Travel back in Time with Funko: Terminator ReAction Figures!

Remember the glory days of your toy-collecting-youth when nothing beat the figures of the late '70s and early 1980s? Today it's a strong competition amongst the toy companies as to who can do the best likeness, color schemes or articulation. The modern era of action figures is perhaps becoming stale but no toy line is getting me more excited than seeing what Funko/Super7 has in store for us! Instead of competing with the others, they're doing something very original by going back to creating a retro look that we loved so much as kids!

This retro look will be confusing for anyone born after 1985, since you really had to have studied and played with retro figures to understand them. These retro figures with generic bodies, lack of detail, plain packaging and basic articulation might sound lame to today's youth but to us older toy collectors, these are dead-on perfect representations to our greatest toys from our childhood!


Out this August, we will see these great new Terminator ReAction figures and I'm hopefully for a Comic Con exclusive reveal any day now!

"I can't spoil the surprise just yet," Allison Nehls of Funko tells TheArnoldFans. "I can tell you that we definitely have some very exciting ReAction exclusives planned for SDCC this year! I think everyone will be pleased."

I asked this Funko Marketing Coordinator if Funko has any plans for Terminator or Predator Playsets. I suggested a "Tech-Noir nightclub playset for a future possibility.

"Thanks for the suggestion," Allison Nehls began. "We've been asked about Playsets several times and we love the excitement, but we are focused on the figures we have coming out this year! It would be cool to do it in the future and we are exploring options."

Just how difficult is it for the sculptors to create the perfect blend of character likeness with homage to a retro design? Reis O'Brien, the primary artist on ReAction, answers our question.

"It's very difficult because I have to find a balance of nostalgia and modern design sensibilities which can be quite tricky," says O'Brien.
 
Funko also has a couple new Wacky Wobbler Christmas characters coming. As any fan of Christmas films knows, a TurboMan Wacky Wobbler should do very well - especially how hot previously released Jingle All the Way merchandise has sold. Naturally we suggested this toy too so let's hope for a 2014 or 2015 Turbo Man from Jingle All the Way by Funko!


Funko picked up many other great licenses to expand their ReAction retro line of figures including Back to the Future, Escape from New York, Buffy, The Goonies, Firefly and Predator! Get your figures at your local comic book and hobby stores soon. See you in San Diego, Funko so shut up, take our money and save us some exclusives!