SIDESHOW COLLECTIBLES WILL FINALLY RELEASE “THE HAND STAND”!

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SIDESHOW COLLECTIBLES WILL FINALLY RELEASE “THE HAND STAND”!

We’ve seen it with the Mandalorian…

We’ve seen it with Thanos…

If you ever bought a Hot Toys action figure from Sideshow Collectibles, for example, you might have been disappointed to find out that the hand stand that was displayed with the figure on the pictures from the website did not come with the figure. It has been a sad realization that we all had at some point. But after years of begging for it to be released, “the Hand stand” will finally be available for us to display our figures the same way they are displayed on the website!

The Hand stand will be available in Q3 2022 on Sideshow Collectibles, which is about 4 months after everybody already got one from a store in Hong Kong.

Several other brands, such as Bandai and their S.H.Figuarts have used the Hand stand in their promo pictures in the past, so maybe we will get other options from other brands in the near future! Perhaps a Hand stand…with a glove! What a time to be alive!

More news at 11:00… we’re all hands on this!

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SIDESHOW COLLECTIBLES ANNOUNCES GAMBIT SIXTH SCALE FIGURE… “STIFLER” IN THE MCU: CONFIRMED ?!

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SIDESHOW COLLECTIBLES ANNOUNCES GAMBIT SIXTH SCALE FIGURE… “STIFLER” IN THE MCU: CONFIRMED?!

Last friday, Sideshow Collectibles announced their upcoming Gambit sixth scale action figure from their Marvel Comics line, along with tons of pictures.

The highly detailed figure will come with lots of accessories, including his staff, a triple card throwing effect, four aces with painted glow effect, four pairs of normal hands, four pairs of the same hands but with glowing effect, and an alternate swappable hairstyle.

One collector, Gian D. , couldn’t help but notice the astonishing (pun intended) resemblance with the actor that played Steve Stifler in the American Pie movies, Seann William Scott.

You see it too, right?

The likeness looks pretty spot on, and we know that Sideshow Collectibles may allegedly know about the casting of the actors in advance in order to prepare the headsculpts for their upcoming figures, which can only mean one thing:

SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT AS GAMBIT IN THE MCU: CONFIRMED!

Suck it, “WeGotThisCovered.com”, we got that scoop before you! HA! The actor has not confirmed or denied the rumor, as of writing.

More news at 11:00… The Stifmeister is coming to the MCU!

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STATUE COLLECTOR KINDA WISHES STATUES HAD MORE ARTICULATIONS

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STATUE COLLECTOR KINDA WISHES STATUES HAD MORE ARTICULATIONS

"There are tons of amazing statues nowadays: Prime1 Studio with their huge 1/3 scale statues, Iron Studios and their epic Marvel and DC battles series, Queen studios and their lifesize realistic statues, XM Studios, the Sideshow Polystone ones, etc... There are so many great brands and it's a great time to be a statue collector... but it would be great if some of them had some articulations..."

Those are the controversial words from Yann, a statue collector from France, who started collecting statues over two decades ago, starting with the Marvel Comics statues from Bowen Designs, before moving on to bigger and bigger things, litteraly.

"At the time, I could fit a dozen statues on a shelf. They were not taking too much space. But nowadays, we get those beautiful but gigantic pieces with a huge cape going in one direction, or the leg kicking in the other direction, or a spear going upwards, or some huge base, and it takes so much space that I can't display more than one or two on each shelves... Now hear me out... What if the statues had articulations? Let's say on the kicking leg, an articulation so that it could bend a little, so that I could display another huge piece next to it! Wouldn't it be amazing? Why do those statues always have to have such huge dynamic poses anyway? Can't there also be 'Museum poses' too?" (referring to the "standing straight, arms along the body, face looking forward" pose, the lazy "right out of the box, no dynamic posing" kind).

ToyFarce News asked Chris from the awesome "Batman Statue Collector" YouTube channel, the brotherhood of the Bat-collectibles (Seriously! We really did!) for his opinion about what Yann said:

"I totally agree with Yann. Action poses tend to be really boring to me.  I prefer my statues to be as stagnant as possible to not distract from the other smaller scale statues in my collection.   I prefer statues in the 1/10 scale range that have as little detail as possible and I realistically want them to look like barbie dolls, which I absolutely LOVE!! The more articulation and brushable hair, the better!!"

