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DST | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Enterprise Crew

Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum produced a large number of Star Trek figures in the last seven or so years. To be fair, I'm going to do my best to look at them as if it were back in 2006-2007 when these figures started to hit. Hopefully I can be as objective as possible and rather than each figure individually, I'm going to look at them as a group. Continue Reading

Enterbay | Real Masterpiece | Michael Jordan (Road)

I have a number of highly coveted pieces in my collection not because of value or cost, but rather the significance to me. In my teens I was a huge basketball fan and studied the sport in my spare time. I was for all intents and purposes, a student of the game. I'm not tall at all so I had to rely on skill, awareness and smarts to hang with the taller people. I needed to learn how to play the game and there's nobody better to learn about than Michael Jordan, the greatest player of all time. Continue Reading

Medicom | MAFEX | Batman

I have a love/hate relationship with Medicom. They used to be a company I really liked because they produced some really nice things. A long time ago. These days, I'm not impressed. At all. They seem to rely on their name recognition instead of continuing to produce high quality items which is quite unusual for a Japanese company that has been around for a very long time. So when I got interested in their MAFEX line, I was hoping that they had turned the corner. Continue Reading

Bandai | S.H. Figuarts | Sadako Yamamura

Every once in awhile an action figure gets produced that you never thought would happen. It's not because it's a bad idea but rather because nobody really thought about doing one from a commercial success perspective. The Figuarts line has been mostly geared towards popular and heroic characters like Kamen Rider, Sailor Moon and Ultraman, so it was quite an interesting piece of news to see that they would be releasing Sadako from The Ring. Continue Reading

Sideshow Collectibles | Star Wars | Darth Vader (EP VI)

Every person in modern civilization that was born before 1990 knows about Darth Vader. He's about as iconic as Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, Godzilla and Pikachu. You have to go into the rain forest to find people who do not know about this incarnation of the Dark Side. With that recognition comes a high standard that is expected of companies when they produce product of the man in the mask. Failure is not an option. You have to get it right. Continue Reading