Action figure reviews, quick pics, Wayback Wednesdays, and shots of our collections
If you had told me a few years ago that I’d be hunting for urban vinyl figures of Marvel characters, I’d probably have laughed. Urban vinyl is stuff that my wife likes – me, I like action figures! But here I am, taking pictures of the Marvel Mighty Muggs Logan. And yes, I’ve been hunting for this guy for a long time.
The Marvel Legends 2-Packs refresher waves, dubbed wave 2.5, are hitting Toys R Us stores now, and Fwoosher canonball was kind enough to send over some hi-res pics of the two sets he picked up, SHIELD Super Spies and Ninjas vs. Super Spies.
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After what many experienced with DC Universe Classics Wave 5, the last Wal-Mart exclusive wave, some people have been skeptical about Mattel’s claim that Wave 10 would be more broadly distributed, since Wal-Mart increased the size of their order. So it’s a huge relief to have these figures in hand – at least I imagine that’s how the people who’ve actually found them feel, because I’m still in a holding pattern with Forager, who VeeBee at the Fwoosh was kind enough to pass my way for my Cosmic Odyssey display.
These photos and quick thoughts on the DCUC 10 figures are from Buzzy Fret, who found these figures at a regular Wal-Mart down in Gainesville, Florida. After you’re done here, check out Buzzy Fret Customs – he’s done a lot with DCUC base figures recently, and I’ll be commissioning a Robin from him soon.
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Have I mentioned that I love the Pile of Loot feature at Big Bad Toy Store? It helps offset one of the disadvantages of shopping online – the shipping costs. Pile of loot lets you combine orders to bring your overall shipping costs down, with the added convenience of being able to place your orders separately. The first order in your pile gets the bulk of the shipping costs, but as you add extra items whether it’s that same day or weeks later, you only get charged the incremental shipping. When you can’t wait for your items anymore, you tell BBTS to ship your pile, and start over again.
Anyways, I just got my latest pile of loot, and right at the top were Baddathiir and the Helm of Xaanm, the BBTS 7th Kingdom exclusives from this year and last. Since I’m cherry-picking the 7K exclusives again this year, I’ve been reviewing them in drips and drabs as I get them. I got Queen Alluxandra and Isadorra at San Diego Comic-Con and the RTM exclusive Raavia and the Shield of Draumm a couple weeks later.
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I’m a bit late with the pics of the Masters of the Universe Classics Webstor. Thanks to the September through December MOTU Classics subscription (does it have a classy name like “Club Eternia?”) I had Webstor in hand last Thursday, but didn’t get the chance to open him until now. Even though I didn’t hit Mattycollector.com this month since I didn’t anything else on my buy list, I heard that the ordering was as smooth as it’s been. That’s good news, because as the year closes out, more and more figures will be must haves on the Mattycollector.com release schedule.
