Joes For Tots > Sponsorship Spotlight 80sTees.com
It’s still not too late to enter Joes For Tots and you don’t want to miss out because cool sponsors like 80sTees.com and their awesome gift cards are hard to pass up. Seriously, they have some cool shirts. Let’s check some out!
Joes For Tots > Awesome Peeps
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!
Paul’s Peg > The 2010 G.I. Joe Club Exclusives
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.
Toy Aisle Trolls > Everybody Hates Skrull Giant Man
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 Mr. G submits to you another Skrull Giant-Man travesty. This time, the guy just flat-out stole the Captain America–he couldn’t even be bothered to muster the mild creativity or the $2 necessary to replace it with a CORPS figure.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that Cap the non-exciting part of this two-pack? I know it’s supposed to be the new Bucky Cap (right?), but is he really that popular?
Once again, Walmart has re-shelved the item sans Cap. It makes me wonder how many vandalized packages aren’t re-shelved. If any. It also makes me wonder if there’s anything Hasbro can do to cut down in this crap–apart from not throwing in the smaller figure in the first place.
Y’know, when crap like this is going on, people who do this are even worse human beings than usual.
Anyway, here’s my curse for this perp: May he contract a rare form of leprosy that only affects the genitals just before he meets his soul mate, who looks exactly like Olivia Wilde.
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Paul’s Peg > Star Wars Fan’s Choice Hall of Shame
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.
Show and Tell > Iron Klaw (G.I. Joe Extreme)
Today’s Show and Tell comes courtesy of Poester George C. Some images taken from Yojoe.com.
When I was growing up, I didn’t own too many toys–my mother didn’t approve of them or maybe we were just broke. Whatever the reason, it helped me value toys whenever I did get some, even more. As I recall, most of my friends were jealous of a Spider-man I got at KayBee Toys (when they had a special of three toys for $5). But I didn’t care much for Spidey, so I lent him out like crazy. It seemed to me that, around that age, I only had “hero” toys–after all they were my favorite. I had the usual Batman and Robin and Spider-man and Leonardo, but I never had a bad guy. Until…Iron Klaw. (more…)
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Joes For Tots > How You Can Help
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!