Since February is when I present my annual awards for the best action figures and toys of the previous year, it's highly likely that you've just read  me gush about Jada Toys' Ultra Street Fighter 2: The New Challengers line. Last year the line didn't make my Best Top 10 toylines, but it only had three figures released and I didn't find most of them until the very end of the year, though Chun-Li did make my Best of the Rest list, however. This year? Street Fighter II is definitely one of my top 10 toylines of 2024. Each release is a super high quality figure and Jada is ab ..read more

     Once again it's February, and that means it's time for my annual Best Of lists for the previous year. I see a lot of other collectors putting out their lists in December, and sometimes even November, but I usually like to give myself a month or so to find items released at the end of the year and give them their fair shake. I also try to really go through my list and make sure items I'm basing my picks on really did get released domestically in North America during the previous year. I have three lists that I do every year and you'll see one a week for the next three we ..read more

     Guess what? This is my first official review of an action figure or collectible released in 2025. Yippee! It's actually been over 4 years since I last reviewed a Mezco One:12 Collective action figure and I'm pretty sure the two Harley Quinn figures were the last ones I bought from the line, too. When I saw Major Arnold Toht go up for preorder in August of 2023, I was kind of interested. Raiders of the Lost Ark is my favorite film and while Mezco also released a One:12 Collective Indiana Jones, I wasn't all that impressed with him compared to what Hasbro put out in th ..read more

     I'm getting excited with pretty much every release of a new character in Jada Toys' Ultra Street Fighter 2: The New Challengers toyline. Dee Jay is probably one of the characters who I'm the least familiar with gameplay wise as I didn't have The New Challengers for my SNES until... maybe like 2000? I actually mostly new him from the move where he was played by Miguel A. Núñez Jr. and is portrayed as a computer expert and hacker who is working for Bison just for the money. Unlike Zangief, Dee Jay was getting paid! In the game, though, he's not on Bison's side and is ins ..read more

        I've collected action figures based on Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror on and off since I picked up the Aztech Toyz Silent Screamers Graf Orlok sometime in the early 2000s. This isn't a new Vinyl SODA (the line seems to be dead), but one I found from 2022 that I didn't have. Since I reviewed the Bram Stoker's Dracula version of Dracula from Vinyl SODA last month, I figured I'd give this one a look over as well. I'm really excited for the extended cut of Robert Eggers' Nosferatu, which is being released on physical media later this month (I think mine's suppos ..read more

     Today I'm checking out the Build-a-Figure from the Turtles of Grayskull toyline: Metal-Boto! Metal-Boto is a hybrid of Robot from Masters of the Universe and Metal-Head from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the figure absolutely does feature elements of both characters. It's been a little over a year since I found and reviewed Mouse-Jaw, the first figure in the series to come with BAF pieces for Metal-Boto, and the other three figures were scattered throughout the year, with 2-Bopsteady coming out near the end of 2024. Ready to check out this upgraded version of Robo ..read more

     In February I'll still be wrapping up some 2024 reviews, but I've got some new stuff for 2025 to look at. I'll also be publishing my annual Best of the Year Awards throughout the month, so keep reading!    I thought 2024 was a really good year for Marvel Legends. While it was odd that it took Hasbro so long to get out action figures for Deadpool and Wolverine, and then it was a pretty basic lineup (if any Marvel film in recent memory was going to be a surefire hit that was it, plus those two always sell action figures), I think most of the year was excelle ..read more

     If you've been around here long enough, you might have noticed that I didn't review as much Masters of the Universe stuff in 2024 as I had in previous years. While both Origins and Masterverse still have some good releases that come out, so much of the MOTU product I like has gotten really expensive (think Tweeterhead and Mondo) or Mattel seems to be releasing the same characters over and over and over again with little difference. Yeah, there were some new characters and such, but a good bit of things felt a bit stale to me this year. The most exciting line Mattel did fo ..read more

     I didn't review as many Action Force figures as I thought in 2024, but I've still got a couple reviews planned as I only recently received a shipment of figures and accessories from series 5, which was released near the end of 2024, along with one or two items that are just now shipping at the beginning of 2025. Today I'm checking out the figure from series 5 that I was most looking forward to: Col. Siege! Col. Siege has decades of military experience and helps recruit new talent to Action Force, but do you know why I really wanted him? He reminds me of Col. John "Hanniba ..read more

     The 1988 Storm Shadow V2 was my first Storm Shadow as a kid. Actually, he might have been my only Storm Shadow until I got into G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 during my senior year of college (I was married by that point) and got back into G.I. Joe pretty heavily. I loved the version 2 Storm Shadow as he just looked incredibly cool and has an very impressive array of accessories. I'm impressed that Hasbro has managed to stay conservative with variants in the Classified Series and it's been a bit since the more classic Storm Shadow and the Retro Series Storm Shadow. During the 2000s St ..read more