I can be a pretty jaded toy collector these days, what with the state of the action figure aisle paling in comparison to the days of yesteryear and once-legendary franchises like Star Wars and G.I. Joe on the rocks. Thankfully, there are still some mornings that make it all worthwhile when I can wake up, turn on my phone, and have my eyes bulge out and my jaw drop past its limits. This was one of those mornings. To my complete and utter amazement (and likely the amazement of the entire collecting world), Hot Toys unveiled their GI-freaking-GANTIC 1/6 Amazing Spider-Man 2 Hot Toys Rhino figure today!
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With the plethora of Captain America: The Winter Soldier Hot Toys figures that have gone up for order over the past month, you’d be totally forgiven if you forgot Amazing Spider-Man 2 Hot Toys figures would be on the way as well (I sure did). But we’re just over two weeks away from the Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie release date of May 2, 2014, and Hot Toys has deigned that it’s time to get things started!
There was no doubt who the first figure released for the movie would be–the Sideshow Exclusive Hot Toys Amazing Spider-Man 2 is now up for order!
Continue Reading →The past several weeks have been some of the most monetarily brutal and unrelenting that I can remember as a Marvel collector, as we’ve been absolutely bombarded with new releases from low-end companies and expensive pre-orders from high-end companies for statues and sixth scale figures. Hot Toys evidently thinks that collectors still have some dough left to squeeze out, however, as they’ve now posted the pre-order for a Captain America The Winter Soldier Hot Toys Stealth Captain America & Steve Rogers figure set!
Continue Reading →If there’s one word to describe Hot Toys’ stratagem with regards to their Captain America: The Winter Soldier figures, it would be “relentless”.
After already putting three figures (for a total of $600+) up for order within a span of a week, they’re back just one week later with what’s sure to be the most iconic and desirable version of Captain America from the new movie opening today. The MMS 242 Hot Toys Captain America Stealth S.T.R.I.K.E. Suit figure is now available for pre-order!
Continue Reading →While Americans tend to be really spoiled as far as being able to see most companies’ new reveals first at events like the NY Toy Fair and San Diego Comic Con, sometimes it pays for fans to live in Hong Kong. Such is the case this month for Hot Toys figure collectors, as the “Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Join Forces at Hysan Place, Powered by Hot Toys Exhibition” is going on overseas! Two never-before-seen figures debuted this week at the exhibition: the Hot Toys Falcon and Steve Rogers Movie Masterpiece Series figures!
Continue Reading →We’re just one week away from the premiere of the new Captain America: The Winter Soldier movie, and as far as locking up our merchandise dollars goes, Hot Toys means serious business. Last week the new Black Widow Hot Toys went up for order. Yesterday the ultra-limited Golden Age Captain America went up for order and sold out in 12 hours. And today? The titular character of the movie arrives–the Hot Toys Winter Soldier MMS241 is now available for order!
Continue Reading →When we saw the first teaser photo of the Hot Toys Captain America The Winter Soldier 1/6 figures, we found out that Hot Toys had an extra special treat for Captain America collectors who have to have every costume Captain America wears in the Marvel movies: the limited Captain America The Winter Soldier Hot Toys Golden Age Captain America is now up for order! He’s fundamentally similar to the original Hot Toys Captain America The First Avenger MMS, but this time Cap’s got an extra red stripe on his torso–and the first-ever Hot Toys die-cast Captain America shield as an accessory!
UPDATE: The Hot Toys Captain America Golden Age Movie Promo figure sold out in just 12 hours! If you want him, get on the Wait List now.
Continue Reading →I do my best to plan my collecting budget for the year around the estimated release dates that Hot Toys gives us for their various Marvel 1/6 figures, as those tend to be the most expensive figures I buy each year. But, well–sometimes you need to be flexible, and this is apparently going to be one of those times! Even though the Avengers Hot Toys Bruce Banner and Hulk set pre-order still estimates the set shipping in September 2014, prepare your wallets for a smashing–the Hot Toys Hulk and Bruce Banner figures set has now been released overseas!
Continue Reading →I start to get a little antsy if there’s not a new Hot Toys Marvel Movie Masterpiece Series 1/6 figure for me to preemptively drop a couple hundred dollars on every month. It’s been just over a month since the awesome Whiplash Mark II went up for sale, and I haven’t been entirely sure what was next–but now we know! The Captain America: The Winter Soldier Hot Toys Black Widow 1/6 figure is now available for order! They say the third time is the charm, and perhaps that’s the case with this new Black Widow…
Continue Reading →Confession time: As ardent of a supporter of Iron Man 3 and the Hot Toys Iron Man 3 line as I am, there’s one figure that I passed on attempting to pre-order and have no intention of ever picking up. That figure is the Hot Toys Rose Hill Tony Stark figure (which some people affectionately refer to as “Cowboy Tony”). Yes, there’s actually a figure of Tony Stark from the seconds where he walked into a TV van donning a cowboy hat. That’s one surprise–but the real surprise is that this particular just-released Hot Toys Tony Stark Rose Hill figure is selling for $400+ online already!
Continue Reading →We’ve known since last year that Hot Toys has acquired the license to make Hot Toys Captain America The Winter Soldier sixth scale figures, but Hot Toys has been pretty mum regarding the lineup (aside from a Photoshopped teaser of Captain America and The Winter Soldier from the start of the year). But luckily, we are now less than one month away from the release of the Captain America 2 movie, and Hot Toys can begin showing their cards. And they did so overnight in a huge way, revealing what looks to be at least four new 1/6 Captain America: The Winter Soldier Hot Toys Movie Masterpiece Series figures…
Continue Reading →It’s been nearly three weeks since a new Marvel Hot Toys figure went up for pre-order, and we certainly wouldn’t want to go a whole month without something new and extravagant to spend our future money on, right? Hot Toys sure thinks so, and that’s why today they officially announced and revealed photos of their next figure! You can finally recreate the final battle from Iron Man 2 with the massive and immensely detailed diecast Hot Toys Iron Man Whiplash Mark II Movie Masterpiece Series figure that is now up for pre-order!
Continue Reading →There’s some good news and some bad news for Marvel Hot Toys collectors today. The good news is that one of this year’s less-anticipated figures is getting pushed forward by several months.
The bad news is that two of this year’s most-anticipated releases are delayed by up to half a year each. If you’re waiting for the Hot Toys Heartbreaker Iron Man and Iron Man Mark 42 MMS figures (like me), you’re going to have to wait a while more than you hoped…
Continue Reading →After over half a year of speculation (and quite a few doubts) about the Hot Toys Die-Cast Movie Masterpiece Series figures, the first of the three Iron Man 3 Hot Toys Die-Cast figures has been released in Hong Kong (and will ship from Sideshow next week in the United States)! And while the Hot Toys War Machine Mark II Diecast figure is the Iron Man 3 die-cast figure that went up for sale last and doesn’t appear in the Iron Man 3 movie (at all), it’s hard not to be impressed by the aesthetic quality and advanced articulation of Hot Toy’s latest release…
Continue Reading →We’ve known since long before Thor: The Dark World came out in theaters last fall that Thor and Loki were the toy characters from the film that Hot Toys had in the works, so it’s tough to feign surprise now that the 1/6 Thor The Dark World Hot Toys Loki Figure has finally been officially announced. What I don’t have to feign, though, is excitement over the fact that this new Loki Hot Toys figure is now available for order and is purely awesome!
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