Airmax
Pierre "Airmax" Kalenzaga is the most bomb diggity customizer you will ever see, son!
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Cesar "Masked Avenger" Zamora
Born and raised in El Paso, TX. I grew up collecting and displaying toys. My love for action figures has only been strengthened by the fact that the internet provides a community to share that love with. I currently reside in New York City, collect figures and do comedy.
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Scott Rogers
Soctt "Boneyard" Rogers has been collecting toys, making custom action figures and reading comic books since before many of you were a twinkle in yore daddy's eye. Needless to say, he knows a fair bit about all of this stuff and definately has some opinions about it. He also makes video games when he's not looking for toys, making custom action figures and reading comics books.
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CantinaDan
Like many of you my childhood was defined by the toys I played with. I was 5 in the Spring of '77 and you know what that means. Star Wars figures transitioned to G.I. Joe figures, then He-Man figures with lots of other good stuff in between. Then I got older and succumbed to peer pressure and abandoned the little plastic people. I came to my senses 10 years ago and, after seeing the trailer, bought an Episode I Jar Jar Binks. My wife remembers that day mournfully! I've come to realize that I have action figures in my blood and that's why I like to hang out here at AFI.
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CaptainCollector
Steve “Captain Collector” Ceragioli has been involved with collectors and online toy sites in some form or another for more than 10 years. A video game designer, toy designer, and professional model maker, in a past life, his passion for toys and his collection knows no bounds! No, seriously, the collection is out of control, just ask his wife.
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Chip Cataldo
Bursting on the internet scene in 1984, I've pretty much seen it all. The text-based misadventures when I stumbled upon Usenet in 1991, the web-based misadventures when I helped found The Star Wars Collector's Archive in 1994, and the toy- and animation- based misadventures when I haunted Raving Toy Maniac and launched The Bruce Timm Artwork Archive in the mid-to-late 1990's. Pretty much a long string of misadventures, upon my arrival at the latest one...my blog at AFI. Yes, I've been in Bruce Timm's office, gotten drunk with Pinky & The Brain, and had a private conversation with Chuck Jones...all within 24 hours. I even bummed around Toy Fair with Jason Geyer. I'm THAT cool. ;-)
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Jon Edwards
Born in April of '77, Jon quite literally grew up with STAR WARS. His mother took him to see it barely two months later and started buying him the figures before he was even old enough for them. G.I. JOE and Super Powers came along in the '80s, and an action figure addict was created. The moment he decided he was "too old" to play with his toys, he started to collect carded figures, beginning with Super Powers. No longer in possession of the toys or comics of his childhood, he rediscovered collecting with The Phantom Menace, and has moved on from STAR WARS to JLU, DC Direct, G.I. JOE, Marvel Universe, and various characters from movies, television shows, and comics.
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Bill "Fresh Monkey" Murphy
Bill hails from the land of sunny Los Angeles, CA. When he's not blogging about his favorite things here at AFI he produces visual effects for movies and writes comic books. He also just started his own toy company called Spy Monkey Toys with fellow AFI blogger Jeremy Sung. His toy collection consists of everything from Superheroes to miniature monkeys. If you want to read more of his crazy rantings you can check out his blog at www.mindofthefreshmonkey.blogspot.com.
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Glenn2000
Born in 1952 (you do the math), making me one of the proverbial "old farts" involved in toys, comic books, and other juvenile activities that everyone said I should have outgrown decades ago. Fortunately, my wife of 36 years is an understanding soul. A firm believer in the philosophy of Groucho Marx, George Carlin, Robin Williams and Chris Rock. Am now indoctrinating my grandchildren to carry on so that when I finally fade away there will be another generation of odd neighbors who seemed nice and kept to themselves.
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Ham Salad
Born and raised in sunny Southern California, Kevin "Ham Salad" Regalado is a child of the 80's. Getting toys from his favorite childhood toyline, Kenner's The Real Ghostbusters, had a major impact on his collecting mentality; he wanted to get them all, even the different iterations of the heroes. Alas, he was a kid with no money. Once he got money, his toy collecting began in ernest with Kenner's Batman Returns line in 1992, quickly followed by Kenner's Batman: The Animated Series. Thus began his long association with the toys of the DC Timmverse. A self-described uber-completist, he will go out of his way to get one of every item in a toy line, as long as it is newly sculpted or repainted, inlcuding those dreaded industry give-aways. He is drawn to colorful toys, often the same ones in different colors. A late arrival to the internet, he did not surface online until 2002, when he became associated with the Simpsons Collector Sector, where he still moderates to this day. After the World of Springfield line ended, he eventually branched out to other websites, and ended up here at Action Figure Insider. He resides in Oregon with his loving wife who encourages his collecting habits, and a tuxedo cat named Chloe who gets into his stuff.
