Todd is dabbling into other games

 He's setting up preorders for this Thursday:

I may try to preorder Zeus... because I already have Jesus... that Kratos feels too chill for Kratos, you know? 

But while we're at it, Perseus, Todd!! Hell, forget GoW Perseus, go for Clash of the Titans... the good one, not the one with Liam  Neeson

We need the rest of the Trumps:

 I don't like the guy... BUT since we have a figure, we need the rest. Except Barron. Because if we add him, we'd need chinless baldy and his bro... Tiffany and her cousin Mary would be excluded... so Figures Toy Company get to it

I'm talking about Melania, Ivanka, Don Jr. and Eric Busey... err Trump. These can be non-talking figures. 

We have most of the parts, aside the heads... and maybe a pair of soft goods items for Melania.

Ivanka:

Using the Female Wrstling Fan Body with the Female Announcer Dress in a different color. Using the Lisa feet New heads, mic, hands.

Melania:

Female fan body female referee shoes, soft goods Green Coat. Extra head, hands

Don Jr.:

Announcer body, hands alternate Clean shaven head

Eric:

Wrestling fan Eugene body, hands alternate Clean shaven head.

Bonus: 

Natalie Harp:

Head, female  fan body female announcer dress, lisa shoes.

Head, hands, duffelbag

Figures Toy Company's made a Trump variant

 It looks like the previous Trump but woth a blue tie. For $70, you get variant Trump, extra head, hands, Podium, Mic, and...

JD Vance with extra head and hands... He talks too.

There is also a single boxed JD Vance, which I bought to review at a much later date.

I just realized the single card Vance is in a blue suit while the 2 pack is in black... Fuckdammit!

My Little Breast Cancer: Cancer sucks ass

 Bad news, Asheligh Ball, voice of Rainbow Dash and Applejack has Stage IV Triple Negative Breast Cancer. This is not bueno.

This is very worrisome, as triple negative type 4 is usually very bad news. Hopefully it'll get in remission... best wishes to Ms. Ball.

Street Fighter 2026: The movie: The rant:

 Saw it... and I have thoughts:

Where do I start:

It sucked... but it didn't suck. It's not a so bad It's good movie. Technically speaking is more faithful to the lore and at the same time it isn't. 

The movie goes into the overarching Bison wants Ryu's Satsui no Hadou story than purely SF2.

We got Guile's Theme, Ryu's theme, and The Character select theme... We got the He-Man song...

A few times during the movie.

Mr. Dalmatianchan did a decent job with Bison... He is no Raúl Juliá, but was way better than Neil McDonough.

Also, he did the thing:

There's a reference to the Chun Li Shower scene from the Animated SF movie...

Guile's car is based on the Animated movie... I don't think they referenced the animated series... but there's some images from Super SFII Turbo recreated in the movie.

The plot starts with Animated SF1 flashbacks with Sagat being animated.

The movie is a love letter to Street Fighter slightly Hollywoodized.

The toys already spoiled Evil Ryu...

I Hated the Ending... but overall, I enjoyed the movie... Guile doesn't do much... but Cody Rhodes was a million times better than JCVD.

This new Chun Li was decent, but I prefer Ming Na... I prefer Kylie Minogue's Cammy over the new one...

It's on par with 1994... though I prefer 94 a bit more. I will probably see it again... not as many times as He-Man, but I will buy it physical.

Why the fuck a Ken centric movie lacks his theme or at least they should've gotten Mighty Wings!

Hasbro officially made their 1/12 figures $30

 Which means that they're $5 less than a Super7 deluxe figure. I know what you're going to say: "you buy $30 Jada figures." Yeah, but that was to finish off a 17 figure line. 

I had become a cherry picker with MLs lately. This will help me solve my picking... Lara may be my last Hasbro figure for a while now... Hopefully BBTS keeps the old preorder prices on the Zelda stuff... 

Hasbro! You were supposed to defeat the scalpers not join them!

Jada has a vega recolor at Entertainment Earth

 Heads up... 

If you have vanilla Vega, you know what to expect. Not to be confused with Alexa Vega.

