Odds ‘n Ends

I slaved over a hot Photoshop for hours to bring you today’s It Figures, so if you don’t like it, I’ll probably curl into a ball and cry. Every ready for Hordak Day on Monday? And don’t forget Ultraman and Alex Luthor! I’m getting an extra of each for a couple Poesters who live locally, [...]

Matthew Schultz, Rest in Peace

I didn’t know Matt, a.k.a. “SkeletonCrew” on He-Man.org, but came across this article about his passing in a daily search for action figure-related news. Matt was a customizer, best known for his work with “COTU World.” He was also an Army veteran. It’s not often we hear about losing one of our own in this [...]

G.I. Joe movie FUBAR?

Quite possibly. If so, who’s surprised? This looked like a multi-car train wreck from the words “acceleration suit.” You know what this is going to be? The new Masters of the Universe. As in the 1987 movie: a rushed film with an incoherent and yet paper-thin plot and little or no relation to the toy [...]

Disney’s Black Hole: V.I.N.CENT returns

One of my favorite films when I was a wee tyke was Disney’s Black Hole, and a couple of my favorite toys were Mego’s 3 ¾” inch V.I.N.CENT and Maximillian robots (the humans I couldn’t have cared less about). While they were arguably ersatz versions of R2D2 and Darth Vader, respectively, the young Poe still [...]

Now THAT’S an exclusive

While I wasn’t as enamoured of Hellboy 2 as I was the first film (for various reasons not necessarily related to the quality of the film itself), and I don’t collect 3 ¾” toylines, I have to say that this is probably one of the coolest SDCC exclusives this year. It’s a 7″ Golden Army [...]