top of page

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.

Home: Welcome

Walk Like A Chicken

I generally avoid Marvel Legends, and when I do get them I do so knowing they're not going to live up to standards of other figures I...

Large And In Charge

Jiggle physics is pretty much standard these days, but back in the stone age, SNK pioneered it all when they animated Mai Shiranui for...

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,...

Shake It Off!

500 Snail Shell Studios is slowly becoming a favourite in the 1/12 collecting world, especially if you're not a conservative collector. I...

That Third Kind of Guy..

Storm Collectibles releases for me are incredibly sporadic, where often years go by before a planned figure appearance happens. Well,...

I Never Miss!

By now, it seems Sideshow has shipped out a good number of their WB 100 Wonder Woman figures. Some people loving it, some people hating...

Wonderful Hair!

One of the more interesting surprises from Hot Toys this year is the return of rooted hair in what would be named the Artisan series....

Floats Like A Butterfly.....

So I am a Transformers fan, but more so in the classic sense - transforming toys, but I can appreciate that as the appeal of the...

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...

SHINOBI FLASH!!!

While I appreciate a great JRPG, I also appreciate what is best described as "absolute trash". The PS Vita introduced me to several...

And Then There Were Three...

Happy Weekend. First one back and I've reacclimatized myself to life back home.. or more accurately, accepted the fact I'm now back to my...

Seeing Double

A few weeks ago, I brought back that Bishoujo Black Canary from Calgary, AB, and promptly proceeded to destroy it in an attempt to fix...

Unleash the Black Widows....

Well it's been a while - I've been MIA for a week, and right before that, Wix decided to crap out and not let me modify my photographs....

SUPREME UNDERWEAR!

I got a little smarter on my trip to the West Coast, only brining back stuff that actually fit in my luggage. While limited, I'd like to...

IMAGINATION!!!

Failed products aren't new, and everything eventually becomes obsolete. The fun stories, on the other hand, are the products that crash...

Revolver Blast!

I... I did it. I got to the end of the TFCon stuff - again it's a piece that nobody would ever consider actually finding there, but this...

MUSCLE POWAHHHHHH

One of the last pieces of TFCon swag.. man I'm slow. Yeah, you're not seeing things. This really isn't a Transformer, or even something...

It's Getting a Little Shady

With the new mainline just recently announced, this means that the current mainline, Transformers: Legacy Evolution, is winding down....

Look At Those Gains!

Two months later, and I'm still on my TFCon stuff. But, I AM nearing the end, with a few more choice pieces left. One of these is MP-34...

YEE HAW!

I recently took a work trip to the lovely Province of Alberta, Canada, and spent some time in either Edmonton or Calgary, the two largest...

Home: Blog2

Subscribe Form

Stay up to date

Thanks for submitting!

Home: Subscribe

Contact

Thanks for submitting!

Home: Contact
bottom of page