Another Miami Vice movie!?

 Jesus Tittyfucking Christ! Who's in this?

Austin Butler and Michael B. Jordan. Movie has 3 writers that's never a good sign.

There better be jai alai.

I'm honestly not too sure if this will rock or suck, but it's screaming to me, wait until streaming.

The rest of NYCC

 No TMNT From Mattel. Hasbro announced X-men 97 MLs, Spider-Man colors Venom.

Nacelle showed these...

McFarlane did Witchblade dirty and wants $50 for this. Not even Classic Witchblade that even casuals would get.

This was meh...

NYCC Mattel and McFarlane: a rant

 Mcfarlane has his last DC waves Absolute DC Universe stuff... meh... but Mattel showed their adult collector line starting with a Hush Batman at 6.5 inches:

This is $100: Rooftop diorama has working batsignal, steam/humidifier to make the bat signal visible and the Batman has ToyBiz ML levels of articulation with Hasbro styled swappable parts.

There will be two tiers legacy being the equivalent to WWE Elite and Ultimate with more swappable stuff...

Hory shet... that gives me hope for TMNT but makes me worried for my wallet.

NYCC has Storm Arena stuff

 Darkstalkers are my main priority. 

Felicia and Viktor may be wave 2 while Anakaris and Jedah may be wave 3. 

Not bad... not bad... will they do the whole roster? Most likely not.

I think NYTF or NYCC is this weekend

 I forgot which one... but hopefully Mattel will finally reveal their TMNT stuff... vehicles in WWE Scale... please.

Hasbro will probably show overpriced MLs and Star Wars stuff...

If Super7 has one last TMNT wave, now is the time to sell the preorders before Mattel gets their line out... unless s7 missed on the final deadline. 

But they better show appealing non tmnt studf in Ultimates scale...

Now without TMNT, what will NECA rely on outside of horror/predator/alien?

Playmates... they got the Dungeon Crawler Carl, but they've been silent. 

We better keep our eyes peeled. I think it's NYCC... but I'm not sure.

With Street Fighter II done, what would I like to see from Jada?

 I know they have SFAlpha, Strider, Astro Boy, continuing Scooby (13 ghosts versions please) and Mega Man (we need Roll, the Doctors, Bass...)

But what wlse would I like to see from them?

Classic RE stuff: (0-5 stufff)

Game protagonists and key characters.

(Not gonna lie, if I could afford it, I'd buy the entire Village from RE 4)

Ace Attorney:

Damn... that would include the Miafied Maya and Pearl.

Speed Racer:

If we get a 1/12 Mach 5... oh holy crap...

Gatchaman:

Storm Collectibles had the line seems dead...

The 5, Anbu, Berg Katse, Galactor soldiers, civilian forms of the 5, Sosai X... that's like 15 releases altogether.

RB Fatal Fury Special:

This could totally lead to: CVS2...

Jonny Quest:

Not everything needs to be game or anime based. And we have a few characters depending the iteration.

Shenmue:

Of course I'm sneaking it in.

Darkstalkers:

Because we know Storm will choke.

Jada did what SOTA, Neca, Jazwares, and Hasbro couldn't

 Let's face it, neither will Storm Collectibles, since they are moving into third strike... also SH Figuarts did some repaints and Street Fighter was off the radar, like their Ranma reboot figures.

Zangief is in my pile of loot. Now Thunderhead... Thunder Hawk is joining the PoL... until we get another videogame character... either Lara or Tempestra. With my luck both. Anyway...

We can't recreate this shot due to the figures not having the parts to do so. But a group shot is doable.

Thank You Jada...

Modern gaming and preservation

 Does it even make sense? My PS4 is 10 years old and has gone through 3 HDDs and now between AI and hardware getting discontinued, I may have a paperweight... so will the PS5... that's scary, yo! 

With Sony going digital and storage drives being well, a bitch to get... it's gonna be an uphill battle to preserve games. 

Nintendo is also strong on the anti-preservation movement...

The least evil for now, but still evil is still Microsoft... literally WTF? Better graphics and features is the new dark ages. Nope! I stand corrected. Microsoft got to new levels of evil:

Pausing gameplay for ads.

