Too early to feel Christmassy? It usually isn't, but it's feeling that way now that temperatures are rising. Since NECA's new Nightmare Before Christmas figures were all ready for release near the holidays, they obviously had to do a Santa Jack Skellington. The more Jack, the merrier!

The same crew behind the other figures - Marty Henley, Kyle Windrix, and Andrew Lawson - did Santa Jack, and they didn't reuse any of the expressions the regular Jack had. However, this Jack only has three heads: one happy, one surprised, and one winking. Like before, the work here matches the source material very well, and the clean paint certainly helps. You can use these with the regular Jack… if you don't mind the obvious sockets on the top and sides of the heads. These are for the Santa cap and beard, and I love the work on the sculpts. There's plenty of texture to them to make them look and feel semi-realistic, and the paint is good aside from some slop, bleed, and other issues with the cap.

Because of the hat, Jack stands about 8 3/4" tall, about a head higher than his regular counterpart. He's dressed in the stock red and white Santa outfit, complete with a belt and boots that reach halfway through his shins. It's simpler than his regular outfit, but the long coattails are still there. There's a subtle texture to the clothing, making it feel a bit like the material used for the stop-motion puppet, and the shade of red they chose for it is slightly dark but bold. The paint on the sleeve and boot cuffs is pretty bad, as it suffers from a lot of bleed, but at least the belt looks good, as do the hands.

"Sandy Claws" Jack doesn't move too much differently from the others, sporting a ball-jointed head and neck, swivel/hinge shoulders, elbows, wrists, knees, and ankles, ball-jointed hips, and a barbell chest, not to mention another barbell peg for the hat and a beard that can move up and down. The more proper ankle hinge and rocker as opposed to ball pegs really helps with deeper stances, but I found the legs getting a bit loose the more I worked with them. On the positive side, the heads and hands swapped with no issues, though you'll want to heat up the sockets for the hat and beard on the extra heads to fit them in easily.

You're not getting quite as many accessories here as the regular Jack, but what's here works great with this look. The four pairs of hands - flat, pointing, relaxed, and grasping - are the same as the other Jack, though with a slight difference in finger posing. Befitting the Christmas theme, Jack gets a candy cane and three gift boxes, one small and two large (both the same mold, but different paint). There’s also Santa's sack, designed to rest on the ground and wide open enough to carry one gift at a time, and a picture frame with an illustration of Santa Jack on it. Lastly, there's the clear display stand the others got, and it's necessary to keep him standing, though its ability to keep him upright is hindered by more dynamic stances.

It's sort of surprising to see NECA already including a variant in just the first assortment of figures, but Santa Jack is quite fun, even if he doesn't have quite as much going for him as the others. Some more accessories would've been fun, such as some of his creepy gifts, but I'm sure we'll get those with other characters, or at least as long as NECA is interested in doing more.

- 4/29/25...[See More]

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Current Projects: Rick Taylor (Splatterhouse)
Powerlift (Marvel Legends)
Bruce banner (Marvel Legends)
She Hulk (Marvel Legends)
Favorite Figure: Darth Vader (Star Wars Black Series Archives)
Favorite Series: Star Wars Black Series
Currently Collecting: Star Wars Black Series
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Current Projects: Delgado, Anna Marie Cortez, Amelia Voght, Comcast, Jubilee, Angel, Beast, Mephisto and AoA Storm. Any suggestions, send them my way
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I'm looking for a 90's villain action figure I had as a kid. It was purchased from a store in Canada between 1994 and 2002, likely 1998.

I tried drawing what I remember:

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It had:
-detachable (likely) red cape
-Robotic metal greyish armor
-v shape with thinner legs
-possibly some green skin
-possibly some kind of antennas like things on his head
-The middle part was articulated I believe (mine broke in half)
-The box I think had some sort of comic book rendition of the character
-It was maybe 6-8 inches tall
-It kinda looked like a mix between ultron and martian manhunter
-no clue what franchise it might have been from but I'm confident it wasn't a knockoff brand


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Hello all! Just joined this site and found it thanks to AI. I am looking to complete my Robotech Matchbox figure collection. If anyone knows of places to buy vintage figures, just let me know. I'll check around the site. Great to be here!...[See More]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Jakks Pacific is doing a great job with The Simpsons. Although their 5" figures are my favorite, the smaller-scale 2.5" line has been very fun as well, already having plenty of characters and even dioramas. I've almost completed wave two, having gotten Itchy recently thanks to Five Below, but I also just got all of the third wave, featuring a solid line-up of Springfield's key citizens.

