RIP Catherine O'Hara, Demond Wilson
February 2, 2026 |
Star Wars Q&A Updated at Galactic Hunter
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  Galactic Hunter has posted Q&A: The Old Star Wars Kenner Vehicles in Modern Times and Contemporary Styles. It's new! Be sure to click through and read up on the latest!
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Review: Toy Pizza Glow Vector Jump (Armor Kit)
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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! Help me keep the servers on and the toy pictures a-rollin'.
Old! Toy Pizza Glow Vector Jump (Armor Kit) was an add-on set, which let me add glow armor to a material boy figure I had sitting around, doing nothing. It's fun! And has been sold out for over eight years. Well, I still like it. Read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!
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Classic Review: Jakks Pacific World of Nintendo Jakks Giants Mario Action Figure
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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!
Posted 10 years ago! From 2014, Jakks Pacific World of Nintendo Jakks Giants Mario Action Figure was a huge figure. And a big seller. And part of a trend! Jakks Pacific cornered the market on high-run, medium-dollar, big plastic monuments for fairly good prices. A 4-inch figure might be $10, and these 20-inch giants would frequently be in the $20-$30 range. Some were even bigger, and I've got a Mario standing next to Link on some shelves I got from a closing Toys "R" Us in 2018. It's a spectacular bit of toy engineering and a segment of the toy market that completely evaporated once TRU went out of business. It's a shame, I think giant Spider-Man, Mando, and Samus would be great things to have for sale nowadays. This figure had mostly swivel joints but it's something that towers over your other toys and won't break the bank. Or at least, it wouldn't in 2024.
Today, eBay sellers are getting over $70 for boxed originals and loose samples are at least $50. And sensibly so - these things felt underpriced when they were new. Do read on, and come back tomorrow for a new one!
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Neil Hamburger Touring with Mark Proksch
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  Via me: I saw Neil Hamburger at Valley Bar with opener Mark Proksch! I should probably write more about the shows I've seen, and this was a good one. If you're familiar with Neil Hamburger's act, it was the usual master class in dunking on various musicians in a way that I assume even the targets would find to be an honor. I've seen him a few times, and it's worth noting his merch table had signed copies of the legendary - legendary - "Hot February Night" album on vinyl. Also something called a "Sick Bag" which was a collection of stickers, buttons, pens, and a tour-only Sick Spelled Backwards CD. (I need to listen to this.) It, too, has to do with the roasting of a specific music personality. If you see me at a New York toy show next week, ask me about his David Lee Roth joke.
Mark Proksch is one of comedy's great "that guy"s. You either know him as Colin Robinson as the energy vampire on What We Do in the Shadows, or don't. He was also on The Office and pops up all the time as an unassuming middle-aged guy, and he's dynamite. His set was delightfully goofy and playful, which is ideal when you're dealing with an - in comedy circles - famous face. Any famous person can get the audience on board for five minutes, but he kept going and kept the audience engaged. If you have the chance to see him, do it. I heard a rumor he was going to do yo-yo acts so actually playing with the audience verbally was a surprise.
We've got tickets to see Chris Fleming this weekend, who we saw last year, but Mrs. 16bit wanted to see him again. I can tell you it was a good show.
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Nexus Prime's Combined Mode Revealed
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  Via Instagram: More soon! After a weekend leak of Liege Maximo and Nexus Maximus, fans were speculating wildly over the rather thin-looking red and blue member of the Thriteen. Turns out Nexus Prime has a secret torso mode! But it also turns out you're going to need to sacrifice some parts from a Superion (and/or maybe Bruticus) to get him into a combiner mode. Hopefully this means more guys are coming later specifically to build this bot out, it looks like he could use a team of buddies to help him out. What's particularly interesting is the combiner head is very much based on the fan club's Nexus Maximus combiner head.
Semi-related, it's probably a seller's market if you have a complete Nexus Maximus right now as fans probably won't want to wait 2-3 years for more parts to upgrade the new guy, assuming such parts are coming, and I would be pleased to see such things made.
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