Spying on peope to count heads in order to bill users if there's too many people in the room.

This is what pushes people to

It stinks when third parties scalp us, but when the companies are nickel and diming us, that's a load of bullshit.

Arthur is coming

 So are Barry and Chairface.

About 26 days left. They hit the bare minimum the multiple santa and the terror and maneating cow are added figures to the wave. The latter is a set since the terror gets eaten by the maneating cow.

I only preordered Arthur because my PS4 HD died... fucking Seagate... HD Drives are a pain to find now.

Watching Street Fighter on Tubi while waiting fir Street Fighter on theaters

 Mainly because of Raúl Juliá.

I'm also awaiting for Tuah, Hawk to hit my BBTS Pile of Loot and complete Super Street Fighter II Turbo roster.

Holy Ass Crackers! This flop is still giving Capcom at least $63,000+ a year...

Regardless of whether the New Street Fighter movie does well or not, it won't change the soft spot I have for this movie.

Super7: a rant:

 Since Mattel has an embargo on TMNT, Super7's TMNT might be done.

D&D is dead

GI Joe is dead

Silverhawks still has a little life, but I got most of who I wanted.

I dunno the state of Tigersharks.

Thundercats is done for me unless we get a shorter Pumyra.

I kinda want Invincible, but the deluxe have so little, it's pointless. Even the Ultimates have been found lacking... despite being $5 shy of a 200% of their original pricing.

Let's see if they hit us with surprices for NYTF...

That aren't ReAction+ stuff.

Thinking on the McFarlane Lara and other games

 The Lara could use some extra accessories... via weapons pack: 

Medipacks

Flare box

Other weapons

Key items from past games (dagger of Xian, the Scion, save crystal)

But Todd could, I dunno work with other game makers *cough* Konami *cough* to get Castlevania and MGS... 

In both cases deluxe and basic figures paired with accessory packs.

Sega's Altered Beast made by McFarlane would be amazeballs... 

Bloody Roar would look cool too.

Battle Arena Toshinden doesn't get that much love...

Not gonna mention this...

Variable Geo would give Todd the ick... and I don't think the west is ready for a toyline based on a fighting eroge.

Mcfarlane does Lara...

 Surprised he chose a line with a female lead since girls have cooties according to him.

I dunno but doesn't it feel like McFarlane just copied Hasbro and made the copy crappy?

At least Hasbro added lore shit combining Classic with NuLara. Lara needs 2 picks to climb. Buut there is only One reason to get the Todd Lara:

Tom Holland.

Twinkie Candy Bar

 Yes it's  real.

Also tastes like ass

Has a weird texture and is the first candy bar I've not eaten in its entirety because it tastes like ass...

Hey hey hey what is going on here? Fuck you Haley Joel Osment!

 Sora's Necrovision took Mr. Belding from us.

First Screech, now Belding... maybe it's the curse from The New Class.

I cannot talk much about him because to me he was Dick Belding Bayside's Principal.

Really? What in the Hideo Kojima is this bullshit?

 Nicholas Winding Refn died and came back to life 25 minutes after.

Yes, the guy who mocapped for Heartman was dead about the same time as his character and brought back to life...

I can't even... now we need Norman Reedus doing Doordash or Uber Eats.

My guesses on the 6 figures before Storm folds on Third Strike

 Aside the Shotos: Because Ryu, Ken, Sean, and Akuma are a given.

Gill:

Mainly because we get an Urien Reuse, so it looks like they did more.

Q:

It requires a soft goods coat but it's a business suit body that if they play it smart can be used for Urien

Remy:

For some reason people like him.

Elena:

Plain body sculpt with skimpy clothes.

Chun Li:

It's Street Fighter of course we get Chun Li 

Yang:

Part reuse for Yun.

They can get up to 12 characters there.

My Storm Collectibles Zangief Broke...

I warned folks back in 2017  about the shoulder issues.

The Right shoulder cup disintegrated and the left is on its way. I tried the baking soda + superglue trick, the tissue paper plus superglue dangerous pseudo micarta trick... nothing works. Why am I mentioning this now?

