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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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The Finer Things In Life....

Unsurprisingly, I'm a bit more in touch with collectibles based on Female characters, which includes Transformers. A few years ago, when...

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...

The Light of... Love?

So I kind of bought something by accident and just decided to roll with it. One day, I saw this really cool stop action video, but I...

Do You See What I See?

So when it comes to one sixth figures, sometimes third party figures can be well assembled and other times you have to wonder why they...

Nutcracker

So I collect a wide variety of zany things because they make me smile. A line that never ceases to impress is the Magic Square Mukudo...

I'll Put Some Web In Your Eye

If you dabble in the world of Third Party Transformers, you'll know that creating Multiverse Variants of existing characters is also a...

Gonna Be A Big Load

I've slowly been getting involved with Third Party figures, though as always it's very much a "proceed with caution" type of deal. I have...

POWER BOTTOM

For a few years now, I've been trying to get my hands on one of the Fans Hobby MB-06 Power Baser figures. Takara, along with quite a few...

WE GOT TWO WORDS FOR YOU!

Of all the TFCon 2023 exclusives, only the Fans Hobby MB-19C Huntsman really looked like it was worth my dropping money on. I'm not a...

Junk In The Trunk

Right before TFCon went away for a COVID related vacation, the last Fans Hobby exclusive was the MB-12B - Wheelblade. A repurposing of...

Naval Commander on Deck!

I guess I keep forgetting how time passes on, and that Transformers Armada, released by in the early 2000s, is now considered a retro...

Arachnophobia

As I become more and more experienced in the Third Party Transformers market, I'm seeing more and more interesting things, including the...

Kick Him In The Blueberries....

So you might have noticed that I dabble in Third Party stuff, but generally it's not really my thing because eventually Hasbro/Takara...

Blow Me Away....

I have quite a few Fembots to catch up on, including this - the Bingotoys BT02 Windgirl. It feels like forever now, but back when Nicee...

Handle Without Care

So it's no secret (or at least I presume it's no secret) that if you've designed a decent Fembot figure, I'll probably bite and buy it....

When Spiders Can Fly...

I never watched Transformers Prime, though I have to admit the amalgamation of animation and movie based aesthetics did make for an...

It's A Small World After All...

So a surprise package showed up on the weekend - mostly because packages really don't get delivered on weekends around here. Turns out it...

This Calls For a Venti.....

Well, it's almost May. What a year it's been so far - for us here in my area, this Winter truly is the one that won't go away, as we...

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