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I have a ton of WWE Main Event, because a lot of lower-card and NXT women only show up there, but I've definitely bought figures from that line just for head swaps with Elites. The recent basic Jade Cargill with the updated hairstyle is a great example.

Yeah, the idea that a superhero line largely aimed at kids and sold at a friendlier price point is going to blow up in Mattel's face is wild to me, especially when they already have successful lines for other properties in the same format. We might be the core of McFarlane's market, but...

I would buy a Captain Harlock so, so fast. Really anything Matsumoto, I love his work so much. I don't remember if Bubblegum Crisis has come up here, but obviously that is extremely my thing. (Did I bring it up before? Probably.) I've been playing The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy for a...

Didn't those have more stylized proportions? I remember those having big ol' forearms and maybe a bit of angularity in some aspects of the sculpts. These don't look too bad. I'm wondering what the accessory situation will be, because I could talk myself into a John Stewart at this price point...

Nightfighter Robocop! I'm actually wondering if the similarity's intentional. He had metallic blue detailing not far off from this.

Closest we've come recently was one in the Monday Night Wars line a couple years back, but it was an update of a 2018 figure with a head that...well, let's just say that it's not up to their 2026 scanning quality. They keep coming close to the era these days but doing stuff just before and after...

I missed the first Question release (like, Maxwell Smart level missed it by THAT much; I found the wave at Walmart and Question was the only one gone), so it's nice to see I'm getting another chance at one. Also, Todd out here hastily releasing popular female characters like he's got a term...

I kept thinking about buying the Racer because it's close enough to the Last of the V8 Interceptors to work, but the lack of a Mad Max figure line in the last 25 years did somewhat limit my incentive to do that. But it's always in the back of my head that I should and then figure out a custom...

I bought a set with some Christmas gift cards and love it dearly (can we bring back commando and submariner sweaters for comic badasses? Always a great look), but yeah, agreed with those M16s. They're begging for some kind of Punisher/Power Pack mashup. I replayed the game not long ago and it...

I don't even think most hyper violence is a problem for people with games anymore. The sexualization of disposable female characters and the generally slimy vibe the series has around that part are the real pieces of baggage Duke has, but if you put out a Duke game without that whole aspect or...

Moore did the Beavis & Butt-Head figures, but Resaurus made the Crash ones.

...this is me remembering that Rex Harrison was in both My Fair Lady and Dr. Dolittle. Is Professor Pyg supposed to be Evil Rex Harrison?!

Mattel's got their wrestling figures down to less than a year from gear debut to figure release. This is a new line, so lead times are probably going to be longer when you account for a lot of new tooling and all the initial decisions made regarding line format, but if the new costume's already...

The true crime podcast boom didn't start till 2014 so I don't think it had much influence on the character, who debuted in 2007 (although police procedurals and true crime material are evergreen in television and nonfiction books). I suspect Pyg was more inspired by the then-current vogue for...

They certainly are, I mean if you get into toys as a profession there's a very good chance you appreciate toy craftsmanship, but I don't think Mattel or the team that's going to be working on this line really consider the high-end stuff competition for their products. It's a much smaller market...

Yeah, there's just about no way Mattel isn't looking at Absolute as a source for figure designs. The line's been an unqualified hit and it's unexplored territory. Extremely early guess: the 6.5" basic mainline will start with evergreen looks (maybe not exactly the José Luis García-López style...

"They were unusually close." - Historians

That Giulia figure is insane. Like, zoom in on that, how textured every part of her gear is. I need every Stardom and Marigold wrestler to do a year excursion to WWE at some point just for the figures. (Sorry the Outlaws figures are rough, though. I don't want to seem like I'm rubbing it in, I'm...

My Walmarts still have the line, no clearance or anything.

I finally managed to finish off the trilogy on 35mm last year with a screening of the first at a horror fest. It's wild, I've been doing retro screenings for over a decade now, ED2 was the headline film at the first one I ever went to, and I've seen AoD twice in theater, but I got prevented from...

Man, I missed a lot today. Maybe Bobby's gonna change the name to DARVOverse. "CasualToyCollector" is just a gloriously obvious fake name, though.

Oh, it was a fun figure. I'm just kind of shocked I ever had a phase in my life so edgelord that I developed an interest in Duke Nukem, although I assume that eroded after I saw Army of Darkness and began hailing the real king.

This is really a lot of consternation for products that have barely been leaked, let alone revealed or solicited. And I find that to be an odd recollection of DCUC, whose last 3 proper waves were full of lesser-known characters. If anything, I'd say an excessive amount of deep cuts may have...

I had their Duke Nukem figure (forgive me, I was young). Good figure for the time, though. If I could go back I would've bought some of their Street Fighter stuff instead, but it's not like we've been under-served for that series. Or Bone! I forgot they made Bone. Incredible comic. The line of...

The argument for a segmented approach like this would be covering multiple SKUs to take up more pegs, but to do that safely, the separate lines would have to be confined to mass-appeal subsets like X-Men, Spider-Man, and mass media releases...so pretty much what they already do. Sorry to Phantom...