MOTU Classics' Ram Man...

I have heaps of MOTU Classics figures in my collection since it's been my core collection for the past few years. I started my collection with the now-highly-sought-after-figure Teela way back in 2008 courtesy of a dear blogger friend of mine who bought and posted the figure all the way from New York after discovering that yours truly was struggling with the infamous 'white screen of death' (hardcore MOTUC fans will know just what I'm babbling about here!). I've only wanted the core members of both the good and evil factions i.e. the classic line-up but ended up with a whole lot more while at the same time successfully steering clear of those 'non-essentials' like the Mattel 'Toyguru'/Four Horsemen-created figures and most of the 'concept' figures which is currently rampant within the MOTU classics line-up. Recently I've also realised that I haven't been talking about any of my MOTUC figures since I last reviewed a MOTUC item way back in January 2012....WOW! So I think it's only fitting that I start the ball rolling (again) by looking into one of the core members of the good guys aka every MOTUC fanboys' favourite bulky hero.....Ram Man!

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Sideshow's Sixth Scale Snowtrooper...

Wow. Ain't the title of this post a mouthful? Hahaha. Anyhoo, honestly I can't even remember when was the last time I got myself a 1/6 Sideshow figure. All of my recent one-sixth haul were exclusively from Hot Toys. But when it comes to Star Wars inevitably I have to go back to Sideshow (even though Hot Toys acquired the license as of late....have you guys seen their Bespin Luke? Excellent!). Not withstanding the fact that Hot Toys can now also produce Star Wars figures, this is one Sideshow offering that you can't afford to give a miss as I doubt Hot Toys is gonna do a similar character anytime soon. As mentioned in my earlier post sometime last month, my dear wife snagged me not one but TWO 1/6 Star Wars figures....this excellent Snowtrooper and the Padawan Obi Wan (which I'm gonna look into sometime later this month.....I hope!). So let's look into the Snowtrooper first shall we?

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Star Wars VOTC VC94: Imperial Navy Commander....

I knew that I'd be compelled to talk about this figure sooner or later. This one was from Wave 12 in 2012, you know, THE wave where the ever-elusive Darth Malgus was also packed in. This Imperial Navy Commander figure is supposedly very hard to find over in the States. Shortpacked or for some other reason, I think it's frickin' ridiculous that such a popular figure (hey, everybody likes them Imperial figures right?) is shortpacked and collectors had to launch a nation-wide hunt to find these for their collection. I hate goin' round and round across all of the TRUs and retail stores around town but once I found this I knew why he was such a popular figure. A short-packed action figure with an excellent headsculpt and a great deal of attention to details....a definite disaster for those wanting to find him in the wild.

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Some haul for the past couple o' weeks....

I indulged myself in some plastic-retail therapy and these were my loot for the past two weeks. What a way to relief one's stress! It's great being a geek. Never thought I'll see that Marvel Universe Professor X in the wild. He's just so darn hard to find on retail pegs (funny us Malaysians only get to see this MU Wave now instead of last year!). When I finally found him at an obscure TRU two weeks back, he's sitting pretty next to a Blastaar variant.....jackpot! Love those 'flaming' arms of his. I caved in and got myself the Marvel Select Thanos. What surprises me is that he's a 2012 re-issue, something I didn't know Marvel Select did. It's great for those wanting to get the earlier-but-now-extinct MS figures. Now please re-issue that Mephisto....I really need that throne!

I searched high and low for the Hot Wheels Retro A-Team GMC van and I finally struck gold when I stumbled across a store assistant who was just re-stocking the Hot Wheels aisle the other day during lunch time. I grabbed two for myself (gotta open one and display it on my work desk!) and left the others (there were 4 left last I've seen them) for other fellow collectors. That Madame Hydra figure was bought on the cheap. Some collector got both Madames and wasn't too keen on Hydra and opted for Masque (he was so eager to dispose Mdm Hydra on the cheap!)....his loss is my gain! To cap a wonderful week, I came across the highly anticipated NECA Predator series 8 figures. There were 3 in the series, but I only opted to get the Jungle Patrol Dutch and the Jungle Hunter Predator (though I'm mighty tempted to also get the other version of Dutch too). Bear in mind that we'll get ANOTHER 2 versions of Dutch in series 9! Real top notch milking by NECA!

