As everyone else has already reported, Playmates Toys has picked up the Family Guy license. It looks like Playmates is trying to bottle lightning a second time, as the line appears to be designed almost identically to their late 1990s/early 2000s World of Springfield Simpsons line, right down to the talking playsets.
Wow, am I late with this thing. Frankly the only reason I’m even doing it is to placate my obsessive-compulsiveness–there must be a PPF for every year, even if it takes me three months into the following year to do it.
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If you haven’t read the Grifters by Jim Thompson, well, you probably should. It’s also a throwaway line in a Vertigo comic called Finals: “A sack of oranges makes for a quick confession and a tasty breakfast.”
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. Poester K. sends in this [...]
Anguirus action figure by WoGzilla☢ゴジラ
Monte Williams returns to Poe Ghostal’s Points of Articulation to counter the cloying Mattel love with some praise and speculation for the world’s greatest toy company, Hasbro. Ten Classic G.I. Joe Icons That Require a Pursuit of Cobra Makeover Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving Small-Scale G.I. Joes The Pursuit of [...]
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Eritrea by Geek Creek
Inspired by He-Man.org’s Roast Gooble Dinner podcast, welcome to PGPoA’s latest MOTUC Bio Discussion! This bio largely draws from the vintage minicomic “The Power of Grayskull – The Legend Begins!” and the outline for the rest of those comics. The storyline was never completed, but notes were made, and are being used for the bio [...]