No Limits Trashin' Pumpkin
Madballs (Premium DNA) - Basic Series
Rated 4.75 stars by RMaster007
Early last year, we saw the release of Premium DNA's Madballs line, the first line by a new company. I got one during the initial pre-order out of curiosity, and I was so impressed by it, I went ahead and got the rest of the figures. Some time ago, another figure was released in the line, and it's a rather unique one; this "Trashin' Pumpkin" character was created for a promotion crossing over the franchise with the mobile game Need for Speed: No Limits. The packaging is a lot like the previous Madballs figures, making use of a slip cover over a window box that uses no plastic strips or twist-ties, just trays. The graphics are different, however. There's a mixture of black and purple all around, and the slip cover gets some really nice graphics. The main box doesn't have the cross-sell...[See More]

Horn Head
Madballs (Premium DNA) - Basic Series
Rated 4.85 stars by RMaster007
Premium DNA’s first wave of Madballs figures has been pretty great so far, and I’m down to the last one for now, who also happens to be one of the more well-known ones in the franchise. Horn Head may look like a brute, but according to the original line, he’s one of the good guys. Then again, does anyone in the Madballs world look like a pleasant person? The head sculpt here looks a good deal nicer than how he did back in the 80s. Specifically comparing him to the original “Head Popping” figure, his eye and horn are larger, and there’s a couple white spots all around his head (what are those, pimples?). Looking him up, I saw that he looks like that in most Madballs products nowadays, and it carried over here. His body is covered in fur, even though he has a bald head and blue facial hair...[See More]

Splitting Headache
Madballs (Premium DNA) - Basic Series
Rated 4.85 stars by RMaster007
The other Madballs we’ve gotten so far from Premium DNA are already somewhat gross, but this one is just nasty (I’m gonna jump right to the sculpt. The box is the same as the others). Splitting Headache is unique from the others as he never got a “Head Popping” figure back in the day. In other words, he never got a body. Years later, he finally has one, and it’s just like the head – part flesh, part bone. His left side shows all the bone, with exposed ribs and green slime oozing through them. The rest of him is blue skin, he’s more of a goblin than outright human, and there’s blue slime and blood all around him. The head has been notably changed from the original ball, sporting pink lips instead of purple ones, and no green around the right eye. The bony texture is great, sporting a good...[See More]

Oculus Orbus
Madballs (Premium DNA) - Basic Series
Rated 4.90 stars by RMaster007
Ever experienced that one time when you go into a store expecting to get something and finding something else instead? I recently had that experience again. I went into my regular comic store, Third Eye Comics, to get a Super7 Mondo Gecko. He was there, but I also saw that they got in the Premium DNA Madballs figures. I already fell in love with the line with the first one I got, Bruise Brother, so I went ahead and got one of those instead. In this case, I got Oculus Orbus, the one eye guy. The packaging is the same across the wave, and as I described with Bruise Brother, it’s big but easy to open, you just have to remove a few pieces of tape. I want to state again that I wish that they gave out the character names on the slipcover so it’s easier to tell who’s who on the shelf. Compared...[See More]

Bruise Brother
Madballs (Premium DNA) - Basic Series
Rated 4.90 stars by RMaster007
A lot of companies nowadays show that toys and action figures aren’t just for children. Whether it’s ones geared specifically to older collectors, like NECA and Mezco, to companies who are doing both, such as Hasbro and McFarlane, everyone’s appealing to the real market for toys (sorry, kids). One new collector-orientated company is Premium DNA, who spawned out of online retailer Megalopolis. I know, I know, Megalopolis was nothing but a scam, and hey, I agree with you, but I’m not going to talk about them here. Premium DNA, which was launched back in 2020, seemed to be going after the more “niche” licenses that are either not talked about much or never got any real merchandise (at least not in years). Stuff like Barnyard Commandos, Earthworm Jim, Battletoads, Banjo-Kazooie, and...[See More]