My good friend Paul (Vincent), previously of the Toy Bender blog and currently of The Robot’s Pajamas, invited me to spend some time yakking about toys on his podcast, the Robot’s Pajama Party. You can check it out on Itunes or simply by clicking the link above.
Toy Aisle Trolls is a feature highlighting acts of vandalism to in-store toy items. If you find a ruined package, a stolen figure, a swapped-out figure, or any other such acts, take a photo (cell phone photos are fine if they’re not blurry) and email them to poe AT poeghostal.com. Unfortunately, the holiday season seems [...]
an action figure a day 1/365 by lamont_cranston
So, I came home last week to discover a rather large box from Mattel on my doorstep. And what was inside? Toys, of course! Wonderful, wonderful toys! Including the 12″ Christopher Reeves Superman, the Gentleman Ghost/Hawkgirl and Superman/Parasite 2-packs, several of the Retro Action DC and Ghostbusters figures, and perhaps best of all, the Eternian [...]
Just a heads-up, TRU is having a special deal on its website–free shipping on all orders over $49. That means if you order $49 or more worth of stuff today, it’s like you just walked into the store and bought it. You don’t even pay for the gas to drive to the store. If you [...]
SANTA CLAUS MCFARLANE’S TWISTED CHRISTMAS by scareface68
1.) Now that double jointed elbows and knees are starting to appear in DCUC, there’s one character who greatly deserves them: Batman. Is there any chance we could see a new version of Batman with these joints? Right now we don’t have plans to go back to older figures and upgrade them with new articulation, [...]
Master of the christmas tree by Robert DeNitro
I have to admit that Buzz-Off has been flying completely under my radar. I’ve barely thought about him what with everything else that’s been going on lately. Still, he looks pretty neat, and goofy name aside, he was always one of my favorite MOTU figures. This is definitely a case where the 200X figure is [...]
Kudos to Infinite Hollywood for pointing out Mattel’s bizarre mistakes on their newsletter email that went out yesterday. First off, that’s the wrong JLU Darkseid–it’s an old one, not the one actually on sale today. Second, that’s the DCUC BAF Kalibak, not the JLU one. But the real travesty is the Superman. That isn’t the [...]