BBTS has Takara Masterpiece, New Hasbro Marvel, SW, Joe, TF, Dark Knight, MIB III & More

May 31, 2012 | Poe

We’ve just dropped pricing on three new Masterpiece offerings from Takara – MP-12 Sideswipe ($83.99), MP-12 Red Alert ($83.99), MP-13 Soundwave ($139.99) and have posted this on our site

Attention Transformers Customers – BBTS ‘Thank You’ Preorder Price Cut

We appreciate your patronage and want to thank all our valued Transformers customers by offering a special preorder discount on these items! Transformers and Transformer customers have been a key part of BBTS since inception in 1999! If it’s been a while since you’ve purchased from BBTS, we want you back! If you’ve never shopped with us before, give us a try – we won’t let you down! Our Pile of Loot, Secure Shopping, No-Strings-Attached Preorders, Gigantic Selection, Vintage Department, Collector Grade, Protective Packaging, and Superior Service make BBTS the #1 destination for collectors.

MP-13 Soundwave – $139.99

MP-12 Sideswipe – $83.99

MP-12 Red Alert – $83.99

Dark Knight Rises product is now officially ready for live sales online – check out our menu here – 65 items up for order now, more will be added as vendors release information.

Men In Black III – Standard Issue Sidearm Replica

McFarlane Dark Knight Sports Picks – Hines Ward – Gotham Rogues

Dark Knight Rises Film Cells – 12 cool items

Hasbro has just released an impressive list of new products:

Star Wars Vintage Figures – Wave 04 – This wave features 6 new figures each with a normal version of the packaging as well as a new promotional blue card version. Cases, Sets, and Singles are available here:

Marvel Universe 2012 – Wave 01 – This wave contains Spider-Man Unlimited, Kraven, New Incredible Hulk, Beast, and Beta Ray Bill – available by the case or set

Transformers Prime Deluxe – Waves 05 and 06 – Wave 05 features Ironhide and Rumble, Wave 06 features a nice mix of desirable new and older figures – all in some sort of new or promotional style packaging

GI Joe Retaliation – Wave 03 Figures – 5 new figures plus a set of wave 2 figures in this case

Star Wars Clone Wars (more…)

Hangin’ with Mr. Parr & Poe’s On Vacation

May 29, 2012 | Poe

This past weekend I hung out with my good friend Rustin Parr of OAFE, as well as Power Pals PrfktTear & the rarely-seen Sped. Rustin enjoyed his visit and bought something at nearly every place we went to, from a Lego store to Comicazi. I’m sure he’ll write them all up in a Rustin’s Spoils over at OAFE in the near future, so keep an eye out for that.

The most memorable stop was at a Five Below, where Rustin spent fifteen minutes feeling up blind-bagged Playmobil packages to figure out what was inside them.

The store’s security guard kept pacing nearby, as if this represented the most interesting thing that had happened at the store this month. The good news is Rustin was able to find what he was looking for with only a modicum of his dignity impaired.

In other news, I’m on vacation for a week starting tomorrow. I’m going to try to set up some posts to go up while I’m gone, and I may write a post if something important comes up while I’m away, but PGPoA will be on hiatus until a week from Thursday.

Masters of the Universe The Power of He-Man Video Game

May 29, 2012 | Poe

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While reading through the entire run of the 1980s Vigilante comic (don’t ask…), I came across the ad below on a back cover. Now, as I kid my family actually owned an Intellivision, so given my love of He-Man it’s unclear to me why we never owned this particular title. I’ll have to have a talk with the Parents Poe.

The video contains what appears to be an entire playthrough of the game. You repeatedly switch between shooting stuff in the Wind Raider and fighting walking fireballs thrown by Skeletor until you reach him and have a brief sword fight. He runs away and you hop back into the Wind Raider. Repeat ad nauseam and you have Masters of the Universe The Power of He-Man Video Game. (more…)

Pic of the Day > Lone Wolf by ridureyu

May 29, 2012 | Poe

Lone Wolf

“Fury knows no friends.”

The idea behind a werewolf is pretty simple. Wolves are vicious. When you want to think about the toughest predator around, a wolf is pretty much it unless you live near some big cats (or in the Lost Valley of the Tyrannosaurus).

Kind of odd how they’r always alone, though. “Lone Wolf” doesn’t make too much sense for a pack animal, but oh, well.

In-game, the Lone Wolf has good stats, but also the “Loner” ability, which means he must attack alone. This is the dumbest ability ever, and you will never use this guy in Dreamblade.

S.H.MonsterArts King Ghidorah Destroys Poe’s Objectivity

May 25, 2012 | Poe

I need to be honest with you, dear readers – I’m not sure I’m capable of being objective about the S.H.MonsterArts toy line. “Super-articulated Godzilla action figures” is the sort of thing I found at toy stores in my dreams, but the very idea of them existing in the real world seemed like pure fantasy. And yet, here they are. (True, I wish we could get some monsters from the 1960s and ’70s in addition to the current 1990s lineup, but to say I will take what I can get is an understatement.) (more…)

Poe’s Review > The Powers of Grayskull Part One: The Legend Begins

May 25, 2012 | Poe

"...and maybe my loincloth."

Story by Scott Neitlich
Written by Tim Seeley
Art by Wellinton Alves
Cover by Eric Powell
Colors by Michael Atiyeh
Letters by Nate Piekos of Blambot 

2012 is the thirtieth anniversary of the Masters of the Universe toy line, and it’s also the busiest year for MOTU media since the cancellation of the Millennium cartoon. We get not one, but two comic series – one a miniseries published by DC Comics due out this summer, and this, a three-issue “minicomic” miniseries. The minicomics are set in the Bio Universe, and the first issue was included with Thunder Punch He-Man. The second issue will be included with the infamous Snake Man-At-Arms, while the last will be included with a figure yet to be announced. (more…)