Matte Plastic

Yeah, they did make toys for this movie. I know the figure of Sting in metallic blue underpants is one of my best friend’s prized figures in her collection. But maybe you wanted better ones, maybe you wanted a full scaled Sandworm to wreak havoc on your figures? Well, throw a little imagination out there and a whole lot of building block and you can build your own set - just like this intrepid toybuilder HERE! Just goes to show you, you can build darn near anything with LEGO’s! All it takes is a little imagination and side of insanity!
And if you’re not a clever builder, or have access to a truckload of LEGO’s, then just enlist the help of a furry friend and a sock!

Now go dump those LEGO’s on the floor and start your Neverending Story figure set!

-Matt

Figures.com has an article asking where are the figures of Krull? Linkage
It’s a good question - I know figures of these guys would have gone lumped right in with the Star Wars figures!
These are fun articles these guys do - they even go so far as to describe what the figures should have come with. I mean, what kid in the 80’s didn’t have talks with their pals about what figures would be cool if they made? My buddy and I had in our heads that we were going to write to Hasbro with great ideas for new Transformers and G.I. Joes. We spent days dreaming up ideas and coloring them, writing backstories and organizing it all. Heck, we even typed it all up, my brother had a typewriter so we thought we really had something! We had this crazy notion of Hasbro realizing they couldn’t live without our [Read more…]

No, not THAT!

This is to show up all those kids zipping around on those “Heelies” shoes! You strap these on, and if you manage to NOT fall on your rear, and go zipping down the street - or office hallway. The cool thing with these is that the wheels light up and flash as they’re moving!
Check it out HERE!
That site has a lot of other cool toys as well. I’m not much into the rave scene, so I’m not sure if that stuff is all new or not - but it’s new to me! So, if you’re a little leary of jumping right into buying action figures, then start out easy with some crazy light up heel skates! You’ll be the envy of your accounting firm!

And if you get a pair of these - you’d have to open them!

-Matt

Thanks to Funko, now one of the creatures that has haunted my nightmares most of my life can be mine - and help me save money! Here, they have made a Sleestak in all his cheesey goodness. I always felt they should have made toys from Land of the Lost, but that never happened. But with Will Ferrel doing a movie based on the old series, maybe we’ll see figures?
It amazes me that these things scared me as a child, with their slow moving lumber and icessant hissing. At least they had the friendy brown one from Harvard - Enoc, I think it was? I still watched and loved the show, even though they haunted me (my brothers had a little something to do with the fear of them). My Dad had these snowmobile gloves that looked just like Sleestak claws, and my brothers would get those and hide in [Read more…]

Ok, if you’re going into battle with the Hulk, grab a different friggin gun than the Nerf Blaster.
I guarantee that a regular pistol would tick the Hulk off far less than the Nerf Blaster! This must be the new
guy on the squad - “Here Frank, use the super lime green dart balster - it’ll knock him flat out!”

For more of the new Hulk movie toy images - look HERE!
On a side note - if that mini Iron man comes out of the HulkBuster armor, then I will gladly be owning that set!

Now, go smash open some figures!!

-Matt

I don’t know….check THIS out.
These crossover figures must do well, because they keep making them. Star Wars and Transformers have
been mixed together for several waves now. Granted, I do have many of them - some of them are really cool.
With the Star Wars ones they each came with a tiny pilot of their character, which for whatever reason, I found
more acceptable. But these guys look like they just full on transform into the character….no pilots. Of course,
I wouldn’t really expect the Hulk to be piloting anything - his fingers are too big after all. Anyway, I’m sure I’ll end up with some of these figures - they actually do look like they’ve got pretty good robot modes, and that is a very important key to these!

All right, after that last post by Floyd, it looks like I gotta go find some new figures to open!

-Matt

Iron Man toys started showing up in Wal Marts all across the country. In addition to the toys found at other stores, Wal Mart also has this exclusive “Stealth Operations Suit” figure, which looks an awful lot like the War Machine suit from the comics.

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The San Diego Comic-Con hits in July, but it looks like Hasbro is showing off one of their exclusives;

Check out the full size image HERE!

Looks like a nice set. The sabertooth cat looks pretty nice - lots of articualtion! The critter figures usually get the short end of the stick when it comes to joints - nice to see this guy looks like he’s full of motion!

Yes, I do even open the exclusive figures!

-Matt

The very cool set of Turtles figs are on the loose at the New York Comic-Con.
You can get a set there, and get it signed by Peter Laird.
Check the link out HERE

-Matt

Ok gang,
I apologize for bein out of it. I’ve ben settling into the new job, and haven’t been able to get online at home regularly. (my loverly wife has been working hard on the computer late nights on the yearbook for our daughter’s school!) But, I’m all set up now at work with a machine and time in the mornings to get back to blogging - woohoo!!
I do have some toys to chat about, but on the whole it’s been pretty slow out there. Heck, I’ve been so out of it I actually have some figures STILL in their packages!! I best go remedy that situation right away! So, have a Happy Easter or Hapy Spring Equinox and I’ll see y’all on Monday!!

Go get those figures out of their eggs!

-Matt