EXCLUSIVE! HASLAB GALACTUS STRETCH GOALS LEAKED?!

BREAKING NEWS:

HASLAB GALACTUS STRETCH GOAL LEAKED?!

It’s Comic Con week and our collective wallets have been tombstone piledrived into oblivion, as all our favorite brands announced, revealed and released some awesome toys. One of last week’s biggest reveals (litteraly!) was the new HasLab project, Galactus, towering at 32 inches tall. The project needs 14,000 backers to be fully funded and is now closing in on 8700 backers (at time of writing). The HasLab project will end on August 30th.

Once the project is fully funded, the Marvel Legends team announced that there will, of course, be stretch goals. What could they be? A disgruntled employee sent ToyFarce the scoop! (How do all those disgruntled employees keep getting our email address??)

Once the project is fully funded, Galactus will get his bib to be able to devour planet without making a mess on his suit.

Revealed by @thegreattonino , some of the other stretch goals will be 6” figures. Can you guess who?

16,000 backers: Keep the good habits with the Intergalactic hand sanitizer! It would be a shame to catch a nasty virus from one of those planets…

18,000 backers: The Planet Menu. “I’m famished! What am I going to eat today?”

20,000 backers: The Galactus Planet Smasher Trumpet! (Running gag, had to.)

22,000 backers: After eating a planet, it’s important to do the dishes!

25,000 backers: Galactus gets his nightgown and hat, for a better, deeper slumber.

What other stretch goals would you love to see? Let us know in the comments!

More news at 11:00… “I…HUNGER!” (voice of the 1997 ToyBiz Galactus!)

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COLLECTOR’S TIP: YOUR CAR IN THE SUN? PERFECT FOR YOUR ACTION FIGURES JOINTS!

COLLECTOR’S TIP:

YOUR CAR IN THE SUN? PERFECT FOR YOUR ACTION FIGURES JOINTS!

Earlier this year, we introduced to you the Figure Sauna™ (article here: https://www.toyfarce.com/news/introducing-the-figure-sauna ). Now that we’re well into the summer, and that the heatwaves keep coming at us, an ingenious collector found a new solution to joint stiffness in action figures using only on thing: your automobile!

Pictures you can feel. You could probably crack an egg on those cars and cook it: ROAD SNACK!

Special thanks to @cr33pynj for this tip (or “the other Dave” as he was introduced to us): The last time Dave bought a NECA figure, he noticed that after leaving it in his car that had been under a scorching sun for hours, the figure came out right off the box without a single articulation issue. All the joints were ready for movement, and there was no need to use the traditional “boiling water” or “hair dryer” trick.

Soon, we will see this kind of note, but there will be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles two-pack instead.

DISCLAIMER: Do not leave your toy in the car for more than 10-15 minutes. Usually, the car ride home from the superstore/comic book store should be enough to loosen the joints (suspiciously). It has not been tested yet, but leaving a NECA figure for hours in a car under a scorching sun could do permanent damage to your figure.

“What a great place to display my cute soft squishy animals collection! - Oh nooooo.”

Rubber duck in solid and in liquid form.

Are you excited for NECA’s Comic Con Panel later today? What are you hoping the most for? Let us know in the comments!

More news at 11:00… And don’t forget to drink a lot of water!

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EVERY YEAR, THOUSANDS OF ACTION FIGURES ARE DISMEMBERED TO USE THEIR BODY PARTS AS ACCESSORIES!

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:

EVERY YEAR, THOUSANDS OF ACTION FIGURES ARE DISMEMBERED TO USE THEIR BODY PARTS AS ACCESSORIES!

Hasbro, Mattel, McFarlane Toys… Those are but a few of the big brand names that are still allowing this to happen. Over the last decade, more and more brands have turned a blind eye over action figures being dismembered in order to use their body parts as accessory for other figures. When a dinosaur figure comes out with a human arm to munch on as an accessory, well… that arm belonged to an action figure! We must not let this massacre continue.

The McFarlane Toys single release of King Shark from Suicide Squad comes with an arm and a leg. If the figure becomes hard to find, it will also cost an arm and a leg.

“Oh, you want this Mattel Comic-Con Exclusive set? Here is what it will cost you…”

McFarlane Toys was already using body parts in 2013, with one of his early Walking Dead figures (Penny Blake, comic book series, wave 2) actually coming with a BUCKET full of body parts. 3 heads, hands, feet, arms… THIS SLAUGHTER NEEDS TO STOP!

