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.
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Early Morning on Hoth. by Avanaut
I haven’t been covering all the awesome stuff coming out from the Four Horsemen recently, for two reasons: 1.) there’s only so much time in the day, and 2.) they’ve been doing a damned good job covering it themselves. If you follow their new blog at FourHorsemen.biz, you’ll get all the 4H-related info you need.
That said, I thought it prudent to mention the limited edition Galactic Holiday Outer Space Men will go on sale tonight at 9pm ET at StoreHorsemen.com. Featuring vac-metallized ABS accessories, these figures are expected to go fast, to grab ’em if you want ’em!
More info after the jump. (more…)
Extra length episode! …for no damn good reason.
I have nothing against Sam Worthington, but man, I don’t need to see him be a scowling buzzcut grumpy badass again anytime soon. And I hate that shield; the old Perseus may have dressed like he was going to a frat party, but his weapons looked nice!
Next time: a special guest star! You’ll never guess, don’t even try, but you will recognize him when you see him…
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.
Poester NK drops this terrifying…thing upon our unsuspecting heads.
Christmas Bender action figure from Futurama by popculturegeek.com
Action Figure Displays by JDP Design (www.actionfiguredisplays.com) has sent along a sample of their latest item–the new Christmas Display, designed for your Christmas-themed toys. I’ve featured several of their sets before: the Alley, the City, and the Dark World Castle. (more…)
Newton Gimmick of Infinite Hollywood is having a big Toys for Tots contest (something I really need to remember to get together one of these years…), so you should participate. Immediately. Here’s the link, but you can read all the info after the jump. (more…)
Mattel has officially posted pics of Sy-Klone.
As you can see, he comes with the 200X-style ring, but it’s both removable and sized so that it can be used as a weapon. Interesting.
EDIT: Forget everything I wrote below. Thomas B. below is right, the ring can be pivoted so it surrounds him at the hips like a hula-hoop, which is arguably cooler than it being up over his shoulders. Shame on me for not noticing and doubting the Horsemen. That said, Mattel really should have taken a pic showing that. –PG
But the ring on the 200X figure could be raised up and brought down over his shoulders, so that when he spun, the ring spun in a circle around him. It was a nice effect.
Here, the ring can only attach to his lower back and stick up vertically over his shoulders. Seems a bit pointless. I would have designed a second clasp at the top of the “backpack,” so that the ring could be brought down over his shoulders–though I suspect this would have caused the same problem as the 200X figure, namely, that the clasp wouldn’t have been quite high enough and the ring would hit the shoulders, so it juts out at a slight angle rather than being parallel to the ground. Still, you could either sculpt the clasp a bit higher than the top of the backpack–or have it slide out from the backpack–to solve that problem.
This is a very rare case where I think the Four Horsemen missed a design opportunity. That said, I’ve learned to give them the benefit of the doubt, so it’s quite possible they recommended something like that and Mattel shot it down for some reason.
Life is like a box of chocolates by Stéfan