Ok this is my first post and I want to start it off with posting about a hobby of mine. I have been an avid toy collector my whole life from when i was a little kid who played with his toys (ex. He-man, ninja turtles) all the way to present date. Now I dont play with my figures anymore but I do open and display some of them but for the most part i keep them sealed sealed in their original packaging.

On to today’s toys, let me start off with probably the most popular current toy line (after star wars) Marvel Legends the original Marvel Legends line was a Toy Biz property and was an amazing toy line with awesome articulation, great details, well scaled figures with wonderful extras such as the build a legend pieces packed with your figure. Toy Biz no longer makes marvel legends the property now belongs to hasbro who in my opinion should stick only to making star wars toys and g-i-joes.

Hasbro in my opinion has bastardized the line. The toys are awful they’re totally off scale, the paint jobs on them are dull and flat. They’re just not the quality of the original toy line. The only thing the new legends line has going for them is the packaging. The box art is really nice but who wants a nice looking box with a shitty toy in it?! Thats all I have to say about that.

Since I spoke about legends I have to talk about D.C. directs. Not a lot to say though as Im not a big dc guy but they’re a great line with decent articulation great details and nice packaging. One of my favorite toy lines is The Simpsons.

The Simpsons have had three major toy lines and I have most of them. In the early 90’s mattel of semi articulated figures with a very good likeness to their characters and caption bubbles with some of their characters catch phrases on them. I was just a kid when those came out I loved them but a big part of me now wishes I had kept them in better shape, I still have them loose but they are very played with.

Now around 2002 0r 2003 playmates did what I believe to be a sixteen wave line of simpsons figures in which I have fourteen waves of. They were not articulated but had a great likeness and bright paint jobs they also had built in sound chips that made the figures talk when placed on playsets. These were quite possibly the best simpsons figures ever made. But there is a challenger to that line, it comes from Mcfarlane toys.

There are currently four figure packs each containing two characters and three playsets. The figures look fantastic. The paint scheme is a tad on the dull side but it doesnt hurt the look at all, rather it gives the figures a statue type look, also no articulation in these figures.

Simpsons fans, in my honest opinion, these figures look best kept in their packaging and I’ll tell you why these figures do not stand on ther own. They come with bases that you have to lock the feet of the characters on, to but its impossible to get them on perfectly, one foot is always half on or the figure goes on the peg but the holes are to big so the figure wobbles around on the base.

Hopefully Mcfarlane rectifies this as its the only real negative. With that being said thats some of the action figures I collect and how I feel about them. More rants to come…..