[theArchivist]

So I’m a huge fan of the 1:18 scale action figures and the Fantasy/Monsters/Mythical figures are some of my favorites but I don’t see a lot of conversation about them. So I thought I’d start up a general appreciation thread similar to the Marvel and DC ones. I’ll start off with a list of the lines I am aware of. I’m going to list them in alphabetical order for the most part.
Anyone else a huge fan of one or more of these genres of action figures? Am I missing any lines? I’d also love to see anyone’s customs but if you show your customs please mention that it is a custom in your post.

Adventures of Merlin
Ages of Action
Army of Darkness
Assassin's Creed : Brotherhood
Beast Angle Gladiators
Buffy the Vampire Slayer : ReAction
Cinema of Fear
Chronicles of Narnia 2 : Prince Caspian
Cryptozoology
Dragonheart
Golden Compass
Gormiti
Gormiti : Supreme Eclipse Era
Gremlins
Harryy Potter - NECA
Harry Potter 5 Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter 6 Half Blood Prince
Harry Potter Supplements
Hell Boy 2
He-Man 2K Happy Meal
Hobbit 1 : An Unexpected Journey
Hobbit 2 : Desolation of Smaug
Hobbit 3 : Battle of Five Armies
Horror : ReAction
How to Train Your Dragons 1
How to Train Your Dragons : Defenders of Berk
How to Train Your Dragons 2
Last Airbender
Legendary Monsters
Legends of Cthulhu
Mag Warriors
McFarlane Monster Playsets
Monster Hunter
Monsters Inc
Mortal Kombat Klassic
Mortal Kombat 9
Mortal Kombat X - Mezco 2015
Naruto Shippuden
Percy Jackson 1 : The Lightning Thief
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 : Dead Man's Chest
Pirates of the Caribbean 2.5 : Secrets of the Deep
Pirates of the Caribbean 3 : At World's End
Pirates of the Caribbean 4 : On Stranger Tides
Pose Skeleton
Prince of Persia
Redakai
Secret Saturdays
Shrek
Skeleton Warriors
Spawn
Thundercats
Twilight Zone
Underworld
Universal Monsters : Reaction
Universal Monsters : Burger King
Vitruvian HACKS : Fantasy
Vitruvian HACKS : Greek Mythology
World of Nintendo (for Legend of Zelda)
Zelda : Twilight Princess

Statue figures :
BBI : Historical : Camelot
BBI : Historical : Knights
BBI : Historical : Legends
BBI : Historical : Romans
Papo
Papo : Dragons
Papo : Fantasy
Safari : Dragons
Safari : Fantasy
Safari : Faries
Schleich : Bayala
Schleich : Dragons & Knights
SOTA : World of Warcraft


Chap Mei/True Legends/ELC
Adventure Heroes
Beast Raiders
Knights of Legend
Legend of Dragon
Pirate Expedition
Stone Age
Vikings
Wizards Magic
ELC - Tower of Doom
True Legends : Heroes of Olympus
True Legends : Knights and Dragons
True Legends : Mythical Warriors
True Legends : Pirates

Vintage figures:
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons by LGN
Otherworld
Wrath of the Titans
Universal Monster by Remco

Beasts/Creatures from many lines that work well in 1:18 scale.

[theArchivist]

Please remember this is an appreciation thread so if you have negative comments to add please post them somewhere else.

[theArchivist]

To kick this off lets start of with some Horror figures. Since it is October and Halloween is right around the corner this would be a good theme to begin with.

Here are some of the Universal Monster ReAction figures and the Horror ReAction figures.

[Joe Moore]

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[theArchivist]

Here are some scale pics next to some other common 1:18 figures.

[theArchivist]

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Originally Posted by Joe Moore

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My apologies. I was just adding those to assist other members with the checklists of figures I didn't post.

[theArchivist]

Mezco also released some Horror figures of Leatherface, Jason, and Freddy.

Freddy broke right out of the package. I need to get around to fixing him.
GI Joe for scale.

[Joe Moore]

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Originally Posted by theArchivist

My apologies. I was just adding those to assist other members with the checklists of figures I didn't post.

I understand. With the links in your signatures, readers can see what you have to offer. Your signature is your own little advertising space, of sorts. May I suggest adding in a few lines of text to explain what your links offer. That way, the more you post, the better chance people have of seeing the links.

All the best.

[theArchivist]

Some more classic monsters created for McFarlane's Monster playsets 2 packs back in 1998/1999.

2 Dr. Frankensteins and their monsters, Swamp Creature, Werewolf, Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera.

[TheBlueMarvel]

AD&D: Advanced Dungeons And Dragons action figures by Ljn were the bee's knees to me as a child. I sold my set (of nearly all of the line) many years ago. Thanks to your post, I have begun tracking down the figures to potentially buy again....

[theArchivist]

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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

AD&D: Advanced Dungeons And Dragons action figures by Ljn were the bee's knees to me as a child. I sold my set (of nearly all of the line) many years ago. Thanks to your post, I have begun tracking down the figures to potentially buy again....

I don't really collect vintage figures too often so I had intentionally omitted that line.

I reconsidered and added a vintage section at the bottom of the first post and added a couple of the lines I knew about.

