Jun 12, 2025

Spaceballs: The Rant

 Sadly, my COVID-19 era Spaceballs: The Facemask broke. But, I'm here to talk about my favorite Mel Brooks movie: Spaceballs: The Movie. Speaking of which, where is my copy of Spaceballs: The DVD? 


Spaceballs: The Director, has announced Spaceballs: The Sequel coming in 2027. Brooks, Pullman, and Moranis are returning... Yes, you heard that right. Rick Moranis is returning to the big screen. 

Now without further ado, Spaceballs: The Sequel teaser:

Since Lucas no longer owns Star Wars, does this mean that we could get Spaceballs: The Action Figures?


Jun 11, 2025

Top 13 Biblical Characters I'd like to see in Future Biblical Adventures figures

 My Jesus figures have arrived and the reviews will be released for the Advent Calendar, because on Christsmas it's his birthday.

Since D13 makes the Biblical Adventures toys, I guess 13 figures is an appropriate number...

Some of the paintings I'll use as reference come from the HUGE Bible my late grandpa had.
It was the Spanish Language version of this Bible. (Grandparents were Presbyterian) Other choices were from Popular culture, more informal, but could be considered in some cases sacrilegious. While I may have some issues with certain aspects of Christianity; having an irreverent behavior, including being self-deprecating, I'm not trying to be offensive here.
While, yes, my humor might slip out during the list, the list is a serious one. The focus on the list will be tributes to art and the narrative.


13- Titian's Adam and Eve:
These are a two pack and HAVE to be one.
I chose Titian over the Ninja Turtle because Titian's Eve is the prettiest Eve I found.

12- Samson: 
Here I am beyond torn:
I like Bloch's painting of Samson and the Philistines. Milani's Samson Slaying the Philistines (with the assjaw) is pretty cool, but Samson and Delilah but il Guercino is another of my favorites. Mainly because it shows a vulnerable Samson sleeping while Delilah chops off his hair. Asstards will probably say that I like it because Delilah is showing her breasts in it. While I prefer this from an artistic and storytelling perspective. Bloch's painting has Toyetic potential... but the clear winner is Milani's also to kick ass with an assjaw...

11- Satan: As seen in Doré's Temptation of Jesus:
It's a Cool Looking Satan that can be paired up with Jesus... but no one would take this list seriously if I asked for a Jesus arm wrestling Satan. That arm wrestlong Pic may be considered tacky by traditionalist standards, but I like it.

10- Willem Dafoe:
You know, he was something of a Messiah, himself. PETER is a disciple and Jesus is Norman Osborn... Of course Bully Maguire would appear on this theoretical rant.

9- Jesus, as made by Michelangelo:
No, I'm not talking about La Pietà. Il Giudizio Universale is where I am looking at. You know the Jesus that looks like a MOTU character, but as effeminate as a JoJo character.

8- Cain Killing Abel by Novelli: 
I know 2-packs are kinda cheating. In this case We need both Cain and Abel.

7- Mel Brooks as Moses:
The Previous Moses has a Charlton Heston head. So my plans of asking for that have been shot. So I chose Mel Brooks mainly because it's Mel Brooks. I know it's a controversial choice because Mel Brooks played Moses as a parody of the ten commandments.

6- The Three Wisemen:
Kinda cheating again, since this is a 3 figure request. This request has an ulterior motive being a Latino and knowing that it would be unlikely to get Los 3 Reyes Magos in the Naughty or Nice Line.

5- The Incredulity of Saint Thomas:
Based on Caravaggio's painting, we'd be getting a Doubting Thomas. I don't think any further explanation is needed.

4- Jesus Cleansing the Temple: 
The most Badass Jesus Painting where Jesus is whipping the temple and removing the merchants. I'm thinking of the Bloch painting.

3-  Madonna Litta:
Yes, this is the painting of Mary and Jesus based on Leomardo DaVinci art. While Personally, I'd rather have Michelangelo's Mary from La Pietà, as a marble Statue, she would look out of place surrounded by colored figures. So, I chose Leonardo, since he was the other Renaissance Artist that inspired the Ninja Turtles that I knew had painted Mary. I COULD have chosen Raphael's Madona del Belvedere, but Raphael is my least favorite Turtle and  I'm surprised I haven't reacted to never-ending, roll the clip.

2- Jesus Raising Lazarus:
Based on the Rembrandt painting, this would be a two pack of Jesus and Lazarus. 
Yes, if a review of this two pack ever got made, you know the reference.


1- The Big Guy himself: (Creation of Man)
This would be a figure of the Creator himself. If made it would be a deluxe item with the bunch of angels hiding on his cap being part of a 3D base/flight stand. I had the idea around item 11, but Can't have other figures before Him.


I had to stick to mostly mainstream figures that could be Toyetic, because Noah is useless without the Ark, Lot would be a 4 pack, him, his daughters, and his salty wife. Job isn't exactly toyetic, and Jonah needs a big fish that may be a whale, Daniel needs Lions

Jun 10, 2025

Ralph Macchiato FINALLY LEARNS Karate

 In 1984, Ralph Macchiato started his Karate Career to beat up William Zabka in order to get in Elizabeth Shue's pants.

Uh, Nefty, that's the Plot for Karate Kid. The one with Ja-

Don't you DARE finish that sentence Cade! Fuck Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan... not in that way, you In/SuCubus freaks...

Yes, Ralph Macchiato from Karate Kid, Karate Kid part 2, Karate kid part 3, and Cobra Kai learned karate for real...


Banzai, Motherfucker! Daniel-San is now a Karate Man! I just found out and I'm happy for the dude. 

