Final Faction

If you love 1980s style action - sci-fi comic books and action figures, you will love Final Faction. Available through Dollar Tree, these figures are amazing for the price and the animated videos are quite good. A third episode should be released shortly according to the creators.

I first bought the comic book and was pretty impressed at 1.25 at dollar tree. It's only 20 pages but still better than any new Marvel/DC stuff I've read. I know that's not saying much but when you add in the impressive and very inexpensive action figure line along with these videos they are doing, Final Faction is a step ahead of the pack!

Adults will find this corny and silly. Young kids will love it. My five year old great nephew was enthralled and immediately asked to watch more episodes. He was disappointed to hear there was only this one so far. So he watched it again and again. The animation is decent, the voice acting is first rate. The toys this series is based on is the real gem. Fantastic figures for a buck apiece.

Now that a few episodes are out, it's clearer to see what direction the episodes & toys intend to go. We've got a lot of action (of course!) that hits the ground running, some corny humour, characters with depth & personality, heroes against villains, and a few surprises along the way.

While the first episode was essentially an introduction, the second full episode (Arctic Attack) takes off with a lot more propulsion. Toy teasers are laced throughout shows as the buzz is never ending for the newest yet-to-be-released figures & accessories. It's a family friendly adventure series that perhaps does not have the greatest animation, it certainly has an old & new collector appeal. A fun, light-hearted romp, with substantial soul.

You get what you pay for and these things are a dollar. Looks like they didn't spend much more than that on the animation storyboarding or voice acting. There are simply ten million better ways to spend your time than watching this that will end up costing you way less of your precious life. It's already sad enough we are locked into a race to the bottom demanding the cheapest possible Chinese consumer goods and hurtling the planet towards inevitable heat death. If only people would quit demanding things be cheaper than the amount of labor required to produce them-maybe we could actually progress as a species but that seems like a distant dream. Just watch anything other than this.

Not a bad show, good guys vs. Bad guys, made for kids so the storyline is easy enough for anyone to follow. Lots of explosions and slick phrases by the characters (all star line-up for the voice cast, good show guys), animation is not up to par for today's standards but also NOT BAD, glad to see a down to Earth (down to Moon?) show like this one. The one star rating was not deserved, as seen above, society is not to blame for the facts behind this show.