By Jason T. Smith Creative Editor | Pastrami Nation Lone Coconut’s Plunderstrong line is amazing, and so is the Tinker Skiff! Peg leg? Check.Cannon Arm? Check. I absolutely love the Plunderlings Plunderstrongs! Hefty figures, excellent articulation, tons of accessories. Check out the Plunderlings on social media!
By Jason T. Smith and Nolan P. Smith Founders | Pastrami Nation It was a great year for action figures in 2025- and we have selected our Top 5 of the year, in no particular order! S.H. Figuarts Taro Sakamoto – Bandai Collectibles/ Tamashii Nations Sakamoto Days was a breakout hit in 2025, as Netflix brought the anime stateside. Bandai […]
By Jason T. Smith Creative Editor, Pastrami Nation Just when you thought WWE 2K24 had set the bar with its jaw-dropping realism, fluid gameplay, and the most detailed Create-A-Wrestler mode we’ve ever seen—2K ups the ante again. Enter WWE 2K25, a game that takes everything fans loved about 2K24 and dials it up to eleven. Then throws it through a table […]
By Jason T. Smith Creative Editor Check out my picks for the Top 10 action figures of 2024! It was a great year for collectors, I can’t wait to see what 2025 brings!
By Jason T. Smith Creative Editor 2021 Mad Cave Studios Talent Search winner, Damien Becton, will be launching his sci-fi/fantaepic comic THE FEW OF FARBETWEEN on Kickstarter, August 20th. Set on the fantastical worldof Farbetween that’s been invaded by a tyrannical AI robot horde where we meet diverse animalcharacters of the Animalia Nation, magic-users of the Golden Queendom, and tech-based […]
By Jason T. Smith Celebrate 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons with Super7! Assemble your party and make your way to our D&D pop up event where you may find fortune and glory with our exclusive D&D releases! Find out all the details below! Don’t forget to sign up for texts and follow us on Instagram @Super7 to stay up-to-date […]
By Jason T. Smith Creative Editor Hey everybody, TLS Toys released some amazing Rainbow Brite products, check it out!
By Jason T. SmithCreative Editor Back in the glorious 90s, when my world revolved around pixelated adventures and Super Nintendo ruled supreme, there was one game that reigned supreme in the hearts of many: Battletoads. Picture this – a sidescrolling frenzy where you, as a trio of radical toads, battled through a whirlwind of enemies to face off against the […]
By Jason T. SmithCreative Editor Creative Beast has consistently delivered top-tier dinosaur action figures for years. Starting with their Raptor series and continuing with the beloved Ceratopsian series, they’ve now wowed us again with their super awesome Tyrannosaur series. The man behind this remarkable lineup, David Silva, has maintained an unwavering commitment to realistic detail, remarkable articulation, and some of […]
By Jason T. SmithCreative Editor Being a kid in the 1980s was pretty awesome. We had the best cartoons and the toys to go along with them, and for me, along with most little boys my age, Transformers was at the top of the list. Those cool-looking robots that could transform into cars and such were all I could think […]
By Jason T. Smith Creative Editor Bandai is renowned for its exceptional craftsmanship in producing premium quality figures across a wide range of licensed properties. The S.H.Figuarts line, in particular, stands as a pinnacle in the world of super articulated and intricately detailed action figures. It’s akin to what the Masterpiece series is to Transformers collectors. As a fortunate owner […]
By Jason T. SmithCreative Editor I’m no stranger to the Loyal Subjects BST AXN line of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures, having collected most of them since they hit store shelves. Hell, I troved my three local Targets daily and hunted down nearly all the Turtles with those snazzy jackets, including the Letterman and windbreaker variants, with nearly being that […]
By Jason T. Smith Creative Editor Premium DNA has given us some fantastic figures of our more obscure childhood favorites these past few years by adding their WOW factor to licenses like Madballs and Barnyard Commandos. Well, they’ve done it again, and if you were as much into fighting games in the ’90s as I was, then you’re going to […]
By Jason T. Smith Creative Editor I’ve been a wrestling fan since the early 90s when my brothers and I watched WWF religiously on weekends with our dad, so it’s no surprise we were into wrestling figures. Since WWF was the majority of what we watched, we had many of those WWF figures from Hasbro at the time, with different […]
By Jason T. SmithCreative Editor Having been fortunate enough to attend SDCC 2023 this summer, I made a list of must-have exclusives from the con. Number one on my list was the totally awesome BST AXN Super Shredder action figure being offered at The Loyal Subjects booth. This was one of those rare times when I’d be truly upset if […]
