
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All right. So that brings us to my number nine, which actually, Dave, good segue.
00:18:10
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ah These are the only wrestling figures on my list this year. So it's like we've flip-flopped. Like, i've I've had quite a few wrestling figures. And that's not to say that I didn't think there were some really great wrestling figures this year. It's just there were some really good, like,
00:18:26
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action figure diversity, I guess you could say. There are some brands that are not normally on my list on my list this year. But ah these two figures absolutely knocked out of the park for me. they They maintain their spot as my favorite wrestling figures of the year so far.
00:18:41
Speaker
I am talking about the unsanctioned Road Warriors, Legion of Doom, Hawk, and Animal i from Ringside Collectibles. These two...
00:18:52
Speaker
These two are incredible. They are absolutely incredible figures. um Minus a rat tail, but like they are they are ninety nine point nine percent perfect. In my in my book, but um they do everything I need them to do. Yeah.
00:19:10
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yeah These they they're just they're awesome. And having never had the Mattel ones, which are super hard to come by these days, or you know, if if you can get them, you're going to you're going spend quite a bit on them. ah These two absolutely fill that void for me.
00:19:28
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i and they're close enough to their representation during the new gen era when they were you know when they were still and in the fed so um so yeah uh absolutely love these guys uh very excited to see what ringside does next with this unsanctioned line um hopefully it's it's a lot more of stuff like this for you know a first first figure um sold out like sold out that's the other thing you know those they did good Like, I can't think of another line of figures.
00:20:02
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Like, and I honestly, like, I think we had this conversation when these first came out or we we might have had this at Toy Fair. But like, I cannot think of another line of figures that debuted the line with a live drop.
00:20:18
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that delivered on a product that doesn't have like any like QC issues. Like they literally crushed a a release um to the point where they sold out twice. actually anyone's going to know like and QC issues and what to do and what not to do. They knew. ah Yeah. And I mean, the like this is so good.
00:20:43
Speaker
So ringside is making these like. Mm hmm. Yeah, this is this is ringsides owned. ah They're calling the unsanctioned series and they're they're basically on the same type.
00:20:55
Speaker
You know, let make my screen big here for this part. They're on the same type of body as jazz wears figure. um So they have the pop and the waist. And, you know, you can you can also pop them at the top torso. and So.
00:21:10
Speaker
Um, but yeah, so these, these are, are made pretty much like the jazz wares. The only difference is, well, this is a Supreme, but, um, they're more like a jazz wares Supreme, to be honest with you, minus the, the, um, butterfly joints.
00:21:26
Speaker
But like they are, um, almost, I've actually not tried this yet, but if I take Moxley and I take Hawk, I should be able to put Moxley.
00:21:42
Speaker
ah The balls are slightly different, actually. Slightly different sizes. So you you can't you can't hot swap them. But it's the same concept and how they they come together. same production um youll say But yeah, really, really, really, really cool. um They did it. They did a great job. That's an interesting trend. A lot of ah retailers this year pemp or this year and last year have started doing their own toys.
00:22:07
Speaker
Mm hmm. Yeah. Very cool. Yeah, and I mean, like, these are i ah much like what um Big Bad is doing with the Big Bad Workshop and kind of Fresh Monkey Fiction.
00:22:21
Speaker
Like, it's clear whoever designed these, like... yeah They know what they're doing. It's not like they have like, you know, so like a hobbyist coming in and making me is like somebody who's like converting from fan to designer.
00:22:37
Speaker
Like these are action figures like these are our are made very, very well. You know, they've been doing those years, those years of R&D, if you think about it. Just by running a company.
00:22:49
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Yep.
00:22:51
Speaker
All right, John, so this takes us to your number eight.
John's Pick: Joy Toy's TMNT April
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Speaker
Number eight. um I've been a big fan of this line um since last... I guess it started last year. um So this the Joy Toy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 118 scale line.
00:23:06
Speaker
um If I had to pick one, I'm going to pick April because I just think it's one of the best representations of April that I've seen in action figure form. it's like It's just a really nice... like it's not It's their own interpretation, but as you can see, she comes with boxing gloves. ah I don't remember when she had boxing gloves, but I kind of love her in them.
00:23:26
Speaker
um But I just I really like it. um And I really like the line in general. They've done. They've covered a ton of ground in less than a year of releasing product. um But yeah, no, April's my favorite.
00:23:39
Speaker
I like that she also doesn't fall into like the tropes that we typically put April in, such as like having her be like the damsel in distress. Like they didn't have any like her of any extra parts of like her tied up or anything like that.
00:23:52
Speaker
um It's just a really nice 118 scale figure. And there's a lot of really nice figures in this line. So but I really think she stands out.
00:24:03
Speaker
Yeah, that those joy toy turtles are really, really cool. I have not. That's this the first time I've ever seen her like in somebody's hands. I've seen I've seen the turtles in person and I was blown away, honestly, by i know, like reading it, that they're one 18th scale. Right. Like I like I.
00:24:20
Speaker
And I know what that means, but seeing them in person and just seeing turtles like that size with that amount of detail, it is they are impressive. Yeah. And they've just and turtles have never been done at that scale. Like, I mean, there's turtle product everywhere. So, I mean, even I'm kind of reaching that saturation point, but i getting a one 18 scale line and just having it be as good as it is, is pretty cool.
00:24:45
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Yeah, that's awesome. Dave, your number eight.
Dave's Pick: Mattel Ultimate Edition Drew McIntyre
00:24:50
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so First appearance by um the sovereign nation of Mattel on the list.
00:24:57
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on
00:25:01
Speaker
From the the Bay of Plastic. um ah The Gulf of plastic. um Ultimate Edition 26, Drew McIntyre. And Eric, this one, I got to um you kind of almost bumped it up more than it was going to be because it's great looking Drew figure. And Drew is guy in you know, black and silver trunks.
00:25:23
Speaker
But the thing that kind of put it over the top for me is that he has peace fingers or peace hand and has the meme face face. So like, you know, if you have a gravestone, you can do the CM Punk's WrestleMania dream, um you know, meme and play it out.
00:25:44
Speaker
And I was like, oh yeah. All right. That makes this like almost way better. he Yeah. You mean that's awesome. Like it makes it gives it's like that added value. Yeah, of course.
00:25:57
Speaker
you know, of course, Bill and, and magic and Steve would have like come up with this and tried to figure out a way to get this in there.
00:26:08
Speaker
I love that they're starting to lean into this a little bit more. Like they did it with the rock to that one that was in the what was it? The Monday Night Wars wave that has the like like the roll in his eyes, the the meme face.
00:26:21
Speaker
I this is what makes toys. The only one they haven't hit is the rock doing neck with the yeah the bum bag. But like. We'll get that. that's got Comic-Con issues written all over it.
00:26:34
Speaker
I mean, they'd say season they've all done the Invisible John Cena now. They're going to get to any little any little thing we can do.
00:26:44
Speaker
That would be awesome. All right, so that takes us to my number eight.
Eric's Pick: Vintage Collection Anakin Skywalker
00:26:48
Speaker
My number eight is ah is also a little guy. um This is a new acquisition. This is something that came in kind of last minute here.
00:26:56
Speaker
But um we've had lots of Darth Vader figures. you had lots of Anakin Skywalker figures. But the most recent um three and three-quarter vintage collection, Anakin from, um or Darth Vader, I should say, from from ah Revenge of the Sith,
00:27:11
Speaker
This figure is unbelievable. We don't often get swappable hands with vintage collection, and we've got the the kind of the force hand there. He's got the dark under the eyes. he's He is ready to get obliterated ah on Mustafar.
