TMNT Metal Head custom toy
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TMNT Metal Head custom toy

Metalhead was created by Krang to destroy the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But the turtle who "does machines," Donatello, reprogrammed Metalhead, and now he's one of the turtles' allies! And…
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Spawn Redeemer custom toy
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Spawn Redeemer custom toy

Todd McFarlane's Spawn was ostensibly a comic about the war between Heaven and Hell. I say "was," because I stopped reading after it seemed like Hell was defeated, and now…
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Transformers Soundblaster ReAction Figure
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Transformers Soundblaster ReAction Figure

I've talked about Soundblaster before, but here is an honest-to-goodness North American release of a Japanese-exclusive Transformers character. "But, Andy," you say. "The War For Cybertron: Siege Soundblaster toy came…
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TMNT as The Ghostbusters
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TMNT as The Ghostbusters

When Playmates toys announced this line of Ooze-flinging TMNT toys... image stolen from ToyNewsi.com All I could see was the Turtles as knockoff The Real Ghostbusters. So, y'know. I did…
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TMNT Groundchuck Custom Toy
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TMNT Groundchuck Custom Toy

Groundchuck just came out of nowhere in 1991, when Playmates was releasing figures of mutants made out of random animals to flesh out the TMNT toy line’s 4th year. To…
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1970s Cyclops Marvel Legends custom toy
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1970s Cyclops Marvel Legends custom toy

When Hasbro announced the Retro Marvel Legends X-Men line and included this figure of late-1980s Cyclops, all I could see was potential for custom figures. The most obvious was Cyke’s…
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Robot Heroes Bug Bite Custom Toy
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Robot Heroes Bug Bite Custom Toy

So here's a weird one. The Transformers top rivals for converting robots in the 1980s were Tonka's Go-Bots. In the early 1990s, Tonka was failing as a business, and Hasbro…
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