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Review : Unmasked Kylo Ren Star Wars Black Series (Hasbro) Wave/Series : Rogue One Wave 1 (Wave 7)* Released : September 2016 Price : £21.99 * An expanded pack containing more accessories was sold as an Exclusive to Star Wars Celebration / SDCC 2016* An unmasked Kylo Ren always felt like an inevitable addition to the Star Wars Black Series line. He was announced a couple of weeks before Star Wars Celebration 2016 in London as an exclusive figure, and would later go on to be available at SDCC 2016. Restricted to 3000 pieces at Star Wars Celebration, the figure sold out across all three days. The basic figure, #26, was released as part of the 1st wave of Rogue One figures in September 2016. This wave 7 release is part of the phase 3 packaging and arrives in a standard single figure box with the black gloss design, accentuated with the bright red spine and figure backdrop. The grey scale art work to the bottom right is a new illustration of a very solemn looking unmasked Kylo Ren rather than the more angry action orientated illustration that was applied to the Celebration exclusive. The reverse of the box carries the same illustration blown up and over which is printed the four language blurb. This text is identical to the one used on the original 2015 release of Kylo. The spine and name plates go with the text Kylo Ren, with the word unmasked in smaller font under the main text. The inner tray slides out at either the top or bottom. To the right of the head as you look is packed the unlit lightsaber hilt. To the left, as you look, of his hand is the lit version. There are no other accessories. Out of the box and the likeness to Adam Driver is passable but not particularly well painted. This is sadly consistent with most human Black Series figures now. The figure comes with his hood folded back, and then around this is the sculpted plastic cloak. From this piece comes the soft goods robe that covers the chest and then flows down into an outer skirt, These soft goods are nicely tailored, with a decent texture and do hang really well considering the scale. They are held in place with a plastic belt. The arms are sculpted plastic with a ribbed design, and the same ribbed design is repeated in a soft rubber inner skirt. Under this final skirt are a pair of sculpted legs with quite a lot of detail considering they are hidden. The figure ends with strapped gloss boots. Aside from the head paint wise there is nothing other than a touch of silver on the belt, but each black element of the costume does carry a different shade and texture. This is the revised version of Kylo and he differs from the original 2015 version with an updated outer cloak around the neck, a crisper belt, and shorter robes that stop at his feet and do not splay out across the ground. This revised Kylo figure is also a touch taller than the original wave 1 release. Unlike the SWCE exclusive, this version is not packed with the optional masked head. However, the same mechanism is employed as the SWCE so you can swap the head with the original Kylo, the SWCE Kylo or the Starkiller exclusive Kylo. Doing this final swap would render that particular confrontation more screen accurate. The original exclusive saw Kylo packed with a lit and unlit lightsaber. And both of these are carried forward into the single release. The lit version is a big improvement on the 2015 release being crisper in the sculpt and paint and that it fits neatly into either hand. This version is the same as the one sold with the Starkiller version of Kylo and not the original release where the beams were connected across the hilt. If you were hoping for the melted Darth Vader helmet or the 1st Order Banner, then these remain exclusive to the Celebration 2016 version of this figure. Articulation on the figure is identical to all the other Ren's and consistent with the POA the Black Series are now using. The head is a ball joint and either head can move up and down and rotate fully on the ball joint. The shoulders are ball jointed and can extend out and upwards, although you will find the right arm stops a little lower than the left due to being blocked by the over cloak. The elbows are single jointed but also rotate and there is a pinned wrist which allows the hands to rotate and bend. Hidden under the cloak is a waist joint which gives the torso some sideways movement to the legs, this will aid more action orientated poses. The hips are ball jointed like the shoulder and have a swivel just under them at the thigh. With double jointed knees and ankle rockers the legs are really maneuverable and are not even blocked completely by the inner plastic skirt thanks to some cleverly added splits in the skirt. It is quite easy for example to get Kylo to kneel with his cloak spreading out to either side. The unmasked Kylo is a little bit lazy in some areas for Hasbro, but then again had they revealed what Kylo looked like under the mask before last years Force Awakens release then fans would have been in uproar. This release also goes some way to balancing out that tricky situation of giving convention goers an exclusive, without frustrating the scores of other fans who can't go and are forced to pay excessive prices on the secondary market. Yes this vanilla release is missing a couple of accessories, but they aren't invaluable in the same way the Jabba The Hutt rail and hookah was. I gave the Celebration/SDCC Kylo Ren a score of a 4 out of 5. Considering this one comes in nearly £10 cheaper, albeit without some accessories, then there is no reason to amend this score. Buy from Amazon UK Buy from Amazon US Buy from Forbidden Planet