Jun 9, 2025

You get to kill JCVD in a Hitman game?

 Why did no one ever told me anything about this!?


At least JCVD has enough sense of humor to allow a thing like this... then again, Stallone allowed himself to be the victim of various fatalities. Schwarzenegger too! Remembered he was the Terminator as well.

You won't see Chuck Norris or STEVEN SEAGAL doing anything like this. 

All those JCVD references! It brings a tear to my eyes.  

Jun 7, 2025

Well, looks like Hasbro is making Generic cops for GI Joe Classified

 Seems that we're getting lots of toy news despite You-know-who's you-know-what.


This Cop has a ton of stuff:
2 heads swappable at the neck. I guess the Vest may be removable?
SWAT HELMET
Cop Cap
Poncho
Riot shield
Baton
Rifle
Flaregun
Stungun
Gun
Glasses
Cup of coffee
Guessing $35-ish range.

The only issue is that it would look short on 1:10 displays, but perfect for Marvel Legends ones... 

But there's a firefighter too

Helmet
Alternate head
Glasses
Safety blanket
Crowbar
3 hatchets
2 hammers
O2 tank
Jaws of life

May try to get one.

Jun 6, 2025

Remember the Ryan Gosling as Black Panther Meme?

 With the whole media push for Hunter Schaefer in EVERYTHING push, Marvel has done something insane.

Hollywood has been replacing redheads with black people for quite some time. I've mentioned that I'm not a fan of race swapping or replacing characters for copies with different ethnicities. 

Well Marvel has replaced Black Panther with a white dude.

And I hate it. Sure it's fun seeing the hypocrisy of people complaining about this, but were cool with turning white characters black. At the same time, while hilarious, this comes off as "racist comeback against diversity". But it has made some of the "right people angry". There COULD be a compelling story to this: a T'Challa sired bastard with Daddy issues coming to take what is rightfully his, but Joephisto is behind this. So I'm reminded how One Moronic Deal turned out and all the bullshit in current Marvel Era and think: Did they actually think this true other than "Let's make the Ryan Gosling as Black Panter meme real". 

If they lean to the whole "Whites are discriminated in Wakanda angle" mirroring the racism towards black people in the West angle, they could have interesting stories. Sadly this smells like a gimmick.

Marvel Guilty Gear... ArcSys is now doing a spiritual successor to Marvel Superheroes:

 But it'll be 4v4... One More than Marvel vs Capcom 2 and 3.


So far we have Gundam Drunk, Douchebag America, an Amalgamation of Ghost Riders, a Sexy Storm. A Crisp Rat pretending to be Starlord, Anorexic Iman Vellani, Jigoku Kara no Shisho Insomuniakku Suupaidaman!! and Doctor Doom with a Furry cloak.

I hate the designs aside Storm, but I may get this game because finally an ArcSys game that caught my interest.

Hopefully we can get Spidey Villains that aren't Alien Goo based... I want Doctor Hentaicles! For the love of God, CLASSIC COSTUMES!

Jun 5, 2025

An Epic Kollection is Koming

 Kan you guess the game collection koming?
I can't say the name, but permanently disbarred attorney Jack Thompson might get pissed about it. Wait, what? Thompson now praises videogames? Hillary Klinton might get her panties in a bunch. 

Still no idea? How about we let these fine folks illuminate you:


Yes! Mortal Kombat Kollection!
○The first 3 Mortal Kombats in ALL VERSIONS including portable ones and home consoles. Not just the Arcades.
○MK4, no N64 version mentioned or the MK Gold Dreamcast mentioned.
○MK Trilogy is MIA.
○No Mythologies or Special Forces mentioned.
○MK Advanced for the GBA
○The GBA port of Deadly Alliance. No mention of other Deadly Alliance games
○MK Tournament Edition 2003
○No mention of Shaplin Monks, Deadly Alliance, Deception, or Armageddon 

It would be awesome if we got the games all the way to Armageddon, but if I can only choose ONE game to add, it's Shaolin Monks. Not gonna lie, it would be cool if we got the shitty Mythologies and Special Forces, but I'd rather have Shaolin Monks.

Nintendo Switch 2 launched today and

 Some users have been screwed over by pre-orders. The retailers staple preorder receipts to boxes to assign a console per preorder and this receipt stapling is puncturing Switch2 screens.


While the issue seems to be mainly at a single games top, it still showcases how Nintendo's cost-cutting in packaging, has damaged their product. Back in the day Styrofoam would've been protecting the console. Since Styrofoam is now bad, a couple of layers of corrugated cardboard and a thicker outer box would've done the trick.

Now let's see how Nintendo's solving this.

Making a case for TMNT's:

 Antrax: He appeared in a single episode and is Krang's executioner from Dimension X. He looks like a Medieval Executioner. We know he hates fine art. Talks with a sophisticated voice. Prefers medieval weaponry.

Here we have less to work with Due to previous media appearances. But he's doable.

I HAVE to make some changes to appease Playmates. He gets a single head, toy based, but his cowl will have texture, similar to burlap. The purple will be more blueish, since Purple is the color of royalty and Antrax ain't no royal.
The antennae and mandibles should have joints. The mandibles should be hinged while the antennae are in a pseudo ball joint

The body sculpt should be very similar to the toy. But I'm making a big change or two:
The bandolier and belt with the Skeletor Tassels, will be a separate piece in terracotta with silver and gold accents. That includes the Scabbard for the Skull pommel knife.
Kis Torso will be Mustard yellow instead of gold and only his armored knee pads will be gold. The antennae, mandibles, "butt", and all the red body parts will be blood red.