Of course, they needed a main family member to be the hook of the wave, and Bart fills that role again. It's the same sculpt as the first-wave Bart, but the deco is slightly different. His shirt is white, and there's Krusty's head on it as well. Krusty's likeness is printed on, with a clean result, and the paint on the sleeves and shoes is clean as well. Other than that, it's essentially the Bart we got before, so expect the same sculpt and articulation. The accessory is unique, as he has a Krusty hat with the clown's hair on it. It's big enough to cover his spiky hair and fits over his scalp firmly. It also reminds me of a plush by Nanco, except the hat on that resembled Krusty's head rather than a plain cap with his name on it.

Bart isn't the only Simpson in the wave, as we get Abraham "Grampa" Simpson. At about 3" tall, I consider him a standout as he doesn't have a blank stare and smile like most figures do. He's in a grouchy mood again, complaining about today's youth or something like that. The portrait is great, and there's clean paint for the mouth and shirt, though there's a pretty obvious seam line between the jaws. His right hand is in a gripping pose while his left is a clenched fist, and it's not hard to tell Jakks wanted to recreate the "Old Man Yells at Cloud" scene. The torso looks a little slim from the side, but nevertheless, they did a good job with the body and outfit. He has a swivel neck, swivel/hinge shoulders, and hinged waist like usual for these palm-sized figures, but the legs don't go forward enough to sit down properly. Speaking of which, his butt is a slightly different color from the rest of the pants, much like Krusty from the previous wave. Why not just fully paint over the pants?

Next up is Milhouse, simultaneously being in the third wave of both scales. Standing a little bit below 2 1/4", Milhouse doesn't look too much different from his larger counterpart, save for the fact that he can actually rest his arms at the sides, thanks to little indents in the armpits for the sleeves. Shrunken down a bit, he looks just as good, including the paint, with good work on the eyebrows. The seat of the pants matches the color of the rest of them, giving him a small visual plus over Bart and Grampa. Milhouse's accessory is a Squishee cup, which looks pretty good, but it has a little tab so it can be held. The Playmates line had tons of Squishee cups that nobody could hold, so kudos to Jakks for finding a solution to that.

The third kid of this wave is Ralph Wiggum, who goes great with the other kids as well as his old man in the first wave. Standing a bit over 2 1/8", Ralph looks pretty good, but I can't help but feel the head shape is a little off. My other nit with the sculpt is the hair, as they did it as one piece glued to the scalp, which is what Super7 did with their Ralph, and it's not how his hair's supposed to look. It would've been better to sculpt the strands onto the head and paint them, and hopefully they'll do that with the 5" version. The body looks great, though there's a bit of a gap between the articulated lower half and the butt, and the shirt is a bit too bold in color. The paint on the collar and belt are fine, save for some bleed and slop. The iconic "I choo-choo-choose you" card Lisa gave him is included, using a sticker for the graphic, and it's very clear despite the small size.

Rounding out the wave is Jeff Albertson, the Comic Book Guy and most likely to buy up all the Itchy and Scratchy figures to mark up the value on them. At 3 1/4" he's a big guy, more so than Chief Wiggum, but the torso is hollow. He's the best sculpt of the wave, and it's helped by how he bears his usual unamused expression rather than the neutral smile almost everyone else has. The sit-down waist joint works surprisingly well, being able to kick forward a great deal thanks to the hollow shirt, but I haven't tried seating him in the booth at Krusty Burger yet (I already know he's too fat for it). The few paint apps on him are clean, though he too suffers from the mismatched shades of color on the pants. I kinda wish Jakks would include accessories with the adults, because I could see this guy coming with a Radioactive Man comic.

