Gearbox is going to be producing a limited run of these the Borderlands 2 Miss Moxxi Bad Touch gun replicas. These will go for $650. I’m holding out for the replica Norfleet rocket launcher.
Toys
Funko’s Star Trek: The Next Generation Vinyl Figures
Custom Activision Action Figures
This is one of the most clever custom action figure sets I’ve seen. Someone at ChicagoToyCollector.com has created a set of custom action figures based on the old Activision games that came out on the Atari 2600.
Lego’s Comeback
Man, I remember back in 2003-2004 when Lego was having serious financial problems. Somehow they’ve turned that around to become the largest toy manufacturer in the world. According to Business Insider,
Danish toy maker Lego has taken the top spot as the world’s biggest maker of toys by sales, overtaking Barbie doll-maker Mattel, its first-half results showed on Thursday.
First-half sales rose 11.0 percent to 11.5 billion kroner (1.55 billion euros, $2.03 billion).
Performance was boosted by the Lego Movie product line which was launched together with the group’s eponymous feature film earlier this year.
One of the things Lego appears to have gotten much better is turning its licensed properties into bigger profits.
According to this 2009 Daily Mail article, back in 1999 Lego had actually rejected a Star Wars tie-in because of the violence inherent in the sci-fi epic. Today, of course, Star Wars-related products have become one of Lego’s major success stories.
Funko Reaction – Big Trouble in Little China Action Figures
Funko continues its Reaction line of throwback action figures with this excellent Big Trouble in Little China series.
Gracie Law
Jack Burton
Retro 8-inch Robert E. Howard Action Figures
Figure Toys Co. is releasing 8-inch retro action figures inspired by Robert E. Howard creations Conan The Barbarian, Kull and Solomon Kane. Too bad they couldn’t have thrown in one of Robert E. Howard himself given his influence on so much genre fiction that followed.
Solomon Kane
Kull
Conan The Barbarian