THE GREATEST JAZWARES AEW FIG EVER: Dalton Castle!

 Whoever at Jazwares decided it did, in fact, have to go this hard: I salute you and hope you find a new job soon.

LAST GASP: The Outrunners!

Young. Tan. Vascular. Magical. Sound. Shower.

PREORDER ACQUIRED: Billy Omega!

Look, they didn’t give him a name. I agree it’s weird.

APRIL PILE: Crimson Moon Exterminator

Werewolf with a jetpack. I know, it’s serious.

AT LONG LAST: Agent Carter, a.k.a. The Phantom, a.k.a. TUXMONKEY

It’s a whole damn squad!

IMPULSE BUY: Savage Crucible Veteris Rapax

I love an elaborate fantasy fight almost as much as I love a goof-em-up.

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Brandon Cutler!

This one’s a bit of a journey.

FIG PHOTO: “Eating Lobster With My Bitches”

 First verse complete! Time for an unwanted break, in more ways than one.

FIG PHOTO: “Damn, That Girl’s Dress Is Revealing”

I don’t have a lot of ladies with revealing outfits - it’s not my jam.

FIG PHOTO: “You Know Ladies Love Velvet Dashboards”

 

Thank you, car auction website.

DREAM GET: Mezco Rumble Society Tangerine: Bad-Ass For Hire

Everything’s on fire. Do what makes you happy.

FIG PICK: “chonky Clankers”

BRONK!

PREORDER ACQUIRED: New Old Blade!

 I’ve solved the MCU problem. Just rip off Looper!

IMPULSE BUY: Robo Force MAXX 89

This one is a long chain of consecutive incidents and ideas.

PREORDER ACQUIRED: Cassandra Nova

OK, take a deep breath…

IMPULSE BY: The Black

I FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE OILY TENDRILS!

IMPULSE REISSUE: X-Men ‘97 Jean Grey!

 See, it’s funny because she spent most fo the original animated series “juggling” these two dudes.

SURPRISE CHASE: White Pants Kyle Fletcher

Protoprotostar, more like.

WET BOY ACQUIRED: Retro Card Cobra Eel

WET BOYS ALWAYS SHINE!

PREORDER ACQUIRED AND BUILT: Robot Waiter!

 Find yourself someone who etc. etc.

FIG PIC: “Tony, You Son Of A Bitch”

I cheated HARD on this background., I know.

PREORDER ACQUIRED: Kris Zoolander!

MAGNUM!

PREORDERS: Akuma and Cable!

 Now I just need my damn refund.

FIG PIC: “Predator Vs. Predator

Whoever wins… she wins.

THE MARCHISH PILE: Action Force Praetorian Pyre

 This is just a pile of gimmicks, each of which I’m a sucker for.

ANOTHER WEIRD TURTLES DUDE: Tiger Claw (TMNT 2012)

Oh, man, I should have done the Predator / Outrunners hand clasp. Spoiler alert, having just thought of it as I started typing this, I’m definitely gonna do it.

CLEARANCE GET: Cardiac

CLEAR!

FIG PIC: “One Shall”

Why, yes, I -AM- kind of emptying the Dumb Joke bin in my brain while I wait for some new toys to start arriving (one today, Pile of Loot on Friday).

FIG PIC: “Red Asphalt”

 Road safety is important!

FOMO: Cowboypool!

 My apologies to your retinas.

PREORDER ACQUIRED: Grizzly!

Bear back riding!

IMPULAE WET BOY: Wet Suit!

 SURPRISE WET BOY!

GIFTED: Bottles!

 

So many drunkies!

BAD ABOUT POSting; Halloween Boy!

Oops, this was done like a week ago.

IMPULSE GET: GI Joe Classified Legacy Firefighter

 I’m jjst saying his tool set is useless against fires.

PROP GET: Marvel Legends Black Widow Motorcycle

MEATERCYCLE!

LONGSTANDING IMPULSE SATISFIED: Figura Obscura Bastet and Anubis

I’ve luster after these two in my heart from the day I first saw them.

WET BOYS: Torpedo!

WET BOYS, ASSEMBLE!

THE IMPULSE LIST: Captain Longbill!

He’s helping them look for Black Dick.

SALE GET: Bobby “The Brain” Heenan

Not quite a dream team but they never made an Announcer Nigel or an Ian Riccabone.

SUBCOLLECTION COMPLETE: The Brat!

 THE FINAL WEIRDO.

MOAR IMPULSE: Grandpa Munster!

Hey it’s the guy from the show with that Fallout Boy song! 

So, NECA impulse buys are always a crapshoot. A mid NECA fig is always more disappointing than a mid Hasbro fig because the average Hasbro fig at least has the kind of articulation you can do stuff with. When you know you’re getting NECA joints, you’re betting on a reasonable versioon thereof and hoping the fit and accessories take it over the top.

Grampa Munster is… fine! He’s not a disappointment like a Robocop or a standout like a Vincent Price. Out of the package I immediately thought of three things I’d have liked to see - a wired cape, a little table/rack for his science gear, and a deeper elbow joints because, as you can see, he can’t put the shovel on his shoulder like I would have wanted. 

Accesssory-wise he’s a smidge light. He has the cape, which is double-sided red and black, but a wire would have gone a long way. I know it wasn’t very dynamic on the show but still. He has three science flask things that are very nice and one of them has a little stand because it’s a sphere with a neck, but then it’s just hands and heads. The heads are laughing, grimace, and close-mouth, and they’re all nice and also it’ll be laughing head forever.

For the pic… look, I know Meat Man has gotten a lot of play lately but he just slots so nicely into different ideas, like “carrying a corpse down the stairs for weird mad science stuff”. 

Like Meat Man, Grandpa Munster is a fig in color that I needed to make B&W to fit the background from the show.

IMPULSE GET: Mego Young Frankenstein

Put THAT on a Ritz!

PREORDER ACQUIRED: Lifeline

 Flint has unrealistic job performance expectations, to be honest.

GOT: Muscle MOdel!

 SEQUEL PIC!

FIG PHOATO: “ATag Team”

 

The hot tag. The hallmark of tag team wrestling.

VACATION FIG PHOTO CATCHUP: Part 5

OK. Days 26 and 27 and I’ll post the finale normal-like later.

Da6 26 was “Facebuster”, and a stinkface will bust your face. Debated who’d be funniest. Even asked online and got no suggestions. So I went with Daredevil because the last thing you want in this situation is enhanced senses.

 “Giant Swing”

Literal interpretation! Anyway, I used one (technically two) of my Waikiki Beach pictures for this and when I posed it on Bluesky some bullshit coffee shop doing searches on words saw “waikiki” in the alt text and dropped into the replies. Fuckin’ internet.

VACATION FIG PHOTO CATCHUP: Part 4

“Head Submission”

This is the first one I shot after I got back from vacation. As you can see, I was not putting a ton of effort into coming up with unique interesting concepts. I had a giant head. I used a giant head. 

“Neckbreaker”

This prompt gave me the most trouble, because I was gonna uese TwoBad for it because he has two necks, but then I used him for Superkick so that was out. The choices for this were almost exclusively based on “needing to dig in this bin anyway” but I’m a bit surprised at how nice it turned out.

“DDT”

This I knew from the start was gonna be the idea, and I could get away with it because I’d already built out the background for my Human Fly gotchapic back in the day, so it was just a bit of posing and adjustment and green fog.

“Bulldog”

Black Taurus is a bull. Cosmo is a dog. Get it? 

This is one where the virtual ring really failed me, or I failed it, but this was still early enough last week that I wan’t rife with energy or effort.