Codename: yo go re
Specialty: Toy reviewing
Base of Operations: Online Action Figure Entertainment (OAFE)
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PG: What is the first action figure you remember owning?
It barely counts as an action figure, what with only two points of articulation, but the first figure I have a distinct memory of owning is Ram-Man. Or maybe Trap-Jaw.
PG: What’s your favorite review among those you’ve written for OAFE?
I don’t really have one. I’m of the Ron Popeil school of creativity: I just set it and forget it. My favorite is whichever one last helped someone to make a decision. Which is a crap answer, so I’ll say Ultron, because it provoked a response from Jesse Falcon.
PG: What’s the most interesting thing going on in the action figure industry today?
Despite the horrendous delays they faced in 2007, the Four Horsemen’s FANtastic Exclusive is awesome. Fan-directed toys? That’s wicked awesome! Of course, that may just be because so far everything I’ve voted for has won. And did you see the article in ToyFare about how the Seventh Kingdom is becoming its own real line? Even better!
PG: Spill it: what the heck does “yo go re” mean?
It’s the Fukawi Indian word for “small totemic carving.” And you can tell that to the Marines! [Note: yo go re is full of crap. –PG]
PG: What’s your fondest toy-related holiday memory?
Probably Santa Claus giving me the last Constructicon I needed to complete the G1 Devastator. And I don’t mean that in an abstract way: a guy dressed as Santa actually came to the house to give all us kids presents one year, and the one I got was Long Haul. Of course, I didn’t have the rest of the Constructicons with me, so I still had to wait a few days to build the big guy, but that was still a hell of a sense of accomplishment for a little kid.