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Welcome to Utopia...

.. if you're into rants about toys new and oldish.

This is Collectors Haven, somewhere I've decided to start sharing my analysis on the many, many, random toy purchases of mine. Very much Japanese centric, but you never know what'll show up.

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I'm Never Gonna Financially Recover From This...

Articulated figures have definitely improved over the years, allowing you to lovingly gaze at and pose your favourite characters. Statues...

I Spy With My Little Eye

Getting a hold of fairly priced Bishoujo Street Fighter stuff on the Secondary Market is very hit and miss, with the prices of...

Return of the Raging Demon

A lot has happened in the Street Fighter world in the past month. SF6 started getting new character announcements, with the return of...

Chun Goku Satsu

Street Fighter figures generally sell well, particularly the imports, so it's no surprise that the first Chun Li Figuarts was eagerly...

Gomene, Bitch!

As collectors, you're generally focused on the present, or you're a retro collector. Me? I'm pretty much just a Toy Junkie in general,...

YATTA!

It seems in the last 5 years or so, we've finally starting consistently getting decent Street Fighter figures. The NECA line was crude,...

HYPER COMBINATION FINISH!!!

Who here didn't like XMen Vs. Street Fighter? Well, I'm glad we agree it's one of the greatest fighting games ever conceived. Having said...

GOMENE!

I'm not much of a Nendoroid collector as overall, they're really more trouble than they're worth. I make exceptions occasionally, usually...

Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am!

I love local marketplaces. A good portion of the stuff I've found over the years is from random spots across Canada, because the right...

Streets of Rage

The term "cursed" is thrown around a lot in the toy collecting world, though generally it applies to poorly made figures where the QC is...

Smol Package

So one of the newer scale statue lines on the market is the Popup Parade series by Max Factory. The way I understood it was that the...

"I Am Inevitable"

I'll get right to it - never did I ever think conditions would be right for me to own ANYTHING from Pop Culture Shock... well anything...

CAPCOM Figure Builder - Creators Model: Chun Li

One of things that I don't buy very often any more are scale PVCs. Once upon a time, these were the only things I would buy, because,...

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