Now that Star Trek is preparing to celebrate their 60th anniversary all year long...what toys do we expect? First announcement was pic related.

Me personally? I want a Hot Wheels Starship series collection.

Still early in the process, but it is a thing.

Pokémon General - Gotta Buy Them All

Ongoing lines of interest:

>Pokepla: Non-scale Plastic Model kits (assembly required)
>MonColle: Non-scale trading & action figures
>Jazwares: Non-scale trading & action figures
>Scale World: 1/20th scale figures
>Blokees: Non-scale action figures (assembly required)
>Keeppley: Non-scale action figures (assembly required)

Coming soon:

>LEGO Pokemon: Brick-builds (assembly required)

Jazwares Release wiki:
https://jazwarespokemon.fandom.com/wiki/

Archives:
https://archive.palanq.win/toy/search/subject/Pokemon/

Previous thread:
>>11533280

What is this thing? Why am I seeing it everywhere?

Previous Thread: >>11528363

Welcome to the 1:18th general. All 1:18th scale lines are welcome including larger scales that may work with 1:18th. Post pics of your latest purchases, dios, customs and whatever else you feel like posting. We encourage mixing lines. Let’s keep this general fun and help each other out.

>1:18th lines
Acid Rain(post apocalyptic soldiers, mechs, robots, vehicles)
Boss Fight Studios(Fantasy, Zorro, Tarzan, Zombies, The Phantom, horses)
Creative Beast Studios (Beasts of the Mesozoic, Cenozoic, and Cyberzoic)
Dime Novel Legends(Western figures)
GI Joe
Hiya(Aliens, D.C., Predator, Robocop)
Indiana Jones
Jazwares(Halo, Fortnite)
Joy Toy(Warhammer 40k, Modern/futuristic military soldiers, mechs, dioramas, vehicles)
Jurassic Park
Marauder Gun Runners(Modern military, WWII)
Marvel Universe
Microman
Palisades: Army of the Dead
Planet Green Valley(Futuristic military females)
Schleich(Fantasy, civilians, playsets)
Shodo Kamen Rider
Star Wars TVC
The Corps

plush thread

Anyone collect Gears figures? (NECA, McFarlane, Storm)

Mezco TDK Joker going up 9/17
Looks good based on the teaser

Welcome to Blokees General! Let's celebrate the best toy of all!

We have lots of IPs, including Star Wars, DC, Marvel, Pokémon, Transformers, Evangelion, Ultraman, and many more to come... Let's build!

Big event coming up:
>October 2–3: Wonder Festival 2025 Shanghai – featuring new reveals!

Archive:
https://archive.palanq.win/toy/search/subject/Blokees/

NECA has always been my go-to affordable provider of collectors items for some of my favorite films, characters, creature designs, etc. Like really high quality stuff and the best bang for your buck on the market by far, but the prices are simply getting insane.
Like out of control insane. I don't know whether it's due to tariffs or what, but in the past year and a half the prices have skyrocketed on this stuff so much that I can no longer justify spending the money on it anymore. Prices have jumped by about $6-$7 on most all of their 7" inch scale figures, whether they're ultimate or not. Single ultimate's are burgeoning on becoming relatively the same price as what two-packs used to be. The jump from my mental post-pandemic-yesteryear of retailing $27-$28 Ultimate's, with tax being somewhere around $32-$34 at checkout, are now retailing for $36 with tax taking me near, or over the $40 mark now. Since there has been no noticeable increase in quality or features from what I can perceive, I can't help but feel like I'm being scammed.
What once made NECA great in my eyes has since perished, and I know that many people here are going to disagree with me and that's okay, I truly feel like the best of NECA is now behind us. To be honest I've been out of the loop on all of the releases coming out, as well as this community and I just realized that I stopped caring about it because it doesn't make any sense to me financially whether I can afford it or not and it simply feels wrong. Without any sign in returning in full swing to their seminal brands like Alien, Predator, Terminator, Robocop and various horror properties that they continue to just sit on and not use to their fullest potential, not to mention all of the half-assed re-releases this past year, I now find very little initiative to continue to collect. With that I'm going to have to call it quits once and for all by saying goodbye to this hobby.
For the foreseeable future, this will be adieu.