00:27:28
Speaker
um He is ready to not have the high ground. But still be the chosen one. i I love this figure. I love the way that this part of a three pack. um I decided to focus on this one. This is the highlight for me. But the the other parts of the three pack include and um like a Clone Wars era Anakin and then um Darth Vader from um Return of the Jedi getting electrocuted.
00:27:53
Speaker
So the helmet's like slightly translucent. You can see a skull underneath it um comes with lightning effects. But yeah, a great three pack. It's it's like, you know supposed to be the.
00:28:04
Speaker
the the arc kind of of Anakin. um The other thing that's really neat about this figure ah is it has the new hips. So for people that have been playing with the Vintage Collection for a long time know that the old you know hip system, you had to like twist it to get him to kick his leg out straight.
00:28:21
Speaker
This has those like regular... you know, barbell hips or whatever they call them and and has like the full pivot angle. So it's it's like all of the articulation that you have in a Black Series figure worked down to um vintage collection size.
00:28:36
Speaker
And yeah, it's just so good. So, so, so, so good.
00:28:44
Speaker
And that takes us back around to to your right number seven, John.
John's Pick: NECA Sesame Street Count
00:28:50
Speaker
all right All right. So this one. I'm going with the Count from NECA.
00:28:56
Speaker
um I really could have put all three Sesame Street releases this year, but I think this one is actually, it does a lot more. Like, Bert and Ernie are great, but, like, you got the nice little, like, wired coat cloak here.
00:29:09
Speaker
He comes with accounting hands with, like, one, two, three. um He's, like, it's great. I love this figure. I love this line. um Like, as somebody who...
00:29:21
Speaker
you know, collected the Muppets line back in Palisades and, you know, the Sesame Street line never came to be. It's great to see that this finally came about. And I mean, honestly, these these would like completely destroy those ones today. But I mean, they're just they're doing awesome. The reveals coming up look incredible.
00:29:41
Speaker
um Collecting a Sesame Street line.
00:29:46
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, and you know it's one of those things where the last thing we want to do is celebrate the downfall of something, but you know with Diamond Selects, you know, not being around anymore. If that license is up for grabs, I would absolutely love to see them dip into um into the Muppets to do that just do Sesame Street, the Muppets yeah do all of it again um to have them all on the same scale. I had some of those Palisades ones back in the day.
00:30:16
Speaker
i Unfortunately, they they became very fragile over time. Um, so I would love I would love to get some of those kind key characters again, you know, have them have them together. But yeah, it's been it's been a good year for for ah for vampires at NECA. This is this is not on my list, but another another great vampire from from our friends of NECA. But Uh, yeah. So Dave, uh, that takes us to your number seven.
Dave's Pick: Mattel's Hardcore Hack
00:30:45
Speaker
Um, is an interesting one for me. Um, it's one of those, i had no idea that we were ever going to get this figure. Like I never thought like, Oh, this is something that we're going to do. Um, until they made it um this one's actually almost open already but uh the other thing i think is cool too is it it brings an element that you rarely see in mattel wwe figures and kind of one of those things where like oh we've seen it change a little bit um and that is hardcore hack um
00:31:18
Speaker
It comes like with barbed wire all over him. And it's like, why did we get... like How did we get the Sandman for his like six months in WCW?
00:31:29
Speaker
But we did. And it's... The fact that it exists is like insane on a like a goon and Zodiac sort of level. Um, but I love it because it is kind of like a, a very unrep underrepresented part of WCW.
00:31:47
Speaker
Like it's got this WCW logo on it, but he was definitely like new WCW logo era. Um, I wish he had the hardcore yeah title, but you know, we had to get Golga the build a figure in there.
00:32:00
Speaker
Um, but he comes with the, the Kendo stick, the Singapore cane, um It's it's ridiculous and I love it. Yeah.
00:32:13
Speaker
yeah For game. I forgot about that. um But yeah, it's funny. Yeah, like you, there's they're never going to make this again. Like, but it rules.
00:32:27
Speaker
The fact that it exists rules. um Yeah, so this is it. And, you know, we're, you know, we're getting those ringside exclusives that are like kind of beat up.
00:32:37
Speaker
So we've got a mainline release with barbed wire. Like, that's wild to me.
00:32:44
Speaker
Yeah, so that's. Yeah. If her first Mattel Mattel figures ever with color, I guess if you want to get the that's Stone Cold Bruce, but. And then we had the defining moments. I guess I can sell. So like there they've teetered on that, but never for like something that's in stores.
00:33:05
Speaker
Yeah, well, maybe maybe we're headed in that direction. um
Eric's Pick: McFarlane Toys Kickstarter Medieval Spawn
00:33:10
Speaker
All right. So my number seven is something that was originally at the start of the year was much higher on my list. It's in a weird spot where I have to wait to bring it up or I'm going to reveal what it is before I say what it is.
00:33:22
Speaker
um is uh this was much higher on my list this was something i was very much so anticipating last year and like i said it it did not come until uh early this year but the second mcfarland toys kickstarter the uh the medieval spawn so medieval spawn is my favorite iteration of spawn i guess you can say my favorite colorway my favorite look um And this figure was a whole lot more fun than I really even anticipated it would be.
00:33:53
Speaker
It does have the hard cape, which, you McFarlane Toys is kind of moving away from now. But much like the ah the first Kickstarter spawn, the the whole figure has a more premium kind of feel to it. It doesn't move like your typical McFarlane Toys release.
00:34:10
Speaker
It just feels like I said, ah it just feels a little more premium, the joints and everything. What's really cool about this figure for those that didn't get it, ah is it's modular.
00:34:21
Speaker
So it comes with all of these different pieces that are magnetically held on. So you can switch gauntlets, you can switch the chest piece out, um the like the the pieces that hold his cape together, those come out and they have different like logos, ah crap ton of different weapons, different heads, unmasked, masked.
00:34:43
Speaker
Just like you can you can really kind of... customize this figure um and configure it, you know, the the way that you want to, which is which is just really neat.
00:34:54
Speaker
um And I always loved the ah the black variant of this, which is what what we have here. It's not the it's not the the typical like normal blue one. um So I was able to ah to get that that variant of it.
00:35:09
Speaker
I'm happy to be part of both Kickstarters and ah and to to support, you know, the spawn line. um It's one of my favorite comic book lines of all time. and ah And yeah, i'm I'm super stoked to have this ah in the collection. So that is my, what is that? Number seven.
00:35:25
Speaker
That's my medieval spawn.
00:35:29
Speaker
All right.
John's Pick: Hono Studios' Wolverine
00:35:30
Speaker
And that takes us back around to to you, John, with your number number six. Moving right along here. Number six is, so this is Wolverine. This is by Hono Studios. It's a 1-6 scale figure.
00:35:43
Speaker
um I never really thought, you know, I'd get into too much one-sixth scale stuff, but it's starting to pile up in my house. And um I think this is one of the best comic representations you can get of Wolverine.
00:35:55
Speaker
um It has the seamless joints so you can, um you know, move his arms around wherever you want. um But, you know, like the portraits, that the stature and everything, it's just a perfect, you know, tiger stripe Wolverine. And I just kind of excited to see O'No's additional stuff that they're going to be doing. They're doing a lot of um Marvel Comics type stuff while Hot Toys more focuses on the movies.
00:36:20
Speaker
And they're starting to dip into like Star Wars. So they're doing stuff from rebels, you know, kind of avoiding like that. Yeah, they're kind of doing that stuff. That's and and also it's priced really well. Like these are priced on that. Like this one was priced under $200. So it's like kind of like if you want to get into one. Wow.
00:36:36
Speaker
um This is a good start. This is a kind of like you can feel out like, do I feel like I got that value out of this figure? And there's a fantastic figure. Like if you want to get if you were to get one, I would I would start with Wolverine.
