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April 3, 2026 |
Star Wars Review: QT-KT (Droid Factory, Carded)
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 Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: QT-KT (Droid Factory, Carded) . Hasbro had one a few years ago with a similar layout, but different shade of pink and different gimmicks. This one has a build-a-droid part, and costs more. Which comes out victorious?
Read the whole review.
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Review: Mattel Hot Wheels Eggshelleracer
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 Daily figure reviews return until I am too tired to want to keep doing it! Our exciting Figure of the Day continues and my hopes is it will encourage you to kick in $1 a month to the Patreon which funds hosting for 16bit.com and Galactic Hunter! Help me keep the servers on and the toy pictures a-rollin'.
An egg to hunt! Mattel Hot Wheels Eggshelleracer has been showing up around town lately, I saw a few last night at a Dollar Tree. Thematically, it's the perfect car for this weekend. It has a spoon. The chassis is egg-themed, with wheels that look like slices of hard-boiled eggs. There are even little salt and pepper shakers on the back. It's too weird, I couldn't say no to it - there are even expiration date-like printings on the sides of the metal shell. Be sure to look for this one when you're out this week. Read on, and come back Monday for more!
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Svengoolie April Schedule
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 Via Svengoolie: APRIL SVENGOOLIE NEWS. This looks like a pretty good month, with An American Werewolf in London tomorrow followed by The Car, Parents, and How to Make a Monster (again.) Hey, that's not bad.
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Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 This Week
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 This week's batch of titles on the eShop: MARVEL MAXIMUM COLLECTION, EGGCONSOLE C-SO! MSX, plus dozens more.
Over at the Switch 2 eShop: Super Meat Boy 3D, and a few more.
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Ad: Pre-Order New Garfield and He-Man at Entertainment Earth
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Ad: Garfield Black and White Daily Comic Strip Action Figure - Entertainment Earth Exclusive is up for pre-order and due soon. With unique inking deco, you can find a lot of good reasons to pick one of these up!
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Yes April, Less Fools
April 2, 2026 |
Review: Playmobil "Fi?ures" 70025 Figures Mechanic
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 Daily figure reviews return until I am too tired to want to keep doing it! Our exciting Figure of the Day continues and my hopes is it will encourage you to kick in $1 a month to the Patreon which funds hosting for 16bit.com and Galactic Hunter! My goal? $100 a month, which means I don't even get $3 per day to host this thing and pay to fix broken hardware. So how about a buck, Mac?
Not recent! Playmobil "Fi?ures" 70025 Figures Mechanic has been around for ages, working quietly in the background. His jeans are painted with stitches, his shoes are red for some reason, and he's got a swell jacket. His tools are pretty good, too. If you need a guy to wrench on something in a garage, go get one of these if you can find it. Read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!
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Hasbro Cyberattacked
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 Via Reuters: Hasbro investigates cybersecurity incident, takes some systems offline. A number of systems were taken offline, and it is not obvious yet what was taken, or who took it, or why.
As we're a toy site, I'm sure you're out there going "I bet it was the 2027 The Retro Collection offerings!" I'm wondering if it was to get into whatever they're doing for Magic: The Gathering. It hasn't seemingly impacted outward-facing operations, as a number of pre-orders continued to deploy without a visible hitch.
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Ad: Pre-Order New Hasbro G.I. Joe and Hulk Hands at Entertainment Earth
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Ad: Take Home new G.I. Joe: Classified Series pre-orders at Entertainment Earth! Techno-Vipers, Wild Bill, Grunt, and more are all up right now.
Also don't miss the X-Men '97 Jean Grey (Wasteland) Funko Pop! Vinyl Figure #1597 - Entertainment Earth Exclusive.
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Screaming Off Into the Desert at Sunset
April 1, 2026 |
Star Wars Review: Imperial Remnant AT-RT Driver (The Vintage Collection)
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 Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Imperial Remnant AT-RT Driver (The Vintage Collection). This one is interesting - the arms, legs, and lower torso are basically just the Snowtrooper from last year. The helmet and chest look a lot like the Shoretrooper or any of a number of Rogue One-era Imperials. The walker itself is impressive, yet expensive. The gaps of the legs were filled with panels, with painted buttons and screens on the console. There's never been an AT-RT with more articulation, plus it has really amazing snowy gunk paint on the legs. And on the other hand, it's $68. Read the whole review.
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Review: Kenner Batman: The Animated Series Bane Action Figure
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 Something new every day-- unless it's old! Our exciting Figure of the Day continues for you lucky people! Is there anything we won't cover in this column? Probably not!
Old! The Kenner Batman: The Animated Series Bane Action Figure roamed the plains of North America in the 1990s, mostly congregating in herds in Kay-Bee Toy Store locations in shopping malls. They lifted their arms and had a switch that could activate an attack with their plastic metal girders. Today, you rarely see them, but they're still around.
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RIP James Tolkan
March 30, 2026 |
Star Wars Q&A Updated at Galactic Hunter
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 Galactic Hunter has posted Q&A: Star Wars Price Vehicles and Will It End? (No). It's new! Be sure to click through and read up on the latest!
