First off, I'm just not a regular action figure collector from scales like 3" to 8", I also love 12" figures as well. I love the articulation and the ultra realism via the clothing & the sculpting. IMO they are true action figures. I have posted on a couple of 1/6 scale figures boards and still do on 1 from time to time with these types of figs as well as regular ones but them people are really flaky on posting when & what they want on especially I created lots of great stuff seen on the DC board and they guys that begged Me to come back very early on in the year and hardly posts on anything any do so especially wrestling which is supposed to be this big wrestling fan so the situation just sucks there.
Anyway, I have been a 12" figure collector since 2001 so this is My 20th Anniversary I saw so many from Palisades Reservoir Dogs to Sideshow soon to be released Universal Monsters on the web. Sure, I got some 12" Joes in the early 90s but it didn't hit Me then till I saw Sideshow's figures. You can see all of My Universal Monsters in an upcoming showcase! I just fell in love with these type of figures and still love 12" figures of all kinds to this day hence My signature for that other board!
Please allow Me a brief run down memory lane. Long ago when I was about 7, I got a Barbie which I don't know which one she was but I remember she had jeans and maybe a jean jacket. I liked her and keep in Mind I was collecting lines like MOTU, TMNT, G.I. Joe 3", Ghostbusters and the like so it was unusual for Me to want and get a figure like that. She was My only one I ever got really I really just didn't consider her a girl's toy at the time but found that she was really fun thus she became My first 11" figure of that kind. So, fast forward about twenty years later I started kit-bashing 1/6 figures, male & female figures from various 1/6 companies (which you can see throughout the board). With that being said I believe having that Barbie all those years prior helped Me because that fun was still in Me and I really digged making 1/6 female as they just ain't fun to look at but they are fun to dress and especially display. So I believe this to be My origins to all of My 1/6-12" figure collecting over the past 20 years.
Yeah, I made a lot of Kit-bashed 12" figures that I'll get into a second topic so look for that sometime in the near future!
OK, so this is gonna be a mixed-up one and won't be chronological order as when I got them and so forth.
My 2 favorite companies that make 12" figures is Sideshow & Hot Toys. Back in the of the early to later part of the 2000s Sideshow's was kinda cheap in price but Hot Toys was always more expensive but now both are insanely ridicules in this deplorable androgynous day & age where Sideshow has joined many companies in creatively, making licenses that have been done dozens of times with no originality...I mean how times does Batman or Iron-Man been made how many businesses must make Disney or Star Wars...I'm sick of it...back when I was collecting them in 2000s Sideshow, McFarlane & NECA were making things that was never done before...now its extremely pathetic and especially when you can get a lot the older/vintage stuff that is arguably better IMO for much better prices instead of these insane costs that is on the first, second & third marketplaces as I speak this very moment!
So with My rant over, like I said, these figures have such great sculpting and I love their display stands as well. So here is what I got in store in this great 12"-1/6 scale showcase first!
Green Berets John Wayne by Sideshow whom My Grandma surprised Me with him for Christmas back in the 2000s!
John Rambo from First blood by Hot Toys...he was My first ever Hot Toys figure!
Sgt. R. Lee Ermey: Got him for FREE from Sideshow (more on that in a sec)!
Bruce Lee by Hot Toys. Got him for FREE from Sideshow along with the previously seen Sgt R. Lee Ermey via My rewards from the used to be great Sideshow store...only had to pay their really high shipping and this was in the early 2010s when they were changing and becoming generic hence the ads that I got with them
My name is Bruce by Dark Horse! they used the old Sideshow body!
Art S. Buck by Sideshow! Got these for free like the other ones...I love these guys and I later on I may show them in My kit-bash topic whenever the time comes as I have wrote stories for them like I do all of My custom characters! The physiques are nice and the female has good shaped boobs & booty. They are basically the same bodies that most 12" Sideshow used. Their fun to move as they are naked without restrictions but I do not prefer them that way.
So, I watched movie and I got the figures, THE WHOLE COLLECTION! So who are these figures made by? They are made by 
That was a great deal back then and if you look at today's insane market's prices, it's utterly pathetic how it is now. I miss the old days, I truly, truly do 
) and Plan B Toys also provided support for the line as well. I loved the likenesses, this is during when realistic sculpts started appearing more and more which really IMO it was a mystery of how quickthis upbringing horizon wasn't really seen in the 90s. I mean there was some great sculpts in the 80s especially the 90s but IMO the only sculpts that come as real as these were 
Played by the late great Chris Penn, good likeness and I love the big, more chubbier body to fit the character and I love that jacket & denim. He is the son of Joe Cabot.
about these companies now 
