I recently ran across this picture on The Brothers Brick and it would have been criminal not to share:
This was posted by Chris McVeigh on his Flickr account. Check out other cool pictures there.
I gotta say, that’s a lot of Lego tauntauns. I had to spend about 25 bucks to get a set that had just one. He’s sitting on my desk with Lego Indiana Jones riding him which is cool and all, but I never thought of using him as a reindeer.
I’m sure you’re getting tired of my pleas for you to give to Toys For Tots. Well tough, because today I have a super awesome announcement that will have you pooping your pants with excitement if you live in Southern California (and even if you don’t, it’s still pretty neat). Loyal Poe Ghostal reader AmericanHyena is a magician who has offered up free tickets to the Magic Castle to anyone who enters Joes for Tots who live in the Southern California area. What is the Magic Castle? Why, it’s a super cool restaurant/bar in Hollywood, California that just happens to be the private clubhouse for the International Academy of Magical Arts. The only way to get in is to be invited by a member! I wish I lived in California still, I’d be all over this.
If you’ve already entered and you live in Southern California, just send me an email at winbigprizeswinbigmoney@gmail.com.
It’s time again for another sponsorship spotlight to throw some loving on another cool sponsor to the Joes for Tots contest. This time we take a look at Big Bad Toy Store who donated two fifty dollar gift credits!
We have to thank the many fine sponsors for the Joes For Tots contest. Without their help, this contest would either not happen or would just be really lame. Today we take a look at some stuff available at Brian’s Toys who donated a Battle Front Clone Pack, a Battlefront Droid Pack, a Crimson Empire Pack, and a G.I. Joe Mars 3 Pack.
Today I’d like to share some pics of entries we had from awesome people donating to Toys For Tots. If you’ve been living under a rock, there’s a contest here where you can win lots of great prizes for giving to the charity. Today I’ve decided to share a couple of contestants being super awesome to encourage you to send in your pics:
Now that’s a lot of toys!
If you’re a G.I. Joe fan, the Official Joe fan club is kind of neat. You get some nifty newsletters and pride in the fact you’re an elite nerd that loves G.I. Joe. Each year the club offers up two “free” figures to it’s members. You get to pick between either an old school 12″ sized Joe or a 3 3/4ths style figure. Last year I joined to get a pimped out gold Undertow figure, one of the most bad asses water based figures around. This year you can color me disinterested at best (which is a light shade of blue). For the 3 and 3/4ths figure we get Big Lob.
More like Big Yawn. Get it? I’m sure someone has been clamoring for this figure, but I have no use for him.
Hey y’all, I’ve got to hit you up with some quick news items related to the Joes For Tots contest. Let’s do this!
Item: Toy reviewer extraordinaire Michael Crawford of MCWtoys.com will be doing the honor of randomly picking the winners this year. Thanks, Mr. Crawford.
Item: Articulated Discussion has done an interview with me about the contest. Be sure to watch for it over there when it is up!
Item: If you’re entering the contest (and why wouldn’t you?) keep in mind that for every G.I. Joe toy sold, Hasbro is donating a toy to Toys For Tots. Sweet!
Item: Speaking of other cool charity events this year, the store G.I. Joe Heaven is going to be donating a percentage of their sales to Toys For Tots.
Item: I’d like to thank everyone who has covered the contest including, but we still need to raise awareness for this contest, so below are some new banners that we’ve worked up.
The choices for Star War’s fans choice figure are still available to be voted on and I finally got a chance to check them out. You’ve got the usual assortment of background aliens that no normal person should care about, some of Padme’s Decoys, and Uncle Owen’s Dad. This thing is like a Hall of Shame for Star Wars. Here are just a few of the terrible, terrible choices:
Kitster Banai and Wald
The text for this one is priceless, ” Anakin’s little buddies have never received figures, yet they’re prominent on-screen.” Prominent on-screen does not equal worthy of being an action figure, rather its just one of Lucas’s biggest blunders.
Well now that the official Joes for Tots contest announcement has been made, I’m hoping you all are keeping it in the back of your minds when you start your holiday shopping this year (be it Christmas or one of those crazy snake worshiping ones). I’ll be hitting you up with reminders as well as sending out notices around the web to let everyone in on this great chance to try to selfishly win things for helping kids, but I can’t do it all on my own. I need some help!
The Star Wars prequels completely divided the Star Wars community forever. Some hate them, others love them. I’m somewhere in the middle. One of the few saving graces for me is the huge battle scene in Attack of the Clones that predominately features the wickedly cool Gunships. Once I saw the clones landing for the first time, lasers blasting I was hooked on anything and everything clone related. I’ve very recently managed to complete a long term goal of mine, getting a Hasbro gunship with two gun pods. It was long term because first Hasbro had to actually make the pods, plus I wanted a gunship that had opening and closing doors, which Hasbro released for the first time this year. Behold!
Was it worth it worth the wait and expense? Click on that more tab to see!