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Nic Cage Is Spider-Noir
May 15, 2024 |
Star Wars Review: Queen Amidala (The Retro Collection)
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  Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Queen Amidala (The Retro Collection). She's in that six pack at Target you may find now, and has a lot of very 1980s details like the wavy fabric pattern on her leg interiors as well as the Leia-ish poses of her hands. She also has some thing no original figure had, like the extended collar element and her long hair. Overall, it's a pretty great figure. Read the whole review.
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Hot Wheels x Transformers Transforming Optimus Prime
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  Via Mattel Creations: Hot Wheels Transformers Optimus Prime. The 1:64 scale truck - roughly the same size as Hot Wheels cars and Hasbro's Spy Changers and GoBots from G2 - has a metal body, accessories, and Spectraflame paint. It's fancy, but also priced $10 above the Missing Link cab-only toy which is taller and has slightly more articulation and accessories.
Hasbro rarely approves transforming toys to licensees - that may be why this item has a higher retail price. A non-transforming Transformers Hot Wheels Optimus Prime Truck 1:64 Scale Die-Cast Metal Vehicle is also coming, complete with trailer, for under ten bucks too, which may be better for those wanting something for their scale cities and tracks.
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Ad: New Transformers Studio Series from Hasbro at Entertainment Earth
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 Ad: Pre-order the New Transformers Studio Series Toys! A bunch of new figures are up for pre-order today, including Transformers Studio Series Core The Transformers: The Movie Steeljaw!
      
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RIP Roger Corman
May 13, 2024 |
Star Wars Q&A at Galactic Hunter
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 Galactic Hunter has posted Q&A: Star Wars Triple Header with HasLab, Case Packs, and How's It Gonna End?. It's new! Be sure to click through and read up on the latest!
Be sure to send in your questions for the next thrilling update!
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Classic Review: Onell Design Glyos Crayboth Hanosyric Action Figure
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  A classic! I've written over 5,000 action figure reviews since 2006, so I'm going to toot my own horn with classic Figure of the Day.
Posted ten years ago today! The Onell Design Glyos Crayboth Hanosyric Action Figure came out in 2014, and was a mere $3 for a little articulated unpainted indie guy. He's pretty cool. Read on!
Come back tomorrow for an all-new review!
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Full of Corroded Batteries
May 10, 2024 |
Star Wars Review: Qui-Gon Jinn (The Retro Collection)
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 Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Qui-Gon Jinn (The Retro Collection). As part of the new Episode I retro 6-pack, this is a pretty nice figure - the lightsaber and fabric cloak are great accessories, while the figure has a nice head sculpt that looks like it would fit in with a lot of the originals. Read the whole review.
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Nintendo Switch This Week
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  This week's batch of titles on the eShop: Arcade Archives Rastan Saga, Little Kitty, Big City, Eggconsole Wanderers From Ys PC-8801mkIISR, and over a dozen more.
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RIP Steve Albini
May 9, 2024 |
Review: Fisher-Price Imaginext DC Super Friends Series 1 Collectible Figures Swamp Thing Action Figure
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 Something new every day-- unless it's old! Our exciting Figure of the Day continues for you lucky people! Is there anything we won't cover in this column? Probably not!
New! This Fisher-Price Imaginext DC Super Friends Series 1 Collectible Figures Swamp Thing Action Figure is probably hanging on a peg at a Target near you for five bucks - but it's in a foil mystery bag, so you might have to do some work to find one. It's bright. Do read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!
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Steve Albini Dead at 61
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  Via Pitchfork and elsewhere: Steve Albini, Storied Producer and Icon of the Rock Underground, Dies at 61. He's most famous for a lot of things - engineering In Utero for Nirvana, recording albums for the likes of Man or Astro-Man? and Fred Schneider and The Pixies and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and much more, playing in the bands Big Black and Shellac, and more.
Shellac has a new album due in about a week, To All Trains, and who the heck knows what else he was working on.
(The image is from the legendary Chunklet #15, one of very few issues of an utterly fantastic magazine that mostly went over my head at the time because you've gotta do your homework to understand most of it.)
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Switch Gets Nintendo World Championships NES Edition Deluxe Set
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 Via Nintendo: Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Ð Deluxe Set. The $60 physical version has a non-functioning gold NES cartridge, 13 art cards, and 5 pins - which arguably makes it interesting for what appears to be a remix of NES Remix. It sees release July 18.
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He's No Darth Darth Binks
May 8, 2024 |
Star Wars Review: Jar Jar Binks (The Retro Collection)
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 Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Jar Jar Binks (The Retro Collection). I have been seeing a steady trickle of this figure at Target, where it's an exclusive closed-box six pack with six individually carded figures inside. This is one of the better ones - his hands are more modernized than most retro figures, but he's still pretty charming and fits in more Mini-Rigs than I anticipated. Read the whole review.
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