ODD: I’m trying to streamline PGPoA a bit; from now on, you’ll get Odds ‘n Ends on Tuesdays, Poe’s Points on Thursdays, and a Friday Photo. News, reviews, interviews and commentary will fill the remaining days. Speaking of which, I’ve already got two cool interviews lined up for the coming weeks, so make sure you’ve got our RSS feed bookmarked. (more…)
Odds ‘n Ends > Imperfect Edition
ODD: I spent some time putting together a page that will offer you, dear readers, a complete list of links to all the toy reviews I’ve written since 2002–for OAFE, Michael Crawford’s site, and even Epinions, as well as here. I’m just waiting for OB1 to give it his stamp of approval, since I actually tried to code the thing myself. (more…)
Odds ‘n Ends > Rambeaux edition
ODD: Saw Rambo last weekend. I’ve never seen any of the original three films in their entirety, so it was a little odd that I went to see this one; but it had been far too long since I’ve seen a 1980s action flick. Which is definitely what I got, with about twenty years’ worth of harder “R” violence.
Rambo takes a while to get going, but once it does, it’s like the opening ten minutes of Saving Private Ryan, except it’s forty minutes long and you don’t care about the guys who are being blown apart, since they’re bad guys. Utterly evil, irredeemable bad guys who, during the course of the film, engage in gang rape, pedophilia, mass murder and a particularly cruel variant of Russian roulette with their hostages. (more…)
Odds ‘n Ends > Albino Frog Edition
ODD: PGPoA will be moving to a new Web host soon, so there may be some hiccups over the course of the next few weeks. Do not attempt to adjust your monitor if something goes wrong–chances are, I goofed something up. I’ll have more updates on this later in the week, but there’s a chance the site be offline for most of next weekend.
The new Web host will allow me to split PGPoA, Biggerboat and my other new website (for my wedding, if you must know) into separate domains. What does this mean for you, dear reader? Nothing. Nothing at all. Just makes my life a wee bit easier.
END: Saw Cloverfield over the weekend. Working on the review. Short version: enjoyed it, want an action figure of the monster, but not sure I’ll buy the DVD.
ODD: I finally found my KITT toy. I took some new photos and added them to my earlier review.
END: Mrs. Ghostal-to-Be and I have been playing a lot of Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure. It’s fun stuff, though it’s more of a puzzle game and less of an 
adventure game than I’d been led to believe.
ODD: Much like my recent Batman redeco mock-ups, collector RM did some Photoshop-fu on NECA’s upcoming Ninja Turtles figures. Check it out.
END: The next round of voting for the 2008 FANtastic Exclusive is underway. Cast your vote!
Odds ‘n Ends > Thor’s Day Edition
ODD: Well, Raving Toy Maniac has managed to get their RTM Spotlight of the DCUC wave one up, while I continue to dither on my own mega-review. I have a good reason for dithering, as I hope you’ll eventually get to see, but I’m still gonna be real late to the party.
In the meantime, Mattel has released some PR images of mock-ups of the second and third wave figures. You can see them all at the DCUC Info Archive. For fun, I edited together this image of the DCSH series eight Batman and the upcoming Robin, shown here next to their 1984 Kenner Super Powers counterparts (the latter taken from Jason Geyer’s Super Powers Archive).
Talk about coming a long way, baby. (On a side note…Batman went through three or four costume alterations from the 1940s through the 1980s, but DC Comics left Robin with that exact goofy uniform for fifty years. Why?)
END: In other news, Paul from Toy Bender has for some reason decided I would make for a gripping interview…but you can decide for yourself.
ODD: It seems I started a trend with my review of Cleatus the Fox Sports Robot; both Michael Crawford and OAFE have hopped on board the bandwagon.
END: I think I can declare PGPoA’s first contest a success–seventeen entries and counting! There are still plenty of days left in February and March, so if you haven’t entered yet, go for it.
ODD: You may have noticed this blog has its first ads. More are on the way. Have I sold out? Short answer yes, long answer…more or less, yeah. But I just can’t do this sort of thing for free anymore. If I can make back some of my expenses with a few relatively unobtrusive ads by retailers I approve of, then my conscience is clear.
END: I finally received my proper, horn-less Gentle Giant Hellboy. There are photos on my Flickr page, and I’ll try to get a quick review up soon.