Holy crap. I'm exceedingly impressed (and jealous) by the entire house, the collection and the displays!


http://www.sideshowtoy.com/blog/step-inside-the-ultimate-collectors-secret-base/?utm_source=bronto&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Image+-+Step+inside+the+Ultimate+Collectors+Secret+Base&utm_content=Image+-+Step+inside+the+Ultimate+Collectors+Secret+Base&utm_campaign=blognews_081515

Nice house Oak. It was nice of you to let them in to photograph everything. Wow

Just got the same email too... didn't know you had a house in Malaysia, Oak!

;-)

Just adding an interesting tidbit. Some cross pollination of hobbies, James Lareau worked on one of my favourite Sideshow statues ever, the Dr. Doom Legendary Scale figure. No, I don't have one yet but I will sooner or later:

https://www.sideshowtoy.com/collectibles/marvel-doctor-doom-sideshow-collectibles-400086/

On another note Prime 1 Studio out of Tokyo is an up-and-comer and produces some excellent work with some great licenses:

http://www.prime1studio.co.jp

Very cool stuff Oak. I didn't know James worked on that piece. Nice!

Turns out he has worked in several Sideshow pieces including Batman and Superman life size busts, Iron Man Mark 7 legendary scale, White Queen and Scarlet Witch premium format, etc.

Not sure why it took so long, but I finally picked the the Noble Collection's 1:1 Batman cowl:

Ooh! Is that the same that BatDad has?!

No, BatDad's mask is of higher quality.

Nice Oak.

My wallet will start hurting if Hot Toys continue to make life-size statues:

What the.... Imagine if these "toys" were marketed in like the 50's/60's time frame.

$8k for the life size Batman by Hot Toys. Pretty reasonable compared to others out there:


http://www.sideshowtoy.com/collectibles/dc-comics-armored-batman-hot-toys-902646/?utm_source=bronto&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Image+-+Hot+Toys+Armored+Batman+LIFE-SIZE+Figure&utm_content=Image+-+Hot+Toys+Armored+Batman+LIFE-SIZE+Figure&utm_campaign=020416news

Prime 1 Studio has a line of 1:2 scale statues coming out. Splendid:

Easily one of the coolest statues ever made:

A video posted by Blessed and grateful (@mochtarsarman) on Mar 3, 2016 at 7:52am PST

Make that life size, and I'll agree

Another life-size Predator bust will be available soon, but this time from CoolProps. Here's what $1,200 will get you:


http://www.sideshowtoy.com/collectibles/predator-2-predator-2-life-size-bust-coolprops-902665/

So nice bro!!

Pretty impressive.

The "Pussyface" predator.
And how they translated that in french is even worse.

Wow, Prime 1 is putting out this amazing 2-foot statue. Only $1k, which is surprising since their previous TF statues were $2k:

A lot of high end Optimus stuff in the past couple years, really cool to look at it all. Luckily for my wallet, none of them transformed so I'm still very happy with my original Takara MP. I almost bit on the Hot Toys Optimus/Starscream mash-up since I thought it was pretty unique, maybe down the line I will still bite. For now it's time to wait until the end of this month until the SDCC exclusives take a bunch of my money, haha.

For now it's time to wait until the end of this month until the SDCC exclusives take a bunch of my money, haha. - mtedenajimenez

Yep, starting with this one:

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/additional-images-of-sdcc-2016-titans-return-fortress-maximus-with-master-sword/35638/

Oh yea, I have no idea where I'm even going to store that when I get it though, haha. Having no space sucks! Somehow I gotta figure out how to add Fort Max to the collection room.