See the rest of the stuff I got last week.....

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Hot Toys Avengers movie Captain America....

When it comes to supplying 1/6 Hot Toys action figures, my current 'toy-pusher' dude is a tad bit late in getting his stock into his store. I know the fact that some of you out there have been receiving the Captain here as early as late-January '13 or some during February '13. I'm getting really annoyed as most collectors here in Malaysia (or Singapore for that matter) already have Thor and Black Widow in hand....God knows when I'll be getting mine....LOL. Well, change is always good if it means that I'll get my HT at par with the rest of the collecting community out there! Time to switch 'allegiance' soon. Aaaaanyway, enough with the rants and let's hear what yours truly think about Hot Toys' 1/6 Avengers movie Captain America figure here, shall we?

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May the Fourth Be With You....Always!

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Iron Man 3: My quick thoughts...

Would you believe it, I've watched Iron Man 3 TWICE already in the span of 2 days with my wife and son, fulfilling two different movie date invitations. Honestly, I didn't really have to watch it 2 times to acknowledge the film's awesomeness (and I'm not saying this because I'm a huge Marvel fan!) but it does help you to discover those bits & pieces you might've missed from your first sitting. 

Anyway, here's some of my quick thoughts on the movie...[SPOILER ALERT!]. Those who haven't watched the movie yet, thou have been warned!

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Marvel Select Juggernaut....

I was guilty of ignoring this piece of action-figure when it first came out in 2011. I initially dissed it off as being 'too out of scale with the MLs' and I remembered having some other qualms about it. So I totally decided against picking it up for my Marvel shelf, especially with the thought that I already have the Series 5 ML Juggs on display at home. It took me almost 2 years later to realise that I was in danger of missing out one of the best action figure made in 2011. I was lucky enough to find the Marvel Select Juggernaut still on sale through our local eBay for a decent price. Glad I picked it up....this is one HUGE monster for anyone's display shelf. Boy, I'm such a sucka for these bulky action figures!

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A little bit of haul for the past few weeks.....

Honestly I can't say that I'd be able to catch up with myself to do reviews on these stuff. I've already got a backlog of stuff just sittin' and waitin' in line to be opened and reviewed...(yup, some of those stuff are still inside their packaging....*bummer*). Gotta find time to open and fiddle with those before these newer ones clog my 'unopened' shelf. I haven't been indulging myself with 'major' plastic crack haul lately (save for some select few during past months) so I guess I got a little bit carried away this time....LOL.

It's a whole smorgasbord of different stuff this time around, ranging from 1/6 figures, 6" figures right down to them 4-inchers.

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Who collects (Matty Collector's) The Watchmen?

These Watchmen figures made by DC Direct (now DC Collectible) have abysmal articulations. They can hardly move, let alone being posed in heroic stances and such. They're good for some poses though...and that's enough for me. Whatever it is, Matty Collector's versions have worse scale issues! Come on Matty, Rorsharch taller than Dr Manhattan? Thanks for letting me keep my money Matty....I don't have to start another Watchmen line-up in my collection!

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Sideshow teases their 1/6 Darth Malgus!!!

I don't really dig the Expanded Universe (EU), save for certain storyline i.e. The Thrawn Trilogy (Zahn's books) and the Star Wars Legacy comic series. I haven't even played the Old Republic game on my PS:3 before but I have seen cut-scenes of Darth Malgus many times before and I must say....he looks awesome for a villain!

Had such a hard time tracking his 3.75" VOTC figure down (I'd like to thank my better half for hunting that down for me!) since he is unofficially THE most sought after SW EU action figure amongst us collectors. The crappy distribution problem here in Malaysia certainly did not help. 

And now, Sideshow has finally/officially given us an image of their upcoming 1/6 Malgus figure! Breathless.....and we've not even seen waist downwards yet!

I just wanna say 2 things......he's a total BAD-A$$......and......a definite WANT for me!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hot Wheels Retro vehicles......

