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    This Week In Your Plastic Crack, Action Figures and Toy Collection

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    On 4/23/2024 at 6:26 PM, grendel013 said:

    There is definitely a Spidey one. Had that one too and saw a couple on eBay. What I didn't realize was there was a JOKER one. That MAY be my next purchase. :takeit:Not sure about the Hulk though... I know AHI made lots of other cool toys (other motorcycles, cars, parachutes) that predominantly featured Batman, Spidey and Hulk.

    After my last post, I checked eBay and found the Spidey one and at least two versions of the Hulk one. I think you got me going down a rabbit hole! 

    This Week In Your Plastic Crack, Action Figures and Toy Collection

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    On 4/23/2024 at 1:07 PM, grendel013 said:

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    Got this badboy off of eBay the other day. Earliest toy (pre-dates "farmboy" Luke) that I remember my mom giving me as a small child. No clue what happened to my childhood toy but this one brought back all the nostalgia. :banana:

    I seem to recall there also being Spidey and Hulk versions of these. They would break very easily if you tried to do any of the jumps or stunts listed on the package.

    PSA: Storage Units and Comics (DON'T DO IT)

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    On 4/20/2024 at 3:50 AM, CHASEnBLUE said:

    My wife is finally complaining. One of the five bedrooms has way too many boxes now...damn. I do have a storage but freaked out about moving more to the storage though I have not had any problems with the storage for more than a decade... 

    Hit the purge button, dude. If your collection is so big that you gotta put some of it in storage, I would suggest you consider down-sizing.

    This Week In Your Plastic Crack, Action Figures and Toy Collection

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    On 3/21/2024 at 4:23 PM, fantastic_four said:

    Yea, not sure, I only think about sixth scale stuff every 3 to 6 months, sometimes I ignore that market for a year or more.  But 2-3 years ago I looked at the available forums and thought collectorfreaks.com was the one with the most people who discuss Hot Toys and comparable sixth scale figures.

    Over the last year I seriously considered the Hot Toys Ahsoka figures, but reading through the collectorfreaks threads on them I found that both the Clone Wars and Mandalorian versions have those latex-covered elbow joints that look awesome but are highly prone to tearing if you leave them in bent positions.  I really don't want to deal with that kind of headache so I abandoned the idea of buying either.  The idea of being forced to leave my figures in vanilla poses to preserve them offends me.  :sorry:

    Those kind of QC issues got me out of collecting both Hot Toys figures and Takara Masterpiece Transformers. I'm out of toy buying/collecting altogether now, but I still like to follow along. Those GI Joe Classifieds are very tempting, especially now that they're putting out stuff like the HISS and VAMP. But I've kicked the habit and I'm going to keep living clean.

    This Week In Your Plastic Crack, Action Figures and Toy Collection

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    Fixed a typo.

    On 3/21/2024 at 1:54 PM, fantastic_four said:

    Linking to other forums is totally fine, never heard any mod complain about it.

    Have you used the Sideshow forums?  I'm guessing those might have more traffic than OneSixthFigures, but I'll definitely check that one out over the upcoming months.  OneSixthFigures sounds better for discussing multiple lines though, although Sideshow seems to end up selling most or possibly all sixth scale figure brands anyway so people discuss more than just Hot Toys and Sideshow figures there.

    https://www.collectorfreaks.com/

    I visit the Sideshow forums on occasion as well as https://www.onesixthwarriors.com/forums/#front-page-news.137, which I've visited even longer than I've been posting here. But OneSixthFigures is the one I like best for new product announcements, including some of the sketchier stuff from overseas where copyright laws aren't as strictly enforced. That being said, I'm unfamiliar with CollectorFreaks so thanks for the link. I will check them out.

    This Week In Your Plastic Crack, Action Figures and Toy Collection

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    On 3/21/2024 at 7:55 AM, fantastic_four said:

    Here's that forthcoming HoTo comic Wolverine.  @Dave2739 -- any idea if these HoTo figures will eventually get a more deluxe release?  I've got no FOMO with Hot Toys, so I can easily wait years if they've indicated they will release two versions of each figure, or if it seems likely that they will eventually.  My guess is they've already said they will release both entry level and deluxe versions or that they'll say it within the next year or so if they haven't already.

