I get what you're saying, and some of the earlier ones weren't that impressive, but I have the Sauron one and he is COVERED in sculpted detail. He's just done in a "super-deformed" style.

I think it's that uniformity that makes them appealing. And the sheer number of licensed properties that they have. How many other collectible lines can offer you two Hulks (Hogan and Incredible), Batman, Magneto, Sauron, Darth Vader, Jake the Dog, Scarface, a Power Ranger, Tyrion Lannister, an NFL player, Peter…

A friend of mine said, "if they make one for each of Bowser Jr.'s Koopaling alt costumes, I'm screwed."

In a few months, I will finally have a little plastic King Dedede on my desk. This makes the entire amiibo experiment worth it.

In IM3, the triangle was visible inside the circle reactor. Best of both worlds?

Yeah, Gardevoir's nice, but have you seen Goodra? DAT BOOTY.

My aunt did something similar to my mom. My mother was (and still is) a huge Beatles fan, and she had all kinds of books, stickers, cards, and the albums back in the day. Then John Lennon made his "we're bigger than God" comment which everyone took the wrong way, including my very religious aunt. She forced my mom to…

Heh. Just imagine:

The one cool thing about darker colors is that the fireballs are brighter and seem more "powerful." Though I don't think they're going for a GRIMDARK Street Fighter story; Ryu's always kinda had a stick up his ass when it comes to things, so if you expected him to crack a joke or something, that's not his style.

I'm hoping they do repaints/remolds later on. They can discontinue the current Wii Trainer and release one in her green alt color. Or the male trainer. When you set up the amiibo in the game you get to pick which alternate costume it uses in-game, so a male Trainer can still play as the female and vice-versa.

I know that feel, bro.

On a related note, certain S.H. Figuarts are going for two to three times their retail price. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Pink Ranger is one of them. I mentioned that to a friend of mine, who immediately went to Barnes & Noble and bought out their stock of her.

Because Seahawks fans.

Because wanting to gun down anyone who someone tells you wants to threaten your way of life is manly and patriotic and Good, but wanting to jerk it to those weird Japanime cartoons is only for nerds who can't get a real woman.

Just wait a year. Buy a $32 figure and LEGO will throw in a free spaceship.

The only two "figurines used to play video games" I own are the Wii Trainer and Disney Infinity Rapunzel.

I love it when nerds (I'm including myself) use the term "slap in the face," a demeaning, disrespectful act, to describe how they feel when they don't get exactly the shiny new toy they wanted.

Yup. "Superior" was...spectacular. Ha.

Delicious fanboy tears.

I'm glad all the other terrible things going on in the gaming community are fixed, so that supporting a PS4/PC exclusive game can legitimately be called "the worst thing about the gaming community."