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A Treasure Trove Of Plastic Fantasy

11:30PM December 20, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

Last weekend was the 2011 Treasure Festa in Ariake, Japan. The show is a figure festival, showcasing upcoming releases, one-off originals, and limited edition figures. More »

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Is This Figure Really Worth $4800?

1:30AM December 7, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

In Japan, selling customised figures can get you arrested. It call also get you crazy amounts of money. Like this one did, for example. More »

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Where Does Batman Get Such Wonderful Toys?

4:00PM October 14, 2011 | Brian Crecente

Batman: Arkham City may be about to hit shelves, but two of these new figures are for the last great Batman game: Arkham Asylum. More »

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Let This BlazBlue Star Stick A Plastic Gun In Your Face

7:00PM October 10, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

Noel Vermillion, star of fighting game BlazBlue, is getting immortalised in PVC for the very first time. Do you remember the first time? You do, you know. More »

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Kotobukiya And The Art Of Kick-Arse Figure Making

4:00PM September 27, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

Lots of countries make statues and figurines. Lots of countries make excellent ones too. Yet, there is something about Japanese sculpted figures of game and anime characters that’s so damn good. In particular, Kotobukiya’s figures are top notch. But why? More »

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This Zelda Figure Is The Hero Of My Time

6:00PM September 13, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

There aren’t any official Legend of Zelda action figures. Haven’t been for a very, very long time. Going by the quality of this custom piece, maybe it’s time for that to change. More »

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Star Wars Meets Disney? The Muppets? This Continues To Please Me.

6:30PM September 2, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

For a little while now, the revamped Star Tours attraction at Disneyland has been selling some rad figures mashing up famous Disney characters with those of the Star Wars universe. And now there are more of them. More »

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This Raiden Statue Wins. Flawless Victory. Toytality.

3:30PM August 26, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

When Syco Collectibles showed off their line of Mortal Kombat statues the other day, sadly one of the main attractions, a Raiden piece, wasn’t done. He is now! More »

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These TF2 LEGO Figures Are So Small! They Are Funny To Me!

6:30PM August 11, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

It’s easy to take a LEGO minifig and paint it to look like something. What’s harder is taking a ton of actual LEGO bricks and turning them into the likeness of a range of cartoon video game characters. More »

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Square Enix Gets Chun-Li’s Thighs Right (But Not The Knees)

8:30PM August 10, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

First spotted at Comic-Con, we now have the first official shots of Square Enix’s line of upcoming Street Fighter figures. More »