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Hellboy and Golden Army Soldier Review Part 2

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Happy Halloween!  Welcome back to the second part of my Hellboy and Golden Army Soldier review.

Today, I’m reviewing the 3.75″ Hellboy that’s exclusive to this set.  Part of the reason why I’m doing this review is that I couldn’t find any detailed reviews of the set online, so I had to order it based on the quality of Mezco’s other products.

I ordered a demon on good faith.

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Hellboy and Golden Army Soldier Review Part 1

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Happy almost Halloween! Rather than do a themed holiday post, I’ve opted to do something that’s at once rare and also very common here- a figure review!

You could say that most of my toy related posts are reviews, as they point out pros and cons, trying to swindle your wallet into feeding more of its delicious insides to the HasTak machine, but this one’s completely a review.

I’m doing it in part because it’s Halloween and the subject is appropriate  to the festive mood,  and partly because I have been unable to find reviews of this particular pair of figures on the internet.

Hellboy and Golden Army Solder was an exclusive set, but details were hard to come by.  Most places even incorrectly say the number of joints on the Golden Army Soldier. Still, Mezco’s website had a good deal on them (and still does), and if there was a set I was going to get it’d be this one, but I had to make my decision based on the quality of their other products.

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