Please join ToyFarce in our Battle Against the Dismembering of Action Figures (B.A.D.A.F.) and share this article to raise awareness on the conditions the action figures have to live through, before becoming a super cool accessory in your new action figure set.

Article inspired by a conversation with ToyFarce Super Fan Robert Gines!

More news at 11:00… Body parts-free!

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REVIEWERS: A YOUTUBE STORY!

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REVIEWERS: A YOUTUBE STORY!

ToyFarce had the honor to sit down with a famous toy reviewer to discuss about everything YouTube, the trends, the grind, etc.:

“First, you need a great intro. ‘Hey guys, this is x and welcome to my show where I do this and that, and blahblah’, an intro that you will repeat every single time, that your guests will have to sit through and that your followers will know by heart. For most toy youtubers, it all starts with reviews. A lot of reviewers make the mistake of doing their review in front of a very white, sterile background, with oversaturated lights, in a lightbox like so many already do. By doing that, unfortunately, you show the entire world that you have no personality. It’s better to have a color as a background, but you have to pick it right! Fwoosh has blue, ToyBro has orange, Unparalleled Universe has purple… you need to pick a color that hasn’t been picked yet! How about Magenta, cyan, or navy blue?”

You get 100,000 more views if you have the right thumbnail!

“It’s important that you review everything that you can get your hands on, because you’re an influencer now, and there are people that are waiting for your opinion on a figure before buying it, so you can’t make them wait! Bonus points if you don’t even know the franchise but still review the figures: Your passion for everything you loved will end up fading away anyway, so review things you don’t have any feelings for early on!”.

Hear me talk 19 minutes about a picture you have already seen!

“After a while, when you’ve got enough of a following, you can do other things than reviews, like previews! When a brand announces something and post a promo picture, you can then make a 19 minute video where you talk about that promo picture. Obviously, you do not have more info about it than your followers, but you need to speculate and make up stuff as much as you can, so that people get excited about that picture! You can also do “hit or miss”, “dope or nope”, “crack or wack” or any variation of it, where you just tell people if a figure is good or bad, in a completely subjective manner.”

“And now a word from our sponsor, Manscaped Legends VPN!… (ToyFarce skipped that part of the interview, like we all usually do).

Reaction videos, a trend from the last few years.

“When you have no content, it is important to still fill the room with noise, so don’t hesitate to post as many Top 5, Top 10, Top 12 as possible, unnecessarily long hauls, along with ‘Collection room tours’. You can even shoot multiple room tours during the same day, you just have to hide a couple of figures from your display, film your tour, then put the figures back and film another tour! It’s common knowledge that everybody wants to watch 25min videos of someone else’s home. Remember MTV Cribs? Show your followers your collection room. It’s where the magic happens!”

Watch me look at my screen and reply to comments without reading them for hours! Zero replayability value afterwards, but you’ll be glad you were there! I will say your name!

“Finally, when you have reached that top tier level, you can get to the fun part: 8 hours long live shows! This is your time to shine. People will queue to see you talk and hear you read their username. On that note, shoutout to ToyFarce for that interview! And don’t forget to superkick that like button, leave a comment and subscribe to my channel, and click on the bell to enable notifications!”

DISCLAIMER: Satire. ToyFarce loves reviewers, follows and even chats with several reviewers and members of the toy community. ToyFarce only pokes fun at things that we love. Any resemblance to an actual reviewer in particular would be pure coincidence…maybe?

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TARGET’S SUMMER GEEK-OUT - THE SCALPING INDUSTRY IS IN SHAMBLES!

BREAKING NEWS:

TARGET’S SUMMER GEEK-OUT - THE SCALPING INDUSTRY IS IN SHAMBLES!

Over the last few days, Target held its Summer Geek-Out event, where the would sell various items from their ‘Collector’s Spot’ selection. This is an event aimed at us, the toy collectors, where they had many highly sought-after items back in stock. One specific thing caught the entire toy community’s attention, as they announced that all the G.I.Joe Classified Series Cobra Island figures (you know, the Target exclusive ones…the ones we poke fun at on a regular basis!) would be back up for order.

I like the “Last chance” part, basically saying “It’s on you if you don’t get them!”

