Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Princess Leia Organa (The Vintage Collection). She's gone now - and hopefully she'll come back, because this is a good figure with swappable hoods. The hair is a separately molded piece, the face printing is good, and this figure is about as good as you can get with molded plastic. I'm impressed by the waist joint and how her dress hangs over the belt just a bit. The only real shortcoming might be how her sleeves bend with the elbow joints, which may make another case for swappable, pre-posed arms that may look better on display. Point is, you should get one of these. Read the whole review.

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Via the Glyos News Dump: Delayed Until Friday - New Drop: Onell Design Thursday at 9:30 PM EST. Armorvors, Travellers, and more will be going up tonight (and not last night.)

This week's batch of titles on the eShop: Arcade Archives Adventure Canoe, The Disney Afternoon Collection, plus dozens more.

Over at the Switch 2 eShop: Arcade Archives Adventure Canoe, Scott Pilgrim EX, and several more.

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Via Limited Run Games: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction. There will be a digital release, and it would see the pre-order goes up April 28 for whatever consoles they're doing. Details weren't listed, but I'm particularly interested as LRG had previously secured exclusive action figures with some of its games. I don't know of any but I do know if they wind up with Filmation Sorceress I'll be plunking down the asking price.

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?

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Obi-Wan Kenobi (Jedi Spirits, The Vintage Collection). He's a lot like regular Ben, but with ice sculpture hands and feet, and for some reason you can see through his robes. I like the opaque bits a lot, but I feel the clear blue bits are losing me the more I look at these guys. Props to Hasbro for excellent metallic paint on the opaque parts, I think they're on the right track and hopefully we'll get something without see-through clothes after he's dead. How undignified. Read the whole review.

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Via the Glyos News Dump: New Drop: Onell Design Thursday at 9:30 PM EST. The head seems to be a pirate lion (which you'll understand is exciting), but also it reminded me of a resin The Godbeast Head I got around 2013 - I included the picture in my blog post.

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 Variety: Funko-Inspired TV Shows, Movies and Animated Projects in the Works at Rideback, Spuree (EXCLUSIVE). Translating your house style into a multimedia empire is tough to do. Usually it's the characters, rather than the format, that serves as a springboard to success. He-Man, Optimus Prime, they're some sort of star. LEGO figures are doing a good job in this space, Playmobil tried and didn't quite click. We saw Funko Pop! Vinyl figures take center stage in a big video game recently, but people didn't show up for it. LEGO's play features and culture of imagination - and lack thereof - was great for movies and games. Funko makes some great characters that nobody else touches, and does so on one of the best platforms for character figures I've ever seen. But I couldn't tell you what a movie about them would be like unless it was some ironic never-ending toy run snark thing. (Did you ever read that Jim Mahfood Clerks comic from the 1990s? Probably like that.)

Galactic Hunter has posted Q&A: Star Wars Tariffs and Monster Games. It's new! Be sure to click through and read up on the latest!

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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 Mattel: Mattel Unveils Expansive Masters of the Universe Publishing Program Ahead of the FilmÕs Global Theatrical Release. This is the kind of thing that helped grow fans in the 1980s - coloring books, comics, cartoons, storybooks, school supplies, all of this stuff kept the toys front-and-center with kids. New highlights: "Skeletor Ate My Homework(The Adventures of He-Man and Porter #1)" and "Masters of the Universe: The Art of the Film."

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Darth Vader (Force Masters / Epic World of Action). Still in a Target near you, this slightly-repainted version of Vader has very nice red lenses and some red lightning on his hands. And lightsaber. And a big plastic wad of it, just for fun. It's more or less the same as the figure packed with the mech, plus or minus deco and gear. It's pretty impressive for the price, showing that there's a massive chasm continuing to grow between "expensive collector figure" and "perfectly good action figure." I like this set - it feels like a box of toys. 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: Arcade Archives Mega Zone, Rayman: 30th Anniversary Edition, plus dozens more.

Over at the Switch 2 eShop: Arcade Archives Mega Zone, Star Trek: Voyager Š Across the Unknown, and several more.

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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?

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Shaak Ti (The Vintage Collection). She's the best version yet in terms of sculpt and engineering, but she also seems much more brightly colored - in line with the cartoons. If you don't have a Shaak Ti, get this one. If you do, you might be happy with what you have - but this is worth a peek, right? Read the whole review.

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Via Kickstarter/Shout! Factory/Mike/The Bots: SECOND MOVIE REVEAL! is a Roger Corman joint, Space Raiders. It's a sci-fi space western that looks like a really good fit for this sort of thing.

Via Tomy: Nintendo Metroid and Mario. New Metroid toys are an uncommon thing, so seeing giant plush of Samus Aram's helmet and Morph Ball mode really maru'd my mari. Their booth featured tons of toys and mystery box collectible figures, but I focused on what was the most exciting to me personally.

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