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Review: McDonald's Changeables Torrus
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 Daily figure reviews return until I am too tired to want to keep doing it! Our exciting Figure of the Day continues and my hopes is it will encourage you to kick in $1 a month to the Patreon which funds hosting for 16bit.com and Galactic Hunter! Help me keep the servers on and the toy pictures a-rollin'.
From this year! McDonald's Changeables Torrus is sadly no longer available with lunch, and it's a box with a dinosaur in it. Crazy. It's an oddball. Read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!
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Marie Antoinette, Now in Playmobil
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 Via the Playmobil fans around the web but here they are on eBay: Playmobil 71592 Marie Antoinette. I don't quite know where she is (or isn't) being sold yet, but she's cheaper on eBay Canada than eBay America by a long shot. She seems inexpensive in the EU, so maybe pick one up if you're going overseas.
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Five Below Getting In to Vinyl
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 Via me on Bluesky: Five Below has records now? Heavy on soundtracks, with some Target and Walmart exclusives. I saw a Tron Legacy along with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, The Bob's Burgers Movie, Deadpool & Wolverine, and a few others. They seem to be $10, even the double-LP ones. I would assume whatever company is responsible for stocking big box stores' record sections are dumping old stock. I'll be keeping my eyes open while going out for a Zagnut.
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Ad: Star Wars at Entertainment Earth
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Ad: <Transformers Generations Selects Age of the Primes Leader Class G2 Universe Dinobots Swoop and Sludge are in stock now! Tons of new action figure releases are available today, while supplies last.
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Classic Review: Fresh Monkey Fiction Amazing Heroes Captain Action
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 Something new every day-- but this was posted 10 years ago today! Our exciting Figure of the Day continues for you lucky people! Is there anything we won't cover in this column? Probably not!
Posted 10 years ago! From 2016, Fresh Monkey Fiction Amazing Heroes Captain Action brought out a classic toy, in the format of another classic toy, at a perfectly reasonable price. Nice colors, decent articulation. And of course it's long gone, so hopefully you got one.
Do read on, and come back tomorrow for a new one!
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Support 16bit.com and Galactic Hunter via Patreon
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We're taking donations for server costs! Really. One of the rewards is Q&A a few days early - you can read next Monday's installment as soon as it's ready, which can be as early as 1:00 AM my time on Monday!
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If you've got a dollar a month to share, please Visit the Galactic Hunter Patreon and help cover our server costs. I'll still put in hours of work, writing, photography, and research - I just need some help making sure that the site costs me only time, and hopefully not money. Thanks for your support!
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The Delicate Subject of Flying Saucers
March 27, 2026 |
Star Wars Review: General Veers (AT-AT Driver, The Vintage Collection)
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 Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: General Veers (AT-AT Driver, The Vintage Collection). The Imperial Officer buck from a few years ago is retooled with one of the best original trilogy human likenesses we've ever had. The helmet is removable. There's no chin strap or micorphone. The armor is fused to the chest. But it looks amazing, so you probably want to upgrade your 2006 Veers or your 2010 generic AT-AT Driver.
Read the whole review.
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Review: Blokees Transformers Defender Version 05 Traitor to Tyranny Jetfire Vehicle
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 Daily figure reviews return until I am too tired to want to keep doing it! Our exciting Figure of the Day continues and my hopes is it will encourage you to kick in $1 a month to the Patreon which funds hosting for 16bit.com and Galactic Hunter! Help me keep the servers on and the toy pictures a-rollin'.
Ship happens! Blokees Transformers Defender Version 05 Traitor to Tyranny Jetfire Vehicle comes in cartoon colors, so as to not anger the anime overlords. It's pretty good for a tiny ship, with moving wings and fairly decent blocky construction. You might dig it, try to get one if you see the boxes around town. Read on, and come back Monday for more!
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Bat Boy Found in Kickstarter Update
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 Via the Kickstarter for The Cryptoids: The Legend Lives! Bat Boy Has Entered The Battle! Arguably a very "you had to be there" part of the 1990s was its interest in the supernatural via call-in radio and supermarket tabloids. You may know somebody - or be somebody - who listened to Art Bell, or read The Weekly World News, or saw The X-Files as a documentary. Bat Boy was a fixture in 1990s supermarket checklane newspapers, and also made many appearances in corners of the weird and fun part of the punk rock scene of that time. He even has a Wikipedia page, which mentions a musical which I did not know about. Well, now there's an action figure.
I'm not saying this is some required purchase or anything, but it's a remarkably odd bit of kitsch that I never expected to see as an action figure. Good on all parties involved for working something out.
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Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 This Week
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 This week's batch of titles on the eShop: Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection, Taito Milestones 4, plus dozens more.
Over at the Switch 2 eShop: Super Mario Bros. Wonder Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage, and an upsettingly large list of even more.
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Ad: Pre-Order New Star Wars and More at Entertainment Earth
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Ad: G.I. Joe Classified Series Legacy Collection Action Soldier 6-Inch Action Figure is new and in stock while supplies last. Also, pre-order the Star Wars: The Vintage Collection Orray & Geonosian Picador. The creature pack is due later this year.
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