00:36:51
Speaker
I love the way that the soft goods fit on him, too, because that's usually one of those things with anytime there's a figure with soft goods, like especially in like a spandex suit. It's either like too tight and they can't move or it looks baggy. That looks like it's actually like.
00:37:06
Speaker
Yeah, donna soft goods feel really good on this. Like it's just it really surprised me all around. i' um You know, I'm really, really happy with how this one turned out.
00:37:18
Speaker
Very cool. I think that's going to end up, well, I mean, unless you have more one-sixth on your your list, I think that's the first time one-sixth figure has appeared and yeah think on one of these top ten lists.
00:37:30
Speaker
It is the only one, I promise. ah Dave,
Dave's Pick: Zombie Sailor Toys' Yoshihiro Tajiri
00:37:34
Speaker
Dave, you're next. We're going to return to South Philadelphia by way of Japan. um And Eric, I'm surprised you actually don't own this.
00:37:45
Speaker
um okay is the um there was another one of figure from this collection that i was close to putting on here that there was like really like five things that could have been in that 10 spot um but this is by far i think the best one of these and my favorite one of these um i think it just nailed the look um nailed the likeness and nailed like the stature of this character of this person and it is um zombie sailor toys wrestlings heels and faces uh series three already um Tajiri Yoshihiro Tajiri um the Japanese buzzsaw himself I mean it's such a great like they nailed the likeness on it which is no surprise like zombies done very well um
00:38:36
Speaker
Yeah, that grand is that like he's got evil grand shoulders, too. It's just it's perfect. Like he absolutely nailed it. um You know, the.
00:38:49
Speaker
Because he's always more of like. Yeah. Yeah. Even the tape on the fingers, like it's so good.
00:38:57
Speaker
Yeah. And having having seen him in person, like, you know, he does. Yeah, he that's how he he's like.
00:39:07
Speaker
Yeah, he's Dan Housening before Dan Housen. Dan Housen. Like his gestures, you know, he like gestures for the back row, basically. Yeah, emotive, emotive. He's a very emotive talent.
Eric's Pick: NECA's Ultimate Pee Wee Herman
00:39:22
Speaker
All right. So that takes us to my number six. ah My number six. um is ah is is a figure of a character that means a whole hell of a lot to me and my childhood.
00:39:37
Speaker
And i our are good friend of the pod, Blaine, you know brought this to life almost from like soup to nuts. ah My favorite piece of Hall-a-thon this year.
00:39:48
Speaker
um i know you are, but what am I?
00:39:54
Speaker
Pee Wee Herman. um The NECA Ultimate Pee Wee is just amazing. um I love all the different faces on it. ah You can obviously hit all of the key Pee Wee poses with it.
00:40:08
Speaker
ah Paul Rubens, you know, unfortunately, unfortunately left this mortal coil. after a long battle with a long private battle with cancer. um If you have not seen the documentary on Max and you are a fan of of Pee Wee or a fan of his other work, including Mystery Men, I still want Mystery Men action figures at some point. shocked it be honest.
00:40:32
Speaker
But ah yeah, it's it's ah it's an absolutely incredible documentary. And if you can get your hands on this figure, um i think it's up for pre-order still on Big Bad. um It's just, it's an absolutely incredible figure.
00:40:46
Speaker
um This is one of three head sculpts it comes with. It was clearly done with care. I mean, we know from from you know talking to Blaine about this, lee they worked very closely with Paul when he was still alive ah to the point where he was you know he was personally approving these and and and working with the team over at NECA. So ah hopefully, you know, the popularity of this figure means we'll get some other characters from the playhouse.
00:41:13
Speaker
Would absolutely love a cherry, at least to put him with. But yeah. but yeah me Yeah. ah One of those NECA like accessory sets that just comes with like a bunch of pieces of the playhouse. Like give me like chicky baby. Give me we already have Terry. He comes with Terry.
00:41:31
Speaker
But give me like Randy and ah and Globy and Conky and Cherry. Just throw them all in a box, call it a playhouse accessory set and and let's make it happen. But ah yeah, so that's my um my number six.
00:41:46
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which sends us back around to the beginning to John here with, ah with his number five. Yeah, we're halfway through.
John's Pick: Marvel Legends Nemesis
00:41:52
Speaker
right. My number five is Nemesis in the Marvel legends.
00:41:58
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Build a figure from a X-Men Wave earlier this year. Nemesis is Marvel's catch-all name for characters that have terrible act names, such as Genocide at all costs, etc.
00:42:13
Speaker
So that's what they do. That's what they do. They rename him into that. But I love this one because like you got that skull in there. It's all you know movable. um I think it was ah you know it was worth the wait to get...
00:42:25
Speaker
to get this dude. He's just he's really nice. Like, I mean, they didn't you know, it's we don't get a ton of build of figures anymore. So getting this one was was pretty cool.
00:42:37
Speaker
So. Yeah, yeah, they did a really, really cool job with that, too. i I love those figures that have like the removable dome where you can take it off and like, you know, just the head around and then put the dome back on. I always think of the Fortnite, the like nebulous guy, the blue. He's like made out of blue slurp. I forget his ah yeah name.
00:43:01
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Ripley with the same thing where you could like take the dome off, move his little like, yeah, the little eyepieces around. Yeah.
00:43:12
Speaker
Very, very cool. ah Dave, I think we are off to you for your number five.
Dave's Pick: AEW Will Ospreay
00:43:19
Speaker
So this one was a long time coming, um but it finally did.
00:43:25
Speaker
And definitely an interesting way to get this ah this person's first figure in the line. um And that is from all in.
00:43:40
Speaker
Jazwares, AEW, Will Ospreay from All In 2023, I believe this was.
00:43:51
Speaker
um God, is it? Wow. Yeah, I believe it is. Because it was All In London, right? Yeah.
00:44:04
Speaker
yeah and No, i wasn't I wasn't in disbelief of your fact. I was more in disbelief that like But it's got it takes a while. It's got the jacket, and I think that's the coolest part.
00:44:16
Speaker
um Of course, he's got the, you know, UK flag gear on which I will never see because this will probably never leave the package. But I think just because he has that entrance coat and the extra screaming head, um that's what makes it.
00:44:32
Speaker
Like a great first Will Ospreay figure, they nailed the likenesses. um It's it's great. Like it looks great in the package. I love the commemorative packages that they do for the shop AEW exclusives.
00:44:47
Speaker
um yeah It's just perfect. It's a perfect first AEW Osprey because we have the New Japan Osprey that came prior and now there's the one that's on shelves, which is really good, too.
00:45:00
Speaker
um But he doesn't have that entrance coat, so.
00:45:04
Speaker
It's a cool like very cool first Osprey.
00:45:10
Speaker
All right.
Eric's Pick: Super7's Space Godzilla
00:45:11
Speaker
So I mentioned at the top that my number five was like in limbo and i I am calling the audible and I am not going to put the say the one that's actually written on the list in front of me. The one that I'm like was on the fence with is the one that is going to win out here.
00:45:28
Speaker
um So my number five represents, would say, my second favorite game. like kaiju that's not Godzilla from like the Godzilla universe.
00:45:40
Speaker
um As as I've waxed poetically many a time, Godzilla is something that is is very important to me. um And i love this movie.
00:45:51
Speaker
i But they did Kyle and the team at Super seven did an absolutely insane job bringing bringing space Godzilla to life here in their Ultimates line in in kind of like a twofold homage here. So it's in the color. Not only is it in the colorway of the poster.
00:46:11
Speaker
But um it is also in the colorway of the trend masters figure from the nineties that I did not have. I did not have that i I remember wanting it and did not get that had the like regular like Brown or or green colored one.
