Sideshow Wolverine Statue

 

 Today I was surprised by an amazing gift from my cousin, a Wolverine statue from Sideshow Collectibles! While I have an extensive action figure collection, I only own 3 statues and none of them as dynamic as this one. I can't find my ruler, but he stands around 20" tall, including base and is covered in detailed textures and painstakingly applied paint applications.  This statue is probably the finest item in my geek collection.  Check it out!

The statue comes with an easy-to-change alternate unmasked head.  Both are excellently sculpted, but I prefer the mask-on version.  Still, look at these details!

The unmasked head looks especially cool from the side.

The last thing I want to point out is the base. He's standing on top of a broken japanese-style bridge with 4 arrows sticking in the wood around him. There's snow on the ground and on the bridge. I love the texture and paint details on the wood and the painted shadows on the snow. It really sells the whole scene. Fantastic work.

 

Amazing job by the Sideshow team. I'm super excited about this new addition to my collection. Thanks for checking out my review.

Marvel Legends Falcon

The Marvel Legends Falcon figure, based on his appearance in Captain America: Civil War, was not really on my radar, simply because I thought he was too rare to get my hands on without paying and arm and a leg, and I wasn't willing to do that. Luckily, my local comic book shop ended up getting one and I was able to pick him up for the same $25 price tag they sell all their new Legends for.  Sold!

Falcon comes with his trademark wings and his sidekick/remote controlled bird, Redwing. The wings attach to the little backpack that then attached to Falcon's back. The backpack holds on fine, but one of my wings was a bit warped coming out of the package and only one of the 2 pegs wants to hold at a time. Most of the time, the wings stay up fine, but it occasionally that one wing will droop a bit.  Not idea, but worth the hassle to keep fixing.

 

The figure is based on the likeness of actor, Anthony Mackey, and Hasbro has done a very good job capturing him.

The biggest down side to this figures is that his hands are clearly sculpted to hold guns, but he doesn't come with any.  Just remake the ones that Widow came with and it would have been fine. No need to sculpt new ones.

Anyway, here's Falcon with his Civil War team.

 

Only missing Bucky here. I'll try to pick him up soon.

I have Falcon hanging above and in front of my Avengers shelf.

The Walking Dead...Pool

The second of two highly anticipated Marvel Legends arrived at my local comic book store this week. It's Deadpool!!

This Deadpool is a nice improvement over Hasbro's last attempt at the character about 6 years ago or so, and that was a dang good figure. Great sculpt and a TON of accessories, which is rare with this toy line. 

Mr. Wilson comes with 4 guns, two swords, a knife, a rocket launcher (with boxing glove), unmasked head, and a taco! It was hard to decide what to pose him with, but I had to use that taco. 

This is a nearly perfect action figure. My only complaint is a manufacturing flaw. His left elbow is poorly put together and doesn't pose or look right. Unfortunately this guy is so rare that I'm lucky to have one at all, so I guess I'm stuck with the defect. Small price to pay to have such a kickbutt figure.

Newsflash: Toy Collector Goes Rogue!

After months of nerdy anticipation, this toy collector finally got the newly released  Marvel Legends Rogue figure! For those not in the know, Rogue is a very popular X-Men character, who was played by Anna Paquin in the X-movies. 

In the early 90's I was just beginning to get really into superheroes (as opposed to GIJoes & Ninja Turtles), and the Saturday morning X-Men show on Fox is where I got most of my early X-knowledge. So any figures based on that era of the team are especially awesome to me. This figure features Rogue just how she looked in that cartoon; 90's leather jacket, headband, and everything.

Enough of the jibba jabba, here's the pics!

Good articulation, excellent paint applications, and a great sculpt make for a fantastic action figure. My hats off to Hasbro, who is at the top of their game. This one is worth the $.

Gulf Coast Toy Show Haul 2016

Every year I look forward to the Gulf Coast Toy Show in Houston, TX. While nowhere near as big as one of the local comic cons, this show is packed with awesome new and vintage action figures for collectors. Every year I find must-have figures at great prices.  Here's what I brought home this year!

My most exciting find was the 6" Michael Keaton Batman figure. He came exclusively with the anniversary release of the Batman blu-Ray a couple of years back. They did not make enough of these, so demand and prices have been high. I snagged this dude for only $25, about half what I seen online!

Typing on my phone is getting old, so I'll just post pics of the rest of my haul. All of these are figures that have been on my radar and I got a good to great deal on each one.

Agent Coulson reporting for duty.

More pics to come, but here's a preview of my new Phil Coulson figure. The 2nd pic features my brand new Age of Ultron Captain America as well.  

Enjoy!

Fun with a light table!

I had my light table out last week for the first time in years and thought it could make for some fun figure pix lighting. I got some pretty cool shots!  Here are my results featuring some of my newest figures.

I need to experiment with this further...