With the premiere of the first trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder comes an onslaught of great tie-in toys. Funko Pops like Thor and his flying longship! Action figures of Natalie Portman’s Thor with Mjolnir! Our first good look at Christian Bale’s villain Gorr as an action figure!
Best of all, many are available for pre-order now here at Entertainment Earth and here at Amazon. Check out some great tie-ins below from Thor: Love and Thunder:
With a new Ghostbusters sequel coming to theaters this summer, expect the original Ghostbusters characters to get the spotlight from several different toy lines. Plus, following up on individual figures released last year, Playmobil is finally rolling out the DeLorean time machine (including Marty, Doc, and Einstein the dog) from Back to the Future, coming this spring (pictured above). Online toy store Entertainment Earth is the first out of the gates taking pre-orders for the time machine (check it out here), and it is also offering a special 1955 edition of the figures of Marty McFly and Doc Brown (check ’em out here). As New York Toy Fair 2020 draws closer, expect to start hearing more about new releases from these two 1980s sci-fi properties.
Ghostbusters has already licensed several products to major toy brands, featuring their Ecto-1 Ectomobile, and characters Venkman, Spengler, Stantz, and Zeddemore, all expected to pop up in Ghostbusters: Afterlife in theaters in July. We found several sets available on Amazon to get kids (young and old) psyched up to revisit these characters, like the Playmobil Ectomobile, including Janine and Zeddemore (here), a set of all four Playmobil Ghostbusters (here), the Gargoyle Dogs with Venkman and Dana (here), and the Stay Puft marshmallow man with Stantz (here). The best has also been released before but is coming back next month: the big Ghostbusters NYC Firehouse, which has lots of detail, includes five figures, the firepole, the ghost depository, and it has a garage for the Ectomobile (check it out here).
Funko has individual Pop! figures for Spengler, Stantz, Zeddemore, Venkman, and Slimer, as well as the Ecto-1 with Zeddemore set, Venkman with firehouse set, and Spengler and Venkman and the banquet ghost set. And that’s not all.
In advance of next week’s San Diego Comic-Con, Netflix released a slick new poster for Season 2 of Stranger Things, and more tie-in products are now in the works. We have a look at the second wave of the Funko Pop! figures for the series, expanding into the older teens and adult characters. Plus McFarlane Toys is now a licensee, meaning fans can expect some highly detailed figures in addition to the retro, Kenner-style Funko ReAction action figures (previewed earlier here at borg.com). That’s good for fans, giving them a choice for their Stranger Things fix.
Stranger Things Season 2 premieres on Netflix, Friday, October 27, 2017. So expect many to be locked away binge-watching the new season that weekend. In advance of that, take a look at these mock-ups from McFarlane Toys showing the general look the company will be aiming for with its toy line:
The McFarlane Toys figures have not yet been finalized and are not yet available for pre-order.
Check out the new Funko Pop! figures after the break, with many available now (many with steep discounts) and others available for pre-order.
It’s the latest sensation. This generation’s Beanie Babies. Like last year’s Pokémon Go, collectors just “gotta catch ’em all.” And Funko, the toy company that makes them exclusively, has licensed seemingly any and every property on Earth for their POP! line of bobblehead dolls. Almost. Funko is always reaching for the next great franchise, the next cool character, the next thing for fanboys and fangirls to go nuts for.
Really. They’ve secured the licenses for nearly everything. Challenge us on that? How about Tupac Shakur? They made him into a vinyl POP! figure. Michael Jackson? Yep, in multiple outfits. Invisible Bilbo Baggins. The creature from Sharknado. Duck Dynasty? They made ’em. How about 1970s Elvis? Yep. Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars, The Muppets, and Game of Thrones? Of course. The Golden Girls? Nah…. yep! They made those, too. Piglet from Winnie the Pooh and Butters from South Park. The Elf on the Shelf? The cast of Friends? They’re just toying with us now.
But it doesn’t stop there. There’s Bob’s Big Boy and Bob’s Burgers. Parks and Recreation. BBC’s Sherlock. The cast from Lost. Universal Monsters. My Little Pony. NFL football. The Gilmore Girls. The A-Team. Pewdiepie from YouTube??? Gremlins. The Walking Dead. Power Rangers. The Exorcist. It goes on and on…
Is there no end to the properties that the Funko toy company will rematerialize into bobbleheads? They’ve got Santa Claus, Homer Simpson, David Bowie in Labyrinth, Breaking Bad, and the kids from Twilight. And the band members from Metallica. Thankfully they don’t yet have The Twilight Zone or we’d have to witness a frightening POP! of Billy Mumy’s victim Dan as the jack-in-the-box from “It’s a Good Life.” [[shudder]]
But this week’s release tops them all. Truly there is now one Funko POP! to rule them all. The real Top POP! But who could it be? Who is the big surprise? Drumroll, please…. The One POP! to Rule Them All is…
Next to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, there is probably no other actor in the action genre who has had more action figures with his likeness. Snake Plissken himself, Kurt Russell. Once upon a time movies like Escape from New York and Big Trouble in Little China came and went with no toys or collectibles, mainly thanks to a clash between R ratings and the unwillingness of toy companies to release toys for such films. But even those classics now provide fans of Kurt Russell with a desktop warrior of many of his films to guide their day. Today we’re running down a brief history of Kurt Russell in action figures and collectible toys.
The first image we had of Russell in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2, were images of collectible figures for his character Ego. You can get his Marvel Legends version of the figure here:
If Dorbz are your thing you can also find him in that format here, and as a Funko Pop! figure here. There is also a MiniMates version, but no Hot Toys or Sideshow versions of Ego available–yet.
Although we’ve found no Bone Tomahawk or Tombstone figures for Russell, his Western The Hateful Eight resulted in a 1:6 scale figure of Russell’s John Ruth, available here, an eight-inch version here, and a Funko Pop! here.
But how about the Kurt Russell classic characters?
