Legacy Shadowstrip
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Legacy Shadowstrip

My Transformers purchases these days has slowed to an absolute molasses drip. There is a lot of "cool" stuff being put out, but I often already have "good enough" versions of these characters and the prices are getting a bit too much for my taste. I do still pick some up occasionally. One that's been nagging at me a bit was the new Menasor in Transformers Legacy. The Stunticons are my favorite combiner team and up there on my favorite Transformers. I really like the Combiner Wars version of the team, though it's not perfect. The new version is designed…
Scott Pilgrim and Ramona Flowers
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Scott Pilgrim and Ramona Flowers

Scott Pilgrim vs the World is probably my favorite movie, though the books are much better. However, it is decidedly lacking in figure based merch. I was pretty excited when I came across these figures from Bottle Neck Gallery. The site seems to specialize in limited run sort of niche merchandise, a lot of which is prints. Like the prints, these figures came in some mass release colorways, and a few limited color versions. Despite ordering on day one, I missed out on the limited versions, though I was more interested in the limited Scott, who had the PLUMTREE logo…
Star Wars Black Series – Chirrut Imwe
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Star Wars Black Series – Chirrut Imwe

I cannot, for the life of me, properly remeber Chirrut Imwe. I keep wanting to go with Churrit Imwe, or Chimwe Irrut, or some backwards variation. Last week I commented on his partner Baze Malbus. So Chirrut Imwe is the closes thing Rogue One has to a Jedi in it's cast. Ok, technically Darth Vader is in the cast, but he's kind of a minor character who mostly exists for fanservice. It's never super clear if Chirrut is force attuned or anything, though given his martial arts skills adn that his character is blind, it seems likely. Unfortunately for Chirrut,…
Star Wars Black Series – Baze Malbus
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Star Wars Black Series – Baze Malbus

Star Wars: Rogue One gave us a nice interesting ensemble cast of heroes. What it didn't really produce was a particularly great line up of figures. A couple of the more interesting characters in the movie and figures are Baze Malbus and his partner Chirrut Imwe. Both of these figures were actually kind of hard to come by for a while, partially because wave 1 of the Rogue One waves sold incredibly poorly. For a good while, you basically were looking at paying a ridiculous mark up on either figure on the secondary market. I've seen both show up at…
Star Wars Black Series – Darth Maul
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Star Wars Black Series – Darth Maul

In the same wave as Anakin, we've gotten a second much needed re-release of a very popular prequel trilogy character with Darth Maul. Darth Maul was number 2 in the main line of figures, part of the first wave of Black Series every released. He is also pretty popular, that kind of makes him a little hard to find. For the most part, this is one of the more impressive Black Series figures I've picked up, mostly in part due to his array of accessories. To start off, there is his double bladed light saber. The blades are removable and…