Over at the Raving Toy Maniac, CustomCon XIX was recently completed. The event was held Monday, April 7, 2008 through Friday, April 11, 2008 and, incredibly, featured over 80 pages full of custom action figures, and thanks to the success of Marvel Legends, the word ‘Legends’ appears in approximately 150% of the waves in this CustomCon. (Oddly, the success of DC Direct has not led to the word ‘Direct’ being included everywhere.)

Various incarnations of the Justice League dominated DC Comics’ contribution. Marvel was represented well across the board with entries for the Avengers, X-Men, a few lines dedicated to villains, a couple of Age of Apocalypse waves, and even a wave that contained 5(!) Deadpool figures.

It would be impossible to effectively capture the entire event in a blog like this, so I suggest you have a look for yourself. Click here to check out everything CustomCon XIX has to offer.

You may have noticed a long, slowly implemented process of transforming this site from its original design. When Figuronomy was initially put together, there were plans to host a custom action figure search engine, user controlled galleries, and more. This proved to be simply too much to handle. The site was stripped down into a glorified repository for old CustomCon events and given a new design.

The next several months were spent customizing a blog solution to easily allow me to add new content in both a user friendly and a search engine friendly manner. The new site should be very easy to navigate, and new content should go up a couple times a week.

Frequent entries will include links to new custom action figures, a “Custom Spotlight” feature, and community news (custom action figure events, contests, etc.).

The site allows commenting on posts after you register, and I will soon have a contact page up and running for any other feedback. I’d love to read what you have to say about the changes.