Figma – Tracer
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Figma – Tracer

I have this incredible love/hate relationship with Overwatch.  I do enjoy the game and the characters, but I kind of hate a lot of aspects of the game play.  There are a lot of annoying balance issues going on right now.  I also feel like the lack of community servers still really hurts the game and the ability to get over a lot of it's flaws by at least playing with fun people regularly.  This isn't really supposed to be a rant about Overwatch though, it's about Figma Tracer. Good Smile Company has two main lines and a bunch of…
S.H. Figuarts – The Rock
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S.H. Figuarts – The Rock

I'm going to be straight up honest.  I don't have any interest in Wresting, at all.  But I think Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, the actor, is pretty cool.  Plus this figure has a lot of hilarious faces and possibilities for photos.  I also ended up getting a good deal on him from the closing of Toys R Us, so there's also that nice bonus. As far as Figuarts go, he kind of feels like a mixed bag.  The face sculpts are great.  They look like the rock and convey a lot of nice goofyness and character.  Even without relating it…
Review – Transformers – Titans Return Overlord
Posted in2016 - Titans Return

Review – Transformers – Titans Return Overlord

Overlord may be slightly less familiar to a lot of people because he wasn't a part of any major show continuity in the US. He was the big dog Decepticon in the Japanese series Super God Masterforce, and showed up a bit in some of the other Japanese only G1 shows. His other major role was as the protagonist in the popular IDW comic arc, The Last Stand of the Wreckers. In the original continuity he was a double Power Master. He had two Power Master figures who could slot into his chest behind the panels on his chest. In…
Transformers – Studio Series – Black Out
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Transformers – Studio Series – Black Out

As sort of a last hurrah for the Michal Bay Transformers series, which is effectively done, Hasbro has been doing a sort of "greatest hits" line themed around the movies called Studio Series.  It's not a bunch of re-releases though, it's new molds of most of the figures, with an emphasis on Robot Mode Scale.  It's also a way for Hasbro to give us better versions of a lot of characters who aren't named Bumblebee or Optimus Prime.  Often in the case of movie toys, for the sake of spoilers, toy companies end up working from pre production art and…
Review – Transformers – Titans Return – Topspin and Twintwist
Posted in2016 - Titans Return

Review – Transformers – Titans Return – Topspin and Twintwist

Where Combiner Wars did it's duty by giving us remakes of all of the original Combiner Transformers, it also used that opportunity to repaint all of those molds into different versions of the original G1 Autobots.  Titans Return has been moving into a lot more interesting territory.  There's a lot more updates of Targetmasters, Movie bots and in this case, Jumpstarters.  Topspin and Twintwist were a pair of very similar G1 bots that had one specific gimmick.  Pull them back, and a motor would speed the vehicle along and eventually it would pop up and land on it's robot feet. …
Sentinel – Mega Man (Classic)
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Sentinel – Mega Man (Classic)

Mega Man is one video game series I have extremely fond childhood memories of.  I've played and finished all of the games and Mega Man 3 is one title that I played religiously back in the day.  It's a series that just begs for a good toy line but it seems like it will never achieve the greatness I had always hoped with hundreds of Robot Masters.  Years ago Jazwares put out a short lived line and I snapped all of them up, despite their mediocre quality.  I've dabbled a bit in some of the model kits as well.  The…
Classic Ghostbusters (Mattel) (Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler, Peter Venkman, Winston Zeddemore)
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Classic Ghostbusters (Mattel) (Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler, Peter Venkman, Winston Zeddemore)

Mattel has released these same Ghostbusters molds a few times over the years. this particular release was from the sequel/reboot/remake Ghostbusters movie that came out recently, though for the most part these 4 figures are all the same.  The most interesting contrast is how much better these 4 figures are compared to the 4 "new" ghostbusters they were released along side.  This isn't a knock against the whole "all female cast", this is a knock against the sloppy looking paint and sculpts that the new Ghostbusters figures received. There are 4 figures here but they are essentially all exactly the…