So, Voltron is back and Mattel has the toy rights. Thoughts, opinions, bitterly sarcastic comments regarding the availability and quality control of new toys? Once again, ItsAllTrue.net has taken an idea I had and beat me to the punch. Check out their interview with Mel Birnkrant, inventor of the Outer Space Men. A must-read. And [...]
Lion-O by Fanboy30
I try to avoid participating in arguments on forums these days, but I ended up chiming in when a He-Man.org thread comparing DCUC to MOTUC veered into a discussion about action features and whether those were–and are–really as popular among kids versus something like articulation.
Behind every great hero is a great villain. He-Man had Skeletor, Batman had the Joker, and although one could argue that Superman’s equal is Lex Luthor, Darkseid makes for a perfect adversary for the son of Jor-El. Darkseid is instantly identifiable as being evil while Superman is good, and they’re a match for each other [...]
“Galaxia Equipo Laser” de la serie Cometa de la empresa mexicana “Juguetimundo S.A.” by JOSE MIGUELES
Following on from last week and the ecstatic response by collectors and non-collectors alike, here is the second part of the two-hundred-and-sixty-seven-part-long series about the action figure accessories that you, the collector, simply must own! This is a special part including additions from the readers that I either neglected to mention, was going to mention [...]
SIC Vol 12 – Hakaider and Bike by Ed Speir IV
Earlier this year I did an interview with Professor Henry Jenkins, a professor of communication and media studies who also had a lot to say about toys and their relationship to transmedia. In that interview he mentioned Jonathan Gray, another media studies professor who is even more interested in toys and the points at which [...]
Thanks to good connections and geographical proximity to Mattel HQ, AFI continues their domination of early MOTUC previews with Count Marzo. My thoughts are below.
This news is a few days old, but I figured there’d be enough interested parties around here to make it worth posting. What appears to be a semi-official light blue Superman has appeared on eBay. From my very cursory Web search, no one seems entirely sure where this figure comes from or whether it will [...]