By Jason T. Smith Creative Editor As a kid in the 80s, my first introduction to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe was the wildly popular cartoon series. I didn’t even know TMNT was based on a comic book until a few years later, but that aside, my brothers and I watched the show religiously, rarely missing an episode. One […]
By Jason T. SmithCreative Editor Everyone on the planet should have seen, or at least heard of, that slightly popular show on Netflix by now. Yes, I’m talking about Stranger Things! The highly successful series that has us in front of our televisions with each new season has a wide array of merchandise from toys to Surfer Boy Pizza shirts, […]
By Jason T. SmithCreative Editor We’ve all seen John Wick: Chapter 4 by now, excellent film, but who remembers the trailer about a gold miner destroying Nazis? I sure the hell do! That movie is Sisu, and if you are an action flick buff or just a movie lover, then your not going to want to miss this. If badass […]
By Jason T. Smith Creative Editor I recently had the pleasure of reviewing some of the new Barnyard Commandos figures courtesy of the wonderful folks at Premium DNA. The experience brought me right back to my childhood days, and I have since taken a closer look at one of my all-time favorite Commandos, Sergeant Wooly Pull Over. Sergeant Wooly Pull […]
By Jason T. SmithCreative Editor The Anime Heroes Tony Tony Chopper figure from Bandai is a cute addition to any One Piece collection. short in stature in his small reindeer form, the figure captures the essence of the beloved character from the anime. Tony Tony Chopper is a unique and beloved character in One Piece, known for his ability to […]
By Jason T. SmithCreative Editor If you were a kid in the 1980s, then you had to have had, or at least heard of, Madballs. They were those gruesomely awesome balls about the size of a baseball but designed to look like some type of monster. A totally cool concept that I, along with my brothers, owned some of but […]
By Jason T. Smith Creative Editor The ’80s and ’90s were a great time to be a toy collector. We had it all back then. Transformers, Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joe, you name it, we had it. Well, “we,” being most kids who weren’t as tight on money as me. But some really excellent, more in my price range kind of […]
By Jason T. SmithCreative Editor Not too long ago, I had the chance to review the awesome Action Force Sgt. Slaughter figure from Valaverse, and it did not disappoint. Now I’m back checking out another great figure from their Action Force line, one of their original characters, Duster. Duster, aka Timothy F. Kennedy, is a special forces weapons sergeant loaded […]
By Jason T. Smith Creative Editor While I’ve seen pictures of those fantastic little mecha animals that transform into boxes, hence their name being Beastbox, from toy geniuses 52Toys, I’ve never actually owned one until now. I recently had the opportunity to review the mechanical horse BB-43, known as Beastbox Lava. Lava comes in a beautifully designed window box that […]
By Jason T. Smith Creative Editor It was September in the early ’90s, and I was at Target with my Mom and brother one night; as we went past the toy aisle, there was a fully stocked Ninja Turtle section. I remember seeing a new figure on the top peg hook. It was some jailbird mutant cat named Scratch, and […]
By Jason T. Smith Creative Editor When I was a kid, Sgt Slaughter had a massive impact on my childhood. He was a WWF superstar, but I got introduced to this badass character on the animated G.I.Joe television series in the 80s. That tough-as-nails drill sergeant known for beating Cobra with his bare hands was one of my favorites. I […]
By Jason T. SmithCreative Editor LEGO is a big part of my life. I enjoy getting in the zone in full-blown LEGO mode and ripping open a box for a new set, eager to start building. It clears my head while making it think, and the finished build is so rewarding. I love the challenge you get with some of […]
By Jason T SmithCreative Editor By now, everyone knows what Thundercats Ultimates by Super7 are, and they should know that they just keep getting better. The last time I reviewed the Snowman of Hook Mountain from Wave 4 and I thought it couldn’t get any better. Well, I was wrong. I just opened up another figure from that same wave, […]
By Jason T Smith Creative Editor Top-of-the-line premium Thundercats figures are nothing new to toy giant Super7 with their wildly popular Thundercats Ultimates line, and the Snowman of Hook Mountain does not disappoint. Snowman is the Abominable Snowman that eventually becomes an ally to Lion-O in the 1980’s television series, which I watched religiously. I was stoked when this guy […]