I have been a huge fan of the Aliens and Predator franchises for a majority of my life. I remember my dad letting me watch the first predator at a young age and him letting me sneak in to watch some of the colonial marines battle screeching aliens in the Cameron classic film, "Aliens". It's been a big part of my sci-fi nerdom. When I was young, I had a small series of Aliens 2 pack toys from Kenner. I loved them so much that when I got a chance to get the single carded action figures and vehicles, I jumped to the chance! That lead to me finally getting a good run of the Predator toys that coincide with the Aliens toys from Kenner. Now, Neca toys has made two new action figures that are in the classic vintage Kenner style. One of which is the Alien NeoMorph that appeared in the movie, "Alien Covenant, and the other is the Berserker Predator, that appeared in the film, "Predators". I have the Berserker Predator! Let's take a look at him.
This toy is great! It is nice to have a vintage style action figure that looks very good with the actual vintage collection. The paint and sculpting are a nice upgrade to the vintage look, but doesn't overdo the surpassing of quality. In Laymen's terminology, it's still looks simple enough to mix in the vintage toy line and not stick out to much.
I was disappointed with the attachment of the accessories. Both the cannon and the blade keep falling off in play. In all honesty, it is an adult collector toy, but, a little glue would go a long way. I have thought about gluing the blade down on my personal toy, due to it falling off every time I move him.
So for this toy, I give him a 4 out of 5 stars. If his accessories fit better, he would have gotten a 5 star rating. He really is a cool nod to the vintage toys we all loved so well.
Jeff and I are having an 8th anniversary of our show, Talking Toys with Taylor and Jeff! It has been a great ride. Celebrate the occasion by going through our backlog of shows on MarvinDogMedia!
In the past, I have been passing up the Call of Duty (COD) Mega Construx building block sets. Recently, I took a gamble with my extra expenses to buy a twelve dollar set from Dollar General here in my town of Denton, TX. I liked it so much, I felt the need to make a video!
Things that I liked about this set were the fact that the box is super modular. What I mean is that the box can be taken apart, and put together is various ways. It makes for some cool environments. let me show you.
The weapons are also able to be broken apart and changed up. This is such a simple, and yet cool playset that has a greatplayability! I give it a 4 out of 5 stars! If you are interested in purchasing this set, I have a link for it here: Amazon Mega Construx Call of Duty Solo Mercenary Outpost
Jeff and I are having an 8th anniversary of our show, Talking Toys with Taylor and Jeff! It has been a great ride. Celebrate the occasion by going through our backlog of shows on MarvinDogMedia!
I have wondered for a while why I had not done a pin-up of Han Solo until recently. I'm not sure why. Han Solo is one of the coolest characters in the Star Wars universe! No seriously! So here he is, Han Solo in his Endor Jacket! I chose to do this version of Han Solo for the color of the card stock. This was a commission for a young lady by the name of Candace. She bought my 3PO(yellow cardstock), R2(blue cardstock), and Chewie(brown cardstock). To not have a repeating color within the four pieces, I chose the green and played off of his camo jacket that he wore while the rebels are on the forest moon of Endor. I think he turned out great! Out of all of the vintage Kenner Han Solo action figures, I think I like this Trench Coat version the best! It's a toss up between this version and the Hoth version Han Solo action figure. Action Figure of the Day has some pretty convincing reasons on why the Trench Coat version of Han might be the best. I never owned a Han Solo action figure from the old Kenner line. I'd like to change that one day, but we'll see. By the way, did you know that the Chewbacca action figure can also wear Han Solo's Endor trench coat? I was going through my friend, Jeff's, vintage collection, when I found Chewie wearing Han's Jacket. I'm not sure why he was in it, but he looks good in it. You can also see this art piece here. There's been an update to the store tabs on both Xenex the Bug Man, and this site. All of the print on demand issues, cafepress stores and commissions info will be under the new store tab on both this site and the Xenex the Bug Man site. Hopefully this page makes shopping a bit easier. Go and check it out!
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