The other big sculpt change is that he will have Symmetrical Monster feet in box. Alternate Humanoid boot feet will be included for swapping. (To appease Purists and Playmates)

Hands:
6 fists
6 dramatic 
6 c-grips  2 with "sword aloft hinge", 4 with traditional hinge.

Accessories:
Executioner's axe with noose (noose is made with real twine)
Skull pommel dagger
Spiked Blackjack
Ball and chain with functional shackle (Turtle sized)

That's my current hypothetical Antrax.
Why him?

Simple: Last one I made was Lionheart. This kinda follows the same theme. Fantasy.
Honestly I don't care much about this character... Then again I didn't give a damn about Scumbug and ended up buying him!

Jada's SDCC tease

 Holy moly! Jada is cooking: My guess is that there may be a repaint or an accessory pack. I'm hoping for the latter:


This was their tease. Unarticulated Yoga Fire/Shakunetsu Hadoken and Psycho Crusher burn victims.

Jun 4, 2025

Final fantasy tactics returns to celebrate my mother's death

 The rumored Final Fantasy Tactics remake/remaster thingie is real. 


It appears to be a port of War of the Lions AND a Remade engine with some tweaks and balance adjustments plus apparently, full voice acting. That means Hearing Orlandu rambling before each Night Sword. Yes, I'm using the OG PS1 names... wait. That means Clod will get voice acting... better get the FFVIIR Clod and Kebab girl to voice themselves.

I think I'll pull a Mustadio and simp for Agrias.

Wait, does this mean that they got new VAs or is Ramza Still Vamp and Delita Played us like a damn fiddle!

Update:


Thanks to my He-Man dot org friend MegaGearMax, I was made aware of this tweet with some of the voice cast. New VAs but they actually got the puppet and Kebab girl from remake.

Another Ultimate Wrestling lines rant

 I have done a few rants on the Wrestling Fans line, but barely touched the Crew. So here we go:

Ultimate Wrestling Crew 2.0 or 3.0 if we count the earlier version made out of Jakks parts. So for 3.0 I'm suggesting a more "cartoony look" for the Crew. It would also include new bodies as well. These bodies could be used for the more realistic and for the cartoony faces. 

Let's use the female announcer:
She would get a new head looking a bit more cartoony than the normal version. If Logistics are a problem, a Blonde Amber head can work
She would get a new Torso overlay: a sleeveless blouse with a wide belt paired with Amber's skirt. The idea is to "redo" the announcer dress and justify the bagginess of her blouse. 
For her accessories She gets the standard accessories of the 2.0 PLUS the Cellphone and miscellaneous accessory holding hands.

A black female announcer could be made as a repaint with a new head.

The reason I am changing the announcer is due to the soft plastic dress she has. It's not bueno. You will see it in this year's Advent Calendar.  

Now, let's tackle other figures:
Referees:
These are easy. Just a new cartoony head for each of them. 

-Male Referee 1: White Marvin head minus goatee and grey hair.
-Male Referee 2: new black man head with angry expression.

-Female Referee 1: New white woman with red hair, ponytail and bangs.
-Female Referee 2: New black woman head with small afro

But I want to add a NEW Referee: Fat Referee:

Reusing the fat body with new legs and feet. This will lend itself for other figures.

Fat Referee 1: Black man with a head reminiscent of Reginald Vel-Johnson.

Fat Referee 2: White man with a black haired Fat David Spade head.

EMT 2.0:

Slim Male 1: black skinned repaint of EMT1 with new head.

Slim Male 2: cartoony head based on the EMT

Female 1: Referee repaint with black skin and
A back bun hairstyle.

Female 2: Referee repaint with white skin and brown pigtails

Security guard 2.0:

Slim Males would be repaints of the security guard body but with cartoony heads. Once white, one black.
Female Security guards get a new head each. The new heads would have Security guard caps.

For the fat body would be a reuse of the fat Referee body and new heads. One of them with a Security guard hat 


Police Officers:

Slim Males: Using the Cameraman body and tampographing a badge on the chest. Using the existing FTC military belt, police baton and revolver to complete the look. Obviously new heads

Females:
Reusing the female Ref Body with the belt, baton and revolver. New heads.

Fat male:
Modified upper Torso and arms to look like a (police) jacket. New heads are a given and for accessory the Police Baton.

Crooks:
This one is rather easy:
Reusing the Hunter and Brad bodies repainted. New heads, of course. For accessories adding the existing FTC gun AND crook black mask.

While the last two aren't exactly Wrestling crew/fans, they help push the idea that FTC figures can work with multiple lines.

Captain Falcon: Mid New World

 So, I watched Captain America 4: Brave New World. I feel the movie did Anthony Mackie dirty.  It TRIED to be the next Winer Soldier, but it fell flat. It wasn't Anthony Mackie's fault. He delivered a great performance. Even Harrison Ford went above Phoning it in. Which is weird, since Ford has been phoning it in for the past 10 years.

But I blame the script. The movie tried to be Cap 2, but it was all over the place. Cap FEELS unimportant to the plot. The only Cap Villain, played by Giancarlo Esposito.


The villains were The Leader and Thaddeus Ross. You know, Hulk Villains. We had a non-mutant Sabra, possibly a Mutate via the Red Room program. 

The promotion made Red Hulk a prominent character and he was barely in the movie. The Leader reveal was far to early and was borderline pointless. As a piece he was taken off the board so swiftly and forgotten. The post credits scene was pointless, since we've been dealing with Multiversal threats since No Way Home. We had Loki Seasons 1 and 2, Doctor Strange in the MoM, and last but not least Deadpool and Wolverine. Then we have the upcoming Fantastic Four, which speaks of the Multiversal characters hopping across universes.

