http://indie.superarticulated.com Specialty Market Action Figure News, Reviews, and Photo Galleries Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:52:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The fourth Round of figures from SOTA's Street Fighter line brings us Birdie, Akuma, Ibuki, Remy, and Fei Long in superarticulated action figure form. This 4th Round marks the end of the "standard" SOTA Street Fighter line but the series continues as "Street Fighter Revolution" which will be kicking off ... http://indie.superarticulated.com/2008/08/10/street-fighter-round-4/ The third "round" of SOTA's outstanding Street Fighter action figure series delivers superarticulated incarnations of Guile, Adon, Balrog, Gen and Sakura. Each of these figures boasts an outstanding sculpt, great paint apps, tons of accessories and pack-ins, and, of course, lots of poseability! Expand for pics and reviews. GUILE Sculpt: Guile ... http://indie.superarticulated.com/2008/08/09/street-fighter-round-3/ McFarlane Toys has finally delivered the second series of figures from its Halo 3 license after a several months long wait from series 1. While some of my enthusiasm for this line has diminished in the time since it debuted, I can still appreciate these figures for their clever engineering ... http://indie.superarticulated.com/2008/07/26/halo-3-series-2/ My box o' comic Hellboy action figures arrived this week and I am one happy toy collector right now! Mezco delivered one of the best comic-inspired action figure lines of all time with their short-lived Hellboy series. It's a shame this line only went two waves. There was so much ... http://indie.superarticulated.com/2008/07/20/hellboy-comic-figures-by-mezco/ With the second round of figures from its Street Fighter license SOTA Toys picks up right where they left off in Round 1 by bringing us five more outstanding figures from the classic video game. This series delivers Ken, Cammy, Blanka, Vega and T.Hawk. Each of these figures sports more ... http://indie.superarticulated.com/2008/07/13/street-fighter-round-2/ I was a late-comer to the Hellboy franchise but now I'm catching up. I rounded out my collection of figures from the second movie but I found myself wanting more. So, I went online and rounded up a handful of Mezco's figs from the 2004 line for the first Hellboy ... http://indie.superarticulated.com/2008/07/13/hellboy-movie-figures-from-mezco/ The Hellboy madness continues! The Hellboy movies sucked me into the world of Mignola's comic characters and, thus, I have now proliferated many a Hellboy action figure. In support of the live action films there have been two feature-length animated movies made. Gentle Giant picked up the license for the ... http://indie.superarticulated.com/2008/07/12/hellboy-animated-by-gentle-giant/ SOTA Toys has been rocking hard with the Street Fighter license for several years now and this trend-setting line all began right here with Street Fighter Round 1. With the SF line SOTA brought us superarticulated action figures that demonstrated innovative engineering, high-level quality and sculpts, and tons of pack-ins ... http://indie.superarticulated.com/2008/07/07/street-fighter-round-1/ I'm totally hooked on these Play Arts Final Fantasy action figures. My latest acquisitions are Squall and Rinoa from the Final Fantasy VIII line. These are 8" scale action figures that feature more than 20 POAs and some extremely nice sculpts that really look like the video game characters jumped ... http://indie.superarticulated.com/2008/07/07/final-fantasy-viii-volume-i/ The Hellboy II: The Golden Army action figures from Mezco are here and they are delightful! I was slow to warm up to the Hellboy franchise so I missed out on most of Mezco's figures from the first movie, but I won't make that mistake again. These are some outstanding ... http://indie.superarticulated.com/2008/07/04/hellboy-ii-movie-figs-series-1/