Friday, May 30, 2014

Miami Heat rout Indiana Pacers, return to NBA Finals

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MIAMI — The Miami Heat embarrassed the Indiana Pacers.

But worse, the Pacers embarrassed themselves.

The Pacers came back to Miami for Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals and were outplayed and overmatched in a contest that was decided before the first half ended.

The Heat hammered the Pacers 117-92 and advanced to the NBA Finals for the fourth consecutive time, becoming just the third franchise in NBA history to do that and the first team to accomplish that feat since the 1984-87 Boston Celtics, teams for which Pacers president of basketball operations Larry Bird played.
Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY Sports 11:18 p.m. EDT May 30, 2014

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Saturday, May 24, 2014

McFarlane Sports Picks - Today's Leader in Sports Figures

Jerome Bettis Sports Pick figure from McFarlane Toys - amazing detail for a 6-inch figure

McFarlane Sports Picks - Today's Leader in Sports Figures

McFarlane also works with many of the top entertainment properties in the industry and has the official rights to all four major North American sports (hockey, baseball, football and basketball). The company's Sports Picks figures (action figures depicting current and former professional athletes) are the most popular and actively collected sports figures on the market today; the database of Sports Picks on this site includes more than 1,400 different figures.

The hallmark of all McFarlane products, and Sports Picks in particular, is detail. Sports Picks are created with remarkable accuracy, including details like logo patches on the uniforms, specific shoes or gloves, tattoos, artwork on masks, etc. Even when scrutinized for small details such as the width of a stripe on a player's sock, Sports Picks are found to be accurate more than 95% of the time - a remarkable level of performance for 6" tall plastic figures that retail for $10.

Most Sports Picks action figures are six inches tall and released in series. McFarlane typically releases two to three regular series of figures of current players per sport per year. Additionally, McFarlane releases one to two series per year per sport of famous former players (these are called Legends or Cooperstown series). Within each of these series are chase and variant figures as well as the regular figures. (For more information about chase and variant figures, read the article What is the Difference Between a Chase and a Variant Action Figure?)

McFarlane also produces series of 3" figures for each sport and has issued some 12" figures. Outside of the normal retail releases, McFarlane creates exclusive figures that are sold only during events like Super Bowls, Hall of Fame Inductions and the NHL Hockey All-Star Game, or that are sold only through their website or their retail store in Arizona. On occasion, McFarlane has produced figures that were given away as promotional items at specific sporting events.

Todd McFarlane Toys - Action Figures and Sports Picks

Mandarin Spawn 12-inch action figure from McFarlane Toys
Bringing photo-realism to sports figures and action figures
McFarlane Toys is the fifth largest action figure manufacturer in the United States. Established in 1994 to manufacture and sell action figures based on founder Todd McFarlane's comic book character Spawn, the international award-winning company has expanded into licensed products to become one of the premiere action figure producers on the planet.

Spawn is still the bedrock of the company -- McFarlane Toys released the 30th line of Spawn figures in 2006. Marquee toy lines include: Alien vs. Predator, Napoleon Dynamite (Twentieth Century Fox), Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, (Warner Bros.), Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Shrek (Dreamworks), and Lost (ABC Television).

McFarlane Toys also has its own line of proprietary figures including: McFarlane's Monsters, McFarlane's Military and McFarlane's Dragons. The newest venture, Pop Culture Masterworks includes 3D album covers and movie posters (Led Zeppelin, Sex Pistols, Metallica, and Jimi Hendrix, Jaws, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street and Rocky Horror Picture Show), McFarlane's Music figures (Motley Crüe, Slash, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Bon Jovi and KISS). The latest licenses include the Hanna-Barbera cartoon library (Warner Bros) and The Simpsons (Fox).