Hey Everybody,

The collectibles market has exploded with companies in the last 15 years; Some started out great with new licenses and ended up cheap and well behind the times.

Others grew and push the medium of the action figure and collectible to new heights. Hot Toys out of Honk Kong is one company that has risen to the top, boosting the 1/6 scale figure to the high level pop art.

Over December 24th-26th Hot Toys had thier 10th anniversary expo in Tokyo Japan featuring displays of their Movie Master Piece line of 1/6 scale figures, future present and past.

Exclusives flyer ad from Japan for the show.

Batman Demon is half of a two pack with The Scarecrow below.

“Beat It” video Michael Jackson looks great for any Jackson fans out there

A lot of new license announcement at the show, new Marvel movie stuff, video game Metal Gear Solid,

the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie, Disney keeping the money ship sailing,

director Zack Snyder’s new one Sucker Punch, hopefully the story holds up to the eye candy trailers. The character design is cool, we’ll see what the flick plays like.

Hot Toys keeps amazing with their choice of  older licenses and the level they go to get likenesses of actors as of late.

There were also lots of great 1/6 scale figures were on display that had already been announced, but not all seen up to this point.

Marvel’s Ghost Rider movie figure looks cool. The flaming head turned out good.

Stallone’s Barnie Ross figure from the Expendables. Hot Toys always loving their Sly.

The two in one DX Bruce Lee from Enter The Dragon looks super sick. Can’t wait.

Platoon’s Barnes is looking fantastic. Loving that Hot Toys got the license right.

The 1984 Terminator T-800. Really excited for this one, been waiting for  years for a  proper Tech Noir club Arnie.

Some big surprises at the show including a prototype for the new Indiana Jones 1/6 scale DX figure.

The likeness looks off to me, but being the prototype hopefully they will refine the features to closer resemble Harrison Ford.

I love the map room set and back drop, looks good.

As always the last few years, new Iron man stuff is always on display.

Mark V with all the bell and whistles including suit in briefcase form.

One of the bigger surprises was an unpainted prototype of the 1/6 scale Iron Monger figure from the first movie on display. Hope we get a Jeff Bridges head in the set as well, that would be nice.

Detailed picture of  the Alice figure from the new Resident Evil movie.

The likeness To Milla Jovovich is pretty good I think. All the accessories and weapons look great in classic Hot toys style.

As they have already shot two weeks of the new reboot of the Spiderman franchise, with new director, new cast and all new direction with the character it seems…

the absolute strangest time to release a Spiderman figure from the Sam Raimi film series. (I loved Spiderman 1 & 2.  3 was a huge disappointment to put it nicely; A huge pill of steaming shit that the studio should have kept their greasy fat fingers out of and let the director they hired for the third time do his job, to put it more truthfully). I guess regardless, the figure looks great and hopefully the fans of the Raimi’s incarnation of Spidey are pleased with the release.

The new Thor movie is looking better and better as we see more footage and pictures of the character and world he inhabits.

The likeness of Chris Hemsworth is right on to me, the armor looks sick and a great look at his helmet to boot. A really great looking piece. Can’t wait for the movie.

The Captain American movie figure official license announcement

Sucker Punch announcement

A great long awaited surprise for Crow Fan’s

And finally the official press release for the ’89 Batman licenses…

Here comes the highly expected Batman (1989) movie license!

Amid much negotiation and many difficulties, Hot Toys is finally granted the likeness right of the renowned actor Jack Nicholson to produce the collectible figure of his character in the movie.

As many ones may know, it is very difficult to get it and it is only granted for Hot Toys, thanks to the quality standard being recognized! Though it is difficult to get it, it is worth because we can bring such great collectible figure to our fans! So fans, please stay tuned our update in 2011!

Till Next Time. Stay Tuned.

J.

Hey Everybody,Hot Toys continues their  “Movie Masterpiece Series” with its 141st figure in the line, the 1/6th scale Sergeant Barnes  from Oliver Stone’s 1986 film Platoon. (If you didn’t already know from the first shot.)

The highly detailed Sergeant Barnes 1/6 scale girly doll is specially crafted based on the image of Tom Berenger in the movie, highlighting the newly sculpted head, military costume, gear and weapons.