For a while now Game have been carrying a small line of collectables, most notably the Funko Pops and a few other figures that are game related - Assasins Creed for example. I was surprised however to walk into the larger Game store at the Metro Centre in Newcastle to find a full section full of Game of Thrones merchandise. First up was the McFarlane builder kits, with the Iron Throne Room for £49.99. To the side of this was a full section of the Dark Horse statues, each priced at £24.99 What is unclear is if this is purely something these larger Game stores are stocking, or if this signifies a more in-depth range of collectables coming to Game stores across the UK?

Disney Store UK now have the new larger scale (approx 11") Premium Elite Star Wars figures in stock. The first two are Rey and Kylo Ren, and these are presented in a similar brushed steel decorated box to the smaller 6" version. Each figure comes with soft goods as well as interchangeable hands and accessories. They sport 30 points of articulation and will set you back £29.99 each. Click through these links to order the 11" Elite figures online and to take a look at the online gallery of images at Disneystore.co.uk REY KYLO REN I was also surprised to find the new blue head Marvel Select Doctor Strange on the shelf for £19.99, this is the first time I have seen this in the UK. Alongside the Select was the new Marvel Legends Doctor Strange wave, and these were priced up at £22.99 each. In terms of reductions, the Elite Series 5-pack is already down to £75. There are also reductions on any remaining Force Awakens Elite figures, with the exception of the newly released Han Solo and Stormtrooper Captain. The reductions range from £10 for unmasked Kylo Ren to £12 for the First Order Stormtrooper, Rey/BB8 and masked Kylo Ren. These can also be ordered online.

