May7th

McFarlane Announces Giants Championship Team Set

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 10:44 am | Filed Under McFarlane, NFL

To commemorate the Giants historical Super Bowl victory McFarlane is producing an ultimate team set of the New York Giants team. Featured in their white Super Bowl jerseys, this set also differs from the original Giants set by replacing Shockey with Boss and Finn with Hedgecock. Like the other team sets, I […]

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Apr16th

McFarlane Changes Packaging, Chase Figures

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 12:03 pm | Filed Under McFarlane

McFarlane made an announcement the other day that they will be changing their packaging (again), this time to better showcase the figures.
This new format will give our designers more freedom to create new and unique sports poses without size limitations. For example, a pitcher can be fully extended in a pitch follow-through, or a receiver […]

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Feb13th

McFarlane Mantle + Maris 2 Pack

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 1:13 pm | Filed Under McFarlane, MLB

I meant to post about this last week when the news came out, but it slipped my mind.   McFarlane announced a Micky Mantle and Roger Maris Two-Pack commemorating the famed Summer of ‘61.  The two pack has both Yankees in their road jerseys.

I wasn’t alive back in ‘61, but I’ve always been fascinated with […]

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Dec26th

2007 McFarlane Awards: Best Chase/Surprise Pics

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 4:54 pm | Filed Under McFarlane

Last week McFarlane announced that voting has opened for their Fifth Annual Action Figure Awards - a brilliant marketing tactic to re-ignite interest in the best figures of 2007. You can vote for the sports figures over on the forums, but the one disappointment that I have with the voting is that they […]

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Oct30th

McFarlane Releases Dice-K Photos for MLB 21

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 6:55 pm | Filed Under McFarlane, MLB

It’s not coming out until April of 2008, but I have to believe that the McFarlane MLB 21 Daisuke Matsuzaka figure will be the SportsPick of the year…possibly the most popular McFarlane baseball figure ever (of course, that’s not saying much considering how relatively unpopular baseball figures are compared to the other sports).  Unveiled the […]

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Oct23rd

Exciting McFarlane 2008 Announcements

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 1:29 pm | Filed Under McFarlane

Last week McFarlane came fast and furious with SportsPicks announcements for 2008 in their news section.   Here’s what really stood out to me:

NHL 17 will include Joe Sakic in a retro Nordiques jersey (so cool).  McFarlane will also make available modern and retro goals with peg holes for both players and goalies.  I can think […]

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Oct3rd

Ty Cobb is Invading My Life

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 8:17 pm | Filed Under McFarlane, MLB

“I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him. He was the greatest all time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.”
- Casey Stengel
One of my favorite topics to read about is the dead ball era. For years I had been meaning to read Cobb: A Biography by Al Stump. […]

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Sep8th

McFarlane Launches NFL Legends 3 Online Feature

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 3:35 pm | Filed Under McFarlane, NFL

McFarlane just launched a very creative online feature to promote the upcoming release of the NFL Legends 3 series.  The site includes: complete figure photography, wallpapers, backdrops, packaging photos, interactive QTVRs that let you rotate the figure 360 degrees, player information, and of course information on where to buy.

The Bo Jackson player page:

The QTVR that […]

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Aug22nd

Surprise - Another Gretzky McFarlane Figure

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 11:34 am | Filed Under McFarlane, NHL

A few days after stroking Todd McFarlane’s ego, I’m going to knock him back down a peg. Back in May I wrote about how McFarlane’s NINTH Wayne Gretzky figure, a figure with him in a Blues uniform, was overkill. Well Todd is back at it again. In McFarlane’s newly unveiled NHL Legends […]

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Aug18th

Todd McFarlane is Smarter Than You

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 12:43 pm | Filed Under McFarlane

Really. He is, and he’s smarter than me. He gets SOOOO much publicity for being the collector that overpaid for the $3 Million McGwire 70th HR ball. Read this article on Portfolio.com and tell me what you think:
McFarlane’s baseball collecting, meanwhile, rather than being an expensive distraction, has helped open doors for […]

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