But here's the thing.This movie should have been a Hulk movie that happens During the five years of Thanos's snapping. Getting a green haired Samson, having the journey to Smart Hulk. Having Hulk and Ross reach peace and maybe even Bruce seeing Betty one last time. Feels like wasted potential.

It's not a bad movie, but don't get me wrong.It's not great either. I like it but...


I'm glad that I waited to watch It on Disney plus and not spend 16 to 20 bucks at the movie theater... otherwise I'd be pissed.

Top lines that Nacelle would make my wallet cry if they get releases in 1:10 scale.

Better get this out of the way:
Dinosaucers would NOT be one of those lines for single reason... scale. I'd love the Secret Scouts in 1:10 Scale, which would put them around the 6-6.5 inches height. But I may be the only idiot who wants them and not the humanoid dinosaurs. But I want them for all the wrong reasons... 

I won't put Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos, because other than Super Ninja and Chuck Norris, any other character would be Too Much!

Neither would Karate Kid enter the list, because there are only 3 characters Taki, Daniel, and Miyagi. I would buy all three, but they'd serve at best as background props.
Now let's start the list for real:

Ruby Spears Mega Man:
Yes, Jada has the Capcom Games Mega Man. I want the Ruby Spears Cartoon ones where Rock and Roll are teenagers, and she sucks... because Vacuum attachment.
The line-up doesn't NEED to be big:
Rock, Roll, Rush, Light, Wily, Protoman, and the 6 MM1 Rovot Masters.

DiC Zelda:
I started the list with Mega Man to ease you in. But not only we have an OK roster, but a few repaints and variants like Frog Link, or Zelda's evil doppelganger.
There are a few humanoid monsters that can be made. 

Captain N: The Game Master:

Of course I'm mentioning Captain N. He's literally the OG GameDude. I'd have to be Mega High to not mention Captain N the Game Master. But more than captain and himself I want the horrible Simon Belmont.  Not gonna lie, a 1:10 Princess Lana would make Nick Cade Sr. Happy.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: (toon):
I'm sticking to Season 1 stuff. I've already mentioned how I theoretical line could work.So i'm not gonna go into details here.

Captain Planet:
Come on... It's the only way I can get a Whoopi Goldberg, since she voiced Gaia. Wait, Margot Kidder voiced her too!? 
And it can be a symmetrical line:
Gaia, Captain Planet, the Planeteers.
Zarm, Captain Pollution, the eco-villains who had the rings of Destruction. 

Mister T:
Mister T. Beat Muhammad Ali for a simple reason:
The kids. Especially the little Ginger who acts like a Mini T. At least with Nacelle, they'd be more affordable than S7.

Double Dragon: (DiC)
I have the Gane DD figures. Don't know if the future will hold more figures.

That would make me VERY Happy.

The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers:

'Nuff said.

Bonus:

My wallet just jumped into a giant shredder... and I ain't talking about Oroku Saki.

Jun 3, 2025

"Fan" campaigns for the live action Legend of Zelda movie are...

 Pushing Trans actors as Link and Zelda. Specifically, Hunter Schaefer's camp is pushing for Hunter to Play Zelda. A lesser movement is pushing Elliot Page as Link.


I'm torn on this. This AI Pic I found on a post mocking the idea makes them look REALLY GOOD. As a former theater kid, this casting looks good... but then I remember current Hollywood trends of Voice Actors needing to be EXACTLY LIKE THE CHARACTERS THEY VOICE. Like how Alyson Court could no longer voice Jubilee because she's white, or how they made Norman Osborn black to fit the voice Actor, whose first name escapes me, but his last name is Domingo. At the same time I remember that Benedict... Doctor Strange had to apologize for years from Zoolander 2 and robbing a "non-cis actor" from playing his character.

Yeah, are we going to rob two "cisgendered" actors from playing "cisgender" roles? Good for the goose, good for the gander and all that. Since Hollywood wants "authentic representation", trans actors can't be cisgendered characters; because they're not cisgendered. It would be hypocritical to do otherwise.

No. Pointing out the hypocritical attitudes of Social Justice Slacktivists is not transphobia. 
Visially the "fan" casting looks great, but it clashes against the current "authenticity" ideas. Oh yeah, It applies for everyone except white folks. 

But it's the Big N who will give the final approval and I don't think they would want a Futanari Zelda. Then again, they approved of this:

That's from the official Mario64 Manga. Yes, this whole rant was a long-winded excuse to show the Bunnysuit Mario Pic. Sadly I lost the Pic from an official Manga where Luigi fondled Peach's breast.

Mondo 200X He-Man is looking great

 There is a painted Prototype Pic floating about and all I ha eto say is


It's looking awesome. The first release may be getting a curious bonus head.


And possibly a furry cape.  I weep in front of such beauty. I can even hear Cam Clarke's voice inside my head. Sure, he's saying Liquid Snake quotes, but still he also voiced He-Man. Unfortunately my wallet and MONDO have a severe disagreement and they aren't seeing eye to eye. Puny Mattel 200X  Origins can't compete with this.

Jun 2, 2025

Move over Belle Delphine... we got Spider-Woman 2 bathwater

 Sydney Sweeney from Sony's Madam Web is selling soap made from her bathwater. It's nice of her to be using her talents. But it feels like Belle Delphine 2.0 but with more steps.

Seriously, like what the fuck? But then again Gwineth Paltrow had a candle that "smelled like her vagina" Now she claims it didn't and that it was a feminist statement.


Anywho, I got things to do and I need the cuck's pen to


Top Marvel Legends That I'm intrested to see get the MvC treatment

 Yesterday I mentioned the MVC Styled Legends that were going to pop up in June to July: I will make a List of Figures that I'd LIKE to see in that style PLUS some repaints for special retailers.