Review : Scarif Stormtrooper Star Wars Black Series (Hasbro) Wave/Series : Rogue One, Walmart Exclusive Released : November 2016 Price : £29.99 (import price)* *we are awaiting confirmation that this figure will hit UK Asda stores Every Star Wars movie, with the exception of The Phantom Menace, has added it's own spin on the original Stormtrooper design. Empire gave us Snowtroopers while Jedi brought us the Scouts. Even the prequals slotted in a myriad of Clonetrooper armours and colour designs. And of course last year The Force Awakens re-imagined the original Stormtroopers for a new age with the First Order. Rogue One will follow suit with this tradition, but is in the difficult position of creating new Stormtrooper designs for the Empire while making them contemporary to the designs from 1977, 39 years ago. We've already taken a look at the first of these new designs, The Deathtroopers, who were part of the first wave of Rogue One Black Series in September. It's now time to look at the Shore Troopers, to give them their original name, or now confirmed as Scarif Troopers - named after the planet on which they serve. I first saw the costumes for these Troopers in person at Star Wars Celebration London 2016 and was blown away. Time to see if the figures live up to the costumes. We've already taken a peak at the standard release, the Scarif Squad Leader. And in this review we will take a look at the Walmart exclusive Scarif Stormtrooper - the Grunt of the Scarif troopers. The Scarif Trooper arrives in the standard Phase 3 black packaging with red trim. As he is exclusive he is not numbered, instead there is a barcode-esque design on the red spine where the number would be. His full title on the packaging is Scarif Stormtrooper. To the right of the box front and in the triangular cut out is a grey scale illustration of the Scarif trooper's helmet, and hats off to Hasbro as this is a variant image to the one used on the Squad Leader release - it would have been easy to use the same one. Round the back of the card and the blurb reverts to talking about these as Shoretroopers who patrol the beaches and bunkers of an Imperial facility on the planet Scarif. This is the same text used on the Squad Leader, albeit with an update to the header character name. As a back drop to this blurb the grey scale image is blown up and expanded to include the shoulder area and sits behind the text and then coming out beyond the writing to the right of the text. Out of the box and the Trooper is packed along side a standard E11 Stormtrooper blaster - we'll take a look at that a bit later. At Celebration it was the helmet design of these Troopers that had me sold, and the figure replicates the helmet really well. The design takes a lot of inspiration from the Jedi Scout Troopers more than anything with the wider visor and the central breathing panel. There are also aspects of Clone Trooper design like the visor. The whole helmet is also well sized so it looks like a human wearing a helmet. The sculpt on the helmet is crisp with clear definition between panels and with neat details built in like the recessed grid where the ears would be - to the intricate mechanism on the black snout where the breathing apparatus would be. Once down from the helmet you realise you have seen a lot of this figure before, and the reason for that is that after the helmet the body is the same as the Hovertank Pilot we looked at from Toys R Us. Of course it is also shared with the standard Squad Leader release, although with some additional tweaks in both paint and sculpted detail around the midriff. The armour on the body starts with a chest piece which is sculpted with straps over the shoulder connecting it to the back piece. Round the back is a box type backpack which is sculpted with two grid panels recessed into the back of the figure. Under the chest sits a stomach armour with various panels and grills set into it. The arms start with an elongated shoulder pad which sits over a bicep armour panel. The armour then skips the elbow and picks up with a forearm piece and then a panel set into the back of the gloves. All of this armour is painted in a cream colouring and this is not a bad match to the actual prop, but I think at this scale it may have been better to mute it slightly to go cloer to the shade used on the Hovertank Pilot. As this is the standard Scarif Trooper he lacks any real colouring compared to the Squad Leader. His only real splash of colour is the same red right bicep armour that we see on his Squad Leader, complete with the three yellow squares. He also sports the red cut out circle decal on the helmet. There is also some attempt at weathering with some brown splashes applied to the chest to look like mud splashes. These are better on the helmet that the Squad leader. But on the chest are very heavy handed and look like brown paint not mud splashes. Like the Squad Leader this mud would have looked effective had the armour underneath been weathered a little first. Had they gone with a brown wash over the armour, like they did with the Hovertank Pilot, then the whole figure would have looked sufficiently battle hardened. Instead it looks like the paint costs went on the