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
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a videogame ultimately about loss, personal pain, self identity and our perception in the eyes of others. This is all set to a globe sprawling revenge epic taking in duelling private armies, the cold war, giant robots, viral pandemics and revenge. All for revenge as the promotional material proudly displayed. The player character of Venom Snake (also … Continue reading I, Phantom: Metal Gear Solid V & Me.
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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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Up until now my toy reviews have had an air of joy about them. Nearly every one of those figures may have been terrible and sometimes strayed into the territory of being knock-offs but rarely went the whole hog and thus kept a certain amount of cheeky charm. The Prince of Fear was clearly a Kane-a-like but still had enough kitsch appeal that I couldn’t … Continue reading Woeful Wrestling Figures: Unscrupulous Aggression.
I doubt I’d be as big into videogames as I am without encountering Sonic the Hedgehog back in 1991. Seeing the Master System version of the original game and it’s colorful visuals and fast paced action drew me in, playing it hooked me perhaps for life. This was enough for me to campaign to my mother for a Sega Mega Drive (Genesis for you yankee-doodles … Continue reading Sonic Boom! 25 years of Sonic the Hedgehog.
So far I’ve been able to have a lot of fun taking cheap shots at cheap toys and although they are some of the most hilariously barrel-bottom scraping garbage I’ve come across they have the good sense to be inexpensive. One singular unit of currency per figure seems like a hell of a deal right? WRONG! After seeing what I’ve got to show you in … Continue reading WWF: Woeful Wrestling Figures 4:Vanilla Midgets.
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Written by Martin Dixon (@BunnySuicida).
Wrestling figures are great aren’t they? From Remco to Hasbro and Jakks Pacific to Mattel, wrestling toys have let the young and young at heart recreate some of Sports Entertainment’s greatest moments as well as craft whole new ones completely from the imagination. Hulk Hogan versus AJ Styles? Easy, The Legion of Doom vs Abyss and The Boogeyman? Alright if you insist, Jim Ross vs Joey Styles in a hardcore Mic on a pole match to crown the greatest announcer of all time, with a run in by Bobby Heenan? Actually that sounds pretty awesome! Toys can be played with like well, toys or displayed like mini statues in honour of our heroes but, and this is a Rikishi sized but, not all figures are created equal. For every über collectable Elite line or knockabout “With Smashing Action!” Basic figure there is a bottom of the barrel knockoff aiming to muscle its way into a collection or toybox and that just won’t do. Continue reading “WWF: Woeful Wrestling Figures.”
Thanks to Nate Stein for sending this along! CZW ‘DWTS’ Saturday on iPPV from Voorhees, NJ; Ticket Discounts! CZWrestling.com – VOD.CZWrestling.com – CZWiPPV.com Facebook.com/OfficialCZW – Twitter.com/CombatZone – YouTube.com/CZWnews This Saturday, September 14, CZW ‘Down With The Sickness’ airs LIVE on iPPV (at CZWiPPV.com) from Flyers Skate Zone, 601 Laurel Oak RD in Voorhees, NJ. Bell time 7:30 pm. TICKET DISCOUNTS SPECIALS – Available online at CZWrestling.com/czwstore/, buy 4 G.A. … Continue reading CZW News (9/14)
WCW Backstage Assault is widely considered as one of the worst crimes ever committed to silicon, an awful piece of design that accurately represents the creative & financial cesspit that World Championship Wrestling itself had become at the turn of the millennium. That’s what popular opinion would have you believe and to an extent I agree with that. To an extent you understand, WCW was … Continue reading 8 Bit Bodyslam: TO THE BACK!
They’re everywhere. Wrestlers are part of the videogame furniture, not content to stay within the confines of wrestling games, grapplers can be found in a huge number of games. I blame Zangief of course, eager to prove Wrestling’s superiority as a martial art he entered the 2nd street fighter tournament and opened the floodgates for wrestlers looking to make a quick buck out of … Continue reading 8-Bit Bodyslam #2: The Outsiders
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