Needless to say, thousands of Joe fans rushed to Target’s website/app to try to get their order in (and obviously, it didn’t go without any issue, and people reported getting error messages when adding items to their cart, but it seems that it was ironed out pretty fast and tons of collectors managed to secure their order). On wednesday morning, at 9am EST (6am PST lol), the Cobra Island Roadblock, Beachhead, Firefly, Cobra trooper and the likes found their way back on Target’s website, and on thursday morning at the same time, the Baroness set and the Cobra Viper were available for all to order. So, if you are in the west side of the US, and one of your colleagues looked tired on wednesday and thursday, you now know why!

This chain of event had huge ramifications on the scalping industry, which had used the Target exclusive G.I.Joe Classified series figures as their bread and butter for the past year…

Sure… They killed the line by enabling people to buy them.

An anonymous member of the S.C.A.L.P. commented: “How could they do that to us? You don’t understand! It was going so well, we had a network of Target employees getting us entire boxes of them, so that we could resell them at 4-5 times the retail price. And now, it’s all ruined! People will be able to get those figures at a normal price. When you add that to the fact there were no Comic Con the last 2 years for us to snag the exclusives from and make a mint from them, we may never recover financially from this. We will have to start a GoFundMe page for scalpers…”

And of course, the toy community delivered some great toy memes. Here are a few great ones:

Bill Moore on Facebook

The almighty @chaztheguru on instagram

And of course, as a community, we have to give credit where credit is due, and on behalf of all the people that managed to get their Cobra Island figures, after being patient and not giving in to the scalper prices:

@chaztheguru

Can anyone check on the few people that listed Cobra Island figures a few days ago at scalper prices? Are they ok?

More news at 11:00… Yo Joe June, now in July!

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WHY ARE THERE STILL NO ODDWORLD ACTION FIGURES? SIGN THE CHANGE.ORG PETITION!

EDITORIAL NOTE:

WHY ARE THERE STILL NO ODDWORLD ACTION FIGURES? SIGN THE CHANGE.ORG PETITION!

“Hello. - Hello! - Follow me. - Ok!”

Well, the title says it all. Recently, during one of those fun “Ask me anything” in Instagram stories, a follower asked about what would be the franchise that never had any toys made that I would want to see toys from. It led me to think about it for a while, but I kept coming back to one answer: The Oddworld games.

CHANGE.ORG PETITION: Sign here

The first game, Abe’s Oddyssey, made by Oddworld Inhabitants, came out on the Playstation (first of the name!) in 1997, and was followed by Abe’s Exodus in 1998. Then, Munch’s Oddyssey came out in 2001 on the XBox (first of the name, too!), along with Stranger’s Wrath in 2005. Then… nothing. Nothing happened until 2014, when the first game would be re-issued in a re-vamped “New’n’Tasty” version, for the consoles of that generation (PS3, XBox 360). And now, the re-vamped second game, now called “SoulStorm” came out in April, while a physical version of it comes out tomorrow (July 6th). The stories were great, the characters memorable, and you really wanted to save as many mudokons as you could! According to wikipedia, they have sold over 7 million copies overall. Those games (the first two, at least) figure in most of the “Top video games of all time” lists and i’m sure that a huge number of people remember Abe, the mudokons and all the other characters very fondly.

BUT… There has never been any action figures made for that franchise! A few plushes, and a couple of statues (which all came within the last decade) are the only official merch we ever got (The collector’s edition of SoulStorm which comes out tomorrow will have a statue of Abe). The game was successful, Abe is an iconic character for an entire generation of gamers who played all the games since the PS1, so why did we never get any plastic representation of those characters to put on our shelves?

CHANGE.ORG PETITION: Sign here

The characters are as TOYETIC (potentially marketable as a toy) as toyetic can be! Here’s a rundown, only from the first 2 games:

The hero, Abe, savior of the mudokons. He can have a bottle of SoulStorm Brew as an accessory, or psychic effects!

The Sligs were a super pain in ass in the video games. There are several types of them also (flying ones, baseball bat, shotgun), so more figures waiting to be made!

The Sligs were sometimes accompanied by Slogs, which were basically big angry dogs.

The Glukkons were the “corporate bosses”. They look like triangle facing down with a head at the top and feet. Different colors, cigars, hats… many possibilities too.

The wildlife of the games also had some interesting (and terrifying) species, such as the Scrabs, who gave us nightmares, running after our character anytime they spotted us. It would be nice to have one on our desk, as a trophy!

The Paramites were equally vicious. Multiple mudokon deaths happen because of those.

Munch, from the later game “Munch’s oddyssey”, could come with the little wheelchair he uses in the game to move around faster as an accessory.

