New List at Topless Robot
I’ve got a new list up at Topless Robot: 9 Misconceptions People Have About Godzilla I always love writing Godzilla lists…
Lists
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New list at Topless Robot
A new list, penned by yours truly, is up at Topless Robot: The 6 Best (and 6 Worst) Filmation-Only He-Man Characters I have to say, it was much easier to choose the best Filmation characters than to whittle down the list of lamest. Madame Razz and Broom just missed the cut, but I decided their [...]
Ten Classic G.I. Joe Icons That Require a Pursuit of Cobra Makeover
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 [...]
New Topless Robot list
I’ve got a new list up at Topless Robot… 10 Exclusive Action Figures You’ll (Probably) Never Own
New List up at ThisBlogRules.com
And the lists keep coming! This time, I’ve got a new list up at This Blog Rules. Top Ten Action Figure Vehicles of the 1980s Before you start ripping into the list, be sure to read the note at the end explaining my criteria…then you can rip into the list.
List > Five Action Figures Who Cost Us Better Ones
One of the greatest tributes to a pop culture character’s popularity is to be made into the immortal idol known as an action figure. And while many characters have been so blessed, there are still many deserving characters who remain un-sculpted in plastic. And yet, while we have no figure of Dutch Schaefer from Predator, [...]
Top Five Variants I’d Like to See in MOTUC
Look, I won’t pretend that these are necessarily the five variants you, or even most collectors, would like to see in MOTUC. They’re my five top picks, and if you disagree, then feel free to show me the error of my ways in the comments. To clarify, by “variants” I mean alternate versions of characters, [...]
5 Good (and 5 Not-So-Good) ’80s Toy-Based Feature Films
With the imminent release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra and the announcement that Tom Hanks may star in a Major Matt Mason movie, big-budget films based on toy lines are big business. The last (and first) time this happened was in the 1980s, when there was a slew [...]
The Top Ten Mail-Away Action Figures of All Time
For young action figure collectors in the 1980s, the most desired, treasured, magical items were those enigmatic mail-away (or “mail-in”) figures. Unavailable at regular stores, they required a quest in order to get them. It was a quest that required begging one’s parents for enough action figures to cut out the required number of Proof-of-Purchase [...]