00:46:27
Speaker
um but this thing is just massive i mean its tail is like resting on my shoulder right now um these these ultimates uh these super seven ultimates for for godzilla are are incredible um you know kyle and uh and and matt and the team over there did an absolutely amazing job bringing these to life i don't Not entirely sure what is in store for this line moving forward, given all the things that have happened over at Super 7.
00:46:59
Speaker
um But I will say i'm I'm glad that we got the ones that we got. I'm glad that ah that Mothra is going to make it out as well, it seems. That was like the last one that went up for pre-order, and we didn't get that dreaded...
00:47:12
Speaker
ah and and dreaded email that said that they didn't meet the minimum and quantity so you know hopefully that still means that mothra is coming um but yeah so my my number five is the super seven ultimate um poster homage space godzilla what's the only super seven godzilla actually have i loved it though the color yeah i love this one yeah it's great yeah yeah it looks great too like My favorite Godzilla is the Art Adams one. I can't pull him out right now without absolutely destroying my display. But like I love the wacky colorway ones. So like having like Burning Godzilla, just a giant translucent orange Godzilla pose next to this guy, like it's just a great juxtaposition and and kind of is all about what Godzilla toys are about. Like, you know,
00:48:04
Speaker
going all the way back to like the safubi ones you know these wacky color ways are are so much fun so so much fun so i i hope they continue with this line um and i hope whatever designer and sculptor is working on it over there uh has as much care as uh as kyle and some of the folks that that were let go you know had for this this uh this property so one can only hope And now, a word from our sponsors.
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John's Pick: Transformers Age of the Primes Megatronus
00:49:25
Speaker
So, John, that takes us to your number four. My number four is one. i actually just opened the other day. It's been sitting around for a while and I was blown away by it.
00:49:35
Speaker
So this is Transformers Age of the Primes Megatronus. You can just kind of see like he's just he just has such um he just has such like I hate to say aura around him, but yeah, it's kind of what it is. He's just he's just solid. He stands there. He's very menacing.
00:49:53
Speaker
man i just really yeah all the flaming pieces like they really like they really went all out on this one and he's not like he doesn't feel like he's he's very solid he doesn't feel like he doesn't have like those hollow parts or anything like that but yeah you get like you get all these flame pieces and he just has all these like little attachments and guns and machetes and like a spear it's crazy but um yeah i'm really glad i opened it because i I typically like I'll buy Transformers or like I'll just order them and then like they'll come and then I'll just kind of shove the box away somewhere.
00:50:26
Speaker
So but yeah, I like it's it's one of those like lines where I'm like, yeah, I want to kind of put a display on someday and that day just never comes. But yeah, this one was good. I was just like, you know what? I'm going to open him. And I was really impressed. And he kind of he shot right up and like, you know, one of my tops for this year.
00:50:45
Speaker
Yeah, I think that's one of those things about this age of the primes line. Like a lot of the designs are just like super like dialed in on these like these like ancient um these ancient bots. And even like when we were looking at them um at ah Toy Fair, when we when we were all in that Hasbro thing together, just seeing those in person really kind of sold me on them. And it's I've been really itchy.
00:51:11
Speaker
for just getting the main primes. And so far I have resisted, but I saw that one on pegs the other day and I was like, really good yeah, it's really good.
00:51:22
Speaker
Really, really good. um Dave, before we jump into your number four, well, actually, no, we'll we'll save this for for before we do our ones. All right. Let's keep
Dave's Pick: Mattel Elite Damage Control Kairi Sane
00:51:33
Speaker
going.
00:51:33
Speaker
So, yeah, go ahead and go ahead and do your number four. um It is the only um elite that... Oh no, I'm sorry. The the hack was another elite. It's the second elite that um made this list.
00:51:50
Speaker
And um somebody who was desperately in need of one. um There had only been one prior. And this is the second one. And just like the first one, it's a fantastic figure.
00:52:02
Speaker
um Definitely shouts to Bill. And that is Damage Control Akairi Sane. Oh yeah. Just fantastic figure. you know, she comes with the umbrella.
00:52:16
Speaker
You know, she's gone more back to the like straight up pirate gear. So I guess we're in need of another one. But um
00:52:26
Speaker
yeah, this is. That's always the case with wrestlers. You're always chasing that. This is just a phenomenal figure. Probably the best one in the series, to be honest. um Yeah, no, I agree. One 15 Kairi Sane. Just phenomenal figure.
00:52:45
Speaker
Yeah, I absolutely adore that figure as well. Great sculpt, great likeness. One of my favorite elites of the year. Yeah. Yep. um Oh, okay. So
Eric's Pick: Mezco's Indiana Jones
00:52:55
Speaker
that's yeah now we're on to me for number four. Okay, so I will say... I'll say this.
00:53:00
Speaker
This is the first year that we've been doing this where I can honestly say... two, three, and four are basically a tie for second for me. Like it it was very difficult for me to put these next three that I'm going to talk about in, in some sort of order. Like you asked me tomorrow and I would move these around.
00:53:21
Speaker
Um, but I'm going stick to what I have on the board here, ah for my number four, um, a company that doesn't often make its way into my, onto my list, a company that I, I criticize,
00:53:36
Speaker
very heavy very heavily very heavily and and you know you know we don't really do that here but i do criticize this company heavily but i have to give it to them this is this is one of my favorite figures of the year and like i said this could have very easily been number two ah the mezco raiders of the lost ark Indiana Jones.
00:53:58
Speaker
um I mean, just, it's just incredible. It is, it is just an absolutely incredible figure. it comes with some of the most insane accessories I've ever seen a figure come with, like including, and I have it here as part of like my on desk display right now.
00:54:18
Speaker
Like you get the full pedestal with like flocked, um and moss on it and then of course the the the fertility idol i yeah I don't know if I'm going to be able to hold this straight so that way it it balances but yeah you you get the fertility idol there it goes um but ah you get you get like arrows um like little like poison darts, you get like the spider webs that he walks through with the spiders on them that you can like attach to his back.
00:54:51
Speaker
um Multiple heads. I love how they did. They tackled one of the um one of the most difficult things with an Indiana Jones figure, which is like doing his making it so that way his hat fits well on his head. They made each of the head sculpts. and I'll try to get this off here without breaking it.
00:55:12
Speaker
Oh, did i drop it? Nope, I got it. um Each of the heads comes with a... You can remove the top of the hair, so that way the hat ports on and actually sits naturally on his head.
00:55:29
Speaker
um which is which is just amazing. um And then therefore you don't lose the ability to have to change his expression. So you get different expressions and you can you know you can do as you please with them.
00:55:42
Speaker
i Yeah, it's just, this is just awesome. Just absolutely awesome. And it it's the other thing that's really great is it scales. Yeah. perfectly with the Hasbro adventure series.
00:55:55
Speaker
So if you want to up your, um you know, your Raiders Indy, if the the the adventure series one doesn't do it for you, um you can absolutely put this with your adventure series figures and and give Indy a little plus up.
00:56:09
Speaker
I have Tote sitting over there. um yeah i i didn't get a chance to open that yet so we'll see once i have the ark of the covenant in hand um where where tote falls on this list going forward for the rest of the year but uh but yeah they did an apps absolutely bang up job and the likeness harrison ford's another one of those guys that like they've they've got the old man Han and old man Indy like that likeness is is great. They figured it out. They still are like everyone kind of struggles with the young Harrison Ford. And I think this is the best one so far.
00:56:49
Speaker
So, yeah, that's my number four.
00:56:56
Speaker
So, John, back back to you for your number so number three.
John's Pick: Spider-Man 2 Game Venom
00:57:00
Speaker
This is a video game figure for a video game I've bought two times and still not played. Um, so this is Venom from the Spider-Man 2 game. I was hoping you were going to put him on your list.
