1:18 - Kickstarter Action Figure lines

[the_Archivist]

Here is a list of all the 1:18 scaled action figure lines that have been created or attempted through Kickstarter or other crowd funding sources.
I have also group all of these lines together in the 1:18 Archive. Just click on the Kickstarter link.

In Progress

Rumored
Fresh Monkey Fiction/ZICA/BFS - Eagle Force Sept 1 2016 - Oct 15
Hell Screamerz - Q4 2016
Legends of the West - Chicken Fried Toys - Q4 2016 Maybe Octoberish
Animal Warriors of the Kingdom Spero- 2nd attempt - Q2 2017
Vitruvian Crew figures and Comic Boss Fight Studios - 2017 ???
Zombie Labs - Dream Concept Collectibles -

Successful

Shark Hunter - Kenner Style $9750 Goal

Marauder Task Force Valkyries Funded 9/14/2015 $190,238 of $34,000 goal 814 backers

Toy Pizza - Knights of the Slice - Funded 2/17/2015 $13,832 138% of $10,000 goal 207 backers

Boss Fight Studios - Vitruvian HACKS Greek Mythology - Funded 7/11/2014 $422,270 549% of $75,000 goal 1198 backers

Warpo - Legends of Cthulhu - Funded 7/9/2014 $131,814 219% of $60,000 goal 1178 backers

October Toys - Skeleton Warriors - Funded 6/24/2014 $50,140 111% of $45,000 goal 878 backers

I am Elemental - Super Heroines - Funded 6/12/2014 $162,906 465% of $35,000 goal 2520 backers

Marauder - Gaming Figures - Funded 4/30/2014 $224,155 814% of $29,995 goal 1195 backers

Nevermore - Legendary Monsters - Funded 5/4/2013 $16,113 242% of $6,666 goal 221 backers


Unsuccessful
Skeleton Warriors - Grimskull Goal $50,000 Ends September 29th
Legion XIV - Female Soldiers Goal $21,000 ends May 17 2015
Guru Toys - Military and Secret Agent
INVICTA Challenge
Morpohonauts
Animal Warriors of the Kingdom
Blanx - Go Native Toys

 

[the_Archivist]

Archive links (in order of successful funding with upcoming lines below)
Company name links will show all the figures from that company and the line links will show the figures from that specific line. I don't have all these lines in there yet but it shouldn't take too long.

Nevermore Toys - Legendary Monsters
Marauder Task Force Gaming Figures
IamElemental - Courage
October Toys - Skeleton Warriors wave 1
Warpo - Legends of Cthulhu
Boss Fight Studios - Vitruvian Hacks : Greek
Boss Fight Studios - Vitruvian Hacks : Blanks
Toy Pizza - Knights of the Slice

Prototypes and concepts:
FMF/ZICA - Captain Action
FMF/ZICA - Eagle Force
4 Horsemen - Power Lords
Legion XIV - Female Soldiers
Citizens Content Group - INVICTA Challenge
Morponauts
Boss Fight Studios - Vitruvian HACKS - Fantasy

 

[the_Archivist]

Here are some forum threads to discuss the rumored upcoming lines

Legion XIV

Captain Action

Eagle Force

INVICTA Challenge

Power Lords

Morphonauts

 

[Meddatron]

Thanks, good resource for me. They were all starting to blend together in my mind.

 

[Falcone]

I still can't believe the amount those 5 poa projects made. This is also the first I've heard of the Guru Toys one. They probably should have pushed it more on Joe sites.

 

[K-Tiger]

I still can't believe the amount those 5 poa projects made. This is also the first I've heard of the Guru Toys one. They probably should have pushed it more on Joe sites.

You never heard of the Spylounge.net Agent Annika figures? They've been almost exclusively sold through Guru Planet for years. The reason that kickstarter failed wasn't because they didn't hit up the Joe sites, it's because that they proffered no improvements and were essentially selling us the same figures we've known for years to be pretty lousy.


Strangely enough, HT seemed to think the tittyballs were most egregious, which I find hilarious.

 

[Falcone]

You never heard of the Spylounge.net Agent Annika figures? They've been almost exclusively sold through Guru Planet for years. The reason that kickstarter failed wasn't because they didn't hit up the Joe sites, it's because that they proffered no improvements and were essentially selling us the same figures we've known for years to be pretty lousy.


Strangely enough, HT seemed to think the tittyballs were most egregious, which I find hilarious.

I've known about the Annika figures, I've just never heard of this Kickstarter.

 

[K-Tiger]

Well it was more or less begging for money for the same figures already available. That's not wholly true, but molding the thing in blue plastic to play off the Cobra fanboys wasn't gonna get much support.

 

[Falcone]

Yeah, the presentation figures in the KS were poorly done.

 

[the_Archivist]

Added the Power Lords wave 2 to the rumored list

 

[Meddatron]

Just want to say thanks for this thread and for keeping it updated.

 

[the_Archivist]

No problem, as more and more lines find the light of day through this its nice to keep track of them.

A couple updates:

Toy Pizza - Knights of the Slice was successfully funded on Feb 17 2015 for $13,832 which was 138% of their $10,000 funding goal.

Captain Action has officially rolled into the Eagle Force Kickstarter. They are still only planning on offering the main Captain Action and 2 additional decos, a purple suit and a black suit.

 

[the_Archivist]

Skeleton Warriors - Baron Dark is now shipping and October Toys mentioned a wave 2 that will include the Skeleton Guards and Grimskull.

Legion XIV will be re-launching their Female soldiers KS soon.

MGRs mentioned they might have another figure KS once they send out the figures from the first KS.