Armored Spider-Man vs Blackheart: 
In essence a rerelease of the Blackheart BAF painted in MVC Colors with his demonic minions as accessories 

The Maximum Series Spider-Man painted in black and white for the Spider-Armor look
For accessories the Web Ball, Web throw and Web Shield effects comes with Web hands, Fists, and grabbing.

Target exclusive: Spider-Man vs Mephisto: 
Same as the above set, but Spider-Man is in orange and light blue, while Blackheart is red.

Sabertooth and Birdy:
Self explanatory:
Bitdy comes with the gun and firing effects
Sabertooth comes with Slash effects.

Onslaught vs Cyclops: 
A rerelease of the Onslaught BAF because Marvel vs... IT'S SO SIMPLE.
Same thing for Cyke.

Sentinel Model COTA-94
Yes, it's the Capcom version of the Sentinels
He should come on his own due to added accessories from the games.

Magneto vs Bone Claws Wolverine:
This is super easy to make for Hasbro, since the only new stuff would be the EM Disruptor and Hypergrav effects.

Smart Hulk: 
In essence a Redeco of Maximum Series Hulk with a new crotch with the toen bits of shirt hanging, new Smart Hulk heads instead of the Missiles,  he gets the rock from the Gamma Wave. (As a replacement for the missiles from Maximum)

Walmart Repaint: Gold Warmachine vs Red Venom:
In essence, the Existing Warmachine and Venom figures in the MVC Secret character Variant colors.

I'm sticking to the 2D games before I jump to the 3D games with a new Shulkie, a Sentinel repaint, Phoenix and Jean alternate skin.  

Emily, tell your big brothwr to stop watching King of the Hill!

 Hulu's revival of King of the Hill has just lost another voice actor to Haley Joel Osment's necrosight. 

Jonathan Joss, the second voice of John Redcorn has passed away. Unfortunately, his death wasn't natural. He was killed by his neighbor.

Wait a minute... both Dale Gribble AND John Redcorn are dead!? Nancy Gribble's got some splainin' to do. 

Honestly, the only reason I'm commenting about him is literally that Joseph John Gribble has lost his bio Das again, as well as he also lost his legal dad. It's just one of those weird coincidences that make you go huh?

As always my condolences to his froends and family.

I'm not going to pretend I was a fan. I literally just found out he was a random townsfolk in Red Dead Redemption and Additional Voices in Pocahontas... 2, bot even the good Pocahontas. But! He was Raymond Firewalker in Walker: Texas Ranger... the Natural one with...



Jun 1, 2025

2026: He-Man, Street Fighter, and Ya-yo Ya-yo!

 Seems so close yet so far... A He-Man movie finally happening. We have a date, behind the scenes pics... but I don't have my Mom, who would've loved watching it. But Not what I wanted to mention.

She wouldn't have given a crap about Street Fighter. She wouldn't have bothered to watch SD until it came to HBO. 

Another thing she wouldn't have watched. 


Then again, she hated the idea of streaming services. But Juan Piss Season 2 has a 2026 date. No specifics, probably between May/September. We got our first look for Chopper and he looks nice.

Marvel Legends has a Capcom Bug...

 But are unable to do the vs Capcom part.

Juggernaut and Shuma Gorath Gargantos are single figure releases. Psylocke and Thanos are Target Exclusives...

No... that's not the quote it's 

Now Warmachine vs Omega Red are Walmart exclusives. Juggernaut and Gargantos are Amazon. The rest are for everyone.
Gargantos is huge. I WANT IT!

Meh... not purple

The character is supposed to be Green.

The Comic character, sure. The Capcom version is purple, Goddammit!

It still is a tentacle monster! We're getting a tentacle monster figure, Cade! You KNOW what that means!

Shokushureipu no jikan?

Yes, Cade...

Sure, getting a Cap with a Charging Star effect would be cool... but not cool enough to get a blue Venom.

I don't want to get another Silver Samurai for a Berserker Barrage effect.


If Super7 can't, there might be hope for Groundchuck:

 This isn't a sure thing, but, a Placeholder Groundchuck COULD be theoretically made out of this dude:

He's in scale with TMNT Ultimates. He's from The Nacelle Company. The same people from the toys that made us documentary. They have been acquiring some media rights to old properties and making toys out of them. There are some Biker Mice from Mars Figures with Bikes sold separately, that are 1:10 scale. The Moo Mesa toys are supposed to be in the same scale. That dud is supposed to be close to 8 inches.

In order to turn Terribull into this:
I see lots of sculpting Materials needed. After some dremmeling and sanding. I pray to the toygods that the Terribull top is an overlay and not sculpt. That way, the job is easier.

What's the reason I'm even looking at Nacelle Toys? I pre-ordered a Biker Mice from Mars figure:

I see a 1:10 Redhead, I'm  likely to buy. Especially if it serves my purposes. Not mentioning it out loud otherwise the voices in my head will counsel me, understand, and worse: Talk to me! 

But if Nacelle does a repaint of this figure... or even better adds new heads based on This:

My wallet will weep, because I'd totally buy a Galoob styled Charley, because of the whole Civilian boner I ha è with toy displays. It wouldn't weep as much as a Super7 purchase, but Unfortunately, Nacelle doesn't have much that tickles my fancy.



May 29, 2025

Fuckdammit, Wal-Mart!

 They canceled my Spider-Man 77 Pre-order. Like How the fuck do you run out of pre-orders? 

This royally sucks as Jason Todd, Stone Cold's truck, and Now 1977 Spider-Man have failed me. I'm gonna be pissed if New Etheria She-Ra gets canceled as well. 