Storm Collectibles can't finish a roster and now they're adding SF III Third Strike.

I hope Jada sticks to their guns and finish the SFZ3 roster.

Sony's new patent is problematic

 DualSense conteollers being able to tap pay is evil. This is allowing illegal purchases by kids tapping their parents credit cards to the controller. This is so messed up. This isn't to make things easier for customers.

What if Mattel were to do Playmates designs for TMNT?

 Remember how Mattel won against Don Glut?

What if Mattel could use the argument that Playmates was doing work under license for Mirage and that allows Mattel to access the OG Library?

Would be sweet... so let's take 10 characters and 5 vehicles... because Playsets I trust Mattel a bit more. Making them compatible for 5.5 and 6.5 scales... essentially making them for 6.5 and selling them for 5.5 scale. Also, these would be "new Eternia styled" reimaginings for TMNT.

Basically a new design but with enough parts that can be swapped/removed to make Playmates looking toys.

Figures:

Pizzaface

Halfcourt

King Lionheart

Scaletail

April the Ravishing Reporter

Irma

Burne

Vernon

Walkabout

Chrome Dome 

Vehicles:

Party Wagon

Foot Cruiser

Ninja Newscycle

Turtle Tenderizer

Turtle Cycle

While I want the Footski and maybe a Technodrome scout vehicle, I'm going with those first because it keeps the fight grounded.

But I hope that for NYTF Mattel will show TMNT stuff.

Top 10 Final Fight Characters I want Jada to tackle

 List will be rather short: 

The style will be based on the Final Fight games... Will not use Characters that are in SFA:

10) Belger:

He'd be deluxe due to the wheelchair AND Jessica. With soft goods dress to recreate the japanese intro

9) Damnd:

The Stage 1 Boss. He returns for SF6 but we are looking at FF.

8) Maki:

She was in FF2 but I remember her mostly for CVS2.

7) Lucia:

Mainly for SFV but she was in FF3

6) Poison:

For the Andore as a SFIII reference  and that she can get a Roxy redeco.

5) Andore:

 Basically Hugo. We could get repaints for the stage 3 scene.

4)Abigail:

Not the SF6 Giant... the Andore repaint woth different head.

3)Edi.E:

Corrupt poliecman with a gun. Has a cameo in a Cody winpose in Alpha.

2) Mike Haggar:

Like hell I was leaving him out. He's like THE Final Fight guy

1) Cody:

I need a Free Cody...

It came from the Toy Chest: Sashimi Rollin' they hatin'

 Teeny Tinies has arrived... not the TMNT ONE, but instead I got the Sashimi one.

Tmnt is on its way. Like the Charcuterie and the others I didn't review, these are static food items that in some cases are inferior to miniverse and minibrands BUT TO FILL LARGE SPREADS for parties and banquets they work.

Pic not mine but has all contents

I won't rate these because it's just sculpt. Some can be mid.

There is another Sushi Set but I haven't found it.

I'm afraid of buying unbranded sushi pieces from ebay and amazon as scalrs could be weird.

They are OK... 

Shenmue the Animation in English is MIA

 I wanted to watch Shenmue the Animation legally in our 2026th uear of the lord. Well, I'm fucked.

But Crunchyroll only has it on Japanese.

So, it's  Japanese or nothing....

It's  a shame...

Also, as a consolation prize they have this:

Yeah... At least I have Ace Attorney, Macadamia Vigolantes, amd the final season of Knights of the Zodiac a formerly Netflix series.

But Macadamia vigilantes has a Jojorine...

Behold the Jojorine.

Vulvana progress: it's been a hassle

 The horns didn't want to attach properly.

Got the earrings and the ribbon... fuck me it's  a pain in the ass. I may have to drill more holes on the head to glue the earrings and ribbon.

Now I know why I don't normally do customs. I need to buy some color change paint for the horns...

WWE Hardcore items: a rant

 Sorry: Extreme Rules... They are shying away from Hardcore, because porn.

This list started due to the light bulbs from the Ringside hardcore items set.

