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Yup, I got my Definitive 4th Doctor cancellation from Sideshow today. Deposit and points will be refunded, but it still felt oddly sad. Not simply because I'll never have that figure, but because there's a feeling that a certain "story" has ended. A chapter is closed and a particular maker...

Exactly! That's what I thought when I got my InArt Joker: Why haven't we been doing finely sculpted hand/forearms since the beginning? That was a small game changer for me. Rather than throw 6 hands with a couple of spare pegs in the box, give us 6 sculpted interchangeable arms for various...

Well, this is sad news. I was patiently waiting on my Definitive 4th Doctor because it really looked like a project Big Chief put a lot of effort into. I ordered from Sideshow so I'm guessing it won't be hard to get my deposit back. Big Chief was always a frustrating maker to buy from because...

I thought InArt killed it with the faux-rooted hair. I didn't expect it to be what it was and found myself glad that I took the gamble on it over the sculpted hair. I'm also glad and hopeful that they use the same technique for other figures, like Aragorn which will completely smash if it's this...

We're here just over 20 years since high-end 1:6 figures really became a thing – I'm dating this back to when companies like Sideshow, Dragon, Medicom and Takara began to do something of a higher collector quality than the decades of old children's toys – and while various advances and...

It does look good. Feels a little better to see this after the absolute disaster of KP's Twin Peaks Agent Cooper. It's still baffling how a maker can get one figure so right and another so horribly wrong.

Th The moving eye feature was innovated by Enterbay and Hot Toys just stole it and patented it as their PERS to turn it into a selling gimmick. I think the first use of PERS was on the DX01 Joker. In the years since it was added to DX figures as a premium feature and then onto any random...

These with darker lighting. The sculpt work and paint on the face is remarkable!

How about that fart smelling face?

I had forgotten InArt was doing Dune. This is what they showed today. I didn't know what I was looking at first - thought it was some rock star like Steven Tyler in bell bottoms and a silk cape with a mic. The sculpt looks a little soft, but this is early and will likely see a lot of...

Don't worry, HT will copy the innovations IA made with hair and deliver something similar. Not better, but similar, and not the kind of soft messy fur material we saw in the past.

The 1:9 or 1:10 is a nice sweet spot of a scale that I actually preferred at one time. The size had a nicer presence than 1:12, more weight and detail, and was less cumbersome than 1:6, with an overall substantialness that felt just right for action figures. The scale actually has quite a long...

Hot Toys was always good with stealing ideas from other makers and they seem to be at it again here. Just over 15 years ago they were stealing from Enterbay and now trying to run parallel to InArt. They're good at swiping innovation and effectively burying their competition (if there is any...

I got my Agent Cooper a few days and I must say it really is that BAD! The sculpt is excellent, in my opinion, but the paint is just shamefully terrible and puts us back about 15 years or more in terms of quality. I had forgotten how poor paint jobs could be, but this came back to remind me. The...

The Lost Boys film never held any particular fondness for me, but if the figure looks decent and the price is fair I just might go for it. I like the fact that Sideshow actually tackles these small licenses that collectors want. It might be a small niche of collectors, but a deep need for these...

With HT filling out the entire GOTG3 team in these suits it bothers me even more that we never got full sets from the other two films. They gave us a mishmash of various versions - namely Nebula and Mantis - from different films that we have to use to cobble together an approximate GOTG1 or...

I thought the sculpt looked quite good and to be honest even a little better than the promo pics showed, but the paint makes it look lifeless. Although the sculpt does feel like it's MacLachlan almost 5-10 years later, maybe closer to Showgirls era. LOL! The Laura Palmer accessory looks more...

Yikes! Yeah, my first and immediate thought was how much it reminded me of old Sideshow figures from 20 years ago. Just a few notches above that quality, but in the same dated field of sculpt finishes. The paint job on the hair and hairline is just lazy and looks clay-like, which felt like a...

I remember watching an interview with Nirvana just months before Cobain died where they talked about the new direction they were heading in. Surprisingly, it was a new wave sound they promised. They may have been joking, but in the interview they came across as serious and sincere and I was...

I got my order in pretty quick. The figure looks good, mostly the outfit tailoring, and I want to fill out a decent TNG collection. Like many, I'm just a little weirded out by that head sculpt. It's a fine sculpt that feels accurate, but it's just a very specific expression that doesn't seem...