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.
Marvel Legends close 1 by Carls Life At their Marvel SDCC panel, Hasbro said that 6″ Marvel Legends would be returning “in full force” in 2012. I started to wonder why that would be, given how strongly they’ve been pushing Marvel Universe, and I’m wondering if it’s the success of DCUC that has them reconsidering.
With Mattel’s “leaking” of the MOTUC list through March 2011, there are some fans–mostly on the He-Man.org forums–who are harping on the fact that “changes were made” to “the list.” This also happened last month when everyone was so sure the September figure was going to be Roboto and/or Man-E-Faces, and then were shocked–SHOCKED!–when it [...]
Just a thought I had while reading the comments on the Skeletor bio discussion: how could a future bio retcon the Skeletor/Demo-Man merger concept everyone so loathes? Let’s assume we’re writing the bio for a potential Demo-Man MOTUC figure. Here’s my version: DEMO-MAN Real Name: Carcharius A mindless demon of the dimension of Despondos, Demo-Man [...]
I try to avoid participating in arguments on forums these days, but I ended up chiming in when a He-Man.org thread comparing DCUC to MOTUC veered into a discussion about action features and whether those were–and are–really as popular among kids versus something like articulation.
Rob Bricken of Topless Robot, a Masters of the Universe fan who’s nonetheless on the record as being disappointed in the MOTUC style here and here, issued me a challenge this weekend. You have one week to try and convince me why I should pay $50 for a figure without a ball-jointed neck or shoulders. [...]
As someone who writes about toys frequently, one thing I’ve often puzzled over is what to call figures that are of main characters in multiple outfits. I’m talking Battle Armor He-Man, Arctic Batman, Undercover Donatello, that sort of thing. Calling them variants is misleading. I think most collectors think of a “variant” as the result [...]
Scott Metzger, one of my favorite He-Fans, posted this fair question over on the Mattycollector forums: Okay, the uncertainty with Keldor’s release brought up a question that I thought had been answered: If a regular monthly figure misses it’s release date, one of the bonus figures is supposed to be plugged in for that slot [...]
I admit it–sometimes I like to drum up a little debate for the heck of it, no matter how incredibly nerdy or pedantic it may be. This is one of those times. Mattel posted pics of Keldor in-package a few days ago, including his new bio, which has proven controversial amongst the He-Fans at He-Man.org.