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Figure Friday Takes a Look at Two Spider-Related Releases
For this Figure Friday I have no current tales of woe to share. I finished my prescribed ‘roids and my back has healed up well enough that I’m prepared to mess it up again this weekend. I never learn....
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Figure Friday: Batman: The Animated Series Harley Quinn 1/6 Scale Figure by...
Batman: The Animated Series is the definitive Batman to me. Over the course of four seasons, it managed to create timeless origin stories for damn near every inmate of Arkham Asylum. If that weren’t...
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Figure Friday: Ghost’s Papa Emeritus III and a Rocket and Quill Two-Pack
For this week’s Figure Friday I am currently waiting for Amazon Japan to ship a preorder I placed almost a year ago so I’ve got nothing NEW of note to report on just yet. So let’s take a look to the...
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Figure Friday: MAFEX’s Definitive Nightwing Arrives + the Summer of Barbie
I know my birthday must be right around the corner because I received my annual mailing from the local funeral home & crematorium reminding me that it’s maybe a good idea to prepay for my funeral...
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Figure Friday: HasLab G.I. Joe Classified Series G.I. Joe Assault Copter...
Hasbro has kicked off Yo Joe! June by debuting their latest HasLab project, the G.I Joe Classified Series Assault Copter Dragonfly (XH-1). Boasting a lower price point than last year’s H.I.S.S. Tank,...
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Figure Friday: Spidey, Indy, and Target Mutant Ninja Turtles
Home renovations will continue until morale improves. I’ve discovered that the main thing about having your own space is making it MORE your own space. After ripping the carpet out of my study I had...
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Figure Friday: Summertime News
Summer is upon us and the toy aisles are starting to heat up! New product has been hitting store shelves, Fall and Winter Preorders are going up on Fan Channels and Convention season is right around...
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Figure Friday: Choose Wisely! Superman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and...
This installment of Figure Friday is going to be jammed packed with toy awesomeness so I’ll get my nonsense out of the way first. Within 24 hours of my last column being published, Josh managed to...
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Figure Friday: Four Horsemen Studios Spotlight
Four Horsemen Studios have been pretty busy in recent weeks. They added to the ranks of Figura Obscura with the release of Sun Wukong the Monkey King, the first wave of Cosmic Legions has started to...
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Figure Friday: Diary of a Toy Collector as a Young Man
I recently had a birthday. I don’t care to use the word “celebrated” in front of birthday because for the last decade plus I’ve come to view birthdays as something to be endured. Don’t get me wrong,...
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Figure Friday: San Diego Comic Con Exclusives
The pop culture world has built to its annual crescendo as San Diego Comic Con is in full swing this weekend. Over the next few days we’ll be treated to trailers for new movies and television shows....
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Figure Friday: It’s Christmas (And Life Day) in July
It’s Figure Friday…what going on this week? Aliens are real or some shit? I dunno. Let’s get to the action figures.Elvira, Mistress of the Dark Elvira (Very Scary X-Mas version) by NECA It’s the end...
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Figure Friday: Power-Con 2023 Preview
Figure Friday is hitting the road next week as my esteemed colleague E.A. Henson and I will be heading to Power-Con. The second year in Columbus, Ohio sees a larger number of exhibitors and toy...
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Figure Friday: Back to the Cons and the 1990s with Scarlet Spider
By the time you read this it will be too late I will be on my way to Power Con with my Figure Friday counterpart, Josh Wallen. The natural progression of things being what they are, it was time for us...
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Figure Friday: Power-Con and Cosmic Legions
Power-Con 2023 is officially in the books and I have to say the second time around was far superior to the first. As a conventioneer, you always want to have a smooth easy-going experience and feel...
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Figure Friday: Who You Gonna Call? Transformers!
Figure Friday is upon us once more and I know that while some of you are reading for hot takes on toys, others are here for the delightful slice of life pieces that I occasionally serve up. It’s been...
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Figure Friday: NECA’s Creature from the Black Lagoon
This has been a Figure Friday column I’ve been waiting a long time to write. We’re coming up on my two year anniversary at Biff Bam Pop!TM and one of my earliest wishlist items has finally been...
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Figure Friday: Terrifying Transformers x Universal Monsters, Smurfs, and Star...