coloured parts - and the weathering suffered, as did some other details like the shoulder clasps which are not painted in a brushed metal like they are on the Hovertank figure. Moving to the lower half of the figure and this starts with a belt piece that is of similar layout to most Stormtrooper belts with its various pockets, and cylindrical compartment round the back. From this belt hangs a small skirt that extends just over his backside. This skirt piece is cast in cream and does have some degree of flexibility to it. The other change to the Hovertank Pilot and Squad Leader is the addition of a larger brown leather look pouch that hangs at an angle to the right of the belt. This pouch is further detailed with a silver button on each of the four segments of the pouch. There is also some more weathering here on the left hand side of the skirt as you look at the figure. We are back to good mud splashing here and this small piece does look particularly impressive. Underneath this are the cloth trousers that we saw again on the Hovertank Pilot, and of course similar to how the Scout Trooper armour works. These trousers have a pattern build into the cast and are painted in a flat brown, but have sufficient rolls and creases around the knees in particular for the depth of the sculpt to come out in the light. The final piece of armour is the shin armour which is really intricate with panels and clasps - and frustratingly this part of the armour is washed out and weathered and looks amazing. Imagine if they had replicated that wash on the rest of the cream armour. As with the Hovertank Pilot, the articulation on the Scarif Trooper is brilliant. It starts with the new head option where the ball joint is also hinged. This allows the head to rotate, but also achieve a much wider range looking up and down. This neck moves so much that you can get the base of the helmet to touch the chest plate. The arms are ball jointed at the shoulder. Don't be fooled and think the shoulder armour would restrict the movement of the arms as each plate slides under the chest plate as you raise the arms. This means a full 90 degree angle can easily be achieved out from the body, and with the shoulder also rotating it means the arms have a full range of motion over the head too. The elbow is a single joint, but also rotates and this means two handed weapon poses are easily achieved and are supported by the movement range in the hands which are a pegged joint and can be bent up and down as well as rotated. A torso ball joint sits hidden under the chest plate and where this comes in is more action orientated poses allowing the torso to move, bend and rotate independently from the legs. The legs themselves start with the ball jointed hips, there is no waist articulation. These hips swing forward to a sitting position, but are blocked from a sideways movement by the skirt section. The thigh swivels are unnecessary in my opinion as they add little to any poses other than swinging the feet outward for stability - and this figure is stable enough compared to many. The knees are double jointed and disguised behind the knee pad of the leg armour. The knees can bend past 90 degrees so the Scarif Trooper can easily kneel on one or both knees - opening up a wealth of more action poses. The figure ends with rocker ankles, and as I said the figure stands perfectly well on his own with no obvious weakness at the ankles that would pose stability issues. The only accessory included is the new Rogue One style R11 blaster, a sculpt that has been modified from the original wave 3 Stormtrooper with the addition of a side scope of some description to the barrel. This gun has already made appearances in the Black Series with the Hovertank Pilot and with the Kmart (US) exclusive Jyn Erso. It is cast in a dark grey, and this is a harder plastic than has been used on other recent releases. It gets a decent amount of paint detail, with silver elements picked out from front to back. Like the Squad Leader, who admittedly has a cooler and bigger gun, the Stormtrooper's articulation and hand engineering allows for an easy two handed pose with the right hand gripping the gun and the left cupping the barrel tightly. To sum the figure up, this is a great design turned into a great figure with a really good sculpt. My issue lies in the decision to make this troop builder an exclusive. Why not give Walmart the Captain (who we haven't seen yet) or eve the Squad Leader. Fans would only want one of these - while many would like to squad/troop build the standard trooper. Granted this is Walmart, and assuming this also comes to the UK via Asda, getting hold of one wont be overly difficult - however, the frustration still stands that Hasbro seem to be giving too much this year in terms of exclusive content - what with this and the Original Trilogy C-3PO at Walgreens. Aside from this availability the figure carries the same issue as its Squad Leader variant - letting itself down with the paint application, and being one wash away from being awesome. Especially frustrating when you consider the wash we wanted across the figure IS applied to the leg armour but taken no further. I score the Scarif Squad Leader a 4 out of 5.

