Huh. So it turns out if you go on an unofficial hiatus and ignore toy news, important toy news slips by you. Specifically, this. From Worldscreen.com: NEW YORK: Classic Media is partnering with Mattel to roll out a new consumer-products program for Masters of the Universe to celebrate the brand’s 30th anniversary in 2012. The [...]
Unfortunately, the much-ballyhooed relaunch of PGPoA is postponed indefinitely. That doesn’t mean months, but it does mean at least a week or two. We want to make sure we get this right. We’re still hard at work reworking Poe’s costume and origin, making him younger and adding awesome jeans and t-shirts and tattoos and all [...]
Questions due by 11:59pm Monday, June 13. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: sarcastic, snarky, and/or mean comments will not be submitted. I get where the anger comes from, but it’s a waste of your time and mine. I think the general atmosphere of these threads may be discouraging lurkers from asking [...]
ThinkGeek is famous for its awesome April Fool’s pranks, which typically feature awesome but non-existent products. (They’re a geek-oriented novelty product store, so it makes sense.) Often, if the fake product proves popular enough, they’ll actually produce it. The best known is probably the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag, but in April 2010 they had a product [...]
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. Submitted by: 3B The Problem: [...]
For some reason, probably too many Dos Equis, I hear Pornstache with the voice of actor Jonathan Goldsmith, “The Most Interesting Man in the World.” Oddly, Hang ‘em High is on as I type this, and he was in that for a scene or two. The mask is the same one 339/1 was selling back [...]
Today’s review is a bit unusual for me, as I haven’t reviewed a Marvel Comics toy in ages. I spent about a year loving Marvel when I was 13-14, then my second Transformers era took hold and I didn’t get interested in Marvel again until the era of Marvel Legends. However, I did always have [...]