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· Hal Jordan became a Blue Lantern during the "Rage of the Red Lanterns" (2009) storyline: Hal was forcibly inducted into the Red Lantern Corps by Atrocitus. The red ring replaced his heart and blood with napalm-like "red rage," making it impossible to remove without killing him. To save him, the first Blue Lantern, Saint Walker, placed a blue power ring on Hal’s finger. The blue light of hope neutralized the red rage and shattered the red ring, purging the corruption from Hal's body. For a short time, Hal wielded both his Green and Blue rings simultaneously as a hybrid Lantern until the blue ring eventually burned out.
· Kyle Rayner became a Blue Lantern during the "War of the Green Lanterns" (2011) event: the rogue Guardian Krona infected the Central Power Battery with Parallax, the entity of fear. This "yellow impurity" allowed Krona to brainwash any Green Lantern wearing their ring. Kyle and the other Earth Lanterns were forced to remove their green rings to avoid losing their minds. Hal Jordan recovered the "lost" rings of the other emotional corps, and Kyle voluntarily chose the Blue Lantern ring of Saint Walker. Kyle chose the blue ring because hope was central to his character. However, because the ring did not "choose" him through the standard recruitment process, he initially struggled to control its power and could not create constructs as effectively as he did with willpower....[See More]

During the Agent Orange storyline in Green Lantern (Vol. 4) #39-42 (2009), Hal briefly held and was influenced by Larfleeze's orange power battery, but he did not officially join the corps....[See More]

eBay User Name: the_legends_collector
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Star Wars The Black Series:
Custom Jedi for friends

Marvel Legends:
Daisy Johnson AKA Quake (Agents S.H.I.E.L.D TV show version)

Fallout:
None

Pokemon: Shiny Pokémon (ongoing)

Other: Superhero movie: The Hourglass, Dragonfly
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Although I don't watch as much anime as I feel I should nowadays, the new Ranma 1/2 anime by MAPPA is one of my current favorites. Coming well after the original anime that ended long before the manga did and was generally bogged down by filler and unneeded changes, getting a more manga-accurate adaptation was great news for fans, and the second season was a whole lot funnier. While I wait for the "special announcement" next month (no doubt season three confirmation) and the new S.H. Figuarts to release, I'll be looking at the other character from the first SHF run I have: Ranma's somewhat unwilling fiancée, Akane Tendo.

As I mentioned with Ranma, the first SHF for the series used Rumiko Takahashi's designs from the manga instead of the Studio Deen anime, and they captured Akane very well. Despite what Ranma claims, she's cute and even he knows it. Her default expression here is a smile, and the work on the face is mostly clean, save for some little marks on her right eye, and the bob-cut hair is a very dark blue, somewhat like the old anime. Akane has four other faceplates to further display her personality: one looking off to the side (similar to what Ranma has), one with closed eyes and a cheerful smile, one flustered/ready to fight, and one with an exasperated look, for when she's done with her fiancé’s BS. The different faces all look great, and they swap with no issues.

While Akane has worn plenty of outfits in the series, her school uniform is the most recognizable one, and thus is the one her figure gets. Standing about 5" tall, Akane is dressed in blue and white with puffy sleeves, a skirt, and long socks. It's a little simpler than what Ranma wears, and the minimal colors mean not much paint is needed, and the work is very clean aside from some bleed on the socks. The lower part of the uniform is two separate pieces with open areas on the sides to give the legs freedom to move, and her panties are used as a floating crotch piece underneath the skirt (though shouldn't they be blue?). While she does have a stand (more on that in a bit), she can stand fine on her own, even with the little feet.

Akane is a martial artist just like Ranma, and that combined with being part of S.H. Figuarts means that she gets plenty of articulation. She has a revolver joint head, ball/hinge/swivel shoulders with extending sockets, revolver joint elbows and wrists (with ball pegs going into the hands), ball-jointed chest, waist, and hips, swivel thighs, and revolver knees and ankles. It's not as much as Ranma, but she feels a little sturdier, with nothing loose on her. Most of the joints have plenty of range, partially thanks to the way her skirt is designed, though the ankles are restricted a bit because of the socks. The pegs going into the shoulders don't really move, but you at least have some good rotation in the elbows. The hands are a bit tight, but swap without much fear of breakage, though I would recommend some heat the first time you switch out hands.

Akane has a wide variety of accessories, including plenty of hands. Aside from the open hands she has on in the box, she also comes with gripped, cupping, closed, and warding gesture hands, all of which work well with the various poses she can take on. Her main extra outside of swappable parts is P-Chan, the little black piglet she takes a liking to, unaware it's actually Ryoga's cursed form (though they're both better off she doesn't know). He's a little slug figure with no articulation, not even a head swivel, but the sculpt is very nice. She also comes with her bookbag, one of those little ones meant just for books (I have no idea what they're called actually), and a large, cartoony mallet, just in case Ranma gets on her nerves too much. Lastly, she has a clear stand with a posing arm, albeit a little different from what Ranma got. It has a lousy grip, so it's really meant more for keeping her stable than mid-air poses.