Army builder: the mudokons. There were so many different ones in the game! They can reuse most of the parts from Abe’s sculpt, and be painted a slightly different lighter shade. Add accessories to them and you can make as many as you want.

Different jobs

or the native ones

And don’t forget about the Shaman that helps us!

Abe can also get a vehicle/playset with an Elum, which he gets to ride in the games.

And tell me this doesn’t SCREAM “SDCC Exclusive”! I dare you!

And that is just from the first 2-3 games. There’s plenty more characters in the Stranger’s Wrath too. We can get to those later, after doing all the previous ones!

IS THERE A DEMAND FOR THAT?

In 2019, there was a Kickstarter project to make a big art book about the game, with a goal of 45,000£ (about $60,000) that collected over 154,000£ (nearly $215,000). So there is definitely an audience for that.

In order to see if there is any interest in it, I took the liberty to start a change.org petition, which you can sign here

TO ODDWORLD INHABITANTS:

Please, give us a chance to get plastic representations of Mudokons, Sligs, Glukkons, Scrabs, Paramites and other creatures from those beloved video games!

TO NECA, MCFARLANE TOYS, SUPER7, THE LOYAL SUBJECTS OR ANYBODY SUSCEPTIBLE TO PICK UP THE FRANCHISE:

We’ve been waiting since 1997 for those! Get on it, please!

And if we still don’t hear anything about all Abe’s Oddyssey action figures in a while, maybe we’ll ask to a few friends that had successful Kickstarter campaigns how that whole damn thing works… Who knows? Sometimes, if you want things done right…

CHANGE.ORG PETITION: Sign here: http://chng.it/PX9NX5FnL2 and please, don’t hesitate to share to as many people as you can!

More news at 11:00… *Fart noise* - Haha hahaha! (actual dialogue from the game).

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NEW DC MULTIVERSE LEAK: “HEROES DO DO THAT” TWO-PACK?!

BREAKING NEWS:

NEW DC MULTIVERSE LEAK: “HEROES DO DO THAT” TWO-PACK?!

It’s been a weird couple of weeks for the caped crusader! A few weeks ago, we learned that Warner executives had asked to the producer of the 3rd season of the Harley Quinn animated series to remove a scene where Batman was… practicing oral sex on Catwoman. This led to internet catching fire (as it usually does…). Fans posted various pics of the comic book, or parodies with action figures in very “ooh lala” positions. The best one though, came from Zack Snyder himself, (the guy from the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut hashtag!) who just posted this:

It is canon!

Now, ToyFarce has discovered a leaked listing from an organic vegetable store in Latvia that mentioned that a two-pack of Batman and Catwoman called “Heroes do do that” would come out later this year. Let’s be honest, if there is one person that would do this, it certainly is Todd McFarlane. The man has a documentary about himself called “Like Hell I Won’t”! If DC would tell him to specifically not do a two-pack of Batman and Catwoman, and specifically not put them in a certain position in the packaging, we all know what Toddy Mac would reply: the title of his documentary. (The documentary was pretty good actually, and can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qc3hNtKJ1k )

This is the face of a man who would not be scared to make a two-pack of Batman going down on Catwoman. Look at him!

We have yet to see any picture from the two-pack, but it will actually be the first Catwoman figure from McFarlane Toys.

Here is a “fake” statement from DC about Batman going down on Catwoman. (I don’t know why they say it’s fake. Next thing you know, they’ll say that ToyFarce is fake! *eyeroll*)

Heroes don’t do that. They do way worse!

More news at 11:00… #HeroesDontDoThat

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INTRODUCING… THE NECA PILLOW SET!

BREAKING NEWS:

INTRODUCING… THE NECA PILLOW SET!

NECA surprised us today by sending us this awesome commercial for one of their products that has yet to be announced (but was already released, go figure)! And they have chosen ToyFarce to reveal it! We are truly honored. Thank you, NECA!

Are you tired of normal, uncomfortable, basic pillows?

Introducing the NECA Pillow set.

You will now be able to sleep in a better position, a better support for your neck, and you will wake up refreshed, with no stiffness in your articul…in your joints.

All the NECA Pillow sets are sent in protective cardboard boxes.

NECA also adds a toy inside the pillow, in order to protect it. You can discard it if you want to.

The NECA Pillow set. Get some better sleep, so you are full of energy to go on toy hunts for those exclusives, and never miss out on a pre-order.

More news at 11:00… Sleep tight!