I wanna see more of these, because they help with other displays... like breakable crates, trashcans fire extinguishers... I know some of these are readily available. But I'm looking for stuff to be also available in other lines and usable with WWE. In a reverse WWE accessories thing.

Like say Casey Jones having broken wooden bats  and bent metal bats in a TMNT Weapons pack that happens to be compatible with WWE figures. 

Like the old Jakks grapple gear packs that featured parking meters, parking blocks, tires, etc. 

A lot of those things have cross compatibility with the upcoming TMNT line if they're 6.5 inch scale. Which mattel should do. In a way that's how they can get WWE compatible hardcore stuff if WWE won't allow it. 

Street Fighter popcorn bucket

 Goes with everything... it's Guile's hair.

Now what will they do for soda?

I'm not feeling Ravenous

 Feels too much like Metroid Dread.

Not a baaad thing but... it's not like I NEEDS TO GET A SWITCH 2 for it... anyways, I mentioned it because I hadn't earlier... Zero Suit Samus, Hasbro, when?

Fuckdammit! Shuma Girath Purple Repaint is here

And in a totally un-Hasbro move is cheaper than the green one.

 

Miniverse From Scratch: a rant

 I got a couple of them.

I hate them. Especially the animal cookie one.

Mine didn't look remotely as good. The rubber dough dried out too fast for me. I only got like 5 cookies. $10 wasted.

This next video has the other two items I got.

These are Ass... there I said it... the positove is that the animal cookies one has a rolling pin for Pizzaface Jr. Do not get... they are ass.

These are not worth it.

It came from the Toy Chest: Ringside Collectibles Hardocre pack

 I don't buy from Ringside often, because there isn't a huge variety in accessories. Most of them seem the same as Figures Toy Company's.

Roughly ⅔ of the accessories called my attention as I had never seen them on FTC's line-up:

Here we go!

FINISH HIM!

The Rack with Barbed wire is in both sites. It's bigger than I expected. 

Sadly the Pizza cutter has a puny handle

I hope the one from Teeny Tinies is better. The main Item I wanted was disappointing.

I wish we had More of these. Dammit, where's that 40-year old virgin clip?

Cuffs aren't the best, but they work... on Super7 figures.

Nailed 2×4 and a barbed wired bat... they're decent. Mught give the board to Rat King I.

Mikey: Like Hyah! Dude...
April 30th will be Legendary.

The Torch was another on the most wanted items. The trash can is OK.

Mikey: Nyeh nyeh nyeh myeeeeeeeh!
I Have a Pony Jar! Need to place pony and fill it with... you get the idea.

Mikey: Whoa! You almost fell into those thumbtacks and Barbed wire...
Trump: You saved me...
Mikey: Yeah, so I could ask you about my a
DOGE check, my Tariff Check, and my Vote Republican on the Midterms... that's like $12K you owe me, dude.

The next Items are familiar territory.

Updating Pizzaface: a Rant

 I am stumped on how to drill the soft head I got for Vulvana to attach the horns I got. So, I decided to work on Pizzaface Jr. 

Dyed the hat with Sharpies then used elmers glue to somewhat seal the hat shape. I also painted the Pizzaface shield I got a few months back. All I'm missing is the Pizzas, but thanks to Tariff-Man now I have to wait until USPS bills me the tariffs, since the Spray-tanned occupant of the White House had the under $800 exemption removed. So for 2 toy Pizzas that I paid $26 with shipping and taxes included, now I have to pay a mysterious amount that may be closer to an additional $26... no wonder many sellers have USA and territories blocked from sales.

Well... Teeny Tinies...  has made a pair of TMNT sets.

I ordered this one as I couldn't find it locally. Depending on how good it is, I may get a second one... or order the other one that includes a retro TV, a Boombox, and a LCD Portable game that is reminiscent of the TMNT LCD game by Konami. It also includes some crappy stuff like 2 useless skateboards, a Mutant Mayhem van... I wish I can find that set locally but the only place I've seem Teeny tinies is Walgreens and they only have Shark Cutlery, Christmas, and 90s inspired school lunch sets.