00:57:13
Speaker
I have no idea why he is like 10.5 inches tall, but I think it's the funniest thing ever. Um, I'm sure there's a reason in the game. Again, I, you know, I keep buying it thinking I'm going to play it and then just never get around to it. So I love him. Um, he just teaches so big compared to like anything else. Um,
00:57:33
Speaker
And he just he's fun. He moves around. He moves around well. I love that they did um because I'm always a big fan when they don't do venom with the tongue. Like I kind of like the just alien smile venom. That's that's always been my, you know, my favorite. So, you know, this is.
00:57:51
Speaker
I love this one. It's just he's just fun to mess around with. um You know, I got him and Hulk at the same time. And they've just been, ah you know, they've been sitting on my desk just messing around. And yeah, I can't I can't say anything that I, you know, of course, it's ah i mean, you know, Venom's like reaching that point, like Spider-Man, where like, how many Venoms can I have? But this one's just so much different. It's nice.
00:58:19
Speaker
Yeah, and I love that one effect piece that they made for this one that like that, like transducing like yeah yeah piece that you can put in the open mouth is ah is a cool new thing that they haven't done yet. So yeah, very cool.
00:58:35
Speaker
and Ten and a half inches of venom. It sounds like an album title. It does. It does. does. Like that. Oh, man. All right, Dave. Yeah.
00:58:50
Speaker
Well, i would be like 12 inches of venom, right? Because it would have to be like a vinyl size, like or seven inches of venom.
Dave's Pick: Mattel's Ultimate Edition Great Muta
00:58:57
Speaker
It was an EP. It was a 10 inch.
00:59:01
Speaker
So I have something very similar for my top three. um I've changed it twice. And finally decided, like where I left it yesterday, today was like, OK, that's it for now. But this is like this.
00:59:19
Speaker
I'm sure something else will come out that'll kind of venture into this top three area, but maybe not. um And the the position of these three can change throughout.
00:59:30
Speaker
um OK, so this first one, number three, is something that I never thought I'd ever see. um And I was like, you know what? It's almost like it's two different figures. It could occupy two different spots.
00:59:45
Speaker
um Just because there's enough deco difference on this um between the regular and the chase. um And it is.
00:59:56
Speaker
I have them both right here. um Mattel Ultimate Edition 25 Great OK. okay
01:00:08
Speaker
I thought for sure this was going to be your number one. Now I'm now I'm all all out of sorts. It could very well become number one at a certain point. But like even with just the the face paint differences, like it's almost like different. It's a different figure.
01:00:22
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um Oh, yeah. But it's it's great because it's you're representing almost like two 80s eras of muda and you know this is this is another bill like a bill special where it's there's that much level of appreciation and and care to put into it that you know like full disclosure my chase didn't come with the green mist but i'm like i wouldn't put this one with the green mist anyway so i'm cool with that like i wouldn't display it that way um
01:00:55
Speaker
And it's not something I've lost sleep over. It's but it's just great. Like and the fact that we're getting effectively three more Moodas throughout this coming year is pretty awesome.
01:01:09
Speaker
Yeah. um Yeah. to Another she another superstars, which is like. A four in one, basically. Yeah, because each each one comes with three heads and each one, the three heads are different colors. So, yeah, yeah, you could effectively.
01:01:28
Speaker
Yeah, that's a lot of Muda, but I mean, a whole lot of Muda. it It perfectly encapsulates like late 80s, early 90s Muda and.
01:01:38
Speaker
Yeah, it i I have the standard one and have been my number one, it could have. But there's two things where I'm like, I don't know if I can move these.
01:01:48
Speaker
i'm I am now really curious. what we And we do this every year. Every year, we don't guess out loud what our number ones are for each other. never guess what yours are.
01:01:59
Speaker
I think I know what this year's is, or this first half's is. And I think it's going to be hard to unseat it. But... but i would have I would have thought that Muda was your number one. All right.
01:02:12
Speaker
So that takes us to our number three um for for me.
Eric's Pick: Jada's Blanka
01:02:16
Speaker
My number three is something that I got very recently and was absolutely blown away for and be blown away from, I should say. um When they announced that they were doing these figures, when Jada announced that they were doing these figures, this is the one that I was most excited for.
01:02:31
Speaker
um My favorite character from from the game, Street Fighter II, Polanka. Yeah, that is great. um that This thing is is absolutely insane. it i it crouches like no other figure I've ever seen.
01:02:50
Speaker
Like, he hits all of the poses. um The hair is this, like, soft material all the way through. So, like, he's and he's got this, like, double, this, like, crazy neck thing.
01:03:03
Speaker
So you can actually have him do Oh, yeah. And he's got those like massive gorilla arms with um butterfly joints. So you can actually crunch him to the point where he can reach under his legs and get himself into the full like cannonball position. That's awesome.
01:03:25
Speaker
It's just this this thing is just is just wild. Yeah. he can't, he comes in the wave with Sagat, who's also an incredible figure. Um, and yeah, I mean, this is just, he comes with the, the electric effects that you can put around him, but the poses, the poses you can get him in are just incredible. His neck movement alone, like,
01:03:50
Speaker
like it's It's just insane. it's it is it is it is crazy. crazy. it is it is absolutely crazy Oh, yeah.
01:04:03
Speaker
Yeah, the whole thing. um Yeah, this this figure is is what is absolutely wild. Absolutely, absolutely insane. um I love what they are doing. I hope Capcom like recognizes the quality that they're that they're doing with this line and lets them have added some of their other properties. Because like i just I can't imagine how awesome a Resident Evil line would be from them.
01:04:29
Speaker
like All the different zombies, all the different characters. like Yeah, this is And like I said, you know, same with um the figure before this with Indiana Jones, like this could have been number two.
01:04:39
Speaker
If you ask me tomorrow and maybe it maybe it will be. um But yeah, ah just absolutely insane figure. Jada Jada knocked it out of the park with ah I definitely can't wait to get that one. I'm looking forward to it.
01:04:53
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I actually can't wait. I hope I hope fake guys gets this, too, because like he's got like a he's got a badunk. So he's he's going to have fun with cool if they did play or two pictures, because I know they're venturing out into some of the player twos, the blue and orange.
01:05:11
Speaker
Did you see the their San Diego Comic-Con reveal? Exciting. Hold on. Hold on. We're going to pull. I'm going to pull this up real fast because Dave, if you haven't seen this yet, you're getting your reaction to this live is actually going to be like very worth our time here. We'll take ah a super, super quick break from. ah and i'm I'm going to pull this up because i saw this and and put this water down.
01:05:36
Speaker
Literally, I literally gasped like i I literally gasped out loud. Their San Diego Comic-Con. Oh, no way.
01:05:47
Speaker
And in in both flavors. Is it a two pack or is it like you have to get them separate? It's a tease. I don't know. So i think it's going to probably be like a deluxe figure pack is my guess.
01:06:01
Speaker
I would guess that it's going to be player to Dalsam. And then the other one should be M. Bison. um So like maybe and maybe he has some kind of an effect to do his psycho crusher.
01:06:13
Speaker
Yeah, because Dalsam didn't come with any fire, but I just effects. Did he? i don't recall. Yeah, no. So you could I'm looking at it. Oh, man. No, he didn't just stretch. That'd be so that'd be so cool.
01:06:27
Speaker
Yeah. yeah with the yeah With the the lip the cheeks blown out. Yeah, that would be amazing. But yeah, i they they teased this and I just I just unbelievable.
01:06:38
Speaker
They're they're they're on a whole other level over there. What they're what they're doing. Yeah. So i I hope Capcom as insane we're actually takes notice of the amazing things that they're doing over there.
01:06:52
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Yeah, and we are. all There's more more more of those, lot more characters to choose from. All right, so John, back to you for your
John's Pick: Storm Collectibles' Skullamania
01:07:00
Speaker
number two. number two is the inverse of Jada. I'm going to go with Skullamania from Stored Collectibles.
