Toy review roundup
Michael Crawford reviews the Hasbro Marvel Legends Icons Dark Phoenix, Colossus, Daredevil and Nightcrawler figures. Excerpt: “At twenty bucks a piece, I’m not going to complain too much.”
Monkey Boy reviews the Hasbro Spider-Man Venom (Mac Gargan version) figure. Excerpt: “Venom is just a solid, well-sculpted, well-articulated figure with a lot of play value.”
yo go re reviews the Hasbro Star Wars Comic Packs Grand Admiral Thrawn and Talon Karrde two-pack from Star Wars: Heir to the Empire. Excerpt: “Both these guys deserved new figures (or a first figure, in Karrde’s case), and you can get them for a good price with this two-pack.” (See also.)
Engineernerd reviews the Hasbo Star Wars The Legacy Collection Jawa and WED Treadwell Droid set. Excerpt: “… overall a well done pair.”
yo go re reviews the Mattel Masters of the Universe Classics Faker New York Comic Con and Mattycollector.com exclusive figure. Excerpt: “… if there’s any one character who’s meant to look malformed, screwed up and just generally wrong it’s this bungled clone.” (See also.)
Thomas Wheeler reviews the Mattel DC Universe Classics Sinestro figure. Excerpt: “… he comes up pretty short on Green Lantern.” (See also.)
Corey Tincher reviews the Hasbro Transformers Universe G1 Series Deluxe class Starscream figure. Excerpt: “Starscream is a rarer breed of Transformer, one that looks good in both of his forms.” (See also.)
yo go re reviews the Hasbro Transformers Titanium War Within Prowl Toys ‘R’ Us exclusive figure. Excerpt: “… he’s not a perfect translation of this pre-Earth design, but he’s still a good Transformer with two decent modes.” (See also.)
Darren Cilenti reviews the Hasbro Transformers Universe G1 Series Legends class Beachcomber figure. Excerpt: “A good Legends toy …” (See also.)
Updatedude reviews the Bandai Motion Revive Series (MRS) Monster Hunter Kado Karyudo G Kirin X (A variant) trading figure. Excerpt: “I just happen to like the original paintjob more, but the mold is still great and Kirin A’s accessories are tops.”
Retro reviews
Updatedude reviews the Megahouse Perfect Model Robonimal Panda-Z (silver version) figure. Excerpt: “The silver gives off a real nice metallic feel, which coupled with the nice heft the toy has, almost makes it seem like diecast. Which of course, it isn’t.” (Related.)
Darren Cilenti reviews the Takara Transformers Car Robot C-025-S Super Mach Alert (clear version) figure from the Super Car Robo 3 Brothers (clear version) Osaka Toys Land and Super Festival exclusive set. Excerpt: “I _do_ prefer the original Mach Alert and regular Super Mach Alert, but this is by no means a poor variant.” (See also.)
Toy links
I’m not bad. I’m just customised that way.
An M1 custom.
da man’s Darkhawk.
“Poor Darkhawk has yet to get his own toy and with his new appearance in War of the Kings, I could not resist doing his new costume.”
Why so Lego?
A Johnny Tang MOC.
Man-at-arms.
An Assemble Borg fanmode by chikuwabu. (Click on the image for a better look.)
We got a heavy rep.
A photo by Jason Jerde.
Like what? Make baby bottles.
A photo by Cindi G.
The Damaged Goods Collection.
“… an interactive Hulk doll we can pretend to befriend but then subtly torment by leveraging ‘body issues,’ or an insecure ThunderCat we can destroy by conducting a very public affair with Dynomutt.”