This has been awful news because now Scalpers are going to hike up the prices IF this is occurring a lot.


May 28, 2025

Random thoughts

 I HATEHATEHATEHATEHATE!! The paper straws... Subway, some McD locations, I'm looking at you. Seriously, they STINK!! they wilt halfway through a large soda. The weird paper aftertaste sucks! But there are paper straws that don't get soggy. Problem is that those are worse than plastic. I love Plastic straws because I reuse them for arts and crafts stuff. Still, I worry about biodegradable plastics, due to they breaking down in a custom diorama.

StarTropics is the American Bastard child of Nintendo. I still stand that it deserves a modernized remake or sequel. I believe the original is on the NSO, but not sure and can't check until Saturday. I'm thinking a modified BotW engine for a retelling of StarTropics and StarTropics 2: Zoda's Revenge. That can open up the path for a True StarTropics 3:

But since it's not likely, I'm gonna occasionally bitch about StarTropics to stir the pot a little.

My BBTS pre-order of 2K3 Michelangelo might arrive Soon. It got hit with Tariff Surcharge, but it's not as high asI thought it would be, so he will come. His brothers? I'll try, but it's going to be unlikely, since I have other pre-orders coming in as well and woth these weird shipment times, I can't be spending additional cash on the 2k3 Turtles. And I gotta be honest, the In-Hand pics of the Turtles are a bit disappointing. So I'm worried. Now if we could get Sista April pre-order fulfilled, I may have something for 2026.

Personally, if this is true, I'd be pissed if I were MONDO. Mattel is looking for a 2026 release of a 200X subline in origins. Buy, that is Kinda lame when we have Masterverse! Seriously, Masterverse is the PERFECT line for a 200X subline and not Origins. They have differently sized and shaped bodies. Also, if they have access to the original 200X weapons, they could scan and retool them for Masterverse with little to no tweaking. I would also give my left nut for an official Masterverse Ambrosia Skeletor.

So I am watching Old Telenovelas and I realized something:

 Even child Friendly Telenovelas were wild back I'm the 80s and 90s. My LATAM readers know what I'm talking about.


Case in point, Carrusel. It's a copy of an Argentinean story... like at least ⅙ of Mexican Telenovelas. The story is about this Teacher, Ximena, who teaches Second Grade. The stude is were a bunch of stereotypes. You had the little Prick, Pablo. You had the Spoiled Princess, Maria Joaquina Villaseñor. You had the Jewish kid, David. You had the Fat kid, Jaime Palillo (his last name means toothpick), and Last but not least, Cirilo... he was poor and black. What made things worse was that poor Cirilo sipped hard for María Joaquina, despite she always saying no, he never gave up. Modern sensibilities see him as a creepy stalker... I remembered thinga a bit differently with Maria Joaquina only disliking Cirilo for being Poor.

Yes, she hated him for being poor, but she was pretty much a Klansgal or would be if the Klan accepted Mexican girls. 

She gave seven year old me conflicting feelings.
Seven year old me would've simped for her, while hating her racist ass.

This is a Pic of her 10 years ago. The dude is the dude that played Cirilo. This was a 26 year reunion where some of the castmates got together. 33 year old me would still simp for Maria Joaquina.

Back on topic. Maria Joaquina was Racist as fuck! Despite her patents not being Racist she was

Like more Racist than White... Power Ranger minus Ranger folks. Cirilo may not understand "no means no" but Maria Joaquina brutalized his little mind. Kid would need tens of thousands in therapy in these days.

Maria Joaquina's racism got him so bad that in an episode I haven't seen, but I do remember, he tries to whiten his skin.

I mean YIKES! I still have like 300+ episodes to watch. Then I'll move on to Mujer de Madera, because it features the actress who played María Joaquina and it's a fucking acid trip. They change the actress for the protagonist ⅓ through the story and justify it with some weird bullshit.

May 27, 2025

Netflix has more Ya-yo Ya-yo! for us!

 They teased the second season of Juan Piss.


That's actually good, since this Live Action Series abdridges the living shit out of Normal Juan Piss. I don't have the time to watch the ridiculously long anime. But mostly because I hate the art style. I have the same art style issue with Shin-Chan. 

But we have to wait until an official release. Guess Netflix has saved itself from me canceling my subscription.

The problem with Scale: An action figure woes rant

 Action Figures have multiple scales. OG MOTU are close to 1:14 scale. Kenner's Star Wars and Hasbro's GI Joe (80s) are 1:18. Modern lines like Marvel Legends, NECA toon and Mirage TMNT started at 1:12, but have slowly been drifting to 1:11. MOTUC and Ultimates! are 1:10, while WWE straddles the line between 1:12 and 1:11. Some stuff is compatible with 1:10. Others, not so much. 

Back when Shapeways was around some 1:10 stuff could be found. Now it's become harder. Hell, even 1:12 is a pain in the ass, since Japanese 1:12 is not the same as American 1:12.

I've been somewhat lucky that places like Ringside Collectibles, who carry WWE, AEW, and some Original Wrestling parts that can be used with Super7 Ultimates!  also, Figures Toy Company, whose older figure entries were somewhat iffy. The newer Ultimate crew and Ultimate fans are way better. Also, Super Action Stuff has helped on SOME Things, not Everything. Even Playmates has had some 1:12 stuff that kinda works with S7, but that's getting ahead of myself.

