A wolf in the skies
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Revoltech Astrotrain and Blitzwing.
Excellent fan-created customs based on the Revoltech Convoy and Megatron figures.
Bloody Evangelion.
SR../Blood Zwei’s repaint of the Revoltech EVA-01 figure.
Barricade ver. Stikfas.
A fine Stikfas Robot custom by Jon Wilks Beyond.
Rogue’s Gallery.
dreamonix’s nice digirama of Batman’s foes.
Becoming an action figure.
“To lure older buyers, ‘realism is a must, just as it is with video games and movies … ‘” A USA Today article from 2001.
It’s Miller time!
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Toy review roundup
Michael Crawford reviews the Gentle Giant Animated Hellboy Hellboy and Abe Sapien figures.
Michael Crawford reviews the Mattel The Batman ShadowTek Ultra Battle Fist Batman figure.
Michael Crawford reviews the Medicom Toys Real Action Heroes Star Wars 501st Clone Trooper limited figure.
Thomas Wheeler reviews the Bandai Ben 10 Alien Collection Stinkfly, Greymatter, Cannonbolt and Upchuck 4-inch figures.
yo go re reviews the Hasbro Spider-Man 3 New Goblin figure. (See also.)
Blitzwing reviews the Hasbro Transformers AllSpark Power Stockade figure. (See also.)
Jerilock reviews the Taito High Performance Cosmo Dragoon 1/1 scale toy from the Galaxy Express 999 series.
Michael Crawford reviews the McFarlane Toys The Godfather Don Vito Corleone figure.
Michael Crawford reviews the Dark Horse Roman Dirge Lenore vinyl figure.
Plastic and Plus reviews the Neptoon Studios Monstrocity High Crush vinyl figure.
Retro reviews
Josh Bernard reviews the Bandai Soul of Popynica Yamato from the Space Battleship Yamato series.
Josh Bernard reviews the Takatoku VF-1J Armored Valkyrie vinyl figure from the Macross series.
Berserk reviews the Clover Hokou Kidou Senshi Gundam RX-78-2 tin toy. (See also.)
Simon Skey does a video review of the Hasbro Transformers G1 Galvatron figure.
Actar does a video review of the Bandai Digivolving Magnamon Digi-Egg of Miracles limited edition figure.
Four hours after Miller time
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Toy links
The Duck Show.
“Duck Show combines my two favorite hobbies: photography and collecting rubber ducks. Hopefully anyone who visits Duck Show will chuckle, giggle, snicker, chortle, guffaw, have hysterics, fall down laughing, double up, or just smile.”
Joepedia.
“The mission of Joepedia is to record and categorize everything about G.I. Joe, from the classic 12” series to the Real American Hero line.”
Standing out among the crowd.
TK-182 discovers accessories make the man.
Girls and Dolls.
“This cabbage patch is exclusive to our store here. Mother Cabbage is about to give birth. I’m dilating Mother Cabbage now, and she’ll be dilated for ten full cabbage leaves. Push, Mother Cabbage, push!”
The older Japanese toy market.
“According to the Japan Toy Association, the size of the domestic toy market was 640 billion yen in fiscal 2006, down 10.3 percent compared to five years earlier.”