It’s a huge week for the collecting world in general, as hundreds of new products are being debuted from dozens of collectibles companies at San Diego Comic-Con 2018. But while First 4 Figures isn’t attending SDCC 2018, that doesn’t mean that they don’t have a major event of their own going on, as the first-ever high-end resin Cowboy Bebop statue went up for order today: the F4F Cowboy Bebop Spike figure! And that’s not all–aside from the Spike statue launch, First 4 Figures CEO Alex Davis will be answering a spaceship-load of collector questions, update us on progress on statues going through production and more!
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The past week has been an eventful one for First 4 Figures, with the long-awaited Exclusive Banjo-Kazooie statue going up for order at long last… followed by possible revisions being made to the statue following fan outcry to make Banjo as good as he could be! But it’s on to another week and another livestream, as F4F Q&A #78 has now arrived! This week, the much-anticipated teaser trailer for the first Cowboy Bebop statue debuts, along with Alex & Chock answering questions about such topics as the future of F4F Shovel Knight, Jinjos, the Metroid Prime 3 Gunship, Anime, Princess Zelda and more!
Continue Reading →Delays are a fact of life in the statue collecting world, as regardless of what company you order your statues from, the majority of statues tend to be delayed somewhat. But there are certainly exceptions to that rule, and one of them has just begun arriving! The F4F Samuai Champloo Mugen Statue was scheduled for a release in Q2 2018, and it arrived just in the nick of time! How’d it turn out, and should you hop on the Wait List for Mugen? Let’s take a look…
Continue Reading →It hasn’t exactly been a fast ascent, but over a year after opening, we’ve finally hit 3,000+ Facebook followers here on Gamer Toy News! To celebrate, we’re very having our first giveaway on the site, which I want to use to promote something near and dear to my heart. You can help save the F4F Samurai Champloo statue line—and win yourself a free brand-new copy of the complete Samurai Champloo Blu-Ray Collection at the same time! Here’s how…
Continue Reading →UPDATE 4/5/2018: Someday very soon, my heart will break when I run out of ultra hi-res photos that I took at the F4F booth at New York Comic Con 2017… but it is not this day! I may be running low, but I still have some beautiful photos to share–and who’s more beautiful than the Black Swordsman, AmIRight? So in honor of the long, long-awaited Exclusive F4F Berserk Guts statue going up for order tomorrow afternoon, I’ve uploaded the last of my photos of the F4F Guts statue prototype from NYCC 2017!
Continue Reading →Just another ordinary First 4 Figures Q&A livestream…? Nope! Today’s another big news day for F4F, as the logo for the SD line has been revealed, the Cowboy Bebop Jet Black and Spike Spiegel statues were fully revealed, the next figure going up for pre-orders is revealed, the Solid Snake pre-orders closed, and Last Chance Weekend orders for the Exclusive Ornstein have begun! And oh yeah–get ready, because once again, Fun Daddy Alex and Lieutenant Chockles will be answering dozens and dozens (and dozens!) of collectors’ uncensored questions…
Continue Reading →It’s sort of ironic that the week started out with me cussing the fact that the time has come to shovel snow and ice again for months, but the week is ending with a shovel putting a huge smile on my face! During this week’s F4F Q&A #49, the First4Figures Shovel Knight statue will go up for order on the website and the exclusive version will be revealed to the world! And like every week, a boatload of collector questions will be answered about Happy Mask Salesman, Soul Calibur, Dark Souls and more!
Continue Reading →While we haven’t quite reached the threshold for the 35,000 members celebration and reveals, it’s never a dull week in the First 4 Figures Q&A livestream with F4F CEO Alex and Chockles! This week: Will 12-month plans be available for all statues from now on? Thoughts on a potential Attack on Titan statue series? Can you 3-D print Red Bull? Where does Alex see the company in 10 years? All this and more in the F4F Q&A #45 Recap!
Continue Reading →Thanks to the maelstrom of activity that was the massive rally behind My Hero Academia, the week has flown by and it’s time for the weekly First 4 Figures Q&A Recap once again! In the F4F Q&A #44 Recap, we learn the answers to a variety of questions, including: What’s the next expected pre-order? Will Varia Suit Samus cost more during Last Chance Weekend? Who would win between Alex and Chock in Rock-Paper-Scissors? And oh yeah—did someone say “Pokémon”?!
Continue Reading →2018 looks to be a banner year for the anime side of First4Figures, as we’re likely to see their first statues go up for order from the Fullmetal Alchemist, Gurren Lagann and Cowboy Bebop series, as well as the arrivals of Samurai Champloo’s Mugen and Berserk’s Guts statues. But while Cowboy Bebop will be kicking off with Jet Black in the near future, today we got an updated look at the main man himself: F4F Spike Spiegel!
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