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Quickie Odds ‘n Ends > 6″ Thundercats, Master Chief deal
PGPoA Power Pal Lemonjuice McGee has the scoop on the new 2012 6″ ThunderCats figures, including the classic Mumm-Ra and Lion-O. There are pics and an interview with Bandai’s Brehan Maul. While I like the 8″ figures, it’s cool to think I’ll be able to put Lion-O alongside Batman and Wolverine. It sounds like we might [...]
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Toys R Us Announces SDCC Exclusives
Toys R Us has announced their SDCC exclusives for this year, and they’re kind of awesome. Did I say kind of? I meant totally. Exclusive 8″ Classics Thundercasts Lion-O with metallic finish Bizarro vs. Faker MOTUC 2-pack Jazwares 6″ Mortal Kombat Dark Raiden Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Minimates And more that I care a bit [...]
Odds n’ Ends > June 7, 2011
The big website redesign I’ve been mentioning for months now is tentatively scheduled to go live this Monday. That could easily be pushed back, but for now that’s the plan. OB1 and Mecha-Shiva have been working their butts off for this project. To get you all psyched up for the redesign, I’ve pledged to write [...]
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McFarlane Halo Reach – Spartan HAZOP Custom [Steel] by Ed Speir IV
SDCC > Rustin Parr’s Report, Day 5
Sunday 7/26 140,000 people, 4.5 days, 1 convention – it all comes down to this. The morning was spent re-orchestrating all of the previous buys into a somewhat manageable series of bags, you see typically we bring down large boxes to fill up but all of box army fell in battle against Recycle-Or several months [...]
SDCC > Rustin Parr’s Report, Day 4
Saturday 7/25 A very long day. Began with us futile-y trying to get in to Hall H for the Warner Bros panel. After realizing how pointless that was it was back to the dealer floor. Panels, especially big name panels or panels otherwise in one of the big room, are really hard to get into [...]
Doc Thomas Probes > Action Features (Part II)
In Part I of our feature, Doc Thomas examined “Simulated Attack” action features. And now…the exciting conclusion! Type 2: Pure Deco The next most prominent type of action feature is that which focuses on the look of the toy, and attempts to add more life-like or just more interesting dynamic look via an internal mechanism. [...]
Doc Thomas Probes > Action Figure Scales
Like many contemporary collectors, the action figures that got me into this glorious hobby were the late-90′s McFarlane Toys offerings: Movie Maniacs, Sleepy Hollow, Austin Powers and everything in-between. With the combination of amazing sculpting and detailed paint, Todd McFarlane’s company had upped the game for everyone. But for me, the best thing McFarlane Toys [...]