Matte Plastic

Who knew that the Rancors got into the whole rave scene!? This guy is all decked out in his glowing paint and ready to rock the clubs! With all those other ravers around. he’ll have plenty of snacks all night as well!
This guy is a Target store exclusive and is actually from the new Force Unleashed vieo game. Check him out HERE!

He’s actually kind of cool, and in the game you have to fight a bunch of these crazy Rancors and they have riders mounted on them and are chasing you down. But, really, can they possibly be any match for someone with the force and a lightsaber? Should be fun, and it certainly beats out Random Alien #245!

So, just keep your eyes peeled for party rancors the next time you’re clubbing!

-Matt

Oh man! It’s a mail away figure!! It’s part of the new 25th Anniversary GIJoe line. I get so thrilled when I see them offer one of these. They used to be such a big deal when I was a kid. You’d get the little ad for a mail-away figure on your packaging. Then you had to clip and collect points off of each figure - usually around 6 of them! Back then this would take forever!! (at least for me) After you had all your points came the tough part…..convincing your mom to write a check for the shipping and handling fee! I never understood why this was such a huge dealbreaker with my mom. I guess she felt like it was a scam? Or maybe checks cost a lot of money back then, so she couldn’t waste them on a mere 2.95 for shipping and handling! Whatever the [Read more…]

Just found some images of one of the new Transformers: Animated figures - Blitwing! He’s a triple changer like in the old series, but not only does he turn into three things, he has three personalities and is quite nuts. One personality is like Col. Klink (I’m waiting for him to scream “HOGAN!”), the second is an Ah-nold charicature, and the last is best described as Deiter from SNL. It’s a nice spin on the character! Here’s where I found them.I’m really impressed with how closely Hasbro is getting the face sculpts on these guys! It makes the wait til June for their release quite a long one! To bide my time until June I kind of already bought an Optimus Prime figure on Ebay. I mean, it wasn’t THAT much of a mark-up! Cincinati got a bunch of the figures released as a test market for them - so [Read more…]

Coolio - even more Indiana Jones figs are coming out the woodwork! Hasbro is definitely pulling out all the stops with this line. By this summer, I think there will be as many Indy figs as there are Star Wars figs! I mean, their Star Wars movie line has gotten to the point of making “random alien #253″. I imagine by this fall we’ll have random Indy thug with bad teeth #24
Here’s a link to the new stuff!

But they should all be pretty fun figures to have tooling around the shelves. Heck, they’re the same size as the Star Wars figures, so they can hang out in the Mos Eisley Cantina and laugh at Luke practicing electroshock in the Falcon - but don’t let Han and Indy touch, it might tear a hole in some cosmic space-time continuum thing, and allow Shatner to appear ghostly in your living room with [Read more…]

Holy Cow! What do ya mean she doesn’t look like much!? This looks like it’s finally a Millenium Falcon done right - for your Star Wars figures!! It looks massive and has more features than you can shake a stick at! And trust me, when wielding a stick there’s no end to what you can shake it at! My friend, Erin, sent this link to me, so go check it out HERE! It looks like there’s some new figures posted there too - they appear to be from the new animated Clone Wars movie!

EDIT: Sorry, just had to add more to this post! Make sure you check out the image of the back of the package with all the features in this thing. It looks like it does lines from the movies as well as light up. It has a fantastic interior with all the areas shown in the movies. It even [Read more…]

Sweet googah moogah! Cool Toy Review website has got another great preview of an upcoming figure!
Check this out HERE! Sideshow Toys is doing a bang-up job on that figure! Hmmm…no price listed…that’s never a good thing! [Read more…]

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Ok, so it’s not exactly toys, but games can be toys….and overly expensive phones should be considered “toys” for the crowds of adults using them. So, here is some cool use for the IPhone with tilt controls for Quake!

-Matt

Ok, I’ve been watching this guy’s website for a month or so and he does AMAZING work! I’ve also seen his work through Toyfare magazine, whenever they’ve used it. He does superheroes, Transformers, and video game characters, heck, he does it all! Then sells them on Ebay, and they don’t seem to do too shabby. He does an excellent job with the customs he does. He also has several “how-to” guides and an archive of the old figures he’s done. You gotta take a look through all of them. Check out his site Here!

I’ll be putting some of his guides to use as I attempt my next few custom figures…I think I might make one of myself next. Maybe that’s too weird? I’m sure it’s some form of imbalance, but hey, we’re all mad here! I’m gone for the weekend, so I’ll blabber more on Monday - til then, you [Read more…]

Everyone’s pal, Floyd Bishop, sent me this link to a website full of toy inspired art. Some of the work is really cool - it was posted as April 1st, so it could all be a gag, but still some really fun artwork on the site. Check it out HERE!
Hmmm..toy inspried art……maybe I should try that…..nah, I’ll just stick to some custom figures for now. I’ve got several in the planning stages, just have to figure out how to give up sleep and have enough hours in the day to do them!

I’ll open some more figures while I ponder a life without sleep…

-Matt