The third wave of the smaller figures is pretty nice, with great work on the sculpts and accessories, though paint could be a little better. The line-up is great as well, as it's nice to get some more kids, and who wouldn't want a figure of Comic Book Guy, the fat nerd nobody wants to be? Wave four is hitting stores now (I got Dancin' Homer yesterday), and I learned through a Facebook group that we should be getting up to wave six this year. Hopefully during that time we get more dioramas in addition to the recently revealed vehicles, because I would love to have the Kwik-E-Mart and Android's Dungeon with these figures.

- 4/24/25...[See More]

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Favorite Figure: Madrox 2008 Classic Marvel Figurine Collection
First Figure: Madrox 2008 Classic Marvel Figurine Collection
Collection Size: 1
Currently Collecting: Anything related to Multiple Man or Cannonball
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It's been a few years since NECA announced their return to The Nightmare Before Christmas, but I'm still surprised they started making figures again, even with the long-running Diamond Select line still going (they look great, but I never got any of them… yet). Jack and Sally are the ones everyone wants, but it didn't hurt for NECA to include another character, so here's the unnamed Mayor of Halloween Town.

In contrast to the tall and slender Jack and Sally, the Mayor is short and chunky, but nevertheless is one of the many unique denizens of Halloween Town. He too is sculpted by Marty Henley and Kyle Windrix, but not Andrew Lawson, so I assume he wasn't needed for the portrait here. The Mayor is identifiable by his two-faced cone-shaped head, with a jovial expression and mismatched eyes on the front, and a gray-skinned melancholy expression sporting symmetrical eyes on the back. The head looks great, with the sculpt and paint being much closer to the movie than the 2004 figure, though comparing it to screenshots, the happy face could have better paint. The tall top hat is a separate piece that fits snugly on top of the head, and there's a clear groove around the scalp that indicates how deep it goes into the hat.

Without the hat, the Mayor stands around 4 3/4" tall, more than half of Jack's height, but he is notably bulkier. The lower body feels solid, while the upper body has a hard plastic coat over what I believe is an underlying piece for the head and arms to plug into. They did a great job with the coat, right down to the black widow spider serving as his bow tie and the mayor ribbon. The coat has a subtle texture done by sculpting tons of tiny lines into it, and a somewhat rough edge as well. The paint is near perfect aside from the face issue mentioned earlier, with clean work all around, especially the pinstripe pants, and some wash on the coat and accessories. There are a few areas of bleed and some clumping on the collar, but those are the usual occasional blips from NECA.

The Mayor's design doesn't lend itself to tons of articulation like Jack and Sally do, but what's here still works well for him. He has a ball-jointed head and waist, swivel/hinge shoulders, elbows, and wrists, and barbell ankles. It's about the same as the original figure, though that seemed to have hip joints, which would've been great here and allow for more poses. Still, the articulation allows for expressive poses and moves mostly fine, but the head is very tight for some reason. It doesn't want to turn easily on the ball, and I don't understand why when the head is supposed to turn around to show his other face. The wrist joints are painted, but it's skin tone over gray joints, and it peels off very easily. C'mon NECA, haven't I dealt with this enough with Turtles?

The accessories aren't as plentiful either, but the Mayor has some neat accessories. The big book/ledger is the main piece here, with good paint and a few names written inside, but there's some glue residue on the back of mine for some reason. There's also a megaphone and ink bottle for him to hold, and speaking of which, the gripping hands can be swapped out for open ones, and they do so surprisingly easily. His plans for next Halloween are included, with three paper pieces containing sketches for decorations. Much better than the rolled-up blank paper the original came with. The clear base rounds things out, but it's the same one as Jack and Sally, meaning it doesn't line up with his feet. I was able to get him to stand without it though, but a better base would've been much appreciated, as well as the creepy duck the original had.

The Mayor isn't quite as good as the others, but he's still good, and it's nice to have someone aside from the main couple. I'm not sure if NECA plans on doing more characters, and I assume it's more likely we'll get other major players like Dr. Finkelstein and Oogie Boogie, but if they can go as deep as they did before, I'd be happy to build up a Halloween Town for my collection.

- 4/21/25...[See More]

A couple weeks back I got a notification about an inappropriate comment which wasn't sexist nor racist I was joking now every custom I submit has to be reviewed before being posted my question is how long does this go on for and how can I get back to getting my customs posted like how they were before this unfortunate incident...[See More]

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Favorite Figure: marvel select red hulk, jada toys blanca or mafex bane
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