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kamikazekeeg:
--- Quote from: Cartagia on May 28, 2021, 08:20:04 pm ---Nice! He's one of my favorites for sure. I got the Genghis and Rasputin cartoon frogs today, myself. Just need to eventually get the damned display case I want.
There's an Ultimate version of TMNT 2 Shredder coming at some point in the future, too.
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They all look good, it's been hard to not get them, but I really don't need another series to collect, and I mostly just focus on collecting Leonardo, which I have a small collection of now. But Super Shredder is so cool, I just had to grab it. Now I just need them to re-release Leonardo as a solo release again.
kamikazekeeg:
I've been rewatching a lot of One Piece lately and I was feeling that I was wanting toys of the show, but when I went to look, there's surprisingly very little in the way of toys for the show, which is odd to me for such a big and popular show. I can of course buy 8 million different statues and figurines, but it seems like there aren't many action figures and the ones I could find on like Amazon are clearly just bootlegs of toys that I'm guessing aren't available anymore or are wildly expensive. Thankfully it looks like Bandai is doing some new action figures, starting with three from One Piece, so I picked up the One Piece Anime Heroes Zoro to see if I would like the line.
They are slightly bigger than I was expecting, I think I had in my head that they were smaller based on what I saw online, but that's because of the Loyal Subjects toyline that is out there that doesn't seem very good and is quite small. This Zoro matches up even with a Marvel Legends Iron Man I have, so it's basically 6 inch scale, when I thought it was more 5 inch. Detailing looks good too, which is weird to say, but McFarlane has been doing anime stuff lately for like My Hero that looks rough, so it's nice for a Japanese company to get it right lol Posing isn't bad, it's nothing crazy, it's only a 20 dollar figure, but the arms got a lot of poseability. Legs seem okay, but the design of this figure, I won't be doing much with them or else his long robe thing would be poking out in weird ways. I'm totally good with this though, so I'm gonna buy Sanji and Luffy next. I really hope they do the full crew also, I don't want to buy these and they don't plan to do the rest. They also need to be in scale as Franky and Brooke are very large.
kamikazekeeg:
Ended up picking up Sanji and Luffy also, these are pretty solid figures, nothing super special about them, but they really nail the visuals and pose pretty well. Only thing I would've liked to see are alternate heads with them. Sanji needs like a scowling look with a cigarette in it, Soro needs a sword grip mouth, and Luffy needs some big goofy smile one. Otherwise good stuff, gonna grab the rest whenever they came out.
pzeke:
--- Quote from: kamikazekeeg on May 28, 2021, 08:04:06 pm ---Finally picked up the best Kevin Nash action figure! lol
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Until either Mattel or Ringside Collectibles comes out with something better, yeah, you're not wrong with that statement.
--- Quote from: kamikazekeeg on June 09, 2021, 06:36:42 pm ---[...] but McFarlane has been doing anime stuff lately for like My Hero that looks rough [...]
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McFarlane did a number of releases based on anime characters back in the day (Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Tenchi Muyo, Trigun), but his market has always been centered around western-styled figures, so that's why they tend to look somewhat "iffy". Even so, it'd be criminal to deny that the first wave of My Hero Academia had some class A defects, which I've yet to understand how they managed to slip through QC, not to mention the prototypes for some actually looked better than the final product, which is sad. Overall, though, for me when it comes to McFarlane all I care for is Spawn; I've contemplated numerous times getting some of the DC stuff, but other than Batman Beyond, nothing else has genuinely piqued my interest. In fact, I actually find it funny that some of the Fortnite figures have appealed more to me than the DC stuff. Granted, I haven't gotten any, and doubt I ever will, but they do have their appeal.
--- Quote from: kamikazekeeg on June 16, 2021, 04:07:04 am ---Ended up picking up Sanji and Luffy also, these are pretty solid figures, nothing super special about them, but they really nail the visuals and pose pretty well.
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They're cool-looking, but kind of have a Happy Meal thing going on, especially Luffy.
Anyway, here's part of my latest haul:
I got this one mainly because I've always wanted a deluxe-sized Spawn figure ever since missing out on the ones from 2005, all of which happen to go for ten times their original price now. All in all, it fills the spot I wanted it to fill, but the gun it comes with really cheapens it a lot. Also, not that I want to knock it any further, but the necroplasm accessory is rather dull, too. The figure is solid, though, and I like it.
I pretty much gave up trying to get the Mighty Morphin team since I became interested in the line rather late, plus Walmart kept restocking figures from other series that, while cool-looking, I wasn't particularly attached to. Fortunately on one visit they had the Black Ranger and Goldar, one of each, which I didn't think twice grabbing, then after that I got the White and Blue Ranger online at a really good price. The rest I'll hopefully get soonish. Other than the original series, I'm somewhat interested in the Zeo team, but I'm mostly hopeful that Hasbro ends up releasing figures for the Turbo Rangers, especially the Phantom Ranger. That'd be cool!
Originally I was invested in getting more of these figures, but their build quality is disappointing, so I think this one will be my last...although admittedly I'm still inclined in getting Heavy Arms and/or Tallgeese. Hopefully by the time they decide to release some Zakus, Epyon or more of the EW Gundams, or perhaps even Physalis (doubt it) they'll improve the quality of the figures. We'll see...
And last, but not least, I'm not into cars, much less into collectible toy cars, but I saw these at Walgreens and truly felt smitten, so I grabbed and took them home with me. I must say that I'm quite happy I got them.
kamikazekeeg:
I got the White and Green Ranger, but I'm only planning on owning them unless I can get the rest of the team really cheap. I'm actually waiting more for them to do the Power Rangers Movie figures because I think those figures would look great, having more of an armored look, some metallic sheen to the paint, I'll definitely have a full team of that. Also I'll probably grab the Leonardo TMNT Power Rangers figure whenever that releases because the art for their designs is pretty cool.
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