TTL Toys City CIA Quick Reaction Force PREVIEW

Yet another CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) operative and this one's from the Quick Reaction Force. Dressed in all black for covert ops (black ops). Last year we saw quite a bit of 1/6 scale PMCs from various 1:6 manufacturers and this year, we've seen quite a few CIA operatives being offered by Soldier Story, Very Hot Toys, ACE and now TTL.

This one by TTL comes with quite a bit of stuff, good for bashing or used as is.

Set includes: MICH2000 Helmet with NVG Mount, TTL 1.0 Nude Body with Head Sculpt, ArcTeryx Jacket, SWAT Waist Bag, 511 Low Caliga Body Armor (Black), Balaclava (Black), Goggles, Sunglasses, Knee Pads (Black), Elbow Pads (Black), Radio with Radio Pouch (Black), Shotgun Shells Pouch (holds 5), Shotgun Shells, "O' Gloves (Black), MP7 Drop Leg Holster, Hydration Bag Cover (Black), Hydration Bag and Tube, Multipurpose Pouch, Black Tactical Pants, Leather-Made Lace Up Tactical Boots (Black), Flashlight, TAC-M-7 MOLLE model-A x1(TAC_M7 Vest), TAC-M-7 MOLLE MAGAZINE POUCH x3, TAC-M-7 MOLLE Triple PISTOL MAGAZINE POUCHES x1, Large General Purpose Pouch x1, M4 Double Magazine Pouch x1, MP7 Sub-Machine Gun, HK417 Rifle, MP7 Suppressor x1, HK417 Magazine x3, MP7 40 rounds magazine x3, MP7 20 rounds magazine x1, Multi Tools with pouch, Knife, Smoke Grenade x2, Pistol + Pistol Mag x1










The 1/6 head sculpt is supposed to look like Zachary Quinto who plays Sylar in the "Heroes" TV series and Spock in the recent "Star Trek" movie but it somehow has an anime/manga-like feel to it, like what Medicom does with their head sculpts.






Comes with drop-down holster for the Heckler & Koch MP7.


The MP7 essentially operates like a scaled-down assault rifle, with the same action as HK's G36. It fires a specially designed, armor-piercing round with a muzzle velocity nearly as high as that of the 5.56x45mm NATO cartridge used by many modern rifles.

Highly sought after scoped HK417 Assault Rifle


ETA March 2010. Place your pre-order HERE (while stocks last)

Hot Toys T-800 Sneak Peek

Today being boxing day, here's a sneak peek at Hot Toys next Movie Masterpiece Series 12-inch figure from the Terminator line - Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator Model T-800 from "Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)", armed with his sawed-off Winchester 1887 shotgun hidden inside a box full of roses as he walks through the mall looking for a young John Connor. This became known as the iconic "Rosebox Shotgun" with a sawed off barrel and stock and the trigger guard cut out.

The head sculpt looks amazing! Hot Toys had already released an Arnold Schwarzenegger head sculpt when they released the Hot Toys MMS72 (Movie Masterpiece Series) 1/6 scale 12-inch collector's edition Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer with Arnold Schwarzenegger's likeness (see the full review HERE).

What everyone is really excited about is the extra forearm with skin and outer flesh cut off, exposing the T-800's cybernetic arm and hand. This was the scene where the T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) made large cuts in its arm and removed the skin to reveal his bloody endoskeletal metal arm and hand to Doctor Miles Bennett Dyson, the original inventor (and cybernetics scientist) of the neural-net processor which would lead to the development of Skynet.

I'd already done a full review of another 1/6 scale 12-inch Terminator T-800 figure released by Popsalute HERE but it looks like Hot Toys' version is miles better Ha! Ha!


UPDATE May 29, 2010: Full review and pictures of the Hot Toys MMS117 "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" 1/6th scale T800 collectible figure in-hand HERE

Merry Christmas to one and all :)

Ho! Ho! Ho! Happy Holidays to friends, fellow bloggers and visitors.

Here's Big Bada$$ Santa, Sandy Claws (see previous post) and "Home for the Holidays" Soldier

Private 1st Class "JOE", US Army 2nd Infantry Division going home for the holidays, with presents and bearing gifts for those on the "NICE" list



Big Bada$$ Santa, much more heavily armed than before. This getup is for taking care of those on the "naughty" list. Santa says, "Eat lead, you dirty rotten scoundrels MWAHAHAHA!!"

It's none other than 1/6 Sean Connery hiding under the hat and shades

Have a Merry Christmas, REALLY, I insist! And I won't take "NO!" for an answer ;]

T'was the night before Christmas

Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)", a stop motion fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and produced/co-written by Tim Burton, tells the story of Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king from "Halloween Town" who opens a portal to "Christmas Town".