Now with P01135809 being a total Dumbass, Tariffs are fucking everything up. If it was hard to get 1:10 stuff before, now it'll be harder. Even getting PVC sheets that aren't expanded foam sheets has gotten harder out here in the boonies. Big Ocean as P01135809 would say. Having to Arts and crafts stuff without fancy schmancy 3D Printers or real talent is a mega bitch! Been experimenting with UV Resin and I got the wrong UV light... fuckdammit! 

But back on topic. Getting 1:10 accessories is a pain. Todd has the occasional pew pew pack but that's not a regular thing. Much less now that he lost the DC License. NECA is unaffordable gor me, since they're asking for $37 to ship a single item to Puerto Rico. If the pack is $40, it becomes over $80. Fuck that noise. Super7 well, they're not in a great position thank to P01135809 and his "stable genius" plan of screwing American Customers. Also, Super7 is a bit clueless in the Accesory pack area. Most of their accessory packs are chairs for Figures that can barely sit down.

But back on the whole Scale thing:
1:18, since it's small, gets playsets and vehicles, but since it's so small, they rarely have props aside their own accessories.

1:12 and 1:6 get a bit more love on the prop department, since Barbie is the queen of 1:6 and most girl toys cater to that scale. 1:12 is the boy toy scale and rarely had prop support until recently. 

I regret not buying some of the Just Kidz  1:12 looking vehicles back when I worked at Kmart to use as background decoration. 

The only 1:10 scale vehicles I see online are RC cars and those are expensive. 

But can you see the issue or is my rant is all over the place? Just like action figure scales.
Turtles are supposed to be around 5'2". Meanwhile Ryu is 5'9". 

There's nothing worse than buying 1:12 accessories and SURPRISE! They're MEGO Scale (which is about a 1:9... you can get away with 1:10 Figures, but true 1:12, Nope!) OR buying 1:12 accessories that are for ASIAN 1:12, which is smaller than 'Murican 1:12.  So, it's WEIRD to be on Arts and Craft Stores and Toy departments at your favorite retailer with a measuring tape.  


Top 10 Game Collections I'd like to see:

 With Game Companies releasing anthology of past games to fill in the gaps on releases for current consoles here's a list of 10 Collections I'd like to see. No, Metal Gear Solid Master Collection volume 2 will not be on the list. Because it's a given that it should come.


  1. Xenosaga Trilogy:
While it ain't Xenogears, I kinda miss the pseudo prequel. Ma belle pêche...

2. Spider-Man: The Activision Years:
Basically the Games that Actovosion made featuring Spider-Man. I would like the older games but that's a different collection. OKI just wanna play Spider-Man 2 again... not the Insomniac Spider-Man 2, Tobey Man 2.


3. Classic Metroid:
Yes, I know they are Technically spread out through Nintendo Switch Online. But having Meteoid 1, 2, Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, Zero Misson, and Samus's Return, plus soundtracks, Art Galleroes, and even some behind the scenes info would be great.

4. Lords of shadow Trilogy

You know I love Castlevania. If you've read my horrible fanfic, you know Nick's two favorite taunts are from Konami games. One is Richter's infamous: "DIE MONSTER! YOU DON'T BELONG IN THIS WORLD!" Seriously i've used it so much that autocorrect automatically adds the phrase every time I write DIE. It also completes the Gray Fox quote... but that's marginally relevant since Lords of Shadow is a 3 inches of doom Hideo Kojima game. But that is probably why it wouldn't come out. As a bonus, adding PT as an ultimate fuck you to 3"ofDoom would be a nice gesture.


5.Capcom's JoJo games:

The lazy answer would be release the games as is and call it a day. I propose adding a new track based on the anime music and anime VAs. It's not necessary but it would be a fun addition.I just want the games period.


6. Final Fight Collection:

 It's a shame that only Final Fight 1 gets some love. We need a collection featuring 2, 3, Revenge, and the one who mustn't be named. Hell tossing the Gameboy advance port of final fight with hidden alpha Cody and Guy would be interesting.

7. SoulCalibur Collection:

SoulEdge, SoulCalibur, SoulCalibur2, SoulCalibur3, SoulCalibur4, and SoulCalibur5 would be optimal, but I'll accept SoulEdge to SC3 as the bare minimum.

8. Smackdown! Collection:

Yeah. None of the 2K games from OG WWF Smackdown! all the way to Smackdown! vs Raw 2011. Now hear me out, it would need to get all the licensing for the music in order. Keeping the games close to intact as possible... Now the elephant in the room...

Keep him for historical reasons. Make him u playable online. 

9. Cruis'n Arcade Collection:

Essentially all Arcade Cruis'n Games in one.

This song lives rent free in my head.
This one too.
Also, I specifically want the arcade versions, for the Bill Clinton ending.

10. Daytona Collection:

I just wanted to Suggest Daytona USA HD remastered, but there are two more Daytona games: Daytona 3: Battle on the Edge, and Daytona 3/Championship USA. That's not counting the ports/remakes including SEGA Racing Classic, when they didn't have rights to Daytona and we got this instead:

Here's a better version with DEITONA RETS GO AWAY!

Pump up the volume till it busts your speakers, so you can have the real Daytona experience at the arcade. Daytona was fucking loud!


May 26, 2025

It came from the Toy Chest: My Mom wants to speak to the Manager.

 


This is a review for Figure Toys Company Ultomate Wrestling Fans Karen: She's a Blonde child with a Pageboy haircut... I could've used the Power Swoed for a Pic, fuckdammit!

Since she has no Last name, I need to give her one.

Let's see what I can come up with.

OK let's talk Karen!


Karen: I'm here to chew Bubblegum and kick ass and Kaylee threw away my last piece of gum.

