Toy Bender

Fairly recently a Fwoosh.com poster made one of the coolest Transformers customs of all time. Combine one concept that’s cool, transforming robots, and one that’s ultra cool, a talking super car, and you get a Transformer named K.I.T.T.

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Lego creator Matt De Lanoy has blessed the world with an ultra cool Futurama creation. Check out his Lego take of the Planet Express:

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I’m not huge into custom figures, but there is the occasional one that gives me pause. Very rarely do I pop a nut over one, but seeing extremely well done Star Wars customs made in a World War II flavor is worth saying, “Holy balls!” over. These photos emerged last week and since I was in a state of hallucinations brought about by Scarlet Fever, I wasn’t able to enjoy them, so I’m posting a couple of my favorites here if you haven’t seen them yet and as filler. Hey, at least I’m honest.

Chewbacca

Apparently if Chewbacca was in World War II he’d start wearing clothes therby answering our burning question, “What does Chewbacca look like with pants on?” At least that’s the question that got me thrown out of a Star Wars convention. What really stands out for me with this Chewbacca is the gun. I just love how the detail was put into it to make it look like a crossbow, even though it’s machine gun that looks like it would exist in the ’40s.

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Over on Hisstank.com the ultimate in G.I. Joe customs was reveled. Behold, the Scalper!

The Scalper comes with an awesome set of accessories from a Wal-Mart cart full of G.I. Joe figures to a bag of McDonalds food and a laptop with eBay ready to go. Even better are the details that went into the figure. He’s balding dude with a ponytail and is wearing long socks with those retarded crocs that, if caught wearing them, you should be immediately be put to death. Oh god, this is the ultimate nerd scumbag and more dangerous to G.I. Joe than any Cobra foe.

Don’t expect to see this figure in stores, mainly because it’s a custom, but also because any scalper worth his salt would not let this figure into anyone’s hands at retail.

I think I’ve covered the fact that I love Storm Shadow more than zombies love brains, so my insta-love of this custom Storm Shadow should come as no surprise:

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I saw this on Bat-Blog the other day and I had to share. In total opposition to the My Little Pony inhabited by the spirit of Satan, I present to you the Batman inspired My Little Pony:

I have no idea where this custom came from or what insane mind spawned it, but that woman or exceedingly homosexual gentleman deserves a beer.

Thanks Bat-Blog

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Every once in awhile a toy collector will rise above the rest and inspire us with some cool custom. The guy over at KingBotz.com has certainly done this, because he’s created one of the coolest Transformer customs I’ve ever seen. It’s a five foot tall Devastator made from Tonka trucks:

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In the first post detailing the G.I. Joe Hasbro showing at the San Diego Comic-con I showed you the amazing new figure offerings on tap for the 25th Anniversary line. In this short post I’ll share some pictures of some cool 25th Anniversary-like customs on display at the show, which were pretty cool in the “what might be or could be” sense.

First up is one of my favorite figures of all time, the Cobra Alley Viper. Others might make fun of the Alley Viper for his outrageous early 90s day-glo orange and blue camo combo, but those of us with taste look past those poor color choices at one of the greatest Joe figures of all time.

If Hasbro made this figure, rainbows would shoot out of my man junk.

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Who’s the one feline that almost makes Furries seem like they have normal tastes? Cheetara from Thundercats, of course. I ran across this custom Cheetara figure the other day on Toy News International (real link). This is one custom figure that makes me wish all the more they were doing a Marvel Legends style Thundercats line.

My only beef with the figure is that it has the same problem that almost all Marvel Legends female characters have, too much articulation on such a small body. Still, a lot of work was put into this thing so it doesn’t look as bad as some of the more hideous female forms in the Marvel Legends line. What really sells the look of the figure is the great paint job on the face along with her signature yellow hair. Meowww…. (sorry, I had to do that)

There is a little hope that we may see a return of Thundercats toys in the future. Now that there will be a Thundercats CGI animated feature film (real link), Warner Brothers will want to milk the franchise for all it’s worth. I can only hope that a new generation of children will be indoctrinated into the world of Thundercats. What’s not to like? There’s swords, mummies, flying surfboard things, and a spankable human cat hybrid woman.

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This Lego creation is utterly fantastic.

Seriously, that’s a work of art. It perfectly captures the mechanical side of the bio-mechanical look of the Aliens in a way that really works more than it should. I’m not exactly sure why the Chestburster is tan, but the lighter color does help to highlight the individual Lego pieces a little more, giving you a better appreciation of what makes up this Chestburster. You’ve got to love how the Lego “blood” is pooling outside of the base too.

I’ve got to give this the official Toy Bender cool stamp. It’s too cool for school and thankfully, it’s summer right now:

For more pictures of this Lego Alien Chestburster, head on over to Brickshelf.

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This one is a bit odd… but I suppose I don’t put up enough stuff for the ladies or the homosexual fellas out there, so here’s a strange little Justice League Unlimited custom job of the Leaguers in locker room attire… i.e. a towel:

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This last week I discovered an interesting Lego website via the Wizard Universe boards. User Baronsat has his own nifty Lego themed website. In particular he’s got a great custom set based on the Palitoy Death Star play set.

If you don’t remember this play set, don’t worry. It was a European release. We got the superior Kenner Death Star play set in the states. That isn’t to say the Palitoy set wasn’t cool, but nothing could beat that Kenner trash compactor. This Lego Death Star that Baronsat has cooked up is about ten times cooler than the original Palitoy Death Star set, so using nerd math that makes it about.5% cooler than the original Kenner playset. Someone, make a Kenner Lego Death Star stat!

Link: Baronsat’s Lego site

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Occasionally superheroes will find themselves in situations where their current costume isn’t providing them the kind of protection that they need. Basically, armor in the superhero world is equivalent to a raincoat in our non-fun world. New armor also acts as a way of boosting lagging sales, which is much more harmful than any type of Kryptonite.

Up-armored superheroes were more common in the tough-as-nails comics (or just plain crappy comic era) of the 90s. As a whole the improved badass costumes thing usually came across as being pretty stupid looking. There is one exception that I’ve always dug and it was Daredevil’s:

Perhaps I just have bad taste, but damn I love that costume. There’s just something about the red and black combined with his shiny useless armor bits that I like. Aside from a 90s Toybiz figure, this version of Daredevil never has gotten much love’n, especially from comic book fandom. That’s why I was all giddy to see this custom armored Daredevil on OAFE.

How much cooler can you get with wrist mounted billy clubs, I ask? If the Marvel Legends line can keep churning out such a wide variety of characters from every pocket of the Marvel universe like rabbits making strange and wondrous babies, they need to make an armored Daredevil variant.

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If you want to know more about this subject consult your local library or go to Daves Long Box for a hilarious and informative look at the phenomena of superheroes and armor.

If you head on over to Owens Customs you can see a really kick ass modified droid tank. Now, that’s some clone crushing power over there. He’s also got some other fantastic creations that are definitely worth taking a look at, especially his Mandalorian variations. (Please Hasbro make these!)

This thing really makes me want to buy one of the re-issued tanks that are starting to trickle out across the country. I’m currently kicking myself for not buying one while I was toy hunting myself. My clone army needs something to beat up on!

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Okay, so this really isn’t a corner, but every once in awhile I come across a custom made action figure that is really worth taking a closer look at. For the inaugural Custom Figure Corner feature we enter the world of Marvel superheroes and the deadly, mutant killing Sentinels.

You can find this custom Sentinel here. This figure is pretty cool looking, but add a light up chest option and it rocks. If a toy lights up, I’m all over it like stink on sauerkraut. Shine on you crazy laser beam chest having custom Sentinel!

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