Bought and Thought March 2025

I don’t have time to totally assessment all the pieces I’ve been shopping for these days, however I do have a private aim to {photograph} and write one thing about all the pieces I get within the yr. I’ve been attempting to maintain up month-to-month, however as you may see I’m simply attending to March now, so you may see how that’s going. I’m forward of what I did final yr, so I’m feeling good about that and I opened an excellent mixture of enjoyable stuff in March, so let’s take a fast look!

First up, I opened up an awesome group of Archie Comics Turtles with the Stump Wrestling 4 pack of Turtles, Cryin’ Houn’, Wrestling Leatherhead, and Mondo Gecko. First off, seeing all of them collectively is simply pretty due to all of the splendidly saturated colours and glorious sculpting that translate the 2D character designs into determine type. I notably love the neon inexperienced plastic base on Mondo Gecko and the painted blue highlights on Raph’s black costume are completely cartoony. The Stump Turtles additionally transfer very good, so I wouldn’t thoughts seeing non-wrestling variations of those Turtles ultimately.

I additionally picked up a bunch of Legends, lastly grabbing the feminine Electro on low cost very near the time I picked up Film Electro. They share the identical blast impact they usually work nicely and add lots too the determine’s shelf presence. I just like the film Electro determine okay, however I do want there was a head with out the electrical impact. I additionally picked up one other Senseless One at an area con and I’d like to get one other one.

The Nemesis wave is strong. I used to be very excited for Cyclops, Marrow, and Fabian Cortez. I used to be rather less fascinated about X-Foce Nightcrawler, AoA Gambit and Husk, however they slot in with figures I already had, so I didn’t thoughts choosing them as much as make Nemesis. Nemesis is fairly cool, although I wish to work out a strategy to mild up the flames in his head in a means that I can activate and off simply. Cyke’s blast impact is plenty of enjoyable and I’m glad that we’re delving into this period of X-Issue extra. What I actually need now’s a human Beast. Marrow is likely to be my favourite of the bunch, however all of the portraits are very nice. I feel the one which gave me probably the most bother was Nightcrawler. His limbs are fairly tender plastic and he didn’t like to carry extra excessive poses for very lengthy.

The 2 Black Collection figures I picked up had been winners for me with Kelnacca being a well-sculpted Wookiee Jedi with a strong, if barely too darkish paint job. Prince Xizor is a greater determine than this mort has any proper to be with some actually nice element sculpting and expressive face and claw hand.

Some miscellaneous figures embody Vampirella from Icon Collectibles, a hammond assortment Triceratops, and a BST AXN Jennika from The Loyal Topics. Vampirella options fairly implausible sculpting that captures that Frazetta type girl completely similar to their latest Teegra determine. The detailed base and head choices are superb too. I do want the knees received a bit of higher vary of movement, however in any other case she strikes fairly nicely. The Hammond dino is a enjoyable little determine, although the vary of movement on the top ball joint is extra restricted than I like. I had the common retail Jennika from TLS and I don’t take care of that determine’s articulation or paint a lot. I did discover this variant for a deep low cost at Ross and the darker paint, particularly on the bandanna helps the looks of this determine fairly a bit. I can’t suggest the determine in any respect, but when you’re going to get one, I’d undoubtedly attempt to get this darker repaint.

I additionally picked up a few cheap-y Jurassic Park pterodactyls with restricted articulation from eBay to customise into Deathwings, one among ROM’s enemies from the comics. It’s only a easy repaint, however the first customized I’ve accomplished in an excellent lengthy whereas.

Lastly, my pre-order for the Ramen Toys REV- Recoil arrived in March. A six inch-scaled A-Crew has been on the high of my wishlist for a very long time, so I used to be wanting ahead to this one. I have already got a B.A. Customized based mostly on a Roadblock G.I. Joe Categorised determine, however he’s a very tight match within the van, in order that’s barely disappointing. I additionally want the chairs had been adjustable, particularly the again seats since they really turned within the present, but additionally only for ease of use. It will have been good should you may take off the roof to extra simply regulate the figures inside. The spoiler, roof lights, and grill ramming bar are connected by magnets. These keep on, however are simply dislodged whenever you mess with the factor, so I want the magnets had been a tad stronger. That mentioned, it’s actually cool to have an A-Crew Van. I simply must get on my customs of the remainder of the group.