The Blues Brothers addendum
In today's review, yo mentioned that there was a fictional origin for the Blues Brothers. Here, straight from the liner notes of their first album, Briefcase Full of Blues, is their story: Jake had a...
View ArticleRustin's Spoils of the Week #41
This is pretty significant week for yours truly. Not only is it Thanksgiving, I am moving back to California. My job moved me to Chicago last summer but that company is gone now and thus, so am I. I...
View ArticleFrom creating toys to creating makeup
Did you watch the first season of SciFi Channel's Face Off? It's a reality show in which movie makeup artists compete for a prize package including a year's supply of makeup and an opportunity to work...
View ArticleSDCC 2012 Panels - Behind the Plastic
Every year Dan "Julius Marx" Pickett hosts a panel titled "Behind the Plastic" featuring a veritable "who's who" of Action Figure makers which it makes it one of my most anticipated panels of the Con....
View ArticleI seem to recognize your face - Robert Picardo
This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of pieces pointing out odd action figures of unlikely actors. People known more as character actors than action stars, and thus...
View ArticleSoon Forget: An American Werewolf in London
NECA wasn't the first company to make an An American Werewolf in London London Werewolf, just the first to release one. This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog...
View ArticleSoon Forget: RJ MacReady
This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is PCS' MacReady. This 7" scale figure of MacReady from The Thing was...
View ArticleSoon Forget: Micronauts Evolution
This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figures today are SOTA Toys' Micronauts. In 2005, the toy company SOTA, best known...
View ArticleSoon Forget: Darkstalkers Dmitri
This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is SOTA's Darkstalkers Dmitri. After the success of their Street...
View ArticleSoon Forget: Darkstalkers Lord Raptor
This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is SOTA's Lord Raptor. Like we said last month, SOTA was going to do a...
View ArticleSoon Forget: Darkstalkers Morrigan
This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is SOTA's Morrigan Aensland. We continue our look at SOTA's planned...
View ArticleSoon Forget: Darkstalkers Anakaris
This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is another from the planned mid-2000s Darkstalkers line, aka "Street...
View ArticleSoon Forget: Darkstalkers Jedah Dohma
This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. We continue our look at SOTA's planned Darkstalkers line with the demon Jedah Dohma. The...
View ArticleStreet Fighter Ryu addendum
Two photos we never used, of both SOTA and Jada's Street Fighter packages: Seems "arcade cabinet" was the order of the day. And now, some more OAFEry:Psycho Bison's fireball stand We are important! We...
View ArticleSoon Forget: Darkstalkers repaints
This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. We finish our coverage of SOTA's Darkstalkers with a pair of repaints. Even when they...
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