Jack decides to kidnap Santa and give people his version of "Christmas" but things don't go well and Jack realizes his mistake and goes about to set things right in the end.

Walt Disney Pictures decided to release the film under their Touchstone Pictures banner because they thought Nightmare would be "too dark and scary for kids". "The Nightmare Before Christmas" has been viewed with critical and financial success. With successful home video sales, Nightmare achieved the ranks of a cult film.

And here's Jun Planning 16-inch Jack Skellington as "Sandy Claws", released during the Christmas period in 1998 with a limited edition of 1224 pieces, the numbers stand for 12.24 (December 24, night before christmas)

This film was a classic for me and I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, with its great cast of characters, the wonderful sets and songs that went with it. The filmmakers constructed 227 puppets to represent the characters in the movie, with Jack Skellington having "around four hundred heads", allowing the expression of every possible emotion.

The sack of presents with the limited edition print of 1224 pieces

Vampire teddy, one of the presents Jack thought the children would like


"Up, up and away!"

Here are some citizens of Halloween Town plus Santa with his list of who's been naughty and nice. The characters include (back row) Oogie Boogie, Santa, Sally, Jack Skellington, The Mayor, Behemoth, (front row) Shock, Lock and Barrel, Jack's pet Zero, Dr Finkelstein and vampire teddy. These were part of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" PVC Chess set.



And as in the "Twas the Night before Christmas" Poem (also called “A Visit from St Nicholas") written in 1822 by Clement Clarke Moore, "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!"

Here's wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas!

Star Wars SandTrooper Comparisons

Having seen the pictures taken of Sideshow Collectibles 1/6 scale 12-inch Imperial SandTrooper (see previous post), how does it compare with their 1/6 Imperial Stormtrooper? Let's see.

For one, the armor colors are different - the Sideshow Imperial Stormtrooper's armor is white whilst the Sandtrooper's armor is not white anymore but an off-white color with dirt and scratch marks.

The helmet is similar in design, as is the chest armor. Whilst the Stormtroopers have no rank markings, the Sandtroopers wear colored Shoulder Pauldrons on their right shoulders and these represent their rank in the Squad. The abdominal armor is clearly different between the two troopers. The Sandtroopers also carry the additional SD-48 backpack and do not have the usual thermal detonator worn by Stormtroopers.

The distinctive 'diamond' shaped left knee plate of the Imperial Sandtrooper is another one of the visual differences in armor between the Imperial Sandtrooper and Stormtrooper

And here's a look at all the Star Wars 1/6 Sandtroopers released thus far. From left to right: Medicom Sandtrooper Squad Leader, Marmit Sandtrooper Sergeant, Sideshow Imperial Sandtrooper and Marmit Star Wars Sandtrooper

Medicom Star Wars Sandtrooper Squad Leader (more pictures HERE)

Very nice backpack details

Marmit Star Wars Sandtrooper (Full review HERE)

Marmit 1/6 Sandtrooper backpack

Marmit Star Wars Sandtrooper Sergeant (much assembly required - check out the link HERE)

The Marmit Sandtrooper Sergeant backpack was slightly different from that of the Marmit Sandtrooper and I liked that as it showed some individuality between the troopers. It also showed that Marmit did not just dish out the same thing twice but bothered to tweak things a little and made it interesting. Let's hope Sidehsow Collectibles can do the same with their next two releases of the Imperial Sandtroopers (i.e. the Orange Pauldron Squad Leader and Black Pauldron Corporal)

Last but not least, the latest released 1/6 scale 12-inch Imperial Sandtrooper by Sideshow as reviewed in the two previous posts.

There is a lack of weathering on Sideshow's Sandtrooper backpack. A bit odd that the entire sandtrooper armor is so heavily weathered (some have commented that it doesn't look like dirt but more like rust on the armor) and yet the backpack is so clean.

The Marmit Star Wars Sandtroopers (released in the year 2000) were nice and definitely much better than the obese 1/6 Hasbro (HasBeen) sandtroopers that were released. The Marmit sandtroopers were at least of the right scale (in size and height) with all the other 1/6 Star Wars figures being put out, as compared with the Medicom version that was released in 2008 which was too skinny and anorexic for my liking (and way pricier too!)

IMHO the best 1/6 scale Star Wars armored troopers released thus far have to be those produced and released by Sideshow Collectibles. Their prices are so much better too, as compared to their overpriced 12-inch G.I. Joe figures (including the Cobra troopers) and Medicom's ridiculously higher priced but smaller figures. Let's hope Sideshow continues dishing them out.

To get a full review of the Sideshow 1/6 scale 12-inch Imperial Stormtrooper, check out this link.

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