At some point late tonight or tomorrow, Casimir at Raving Toy Maniac is going to publish the final day of CustomCon 25, and my meager entry, called Dangerous Deities, will get posted. I promised Casimir that I would have this recipe page up by the time that came around, but since I’m not quite sure when he’ll push the button, this is going up at Midnight CST.
To be completely honest, I wasn’t even going to bring my camera to WonderCon at first. My wife and I were only going to be able to go for a few hours one afternoon, and although WonderCon is organized by the same folks who handle San Diego Comic-Con, it doesn’t attract the the toy manufacturers like SDCC does. As we were getting ready to walk out the door, I thought, why not?
This is it! We’re down to Green Arrow and Kilowog. Now it’s up to you to determine which figure deserves the trophy. Vote now!
How appropriate that MARCH Madness would bring us two final combatants in green to duke it out in the center of the universe Oa – home of the Green Lantern Corps! You have voted, you have sent 126 figures packing and now, just one more to fall in defeat and one to rise in victory – the DCUC March Madness Finals are here!
Gone are the favorites, the upsetters, the expecteds, the surprises, the cinderellas, etc – we are down to the final two figures you feel most worthy of fighting for the title of best DC Universe figure. Not much more to say except – vote now as the final poll will close on April 6th and we will wrap up the whole tournament on April 7th.
View the updated bracket HERE
Without further ado, we head to Oa for these two gladiators of the action figure world to battle for your affections!
Finals
Green Arrow vs Kilowog
Green, green, green! Will fan favorite figure, Ollie Queen be able to withstand the favorite Collect and Connect with home court advantage? You decide!
Argh! Blue Beetle took out Batman with a late afternoon surge. And now we’re down to the Final Four participants. Looking at the entire field, there’s a lot of other figures that I think were worthy of making it this far, but there’s the luck of the draw, and there’s no telling who people are actually going to vote for.
I’m pulling for Deathstroke and Kilowog this round. Go vote!
124 down, just three to go! We have reached the Tournament Semifinals (better known to most as the Final Four) and while we say “smell ya later” to Thanagar, Rann, Qward and Korugar the action is about to get even bigger. Good thing for us the next two stops for the tournament are Apokolips and New Genesis where EVERYTHING is bigger and we are set for two match-ups of Fourth World proportions! Before we go, let’s look at the wrap-up of the last round:
- On Thanagar, Green Arrow soundly dispatched Darkseid 65-35 promising the latter will only play host and not participant on his home planet in the next round.
- Qward hosted the biggest margin of victory of the round as Deathstroke barely broke a sweat againt Metamorpho 75-25. Rex had a great run, but 90% brain utilization just proved too much for him.
- Rann, on the other hand, was the scene of the closest match-up of the tournament thus far as the Blue Beetle took down Batman to the tune of 51-49: it was an actual margin of victory of near single digits. Finally, we can put it to rest once and for all: Blue Beetle > Batman!
- Not to be outdone, Korugar produced the SECOND closest round of the tournament as Kilowog barely held off a late-surging Joker 51-49. The big K’s victory gap was only two votes wider than Ted’s. Kilowog finally faced a challenge in the voting and he is now surely battle tested.
Now it is your responsibility to whittle the field down to the final two, so vote wisely. Who do you think are the best two figures of the DC Universe lines? Vote now, and remember: voting for this round ends on April 4th.
View the full Bracket HERE
The remaining schedule is as follows:
- Semifinals: April 3-4
- Finals: April 5-6
- Wrap up on April 7th
See you on Oa!
Passing on some tips, tricks or minutiae that will help make action figure customizing easier for someone out there.
Howdy all! Buzzy Fret coming at ya with another tutorial from the dark, dank Buzzy Cave.
Paint rub! The bane of customizers that wish to maintain the poseable part of the their poseable action figures! There are a lot of tips and tricks out there to try to keep the oh-so fragile acrylic paint clinging to the plastic of your customs but, in my experience, nothing works like breaking the figure down and attacking those rub points with a Dremel and sandpaper. I know, I know, it’s time consuming, it’s hard, it’s not as much fun as painting and sculpting. Well maybe I’m mental, but I just can’t see why anyone would spend so much time and effort trying to make a beautiful looking custom out of a poseable action figure just to see the paint scrape off when you move a limb on it.