01:07:07
Speaker
So, again, there's another one that's just like... I have like a weird list of figures that I just thought would never get made. And this year, I'm pretty much almost all of them have been hit except for the big wheel.
01:07:23
Speaker
so like, OK.
01:07:27
Speaker
Maximum carries your will. If they want to sell like three of them. um but But yeah, like Skullomania, like I mean, that's this is like Street Fighter EX games like they're terrible games. But I just look I mean, it's such a fun like design. It sounds like a common rider type thing.
01:07:45
Speaker
Oh, yeah. And he just they did it. It's so good. Like, I don't even care that it's not in like the. one 12th scale. It's in like the storms fake one 12th scale where everything's like six feet taller than anything else. But oh, man, I love him like he's like he even has like a little like zipper on his back.
01:08:03
Speaker
That's awesome. Yeah, it's such it's such a fun figure. Like it moves like so well, like you said, Storm squeak, but like like you could get the legs like up like that. yeah um Like it's crazy good. And like It squeaks, but they hold their positions. so like and that's and that's kind of the You were actually talking about the other day when you were guys were talking about like people worried about the Maximum Hulk and like the Bendy stuff. like but They don't make plastic like that anymore that deteriorates. like This stuff, it holds up it's not goingnna like It's not going to deteriorate. yeah
01:08:35
Speaker
i you'll You'll be fine. I think like you know the plastic may outlast you. yeah Minoru Suzuki is bigger than... yeah he's ever been but yeah you know it's a great figure yeah the storm makes great stuff i'm i'm a definitely i'm really excited for like their um their arena line the the actual true 112th scale stuff yeah um i mean i'm gonna jay i'm gonna have storm i'm just like it's just ah it's like a it's nice it's nice to have a lot of stuff
01:09:07
Speaker
I will say I'm glad that the arena line isn't also doing yeah Street Fighter 2. Like, I'm glad they're doing the alpha thing. Like, that way there's just some, like, market separation there. Because, you know, that the Street Fighter 2 stuff is being handled so well, I would hate to see somebody come in and be like...
01:09:26
Speaker
you know undercut them. And granted, the price is a little bit higher. um But yeah, I think it's cool that they're focusing on. i think it's alpha three. I mean, they're already announced or teased or shown like they're like four figures in. So like like they've done like Ken, Ryu, Saget. And then I think like announced Charlie and and there's a Chun-Li. But, you know, they're pretty distinctively different yeah from like the Street Fighter 2 that Jade is doing.
01:09:53
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, yeah. So. Oh, yeah.
01:09:58
Speaker
All right, Dave, you're number two.
Dave's Pick: Super7's Papa Emeritus IV
01:10:01
Speaker
this is ah this may surprise you that this is number two. OK, you had your first choice of what you thought my number one was going to be.
01:10:11
Speaker
This is probably what your second choice would have been. And I have a feeling we're about to do guessing this is going to be the overlap figure. um
01:10:22
Speaker
I have it ready, but I'm telling you, it's not it's not going to overlap anymore. But go ahead.
01:10:29
Speaker
Papa Emeritus for Cardi, of course. um You know, the ghost figures are a favorite of mine every year. um And this is no exception for, you know, probably everybody's favorite Papa.
01:10:44
Speaker
um Papa I don't know if I ever intend on setting him up as the, with the, like, whole, as the whole pontiff. I think he's going to stay in his suit.
01:10:57
Speaker
But... You know, just a great figure. it like Speaking of ah Kyle, you know, these are just... It's been four straight just bangers, and I'm looking forward to not only five... i already pre-ordered it, but I'm looking forward to, like, seeing this coming tour and seeing the live presentation for Papa V. Um...
01:11:21
Speaker
um But yeah, I'm a big ghost fan. I love them. And this is just, you know, that that iridescent blue blazer like it is.
01:11:34
Speaker
They nailed it. And he's got the FU in there. Where is it? I go. Kyle needs. Yeah, I would have to. I have to show it. Kyle would want me to show it. There you go.
01:11:45
Speaker
No. So this was my game time decision, Dave. So I had a sinking suspicion that he would be very high on your list, therefore represented.
01:11:56
Speaker
And I made the decision of which of the two brought me more joy in the first half of this year. And as much as I love Ghost and love this figure, the the Space Godzilla was the one that won out. Now we'll revisit that at the end of the year. We'll see how the rest of the year goes. But like...
01:12:14
Speaker
this ah The top three are good for me are going to be tough to beat and they may switch spots because they did in the week thing leaning up to this. Papa was number one for a long time.
01:12:28
Speaker
All right, so that leaves us with my number two.
Eric's Pick: Figma Tears of the Kingdom Link
01:12:33
Speaker
And um I'm going to do a quick shout out to ah to friend of the pod, Cal, at a Side Fig Gig.
01:12:42
Speaker
um He had this as his number one ah for the first half the year, but it is my number two. It is the first time a figure from this company has has shown up on any of our lists.
01:12:54
Speaker
um This game is incredible. This video game is incredible. This is one of the most absolutely stacked action figures i have ever opened. i I like it was one of those things where like I couldn't fathom how many accessories it actually came with and like As I kept opening, I was like, wait, there's more. There's still more in here. Wait, there's another layer to this tray. It was just like accessory x after accessory.
01:13:17
Speaker
um The Good Smile Company, Figma, Tears of the Kingdom, Link, Deluxe. So this thing is insane.
01:13:30
Speaker
It is the best, like... I think representation of video game link that we've ever had in figure form. I have the kid link Figma and I was it's good, but it there are things about it that I i distinctly did not care for.
01:13:47
Speaker
Whereas this I would change nothing. It's it it is incredible. Like I said, you get an array of accessories with this. I mean, to the point where you can pop him at the waist and he comes with the the like Slate effect that allows him to like travel up through things and like kind of like transport himself through physical material.
01:14:11
Speaker
So you can make it look like he's just like portaled into something, which is incredible. um You get, you know, a couple of distinct things. ah expressions there's soft goods in his cape you can kit him out different ways like with different weapons including ah if you've ever played the game there's this amazing like building system where you can like attach things to other things he comes with like a stick with like the rock attached to it it's just it's really really really cool um And the game is awesome, too. So ah just the detail on this, this ah this is my number two.
01:14:47
Speaker
Were you shocked when you opened him how big he is for a figma? I was when I first opened it, I was like, oh, my God, this figma. but It was he's huge.
01:14:57
Speaker
Yeah. And he's. he's actually 112 scale which i'm really really happy with yeah like usually their stuff is yeah small on the smaller spectrum but like if you put him next to you put him next to another 112 figure and he's a teenager like that's right that like compared to like an indiana jones like you know an adult and a you know a like a 18 year old to 17 year olds i mean yeah that's that works That's part fairy. It's supposed to be a little short.
01:15:28
Speaker
But yeah, I mean, like in the world of video game stuff, it's just... Yeah, it it works it works really well. yeah But super cool. And i'm i'm really now I'm really excited for the Ganon and Zelda that are coming. Yeah, Ganon should be coming next month, I think.
01:15:47
Speaker
Yeah. Fingers crossed. I know all the shipping shipping stuff, right? um Okay, so before we hop into our number ones, we did ask our followers, ah listeners, to submit their number ones.
Listener's Favorite Figures Discussion
01:16:04
Speaker
So, yeah, well I'm just going to read off a couple here. um So we've got ah at NoChewing on Instagram, the MoffXSpiderMan2099.
01:16:17
Speaker
Yeah, it's a good one. um We've got at blurred underscore barren underscore underscore. He's not my number one. I just know had it by my desk.
