Musings of an Inkd Geek

As the year comes to an end, it is time for me to list my 10 personal best/favorite action figures of this last year. I purchased less stuff in 2022 than in years past, but I still got enough great ones to easily make up a list of ten. Here they are…. RUNNER UP MEGO Face of the Screaming Werewolf This figure was not released in 2022, but it’s one that I got this year, a gift from my buddy Jake. This werewolf is simply awesome, one of my favorite action figures of the year, so of course he gets an honorable mention. 10. Kaiju Thunder (3rd party) Barabas This 3rd party figure took me by surprise. The sculpt and paint are fantastic, and he came with plenty of cool extras to make him the ultimate version of this funky Choju that first appeared in Ultraman Ace. I found myself reaching for this monster a lot when taking kaiju photos. The same person who made this is working on a figure of Vakishim, another cool Ace Choju that I’m looking forward to getting. 9. S.H. Figuarts Ultraman Ribut Th

From YouTube I came across this late 70’s docudrama that’s supposedly based on the story of a UFO contactee in the Mojave Desert. I love these old flicks so I sat and watched it. Boy, was this flick bad. The story was complete nonsense. Some dude named Al is working at a station where a satellite is used to look for signals from space. In narration, he talks about how his wife and son died in an earthquake, a detail that has no relation to the rest of the plot. There’s an accident at the station, and the satellite explodes. Al then dedicates his life to studying alien and UFO encounters, for no apparent reason. He reads a book by a deceased scientist named Dr. Arland, who studied extraterrestrial life. Al goes to visit his widow and son to ask questions about the late doctor’s research. He befriends the son named Steve, who eventually tells Al that his dad worked on a machine called the Betatron that could rejuvenate human cells to prolong life. The idea to build it was given to him by