by Trip at 9:50:20 PM - October 9, 2008

CustomCon 21 - Day 4

Day 4 of CustomCon 21 brings some more DC characters, a full line of Marvel Legends, and some imaginative vampire hunting.

JB Designs returns yet again with another Justice League Unlimited 3-pack.  Today’s offering includes two better-known characters, both of whom have appeared on the big screen: Two-Face and Poison Ivy.

John Bodin gives us an F.A.O. Schwartz exclusive Justice League Unlimited figure in the form of Captain Marvel.  Take note: the head and cape were sculpted from scratch.

Ken Dembowski (Mattman) may have finally run out of characters to customize.  He brings an all Marvel, 8-character Dragonman build-a-figure assortment to the table this time, and I’ve never heard of 6 of them!  … but I guess that doesn’t mean too terribly much.

Finally, Sasha offers up a 5 piece "Tall Tales" collection from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  Each item in her collection required some genuine thought and reflects a knack for choosing good base figures.  The sculpted details look quite good, and she did a great job of turning Brett Favre into a vampire football player.

Check out CustomCon 21.

by Trip at 11:15:23 PM - July 24, 2008

New Custom Action Figures - 7/25

New Custom Tuesday - 7/15/8 • The spotlight is on an awesome Knightrider Transformer custom action figure created by Ven.  The nearly-weekly feature also has links to 9 other new custom action figures that appear at The Fwoosh.

New Custom Tuesday - 7/8/8 • This entry features Jbuchoa’s 1980s styled Marvel Legends figure of Dazzler from the X-Men and links to 10 other custom action figures on display at The Fwoosh.

New Custom Tuesday - 6/24/8 • Customizer Calbretto has created a playset of sorts with his warehouse diorama.  The piece also features links to 11 other new custom action figures.

Tired of seeing nothing but The Fwoosh’s New Custom Tuesday here?  So are we, but it’s hard to keep track of all the galleries and websites that feature custom action figures.  We need your help.  Click Here to let us know what’s new, and we’ll get the word out.

by Trip at 3:03:13 PM - June 19, 2008

New Custom Action Figures - 6/19

I haven’t been updating as often as I should, but regular updates should start coming more often. This week’s new custom action figures is a short and sweet entry.

For those who aren’t already aware, over at The Fwoosh, they run a feature called “New Custom Tuesday”. It usually runs every Tuesday, but has lately been on a bi-weekly publishing schedule. This week, Weapon XII’s Atom Smasher (made from a Marvel Icons Wolverine) is the featured figure.

8 other figures made their debuts this past week, as well. Check them all out at The Fwoosh.

by Trip at 6:11:14 PM - April 17, 2008

CustomCon XIX Completed

CustomCon XIX

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.