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NO REVEALS FOR 7 DAYS?? CAN SOMEONE CHECK ON THE MARVEL LEGENDS TEAM?

BREAKING NEWS:

NO REVEALS FOR 7 DAYS?? CAN SOMEONE CHECK ON THE MARVEL LEGENDS TEAM?

The Hasbro Marvel Legends team (Ryan Ting, Dan Yun and Dwight Stall) has been part of our everyday life for some time now. From their nice livestreams (which can be a great experience once you disable the chat), to the rounds of interviews (where they had to sit through everybody’s different intros), to the reveals on social media (hitting like an RKO, from outta nowhere!), they have become a member of our collective toy families. But now, there hasn’t been any new announcement for 7 days… 7 entire days! A lifetime, for some (like bugs, for example). Is everything OK? Should the authorities be called? What happened? ToyFarce investigates.

The Toy of the Year (we need to make it happen, people!)

It can be any of the following reasons:

After releasing what most people agree is the Toy of the Year, the action figure of The Hood, the Marvel Legends team spent some time using different members of the toy community (Fwoosh, SuperSorrell, Toying Around, MCUCollector24, Shartimus Prime,…) to reveal new figures for them. Some might say that they were looking for a successor for their team, someone worthy to reveal new figures in the future, a bit like in My Hero Academia, where All Might was looking for a successor for his power. Have they found a successor? We don’t know!

Or it could be aliens. Maybe the entire team has been abducted by aliens, who were jealous of earth getting all the cool reveals. Now, the planet Glizmorpp will also get cool Marvel Legends action figures, and they will also be annoyed when those end up being exclusives to Zmips-7, their biggest superstores.

The latest reveal was Sandman, on June 18th. (That pose!)

Or… the most probable reason:

They are getting some rest before going ALL OUT in July. Dan Yun had teased it on Twitter. The calm before the storm, if you will. They are getting some R&R time before hitting us with devastating blows to our wallets. And we’ll totally be there for it! With a reveal of the next Marvel Legends Haslab project right around the corner (please be the Thanos Copter)…

Please be the next HasLab project! Please be the next HasLab project!

…the team is probably busy preparing all the PowerPoint files they’ll need for their next livestreams! Let’s hope for many slides!

We will keep in touch once we get more news from them!

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More news at 11:00… Thanos Copter: Evil takes to the sky!

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AMIDST SILVERHAWKS PAINT CONTROVERSY, SUPER7 ANNOUNCES NEXT WAVE OF ULTIMATE TMNT!

BREAKING NEWS:

AMIDST SILVERHAWKS PAINT CONTROVERSY, SUPER7 ANNOUNCES NEXT WAVE OF ULTIMATE TMNT!!

A few days ago, Super7 unveiled the first pictures of the digital sculpts of the Silverhawks figures… and inevitably, people started to complain! (That could actually be another article, and just end there). From the pictures of the digital scuplts (read that again, digital sculpts. Not even actual figures yet), the paint didn’t look as shiny as the figures used to be in our collective memories… Oh noooo!

“WHAT? Those are not shiny enough!”

In the late 80’s, the figures used “vac-metal” (or vacuum metallizing) and were oh-so-shiny, and that is how people are remembering them. On the new Super7 figures digital sculpt pictures (once again, not even prototype pics, just digital), the colors seemed more matte, rather than very shiny. Collectors will not be able to use their Silverhawks figures as mirrors to look if they have something stuck between their teeth. Such a shame!

(For more info about the Super7 Silverhawks line and colors, check out the excellent interview of Brian Flynn by the great Pixel Dan that came out during the weekend. It’s amazingly informative! Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFMZHnva640 )

“I won’t be able to enjoy my reflection in these! Gosh darn!”

ToyFarce did some digging, and found out about what the next wave of Ultimate TMNT will be, and you’ll never guess who the characters are! (#3 will shock you… sorry, old clickbaits habits).

The plan is for the next wave of TMNT Ultimates to include Chrome Dome, Robotic Bebop, Robotic Rocksteady and a Robotic Foot Soldier! All those figures which were vac-metal back then too! No digital sculpt pictures yet to see if they have a shine to them, but we’ll keep you posted as soon as we hear more.

Chrome Dome, Robotic Foot Soldier, Robotic Bebop and Robotic Rocksteady… SO SHINY!

There are also early rumors that the next wave could be inspired by the Metal Mutants wave from the early 90’s!

Shiny rumors!

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More news at 11:00… in vac-metal!

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