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I saw a guy and youtube use Windsor and Newton brush cleaner to strip paint of a GI Joe Classified, but it wasn't face printing paint, if that matters. I agree with Damien, doing a wash of paint might be the best bet. But at the end of the day, unless you already have a set of acrylics...

(somewhat) surprised this happened with a clear window box. At least without a slightly convincing figure in its place

I got into this show when I started getting back into TMNT in general, collecting the NECA figs in earnest and so on. It was a real nice slice of nostalgia pizza. Ultimately the best combination of everything turtles into one piece of media. Made me wish I had kids to share it with, but I did...

Some really really good reveals, not just for this wave, but for what it implies down the road. More articulation, new build sizes. Very excited for gnome scale figures, as well as for more RPG gear. Finally, a fire pit! Clever to design it to fit over a LED votive. Also going to need the mug...

Yeah I should say I normally ship registered airmail, if I’m only shipping one figure. It takes about 2-3 weeks. About $16, so this Cyclops would run me $83.93 total at Nin Nin vs $114 at BBTS. I only ship DHL if I’m ordering more than one figure at a time, so it breaks down to $10-13 per fig...

Not to pick nits, but if we’re doing a 1:1, BBTS is $100+$4 shipping + TAX, which for me is 9.8% Meaning my total is at least $113.80 at BBTS vs $80-$85, which is between $33.80-$28.80 cheaper I don’t mean to get in the weeds, but as a Frugal Freddie who collects imports, this is why I do...

for those wanting to buy him cheaper from the Japanese sites, Bandai almost always restocks after the first wave ships. Like 99% of the time. Unlike MAFEX who may use preorders to gauge production numbers, SHF puts preorders up when production is far along. I think they intentionally under stock...

Good luck, Ryan. It seems like a portion of your job was apologizing and smoothing over and being a human shield for decisions that you did not make or even necessarily agreed with. You sat through a few difficult live streams that most(almost all) companies would have noped out of, and there...

Thanks for these pictures SD. Really cool. This is my first year tabling in AA, I am very excited. And exhausted just thinking about it!

I really really hope they don’t do rereleases with bonus heads/accessories for a little more money. Like, Egon with a variety of expressions, hands, maybe slime deco, and character specific accessories, but no ghost or ghost trap, as a way of double dipping. That may be me being preemptively...

Very excited for the reveals. It sounds like a DnD wave, I can imagine each member of the party will be a specialist, which would be fun. I’m thinking polar bear, too, with the extra head being some sort of mutation or monster head, so you can have a normie bear if you so choose. I keep...

Bandai has been over engineering their figures for the past few years. I dunno why. I can't imagine that gives you really any more useful articulation. It's almost like it's just for an aesthetic they like. Like they like the extra cuts, as if it means it's more premium or something. That...

Damn, so the SHF Marvel rumors are true. I hope they scale well with Legends/MAFEX.

Aragorn just wants his Narsil back, man. It really tied the room together. I was actually thrown a bit by how human the Hobbits looked in the Jackson movies because of my Rankin/Bass childhood. Always thought they were more crittery. I think I remember a person from Toy Vault that worked on...

Cut to me having a weird moment as a kid when I realized the turtles were all basically naked, but almost all of the other mutants wear clothes. Maybe it depends on if you were an animal that turned humanoid vs a human that turned animal? But I think Mondo was a lizard first not a human...

I have not a single MOTU or Thundercats in my collection. Mattel has almost gotten me with their affordable price points, though, and Amazon/Target deals. The Thundercats Deluxe figs have almost gotten me a couple times, but I keep remembering they are S7 and they are such bare bones releases...

I've been listening to Unparalleled's stream with DGDX who said (paraphrasing) that he'd pay attention to the 2003 Turtles when NECA does them. 100% meant nothing about the future in the context but it did get me thinking about S7's licenses going up for grabs if they do go belly up. A NECA...

The Hobbit movie was made by Rankin/Bass and the Lord of the Rings was made by Ralph Bakshi, the designs are very different. Bakshi didn't finish The Lord of the Rings... he was going to do a second movie but never finished. Then to make it more confusing, Rankin/Bass stepped in again and made...

This is from the 70's Hobbit cartoon. While I definitely would take an entire Fellowship of figures done in this kind of style, it may not be my ideal. But it gives you an idea how wildly different literary characters could be represented. That's a much different Gandalf.

Yeah, it's not like they don't look like the characters, but in my mind it's like a Marvel comic figure vs an MCU figure. I'd like to see the characters artfully imagined in an illustrative style instead of marrying them to the actors that played them and those specific movies. There's a...

I think both Hasbro and S7 were caught using AI for their card backs. 🤡 🤦‍♂️ Honestly I think companies don't answer questions that make their company look bad. I can't really disagree with that I suppose, when I think about their perspective. Like "hey Brian, why do your figures kind of suck...

I've often found SHF figures look better in hand than in pictures. It's almost as if the designers understand that light will hit a 1:12 head in a different way than it'd hit a 1:1 head, and sculpt them to read under real life conditions. Crackpot theory, I think they really just woof it...

I remember when the Toys R Us first opened in my hometown, I was probably around 6 years old. Prior to that it was an overpriced KB in the mall, and the toy section in the Clover store near us. I was big into TMNT at the time, and when we rounded into the figure aisle my eyes nearly popped out...

Hoping we get a Shredder release soon. I'm looking forward to checking him out in the case at SDCC. Their original display of him looked pretty awkward, but the second time looked better. I have no idea when NECA is going to re-release their maroon Shredder without battle damage, or if they'll...

Definitely worth waiting to PO Winston from another retailer, if you aren't getting the 2-Pack, to skip the tariff fee. Most are pay later. That book looks really cool! Might actually pick it up. Thanks for sharing, I hadn't seen it. My wife and I grabbed two of the 1:1 Spirit proton packs...