01:16:30
Speaker
very good good figure um i had ah my my first mof x experiences happened this year and i've i've pretty much stuck with the stuff but like but like i get it i get it now i understand um yeah that that dark knight returns batman like the frank miller dark knight returns batman is my favorite batman figure that has ever been made ever like it's yeah unbelievably good um Then we have ah at blurred underscore Baron underscore maximum Spider-Man.
01:17:02
Speaker
So, you know, of of course, probably on a lot of people's lists. um EIC04 says Chester the Cheetah.
01:17:14
Speaker
So I don't I don't have I don't have Chester handy, but I do have I do have Tony the Tiger. Yeah, ja Jade is doing an amazing job with these mascots. I mean, just. Jada you Jada is doing an amazing job with their blank.
01:17:30
Speaker
That's, you know, you you think of them as the die cast company, but their, their figures have been.
01:17:37
Speaker
Yeah. For a couple years. They're doing some incredible things. Really hit some home runs. Yeah. Oh, the mascots are great. um so Dave, here's, here's one for you. um At, ah at creepy and J friend of the best friend of the pod.
01:17:52
Speaker
ah Jada toys, cup, man.
01:17:56
Speaker
is on his list or, um, or the black series. I thought cut man was last year. So that was, it's one of those ones where a lot of people got him like, like and tried to get him last year and didn't and got him this year. So I think a lot people are counting on mine for some of those.
01:18:15
Speaker
Yeah, distribution's a weird thing. um figure And then the last one, Shouts. Yeah, so Bulba's good, too. That's a really good figure if you don't have it. Like, I love how he they actually get him to balance, like, on his, like, hands and stuff like that. It's really cool.
01:18:29
Speaker
Like, Black Series is doing some cool stuff right now. Hopefully, hopefully they can. That would be an amazing Black Series piece is, like, one of those pod racers, but they would be, so it would just be so large, especially his with those massive engines.
01:18:44
Speaker
um Yeah, but I could see them doing something like that. That that might be cool. um And then last but not least, ah friend of the pod, Jersey Maniac Collector, Crab Louie.
01:18:56
Speaker
I had to look at that. I had to look that one up and then I realized it was Mezco. But ah yeah, part of their Rumble so rumble Society. It's the um it's the he's a crab man.
01:19:07
Speaker
He literally has like a crab as a head. It's very interesting. Yeah. And I love that his name is crab Louie, like the dish. This stuff is really neat. It's just man, I got to stay away from it. It's like it's dangerous. It's expensive and it piles up quickly.
01:19:22
Speaker
But yeah, they make really good. Their in-house stuff is great.
01:19:28
Speaker
Yeah, they're cool character designs. That whole Rumble Society thing. like you know Say what you will, I would say what I would about them, but their their in-house design stuff, is just it really is incredible.
01:19:38
Speaker
um And it's unique. So you don't see a lot of people out there doing super original stuff all the time and everything they do with Gomez and all those Rumble Society characters. Very, very cool. Original IP is, I think, their best best stuff. Yeah.
01:19:53
Speaker
yeah
Nostalgia and Design: Peewee Figure Discussion
01:19:55
Speaker
All right. So that takes us into our number ones. We have had no crossover thus far, um yeah which is crazy. But ah yeah, so let's let's start it off. John, can do us the honors. Well, I don't think we are going to have first half of the year because my number one is Marvel Legends Rom.
01:20:15
Speaker
Again, nice back to my weirdos list. I have. Skullamania, I have Rom, i have Shuma Garath. and the big wheel.
01:20:25
Speaker
And in this last year, I've knocked three of those off my list. But this, like, first of all, I mean, it's cool that that marvel that Marvel Legends is doing this, like, that they've been doing those, like, Marvel-adjacent characters. You know, they could they could do Marvel Godzilla one day. That'd be really awesome.
01:20:41
Speaker
um But, like, for right now, like, getting Rom and just, like, how hard they went with this one. Like, he's, like, you know, he's got the good silver, like, not that, like, swirly silver stuff. I mean, he's just, like,
01:20:54
Speaker
he's He's built like a Marvel legend, but like, man, he's like he's got he's got like a huge like range in his chest. he He really like he's he's cool as crap. He's he's really awesome. And just like the way they did, like the ah the eyes and stuff like that, how they kind of like sunken in here.
01:21:09
Speaker
a little bit it's um he's just he's so neat like I love him he just sits up here we hang out still talk about things announcement for those those kind of that comic wave was the one I popped the biggest for because I was like yeah Rom like so unheralded yeah and we got like Chris star last year and you know maybe it might get like that green archer guy from the Chris star comics maybe in the future I don't know but uh Yeah, I mean, maybe that's that that Green Arrow ah accessory that they teased.
01:21:44
Speaker
I think that's a a lot of the speculation is that they're going to keep adding to that. See, my hope is that they're doing those those weird like offshoot characters like I'd love to see like Marvel's, um you know, hopefully. I mean, right right now, this this Mythic Legions version will have to do. But like, I would love like a Marvel Conan figure, like a Marvel Legends Conan.
01:22:04
Speaker
That would be on. That would be amazing. um But yeah, I. There's so many possibilities and clearly like, you know, it was it was made evident that Jesse Falcon kind of fought for that Rom figure to be made. um And it clearly is very popular. Same with Chris Star.
01:22:26
Speaker
So I think there's there's proof that like these kind of fringe characters have a place in people's collections. So hopefully they, you know, they continue riding that wave.
01:22:41
Speaker
All right, Dave, you're you're number one. I'm I'm a little bit. Surprise me. But I am ultimately a child of the 80s. And this one hit super hard for me when I first saw it um back. It OK.
01:22:55
Speaker
Was Comic-Con the first the previous Comic-Con, the first place I saw this?
01:23:01
Speaker
I think so. Um, I might be wrong and it may be Toy Fair, but you'll be able to help out with that more. Um, but you know, this was one of those ones that I saw it and I'm like, oh, I got to get this.
01:23:14
Speaker
And, um I don't even think you knew that I wanted this. and I'm just going to tell you to come in and pull yourself up a chair.
01:23:26
Speaker
um Blaine, you did it
01:23:31
Speaker
it's peewee nice um we're back to peewee we so we do have there is for one overlap i did a good job of keeping one overlap but the box design like i love that it's the the play oh yeah like i would i could just see like the the um traveling salesman and the salesman um the likeness is fantastic like You can see with Terry and everything, you can see the love and care that was put into it.
01:24:05
Speaker
I love that the the secret words like, you know, i remember I saw he's big adventure in the movies probably younger than I should have um definitely saw the HBO special younger than I should have.
01:24:19
Speaker
um But. i hundred so i saw older and I'm like, whoa. um And, you know, that new special was awesome. I wish I was able to go see it live, but those tickets were borderline impossible to get at the time.
01:24:33
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um
01:24:36
Speaker
You know, Christian and I were at one of those. Yeah. yeah And see but yeah, that for me was like I was looking at it and I was looking at pop and I'm like, I love both of these so much.
01:24:50
Speaker
But like the nostalgia of Pee Wee is just Like, they'd hang out, 100%. What a pair! What pair! pair It's just... it was It's great, and I want more Playhouse stuff, just like you.
01:25:06
Speaker
um But, you know, I don't yeah dabble into the NECA so much, because it is just like... It's like if I got into classifieds, like, it's just a... It would be trouble.
01:25:19
Speaker
So, you know, so a one-shot figure like a Peewee is... perfect for me because it nails everything that I need it to. There's no need for me to get a second one if they made it like.
01:25:34
Speaker
know, give me give me the bike yeah and. We'll be on our way.
01:25:42
Speaker
Yeah. ah Super cool. All right. So my number one should be absolutely no surprise to anybody listening. present Present company included. yeah You're absolutely right.
Maximum Serious Hulk Figure Praise
01:25:54
Speaker
um I can make your hands clap. I can make his hands clap.