Articulation 
Karen has a lot of it: 
Butterfly shoulders double jointed elbows and knees, but the ankle are the only sour point. The articulation there is kinda Limited.
But she can balance on One leg for an Illegal kick. Forgot to take pics. My bad 
4.5
Karen: Hadoken!


Paint and sculpt
FTC toys aren't huge on paint, but the little that she has is functional. For the most part, she's molded in the proper colors to require less paint. The sculpt, as I mentioned is slightly cartoony.
5.0
Her head is removable and  the peg is similar to the Adult Females, but smaller.


Accessories
She has plenty of hands, but that's it. She has a special hand with a plug for the accessory packs but that's sold separately.


 I suppose headpacks could come in the future. Heads pop off, but they're slightly difficult to do so like the Wrestling Crew figs. Their headpack is a repaint though.
5.0
Bulk: Hey there little girlie!
Skull: Are you lost?
Karen: I would like to speak with the manager... I have a problem regarding Teenagers with Attitude.


Overall:
Little Karen gets a 4.83 as her final score. If we can get improved ankle and easier to swap heads, she'd be perfect. I wish we could get character specific accessory packs...
For example the Katen Pack with a shocked face and a smiling face. Add some hands like the Peace aign, rock on horns, OK sign. Maybe even a character specific accessory like say: Karen gets an Ice cream cone, while Ben gets a chewed Hot Dog.
Karen: Kyle Rittenhouse ain't got shit on me!
Bulk: C...all... nine... one... *dies*
Skull: Bu...lk? Nine... one... what?... *dies*
Hal Jordan VO: Are you from Tennessee, because you're the only Ten I see!

She shall be Officially known as Karen Thompson.

May 25, 2025

Spider-Man 2099 was seen by Haley Joel Osment

 Or at least one of his co-creators. Specifically, Peter David, often called the Best Hulk Writer. He was one of the people who gave life to the entirety of 2099.

He had lost his Medicaid and fans collected over 100K to aid him with the bills for his kidney issues. My condolences to his friends and family.

Aside his stint of comics, he's done some TV shows, including being the co-creator of Nickelodeon's Space Cases, whose first season had a certain MASTODON! I mean Black Ranger.

May he rest in peace.

Another FTC Ultimate fans line-up... plus accessories:

 I got a few figures coming. Next time I'll get dudes. So, I'll talk some other figures and some new accessories:

Let's talk Accessories first:
The OG Pack has:
4 foam fingers in number one pose
2 popcorn buckets 
2 popcorn buckets with popcorn flying off
2 solo cups
2 solo cups with milk flying off
2 hot dogs
4 belts
4 posters with dry erase marker

4 foam fingers in "rock on horns" pose
2 "walking tacos" (bag of nacho chips with ground meat and cheese and a spoon)
2 flying walking tacos (bag of nacho chips with chips with the toppings and spoon spilling out)
2 pretzels 
2 partially eaten pretzels
2 partially eaten hotdogs
4 posters in a different color with dry erase marker
1 whole churro
1 partially eaten churro

Now let's tackle characters: 
Instead if spreading them by body/gender, I'll assemble 4-packs (child, girl, skinny dude, and fluffy dude)

Pack 1:

Jesse:
Young white boy, brown hair, crew cut, wincing with eyes closed, but you can see he's missing a tooth. Grey shirt red pants

Grace:
White woman, Bob cut orange hair,  angry expression. White "baseball shirt" with red ¾ sleeves (painted on) red skirt and black boots.

Manolo:
Latin Man with a full head grey hair combed to the side and a thick mustache and excited expression. Sporting a red shirt, grey blazer and pants.

Henrie:
 A clean-shaven mostly bald white man, whose only hair is a ponytail. With a distraught face, sporting a red shirt and blue pants. His sandals are brown.

Pack 2: 

Travis:
White kid with curly blond hair surprised with a dark blue shirt and grey pants.

Becca:
Blonde with ponytail. Angry expression, pink long sleeve shirt, light blue jeans black boots.

Randolph:
Black man with Jehri Curl and a dismayed face.
Grey blazer and pants with pink shirt. 

Brandon:
White man, shaggy light brown hair, goatee, excited expression. Light blue shirt, Pink shorts.

Pack 3:

Doreen:
White girl pixie cut, scowling (like Karen) wearing a light blue shirt with dark blue pants. 

Coco:
Black woman with blonde curly hair tied to a ponytail with bangs on the left side. Sporting a red and green top and grey pants with boots.

Charlie:
A man Sporting the same outfit as Hunter in orange vest, green shirt and pants. Blond pompadour and glasses like Brad's but with a shocked expression.

Cooter:
White man with a red cap turned backwards Sporting a neckband and balding longish hair. Deranged expression. Orange shirt, blue shorts.

Pack 4: 

Lonnie:
Black boy with a little dark brown afro. Excited face missing tooth. Light grey shirt with dark grey pants.

Aisha:
Black woman with straight black hair mid back length, excited face. Yellow top and grey pants.

Darius:
Black man short curly hair well kept mustache and a shocked expression. He's wearing a tan blazer blue shirt and khaki pants.

Elaine:
Black older woman with greying dreadlocks. Shocked expression. Light blue shirt and shorts with a brand new light blue Muumuu overlay.

Pack 5:
Ramona:
Pigtailed girl sour face. Brown hair and skin. Wearing a white shirt with light blue pants

Eva:
White woman, dirty blonde hair with a light blue top ¾ sleeves white skirt with light blue tights and yellow boots. Surprised expression 

Edgar:
Brown skinned man with dark brown wavy hair thick mustache, angry expression. Navy Blue t-shirt light blue pants.

Federico:
White man wearing a red beanie with longish dark brown hair wearing a white shirt with black pants. Surprised expression