Check out the great "Batman Statue Collector" Youtube channel for more content at this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCEc307jzXn3L8ouFqeSiLA

We hope Yann will someday find a happy medium in which he could collect statues, but also add a few action figures to satisfy his need for articulation.

More news at 11:00...

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STAR WARS DAY - HOT TOYS ANNOUNCES "JEK PORKINS" COLLECTIBLE FIGURE !

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STAR WARS DAY - HOT TOYS ANNOUNCES "JEK PORKINS" COLLECTIBLE FIGURE !

First of all, ToyFarce News wishes all of you a happy Star Wars day! Everybody knows that today is Star Wars day, thanks to the "May the 4th be with you" motto, but did you know that there is also reason to celebrate on the following day, as it is "Revenge of the Fifth"? It has been a fantastic day for all Star Wars fans across the galaxy, with tons of new announcements from Hasbro, with new 'The Black Series' figures such as Luke with Yoda 2-pack, 4-LOM and Zuckuss, a Han Solo in Carbonite figure, and a 'Carbonized' Darth Vader (which is a new thing for Hasbro, where they paint the figures in disgusting metallic colors, and manage to sell them again!), a Boba Fett Prototype Replica Helmet (read: unpainted), and of course, a Baby Yoda-themed Monopoly board game (we are not even kidding on that one...).

The Hong Kong brand Hot Toys also surprised the fans with new announcements, including a re-issue of their "Empire Strikes Back - Darth Vader", but in a packaging similar to the vintage Kenner figures. Also, a repainted Boba Fett figure, sporting the not-so screen accurate colors of the vintage Kenner figure, will be joining Vader in that 'vintage packaging' line. Finally, Hot Toys teased all the fans with a picture teasing Captain Rex, the clone trooper from the animated series 'The Clone Wars', promising that they would release figures from that show very soon as well! ('very soon' has a different meaning in Hong Kong.)

However, it was not the last surprise for that day! ToyFarce News got the exclusive scoop that another figure would be announced for the Hot Toys 1/6th scale collectible figures line, and it is an epic, all-time fan favorite character! Hot Toys will soon announce... everyone's favorite plus-size X-Wing pilot Jek Porkins!! The Episode IV star nearly stole the spotlight from Luke Skywalker during the Death Star battle, and quickly gathered a huge fan-base. The figure will come with a brand new 'chunky' body (most likely a re-use of the Endgame Thor figure, which will now finally allow Hot Toys to make more overweight characters), a screen accurate headsculpt as well as Porkins' signature helmet, a blaster, a Triple-Cheeseburger, a can of soda, and the exclusive edition will come with a recliner chair!

Be sure to be on the lookout for more announcements from Hot Toys during those 2 'Star Wars'-themed days, as ToyFarce News heard a rumor that there might be more coming very soon...including an exclusive figure that has been demanded by fans for over 20 years!! Youssa have any idea who?!

More news at 11:00

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HASBRO FEELING LEFT OUT FROM THE BABY YODA ANNOUNCEMENTS CONTROVERSY BETWEEN SIDESHOW AND HOT TOYS!!

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HASBRO FEELING LEFT OUT FROM THE BABY YODA ANNOUNCEMENTS CONTROVERSY BETWEEN SIDESHOW AND HOT TOYS!! 

"They could have at least crashed our website too!" says Hasbro employee. 

On January 30th, Sideshow Collectibles announced a life-size figure (well...statue) of The Child, from 'The Mandalorian' TV series. This led to a huge amount of traffic on the website which caused it to crash. Major news outlets started to report the website crash all over the internet, and the very next day, the blockbuster toy company from Hong Kong, Hot Toys, decided to break its silence and announced they were going to make figures of The Child, not only life-size, but also in 1:4th and 1:6th scale.

