toy fair deuce

hasbro

the sigma 6 stuff is listed as just 8″ joes, and the only packaging shown says ‘gijoe adventure team’. i’m not sure what that means for the future of the line, but with this crocodile and a sweet-ass tiger on the way, i don’t know that i’m concerned. hrrm, if i stick with my plan of making a trek crew out of sigma 6 figures, maybe i’ll get an extra tiger and make a kzinti.

hot toys

a 12″ scale power loader from aliens? i really can’t tell you how i’d be able to resist that, or why i would bother. i mean, besides the fact that it’s going to be 18 inches tall and probably three hundred dollars. so, probably not.

mcfarlane

i don’t always go for mcfarlane’s preposed over-sculpted stuff, but i’ll make an exception for jack bauer.

first they twisted oz, then fairy tales. now mcfarlane is twisting christmas!!! actually, this evil snowman isn’t half bad, but i’m not sure i want to see their take on mrs. claus. or rudolph the homicidal zombie reindeer. or whatever the hell they decide is edgy this year. why they don’t simply make figures of the victims from se7en, i can’t imagine. it’s SO their thing.

neca

there’s going to be non-posable real-scan grindhouse figures, from the people who brought you the same for sin city and pirates of the caribbean. since that’s not my bag, i’ll continue to pass. still, good likenesses of quentin, kurt russel, and rose mcgowan, whose leg can be replaced with a rifle, just like the movie! i’ll hold out for tom savini and machete.

you know, actually, bobbleheads of beavis and butthead are completely appropriate. think about it.

speaking of pirates, don’t forget the next one has chow yun fat. and apparently keira half dressed and fully armed.

organic hobby

the insane japanese version of witchblade is probably coming to america this year. at least, one of the six or seven pvc statues is.

toynami

‘you might have to hypothetically make a deal with the devil. and by devil, i mean robot devil. and by hypothetically i mean get your coat.’

bonus points if fry and the robot devil have interchangable hands.

except of course that toynami is the company with the robotech license, and was trying like hell to prevent the sale of any macross merchandise in america due to licensing infringement or some-such. this is egregrious enough already, but the best valkyrie toy ever was released in 1982, re-released in the transformers line as jetfire, and then reissued by bandai in 2001.

and even now, 25 years later, it’s better than toynami’s best efforts. let’s not even consider the newly engineered, more anime accurate valkyries that yamato released a few years ago, and toynami tried desperately to block, to get us to buy more of their crappy veritechs.

so yeah, don’t give toynami your money. bunch of savages.