Goodness! I can't tell ya how hard it is to track these down at retail. I've been drooling (and downright envious) of those collectors who have been lucky enough to snag these when it was first released some weeks ago. A collector friend of mine actually paid more than double the price to get each of these into his Hot Wheels collection (these are actually RM20 or roughly USD6.60 each). The word on the street was, these were immediately snapped up the moment they were put on retail aisle here in Malaysia. Obviously not wanting to fall prey to them damn dirty scalpers, I waited diligently for the re-stock....and it was well rewarded when these began to pop up again almost everywhere. They didn't last long though....now I can only see the '66 Batmobile hanging on pegs, but no more of K.I.T.T. or Ecto-1 anywhere. I've heard about (and seen!) K.A.R.R. (K.I.T.T.'s arch-enemy) before but can't find him anywhere in the wild. The search continues!

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Art Feather Bumblebee

Today I'm gonna look at an offering by a 3rd party Transformers company called Art Feather. This one's pretty obvious....I don't think anybody (well, at least youse TF fans) to will fail to recognize who this character is. In fact, by producing AND clearly stating who the character is on the packaging, Art Feather is clearly oblivious to the fact that they're liable for a lawsuit by Hasbro, THE official/licensed maker for all Transformers toys and stuff. But let's not get into that. We're here for the toy....and that's what we're gonna stick to. Let's keep all those legal mumbo-jumbo out of the geeksphere shall we?

We've got a G1 Bumbleebee before through the Hasbro: Universe/TomyTakara: Henkei line some years back, but as faithful it was to the G1 version, it was never close enough to the on-screen version of the loveable VW robot we knew. Well, Art Feather has risen to the challenge and gave us an 'screen accurate' 'Deluxe class' Bumblebee for you. Just how good this toy is? Read on to find out.

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Jakks Pacific Men In Black (MIB) 3 Agent J & K.....

I was never really interested to get these 3.75" action figures in the first place as it was ridiculously priced at almost USD18 here in Malaysia....no s**t! I truly enjoyed the MIB:3 movie (Josh Brolin deserves an action figure!) but I was flabbergasted to find out that the action figures would cost and arm and a leg. So I waited, with a fool's hope that one day TRU or some other retailers would finally mark them down as they are (still) cluttering retail aisles everywhere. I was right, as I finally found these at just USD3 each (well USD5 if you wanna go with the 'deluxe sets' that came with the 'agent gears' i.e. the Neuralyser and the Noisy Cricket). These actually 'transform' into vehicles for the action figures but I wasn't too bothered with those features.

I decided to go with the 'deluxe sets' anyway as I wanted to get these gears for my son (who goes around in his sunglasses and introducing himself as Agent J!). He was obviously overjoyed when I gave these to him!

Anyway, coming back to the figures, I think the reduced price would definitely encourage more collectors to pick multiples of J and K for customising purposes. Their bodies are pretty generic looking and I reckon some simple head swaps with your GI Joes, Star Wars or Marvel Universe figures would give you endless customising opportunities. An immediate custom figure comes to my mind.....cough...*Agent Coulson*....cough!

THE REBEL'S VERDICT: HIGHLY recommended at these price points! In fact, I'm thinking of getting more to create my own army of movie S.H.I.E.L.D agents! 

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Mini Muggs Captain America (Avengers movie)....

My wife has a bunch of these sitting pretty in their packaging still. I don't think she ever has the intentions to open them up anytime soon. I tend to agree with her since these 'cute' heroes/villains look pretty cool inside their simple packagings. Captain America here however, belongs to our son who gleefully ripped opened the packaging when he received it as a gift from his uncle! *The horror*...LOL. Anyway it gives daddy a chance to grab him for a quick snapshot. Mini Muggs figures are a smaller version of its Mighty Muggs cousin. Now there's even a smaller version called the Micro Muggs (started with the Iron Man 3 line I think). Articulations on these babies are pretty basic. 5 points of articulations (or sometimes 6 if the figures are able to twist and turn their weapons or whatever's in their hands) is ok for such a simple action figure.

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