Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Anakin Skywalker (Cape, The Vintage Collection). It's pretty much the same as a figure we got about a year ago, except this one comes in a boxed set and has an added cape. Is it worth the upcharge for a cape? Ask your completism. It's a perfectly nice figure, but I do worry a bit about the longevity of the elastic bands around his arms that secure the cape in place. Read the whole review.

--AP

Something new every day-- unless it's old! Our exciting Figure of the Day continues for you lucky people! Is there anything we won't cover in this column? Probably not!

Something new every day-- unless it's old! Our exciting Figure of the Day continues for you lucky people! Is there anything we won't cover in this column? Probably not!

Galactic Hunter has posted Q&A: Star Wars Price Increases on Pegwarmers and Future Movie Prospects. It's new! Be sure to click through and read up on the latest!

Daily figure reviews return until I am too tired to want to keep doing it! Our exciting Figure of the Day continues and my hopes is it will encourage you to kick in $1 a month to the Patreon which funds hosting for 16bit.com and Galactic Hunter! Help me keep the servers on and the toy pictures a-rollin'.

Via the Glyos News Dump: ToyFinity January 11, 2026 Drop Menu. New parts, exposed faces, and upgradey bits can be yours - and you'll probably want to see them. I really loved the original Manglormortis and this new color is really something. Be sure to check 'em out.

Something new every day-- but this was posted 10 years ago today! Our exciting Figure of the Day continues for you lucky people! Is there anything we won't cover in this column? Probably not!

Via CNBC: Amazon plans first big-box retail store in Chicago suburb. One store is planned, which is expected to be larger than a Walmart supercenter and also serve as a delivery hub of some sort. Amazon's physical stores have been kind of a dud so far, but with Kmart long gone there is certainly some room for another big box store of groceries, dry goods, and that sort of thing.

Right now it's just one store, so even speculating about what this is going to mean seems like kind of a waste of time. I generally prefer to shop at actual stores and not online, so having more places to walk around and poke at old unsold clearance merchandise is where I want things to go.

We're taking donations for server costs! Really. One of the rewards is Q&A a few days early - you can read next Monday's installment as soon as it's ready, which can be as early as 1:00 AM my time on Monday!

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Ahsoka Tano (Force Masters / Epic World of Action). This figure is in Target now as part of a Force Masters multi-pack, which gives new and existing figures "Force" deco. Sure, it's a little silly to give Ahsoka Force lightning on her gloves and lightsabers, but it does look cool and seems in the spirit with the weirdness we used to get from lines from Kenner and Hasbro. The base figure is good, the added deco makes her different from the previous release, and presumably this set will be gone before Ahsoka Season 2 comes out. Grab her now! Read the whole review.

Daily figure reviews return until I am too tired to want to keep doing it! Our exciting Figure of the Day continues and my hopes is it will encourage you to kick in $1 a month to the Patreon which funds hosting for 16bit.com and Galactic Hunter! Help me keep the servers on and the toy pictures a-rollin'.

This week's batch of titles on the eShop: Go Kart Island plus Storm Chasing Sim 2025 - Tornado Hunter and also Farm Simulator 2025, despite it being 2026.

Nothing for Switch 2 this week.

Daily figure reviews return until I am too tired to want to keep doing it! Our exciting Figure of the Day continues and my hopes is it will encourage you to kick in $1 a month to the Patreon which funds hosting for 16bit.com and Galactic Hunter! My goal? $100 a month, which means I don't even get $3 per day to host this thing and pay to fix broken hardware. So how about a buck, Mac?

Via I Heart Pizza on Bluesky: Go For It!. The Sega Genesis/Mega Drive game has been in development for a few years, and has yet to come out. But it looks neat - it features at least one actual real world wrestler, but more interesting to me was one actual turkey on a skateboard wearing a backwards baseball cap. It looks neat. Here's a post with a trailer.

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (The Vintage Collection). We've had a few versions of this character as a figure in the past 20 years, which continue to show that it can be a struggle to make a good, tiny bathrobe for your action figures. The head sculpt is good, the inner robes are surprisingly great. The big brown robe is still a little bulky, hangs oddly, and for some reason has a sewn-down hood. Other than face deco, the 2017 ForceLink figure offers a better hood-up experience with superior sleeves. This new Kenobi is a big improvement over many previous cloth robe versions, but it doesn't feel like the Final Form for the character at 3 3/4-inches. There's still room for improvement. Read the whole review.

--AP

Something new every day-- unless it's old! Our exciting Figure of the Day continues for you lucky people! Is there anything we won't cover in this column? Probably not!

Via the Glyos News Dump: ItemLabel January 6, 2026 Drop Menu. The Pibipon is a new mold from a new maker, who had a matching A/V Robot last year. These new guys are rounder and rollier, and seemingly pretty versatile in their build potential. Be sure to check 'em out.