It is indeed that time again folks wherein I sit back and take a long look at all the plastic I bought last year and pass judgment on my purchases. It not only makes for a fun romp through some of my Features in 2014, but it gives me a week off to recoup from the Holidays and recharge my batteries. I won’t lie, it’s been a real bummer of a 4th Quarter and I need to crawl into bed for a week. And yes, as a blogger, I am indeed contractually obligated to produce end of year lists. If I don’t the Elders of the Internet will come to my home and do horrible things to me. Last year, I started this list on New Years Day, but this year I decided to finish off my regular week of features and postpone until this week after. And so, I have donned my obligatory tuxedo and my cat is inserting my IV tube with the Jameson drip… It’s showtime!

If this is your first time at the rodeo, here’s how it works. My list is broken down into two halves: My Ten Favorites (covered tomorrow and Wednesday) and my Ten Biggest Disappointments (covered on Thursday and Friday). I’ll spend the weekend swimming back to the surface from my alcohol induced coma and then we go back to business as usual on Monday.

We are not animals and we live in a society governed by law, so there must be rules, albeit completely arbitrary ones! The items I’m looking at don’t have to have been released in 2014, but I did have to feature them in 2014. With that having been said, I think most of what I cover are from last year. Also, to keep things current any Vintage Vault or Transformers Thursday Retrospectives are off the table. I am also imposing some other limitations. Each company is only allowed one shout out per list, with the exception of Hasbro, which is allowed one toy-line per list. Sorry, but at last count I collect something like five different lines from Hasbro (that will likely change a lot in 2015) so exceptions had to be made. This keeps me from being a douchebag and spamming the entire Favorites List with Third Party Transformers and the entire Disappointments List with 3 3/4” Star Wars Black figures. As always, keep in mind that these are not the Best and Worst releases of 2014, but my own Favorites and Disappointments from my own purchases.

And that’s it for me. I’m putting FFZ on Auto Pilot and I’ll be back next week to start a new year with all sorts of new goodies. Come on back tomorrow to see the 2014 Favorites, Part 1…