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IronCow
Matt 'Iron-Cow' Cauley's background lies in the visual arts. Born in Dallas in the fall of 1973, he eventually relocated to New York to attend Parson's School of Design. Shortly after obtaining his degree in Illustration, he began working for Bloomberg LP as a Broadcast Designer while futher developing his Illustration and Toy Design work. In 1999, Matt formed Iron-Cow Prod. LLC to better serve his illustration, animation, design, and toy production clients. His work is regularly published and exhibited worldwide and he is a featured contributer to ToyFare Magazine. There are over 50 ICP-designed action figures currently on the shelves, and Matt is hard at work developing a line of t-shirts for Macys featuring his artwork. His clients have included E! Entertainment Television, DirecTV, the USA Networks, Macys, Art Asylum, Diamond Select Toys, the Irvington Institute, Safe Horizon and The Red Cross among others. Currently Matt resides in New Jersey with his ever-increasing amount of pets (along with his amazingly patient wife) and can be frequently found lurking about in the basement generally avoiding housework in the pursuit of visual creativity. Matt's illustration, broadcast, fine art, and toy design portfolios can be seen at the official Iron-Cow Prod. website at http://www.ironcowprod.com.
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Jason "Plastic Soul" Lenzi
A successful television producer and voice-over artist, pop culture fanatic Jason Lenzi established Bif Bang Pow! in 2005, channeling his boundless enthusiasm as a fan and collector into the creation of the company’s highly-desired toy lines. His enthusiasm has proven contagious, earning BBP! unanimous praise from the toy community and leading to creative partnerships with the likes of comics giant Alex Ross and rock icon Scott Ian. BBP! has so far released action figures and bobble heads for 'Flash Gordon', 'The Big Lebowski', 'The Twilight Zone', 'Dexter', 'LOST', HBO's 'Eastbound and Down' and 'The Venture Brothers'. When he's not chasing down new licenses, producing and narrating various TV series, or reading every music magazine on the shelves, he's obsessively playing Beatles: Rock Band until he gets every song right.
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Jeff Cope
Jeff has been writing about action figures for over fifteen years, both in print and online, and collecting them even longer. Jeff has worked as a graphic designer and a youth pastor, game store owner and stay-at-home dad. He is married, and has a daughter, a dog, chickens, pigs and a goat.
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Jim Abell
Life-long toy collector currently collecting Hasbro Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Mattel Justice Leauge Unlimited, DC Universe Classics, DC Super Friends, PopCo Harry Potter, Zizzle Pirates of the Caribbean. Also into The Monkees and "Weird Al" Yankovic. Are you frightened, yet?...
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JJJason
Jason Chirevas is a toy collector whether he likes it or not (and he often doesn't). This former Would've-Been Action Hero is as interested in the humanity, psychology, and psychosis of collecting as he is in the action figures themselves. Fun guy.
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SpyMagician
It's the all new, all different SpyMagician! No longer single, no longer an educator, but still 100% Toygeek! "I make good customized actions figures, but I also collect Pokemon. Go figure..."
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SuperFriend
"Gathered together from the four corners of the universe." Oh, wait, that's the show, not me. Erik "SuperFriend" Skov never actually got to appear on the show, although he did watch it every week. Erik spent 6 years working for Hasbro in Pawtucket, RI before leaving for a job that paid more (Why else would a collector leave the company that was making Star Wars, Transformers, and while I was there Batman). I used to post all over the net. These days I tend to hang my hat at AFI.
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The Superfly
Ryan "The Superfly" Prast has been a stubborn pest for a decade in the collecting community, where he lays down the law and delves deep into the nuances of life. He enjoys all things superhero, inappropriate content, various meat products, collecting little plastic men, Jack Knight Starman, Frank Sinatra, and the Cubs. And he always keeps his fork when there’s pie.
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