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Toy Fair 2015: Funko Legacy Firefly Action Figures

Funko is off to a great start with its Firefly action figures from its 6-inch Legacy line. The first wave will feature Captain Mal Reynolds, Jayne Cobb, Kaylee Frye, Hoban Washburne, and Zoe Washburne. Each figure looks fairly poseable and comes with a few accessories. For example, Jayne is packaged with a plain head and also has the orange knit cap his mother made. He also has his most very favorite gun, Vera.

That leaves Simon and River Tam, Inara, and Shepherd Book for a second wave – hopefully the line won’t be canceled early due to poor marketing by Fox. Still too soon?

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Toy Fair 2015: Mezco’s Flawless Victory – Mortal Kombat, One:12 Collective, and More

No offense to Living Dead Doll collectors, but when that was the bulk of what Mezco was making, it was a far cry from those heady days when Hellboy comic and movie figures were dominating my shelves. But with their recent license acquisitions, coupled with setting a new bar for mixed media action figures in the 6-inch scale, Mezco is back, baby!

Today I got a closer look at the One:12 scale Batman and Judge Dredd, the Mortal Kombat X figures, and some upcoming figures for Breaking Bad.

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Toy Fair 2015: Playmates Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Instapics

The good news is that Playmates’ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, buoyed by the success of the Nickelodeon animated series, had the number one SKU in boys’ toys last year. That means a lot more basic and deluxe figures, as well as branching out into new expressions for the brand.

The bad news is that within the mix, the Classics line did not perform to expectations. So for those of you hoping to expand beyond the Turtles, Rocksteady and Bebop, with the Shredder and Krang figures shown in prototype previously, you are out of luck. Classics is on hiatus for now, but could be revisited as the sequel to the TMNT reboot hits screens in 2016.

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Toy Fair 2015: It’s Not All About Legends for Hasbro’s Marvel Team

As much as I’m digging on Marvel Legends for 2015, I’d be remiss if I didn’t highlight the other expressions from Hasbro’s Marvel team before shutting down for the night. In figures, the ones nearest to my heart are the Marvel Universe and Marvel Titan Series figures.

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Toy Fair 2015: Star Wars Black Series Snubbed?

I may have been pre-conditioned by the Marvel presentation that preceded it, but when a Hasbro rep says “We know what you’re all waiting for,” I expect it to be followed with slides of 6-inch super-poseable action figures. But as entertaining as the discussion was, I was less enthused by the prospect of customizing my own lightsaber, since most of the configurations guarantee disemboweling oneself if one attempts to use them. After all, it probably looks pretty cool to have a 4-bladed lightsaber, but when 3 of them point at your own gut you might reconsider its practicality.

Suffice to say that with no mention at all of the Star Wars Black Series in either 4 or 6-inches, I’m wondering if we won’t see a little rest at retail before the inevitable onslaught of Episode 7 figures at the end of the year. Hasbro did have some Black Series on display in the showroom. I took pictures of the 6-inch figures. But they really didn’t talk about them much at all.

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