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Patronize Me!
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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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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Tahoe's Inadequacies Not Exaggerated
March 26, 2026 |
Review: Playmobil "Fi?ures" Figures Mermaid
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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?
Blue! Playmobil "Fi?ures" Figures Mermaid has blue hair and a clam friend for some reason. The articulation is pretty good, with a bonus tail joint, and decent bubble deco in case the sea had no actual bubbles around. It's colorful, and was a blind bag pull from about five years ago. Read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!
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Mail Fuel Surcharge
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  Via CNBC: 'U.S. Postal Service seeks 8% fuel surcharge for package deliveries as Iran war raises oil prices. The USPS fleet was preparing to convert to electric vehicles. That didn't happen, so now USPS will punish America with an 8% surcharge on priority mail and parcel delivery offerings.
This might impact quite a bit. Some freight and raw materials, and many deliveries to the end user, could wind up eating into any "what if the tariffs go away?" savings real fast in the mail order spaces.
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Ad: Pre-Order New Marvel Legends Archangel at Entertainment Earth
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Ad: X-Men '97 Marvel Legends Series Archangel 6-Inch Action Figure is up now! Get your pre-order in today.
  
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RIP Starfleet Academy Already?
March 24, 2026 |
Review: Hasbro Transformers Studio Series 86 Galvatron
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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 Hasbro Transformers Studio Series 86 Galvatron came out last year, and is one of several versions of this mold as this character. Dirty purple, regular purple, reformatting purple, toy gray, and of course a Straxus retool, just to name a few, may already be yours. This might be the best one for people aiming for cartoon deco, though, so give it a look. Or be happy with what you h ave. Check this one out. Read on!
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Starfleet Academy Ending after Season 2
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  Via Variety: 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' to End With Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE). Presumably the show is only getting a season two because it had been shot while season one was airing. I'd like to see the show keep going - the characters were fun, the actors were fantastic, and the stories were all pretty great. I'd make a crack about Caleb looking 30ish and trying to find his mom who looked 40ish, but still, it was a good show and you should check it out. It's got a lot more good Tig Notaro moments than a Discovery season, and each episode was considerably longer than most Trek at about 60 minutes per (not including ads.)
Fan backlash before the show aired was, well, it's what franchise fans do when most things get a new entry. As someone who actually watched the whole thing, I am generally unable to find much to bemoan other than the very short length of the season, and I guess now the series too. I don't think any show is going to have a crack at building a fanbase with 1-3 seasons of 10 episodes each, and I hope the studios consider giving people a chance to make the show a regular part of their lives rather than a thing they can binge in a single weekend. Also Sam is great, we love Sam here.
With Starfleet Academy ending after season 2 and Strange New Worlds ending after a truncated season 5, there are no other shows known to be in development. It's possible Star Trek might go to movies or just go away again.
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Takara-Tomy Doing Transformers G2 Menasor Set?
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  Via Takara-Tomy: NEW LEGENDS
New product coming soon! Exciting.
While only a silhouette, it appears to be Generation 2 Menasor made out of the Legends molds. So far, Hasbro has made and released Shadowstrip - notably painted differently than Drag Strip ever was - as well as Dead End and Breakdown. Dead End's deco and decals appear slightly different in Takara-Tomy's teaser image. As Hasbro hasn't yet made a Wildrider or Motormaster, this set could be pretty compelling.
What will it cost? No idea. The "New Legends" glowing Lio Convoy was around $60, which is expensive for a single Voyager. On the other hand, the Dramatic Capture Series redeco toys have generally been in line with Hasbro's American toys, if not sometimes slightly cheaper. I'll be watching with great interest.
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