New from the Black Rock Shooter TV Animation and my first Nendoroid is Chariot with her Tank Mary.

A Nendoroid is built like a Figma with removable and interchangeable parts such as faces, hands and larger body pieces; they are created in the “deformed” look or Chibi look where the head is big and the body is small making these little figurines cute if anything.

In the world of Black Rock Shooter, Chariot is Kagari a “friend” of Yomi who is also Dead Master in “The Other World.” Created just for the TV Anime, Kagari is probably the most insane character …

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An all new Vintage Toy of the Month is ready to transform and take you to new heights! Now I tend to get lost in terms of when it is time for a toy to be considered vintage, but I have always followed my own personal rule that if it is at least more than ten years old, that it can count for some fun Vintage Toy of the Month discussion; especially if the item in question is no longer sold in stores.

In honor of the 20th anniversary celebration that was supposed to occur this summer, but now seems to …

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July marks the first month of the special six figure mini subscription of Masters of the Universe Classics figures based off of the Filmation run of Masters of the Universe and She-Ra: Princess of Power. These figures are brought to us by Mattel and designed by the Four Horsemen. Sold via Mattycollector.com, July saw the release of Icer: Evil Master of Cold!

Icer may be from a separate subscription, but he comes packed in the same MOTUC packaging as other basic figures. The look of the figure is pretty nice in-package. There are a lot of blues and frosted whites, so …

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Sanrio, DC Entertainment and Warner Brothers entered into a licensing agreement recently to produce a line of Hello Kitty products depicting the cartoon feline dressed up as different DC superhero characters. The line will feature the usual Hello Kitty fare: stationery, clothing and accessories, but will also include food items, stuff like brushes and shampoo, and publishing which possibly means the next installment in the Dark Knight franchise (just kidding).  Viz Media has a new Hello Kitty graphic novel coming out this fall so it should only be a matter of time before the Bat Kitty hits the shelves.

The promotional …

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What? But you already did a post on Dead Master?! NOT this one my friend and wow is she cool or what!

NEW from Max Factory and for Figma fans around the world is Dead Master as she appeared in the 8 episode TV Anime of Black Rock Shooter. This time around the characters are battling to shoulder the pain of their real world counterparts and with their death (usually at the hands of Black Rock Shooter), the girl in the real world is left empty and without much memory of the one who had troubled her.

Dead Master is still …

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Vintage Toy of the Month! Granny Gross!

I’m on time this month! Can you believe it? It is time for an all new Vintage Toy of the Month, and this month we are going to check out one gross toy. This was a toy that fulfilled every child’s need of wanting an elderly woman as part of their action figure collection as well as a gross-out haunted human. Let’s check out Granny Gross!

The question was simple enough, “Who you gonna call?” There were many toy lines that dominated store shelves in the 80’s but The Real Ghostbusters gave everything else …

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I’m sure all of you guys are familiar with the picture above, “No Laughing Matter.”

The photographer behind that epic image is my friend Gaunt.  I don’t remember how long I’ve known him but I remember  chatting with him on Spawn message boards.  He actually already released the image several months before it went viral.  Everyone on the boards was really impressed with it and congratulated him on his great work.

I chatted with Gaunt to talk about his projects, artistic choices and why he loves Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Nerd Society (NS):  How did you get into photography?

Gaunt …

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Are you ready for an all new and outrageous look at one of the new Jem and the Holograms dolls? Of course you are! Hasbro and Integrity Toys have pulled out all the stops with this highly detailed and collectible line of dolls. This is not your childhood Jem. These dolls are expensive and come loaded with fancy features. So let’s take a look at one of the recent releases: Kimber Benton!

Who didn’t love Kimber from the Jem cartoon? She was a hot mess in the best way possible. There were double booked dates, slight tantrums, and a couple of …

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Figma Fanatic: Haruhi Suzumiya!

Now, here is a piece of Figma, action figure history! Haruhi Suzumiya from the Anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is literally the second regular Figma ever made. Officially, Haruhi is the forth, with the first being an inclusion with the Suzumiya Play Station game, followed by fellow SOS brigade member Yuki Nagato as the first Figma from the regular series and a second special figure Lelouch from Code Geass being the third. So, regardless of the 2 special edition figures that broke the manufacturing order, Haruhi is the second Figma ever made—2008 was truly a good …

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The Masters of the Universe Classics release for April recently slithered into our collective hearts and turned our insides into stone. Snake Face, the most gruesome of the Snake Men Warriors, was the lone new MOTUC release for the month and what a release he was! Let’s move right ahead into this release that has really grown on me.

The Snake Men have long been a very interesting faction of the MOTU mythos. The original figures were released towards the end of the vintage MOTU toy line so the Snake Men were never really featured in the He-Man cartoon and instead …

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