Review : Scarif Stormtrooper Squad Leader Star Wars Black Series (Hasbro) Wave/Series : Rogue One Wave 2 (Phase 3 Wave 8) Released : November 2016 Price : £21.99 Every Star Wars movie, with the exception of The Phantom Menace, has added it's own spin on the original Stormtrooper design. Empire gave us Snowtroopers while Jedi brought us the Scouts. Even the prequals slotted in a myriad of Clonetrooper armours and colour designs. And of course last year The Force Awakens re-imagined the original Stormtroopers for a new age with the First Order. Rogue One will follow suit with this tradition, but is in the difficult position of creating new Stormtrooper designs for the Empire while making them contemporary to the designs from 1977, 39 years ago. We've already taken a look at the first of these new designs, The Deathtroopers, who were part of the first wave of Rogue One Black Series in September. It's now time to look at the Shore Troopers, to give them their original name, or now confirmed as Scarif Troopers - named after the planet on which they serve. I first saw the costumes for these Troopers in person at Star Wars Celebration London 2016 and was blown away. Time to see if the figures live up to the costumes. In this review we will be looking at the standard release of the Scarif Trooper type. This trooper is labeled as the Squad Leader and was part of Wave 2 of the Rogue One series (wave 8 of Phase 3 overall). The Squad Leader arrives in the standard Phase 3 black packaging with red trim. He is numbered #28 in the range and his full title of the packaging states Scarif Stormtrooper Squad Leader. To the right of the box front and in the triangular cut out is a grey scale illustration of the Scarif trooper's helmet. Round the back of the card and the blurb reverts to talking about these as Shoretroopers who patrol the beaches and bunkers of an Imperial facility on the planet Scarif. As a back drop to this blurb the grey scale image is blown up and expanded to include the shoulder area and sits behind the text and then coming out beyond the writing to the right of the text. Out of the box and the Trooper is packed along side a rather impressive double barreled rifle - we'll take a look at that a bit later. At Celebration it was the helmet design of these Troopers that had me sold, and the figure replicates the helmet really well. The design takes a lot of inspiration from the Jedi Scout Troopers more than anything with the wider visor and the central breathing panel. There are also aspects of Clone Trooper design like the visor. The whole helmet is also well sized so it looks like a human wearing a helmet. The sculpt on the helmet is crisp with clear definition between panels and with neat details built in like the recessed grid where the ears would be - to the intricate mechanism on the black snout where the breathing apparatus would be. Once down from the helmet you realise you have seen a lot of this figure before, and the reason for that is that after the helmet the body is the same as the Hovertank Pilot we looked at from Toys R Us. I have no issue with this, after all there would be a consistency of armour usage across the Empire. It will be interesting to see if the Hovertank Pilot and these Shore Troopers are part of the same unit, or on completely separate worlds? The armour on the body starts with a chest piece which is sculpted with straps over the shoulder connecting it to the back piece. Round the back is a box type backpack which is sculpted with two grid panels recessed into the back of the figure. Under the chest sits a stomach armour with various panels and grills set into it. The arms start with an elongated shoulder pad which sits over a bicep armour panel. The armour then skips the elbow and picks up with a forearm piece and then a panel set into the back of the gloves. All of this armour is painted in a cream colouring and this is not a bad match to the actual prop, but I think at this scale it may have been better to mute it slightly to go cloer to the shade used on the Hovertank Pilot. This is the Squad Leader of the Scarif Troopers and to reflect that he uses a light blue colouring that goes across the top half of his shoulder armour and across his chest in a line. Like the paint apps on Cody this isn't a flat colour and there is a ragged edge to it to indicate it is chipped and worn and not fresh out the factory. Further paint apps can be found with a bright red bicep panel on the right arm, with a three square yellow design over the top. There is then a red cut out circle decal on the helmet and a further yellow panel to the base of the chest. There is also some attempt at weathering with some brown splashes applied to the chest to look like mud splashes. This mud would have looked effective had the armour underneath been weathered a little first. Had they gone with a brown wash over the armour, like they did with the Hovertank Pilot, then the whole figure would have looked sufficiently battle hardened. Instead it looks like the paint costs went on the coloured parts - and the weathering suffered, as did some other details like the shoulder clasps which are not painted in a brushed metal like they are on the Hovertank figure. Moving to the lower half of the figure and this starts with a belt piece that is of similar layout to most Stormtrooper belts with its various pockets, and cylindrical compartment round the back. This is a Squad Leader and from his belt hangs a Kama, another nod to the Clone Troopers from where these trooper designs would have originated. This skirt piece is a softer plastic and cast in grey and yet holds some crisp design elements such as the ridged pattern around the hem and the punched holes at the corners. Underneath this are the cloth trousers that we saw again on the Hovertank Pilot, and of course similar to how the Scout Trooper armour works. These trousers have a pattern build into the cast and are painted in a flat brown, but have sufficient rolls and creases around the knees in particular for the depth of the sculpt to come out in the light. The final piece of armour is the shin armour which is really intricate with panels and clasps - and frustratingly this part of the armour is washed out and weathered and looks amazing. Imagine if they had replicated that wash on the rest of the cream armour. As with the Hovertank Pilot, the articulation on the Scarif Trooper is brilliant. It starts with the new head option where the ball joint is also hinged. This allows the head to rotate, but also achieve a much wider range looking up and down. This neck moves so much that you can get the base of the helmet to touch the chest plate. The arms are ball jointed at the shoulder. Don't be fooled and think the shoulder armour would restrict the movement of the arms as each plate slides under the chest plate as you raise the arms. This means a full 90 degree angle can easily be achieved out from the body, and with the shoulder also rotating it means the arms have a full range of motion over the head too. The elbow is a single joint, but also rotates and this means two handed weapon poses are easily achieved and are supported by the movement range in the hands which are a pegged joint and can be bent up and down as well as rotated. A torso ball joint sits hidden under the chest plate and where this comes in is more action orientated poses allowing the torso to move, bend and rotate independently from the legs. The legs themselves start with the ball jointed hips, there is no waist articulation. These hips swing forward to a sitting position, but are blocked from a sideways movement by the skirt section. The thigh swivels are unnecessary in my opinion as they add little to any poses other than swinging the feet outward for stability - and this figure is stable enough compared to many. The knees are double jointed and disguised behind the knee pad of the leg armour. The knees can bend past 90 degrees so the Scarif Trooper can easily kneel on one or both knees - opening up a wealth of more action poses. The figure ends with rocker ankles, and as I said the figure stands perfectly well on his own with no obvious weakness at the ankles that would pose stability issues. The single accessory is this new blaster rifle design, a double bareled design with extended stock. At first I though this was the same as the rifle included in the Deathtrooper - but no, this is a brand new design and cast. It is, like most of the weapons in phase 3, cast in a granite grey plastic. This feels more robust vs some of the rubbery weapons we had during the Force Awakens releases. It also gets a small paint app with a silver brush applied around the base of the barrell. The gun fits perfectly into the Squad Leader's right hand, with the trigger finger having enough give to turn itself into the trigger. The left hand is also designed to grip the barrel if you wish, giving true trooper style two handed posing To sum the figure up, this is a great design turned into a great figure with a really good sculpt. Where it lets itself down is the paint application, it is one wash away from being awesome - and the frustration is that this wash IS applied to the leg armour and all it would take is that extended upwards. I score the Scarif Squad Leader a 4 out of 5. Buy from Amazon UK Buy from Amazon US Buy from Forbidden Planet

