Welcome to the new edition of Cool Movie Toys, where I take a look at some of the coolest movie tie-in product to hit store shelves in the last month.

NECA embarked on one of the coolest movie toy lines in recent memory last year when the venerable collectibles company last July announced at San Diego Comic Con the Guillermo del Toro Signature Collection, which features action figures from some of the Oscar-winning writer-director’s most notable films.

The company kicked off the collection with an 8-inch, retro-style action figure of del Toro himself, which was followed up by a release of Santi from “The Devil’s Backbone” and Pale Man from “Pan’s Labyrinth.” The latest release in the Guillermo del Toro Signature Collection is a 7-inch scale figure of Ofelia from “Pan’s Labyrinth,” along with accessories including her fairy tale book, three fairies and a key.

With the Ofelia figure, fans can now start recreating scenes from the film, including the harrowing chase scene where Pale Man is in pursuit of the young protagonist.

At least one more figure is on the way from NECA from “Pan’s Labyrinth” with the Faun. With any luck, the line will the larger monument featured in the film as well. One thing’s for certain: NECA’s Guillermo del Toro Signature collection will continue this year with its Faun figure from “Pan’s Labyrinth” in late spring/early summer, as well as Amphibian Man from the Oscar-winning fantasy “The Shape of Water” in the same time frame.

Flying into theaters March 29 is visionary director Tim Burton’s hotly anticipated reimagining of the Walt Disney animated feature film classic “Dumbo.” Toy merchandise has been surprisingly sparse up until this point, but perhaps that will change when the film hits. One of the items hitting shelves is a 13-inch tall plush of Dumbo from Just Play, which has a special feature: press the baby pachyderm’s foot, and it makes a elephant noises.

That’s not the only feature you get when you push Dumbo’s foot. Since the product’s official name is “Flappin’ Ears Dumbo,” the elephant’s oversized ears flap over Dumbo’s eyes while it makes noise.

The wonderful thing about companies like NECA and Super 7 is that they have a respect for classic films — particularly horror — and they produce product to honor such films. One of the most recent releases from Super 7, which began its retro 3 3/4-inch carded action figure line with “Alien” a few years back, is of director Alfred Hitchcock. It’s essentially a reproduction of the Master of Suspense that’s previously been issued in color and black-and-white.

The new version of Hitchcock that differs from the previous releases is that it’s in color with markings on the figure and card to replicate “blood spatter.” With any luck, Super 7 will make more action figures of directors, because as NECA has shown with its del Toro and James Cameron (a 7-inch figure of the director circa the release of “Aliens”), there’s definitely a market for them.

NECA, which produced product from LAIKA’s hit classic “Coraline” 10 years ago, is bringing back some of the product from its original line as part of a new deal the toy- and collectibles-maker struck with the stop-motion animation studio.

NECA’s new “Best of” PVC set from “Coraline” consists of three mini-figures: Wybie, Coraline (with her black cat) and the Other Mother, which hopefully signals the start of more reissues.

Also new from NECA is a Coraline figure from its Head Knocker series. Perhaps more Head Knockers from “Coraline” are around the corner?

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Tim Lammers reviews movies weekly for The KQ92 Morning Show,” “KARE 11 News at 11” (NBC), WCCO Radio, WJON-AM, KLZZ-FM, “The Tom Barnard Podcast” and “The BS Show” with Bob Sansevere.