 

[K-Tiger]

Watched the Toy Break episode with Baron Dark on it.

 

[the_Archivist]

I haven't seen it. I rarely watch videos like that. What did you think? mine hasn't came in the mail yet...

I also updated the 2nd post to include links to the Archive for a breakdown of each line's figures. Including many concepts and prototypes for upcoming Kick Starters

 

[K-Tiger]

I think they did a really good job of making the jump from prototype to production. I don't have anywhere near enough nostalgia for Skeleton Warriors to justify $30 bucks, but from what I can see they did a better job than what the property deserved.

 

[the_Archivist]

I'm more interested in the skeletons. They look pretty good so far. Not quite as good as BFS's skeletons but they should do good as barbarian skeletons.
I should have mine in the next few days to see how well they scale.

 

[K-Tiger]

They probably won't. Assuming that the Baron and all the other skeletons use the same buck they're gonna tower over 1:18 figures. This is supposedly correct to the character design on the show, but I'd rather not have an army of Manute Bol-sized skeletons. BFS it is for me.

 

[AdrienVeidt]

For fantasy themes, a giant skellie shouldn't be a big stretch from the concept of animated skeleton. One or two bigger skellies in a swarm of them should look pretty cool, and the SWs are a nice replacement for the Mythic Legions skellies I was planning to get before the 4H decided to be dicks and rule out 18th scale at the last minute. Now I'm torn that the PowerLords are still coming.

I thought the Captain Action line was gonna have stretch goals fro Dr Evil, Action Broad and Kid, and the car. Now they're just gonna offer repaints of the one dude? LAME.

 

[the_Archivist]

Updated first post with Falcone's female soldier Kickstarter

Forum discussion

 

[the_Archivist]

Updated the first post to move Morponauts and INVICTA Challenge to In Progress.

Morponauts begins next Tuesday May 19th

INVICTA Challenge begins June 4th

 

[the_Archivist]

Updated 1st post because the Morphonauts Kickstarter campaign started. They are about 4.5" tall.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/49729681/morphonauts-magnetic-action-figures-the-toys-of-th?ref=discovery

 

[the_Archivist]

I removed the second INVICTA Challenge Kickstarter since the figures are now 1:12 and not 1:18 scale.

 

[Falcone]

Has there been any hints on when the Eagle Force KS is running?

 

[AdrienVeidt]

What about the Captain Action one? Last I heard they killed the line of figures and the car, to focus on just the Capt himself.

 

[Falcone]

Browsing the Eagle Force Facebook page it says Captain Action and Eagle Force are being combined into one KS this summer.

 

[the_Archivist]

They split again because Eagle Force was taking too long to develop.
Captain Action should start late July. It will only be Captain Action in different decos with maybe a different character using the same mold.

No Dr.Evil, Lady or Kid Action during this KS

And they came up with Captain Evil. A Captain Action clone/robot of Dr. Evil. Head is a different sculpt.



Oh and there is this

Yes, making some of the Golden Age heroes and villains from the Amazing Heroes line in this more modern style is a definite possibility.

Maybe some of the characters from this Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/549582372/amazing-heroes-wave-15-retro-super-hero-action-fig/description

Here are the other decos

 

[Falcone]

I'd really like to know when these campaigns are running. I would like to run another of my own, but I have to dodge all these others.

 

[K-Tiger]

I'd wait until after MJ's Valkyries, because unless they completely miss the mark that thing is gonna suck up manchild allowances like a frickin' Hoover vacuum.

 

[WVMojo]

I'd wait until after MJ's Valkyries, because unless they completely miss the mark that thing is gonna suck up manchild allowances like a frickin' Hoover vacuum.

Agreed. As good as these MTF figs are, everyone will wait for the Marauder females.

 

[the_Archivist]

I'd like to know how Boss Fight is managing all these. I mean they are involved in so many of these...

Captain Action
Eagle Force
MTF Valkyries
V HACKS Series 2

They don't seem like a "Take the money and wish the owner the best" type of company.

 

[the_Archivist]

I updated the 1st post to remove Power Lords. They confirmed that those would be released during a pre-order later this year and will not be crowd funding.

Looks like late July/Early August will be pretty busy in the crowd funding world. That seems to be the target start date for both Captain Action and Skeleton Warriors wave 2.

 

[the_Archivist]

Updated the first post to set the Valkyries to funded since they surpassed their goal.

I also came across another possible 4" line called Animal Warriors of The Kingdom with a possible campaign starting next summer.

Some more info about them can be found on their website

and a previous kickstarter

 

[K-Tiger]

Sounds largely like the plot of the Thundercats relaunch.

 

[the_Archivist]

Sounds largely like the plot of the Thundercats relaunch.

Yeah but there Apes not Wildcats. See the difference

I probably won't actually read too much of the source material but I do like the figure designs.

 

[K-Tiger]

It could produce some cool figures, but I have my doubts about it getting funded.

 

[daremo]

Some of those figures were already made but were tmnt scale, not 4". I'm sure any future figures would be the same size.

 

[the_Archivist]

Yeah they had some prototypes created during the first kickstarter.

I'd think of them as pretty big characters, like 6'-7' tall so having them 4" TMNT size isn't too bad. The biggest problem I have with TMNT is that they are so bulky otherwise their height isn't too bad. These don't seem as bulky.

 

[K-Tiger]

Eew, staction figures. Kevin Smith got it right when he called his "inaction figures".

 

[the_Archivist]

It's still a year off, I'm hoping that the engineering is still a work in progress. Some other figures the same person (i think) is working on look pretty articulate.