Called into my local B&M store this weekend and came across a few new items I hadn't seen before. First up, and at an amazing price of just £12.99, were the larger 12" Batman vs Superman Multiverse figures from Mattel. My store had both Wonder Woman and the Armoured Batman. There is also a Superman in this wave of 3 figures - have you found the Son of Krypton? There have been a few DC Collectible sets creeping into B&M recently. And now there are the Detective Mode Batman from Arkham Asylmum video game. These are £9.99 each, but don't expect to find any other figure from the Arkham range. Finally this Diecast Iron-Man caught my eye. It's from the DX range of Metals, a collectible range of diecast figures. This one, the Mark 5 from Iron-Man 2 was interestingly only available up to now as a Lootcrate exclusive - and the box in B&M says as much. For £12.99 if these float your boat then I guess this warrants a look?

Happy Sat-TOY-Day everyone! CLICK HERE for this week's issue. As we get closer to the arrival of the Big Man in the Red Suit, Toy News seems to tail off while manufacturers and retailers concentrate on promoting the product already on the shelves. To this end the news is quite small this week, but perfectly formed with an exciting announcement from Boss Fight Studios, a new Deadpool collectors figure and the return of ET in figure form. To make up for a lack of news we've gone with two full figure reviews this issue, looking at two of the latest Star Wars Black Series releases. www.facebook.com/mephitsu www.twitter.com/mephitsu www.issuu.com/mephitsu

As Doctor Strange continues to dominate in the Cinema, it seems Marvel Select collectors wont have to wait as long as normal to get their hands on the movie figure. Due to production timescales we have often had to wait a good 6 months past the movie to get hold of the figure - but it seems this time round the timeline has been accelerated and Diamond have confirmed the good Doctor should be in the house by the end of December. And along with this confirmation of release comes the following fantastic promotional images.

The 5" Doctor Who range is refusing to die completely, and as we discussed a few weeks back there are a number of new figures coming, to the US at least, in 2017. These include a 10th Doctor in Tuxedo and two versions of the 12th Doctor. The Affable Design Company have shared some pre-production work of this 12th Doctor figure on Facebook. Here at Affable we were delighted to have the opportunity to update Underground toys’ 12th Doctor with an all new likeness and the iconic season nine hoody. There will be two versions of this figure released; one as seen in the two-part story Under the Lake/Before the Flood and the other from The Girl Who Died. Stay tuned on Twitter to @utusatoys for more news on these exciting figures. We have included a few colour renders along with the standard brown ‘wax’ ones to bring out the detail of the head sculpt. We hope you like them as much as we do.

McFarlane's return to the 7" scale of Action Figures has already reached the Green series of their Color Top figures. The Green Wave has been video game and Anime heavy so far, and the next figure is no exception as we will be getting Scott Ryder from the Bioware Mass Effect series. The McFarlane website has Ryder as #21 but the press announcement via Game Insider has the figure as #23 Articulation on Ryder will be limited, with the figure more statue than action figure. The promo pictures do however make the figure look particularly impressive on its display stand. The price will be around £20 / $20 when this figure ships in Spring 2017

The Play Arts Kai range from Square Enix is an acquired taste in that their 10-11" figures are a very stylised vision of the character they are potraying. Marvel collectors have already been treated to figures such as Iron-Man, Spider-Man and Captain America. They are soon to be joined by the biggest and baddest anti-hero in the Marvel Universe..... Deadpool Deadpool will be released in March 2017 and has an RRP in Japan of 14,800 yen - this is about £110 or $138. Once import prices etc have been added UK and US customers will probably be paying around £150 / $200. Like most PAK figures, Deadpool will be packed with a display stand as well as a wealth of interchangeable hand options. Weaponry will include his signature swords, a pretty impressive futuristic gun and some knives. There will also be three head options, each offering a different expression

The hints and teases from NECA have slowed down lately, as have a lot of Toy news as retailers concentrate on the Xmas period. One hint that has been released is this image which most fans believe is from Ash vs Evil Dead and is from a Deadite. Whether this is Cheryl or Evil Ash is unclear, but it is clear that the Evil Dead figures are continuing into 2017. We look forward to finding out more.