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The recent tease at Jump Festa that we will be getting new Akatsuki action figures in the revived Naruto S.H.Figuarts line has me extremely excited! This group of characters are some of the absolute coolest antagonists that the series touted, and since the line has restarted there have been several that I've been hoping to add into the display sooner rather than later! We don't yet know who the first member of this legendary team will be to be added into the line, though we do know that they will be utilizing fabric cloaks when they come! With plenty of Akatsuki options to hope for from the series, this is my top 5 most wanted Akatsuki members in the S.H.Figuarts line! (Images Source) 5. Itachi This is the most obvious choice, as Itachi is easily one of the most popular characters in the entire series as a whole, which was proved even further by him ranking so high on the recent Narutop99 fan vote contest. Tamashii Nations has stated that they're looking at that poll for wh...

With 2023 about to leave us in the rearview, and 2024 coming upon us, I've got my thoughts and projections about what we'll see in the widely varied DC Multiverse line from Mcfarlane. This year brought a lot of very cool focuses and sets such as Flashpoint, waves based on live action Batman films from years past, and surprises like Black Lightning, Animal Man, and Waverider! There will always be curveball figure releases that I can't see coming, but based on gut intuition and what seems to be trends for the line, these are the top 5 things I expect to see released by Mcfarlane for their DC Comics line in 2024! (Image Source) 5. Joker 2 and Creature Commandos figures It is usually a given that the larger scale media releases in a year will get corresponding figure releases. Next year the only DC Comics film that will be coming out will be Joker 2, and while it isn't a film, I feel like Creature Commandos has a pretty good chance at figures too since it is carrying with i...

Mcfarlane did not put out as many Build-a-Figure waves as he did last year, but the ones that we got this year still greatly expanded our roster of characters in the line and really helped fill out some specific displays from the Titans to the live action film universes! With four waves of figures and four Build-a-Figures in total coming from the main DC Multiverse toyline this year, this'll be my list ranking from bottom to top my favorite Build-a-Figures from Mcfarlane's DC Multiverse for 2023! 4. Mr. Freeze (Batman and Robin) (Image Source) Starting off the list will be Arnold's Mr. Freeze from Batman and Robin, undoubtedly the main surprising wave of figures to come from Mcfarlane this year! While I think it is delightfully awesome that we now have this iconic film depiction in action figure form from Mcfarlane, I think the overall presentation just doesn't hit as hard as the other figures on this list. The paint is very soft and the details just don't feel as s...

Mcfarlane continued his DC Multiverse line for a fourth year, extending his initial contract past the original three year agreement he had made with DC Comics. I'm more than happy for this to continue, and I hope it does for the foreseeable future because I've loved to finally have a line of super articulated DC Comics action figures that fit modern day articulation and sculpting standards! While I still think that 2022 was overall the best year for the line so far, and I found 2023 to be too common when it came to repaints, there were still so many cool action figures to come out for the DC Comics universe, and in this list I'll be counting down my top 10 of 2023! (Images Source) 10. Black Lightning While predominantly a repaint, I found this to be one that worked really well! It reuses the Speeding Bullets Superman mold which is one of the best in the line, making Black Lightning very fun to pose around. The colors of his suit pop really well, and the remolding done for h...

A line that truly captured my attention this year was the G.I. Joe Classified line which put out more releases than ever, and some of the best figures in the whole line! They may be the best figures coming out from Hasbro overall, period. The character selections continue to be fantastic, with heroes and villains filling out both sides of the conflict, and the future jam packed with even more awesomeness in store. 2023's releases have come to a close though, and with that I've ranked my top 5 favorite Hasbro G.I. Joe figures of 2023! (Images Source) 5. Range Viper A Walmart exclusive I was happy to be able to snag, the Range Viper is an epic looking Cobra unit that pairs up well with the Outback released for the Joe side of things. I love how militaristic Cobra's outdoors specialists are, with all of it coming together with a gnarly looking skull helmet with an exposed brain at the top! I can't express how purely cool this design looks, and the blue colors make it pop s...

2022 introduced me to one of my new favorite toylines out there, being the Jazwares Micro Galaxy Squadron figures! A roughly in-scale toyline of Star Wars vehicles and ships that captures all the details of these iconic and awesome vehicles from across the Star Wars universe! I was already extremely impressed with the line's first year offerings, but the second year kicked things up a notch with even more vehicles from across the series' timeline, and some of the best ships to be released so far! I had a hard time narrowing down this list, with ships like the Snowspeeder, Jedi Interceptors, and Tie Bomber all being inched out of the race, and these remaining five are what I'd rank as my top favorite Micro Galaxy Squadron ships of 2023! 5. V-wing (Image Source) I will always be a sucker for anything from the prequel trilogy, as it is what I grew up with (and find to be much more hated than it deserves), and the V-Wing fighter is a great representation of this arrow-nosed fig...

And just like that, 800 posts have been written and published! More and more toylines to talk about every year, but there are always the classic lines for me to come back to, and with this post I'll be celebrating Hasbro's Transformers line which composed material for many of my original posts. This year was a great year for Armada, as well as probably the best Transformers Movie Masterpiece figure to date! Studio Series didn't impress me as much as it used to, as it is moving away from those original Bayverse movies I grew up on, but it still had some banger releases for the year, so go ahead and roll out to read my top 5 favorite Transformers figures of 2023! 5. Studio Series Scourge (Image Source) For the first time in a while I was actually more excited about the Generations line of figures over Studio Series, but there are still a few making it onto this even if the shift of the overall Studio Series line has moved away from the original Bayverse films I grew up on. Ri...

Continuing my look at my favorite action figures from 2023, this'll be my list counting down my favorite Star Wars figures from the year! We certainly got quite a few, especially in representation of new shows, and many of these figures were quite impressive! From newer media to more classic media, we got lots of fantastic figures in Hasbro's Black Series line, and this list will count down my top 5 favorite from 2023! Honorable mention: Commander Appo (Image Source) Starting off with an honorable mention, the Commander Appo figure is a simple repaint to come from the Obi Wan Kenobi show branded figure line, but one I was extremely excited to get as an updated release of the 501st trooper! Not only because they're Anakin's fighting forces, but their presence in the original Battlefront 2 made this trooper ever more iconic for me growing up, and I'm excited to finally have the figure in my collection with the updated trooper articulation! 5. Mayfeld (Season 1) (Image...

With 2023 coming to a close I'm once again looking back at the action figure releases we amassed through the year and thinking through what tops the list for me in terms of figure releases. The first line of figures I'm looking at will be the Mattel Jurassic Park/World assortments ranging from their awesome Hammond Collection line to a little bit of their mainline stuff sprinkled in there as well. So with it being a pretty great year for Dinosaur collectors, these are my top 5 favorite Mattel Jurassic Park/World figure releases of 2023! Honorable mention: Brachiosaurus (Image Source) When the Hammond Collection line began I was doubtful that the Brachiosaurus would ever be made in the line due to its size, but here we are only two years into the line and we have a fully articulated, epic looking Hammond Collection Brachiosaurus from the original film! It is definitely a marvel on the shelf, commanding a nice present and the articulation really elevates it from previously releas...