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Feb 5, 2016
Toy Review - Figma's Guyver
Continuing our trend in reviewing toys that actively want to hurt you, we move on from Ban Dai’s SH Figuarts Injustice figures to Figma’s...
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Feb 3, 2016
Toy Review - Ban Dai SH Figuarts' Injustice Figures
Look…but don’t touch. Usually, that’s the warning that comes with any expensive collectible…but with SH Figuarts’ Injustice figures, it’s...
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Jan 31, 2016
Toy Review - Transformers Combiner Wars: Devastator
As I may have touched on in my comparison review of FansProject’s and Hasbro’s Stunticons, the massive influx of third-party Transformers...
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Dec 31, 2015
Toy Review - DC Icons: Wave 2
I have to admit, DC is shipping these Icons waves at a good clip, with wave 2 already here. [Actually, wave 2 is supposed to include the...
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Dec 28, 2015
Toy Review - Transformers Combiner Wars Protectobots
With the tangled web of intrigue, exclusives and shuffled teams of waves 1 and 2 out of the way, Hasbro found solid footing for their...
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Dec 27, 2015
Toy Review - DC Collectibles Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 2-Pack
For someone that supposedly has Bat-Fatigue, you sure are buying a lot of Batman figures lately. QUIET YOU! Truth be told, I don’t hate...
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Dec 26, 2015
Toy Review - Transformers Combiner Wars Aerialbots
Wave 1 of Transformers: Combiner Wars was…well…they tried. The Voyager class figures were Optimus Prime and Silverbolt and the Deluxe...
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Dec 25, 2015
Toy Review - DC Icons Wave 1
Having already reviewed the Batman figure from the DC Icons line, well, it just didn’t feel right to neglect the rest of the first wave...
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Dec 1, 2015
Toy Review - NECA's 7-inch Christopher Reeve Superman
In a world with the internet…there aren’t too many surprises these days. And yeah, if I want to wax nostalgic, sure I’d say I miss it. ...
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Nov 29, 2015
Toy Review - DC Collectibles Icons: Batman
YES! YES! YES! YES!!! DC Collectibles and its forebear DC Direct have been an emotional roller coaster for me. High quality sculpts have...
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Jul 29, 2015
Transformers Vs. GoBots...FIGHT!!!
It was the defining clash of anyone who was a child in the 80s [Not really –Ed.]. And while its impacts reverberate to this day, the...
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Apr 22, 2015
FansProject's Stunticons vs. Hasbro's Combiner Wars Stunticons
This is going to be like our Crime Syndicate review…only different. You see, back in the G1 days, when I was a wee lad, the Stunticons...
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Jan 21, 2015
Toy Review - Masterpiece Ultra Magnus
Masterpiece. There, that was a quick review. But since we’re not into the whole brevity thing here, man…and, let’s face it, all I did...
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Jan 21, 2015
Toy Review - Combiner Wars Optimus Prime
Welcome to Generation 2. Now, I don’t mean color schemes that would make even the blindest of men (or women) step back and say “Those...
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Jan 21, 2015
Toy Review - DC Collectibles' Earth 2 Superman
Okay DC Collectibles, we need to talk. Remember when I reviewed your Crime Syndicate figures and I said if you kept this up for your main...
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Dec 24, 2014
Reign of the Supermen part 3: Play Arts Kai DC Variant Superman
It’s not too often we get requests here at the site…so while I’d planned to go through my expensive Superman figures in chronological...
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Oct 15, 2014
Toy Review - Transformers Generations Jetfire
Hey, remember when I used to do toy reviews on here? Well, if so, congrats. I finally got off my butt to do one…mainly inspired by the...
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Apr 20, 2014
Toy Review - DC Collectibles' Crime Syndicate Action Figures
Ever since DC got into the action figure business...and I don't mean licensing their characters to Kenner/Hasbro or Mattel, I mean making...
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Apr 5, 2014
Toy Review - Transformers: Age of Extinction Preview Edition Optimus Prime
You know, for as many as I have in my collection, I'm kind of amazed that I'm only just now posting my first Transformer photoshoot and...
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Mar 22, 2014
Reign of the Supermen pt. 2: Franken-Routh
Check out the Toys section for the latest in a series of Superman figures I spent too much money on! This time around, we have Brandon...
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