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    I don't believe so. And while I no longer collect 1/6 scale figures, I used to be heavily into it. I still keep up just for fun and this is the website I get most of my news from. Hope it's okay to post here.

    https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/f4-new-product-announcements

    This Week In Your Plastic Crack, Action Figures and Toy Collection

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    On 3/20/2024 at 1:50 PM, fantastic_four said:

    Entry level?  What does that mean?  Does it imply a higher-end figure comes later?  And what exactly is entry level about this guy?  Aside from lacking quite as many accessories as many Hot Toys figures come with I wonder what's "entry level" about this release?  ???  The detailing looks as good as any Hot Toys figure I ever see...  hm

    Yeah, it's not clear yet exactly what they mean by entry-level. So far it seems that they are a bit less expensive than the very expensive regular Hot Toys releases and they have fewer accessories. It remains to be seen if they cut any corners on the overall quality though. You guys know there is also a Wolverine that they've shown as well right?

    This Week In Your Plastic Crack, Action Figures and Toy Collection

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    On 3/20/2024 at 12:36 PM, fantastic_four said:

    I'm considering this guy too since Magneto is my absolute favorite villain.  I also am bummed there are no extra heads.  Those magnetic effects are the best ones I've ever seen.  I have the Mondo sixth scale Magneto figure from the animated series and those are fun because his hands are magnetic and the effects cling to the hands, but the design of these is a big aesthetic improvement on any I've seen before.

    But I'm skeptical  The Mondo Magneto is the only sixth scale articulated figure I have aside from all dozen or so that Marvel Legends released from around 2014 to 2019, and I'm HUGELY skeptical of how fragile the components are on the Sideshow brands like Hot Toys, Sideshow itself, and now this company which is called Hono that I know zero about.  Definitely waiting for reviews before I jump.

    I'm not buying any more Mondo figures because I really don't like the articulation and engineering.  And I look at EVERY one they release from the X-Men animated series because they look spectacular, but the articulation is just not good at all by the standards the 1:12 scale has made me come to expect.  Every Hot Toys and Sideshow figure I've seen reviews for also have MUCH less articulation than almost all 6-inch figures these days, and Mondo has multiple engineering issues.  My Magneto's ankles aren't tight enough for him to stand in any kind of dynamic pose at all for more than a few hours at best, so I can only really pose him in vanilla-legged poses.  I don't want figures that take up as much space as sixth scale figures do if I can't pose them however I want.  The Legends 12-inch figures are mostly just as poseable as their 6-inch figures are--although certainly their later ones released around 2017 to 2019 are far more poseable than the first batch from 2014 to 2016.  But even the early Legends 12-inch figures from Hasbro (Toy Biz made a bunch as well in the 2000s that are nowhere near as good as Hasbro's) have MUCH better articulation than any Hot Toys, Sideshow, or any other 12-inch figure I've seen to date.

    Can't wait to learn more about this Hono Magneto!  :popcorn:  I highly doubt I'll end up liking him enough to eclipse the Mafex Magneto which is absolute perfection, but I sure do hope I'm wrong about that.  :wishluck:  Certainly the potential is there since the sixth scale is so much more detailed than the twelfth scale, but so few of the companies focus on articulation in that scale that I'm just not a fan of it for now.

    Just FYI: Hono and Hot Toys are one and the same. Hono is just the name they're using for what they are calling their entry level figures, or something to that effect.

    Stan Lee...accused of sexual harassment?!?!

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    On 3/14/2024 at 7:22 AM, mra4nostop said:

    Wow, I'm honestly taken aback to hear about the accusations against Stan Lee. It's always disappointing when someone we admire falls from grace. It's a reminder that we never truly know what happens behind closed doors.

    Why did this thread get resurrected? Did some new information come out?