Most Requested Year-End Poll: The Winner

Last year, we featured eighteen Most Requested articles asking for figures from all over the toy kingdom. The requests ranged from cancelled lines to current lines, from 2" Minimates to 8" Hellboy figures, and we even threw in a juice drink for good measure. At the end of the year, we decided to start our first annual tradition, a runoff between those requests to see which one was really the Most Requested Figure of 2009. We let our readers decide who deserved that top spot.

After two rounds, and over a thousand votes cast, we have the results and are ready to announce our winner.

Most Requested Year-End Poll: The Finals

Last week, we featured our eighteen Most Requested articles and let you decide which three would be featured in this final round for the IAT Most Requested Figure of 2009.

Before we get to the finalists, we want to thank the hundreds of people that voted in our poll. It was the largest poll turnout we've had yet!

Here are the the finalists in alphabetical order...

Most Requested Year-End Poll: Choose Your Own

This year, we've featured eighteen Most Requested articles. And although we really wanted each and everything we asked for, we also want to know which of the Most Requested Figures really is the most requested. And the best part is, you get to decide.

Before we get into the nominess, we decided on one ground rule. The figure still must require a request - they can't be announced/scheduled in anyway. This disqualified Martian Manhunter as his barcode is present in the Wal-Mart computers. We considered disqualifying Ghostbusters minimates, as two of the ones requested are in the third 4pk, but we've left it in as there are plenty of others that could use minimate treatment.

Before we get to the poll, here again, are the nominees.

Most Requested Figures:
MOTU Classics Extendar

If you were expecting the Crimson Avenger article I promised last week... well, I got distracted.* We don't normally do Masters of the Universe in this column, cause well, there's two options when it comes to MOTU stuff. Either I'm going to be asking for something sooner rather than later (Kronis getting two arms is more about absorbing Man-E-Faces' cost, right?) or I'm going to be silly and go for a lost cause (like the Wind Raider Pilot). But today's featured figure might straddle that line. He's one of those characters like Ram-Man or King Hiss that's going to require a lot of tooling on Mattel's part. That makes him definitely later rather than sooner and possibly a lost cause if things go awry.

Most Requested Figures: DC Classics Arkillo (Poll)

Sometimes as toy collectors, we can look acro- Hold up. We're interrupting our regularly scheduled MRF for a late special edition. I had another article for today. It was for a character that, at the very least, should've already had a DC Direct figure or even a JLU figure from Mattel by now. It was a character that's over sixty years old and though he's never been a front-liner, he's always top of mind when you think of Golden Agers. But I decided against running it today.

Most Requested: DC Classics
Ball-Jointed Necks – UPDATED 11/22

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I didn't want to write this article. To turn the Most Requested feature into yet another referendum on the DC Classics neck articulation seemed like overkill. On Monday, we had plenty of comments about the lack of articulation question in our Ask Matty. On Tuesday, our very own Mr. Rant shared his opinions on the matter. On Wednesday, we poked a little fun at Mattel for removing the articulation. I went to the list of possible Most Requested figures and some caught my attention: a Lou Ferrigno Hulk, a good G1 Arcee, a Thundercats line. There are plenty of things on the Most Requested list, but right now, this week, the neck articulation is being talked about across the internet. If there was ever a time to rally and try to get the point across, it's this week. So here it is. I don't think there's a DC Classics fan out there that would disagree that this is one of the biggest requests we need to ask for right now. Mattel, it's time to fix the ball-jointed necks.

Most Requested Figures: Mera
(DC Classics & DC Direct)

Sometimes as toy collectors, we can look across our displays and, no matter how many toys we have, only see the ones that aren't there. They are the missing figures. The characters toy companies never got around to, never thought were important enough, or worse - the figures companies felt the need to show us at comicon in the "We're Never Gonna Make These" case...