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In Singapore 7-Eleven stores are selling exclusive limited run of Heroes & Friends Unite. The set of 8 figures features Marvel characters: Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk and Spiderman; the Disney/Pixar characters are: Scully & Mike from Monsters Inc, and Woody & Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story. The toy promotion runs until April 22, 2014.
With Captain America: Winter Soldier film just around the corner, one of the coolest tech vehicles is the SHIELD Helicarrier. Here is Jason Simmons custom LEGO SHIELD Helicarrier.
A stop-motion short with LEGO Simpsons and minfigs from the LEGO movie by MonsieurCaron.
Funko has been on a licensing tear these couple of years and it seems like they have new Pop Vinyl figures every single day. Here’s some cool ones to look out for and make a checklist and pull out your wallet.
The Kids Logic Optimus Prime figure is a hot seller and especially in Hong Kong. The diecast big-head action figure is selling upwards north of $90.00USD and when you buy the action figure, you also get a smaller version – the KidsNations Optimus Prime.
When you think of Hong Kong what comes to mind? The high-rise skyline and Victoria Harbour, HK gangster films, Dim Sum, Mong Kok shopping district, etc. Well how about the iconic Hong Kong taxi? This Hong Kong taxi gets the full Tomica diecast car treatment.
Custom vinyl artist Christopher Avalos aka Evilos takes a regular Android vinyl toy and makes R2D2 from Star War Wars.
What makes a great “Brick and Mortar” store? Of course the brand, cool products, location and customer service, but also style and creating a cool atmosphere like Apple stores. Hong Kong toy company Hot Toys known for making incredible realistic 1/6 scale action figures also has a retail store, the Hot Toys Secret Base. One part collectible museum and part retail shop.
The Ramen interviews Frank Kozik at Kidrobot SF release and signing event for his Lore of Labbits and Blister packs.
For more info, go to: Kidrobot – Frank Kozik – Smorkin’ Labbit.
The ReAction Alien toys were a hit last year by Super 7 and Funko. Now this year, they will follow-up with more incredible film licenses, like “Back to the Future”, “Halloween”, “Friday the 13th”, “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, “Firefly”, “Pulp Fiction”, “Terminator”, “The Rocketeer”, and more for 2014. So, if you grew up in the 70s and 80s, these ReAction action figures may take you back to those Kenner-style action figures. I just know that I will be buying many of these figures, so just take my wallet already!
Hayao Miyazaki is a living icon, his animated films have brought fun, joy and tears and now a cute tribute statue is available.
If the Revoltech Hello Kitty action figure wasn’t enough, Sanrio has teamed-up with Bandai to make a special mecha Hello Kitty action figure.
When I lived in Los Angeles, I had friends always telling you got to check out Frank & Sons. One of friends got tricked into going thinking it was an Antiquing event, boy was he wrong! If you need to get that baseball card, back issue comic book, or Transformers toy then head to the best swap meet on the West Coast – Frank & Sons!
There are many variants and alternate versions of the famed Transformers Autobot leader Optimus Prime. This time he takes form at as super big-head action figure by HK toy company Kids Logic.
With the LEGO movie hitting the multiplexes February 7th, 2014, there’s bound to be a bunch of license products, like these LEDLite LEGO Movie Keychains. From HK company IQ, the LEDLite line-up announced so far will be Emmet, Uni-Kitty, Lord Business and Bad Cop.
One cool action figure or robot I should say to get this year is the limited run Robocop ED-209 by NECA. This action figure is from the original Robocop 1987 film. We ’80s kids should remember this kick-ass flick.
LEGO web-series Blocumentary interviews and takes a look at Alice Finch’s famous LEGO build Hogwarts Castle from Harry Potter films. A whopping 400,000 plus LEGO bricks were used!
If you remember the long-running sci-fi TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation? Patrick Stewart was awesome as Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Star Trek Select kick-offs the New Year with this new 7″ action figure. The figure has some articulation for pose-ability and a detail dead Borg-base stand.
Image via The Brothers Brick
Images have leaked online of LEGO’s upcoming The Simpsons line. The first images is the iconic Simpsons’ House numbered 71006. This set has 2,523 pieces of building fun and comes with 5 mini-figs: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie and Ned Flanders. The set will probably retail around $250USD. The LEGO Simpsons House looks to ship out this February 2014.
If you are new to the seen of vinyl toys and don’t know what the fuss is all about, then you might want to travel to Toronto, Canada for the “This is Not a Toy” Exhibition on urban vinyl toys.
The Ramen crew stopped Kidrobot SF for their Holiday Toy and Food Drive and artist J*RYU and cosplayer Vampy Bit Me joined the fun to help the drive.
Barbie, He-Man, Uno, Hot Wheels, just to name a few toy product lines from toy company Mattel. CBS Sunday Morning takes a look inside the fun factory. Make toys for a living. How cool is that?
Got friends that like Hello Kitty? Japanese toy company Kaiyodo well-known for it’s Revoltech line-up of action figures now have a neat and super cute Hello Kitty action figure.
These past couple of years toy company Funko has been knocking it out of the ballpark with their Pop! vinyl toy figures. These super cute figures are from the Disney Pop! line featuring 4 characters from the Pixar animated film Finding Nemo: Nemo, Dory, Crush and Bruce. It’s just too bad that these Finding Nemo Pop! figures won’t be able to drop this Christmas season! These Pop! vinyl collectibles will be available next year January 14th, 2013.
For more info, go to: Funko.com.
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