Happy New Year! AFP’s Best of 2010

As we kick off the new year, I asked the guys to make their picks for for best [insert anything toy-related] for 2010. I wasn’t sure, since we just picked our “most thankful for” figures a few weeks ago at Thanksgiving, if we’d have much to add. Turns out there was plenty that impressed us above and beyond our Thanksgiving picks.

I’ll get us started.

Best of 2010 - Iron Man 2 - Iron Monger

Ron’s pick – Hasbro Iron Man 2 – Iron Monger

I don’t want to get typecast, because I picked the Marvel Legends Iron Man as one of Fwoosh’s Best of 2009. But this year, I think that the Iron Man 2 line from Hasbro, in particular the Comic series, went a long way in winning over fans who were missing their 6-inch Legends to the 4-inch scale.

The line has some really great sculpts, decent enough paint apps, and some fantastic articulation at that size. And, of course, it brought us this awesome Iron Monger – the huge, classic, comic-based blue version that I never thought we’d get, since the movie-based Iron Monger lined shelves for a while.

There were lots of Hasbro Iron Man news and reviews this year, but one of my favorite posts was highlighting this custom Iron Man armory by Thor-El.

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DC Universe Classics Wave 14 Ultra-Humanite

And now to wrap up DC Universe Classics Wave 14 with pics of C&C figure, Ultra-Humanite!

I’m astounded by Ultra-Humanite’s amount of history in the DC Universe, in almost 40 years of reading comic books I’d never heard of him until I saw him in Justice League on Cartoon Network. I can’t believe he’s one of Superman’s first foes.

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DC Universe Classics Wave 14 Kamandi

DC Universe Classics Wave 14 Kamandi. For me, this is what this wave was all about and I still can’t believe he’s finally here. From the beginning of the DCUC line, I had hopes that Kamandi would appear in a wave, especially since it was Jack Kirby’s DC creations, Orion and Etrigan the Demon in DCUC 1 that hooked me on the line. In the back of my head I kept thinking, they made Orion, they gotta make Kamandi! Now 14 Waves (well I guess 16 by now) in, here he is, the Last Boy on Earth!

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DC Universe Classics Wave 14 Zatanna

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If you haven’t seen it already, we have a fantastic Guest Review of Zatanna from MatthewK that was posted on November 15th which covers everything about the DCUC 14 Zatanna with far more eloquence and clarity than I could muster. So in keeping with my previous minimalist reviews of DCUC 14, I’m going to let the pics do most of the talking for Zatanna today.

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