Review > Classic Predator (Predators, NECA)

September 13, 2010 | Poe

There were four R-rated action/sf franchises in the 1980s that captured young Poe’s imagination: The Terminator, Aliens, Robocop, and Predator. When I was a kid, my friends and I ran around our backyards just like any other kids from decades past. However, instead of Cops and Robbers or Cowboys and Indians, my friends and I played Commandos and Aliens.

I’m not sure I could pick a favorite from among those four franchises, but there’s no question the original Predator remains one of my favorite movies, and the Predator himself one of my favorite aliens. In retrospect, the concept of making the hunter of the oft-adapted Richard Connell story “The Most Dangerous Game” an extraterrestrial seems like the most obvious thing in the world. Predator skipped the kidnapped-to-an-island scenario (later used in Predators) and instead pitted the alien against a team of U.S. commandos, thus creating the most badass, testosterone-soaked film in existence. (more…)

Pic of the Day

September 13, 2010 | Poe

Etrigan the Demon

Etrigan the Demon by yorrick

Any questions for Mattel?

September 11, 2010 | Poe

I’m going to start submitting these two days early in order to avoid any problems, so all questions are due by 5pm Monday, September 13.

List > Five Action Figures Who Cost Us Better Ones

September 10, 2010 | Poe

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, Rasputin from the Hellboy comic or Buzzard from The Goon, we do have  these obscure or unwanted characters who not only got their own figure, but were given spots in action figure lines that ended immediately after their appearance, thereby preventing a more desirable figure from getting made. (more…)

Pic of the Day

September 10, 2010 | Poe

Hellboy - Roger by Mezco

Hellboy – Roger by Mezco by Blacksm1th

Toy Aisle Trolls > Why Pod?

September 9, 2010 | Poe

Toy Aisle Trolls is a feature highlighting acts of vandalism to in-store toy items. If you find a ruined package, a stolen figure, a swapped-out figure, or any other such acts, take a photo (cell phone photos are fine if they’re not blurry) and email them to poe AT poeghostal.com. Also, please note: I’m deliberately being over-the-top with my condemnation of these people–I don’t actually wish bodily harm upon them. Just severe mental anguish.

Resident crazyman Doc Thomas checks in with this piece of douchebaggery:

I was checking the local Target here looking at the Toy Story 3 toys and came across this – someone stole the “Peas in a Pod” from the three-pack leaving it as only a two-pack. Particularly scummy since you can’t get the Peas by themselves, unlike the Pricklepants or the Woody, but this worked out ok for me after all as Target had discounted the “damaged stock” allowing me to buy the Pricklepants I wanted so dearly for less than the single-pack price, and with a free Woody! It’s not every day I get a free Woody.

Indeed, Doc.

To the jackhole who did this: you can start your quest for redemption by quitting your habit of self-loving to nude fanart of E.T. Because dude, that’s just wrong.