It’s the end of the first week of September so that means that Spooky Season officially kicked off the week prior to this. It doesn’t matter if it’s unseasonably warm wherever you are, get out the...
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Figure Friday: Preorder Round Up
As the 2023 calendar heads towards its final months, it’s time to turn our focus to the toys of next year. There are some pretty great preorders closing this weekend and one Giant HasLab that just...
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Figure Friday: The new Wolverine MAFEX Figure Brings the Snikt
You guys, this week’s Figure Friday is coming to you on a budget. I was crushed this week when I found out that NFTs are virtually worthless and I lost all my money investing Biff Bam Pop! NFTs. Boy,...
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Figure Friday: Hasbro Pulse Con Wrap Up
Hasbro had its annual Pulse Con event last week, showcasing upcoming products from each of their brand teams. There were some great reveals that led to several preorders going up over the past week....
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31 Days of Horror 2023: Figure Friday Goes Trick or Treating
Spooky season is upon us and Figure Friday is not immune to it’s chilling charms. Aside from Halloween being an important day to me for a myriad of reasons, it’s just fun. This year I’ve stacked the...
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31 Days of Horror 2023: Figure Friday Four Horsemen Studios Figura Obscura...
While some of you may have anticipated a masked figure for the Friday the 13th edition of Figure Friday, this probably wasn’t the masque you expected. While I do love me some Jason Voorhees, I didn’t...
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31 Days of Horror 2023 Presents Figure Friday: NECA’s Universal Monsters in...
Spooky Season is in full swing and 31 Days of Horror 2023 is approaching the home stretch! A couple recent acquisitions have arrived just in time to help me celebrate Samhain. The Bride of...
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31 Days of Horror 2023 Presents Figure Friday: Boo Berry and the General...
Spooky Season may well be drawing to a close as I type this but I’ve got an eleventh hour entry that will help us stick the landing for Figure Friday and our contributions to BBP!’s 31 Days of Horror....
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Figure Friday: ‘G.I. Joe Classified’ Adds New Recruits Aplenty
We just got through a blustery snowy Halloween here in metro Detroit and the timing couldn’t be better for a couple of my recent G.I. Joe Classified acquisitions. Snow Job and Snow Serpent take the...
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Figure Friday: On the Dead Internet Theory, and MAFEX’s Superman
Ahh, the Figure Friday No man’s land that’s the period of time from when 31 Days of Horror ends and the Holiday Gift Guide begins. Just writing about toys with no agenda. Back to basics. Since I have...
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Figure Friday: Mythic Legions Rising Sons Adds Barbarians and Assassins
Four Horsemen Studios wrapped up Mythic Weekend last week. The annual event tied to Legion Con in New Jersey allows for fans of all things Mythic and Cosmic Legions to get together and celebrate the...
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Figure Friday: E.A. Henson’s Magic Power and a Life Day Miracle
Figure Friday on the biggest shopping day of the year! “Black Friday” the day after American Thanksgiving, how about them Detroit Lions, eh? I honestly don’t know the answer to that question because...
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Figure Friday: FuRay Planet Blade Master Weng by Maestro Union
Toy prices have continued to creep up this year, and in turn, the number of toys that I buy on the regular have gone down. This year’s Black Friday deals featured a lot of figures I would normally...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2023 Presents Figure Friday: Gifts for Every Level of...
Once again it is Holiday Gift Guide time and if you’re shopping for that toy collector in your life…don’t buy them toys. Unless you collect jointly or are intimately acquainted with their collection,...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2023 Presents Figure Friday: A Hardcore Holiday
We’ve reached the home stretch! Hanukkah closes night eight tonight and the Twelve Days of Christmas are upon us. If I’ve left out your holiday festival of choice, it wasn’t intentional. Happy...
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My name is Josh Wallen and I love toys. I don’t run up and tell strangers this when I first meet them. It’s usually something people laugh at and don’t understand, but it’s my thing and it makes me...
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Biff Bam Pop Presents: Figure Friday Year In Review 2023
In this special podcast edition, join E.A. Henson and Josh Wallen as they take a look back at the year 2023…in action figures. This is a podcast about toys. Just two adults talking about action...
