Will Paoletto of ThisBlogRules gave me a chance to stretch my imaginative wings and write about something other than toys for once. What I wrote was an attempt to unify all the policeman roles of Reginald “Sgt. Al Powell from Die Hard and Carl Winslow from Family Matters” VelJohnson into one (fairly) cohesive story.
I’ve got yet another list up at TR. This one was really enjoyable to write, as it’s one of the funnier ones I’ve done:
I’ve reopened my Ecrater store in an effort to turn over some old stuff I just don’t think I’m ever going to get around to opening. Using that money I’ll be getting new stuff to review–plus keep this website going and so forth. So please peruse my wares. I tried to give fair prices based on eBay completed listings.
If this proves successful, I may put up some of my older loose stuff as well.
I was pretty sick the first week of January, and thus completely missed the fact that Topless Robot had posted one of my lists. Check it out.
Eight Toylines That Died Too Soon
Short version: Palisades, we hardly knew ye.
I’ve got another new list up at TR:
8 Reasons Why The Monster Squad is Better than The Goonies
For the record, my original title was “8 Reasons Why The Monster Squad is More Fun than The Goonies” but I get why Rob changed it–“better” is much more provocative. I’m not sure The Monster Squad is a better film than The Goonies, but I definitely find it more fun.
I expected to be vilified for this one, but so far I’m surprised by the support Monster Squad is getting in the comments.
I’ve got a new list at Topless Robot: The Ten Most Significant, Lasting Changes on The Simpsons.
That is all.
I’ve got a new list up at Topless Robot:
10 Ridiculously Rare Action Figure Excusives from Around the World
The Sword of Ages will finally return next Wednesday, February 9 at 1pm ET.
In addition, there will be a very limited number of Dread Axes of Darkness. Both weapons will be available at Poe Ghostal’s Point of Acquisition.
I actually missed the fact that I had another list posted at Topless Robot on Thursday:
10 Infamous Action Figure Variants
This one was tricky to write. One thing to understand is that I tried to focus explicitly on factory errors and running changes–things that weren’t intentionally made as limited variants or collector’s items. So no Pimp Daddy Destro or Holiday Hal on this list.
The black Jimmy Hart is my favorite, though.
Big thanks to Newton Gimmick, FakeEyes22 and the good folks the RTM Toy Buzz for helping me out with some of the research for this list.
I spent all of yesterday flying over the continental United States to return home, so I’m a little late with posting this, but yesterday Topless Robot posted my list of the Top Ten Toys of 2010.
The most controversial entry, I know, is the Tron figure, but that’s there because of Spin Master’s ambitious attempt at some new technology. However, the list is ultimately just one man’s opinion (with some input from Rob at TR), so feel free to disagree as much as you like.