Brief update

Greetings all. I apologize for the dearth of posts these last few days, but I’m extremely busy with real-life concerns at the moment. Nothing bad, just busy. I owe you a number of things–DCUC Joker review, the MasterPOEce contest poll, the next Forgotten Lore, and so forth, and will get those to you as soon [...]

The Panthorlution will not be flockified

If and when Panthor gets added to the ranks of MOTUC, he will not be flocked, says Toy Guru. Yarg. I’d better jump in here. Haven’t seen everyone focus on just one answer so much, especially with so many other good questions! To clarify, yes, we did indeed let fans at SDCC 2009 “vote” on [...]

“Ask Mattel” Answers for 10/1/09

1.) Barbecue17 asks: Recently online stores like Big Bad Toy Store have been unable to fill preorders on DCUC waves 8 and 9 due to being sent less units than they ordered. How can this be good for business if a dedicated toy store cannot even get the Mattel product it ordered and is guaranteed [...]

Mattel Pushes WWE

My awareness of professional wrestling is limited to Hulk Hogan’s cameo in Gremlins 2 and the Macho Man’s beef jerky commercials, but since you folks seem to care a lot about what Mattel’s doing in regard to action figures, I thought this was worth posting. Wrestling Figs has the scoop on all the upcoming Mattel [...]

Forgotten Lore > Ragnar from Rune

“Forgotten Lore” is my Raven-inspired title for a feature in which I examine some unreleased action figure. Pictures are from Raving Toy Maniac. One of my favorite PC games ever is Rune, a Viking-themed, 3D 3rd-person action game that came out long before 3rd-person action games like God of War were in vogue. In Rune [...]