New Glow-in-the-Dark Predator ReAction Figure - Entertainment Earth Exclusive

It's coming in early 2015! (Also, you're welcome.)  The  Glow-in-the-Dark Predator ReAction Figure is a glow-in-the-dark redeco of the plain Predators you can buy now (that are also awesome).  Click here to order yours.

It's $12.99 and an undisclosed (but low) run.  This is Entertainment Earth's second ReAction exclusive - the first is the Invisible Man in clear plastic, which is due this month.

Review: Funko Universal Monsters The Bride of Frankenstein ReAction Figure

One of the stranger things I've seen in my decades of toy collecting is that facts change. Questions like "What color is Han Solo's jacket?" have had numerous answers - if you asked Galoob and Kenner in the late 1990s, they said that Lucasfilm told them that Han always wears When I saw the sculpt for The Bride of Frankenstein I was quite happy with what I saw - the head was appropriately understated and exaggerated, and the arms and torso reminded me a lot of the original 1978 Princess Leia figure. However, I noticed that in the packaging the legs were bent kind of funny. When I tried to fix them, the hip joint got loose and wobbly - oddly, the same loose leg problem was on Bif Bang Pow!'s Kanamit, who also had robe legs. Coincidence? I wonder!
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Review: Funko Universal Monsters The Wolf Man ReAction Figure

One of the stranger things I've seen in my decades of toy collecting is that facts change. Questions like "What color is Han Solo's jacket?" have had numerous answers - if you asked Galoob and Kenner in the late 1990s, they said that Lucasfilm told them that Han always wears black. However, there were exceptions - which means we saw Bespin Han usually wear black, but Hoth Han's garment has been black, blue, and a purple/brown color. It seems that The Wolf Man is not immune, no doubt in part due to the fact black-and-white movies screw with perceptions. This figure has a nice 1980s feel with a glossy shirt and appropriately old-school articulation, plus white teeth and faux Kenner eyes. It's good. Get one.
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Review: Funko Universal Monsters Phantom of the Opera ReAction Figure

The vinyl cape is back! As a kid, I hated them - my Jawa had a cloth cape and my Darth Vader's cape started to split at the shoulders pretty quickly, requiring the fabrication of a felt replacement. It's a strange trick to add some depth to a figure that was more or less dead by 1981, so Funko's Phantom of the Opera is one of very few figures - along with Dracula in this line - to bring it back. It's one of those things that I can appreciate stylistically, because if this was a lost late-1970s figure it would have that cape. Since it isn't going into any vehicles, I've got no problem with it - but as a child, I can't tell you how much I disliked these.
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Review: Funko Universal Monsters The Invisible Man ReAction Figure

While the clear repaint was inevitable, The Invisible Man is one of the top characters under the Universal Monsters banner. The idea is pretty close to the public domain, but this particular incarnation of an invisible man as portrayed by Claude Rains has been pretty influential, culturally speaking. I've even read the book - the Ralph Ellison one, not the H.G. Wells one, which had no mad science nor literally invisible people in it. (It's still a pretty good book.)
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Review: Funko Universal Monsters Creature from the Black Lagoon ReAction Figure

Oh yes! Star of a movie that actually started life in 3-D, Universal's Creature from the Black Lagoon is a frequent favorite movie creature design. I daresay of the classic monsters, the look is the best - a rubber suit provided a high and a low point as to what you can do with movie monster mayhem, and it's something embedded into our cultural DNA. Last year we looked at Monster Ninja Turtles, this year it's the new Kenner-style figures from Funko. Each figure has 5 joints and in the case of the creature, he has less deco than the early 1980s Remco figure of the character.
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Review: Funko Nightmare Before Christmas Sally ReAction Figure

Like any good toy dork, I was keenly aware of The Nightmare Before Christmas months before anyone saw it thanks to Tomart's Action Figure Digest - arguably the best thing you could read in the pre-internet world, just because of how much information it threw at you that you didn't realize you needed to know yet. The movie itself was a wonder, a mix of old-school holiday TV specials for kids with something that is largely hard to find elsewhere, notably that it's thematically older-skewing as it explores themes of failure and one of the worst things that happen to us as we grow up: being forced to examine and acknowledge our limitations. Sally was one of the film's leads, and unlike the film's hero she actually does get to grow more as a person and exceed her creator's intent by going from a sort of a ragdoll/Frankenstein's monster hybrid.
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Review: Funko Back to the Future Doc Brown ReAction Figure

As a kid I thought Doc Brown was super-cool. Actor Christopher Lloyd had an amazing run - Taxi's Jim Ignatowski, Star Trek's Commander Kruge, The Addams Family's Uncle Fester, Who Framed Roger Rabbit's Judge Doom, and dozens more fantastic roles delighted audiences around the world, and he's probably now best known as the wild-haired old man of Hill Valley, California. He still acts - a lot - but he never really got all that many action figures. The Mattel figure was never to be, so it's nice Funko managed to make this happen.
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NYCC Surprise - Tomorrowland ReAction Figures Now?

In addition to a pair of swell NES-themed Freddy and Jason figures, it turns out Funko had a special surprise at New York Comic Con - the first figures from Tomorrowland, specifically Frank!  200 pieces are said to be available, and while I do not yet know if it's an exclusive debut or just a case of you not being able to get something, you can find them on eBay right now.

The going rate this weekend seems to be $50-$90 thus far.

Review: Bif Bang Pow! The Twilight Zone Kanamit (Work Uniform)

From another one of The Twilight Zone's iconic (and oft-lampooned) episodes is Kanamit (Work Uniform) from "To Serve Man." As he was played by the giant Richard Kiel, the figure is also a smidgen taller at about 4 1/4-inches. He has 5 points of articulation and is sold in 3 flavors - white outfit, black outfit, and full-color figure (which wears a white outfit).
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Ad: Entertainment Earth Has New ReAction Predator In Stock

Did you get yours? Entertainment Earth has received new and restocked Predator ReAction Figures and you should probably get some. They're in stock, $9.99 each, and you get free shipping if you drop $79 on in-stock items.

These ones are pretty swell!