The long national nightmare is over! Reviews will return on Wednesday, February 25th!!! All you have to do is suffer through the very last of my Checklist updates (& a few more days).
We’ve mostly got all the Toy Fair reveals patched up. MOTUClassics.com is good to go with the Toy Fair reveals. The Marvel 3 3/4 checklist is good to go. I have not added the two newest NECA video game figures to that checklist but will as soon as some good pics become available! And then there were a couple checklists that survived Toy Fair intact due to a surprising (or not surprising) lack of reveals.
That leaves just a few little nuggets to pick up on. The Four Horsemen Checklist has been updated with all the Ravens. I’m going to hold off on Mythic Legions until the line plans are more sediment post-funding and I’m still not sure what’s happening with those groovy new birds shown at Toy Fair, so those will wait a bit too.
The Ghostbusters Checklist was given a quick once over to make sure it’s complete. At least, for now. I will absolutely be updating that puppy with DST’s Ghostbusters Select line as soon as they’re press pics to work with. I’m all-in on that line!
The long-awaited update to the Spy Monkey Creations Checklist is also now complete with their awesome Warriors of Monkaa line getting some fun cardback love.
And, finally, one checklist done on request because I’m crazy, Funko ReAction!! Heck, I just wanted to see the huge breadth of properties Funko has done for this line. It’s kinda insane. So ccheck it out! It’s on a fun searchable, sortable table! There are still one or two images that I need to track down, but it’s a fun stroll through what is already a huge, huge line if you put all those licenses together. We’ll get a link added over in that Guide sidebar here soon!
Alrighty, that’s that! Come back on Wednesday the 25th and we’ll get this review train a rolling. I haven’t *opened* hardly anything since my time set aside for toy reviews dried up. No MOTUCs since October. None of the last few DCUCs. There are new MLs. New MPs. I’ve got new Hot Toys (I did open those!) Jumbo Star Wars? That too! I’ve got a big pile of awesome to review! And we’ll start all that next Wednesday! See you then!
Dude you are a beast! These checklists are invaluable resources!
Oh the ReAction figures…
I was so unbelievably stoked for those when they were first announced. And the original Alien set were AMAZING. I was so ready to go hardcore into collecting these. So I decided to start with the Terminator set, because I’ve always wanted figures from the first movie. Started with the endoskeleton, because why wouldn’t you…and it was, and I say this without any trace of hyperbole, the worst figure I have ever bought.
The difference between the Alien ones which were actually designed by Kenner and the new ones made in-house by Funco is excruciatingly apparent. The design of the figure was terrible to begin with – the details were sculpted so lightly that they’re impossible to make out, and then the chrome paint on top just makes it even worse. And then the absolutely atrocious build qualit wrecked it even further. The plastic used was the cheapest quality plastic I’ve ever seen in a figure. And then the pegs for the leg joints were bigger than the holes in the hips so it can’t fit together properly. And then on top of that, the body WASN’T EVEN GLUED TOGETHER. So it’s not even an action figure, it’s just a pile of loose parts. The one time I was able to get it to stand on my shelf, it LITERALLY FELL OVER WHEN I BREATHED ON IT.
That figure singlehandedly killed virtually all interest I had in this line. I say virtually because Michael Myers and Freddy Krueger are still somewhat tempting, and I do have to get that Chestbuster Kane at some point. But what a damn shame. This series really could have been something.