Tuesday, 16 July 2013

SITE NEWS: We're Still Not Really Here...




We're having a great time enjoying the Summer Break. Defiance - the game - is eating up a lot of our daytime hours (when we're not looking at pictures of sloths or watching videos of goats) and evenings are filled with some neat TV, awesome cookouts, great movies (including most recently Searching for Sugar Man, Sharknado and a whole bunch of other stuff), hanging out with friends and family

REVIEW: McDonald's Happy Meal Despicable Me 2 Giggling Tim Minion




Produced for McDonalds | Released July 2013





McDonald's Happy Meal Despicable Me 2 Toys

I really enjoyed the original Despicable Me and am looking forward to seeing the sequel (which is currently playing in theaters, movie-going fans!). You can imagine then how pleased I was to see McDonald's offering a series of Despicable Me 2 Minions with each Happy Meal, as - and I'm sure I'm not the

VIDEO VIEW: War on Prehis Retro Commercial



AFFILIATE LINK: Play Arts Kai Dark Knight Rises Catwoman




OK, so The Dark Knight Rises wasn't exactly a great movie (and that's a discussing for another time) but when it comes to the tie-in toys, I don't think you can find much to fault with Play Arts Kai's Catwoman action figure.



Standing at over 8'' tall and featuring the super-cool level of articulation we've come to expect from Play Arts Kai, this Catwoman/Selena Kyle action figure comes

NEWS: CLONE-O-FORM Keshi




Ever wondered what would happen if a couple of Micronaut fans got into the Keshi game? Then wonder no longer, as we bring to you the amazing CLONE-O-FORM line of figures.




Designed and 3D sculpted by Bryan Microbry Wilkinson (consultant and designer on the Palisades Micronaut revival line) and brought into resin-y goodness by Lee at BigManToys, this first four-figure wave features a

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

A Quick Update


As you may have noticed, things have been a little quiet at That Figures for the past few weeks, so I just wanted to give you all a quick update to explain why.




The Summertime Blues

It's the Summer! And that means Summer blockbuster movies! And their inevitable tie-in toy lines! Yay.



Right now things are pretty grim for toy collectors. It's been months since I purchased an action figure

Thursday, 23 May 2013

IN OTHER NEWS... 05/23/2013


And IN OTHER NEWS... The latest trailers for Agents of SHIELD, The Wolverine, horror anthology sequel V/H/S 2 and the Man of Steel, plus Marvel's The Watcher 2013, Defiance and Marvel's latest superhero cartoon, Avengers Assemble! 




Defiance

If you haven't been watching SyFy's new sci-fi drama Defiance (or the dodgy PS2-level CGI of the pilot's final battle had you reaching for the OFF