Popco Mario Action Figures

[TMNT_Guy]

I've noticed that no one seems to mention nor talk about these figures, yet Jazzware's Sonic figures seem to pop up every where. Not that I hate Sonic, I'm a huge fan, but the figures aren't scaled right and they keep picking the lame characters instead of the good ones (How does Silver get a figure before Knuckles, Eggman/Robotnik and Amy?)

Anyway, they are pretty neat. The figures look amazing for $9 toys. Sculpting and paint is just awesome. They look game accurate, somthing that hasn't been done since the Mario Kart 64 figures or the Luigi's Mansion figure. Just look at 'em:





Yoshi's eyes are a good example of the detail in these figures It's hard to see in the photo, but Yoshi has four colors in his eyes: a light blue, a dark blue, black, and finally white. They could have just used black and white and hardly anyone would notice.

Articulation is poor. The Mario figure, for example, has two points of articulation: His two arms can be moved up and down. Later figures. such as Donkey Kong and Yoshi, have more articulation the most being 5: Head, arms and legs. Also, no accesories. It would have been cool to give Mario a hammer or Donkey Kong a barrel or bannana, maybe even fireballs for Luigi. Not sure about the others though

They aren't made of plastic. Instead it's like a hard rubber, I'm not sure what it is, but Amazon clams it's vinyl. It dosen't feel cheap and it has a neat texture feel to it.

I may be a little biased with these figures as I've always wanted to rescue Princess Peach from Bowser in action figure form. But I think they are awesome and any Mario fan would be proud to have one. Say, speaking of Peach and Bowser, what future characters can we expect to see?




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Let see what we go here:

A Mario repaint? Aww...I was hoping we wouldn't see 64 varriations of the same character with a new coat of paint...at least they added that fireball...that probably won't come off.

Neat! A Hammer Bro! Though that just means I have to buy to so they can be the Hammer Brothers...my wallet hurts just thinking about it.

A Goomba and Paragoomba two-pack? That cool, two figures for Mario to fight at the price of one.

A Wario action figure? Sweet, now all we need is Captain Syrup and Wario could have his own adventures.

A PRINCESS PEACH FIGURE!?! YES! YES!! Now my Toad has someone to rule him. Peach hasn't had any figures as far as I know besides the Burger King one a few years back.

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I'm not sure how true this is, but BigBadToyStore.com claims these are the upcomming figures:

1x Yoshi (Color Variant) *Darn this means we could have a rainbow of the same character in different paint*
1x Koopa Troopa & Koopa Paratroopa two-pack *Good*
1x Shy Guy *Ok*
1x Diddy Kong *Great, but now we need King K. Rool, Cranky Kong and a Kremling*
1x King Bowser *Do I need to menton how awesom this is? This may just be the first good Bowser figure made.*

I'm hoping for more major character in future releases like E. Gadd, Daisy, Toadette, etc.

Just 'cause I can, heres some other Mario figures that Popco is making.

Giant Mario Figures

They are exactly like the Giant Turles. Nothing much to say since they are just giant versions of the other figures. I've only seen Mario, Yoshi, Luigi and Donkey Kong so far.





MIni-Statues

Small, not very detailed statues that seem to be littered everywhere I go. As you can tell, I don't care for them.



So what do you think of Popco's Mario line?