Wrestling figures are awesome but some are awesomely bad, Martin Dixon trawls discount stores and the dumpsters behind eBay to laugh at some truly terrible toys.
Someone at Mattel gets me. Like, *really* gets me. There’s nothing I like more in my wrestling figures than the occasional absurdity amid the standard pursuit of realism. No figures best illustrate this than the WWE Mutants line. Taking wrestlers’ gimmicks to an illogical extreme is just my kind of crazy, the kind of crazy that earned a four-armed Brock Lesnar figure the top spot … Continue reading Woeful (?) Wrestling Figures: Demon Daze.
With the dumpster fire of 2017 behind us and 2018 stretching out before us like an emotional obstacle course of broken glass and failure, the popular thing on the internet is a list of things to see out the year. This site is no different and it’s now time for me to unveil the best figures I managed to get my paws on these past … Continue reading Action Figure Fight Club: The top 10 of 2017
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Never before has obtaining one figure managed to fulfill so many voids in my collection, even a knockoff like I have here, and that is quite a spectacular feat indeed. Join me once again in my capacity as proprietor of the Action Figure Fight Club to count the ways Kaiyodo’s Revoltech Spider-Gwen completes me. The Revoltech brand is something of a legend in high … Continue reading Action Figure Fight Club: Swing when you’re Gwen-ing. (Revoltech Spider-Gwen review)
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Oh Jakks Pacific, what were you sniffing back in the early 2000s? Actually, I bet it was rubber fumes, because that would explain what I’ve got to show you this edition of either Woeful Wrestling Figures or Action Figure Fight Club. (I’m torn on the rebranding) Everyone, say hello to WWE Unleashed Booker T. So while there were the standard plastic figures available and then … Continue reading Woeful Wrestling Figures: Dead from the waist down.
Given that according to the internet we’re all allowed to like Sonic the Hedgehog again thanks to the release of Sonic Mania, I think it’s time for me to come in from the cold and admit that I, Martin S Dixon, am a Sonic fan and always have been. Now that’s out of the way, I guess I also have to admit that I bought … Continue reading Action Figure Fight Club: Gotta Go Fast!
Yes, yes. I know it’s been a while since the last one of these but it’s here now. Time to give the woeful wrestling figures arena a sweep and welcome its newest signing. It’s only Buff Bagwell! Hailing from the wonderful wasteland that was latter WCW figures, Buff Daddy comes packing a lot of fun and frolics in a surprisingly tiny package. I mean tiny, … Continue reading Woeful Wrestling Figures: Buff Diddy.
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What’s this? New title? New blog! Yes readers, a year and change into wading through a twisted landscape of weird, wacky and often woeful wrestling figures I spotted an opportunity to spread my metaphorical wings and scope out new toy horizons. The wrestling figures aren’t going anywhere however and I’m still trying to procure more plastic performers but in between rounds of regrettable rasslers I’ll … Continue reading Action Figure Fight Club: Here Comes A New Challenger.
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In the best of 2016 list I featured a giant Goldberg figure among my favourites, mostly because I couldn’t quite believe how ludicrously big it was. So imagine my joy upon discovering on a certain online auction site a figure that dwarfs even Big Bill. Ladies and gentlemen, call the kaiju defence force as I unveil my 12 inch Big Sexy (ahem). Hailing from Toybiz’s … Continue reading Woeful Wrestling Figures: Goldzilla VS Nashra
The retirement of The Undertaker is one of those things I and expect many knew was coming but didn’t really want to happen. All good things must come to an end after all. It feels weird to be almost mourning a fictional character no longer being on my screen but while I may not be the most devoted fan of the wonderful and weird pantomime … Continue reading Thank you Taker
The march of progress is one of incremental steps. This is as true for wrestling toys as any other aspect of human endeavor. Modern wrestling toys have hit a peak of blending articulation, playability and sculpting that can please both child and child-like in equal measure. Such achievement hasn’t come without some teething problems and one such painful incisor is the subject of this review. … Continue reading Woeful Wrestling Figures: Trip Hazard.
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