So, here’s an update on my Wind Raider situation. The long-suffering Dr. Mrs. Ghostal, who ordered my Wind Raider using her own account as as Christmas gift, had to call Digital River to request a replacement. DMG hates making cold calls to anyone, so we were already in a bad place. We bypassed the standard customer [...]
A version of this article was originally posted on my old website, Biggerboat, on 1/31/2007. I’ve often declared my life’s goal to make every day feel like Saturday morning. If there’s anything that makes me regret the linear direction of space-time and ache for the past as all mortals do, it’s that I can never [...]
Unfortunately there are no good official pics of the Mattel PowerCon reveals. There are a few tiny, watermarked images on Mattycollector that do the figures no justice and are really just sad. The best pics I’ve found are in this post on the Fwoosh, so that’s what I’ll be referring to in this article. First [...]
The Four Horsemen were kind enough to provide some glorious high-res studio shots of the MOTUC reveals from SDCC, so here’s my figure-for-figure thoughts on each one. Demo-Man > Easily my favorite reveal among a lot of awesome reveals. Not only does he have a highly detailed, almost entirely original sculpt that’s dead-on to the [...]
A few fellow collectors have asked me to promote Club Infinite Earths. I recommend you read NoisyDvL5′s thoughts on the matter, as he’s much more passionate about it than I am. Thing is, the Club isn’t doing so well. As of this writing it hasn’t even hit 20% of the subscriptions needed to put it [...]
There is a lot of anger among fans about King Hssss’s reversed shoulders. I was part of a Roast Gooble podcast the other day in which this topic was discussed at length (it’ll be posted later this week), but I think it was Val “JVS3″ Staples who most accurately described my own feeling on the matter: [...]
So, the Man-E-Faces color vote is over, and as expected, half/flesh-half/orange won. I voted for half-and-half back when the poll started. It was my first instinct upon being told about it at Toy Fair, and I didn’t question it at that time. But I’ve changed my mind. It’s not that I specifically wish one of [...]
A few months back, my friends Dave and Jenn came over to our apartment with their three-year-old son, Aaron. Dave and Jenn both are geeks, though Jenn moreso than Dave. Aaron is just about that age where action figures start to get interesting, and in this era where videogames are slowly supplanting good old-fashioned toys, [...]
In my original plans for this blog, I hoped to be able to offer insight into the action figure industry. I had dreams of insiders dropping me juicy tidbits, behind-the-scenes information, gossip–sort of a Bleeding Cool for the toy industry. So far, that hasn’t happened. Frankly, I don’t have the contacts for it to happen, [...]
Halloween may be over, but there’s still plenty of horror to be had. For instance, here’s some rather bumming news from Diamond Select: according to their latest edition of Ask DST, they haven’t secured the likeness rights to Bela Lugosi. However, they’re still going to do a Dracula figure…just without any specific actor’s likeness.