Upcoming Releases

Now that SDCC has come and gone, there seems to be action figure news popping up everywhere. Lots of cool stuff coming soon. Here's several that caught my eye.

NECA GODZILLA 1984 RESCULPT

NECA will re-release their 84 figure with some tweaks. They seem to have given it nicer, bigger, more suit accurate dorsal spines. The arms and hands seem to be resculpted as well. I think it looks so much better and I will definitely pick one up.

NECA GODZILLA 1964

This figure has many fans excited, as the 64 suit is a fan favorite. It's not as accurate as the S.H. Monsterarts 64, but it's also nowhere as expensive. I think it looks good, and hopefully it will sport the same engineering that made their 62 a winner.

NECA BURNING GODZILLA 2019

This figure looks really sweet. Fans expected a burning Godzilla 2019 to show up, but few thought NECA would be the first to put it out before S.H. Monsterarts. Hopefully the actual figure looks as nice as the prototype. At least this paint scheme will leave little room for them to fuck up his eyes like their standard release.

MARVEL LEGENDS DOCTOR DOOM

Holy shit!!!! Fans have been asking for a new Doom figure, and it looks like Marvel Legends is delivering bigtime! This Doom looks awesome! I own an older release, but this one looks so great that I can't pass it up.

MARVEL LEGENDS FAT THOR

I was NOT a fan of fat Thor from Endgame. I felt that they ruined all that was awesome about him by turning him into a joke. But, many fans seem to have loved it, so the demand was there, so here it is. From what I understand, you have to buy all the figures in the set to get all the parts for fat Thor. The only thing he seems to be missing is a mug of beer.

MARVEL LEGENDS VALERIE & VISION

Both of these are part of the set you need to get fat Thor. I think they look pretty sweet, especially Vision. I may pick them up.

NECA ALIEN SET

The original Alien big chap looks REALLY nice! The set looks to include an egg, face hugger and baby Alien. If the actual release looks as great as this and sports good articulation, I think this will be a big hit.

MAFEX MERA & BLACK MANTA

These prototypes look really nice. If they could get Mera's face looking like Amber Heard then it will be a big win for Mafex. They are still more hit and miss in their facial likeness' than Figuarts, but they seem to be improving. Their upcoming IW Thor looks like Channing Tatum, but their last John Wick release (from movie #2) was very film accurate. We shall wait and see what the end product looks like.

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Titanic Creations Yongary 1967

This figure was released in late December, and I got it about 2 days before the New Year, so I'm counting it as a 2025 release. It is the Titanic Creations version of the Korean kaiju Yongary, Monster From The Deep. The film was released in 1967 as a Godzilla ripoff, with several ideas copied from the Gamera series, such as his tusks, his ability to fire a stream of flames from his mouth, and even firing a laser beam from his horn, similar to the slicing one used by Gyaos. The film is pretty goofy, but Yongary, like most of those Asian monsters, was pretty cool (to me, at least), so I was psyched that someone finally made a figure of this lesser known kaiju. When Titanic Creations put it up for pre-order, they announced a series of tiers, where they would add accessories when a certain number of orders were met. Enough fans ordered him, so that Yongary ended up with a shit ton of stuff, making him absolutely worth the price. In addition to the kaiju, you get a flame breath effect, ...

RicSan Custom Toys Kyōrū Kaiju (Titanosaurus)

My latest kaiju figure purchase is the Titanosaurus made by Ricsan Custom Toys. I own and love the Varan & Gabara, so of course I had to preorder this one when it was available. He was delivered earlier this week. This kaiju hails from the last Godzilla film of the Showa era, 1975's Terror of Mechagodzilla. The Black Hole aliens are back, rebuilding their robot in another effort to take over the planet. They enlist the help of an ostracized Earth scientist named Mafune and his daughter Katsura, who are able to control an aquatic dinosaur named Titanosaurus. They plan to use both kaiju and mecha to attack Japan. Titano was a cool monster, with his tail that opened into a fish fin, and he would use it to create whirlpools in the sea, and high winds on land. I'm hoping that S.H. Monsterarts makes one for the 50th anniversary of the film, but when I saw this Ricsan Custom version, I couldn't pass it up. Titanosaurus (called the Kyōrū Kaiju), comes in a white box, with its n...

Help Me… I’m Possessed (1974) / #Missingcouple (2024)

I've watched some weird, obscure horror movies throughout my life. I can now add this lurid 1974 schlockfest to that growing list. In a castle in the desert, Dr. Arthur Blackwood runs a sanitarium filled with mentally disturbed patients (as well as staff). He claims to be working on finding a way to cure people of any violent tendencies they have, and brags about his younger sister, innocent, child-like Melanie, as evidence that his treatment works. When she was a child, their parents had to keep her locked up and chained in the basement, to control her violent fits. Now that he's cured her, Arthur has his wife Diane come to the castle to meet Melanie, so that they can be one big, happy family. Diane begins to grow suspicious that something is amiss after a Sheriff shows up investigating the murder of 2 local teens, and sets about on her own investigation, hoping to uncover the sinister secrets that she feels her husband is hiding. Help Me... I'm Possessed is an outrageous,...

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