[theArchivist]

Lets change gears a bit and look at some small fantasy figures released during the McFarlane Spawn era. These are a skeleton that came with Medusa, Iguanus, and an Ogre rider.
GI Joe for scale

[theArchivist]

Next up are some knock off figures called Beast Angle Gladiators produced by a company called DIY.
There is 6 figures in the line. 3 are orc styled figures and 3 are animal inspired knight figures.

GI Gandalf for scale.

[theArchivist]

Today's monster figure appreciation is Chimera and Hunter from the ToyBiz Resident Evil line. World War Hulk also doubles as a good orc figure and Chimera might make a good base for a Man-Spider custom.

[theArchivist]

Today's appreciation goes out to the new World of Nintendo Link and his lovely Princess Zelda from the Twilight Princess trading figures.


I do hope we get more Zelda figures in the World of Nintendo line.

[theArchivist]

The 4 Horsemen have created a new website for their Mythic Legions line coming to KS soon. I'm really excited for this line.

Mythic Legions

They have given all their characters names and bios as well.

I had thought they were going to have votes and such on what characters to make but KS might restrict that or they changed their mind.
http://mythiclegions.com/characters/

[theArchivist]

Mezco released 5 figures in 2003 based on the movie Underworld. A lot of places have these listed as 4" figures but they are a little too big to fit in with most 1:18 figures. They all came with really cool little diorama pieces though. I sold off most of the figures I had but I did keep Raze the were-wolf.

[theArchivist]

Zombies are always a fan favorite and show up in the 1:18 scale quite frequently.

Here is the Queen Anne's Revenge zombie from the Pirates of the Caribbean 4 movie.


And there's lots more zombies out there for your hoard. A couple I can think of are:
GI Joe Zombie Viper
Davy Jones' crew from the 2 POTC movie line
Solomon Grundy from DC Injustice

For more zombies and other undead characters I have their species listed in the Archive as "undead". See links in my signature.
If you are into customizing, Angel Forge has some kits up for sale called Plague Wars as well as a lot of zombie heads.

[Defzombie]

Love the inclusion of Resident Evil figures. I pretty much have all the figures from the toy biz line, which is one of my favorites. Also I hope we get more Zelda world of Nintendo as well! Link is a great figure, especially since I found him at retail!

[theArchivist]

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Originally Posted by Defzombie

Love the inclusion of Resident Evil figures. I pretty much have all the figures from the toy biz line, which is one of my favorites. Also I hope we get more Zelda world of Nintendo as well! Link is a great figure, especially since I found him at retail!

That Link is great. Much better than the one released in the Twilight Princess line. He is one of my all time video game characters so I was super ecstatic when he showed up. I lucked out and got him at retail right around the first week he was available. I have a custom TP version i have been working on for a couple years but I'm not too good at painting faces so I haven't finished him up. I found 2 more though and have the fire and water versions of him in the works.

Another line I can't recommend enough is the POSE Skeletons by Rement.
They were just released in Japan and are/were available on amiami.com

They are a bit small to be a 1:18 human skeleton (abour 3.5") but could work as a background filler or even a child or dwarf skeleton. They feature 10 revol style joints (neck,shoulders, hips, waist, knees, ankles), hinge elbows, swivel wrists, and a removable jaw. They can pretty much be put in any position you can think of. They also have a bunch of silly accessories like an articulated dog skeleton, tea table, toilet, construction equipment, casket, and some others.

[Foreddyn]

Thank you for the Mythic Legions link. But I hope the prices are cheaper than the Vitruvian ones if they go the Kickstarter route too.

[theArchivist]

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Originally Posted by Foreddyn

Thank you for the Mythic Legions link. But I hope the prices are cheaper than the Vitruvian ones if they go the Kickstarter route too.

It'll be hard to tell how much they plan on selling them for. The Four Horsemen's prices for other similar lines range quite a bit depending on the character and how many paint apps they are using for that particular drop.

I would be surprised if they were less than $20 a figure though. We should know in a few months though. Hopefully they will have some incentives for purchasing the whole package or something similar to the All-in plan Boss Fight had.

I do find it of particular interest though that many of the Kickstarter campaigns that have been successful have been either 1:18 scale or fantasy/mythical based or both.

The Legends of Cthulhu line should be getting sent out in the next month or so. It will be pretty exciting to start seeing some of these action figure kickstarter to finally get their figures out to the public.

[theArchivist]

Today's figure appreciation can still be found at Toys R Us in their True Legends line. There is the Tree Warrior and a couple Orcs that are sold separately. The one shortfall of the Ent is that it isn't sculpted in the back and is just a hollow piece but it makes a really nice display piece. There is also the winged orc on the right. That figure is from the Bad Guys set from Early Learning Centre's Tower of Doom line and is just a statue piece.

[theArchivist]

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Originally Posted by theArchivist

T I have a custom TP version i have been working on for a couple years but I'm not too good at painting faces so I haven't finished him up.

Here is an older picture of me playing around with that Link custom I was talking about. I had to photo him from the back because of his horrible face painting.

[theArchivist]

Chap Mei is by far one of my favorite toy manufactures due to the awesome designs they have and the many fantasy based lines they have created throughout the years. This figure is the Orc Chieftain from one of their Knights lines.