Hot Toys continues to knock the actor likenesses out of the park. I love me some bad ass Tom Berenger in Platoon. All I can really say is ” F#ckn’ A” bring on the other Platoon members.

I really loving what’s coming out of Hong Kong the last couple years. I’m not sure how they keep topping themselves on sculpts but the likeness is breathtaking.

And of course I’ve included all the stats from Hot Toys below if anyone is interested.

The 1/6th scale Sergeant Barnes Collectible Figure specially features:
– Newly sculpted head with authentic likeness of Tom Berenger as Sergeant Barnes in the movie Platoon
– Approximately 30 cm tall
– TrueType body with over 30 points of articulations
– Highly detailed hair sculpture
– Movie-accurate facial expression with detailed wrinkles and skin texture
– Five (5) pieces of interchangeable palms:
– One (1) pair of relaxed palms
– One (1) pair for holding rifle/ pistol
– One (1) right palm for holding bayonet/ safe keeper
– Each piece of head sculpt is specially hand-painted

Costume:
– One (1) olive drab BDU shirt with pouches
– One (1) olive drab BDU pants with belt
– One (1) olive drab T-shirt
– One (1) army utility belt with two (2) ammo pouches
– One (1) pair of olive drab and black colored jungle boots

Weapons:
– One (1) rifle
– One (1) pistol
– One (1) pack of magazine
– One (1) bayonet with leather-like sheath
– One (1) safe keeper with scabbard
– Two (2) grenades

Accessories:
– One (1) olive drab head band
– One (1) helmet with camouflage cover
– One (1) necklace with dog tag and can opener
– One (1) suspender
– One (1) bandoleer
– One (1) compass pouch
– One (1) first aid pouch
– One (1) watch
– One (1) bracelet
– One (1) cigarette
– One (1) rucksack
– Two (2) canteens with cover
– One (1) Entrenching tool (E-tool) with cover
– Figure stand with Sergeant Barnes nameplate and movie logo

Artists:
– Head Sculpted by SONG HYE HYUN
– Head Painted by JC HONG
– Head Art Directed by YULLI & KOJUN

Release date: Q1, 2011

Hot Toys is really getting my geek juices flowing with this one…

Anyone else?

Michael Kruk I’m talking strait at you. You’ve got to be loving these dolls, hey buddy?

Till Next Time. Stay Tuned.

J.

Just a few  quick reminder shots of  Charlie Sheen’s Chris Taylor 1/6 scale figure coming at the end of this year that I previewed a few months.

SUPER SUPER SICK.

Enough Said.

Hey everybody.

I dug up some more picture of the Charlie Sheen Platoon figure from the Ani-Com in Hong Kong a few weeks ago.

The quality of the sculpt is crazy. Looks like a mini Chris Taylor. The sculptors at Hot Toys are true artists.

The weathering on the outfit is awesome, right down to the mud on the boots. They really did their research from the movie.  Those little details make this figure hard to pass up.

Also looks like we’ll be seeing three more characters form Hot Toys, Tom Berenger’s  Sgt.Barnes, Willem Defoe’s Sgt.Elias and Johnny Depp’s Specialist Lerner. By the close look at the Taylor figure, sculpt and all, we’ll most likely be seeing some more great work on the other three characters.

more to come soon

J.

Hey Everybody
I’m a rabid collector and love the length some of these high end collectible companies have gone to for screen accurate dolls of my favorite movie characters. From Dark Knight to Godfather Hot Toys has delivered some unexpected  but awesome dolls.
Yes. Dolls.
One company I love out of Hong Kong called Hot Toys has done a number of movie figures in the 1/6 scale(12″) that are pretty amazing art pieces as well as being really really nice dolls.
Anyways, with Comic Con around the corner all these companies will be revealing new product and licenses. With a huge surprise it seems that Hot toys will be making Platoon 1/6 scale figures.
Here’s a spy shot of the Hot Toys booth at an Asian convention a month ago.  This will most likely  be revealed to the North American in San Diego in two weeks

Platoon : Chris Taylor ( Charlie Sheen )

Sideshow collectibles out of California did Platoon 1/6 scale figures almost 10 years ago now and even they were good for the time, but this Hot Toys Chris Taylor is dam cool. I never thought the license would ever be revisited by any company but it’s nice to be surprised. Now I can’t wait for the Blu-Ray.
Till next time.
J.