Thanks again to all who entered our “Tweets from Snake Mountain” contest last week. That contest’s winner has already been chosen, but thanks to Poester misterbigbo, we have another Keldor to give away!
This contest is even easier. All you need to do is post a comment below naming the unannounced Masters of the Universe character you most want to see in Classics. The winner will then be selected at random from all the comments. (more…)
We got some great entries for this past weekend’s “Tweets from Snake Mountain” contest, done in conjunction with Cool and Collected. We’ll get to the winner in a moment, but first, here are the honorable mentions, as chosen by Brian of C&C and myself. (more…)
A few weeks ago, Brian Adams of Cool and Collected decided to find out what all the fuss was about by attempting to order a MOTUC Keldor off Mattycollector.com. He succeeded, and he wrote up his experiences in a post on his blog:
I understand how difficult it can be to run a web site (but I can only imagine what it’s like to run a successful one). The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that Mattycollector may be intentionally making this process difficult to build up the hype machine and make their items appear more scarce and collectible than they might otherwise be. Or maybe they really do just have a lousy processing setup.
Much like securing 50-yard line tickets to the big game, there is an inherent competitiveness going on here, where part of the fun is the bragging rights you get if you actually manage to reach the final checkout page with all your items.
Brian successfully got himself a Keldor and Peter Venkman, but failed to get a She-Ra. The good news (for you) is that Brian doesn’t want the Keldor, and has offered it to the winner of a contest run right here on PGPoA. (more…)
The winner of the “Choose Your Weapon” contest was a reader named TPTBeyond. So far he hasn’t answered his email, though, so I’m putting the word out here on the blog, too. If I don’t hear from him by the end of this weekend, I’ll need to pick another winner, so send that email along ASAP! poe@poeghostal.com
You too can turn your He-Man from a gray harness-wearing barbarian with only mild fashion issues to a full-blown atrocity that would drive Tim Gunn to use his namesake on himself. How, you ask? By winning the PGPoA “Choose Your Weapon” contest! The prize is a brand-spanking-new, still-in-the-white-mailer MOTUC Weapons Pak. (Read the official PGPoA review!)
All you have to do to enter is leave a comment below naming your favorite action figure accessory of all time. Feel free to go into detail as to why it’s your favorite, but all you have to do to enter is name it and the figure it came with.
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Choosing a winner for the Wyld Hunt contest wasn’t easy. There were a number of great stories in there, and in a way, you’re all winners.
But in another, more accurate way, The Historian is the winner. His tale of figure hunting in the midst of natural disaster and the unlooked-for victory struck a chord. So congratulations, Historian–your toys will be en route soon!
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We’ve all gone through it–that one figure we wanted more than anything but had to search high and low, for weeks or even months, before we found it. DCUC fans do that every week, but it’s not a new phenomenon–it’s been going on ever since the days of Mego’s World’s Greatest Superheroes and, of course, Star Wars.
I have a few tales of toy hunts, but none more memorable than the Great Turtle Hunt of 1989. For Christmas that year I wanted nothing but Ninja Turtle action figures. Of course, that was the year every kid my age wanted Ninja Turtle action figures, so they were virtually impossible to find. My parents, having become very familiar with the difficulties of finding popular toys around the holidays (thank you, Cabbage Patch Kids!) decided to be proactive. So one day in October that year, my father let me skip school and he and I drove all across Massachusetts, hitting every big retailer and toy store we could find. We found a few random Turtles here and there, but finally, at the gift shop of the now-defunct King’s Castleland in Whitman, we found the mother lode. When we got home, they were quickly swept into hiding until Christmas morn.
So here’s the deal. Hasbro has graciously donated a prize pack, seen above. To win it, all you have to do is post a comment below telling the story of a toy you had to hunt for. It can be a long tale or short, funny or tragic, ending in victory or defeat–anything. When the contest ends, I’ll choose whichever story I think is the best and send along the prizes to the winner.
The rules:
All right, this one’s easy enough. Go through the sales list for Mattycollector next Tuesday and list your guesses for when each MOTU item will sell out. Here are the rules:
Winner gets a $25 Amazon gift certificate. Good luck!
Well, it’s been a crazy action packed adventure this year, but we can now officially announce the winners of the Joes for Tots contest. It was a tough year for everyone, yet overall this year ended up being slightly bigger than last year despite the crappy state of the economy.
The winners were picked via random number selection which was graciously done by Micheal Crawford of mwctoys.com. The winners are:
Okay kids, we’re on to our last Joes For Tots Sponsorship Spotlight before we go ahead with the big winner reveal! Evan Jones is a great toy customizer who generously donated his time and energies on making a custom 6 or 3 3/4th inch figure for the first place winner and since you can check out his work at FigureRealm.com, I thought that we could check them out.