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Figure Friday: E.A Henson Kicks off 2024 with Boss Fight Studio’s Grim...
New year, new Figure Friday! If you’re reading this I sincerely hope you made it though December relatively unscathed. I had some most welcome time away from my day job but familial obligations kept...
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Figure Friday: ‘Ultra Street Fighter II The Final Challengers’ From Jada Toys
My first Figure Friday column of 2024 features one of the best lines to debut in 2023. Jada’s Ultra Street Fighter II The Final Challengers has been a tremendous hit with fans, offering an affordable...
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Figure Friday: Marvel Legends Starts the Celebration of 50 Years of Wolverine
Winter has finally arrived in my little corner of REDACTED, Michigan. It’s been punishingly cold for the last week which means I’ve been staying inside and NOT out braving the elements to hunt for...
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Figure Friday: Mondo’s Masters of the Universe – Orko 1/6 Scale Figure –...
This week’s Figure Friday research has been one of the strangest rabbit holes I’ve ever gone down, but I do it in service of you, Dear Reader! My socials have been flooded with blue feet pics ever...
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Figure Friday: Try to Keep Up With a Stellar New Figure of The Flash
This Figure Friday is going to be a fast one if you catch my drift. Try and keep up! DC Comics Amazing Yamaguchi Revoltech NR010 The Flash There’s an overused turn of phase when automotive journalists...
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Figure Friday: Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge Toy Hunt
I spent the last week touring the family around Walt Disney World in what will easily go down as one of the single greatest planning accomplishments of my life. I booked the perfect meals, navigated...
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Figure Friday: A Model Megatron Kit
Figure Friday AGAIN? It feels like I just did one of these things! Luckily for me (the writer) and you (the reader) I had another preorder come in on my off-week and I’m all fired up to tell you...
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Figure Friday: Jada Toys Remote Control Godzilla with Heat-Ray Breath
We’re a little over a month out from the release of Godzilla x Kong: The Lost Empire and the toys have started to hit the shelves! Jada Toys has the license and has brought one of my favorite gimmicks...
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Figure Friday: It’s Christmas in March With Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas...
It’s Christmas…In March! While it’s true that each and every Figure Friday is like Christmas, this one is actually Christmas themed. Now let’s unwrap my present. EMMET OTTER’S JUG BAND CHRISTMAS 45TH...
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Figure Friday: Mythic Legions’ Blue Hagnon Returns in a Rerelease
Last year Four Horsemen Studios announced a Retailer Appreciation Wave of exclusive figures. These figures from both the Figura Obscura and Mythic Legions lines were offered as a way to say thank you...
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Figure Friday: Spider-Man Swings Towards Perfection (Almost)
It’s Figure Friday and it’s also New Toy o’clock this week so let’s get into it! Spider-Man: No Way Home S.H.Figuarts Spider-Man (New Red & Blue Suit) It’s personal quirk of mine but I can tell...
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Figure Friday: Jada Toys ‘Mega Man 1:12 Scale Action Figures’
Hot on the heels of their successful Street Fighter II figures, Jada Toys are keeping the Capcom classics coming with Wave 1 of their Mega Man figures. I’ve been looking forward to this line since the...
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Figure Friday: E.A Henson Enters the PVC Bakeshop-Verse + a Spider-Man 2099...
It’s a good Figure Friday and behold for I am risen to write about toys. Praise be. Time being a flat circle and me being me, I am once again doing a column on Spider-Man stuff. Look, I hadn’t planned...
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Figure Friday: Mythic Legions Wal-torr The Mad
Just in time for Figure Friday, the Fed-Ex gods graced me with a package that I’ve been anxiously tracking for over a week! Wal-torr The Mad has arrived thanks to the recent In-Stock Sale at...
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Figure Friday: Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared Phunny Green Duck Plush + Optimus...
It’s quite late on Thursday night as I write this, later than I’d like it to be. I’ll usually start writing a column in my head in the days leading up to when I get a chance to sit down in front of...
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Figure Friday: Pre-order Round Up
There’s been quite a few preorders and announcements lately that have caught my attention. The Four Horsemen have an interesting sale coming up and both McFarlane and Hasbro had some preorders drop...
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