ARMY BUILDING: THE UNOFFICIAL RULES!

BREAKING NEWS:

ARMY BUILDING: THE UNOFFICIAL RULES!

Stormtroopers. Foot soldiers. Putty patrollers. Cobra infantry. Hydra soldiers. What do all those names have in common? They’re all troops! In the toy collecting world, ‘army building’ is the art of collecting multiple of the same action figure, in order to build an army (clever, right?). But what are the rules of ‘Army building’? ToyFarce has got your back!

WHO TO ARMY BUILD?

In general, it makes more sense to army build characters that are soldiers, troops, clones, grunts,… It’s just more logical. Of course, you can buy whatever figure you want in large quantities and just army build Kickstarter Spawns or Marvel Legends Frog man, but it’s usually best to army build actual…armies.

HOW MANY?

An unwritten rule would say that anything over 3 is army building. If you bought only 2 stormtroopers for your collection, well, then you just bought 2 stormtroopers. If you have 3, 4, or 735, then it’s an army. In professional wrestling, when there’s only 2 guys teaming up, it’s called a tag team, but if they are 3 or more, it’s a faction. (Would collecting multiple of the same wrestler action figure called ‘Faction building’??)

WHY?

Because it’s fun! Also, well…it’s your collection. You kinda do what you want with it. But have you ever seen the Ninja turtles fight only one single Foot soldier? No. Have you ever seen the Power Rangers being attacked by a single Putty patroller? Nope. Would a single Stormtrooper stand a chance against the Rebels? NOPE. So having a small army of them (or a big one!) does make more sense.

IS IT EASY?

Unfortunately, it all depends on the availability. Some brands put their army building troops in two-packs, which makes it easier to gather more. If you want to army build NECA Foot soldiers, for example (sold in two-packs!), you might want to wake up early to hunt for them. If you collect GI Joe Classified figures and want an army of Cobra Vipers, well… You’d have more chance playing the lottery and winning. Some companies have decided that putting army builder figures as store exclusive was a smart move, and we all know how it ended…

What other rule would you add to the unofficial rules of Army building? Let us know in the comments! Also, show off your armies in the comments! ToyFarce will share them all weekend long in their stories.

More news at 11:00… ARMY BUILDING!

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REVIEW: LEGO STAR WARS DARTH VADER AND SCOUT TROOPER HELMETS

TOYFARCE REVIEWS:

LEGO STAR WARS DARTH VADER AND SCOUT TROOPER HELMETS!

It’s Wednesday, you know what that means… ToyFarce reviews!

Star Wars day (May, the 4th) was only a few days ago, and these 2 lego sets showed up at my door right on time! (Reviews are usually posted earlier, but I had not finished those 2 yet. Apologies for the delay! I’m sure plenty of collectors were worried about not seeing a review posted at the usual time, right?).

The Darth Vader box is slightly bigger than all the other ones.

I had already picked up the first 3 that came out last year (Boba Fett, a Stormtrooper and a Tie Fighter pilot) and had been blown away by the quality, size and fun aspect of those sets. Let’s get started with the Scout Trooper!

5 bags

Step 1: DONE!

Bag 1

Bag 2

Bag 3

Bag 4

Bag 5

The Scout Trooper looks pretty good as a Lego! It took around 1h/1h30 to build, while watching TV. It would probably take a shorter time if you focus just on that. I like those Lego sets that can be done pretty fast! Now, it’s Vader time (the Darth one)!

5 bags as well

Step 1: DONE! (That took a while! Very difficult!)

Bag 1

Bag 2

Bag 3 (Conehead Vader!)

Bag 4 (Mohawk Vader!)

“It’s not just a phase, mom!”

Bag 5 (front)

Bag 5 (back)

Those Lego sets are very fun and look great on a shelf. Lego has also made some Marvel ones (Iron Man, which does not look good AT ALL to me, and more recently Carnage and Venom), and a Batman one just came out, which I might have to pick. Here are the 2 new Star Wars ones, along with the previous ones!

They can still be found on the Lego online store, or anywhere that sells Lego sets.

More news at 11:00… I find your lack of bricks disturbing!

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HASBRO REALIZED THEY SKIPPED HALLOWEEN, DAYS AFTER ANNOUNCING HOLIDAY EDITION BLACK SERIES!

SPOOKTOBER NEWS:

HASBRO REALIZED THEY SKIPPED HALLOWEEN, DAYS AFTER ANNOUNCING HOLIDAY EDITION BLACK SERIES!

At the end of september, during the Hasbro PulseCon event, Hasbro announced a wave that nobody knew they wanted (and some are still wondering), the Holiday Edition Black Series, a wave of Christmas-themed troopers. Here are the pictures of the announced figures:

ToyFarce reached out to Hasbro to ask them the important question: What about Halloween?? If you are going to announce figures based on a holiday right before october, you have to take into account that there is Halloween first!

Hasbro let us know that a wave was in development but got canceled because there wasn’t enough time to produce the figures on time for the Halloween festivities. Maybe next year? Here are the prototype pictures that they sent us (allegedly).

More news at 11:00… and don’t forget about Halloween!

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