It’s Miller time!
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Toy review roundup
Michael Crawford reviews the Gentle Giant Animated Hellboy Hellboy and Abe Sapien figures.
Michael Crawford reviews the Mattel The Batman ShadowTek Ultra Battle Fist Batman figure.
Michael Crawford reviews the Medicom Toys Real Action Heroes Star Wars 501st Clone Trooper limited figure.
Thomas Wheeler reviews the Bandai Ben 10 Alien Collection Stinkfly, Greymatter, Cannonbolt and Upchuck 4-inch figures.
yo go re reviews the Hasbro Spider-Man 3 New Goblin figure. (See also.)
Blitzwing reviews the Hasbro Transformers AllSpark Power Stockade figure. (See also.)
Jerilock reviews the Taito High Performance Cosmo Dragoon 1/1 scale toy from the Galaxy Express 999 series.
Michael Crawford reviews the McFarlane Toys The Godfather Don Vito Corleone figure.
Michael Crawford reviews the Dark Horse Roman Dirge Lenore vinyl figure.
Plastic and Plus reviews the Neptoon Studios Monstrocity High Crush vinyl figure.
Retro reviews
Josh Bernard reviews the Bandai Soul of Popynica Yamato from the Space Battleship Yamato series.
Josh Bernard reviews the Takatoku VF-1J Armored Valkyrie vinyl figure from the Macross series.
Berserk reviews the Clover Hokou Kidou Senshi Gundam RX-78-2 tin toy. (See also.)
Simon Skey does a video review of the Hasbro Transformers G1 Galvatron figure.
Actar does a video review of the Bandai Digivolving Magnamon Digi-Egg of Miracles limited edition figure.
Four hours after Miller time
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Toy links
The Duck Show.
“Duck Show combines my two favorite hobbies: photography and collecting rubber ducks. Hopefully anyone who visits Duck Show will chuckle, giggle, snicker, chortle, guffaw, have hysterics, fall down laughing, double up, or just smile.”
Joepedia.
“The mission of Joepedia is to record and categorize everything about G.I. Joe, from the classic 12” series to the Real American Hero line.”
Standing out among the crowd.
TK-182 discovers accessories make the man.
Girls and Dolls.
“This cabbage patch is exclusive to our store here. Mother Cabbage is about to give birth. I’m dilating Mother Cabbage now, and she’ll be dilated for ten full cabbage leaves. Push, Mother Cabbage, push!”
The older Japanese toy market.
“According to the Japan Toy Association, the size of the domestic toy market was 640 billion yen in fiscal 2006, down 10.3 percent compared to five years earlier.”
Beware his power
A Creative Commons-licensed photo by CelloC.
Japanese toy review roundup
The following reviews are in Japanese but they include a generous amount of photos so they’re well worth checking out.
K2O and Hanegaru review the Takara Tomy Zoids Generations ZGe-004 Liger Red Hiou Dengeki Hobby mail order exclusive kit.
Momodani reviews the Banpresto Special Creative Model Exia A and B prize item sets from the Gundam 00 series.
Mojya and Soh-dr review the Bandai S.I.C Kamen Rider Agito and Machine Tornado set. (See also.)
Gamu reviews the Takara Tomy Transformers Allspark Power Landmine figure. (See also.)
Ken Murasame reviews the Takara Tomy Transformers Allspark Power Incinerator figure. (See also.)
Hinatatiki reviews the Takara Tomy Transformers Movie Final Battle Jazz figure. (See also.)
Kuronuko Yamato reviews the the Kaiyodo Revoltech Brocken (red version) Friend Shop exclusive figure from the Patlabor OVA. (See also.)
Syuuamamori reviews the the Kaiyodo Revoltech Ingram 1 (movie edition) figure and Ingram 2 (movie edition) Friend Shop exclusive figure from the Patlabor movie.
K3 reviews the Kaiyodo Revoltech Danboard (a.k.a Danbo) and Amazon variant figures from the Yotsuba&! manga. (See also.)
Jongara reviews the Bandai Mugenbine Mugen Go Shinjuu MugenAnubis, MugenSphinx, MugenRa, MugenScorpion and MugenSebek candy toys, and their combined form, MugenPharaoh. (See also.)
Retro reviews
Transformers Baka Ichidai reviews the Bandai Bunborger 99 Ballstar and Keshistar figures. (See also.)
G.S.R reviews the Bandai Voice Formation V-Rex Robo DX set from the Mirai Sentai Timeranger series.
K2O reviews the Takara Cyberformula Protjaguar Z-6 1/48 scale kit.
One of those days
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Toy links
Training.
A neat Photoshop’d image of a Stikfas Warrior Monk.
Fox Sports Robot custom.
Scroll down for a fine custom figure inspired by The Four Horsemen’s Machine Kingdom.
Starscream ver. Lego.
A transforming MOC by Schide. (Check out the GaoGaiGar MOC, too.)
Juan Customs and Toys.
There are a lot of custom action figures to be found here including custom Microman and Micronauts figures. See the Microworld pages for soap opera-ish fan bios for the new Microman figures.
He-Man! (Disclaimer: may not include man parts.)
“I was inspired when I walked into a store and found a soft squishy man-chest.”
Blogroll grows
Added the Lego art Flick group to the Lego section and The Dinosaur Toy Blog to the Blog section of the blogroll.
Superman versus Optimus Prime
A Creative Commons-licensed photo by Nick Bowers.