Review – Transformers – Generations – Brainstorm
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Review – Transformers – Generations – Brainstorm

If you've been keeping track, you might have noticed that I've gone through all of the original 7 Headmaster's remakes from Titan's Returns.  You might have been expecting the last review here to cover Titan's Return Brainstorm.  Well, you'd be almost correct.  The thing is, I have Generations Brainstorm already, and I don't really need Titan's Return Brainstorm, so instead, you're getting Generations Brainstorm. If you follow some of the recent lines just before Combiner Wars, it kind of felt like Hasbro was exploring and experimenting with ideas for future lines.  We got Scoop with his Trigger masters, and the…
Mafex – The Dark Knight Joker
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Mafex – The Dark Knight Joker

I'm not a huge fan of the "Nolan Batman" films as a whole, but The Dark Knight is one of my favorite movies in the broad sense.  Batman Begins, The Dark Knight Rises, both are kind of mediocre, The Dark Knight is so good though.  A lot of this is because of the Joker as the villain.  Loving Heath Ledger's Joker isn't an uncommon opinion at all for sure.  Unfortunately, in the US, Mattel has the license for DC figures, and produces most of them.  Mattel, honestly, isn't the greatest toy company, mostly because they tend to have wonky articulation…
Review – Marvel Legends – Walgreen’s Punisher
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Review – Marvel Legends – Walgreen’s Punisher

Walgreen's has quickly become a pretty hot spot for toy collecting.  They have continually been getting some really good exclusives for Star Wars and Marvel Legends and more recently Transformers.  These often, though not always, aren't just mild repaints or useless variants of other characters from a mass release, especially on the Marvel Legends side.   They also have started having a good track record of getting waves earlier than other retail outlets such as Wal-Mart and Target.  The Punisher here is one of those exclusive figures. This Punisher is such a mixed bag of hit and miss.  He's mostly good,…
Review – Transformers – Titans Return – Wolfwire (Weirdwolf)
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Review – Transformers – Titans Return – Wolfwire (Weirdwolf)

The last entry in the line for Titans Returns Decepticon updates for the G1 Headmasters is Wolfwire.  In G1, Wolfwire was known as Weirdwolf.  There are all sorts of crazy reasons for name changes like this from rights ownership to names being slurs in other languages or even just because Hasbro decided that they don't like the name Weirdwolf anymore. Weirdwolf, Wolfwire, whatever you want to call him, he's definitely the best of the Decepticon ranks here.  He's has nice pose ability in both modes, his weapons are both nice, his transformations is simple yet nicely elegant. The beast mode…
S.H. Figuarts – Sailor Mercury
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S.H. Figuarts – Sailor Mercury

Sailor Mercury is the second of the team behind Sailor Moon and the second to get a Figuarts.  She serves the brains of the outfit as well as the techie of the group.  She also has one of the lamest abilities in the history of people with abilities in any medium which involves throwing bubbles at her enemies.  Not even cool bubbles like say, Mega Man's Bubble Man, but lame bubbles. She does gain some more powers as the series progresses though, themed around water and ice.  Plus her usefulness to the team is more than her ability to be…