Everyone has ALL of the cloth-costume Star Trek Retro figures from DST and EMCE Toys, right? And you’re all Mego collectors from back in the day, right? So you’ve all seen how we’ve managed to preserve the essence of the old 8-inch toys both by remaking characters you have AND introducing new ones, right? Okay, so what’s the next logical step? You got it – Star Trek: The Next Generation. This year is the 25th anniversary of the series that revitalized the Trek franchise, and who better to kick off the line than Captain Jean-Luc Picard and a fearsome Borg drone? No one, that’s who. Now, go out and order them. You know you want to. Resistance is futile. Beam them into your collections this summer!

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“OK, so, she’s a dog.” While not Dana Barret’s finest moment, we all fondly remember the time when the two dogs perched on either side of the steps waiting for the arrival of Gozer. Now, Diamond Select Toys is giving you the chance to recreate that moment in your home with the Ghostbusters “Terror Dog” light-up statue. Here are some in-progress pictures, including the finished Bill Mancuso sculpt, and the great job painter Jason Wires did of capturing the look of the beast. As of this writing, the factory is getting the electronics finalized, but since I was blogging anyway, I thought I’d share a shot of the light-up feature taken for review purposes. Enjoy!

By now you’ve all seen (and bought?) the Slimer light-up statue and you’ve all seen (and pre-ordered?) the Stay Puft light-up statue.  Well, here is the third piece in the line, the Statue of Liberty.

Straight from the finale of Ghostbusters II, this statue will be the same general height as the other pieces in the line and, of course, she’ll be translucent resin so she’ll light up on your desk or shelf.  An edition size has not been determined at this time, but expect this to be highly collectible.  After all, an icon like the Statue of Liberty is going to appeal to patriotic fans all over, regardless of their feelings toward Ghostbusters.

Continuing our line of Star Wars bust banks, allow me to present to you - Commander Cody.  Long before he took up the habit of blasting Jedi, Commander Cody was a trusted ally of Obi-Wan Kenobi.  So the question now is - do you trust him to hold your money?  Of course you do, it’s an inanimate object.  Really people, you have got to stop letting me influence you into thinking these things have feelings.  Although, is it just me or does Cody’s visor follow you when you move?  Hmm…Anyway, this piece was digitally sculpted by Oluf Hartvigson and painted by Star Wars afficiando Ed Wires.  While all of my Clone variants have unique sculpts, Cody is by far the most detailed with his brand new head and shoulder pads.

In addition to the Minimates (see other/future blogs) we are doing a 7″ Jak figure with an in-scale Daxter accessory.  Fans of any incarnation of the video game are sure to want this infamous duo on their shelves.

If you aren’t chuckling right now, it means someone changed my subject line.  Anyway…at this point you have all seen the awesomeness that is the Ghostbusters Slimer Light-up Statue.  Well, I’m here to let you know that he was just the first of many such statues.  The logical follow-up - Mr. Stay Puft.  Using Bill Mancuso’s sculpt from the rotocast bank, we have created 2 versions of statue.  The mass release will be the normal white figure with the happy face.  The exclusive (or future mass release) will be styled after our “exploding” style (translucent red) with the angry face.  Please note that the photos are just early prototypes, so the lighting effects are not necessarily final.

Well, technically, you never see “him” until the very end of the film.  All you see is the wrappings he wears when he interacts with those he wants to be aware of his presence.  I’m speaking, of course, of the Invisible Man.  It took me so long to tell you all about Series 2 of Universal Monsters that I felt it only right to make it up to you by giving you a very early glimpse of series 3 (due Halloween 2012).  The Invisible Man will be available in 2 versions, a mass market edition with the iconic bandaged look; and a Universal Select version with a deluxe base and a new head sculpt from one of my favorite scenes in film - when he removes his goggles and fake nose, revealing emptiness beneath the bandages.  This figure was sculpted by Gabriel Marquez.  Stay tuned for updates regarding paint and additional series 3 characters.

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Hello again Monster Lovers!  It’s been nearly a year since I gave you the news about the glorious plans for the classic film monsters of yesteryear.  Today I’m going to let you see what is in store for Year 2.  Many of you have been lucky enough to see the prototypes on display at some of the shows late last year, but for those who didn’t, here you go.  This year’s stars are Dracula, Frankenstein, and Bride of Frankenstein.

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Back in 2001, a very young DST was releasing the Dark Alliance action figure series.  The first assortment included the ever-popular Lady Death.  Now, here we are in modern times and a seasoned DST is once again pleased to announce that we are working with Brian Pulido. Fans have been asking for a year if LD would ever be added to the Femme Fatales line, so here I am saying “Yes!”. Steve Kiwus did an exceptional job of merging 3 different concept images into one 9″ PVC beauty.  Stay tuned to see her in color…

At the time of this writing, all details about what I’m doing are super secret, but if everything goes well we will be doing something with a reduced sized version of the Slimer sculpt used for the roto figure bank.  This is really just a tribute to the amazing work some of the factories can do overseas.  Slimer was not produced by digital scan data, so the reduction was not simply changing the output size, it took a lot of effort and they did a great job.