These 6-inch Godzilla and Mechagodzilla action figures from SH Monster Arts have an incredible level of detail and 29-points of articulation. Unfortunately that quality also comes at a price — $80 apiece for each of these. These figure are currently scheduled to ship in January 2012.
GeekBox makes these awesome looking wall-mounted action figure cases like this:
StarTrek.Com has a look at Diamond Select’s upcoming Retro versions of Picard and a Borg drone.
Emce Toys’ Make Your Own Zombie kit is a nice, but at $50-$60 for a single body and an assortment of heads, hands, etc., that’s a pretty expensive way to get into customizing action figures.
As an alternative, Classic TV Toys sells a variety of 8-inch Mego-style male and female bodies, heads and accessories that are reasonably priced. For example, you can grab a 5-pack of male bodies for $19. The site sells pretty much everything you’ll need to get started making your own custom figures.
A couple years ago, Emce Toys — which manufactures a number of 8″ figure lines — announced a “Make Your Own Action Figure” kit that, as far as I can tell, was never actually offered for sale. Now they’re back with this “Make Your Own Zombie Action Figure” kit.
The kit comes with an 8″ (apparently that’s 1/9 scale) body and 5 heads, 2 paris of arms, 2 pairs of lower legs, 2 pairs of hands, 1 pair of feet, 2 sets of clothes, and 1 chest prosthetic. Also included is “a DVD that features painting and assembly instructions.”
This comes out in September 2011 for $50-$60.
This Universal Studios Mummy action figure was released awhile ago, but is being re-released later this year. And, really, you can never have enough Universal monster figures, can you?
At one time, Heroes In Action was going to do a line of Mego-style figures of American presidents, and they did do a Barack Obama that quickly sold out.
Now, though, they’re going in a slightly different direction a bit by offering a series of monster versions of U.S. presidents (insert obvious political editorializing here). For example, here’s their Abraham Lincoln figure next to the monsterfied Lincolnstein. Nice. Can’t wait for the monsterfied version of Warren G. Harding.
Triad Toys makes this 1/6th scale Zorro action figure scheduled for release in February 2011. This one comes with a ton of accessories and looks really nice, but will retail in the $125-$170 range. The explosion of 1/6th scale figures keeps on going.
Back in the mid-1990s, Toy Biz unleashed some of the ugliest action figures ever. I’ve got a fairly large collection of these largely because they are so ugly they show up on the clearance racks at the local comic book store fairly often. I haven’t seen it rear its ugly head yet, but this Wolverine Unleashed figure is the epitome of the entire Toy Biz line at the time. I found this picture at an online store selling the figure for $11.95, but odds are it’ll show up at clearance sooner or later at the local store for about $3.
