Zed's Favorite !:18th Figures 2011 Edition

[zedhatch]

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IT'S TIME AT LAST!

Zed's Favorite figures has begun, all week I will count down my favorite figures from the last year at ten per day all the way to #1.

This year I am a bit late due to some last minute arrivals to the list, but here we go.

First off the introduction (explaining what all this is about):

http://www.zedsjoesite.com/fav2011/2011.html

But if you want to jump ahead to the actual countdown here you go with #50-#41

http://www.zedsjoesite.com/fav2011/20111.html

[Troynos]

Nice list Zed.

[Uberlad]

Zed, I love your year end lists. I'm glad it's finally here!

[riot_control]

Agree with Uberlad...I look forward to your list each year ive seen them. Can't wait for next weeks!

[pig iron grenadier]

Interesting choices and reasonings..look forward to comparing your list with mine some more...

[zedhatch]

Nice list Zed.


Thanks


Zed, I love your year end lists. I'm glad it's finally here!

Thanks, that makes the almost month I have to spend locked in my computer room even more rewarding.


Agree with Uberlad...I look forward to your list each year ive seen them. Can't wait for next weeks!


Thanks, but don't you mean tomorrow's ;-)


Interesting choices and reasonings..look forward to comparing your list with mine some more...

Cool, debate is good, at least at some points LOL.

[riot_control]

Ugh...ya tomorrows...;) <doh>

[bantor2]

Cool list man :). I loved that Tygra fig.

[zedhatch]

Cool hope you like the next update as well:

http://www.zedsjoesite.com/fav2011/Gladiator.jpg

Gladiator kicks off today's ten at #40, who else has made the list of my favorite figures? Click below to find out #'s 40-31

http://www.zedsjoesite.com/fav2011/20112.html

[zedhatch]

Something to whet you whistle with favorite figures this year, Totals: 16 GI Joes, 23, Marvel (Incuding The marvel movies, but to be fair there are very few of the Movie figures), 5 Star Wars (not at all by choice, that was distrobution), 6 other (Thundercats, Unimax, ect).

[zedhatch]

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How does Shadow Tracker fair in Zed's Favorite Figures, Check out today's update to find out.

http://www.zedsjoesite.com/fav2011/20113.html

#30-#21 posted.

[Sciencefriction]

That's a great list so far Zed. I'm enjoying the pictures you've put together for each figure, it's a nice touch.

[Bujo]

http://www.zedsjoesite.com/fav2011/shadowt.jpg


So cute. He looks like a little pixie dancing in the woods.

[Bujo]

http://www.zedsjoesite.com/fav2011/20113.html

#30-#21 posted.

That's your best list yet. I thought 8 of those figures were worth buying.

[zedhatch]

That's your best list yet. I thought 8 of those figures were worth buying.

Uh-Ok, sure

[Jay West]

Cool! Feels like I was just reading your 2010 list. Been reading for a few years this is at least my 3rd time. Don't always agree, but love the list.

[zedhatch]

Thanks Jay, in some ways I hope people won't agree, it shows we are all thinking. But of course these things do spark debate anyway.

[Herbicide]

I can't wait for the last 20. When will they be out? And I love Scale Wars. Thanks for the dedication and wit.

[pig iron grenadier]

My problem is that I can't remember what figures came out in 2011..hhah.

[zedhatch]

Yep gets, confusing, which is why I keep up with it during the year, makes life easier.

[zedhatch]

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Low Light's joining the crowd of Zed's Favorite figures 2011, so else made it? Find out below:

http://www.zedsjoesite.com/fav2011/20114.html

PS thank you everyone for your kind words about this project, in both the past and the present, makes all the efforts worthwhile.

[Shipshape1983]

the list doest go past 11..

[zedhatch]

10-1 will be unveiled tomorrow just as the previous 40 have been at 10 per day.

[rip_cord]

nice list, i enjoyed reading through it.....looking forward to seeing your 'top 10' tomorrow.

[zedhatch]

THanks, I hope it will be as interesting as you have found the previous pages to be.

[zedhatch]

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Before we hit toyfair, recollect musings of the past year in the 1:18th scale with Zed's Favorite Figures

How did Zombie Viper rank on my favorites? Click below to find out.

http://www.zedsjoesite.com/fav2011/20115.html

[pig iron grenadier]

Interesting........you hit on many of the same ones I'd choose, but the order would be different.

[rip_cord]

nice to see GI JOE taking the #1 spot, as well as representing 40% of the Top 10.

this is the first year i've caught this list, i enjoyed it.....looking forward to next years!

[Jay West]

Love seeing Silver Sam so high. Really underrated figure IMO.

[zedhatch]

Interesting........you hit on many of the same ones I'd choose, but the order would be different.


Ha, well I noticed this year for the most part figures were either really good or really bad, not much in between.


nice to see GI JOE taking the #1 spot, as well as representing 40% of the Top 10.

this is the first year i've caught this list, i enjoyed it.....looking forward to next years!

As I said, I really think joe brought it this year more than any other year before. I hope they do just as well next year, so far I see three strong possiblities and a few maybes already.


Love seeing Silver Sam so high. Really underrated figure IMO.

So do I, I can;t see how a Wovlerine 2 might top it, but you never know. Still I can see why so many passed it up, but it really is an amazing figure.

[pig iron grenadier]

Ha, well I noticed this year for the most part figures were either really good or really bad, not much in between.

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1 instance is Cable. I don't even like cable, but I'd have him ranked higher than Dr Strange (whom i do like). Something about that figure really hits the mark. :)

[Monkeywrench]

very good and fun list

[zedhatch]

1 instance is Cable. I don't even like cable, but I'd have him ranked higher than Dr Strange (whom i do like). Something about that figure really hits the mark. :)


See for me character counts as a lot for a figure, I have loved Dr. Strange since I was a kid and part of me always will (no matter how much Marvel tryes to make him go against character LOL). So that counts for a great deal. There are exceptions, Zam Wessel, really have no attachment to the character but WOW what a cool figure they made. Really made me want to add her to the Bounty Hunter collection. But I do like cable as well, but not overwhelmingly. I really dig the figure, but doubt I will try for another if they re-release him later (never know though).


very good and fun list

Thanks, glad you liked it.

[Uberlad]

1 instance is Cable. I don't even like cable, but I'd have him ranked higher than Dr Strange (whom i do like). Something about that figure really hits the mark. :)

I'm the opposite--I thought Strange was the best MU figure of the year--They hit the ball out of the park on a cool looking character who has been vital to the MU at large since before Secret Invasion. The Avengers, The Defenders, and the Illuminati have all had Strange participation in the last few years.

Cable was dead when his figure came out. He was a cool figure, but I can't think of any major impact Cable has had on the stories I've read since 1995. Cable was a cool figure, but it wasn't the look of my Cable.

[zedhatch]

I'm the opposite--I thought Strange was the best MU figure of the year--They hit the ball out of the park on a cool looking character who has been vital to the MU at large since before Secret Invasion. The Avengers, The Defenders, and the Illuminati have all had Strange participation in the last few years.

Cable was dead when his figure came out. He was a cool figure, but I can't think of any major impact Cable has had on the stories I've read since 1995. Cable was a cool figure, but it wasn't the look of my Cable.

Just as a figure, I think it should be pointed out that strange also had extra wrist articulation which made his hands mobile for spellcasting, such articulation is debateable on cable but it gives Strange a bit of umph over Cable cause the extra articulatiion matched the character, that just occured to me.

Also strange is a founding member of the Defenders (one of the ore popular super-hero teams in comics, although Marvel has never been able to capture that orignal magic, pardon the pun, which is why they keep failing as a series).