While the old SHF Ranma run is quite pricey nowadays, Akane tends to go for much more than them, often being around $300-400 on the aftermarket, making her one of the "grail" Figuarts. I got her for a better price at $200 thanks to a Bluesky user (I lost another $200 in the process to a scammer, but that's another story I won't get into), and I'm quite happy with her. Though now that SHF is doing Ranma again, hopefully we can get a new Akane figure that we can actually afford.

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Favorite Series: Little People (Fisher Price)
Collection Size: 65
Currently Collecting: Little People (Fisher Price)
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eBay User Name: Jambercob
Favorite Series: Funko Pop!
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In Marvel Comics, the two main characters who use the codename Marvel Girl are:

· Jean Grey: The original Marvel Girl and the only female founding member of the X-Men. While she eventually became more famous as Phoenix, she has frequently returned to the Marvel Girl alias throughout her history.
· Rachel Summers (also known as Rachel Grey): The daughter of Jean Grey and Scott Summers from the alternate "Days of Future Past" timeline. She adopted the name Marvel Girl to honor her mother’s legacy....[See More]

Having been adapted from a comic book meant for the older crowd, the original TMNT cartoon had to change some things to make it more family-friendly. One of the bigger changes is the Foot Soldiers, who went from being humans to robots so the turtles could cut them down without complaint. The following cartoon by 4Kids was closer to the comics, so the soldiers were back to being called ninjas, and human ones at that. With the jump from Playmates designs to 2003 ones, Super7 is making the same transition.

The Foot Ninja of the Mirage comics were dressed in red and other light colors, but the '03 show gives them darker clothing like a ninja should wear. The head is covered by a pitch-black mask, with yellow eyes to give them a more menacing appearance. It's simple, but it stays true to the show's style, thanks to the work of David White. The ninja gets an alternate head with narrowed eyes and straighter mask tassels, so you can give him a little more variety in expression (the tassels are separate pieces, so you can swap them between heads). A third head is also included to turn the ninja into a Foot Technician, as this head is an unmasked, bald-headed man with bits of metal and other tech on him. It's a little tougher to pop on than the other portraits, but it's nice to get some more variety with heads than the others.

Standing 7" tall, the ninja is dressed in black with shades of gray and light gray, alongside the red Foot Clan emblem on his chest. The body has armor over the forearms and lower legs, baggy sleeves over the upper arms, and a lean, simplistic look overall. The clothing over the torso is a rubbery material, so that it doesn't interfere with the joints underneath. Even with more joints than usual, Super7 retains its good blend of articulation with sculpt, with nothing sticking out, and the double-jointed elbows and knees look fairly good. The minimal colors should mean little room for paint error, but there are a few tiny marks on mine. You'll probably luck out more with yours than mine.

The Foot Ninja is loaded with articulation, just like the others, but he also has the best movement of them so far. He gets a barbell head, ball-jointed neck, chest, and waist, swivel/hinge shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, and ankles, and swivel biceps, thighs, and mask tassels. The chest and waist have a ton of range, allowing for plenty of dynamic poses. The arms and legs work great and bend pretty deep at the elbows and knees, though the rocker motion in the ankles could've been better, and shin joints would've been good as well. Although the mask tassels are supposed to turn, the rubbery material means they won't budge, so you'll have to pop them out to get the position you want. The hands swap easily, and while the heads will take more force, you shouldn’t need heat for them.

Befitting their role as Shredder's personal army, the Foot Ninjas are well-armed, and this one has a pair of katanas, a bo staff, and two shuriken. The weapons look great, aside from some missing paint on one of the katanas, and there's a pair of vertically-hinged gripping hands to hold them, alongside a pair of fists, an open right hand, and a ninja-pose left hand. The Super7-direct-pre-order-only Super Pack gives the Ninja an extra accessory: a gauntlet to fit in place of the left hand. There's a peg inside of it so it can plug into his forearm, but the chunky sleeve cuff gets in the way. Despite being in a gripping position, the gauntlet is too wide open to actually hold any of the weapons, so it makes me wonder why they couldn't make the hand closed instead.

Super7's TMNT '03 figures have been above-average for them, but the Foot Ninja is my favorite one so far. The great articulation and variety of accessories make for a fun figure, and I imagine if the price goes down some, he'll make for a great army builder. We already know who the next wave will have and I'm excited for it, but I'm hoping we'll get some Foot Tech Ninjas in wave 16, alongside a few others (Quarry could really use a more affordable figure).

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Favorite Figure: Toxic crusaders Toxie action figure 1991 playmates
Favorite Series: Teenage mutant ninja turtles
First Figure: Rattrap(Transformers Beast Wars)
Collection Size: 50
Currently Collecting: Toxic avenger super 7 uptimates
Want List: Toxic avenger (2025 version) action figure
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Hi, I've seen the modification done on DCSH Bane using Collect and Connect Despero's legs, however nobody seems to give the full step by step recipe sort of speak, so I'm wondering if anyone knows how to do it?. I have Despero's legs and Bane's torso but the pegs on the legs are too small for the pegholes on Bane's pelvis/crotch. Here is a custom Bane but not recipe:
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eBay User Name: morninggloryfound
Favorite Series: Friendship is magic
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eBay User Name: retrospectively_vintage_toys
Favorite Series: Vintage Star Wars
First Figure: Luke Skywalker
Collection Size: It's a fair size, I guess
Currently Collecting: Nothing as such but might look at Lanard Toys
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