Tag: Custom Toys

In late 2009, I received a commission to make a custom Mighty Muggs figure of the X-Men character, Banshee, from someone who had seen some…

As I’ve noted before, I don’t make the same custom figure twice, especially when I put them up for sale. I don’t want to end…

Thanks to his appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (or whatever that thing was), Marvel gave the “Merc with a Mouth” a huge push in 2009-2010,…

It’s hard to imagine now, but at the time of Mighty Muggs’ popularity in 2009, there were only three live-action Spider-Man movies. The most recent…

After doing a bunch of Mighty Muggs customs, I thought I would try something different with Akuma. SInce he’s often shrouded in shadow, what if…

It’s easy to forget in 2023, but before Funko POP!s took over the vinyl toy market, Mighty Muggs were real popular for like 6 months…

In the late 00’s Hasbro made their way into the vinyl toy business with a line called MIGHTY MUGGS. They were all effectively the same…

Back in 2005, I ended up with an extra toy of McFarlane Toys’ Total Chaos line Conqueror. What was I going to with an extra one of…

Shortly before Summerslam 2003, Triple H tore a muscle in his groin. Since he was the WWE World Heavyweight Champion, and was already scheduled to…

Back in 2012, toy company Super7 had a contest that I forget the details of, but it involved doing a custom paint job of one…

As a little kid, I remember sitting in my living room and watching reruns of the 1960s Hanna Barbera action cartoons. The prehistoric-based Herculoids, winged…

I always liked the late-80s era costumes for the original five X-Men when they were known as X-Factor. While the black-and-yellow 1963 costumes evoked the…

The TMNT ReAction line by Super7 is interesting. The whole ReAction Figure conceit is that it’s supposed to emulate action figures from the early 1980s,…

In many of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video games based on the 1987 cartoon series, the generic enemies the Turtles fight over and over…

When I got this Gwen Stacy toy in the mail in 2020, I knew immediately that I wanted to make a Mary Jane toy out…