This is that time of the year when I sit down and write down what we achieved this year before starting a new year. Me being a toy collector, I look back at my toy collection and here it goes… As this year was not great in terms of numbers but I had a good run overall. Usually I put only action figures in the list but this time I decide to added my bobble heads and even some KOs figurines. Lets start the rewind with a bang… yeah its noting but the Neca Robocop and I instantly fell for it and reached for my wallet! This came in around the first week of this year when I casually visited “The En ..read more

What is all these (Winter Soilder in Dirtbike, Deadpool in Ducati Streetfighter, Captain America in Harley Davidson Iron 883, Jessica Jones in Benelli TNT and the most famous Deadpool in Vespa) toy photos have in common? A 6 inch Marvel Legends action figure and a 1:12 scale motorcycle and some cool riding poses. I have a huge collection of 1:12 scale motorcycle collection and I love doing toy photography and review of them in my other website (xDiecast.com) but there is no decent motorcycle rider figure to sit on them, so I decide to kit bash my own rider action figure. I was looking for a d ..read more

Thanksgiving is one of my favourite American holiday right next to Halloween and Christmas. I like it so much as it is colourful and bringing the whole family together is the theme of this very holiday. I started toy photography long back and since day one I try and post some Thanksgiving theme photo. In the past I did Toy Photography around Tony Stark’s Family for 2020, Justice League for 2021 and this year I picked Spiderverse as my theme. Lets start with the theme and inspiration behind it, shall we? I was looking for an inspiration and browsing through pinterest with limited luck… then I ..read more

ComicCon is one big event that you cannot misss even if you are remotely connected to pop culture and comics! For comic fans of Bangalore, Bangalore ComicCon is their holygrail event and I been visiting it since 2018 (Bangalore ComicCon 2018 Coverage here) and this year is quite a mixed bag as Marvel and DC have taken a step back and Japanese Anime/Manga took over the show! This is seen in all categories be it Cosplayers, Toy & Comic stores and also events. We had fun exploring the toys stores and came back with tons of Anime statues photos, so here is my photo dump of all those cool sta ..read more

First and farmost I am a toy collector and a car lover, I run a diecast car blog (xdiecast.com) for over a decade and love to photograph them as much as I do with these action figures and figurines! Sometimes they cross path and this is post to celebrate them in red, my favourite color! I have quite a lot of Deadpool related article here in site also and some of them are shared with xDiecast as well… The only difference is that xDiecast will have the photoshoot focused on the car/bikes and figstop’s version is focused on action figure posing and figures itself. You can check out the full phot ..read more

I am a toy photographer and action figure photography is one of my favourite. Its Halloween season and I could see all the toy store filled with spooky decorative items so I decided to do a photoshoot with Halloween as theme… Here is what I did and who is coming down to haunt you this year. This year’s theme is Headless Horseman, who is a long overdue Halloween photoshoot candidate. The theme of headless horseman hatched last year but due to some limitating factors, I decided to do a Grim Reaper scene instead. This year I finally got all my ducks in a row and the shoot is on. The action figur ..read more

4th of July is one of my favourite American holiday and always wanted to do something special with my action figures and other toys. I made some cool once in the past (for 2019) and this year I again pulled in Captain Steve Rogers, who also was in my 2019 photoshoot! I somehow see Captain America as the perfect fit for 4th of July, so a repeat this year as well. This year I had very less time so its a sort of quickie. This time I wanted to bring in some props that shouts America, so I got one of my scale model Harley Davidson motorbike made by Maisto. This Harley Davidson Iron 883 is a 1:12 s ..read more

So its almost new year and we all are ready say bye to this year… I had a decent year, travel to Dubai and experienced some cool toy stores (like Hamleys, Toys R Us, The Little Things and more) that are impressive at the least. Had a baby who is taking most of my time and her toy collection is growing at a pace that puts my 5+ years collection to shame, thanks to all uncles, aunts and nieces flying back from US/Australia. Overall a cool year generally but not a fantastic year as a action figure collector! Yeah Covid is playing its part and Govt is trying its best to counteract its effect… so h ..read more

It’s Christmas time and I was feeling a little lazy to do a proper Christmas photoshoot like last year… so I decided do a simple photoshoot! Though the idea is to do a simple shoot with my Marvel Legends action figure and now the challenges is to pick a worthy Santa Replacement… The first choice is the Iron Man but that choice turned unworthy as I could not get My Iron Man ready on time. The next best is the Deadpool and he with all red outfits fits the Santa’s role quite well and he is on. The Marvel Legends Deadpool that I have is a classic comic Deadpool and I decided to add some drama by ..read more

It’s Halloween time and all the hobby store around the city(even the cities of India) is filled with scary costumes and props. Some of them are funny as hell too… This always triggers my inner little boy (yeah I am still scared of horror movies) who wants to go under the bed! But I also like to do something creative not too spooky but carrying that Halloween spirit. My initial thought was to make scene with a Headless Horseman but my plan took a U-turn when the custom made figure dint turn out good. So time for alternate… Pinterest and Instagram came in as a saviour… And after spending some ti ..read more