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Some things we missed the last couple days. If you find anything over the next week or so, feel free to share with us because super internet robot Joe Moore is enjoying some personal time and I suck at keeping track of stuff :)

Action Figure News Round Up - 8/15/17 - Star Wars, Spider-Man, Godzilla, Street Fighter and More - The Toyark - News

Oh yay...it's not like unmasked Kylo, Finn, and Rey aren't pegwarming as it is.

More and more...it feels like Hasbro is cannibalizing it's own 6" Black Series line to kill it off.

I am all over those Finn in the F.O. kit. If, and I am pretty sure they will, make them in my beloved 3.75" scale I will take at least four of them. Simple head swap and I have a crew for Hux to look all bad ass.

Yeah, seems like an odd choice to me as well, especially the Kylo.

are Armored Cyborg and Regular Suit Justice League Batman wal-mart exclusives? you can find them by searching DC MULTIVERSE. they come with mother boxes?
also Super Friends DCUC molds in Multiverse boxes with cartoon background? these keep popping up in searches yet i haven't seen any news on them

Am I... am I crazy, or do those Star Wars figures look like they're 3-3/4" to anyone else? The detailing on them and their packaging gives me the impression that these aren't 6" figures.

Kinda tempted by the Godzilla. Not a huge fan of the sculpt, but I like the paintwork and effect piece.

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They have a hinged wrist AND more than one accessory, definitely not 3.75"

I don't know about the packaging, but as a rule of thumb- if they have any articulation above the bare minimum (or any at all if compared to the non Black Series cinematic line) then chances are they a 6" figure.

i dont think they will kill the black series, they just take forever to bring out new figs

Now that I'm looking at them on an actual computer screen, they do look more like 6" figures, but for 6" figures their sculpting kinda... sucks. Fin is the only one that really looks like the actor to me.

While Hasbro's softgoods have been lacking, I do kinda wish they had made more of Luke's outfit out of fabric. As-is it doesn't look like there'll be any point in trying to pose his legs.

They've almost always had severe issues handling human faces with the black series, typically from an apparent unwillingness to actually paint said faces instead leaving them with that weird plastic sheen. There have been a few lately like Lando that came out rather well but these new ones appear to follow old practice. I would actually be interested in the new Kylo Ren if he came with a removable helmet or an alternate masked head but if it's just unmasked then I'll most likely pass.

Can't believe they are charging what they ar charging for the sdcc pack of those Luke and Rey. They look soooooo cheap...
Even if I have the chance at hts, I won't get them.

It's definitely almost all in the paint. So many times, I've seen Black Series headsculpts given real paint jobs, and they look damn close to the actor. The problem is the minimal paint job, which is why I'm glad the Black Series is getting the dot-matrix printing that Legends has had for a bit, so the faces can actually look great for once. I'm disappointed that it'll take so long for us to get them though; the first figures with the dot-matrix printing are coming out spring 2018, which means most of the TLJ figures will miss it, and so many OT figures have already been made that would have to be remade to get it.