DC Monsterverse - WONDER WOMAN!

DC Monsterverse - Wonder Woman vs Godzilla (Mini Figure) - McFarlane 2025

I have a real obsession with tiny action figures. In my youth, they were everywhere: M.A.S.K., Dino-Riders, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Starcom, Air Raiders, etc. They were super popular and enabled an entirely different type of play. Predictably, female characters in this scale are pretty scarce. So whenever one pops up modern times, I snap it up pretty quickly. I've been very happy with the Wonder Woman MonsterVerse set overall, but the true selling point for me was the mini pack-in figure that I'm sure most collectors overlook. She's essentially a scaled-down version of the Multiverse figure in the set with hardly any articulation, but adding another tiny figure to my collection was the incentive I needed to splurge on this ($79.99 MSRP!). I just realized in creating this post that these mini figures likely share the same construction as the Page Punchers 2-Packs. I have the two ladies form that line unopened and now I'm curious to compare. Let's check out Wonder Woman below!

Pacific Rim Uprising - SABER ATHENA!

Pacific Rim Uprising Select - Saber Athena - Diamond Select Toys 2018

This review is an interesting one. The Jaeger mechs in Pacific Rim are really non-sentient vehicles for the soldiers fighting the Kaiju. By definition, these Jaegers are genderless machines, but between the feminine sleek form and the name of "Sabre Athena", it's pretty much assumed that this is a female mech. I haven't seen the film yet so I don't know anything beyond what I've seen in the previews and what I've read on this packaging, but I'm excited to see this second film to see what she can do. Another thing I really like about this figure is the color. It seems silly but having a giant robot be an orangey-red color is a very weird and appealing to me. Considering the designs of the Pacific Rim Kaijus so far, I highly doubt we'll ever see humanoid female monster, but if there ever was I would buy that in a heartbeat. But until then, I'm glad to have some representation of this franchise in my collection with this Jaeger. Let's check out Saber Athena below!