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ATFC - Nightmares of Lovecraft

I'm a big fan of H.P. Lovecraft, so I've been eagerly awaiting SOTA's Nightmares of Lovecraft line, which they announced last year at the SDCC. The line is based on the written works of Lovecraft,...

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Movie Maniacs/Now Playing/Cult Classics

Here's a question for our readers: are McFarlane's Movie Maniacs, SOTA's Now Playing, and NECA's Cult Classics all in the same basic scale? If I recall correctly, even the various Movie Maniacs aren't...

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An update (or lack thereof)

No news from Mezco on the Comic Hellboy front, though Figures.com released this tidbit on Mezco's line based on Eric Powell's comic The Goon: "As previously announced, Mezco will be producing action...

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News item: Changes at SOTA

The Co-founder of SOTA Toys announces the appointment of the new CEO and VP Lake Balboa, CA - Today, John Schouweiler, the co-founder, owner, and CFO of SOTA Toys, announced the appointment of Guang...

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April Fools

In today's Gouken review, we mentioned that we'd posted a similar April Fools' joke a few years ago. Here, preserved for posterity, is that joke: Fuldigen, HA (March 31, 2005) - SOTA Toys, one of the...

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The Blues Brothers addendum

In today's review, yo mentioned that there was a fictional origin for the Blues Brothers. Here, straight from the liner notes of their first album, Briefcase Full of Blues, is their story: Jake had a...

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Rustin's Spoils of the Week #41

This is pretty significant week for yours truly. Not only is it Thanksgiving, I am moving back to California. My job moved me to Chicago last summer but that company is gone now and thus, so am I. I...

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From creating toys to creating makeup

Did you watch the first season of SciFi Channel's Face Off? It's a reality show in which movie makeup artists compete for a prize package including a year's supply of makeup and an opportunity to work...

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SDCC 2012 Panels - Behind the Plastic

Every year Dan "Julius Marx" Pickett hosts a panel titled "Behind the Plastic" featuring a veritable "who's who" of Action Figure makers which it makes it one of my most anticipated panels of the Con....

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I seem to recognize your face - Robert Picardo

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of pieces pointing out odd action figures of unlikely actors. People known more as character actors than action stars, and thus...

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Soon Forget: An American Werewolf in London

NECA wasn't the first company to make an An American Werewolf in London London Werewolf, just the first to release one. This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog...

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Soon Forget: RJ MacReady

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is PCS' MacReady. This 7" scale figure of MacReady from The Thing was...

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Soon Forget: Micronauts Evolution

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figures today are SOTA Toys' Micronauts. In 2005, the toy company SOTA, best known...

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Soon Forget: Darkstalkers Dmitri

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is SOTA's Darkstalkers Dmitri. After the success of their Street...

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Soon Forget: Darkstalkers Lord Raptor

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is SOTA's Lord Raptor. Like we said last month, SOTA was going to do a...

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Soon Forget: Darkstalkers Morrigan

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is SOTA's Morrigan Aensland. We continue our look at SOTA's planned...

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Soon Forget: Darkstalkers Anakaris

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is another from the planned mid-2000s Darkstalkers line, aka "Street...

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Soon Forget: Darkstalkers Jedah Dohma

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. We continue our look at SOTA's planned Darkstalkers line with the demon Jedah Dohma. The...

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Street Fighter Ryu addendum

Two photos we never used, of both SOTA and Jada's Street Fighter packages: Seems "arcade cabinet" was the order of the day. And now, some more OAFEry:Psycho Bison's fireball stand We are important! We...

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