Toy collectors everywhere went crazy with speculations after this announcement for a few reasons: 

- Sideshow is the main distributor for Hot Toys, so having both brands competing against each other for the Child figure could create a rift between the brands. What will happen? Sideshow had to know that Hot Toys was making one too, right?

- Why did Hot Toys go out of their way to put together a collage to announce they would indeed do the figure, when they had nearly 2 months to do so? 

- For the people that pre-ordered it and caused the site to crash: How does one get a Non-Refundable Deposit back? We all know people will order the Hot Toys version from Sideshow anyway... Did Sideshow just con the Star Wars fandom out of NRD money?

Meanwhile, Hasbro, the long-time toy maker behind the Star Wars figures, had released that same announcement on December 12, 2019, 50 days before Sideshow and Hot Toys, along with a plethora of other The Child/'Baby Yoda' related merchandise. They announced a talking plush, a Black series figure, a 6,5" figure, and a series of mini figures of the Child in various situations, called the 'Bounty Collection'. 

'When we announced all those figures back in early december, more than a month and a half before Sideshow, our website didn't crash.' we were told by an employee who will remain anonymous. 'Not a spike in traffic, nothing. Our timing must have been off. I do not know what happened. They could have at least crashed our website too...'.

If we were in Hasbro's place, I admit it would feel a bit unfair to be overshadowed by those 2 giants, but rest assured that Hasbro will certainly sell a ton of Baby Yoda merchandise in the months to come, with the Sideshow and Hot Toys versions not being available before the end of the year or probably 2022, respectively. 

More news at 11:00... 

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MULTIPLE CUSTOMERS ORDER IRON MAN MK VII, RECEIVE MK L OR MK XXXVIII...OR IS IT MK XLVIII...

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MULTIPLE CUSTOMERS ORDER IRON MAN MK VII, RECEIVE MK L OR MK XXXVIII...OR IS IT MK XLVIII...

It has been a first in all our years of reporting, that this happened in such a scale!
A very famous provider in the western hemisphere seems to have messed up order en masse this year. Several customers who had ordered an Iron man Mk VII ended up getting a Mk XLVIII, while some others receiced a Mk XLVI when ordering a Mk XLVII, and others got a Mk L instead of a Mk VII.
One might wonder what will happen when Mk LXXXV will come out! Will customers received a Mk LXXXV or will it be a Mk XLIX, or even a Mk VIII in the box or a Mk XXXVII? What about the battle damaged version? Will customers get the battle damaged Mk LXXXV or just receive the non battle damaged Mk LXXXV, or a battle damaged Mk III instead? What about the rare XLVII? And if you throw in the MMS numbers into it, what will happen? Will a MMS538 Mk XLIX be delivered instead of a MMS543 Mk LXXXV? What about the MMS528 Mk LXXXV? In the year Mk MMXIX, is it not possible to avoid mistakes like that?
The cause of all this trouble has been found, as the provider reported that one of their employees at the distribution center never learned to read roman numerals in school. He has now been given a course and everything should be back to normal.
I, for one (in roman numerals), and ToyFarce News wish you all a wonderful end of the year Mk MMXIX and a happy new year Mk MMXX!
More news at XIII...

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF - BOBA FETT MYTHOS DELAYED BECAUSE OF EYE INJURY

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HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF - BOBA FETT MYTHOS DELAYED BECAUSE OF EYE INJURY.

The long-awaited Boba Fett Mythos figure, by Sideshow Collectibles, announced in July 2018, seems to have been postponed yet again. The bounty Hunter figure was first set to be released in Summer 2019.
Our team of reporters has managed to uncover the reason behind this delay: A factory worker, who was handling the prototype of the figure suffered an injury to his eye from the figure's rocket firing jet pack, in a similar incident that happened with the original 1979 Kenner figure, which was never released.
Coincidentally, the factor employee, Michael M., is actually the brother of the person who had the eye injury back in 1979, as a child. "I think we will stay away from anything related to Boba Fett from now on", said Michael. "I mean, 40 years later, who would have thought? Well, at least, now we'll have matching eye patches with my brother...", he added.
The figure will be redesigned in order to not allow the rocket to be launched.
More news at 13:00...