I snoozed on the actual 25 year birthday of Tamagotchi which was last year on 23rd November, with the very first Tamagotchi hitting stores in Japan on 23rd November 1996. It wasn’t until 1st May 1997 however that the Tamagotchi got a language upgrade, got some new packaging and made its international debut… So in… Read More Today is the 25 Year Anniversary for Tamagotchi Hitting the World Stage
Last year was the 25 year anniversary of the release of Tamagotchi in japan and I have an article coming up very soon to celebrate the global release which came a year later, but for now leading up to this celebration I wanted to put together a list of all the Tamagotchi releases which we… Read More All Tamagotchi Releases to Date
Especially in the UK it can be hard to find these books and I always find that their releases don’t get quite as much coverage as the pop figures or gold vinyl toys get, so I actually hadn’t, at the time of writing this, seen any more than the Universal Monsters book. So here’s a… Read More Every Funko Little Golden Book Released to Date
Full disclosure, I met this company at Toy Fair, London 2022 where I was given one of their 12 piece mini fig display cases, so I was gifted this item, but the following review is still a 100% accurate representation of how I feel about it. I have to say that as I walked up… Read More “I Display It” Display Cases Reviewed
This year was the first time I was able to get to the London Toy Fair after it had to take a break for the previous season and it was a little bit difficult to navigate, especially with making appointments beforehand – something which was almost impossible and happened for just 1 company in the… Read More London Toy Fair 2022 Round-Up
This year has been a very busy one for Funko, however with some 2991 Pops listed on the Funko app for this year, it has actually only been the 4th busiest year for pops, with much of their business coming from all their other products this year from masks and Christmas tree decorations to digital… Read More The Best 30 Funko Pops from 2021
The Funko GOLD range was premiered in 2021 and it is sold as the companies premium range of vinyl figures. At the same price and similar quality to the POP figures, I’m not sure what makes them more premium, and time will tell how well this line sells. Below is a list of all of… Read More Every Funko Gold Figure
Yesterday was the first time I had actually seen these blind boxes in person whilst visiting the MCM Comic Con in London where I came upon the Mogic stall. Mogic are the UK partner for Pop Mart, so you’r best bet for getting these figures if you’re here. The prices are pretty good too, with… Read More Pop Mart x How2Work The Monsters Toys Review
It’s coming up to that time of year where an advent calendar is certainly going to be on your mind – certainly the supermarkets are starting to get them in now, so I wanted to do the same as I did with the 80 Years of marvel advent calendar from Funko, but this time with… Read More Nightmare Before Christmas Funko Advent Calendar Review
The following are just the full set of Amiibo collectible playable figures, however they also produce plushies and cards. If you want to see details of these see the main Amiibo list here. This is a living document which will be updated from time to time if new Amiibo figures are released, and I will… Read More Every Nintendo Amiibo Figure
What is an Amiibo? Amiibo are a cool cross-over between collectible items (they started out as just plastic figures but now also include plushies as well as amiibo cards), and playable features on selected Nintendo games. What these do is that you just need to tap your Nintendo 2DS XL, Nintendo 3DS, WiiU or Nintendo… Read More The Complete Nintendo Amiibo Range
I had written earlier in the year about these being on the horizon for Funko and I wondered at the time whether it was a series they particularly needed at that time, or this time for that matter. After that things seemed to go a bit quiet on this line until I suddenly just happened… Read More Funko Gold Series 1 Premium Vinyl Figures; Biggie Smalls Review
It has been 2 years today since the Tubbz range of cos-playing ducks was released by Numskull, and they’re a range which has taken the collectors market by storm and which I have to say I probably haven’t myself given quite enough air time to! I have done a customization post before and I try… Read More Celebrating 2 Years of Tubbz with my Top 10 Cos-Playing Ducks!
There’s absolutely no denying that Funko are currently the proverbial kings and queens of pop culture merchandise. They have their fingers in SO many franchise pies and have a few product lines which have just continued to snowball in to the juggernaut it is now – and of course the absolute front runners of these… Read More What do we all Think of the Rate at which Funko is Producing New Products at the Moment?
The Funko x Playmobil crossover is a vaulted line which was only produced in 2016 and contains just 12 figures, which is such a HUGE shame because I personally absolutely love these figures. Playmobil is cool anyway and is getting more and more of a hold on the collectibles market, but these figures took the… Read More Every Funko Playmobil Figure They Made
If you’ve got tik tok certainly you will have seen this trend before if you follow anything to do with Funko pops, and it has also come up on Youtube on several occasions… People cut the tops of the heads off Funko pop figures to reveal that there is a brain inside… Or in some… Read More Do Funko Pop Figures Have Brains or Other Things Hidden in their Head?
I’ve always wanted to customize a TUBBZ figure from Numskull and it was always going to be a Fallout figure, although to be honest that figure was going to be taking their power armor and giving it a new Nuka Cola paint job. BUT they beat me to it and actually have announced an absolutely… Read More Customizing a Numskull TUBBZ Nuka Cola Girl from Fallout
It looks like a lot of people are pretty disappointed that the Funko April fools idea for this year is just that and not going to be turned in to an actual pop – or pop ride I should say. Of course the problem in the Suez canal recently caused a lot of delays and… Read More Funko April Fools Suez Canal Boat Pop Goes Down a Treat
I’ve wanted to get a transparent designer toy for a long time now and have just never pulled the trigger. There are a few different companies that do them, and I’m not talking about double cast resin figures – what I’ve always had in mind are clear ABS shells with more going on inside. Some… Read More 8 Inch Gashadokuro Dunny by KidRobot
I got one of these figures today and straight up – it’s not one I got for me and I won’t be collecting these. I think items which are designed for that 3+ pre-school age range just generally don’t make great collectibles. On the one hand they are very stylised and cartoonish which makes them… Read More Hasbro Star Wars Playskool Galactic Heroes Mega Mighties – Stormtrooper
Last year Funko got involved with a few charity events and I think that makes for an amazing opportunity for Funko. Of course it drives sales and a lot of people were annoyed that Funko still makes some profit from those figures – but really who cares? Why shouldn’t they still make a marginal profit?… Read More A Closer Look at the DC Heroes Breast Cancer Research Foundation Funko Pops
I made one of these lists before – in fact it was one of my very first posts on this blog just over a year ago and some of those items have come true and we have seen a few of my biggest wish pops become a reality… Well I say some, I think it’s… Read More An Updated List of Funko Pop Figures I Want to See
TCon the ToyConosaurus is the physical figure which brings the mascot of the UK ToyCon to life each year, and every year it is very slightly different. The one which you’ll see in this article is my own one which came from the 2020 ToyCon and has a marbled colourway. This particular one is actually… Read More What is TCon the ToyConosaurus by ToyCon
I know that 30 is a lot but this year has actually been a year of pretty damn cool pops produced by Funko… I know they had a lot of problems this year (as many companies have) and have had to scale down a little but they still managed to release an insane number of… Read More 30 Best Funko Pops Announced in 2020
Wow, now that’s a hell of a question! I could write on for ages about the various different series, sizes and collaborations but that would make for one long post which I think no one is going to want to read. So what I’ll do instead is to give you an overview of the basics… Read More What is a Kidrobot Dunny
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