01:25:58
Speaker
um Maximum Serious Hulk. ah i If you listened to our last live stream, I waxed poetically about this figure for for quite some time, so I'll spare you all.
01:26:12
Speaker
I will spare you all the same diatribe again, but um yeah, I love this figure. this is This is the Hulk figure I have literally always wanted.
01:26:23
Speaker
um i think people... are being really hard on it. i it's just It's just a ah moment in time that you know Hasbro just, you know, they're making some of the coolest stuff that they've ever made.
01:26:38
Speaker
And people are just in this state of like criticism where like were we just it's illegal to have fun anymore. Like, yeah, like, do I wish it was a little cheaper?
01:26:50
Speaker
Sure. um But ultimately, at the end of the day, am I am I super glad that i I have a Hulk figure that can finally gamma clap and comes with, you know, accessories? And because I i have every other Legends Hulk that they've made, you know, I can effectively cobble together my own like super ultimate version of Hulk. You know, I can.
01:27:11
Speaker
I can put the the shirt from the, the, the 80th anniversary on him. I can use the, the stomp effect from the 20th anniversary, uh, Marvel legends one. And i can use the effect, the clap effects from, uh, from this. And I have like the ultimate posed out displayed incredible Hulk.
01:27:33
Speaker
Um, um, Yeah, I'm just, I'm super stoked. And, you know, the other thing, too, is that ah I think a lot of people are kind of passing on is you know, now that they've done this, right?
01:27:45
Speaker
And, John, I echo your sentiments. i I don't foresee an issue with this. Like, I don't think it's just not going to hold up. Like, I think it'll be fine. um But now that they've now that they have done this, this mold exists now.
01:28:01
Speaker
Like, we've We've paid for the Maximum Series Hulk, so that way future Hulks can continue to do cool shit. So, like, with all of this this these Marvel vs. Capcom figures coming out, like, it would not surprise me if they did a Hulk with that head, with, like, the Marvel vs. Capcom style head and maybe, like, the brown pants.
01:28:23
Speaker
The black And, you know, you can give him that effect piece like... Yep. Ripping up the ground like that, ah that that, that effect piece. And, know, he can, he can do that now because he can, you know, he can get his hands close enough together to do that. I mean, that's that new game today. I just wasn't a part of it.
01:28:43
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, I ah i I can't say I can't say enough good things about this. um You know, if if you're on the fence and you're a fan of Hulk, this this is the best he's ever been.
01:28:55
Speaker
So, you know, I can't I can't say enough good things. Those have been two for two.
01:29:02
Speaker
Yeah, we have both. both um And listen, the one piece of feedback that I totally, totally understand with this is the faces. the The heads, the faces, whatever way you want to say it. yeah Whether it's you wanted three you know of the same...
01:29:17
Speaker
you know, like same Hulk, but in three different expressions, like that's a totally reasonable piece of feedback. Like if you wanted like a neutral, an angry and like an enraged head of the same version of Hulk, like totally valid feedback.
01:29:32
Speaker
But I think it's cool that they gave us three different artists. You know, that's and I'm i'm sticking with that. So I like the experimental nature of that. Just I like the idea of trying something different. And I think that's why I get I think i would favor that over the maximum.
01:29:47
Speaker
Spider-Man like Spider-Man's great, but we've kind of we've kind of seen all that before. I mean, it's done in a it's done in a really good way, but I think it's something new for Marvel Legends. You know, do they go forward with like bigger guys are going to are they going to try to do like a soft chest type thing or maybe, you know, expand on that idea for future releases?
01:30:05
Speaker
You know, it's um yeah. Yeah. I mean, Yeah, use that material for different parts. Like maybe they use it for, you like shorts or something to be able to, know, give more movement or, you know, other material. Yeah, kind like with, what's his name? Like, because like, can you do like a soft, you know, like crotch piece? So like your Marvel Legends can go like, you know, do like, you know, crazy different like splits or whatever.
01:30:31
Speaker
you know there's a lot of yeah know there's a lot of stuff you can kind of mess around with there and when i guess when they have the budget of a maximum figure then they can maybe you know maybe they can experiment and find new things and maybe it doesn't hit with everybody but something will yeah exactly yeah it's like we didn't have a wrestling figure that could put his hands in his pockets that we did like yeah
01:30:56
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Yeah, but now, you know, if think about it, all right, we know how to put hands in pockets that could be really used anywhere. And Marvel Legends needs to do the cross arms. You know how like figure arts does the cro like all the Dragon Balls have the crossed arm like pieces?
01:31:13
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I think we yeah we need to do more. yes Every Vegeta. Anytime I buy a figure that has crossed arms, the crossed arm piece has to be displayed on it. um Oh, yeah, that's how i' I'm looking at my Vegeta. I can't grab him right now, but like my Super Saiyan Vegeta is just permanently, you know, grinning at me. Yeah, his arms crossed arms would be like cool.
01:31:34
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But there's a lot of superhero. A lot of superhero figures could benefit from that. I mean, the maximum Spider-Man, if you put the wall crawling hands on him and turn them the right way, you can actually, those butterflies are deep enough where you can tuck them under his arms and you can make it look like his arms are crossed. um But like, yeah, think about like the amount of like man times there's a picture of like Superman with his arms crossed. Every superhero has that. That's like, the that's like a I mean, that's one of the superhero poses and we've never actually gotten that piece.
01:32:05
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Yep. You cool. Mattel, you oh you know what to do. you tell How many wrestlers have shaken hands? Yeah. How many wrestlers have shaken hands until and we only got one one figure that's done it so far? Like.
01:32:21
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Yeah, that was but that was very funny.
01:32:26
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All right, guys. Well, we did it. 29 unique picks across three people that spend way too much money and time on that was going to be our our crossover.
01:32:41
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Interesting. Interesting. I did not predict that at all.
Thank You to Guest and Future Plans
01:32:44
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I know that you're a big PeeWee fan as well, which is probably part of the reason why I'm such a big fan. but But yeah, that's... Yeah. Well, Jon...
01:32:53
Speaker
John, thank you so much for for taking the time to do this with us. um I'm sure everyone watching and listening already knows how and where to find you, but please remind them where can they follow you on social media? I mean, the best place to follow me is at PreTourney.com on Twitter. That's always been my kind of main thing, but I mean, I'm on all the socials. post links and stuff there and whatever toy news is happening at the time, so...
01:33:22
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Look me up and that's where I'll be. Yeah. And shouts to you. I love those new infographics you've been doing with like the pre with like the preorder like window stuff. We've been posting like like all the Marvel Legends with the dates and like a nice graphic that has been like nice. Like a little nice touch. Almost like a roadmap for like, you know, a few like, you know, like the month ahead or whatever. then Then you can kind of like do stuff like that. But when they're just like.
01:33:49
Speaker
Yeah, but yeah, yeah. I mean, well I kind of get that also like to I try to do like a San Diego Comic Con like checklist thing. So I think I started from that and then. Yeah. Yeah, that's it's kind of fun doing. It's just fun to switch things up every once in a while.
01:34:05
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Yeah. Well, thank you for for coming out of the shadows and and joining us for ah for for this ah this top 10 list. And maybe maybe at the end of the year, we'll have to do this again and have you fi repeat.
01:34:19
Speaker
And we'll we'll we'll revisit our top 10 list and see where we are at the end of the year. Yeah, that sounds good. I'll go back into the shadows until you guys summon me again.
01:34:29
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i feel like there's like we are an incantation and like a spell. I was going to say, is is there a spell? We'll have to we'll have to work on that. i Dave, with that, I think that's yeah it's going to be it for this. That's a wrap. um Send us home. We'll see in six months and we'll do this all again.
01:34:50
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