Kenner rightly deserves its place in toy making history for popularising the 3 ¾ inch figure through its vintage Star Wars line of the 1970s and 80s, with the huge success of the movie franchise proving to be a massive marketing lucky break for the company. The Mego Corporation definitely deserves a nod as the very first pioneer of the 3 ¾ inch scale, however, with their Comic Action Heroes line launched way back in 1976, and its revamped series three years later known as the Pocket Super … [Read more...]
Web Climbing Spidey from Spider-Man 2
One of the action figure previews to generate a major buzz and lengthy blog posts all over the Internet during the recent San Diego Comic-Con was the all new Hasbro Spider-Man with sparkly metallic finishes. It will be released to coincide with the 2012 reboot of the Spider-Man movie franchise - The Amazing Spider-Man - which sees the very talented Andrew Garfield with the unenviable task of taking over a role that Tobey Maguire played so nerdily well in the Sam Raimi trilogy. In my book, … [Read more...]
Secret Wars: Spider-Man
Whilst Super Powers will probably remain my first choice as winners in the great superheroes action figure stand-off during the mid 1980s, when the mighty Mattel joined forces with Marvel to produce the Secret Wars line in direct competition with the DC Comics branded Kenner Super Powers product, I have to admit that I'm growing to like the Secret Wars figures more and more. Bright colours, solid sculpts and accurate comic-book costumes and likenesses made these figures popular at the time … [Read more...]
Pre-order the Limited Edition 1/6th scale Spider-Man from Spider-Man 3 from Hot Toys!
As regular readers of this blog will know, I take a very occasional look at a brand new action figure release if it's likely to be of interest to vintage collectors. This 1/6th scale Spider-Man Limited Edition Collectible Figurine from the Spider-Man 3 movie from Hot Toys looks so fabulous from the initial pre-release photographs that I couldn't resist posting some news about it here! What I particularly love about this figure, is the highly detailed red and blue Spider-Man suit – most recent … [Read more...]