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JP is a much less character-rich property with serious scale issues for a 1/12 line (i.e. it's a property built around dinosaurs) whose un-toyetic main characters are scientists in -- admittedly fantastic, Dr. Alan Grant is a fashion icon -- workwear. I think this is going to be much more a...

My deal with the high-end stuff is that my favorite characters are all hyper-specific and never get made in those formats. The MAFEX stuff is gorgeous but if you gave me $100 right now to buy one, it'd be Caine from John Wick 4 or the T-800. Well, that being said, I could see them making an...

It would probably be extremely interdepartmental in a lot of companies, involving Finance, Business Development or maybe some kind of Chief Strategy Officer, Legal, and maybe Brand Management when determining suitability from all angles. Marketing might also play a research role, although I...

Marketing doesn't typically have much if anything to do with license acquisition. There's often some level of departmental crossover between marketing and product development depending on the company and the sector, but in a lot of cases the marketing department is figuring out how to best sell...

Not to drag arthouse horror too much, there's a ton of it I like (one of my January project recs for my movie Discord was Memento Mori, which is basically a South Korean nonlinear sad lesbian school melodrama but with ghosts; in other words, the perfect movie), but that's an unfortunate thing...

Honestly, I think A24-style elevated horror has become just as formulaic in its own way as slashers (and I have serious stylistic and/or thematic criticisms for at least a few of the major filmmakers in that space, especially Ari Aster, who at this point could only make me happy with his next...

I honestly prefer when horror's not in awards contention, because that means it's still saying honest things. Awards often feel to me like consolation for being gentrified.

Definitely. Did you know Disco Stu action figure sales were up 400% in the year ending 1976? Also, he desperately needs the platform shoes with the dead fish in them. (Also, it's fun that we've lived long enough that disco received a complete critical reappraisal and now it's a beloved retro...

Yeah, the trailer necessarily held a lot of stuff back. I saw it because I liked Barbarian a lot and I really liked that central weird-creepy image of the kids Naruto running into the dark streets. I didn't even really know Madigan was in it before I saw it, and I love Streets of Fire. But man...

People say forums are irrelevant, but this is persuasive evidence we're entering our 90s hip hop era. Big sales ahead. Seriously, forums are where you get the hyperfixated guys with the deep knowledge reservoirs. As a resource, they're irreplaceable by anything else online. I've said it before...

Yeah, he seems like he'd be pretty easy to pull off in the Mego format, and they can probably figure out enough reuse to make an Ultimate viable. The Toony looks fun. The skulking kinds of killers are always pretty charming in that format. Just keep bringing on the B-tier slasher villains. They...

Definitely, she'd be perfect for that format. Her appearance is already sort of grotesquely stylized within the context of the movie, there's an unsettling living cartoon vibe to her.

Does NECA still have the Alien license? Because today I learned that Stuart Gordon filmed a motion simulator Aliens theme park ride starring Jeffrey Combs, and I need Jeff as a Space Marine in figure form. I can't even believe this exists.

Look, I've seen the box art for the old Joe vehicles, and every single one for every organization has some combination of a cockpit with no shielding, unprotected dudes hanging off the side of a vehicle that's loaded down with artillery firing about half a foot from them, and vehicle stations...

I mean, you weren't wrong! He was the cool Shield member. Roman hadn't found himself yet and Rollins is forever terminally uncool and tryhard. Also Mox was the only one of the three who could cut a promo at the time. Even Mox's initial AEW stuff was good; that promo battle with Eddie Kingston...

Hah, I know the feeling - my Benoit figures went right in the trash when that happened. Just felt, I don't know, tainted. And I appreciate that. I tend to find it more mystifying than anything. It was already weird enough that he became a prison guard, he was always this lanky dude with fair...

This is going to sound weird, but to me, toys are like...icons or totems, right? Maybe not that spiritual, these are still mass-produced sweatshop plastic, but if I'm buying a toy it's because however small or inconsequential it is, it's representing something that matters to me. I get why Hulk...

Excited for that Rhea. It's maybe more of an event-specific look than I usually want for an Ultimate, but it looks cool and this is probably a case where it was the best way to budget for it. But she's wildly popular so I'm expecting we'll also get another more typical Rhea look as an Ult down...

Curious if they'd make more TNA stuff, though, or if it's just that Hendry's such a big name at this point that a figure sells itself. Did those Powertown TNA figures end up coming out? Were they any good?

The situation with the basic women has gotten absurd. When Main Event Tiffany is still commanding those prices despite having an Ultimate out there, that's crazy. The thing that makes it worse is that Ringside doesn't really seem to want to buy a bunch of cases of the Main Event waves just for...

As a figure collector, I concede it's accurate to call me an army-building honky.

I'm hoping they'll have a classic Bronze Tiger look available and not just the Rebirth design. Rebirth suit isn't a bad Vixen-ish design, but it doesn't feel martial arts enough for me.

Aww man, this is making me sad that Jade was gone when I ran across part of that wave the other day at WM. I kinda want to grab one and a second Elite of her to do a headswap now.

I think he'll end up back there eventually if even just as a Legends deal. I can't imagine the merch payouts for AEW come close to what he'd be getting from WWE, but he still wants to be in the ring and be featured, so I get it. But eventually there's just gotta be a point where he's ready to...

Something that doesn't get talked about as much with Hogan, and this doesn't excuse anything about him but I think it's relevant context, is that his livelihood in his later life was secured by that Gawker lawsuit, and that lawsuit was funded for him by Peter Thiel as a way to get revenge on...