Octane, but not! The Hasbro Transformers Generations Titans Return Decepticon Octone should confuse buyers and sellers for years to come. These ones came in a foil baggie. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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Semi-related, Toys R Us announced it'll file for some sort of bankruptcy this week, which doesn't necessarily mean it's going out of business. In the 1990s, Kmart was part of what Hasbro called its "top five" - Target, Kmart, Kay-Bee Toys, Toys R Us, and Walmart - who made up 85ish percent of the American toy business market. Kay-Bee closed in the late 2000s, with Kmart not officially out of business, but dozens of store closures are announced every couple of months. (The rest of the toy market was often referred to, at Hasbro, as "market six." Mattel referred to the other stores as "alternative channels" or "alt channel" stores.)

The loss of Kmart over time has been supplanted by growth in Amazon and online toy sellers like Entertainment Earth (where I work), plus increases - albeit small ones - at the likes of Walgreens and increasingly GameStop. And JC Penny has a toy section again this year, probably right now at a store near you.

If you've got a Kmart near you, take a stroll through it - here in Phoenix, we're fast approaching our last chance.

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Stranger Things is almost back, Emmys or not! The Funko Pop! Television Stranger Things Mike Pop! Vinyl Figure is the last of these I had on my review pile. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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Taco Friday! The Hasbro Marvel Legends X-Men Deadpool is a fun figure if you can find one. So read on, and come back next week for more!

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The store for New 3DS has Minecraft: New 3DS Edition and PercyÕs Predicament Deluxe.

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The virtual console has added the games Vigilante from the TurboGrafx-16.

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Also Jeremy Parish wrote a thing about Nintendo arcade game ports really, actually getting their first official home releases for the Switch. Finally!

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Neat! The Playmobil Ghostbusters 9221 Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is in stores now and is a pretty sturdy representation of the characters from a comedy that came out in 1984 - so naturally, it's what a German toy company wants to make for preschoolers. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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"A finalist for "Best Indie Game" at the Canadian Videogame Awards, Planet of the Eyes tells the tale of a service robot stranded on a mysterious planet. A stunning visual mix of puzzle and platforming challenges, an original musical score and fully voiced audio logs will sweep you away on the immersive journey of a lone robot in an unknown world."

Also available: NASCAR Heat 2, PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2018, EA SPORTS NHL 18 Young Stars Edition, Rogue Trooper Redux, Transcripted, Maize, and DonÕt Starve Together: Console Edition.

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Three modes of terror? The Hasbro Transformers Generations Titans Return Blitzwing is at a store near you, maybe, possibly, if you're lucky. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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New classic games this week: Art of Fighting Anthology.

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Dead! The Playmobil "Fi?ures" Figures Zombie is pretty good for a decaying dead guy. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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White! The Four Horsemen Outer Space Men Beta Phase Ohpromatem Action Figure is a convention redeco that also served as a blankf or customizers. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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Hasbro had Hasbro Games. Giant games, games for sale, game crates, and game demos - it was pretty amazing to see everything. I was particularly taken with some of the game crates, specifically a game that asks you if you're better than a box of rocks at trivia. It's called - wait for it - Box of Rocks.

Tons of Marvel items were shown spanning a decade of movies and getting close to a century's worth of comic books. I loved seeing Walgreens new exclusives, a 3 3/4-inch Mega Man (really), and some costumes.

Massive parts of HasCon were set up to Nerf items. Blasters and cars are their main products, but there are shooting galleries and a quasi-paintball zone where people could shoot each other - or a dude dressed like a zombie!

I was delighted to see a big Play-Doh setup. There was a test play kitchen in addition to scores of display cases and demo stations with new items. The vintage stuff was the most fun to revisit, though.

This HasCon Grab Bag is loaded with other stuff. Shirts for sale, Littlest Pet Shop, Dunkin Donuts Plinko, micro-sized Tonka vehicles, and so much more could be seen. I had fun. The free donut holes made my day each day.

This Transformers Generations gallery was the heart of the show - it was the big thing you probably wanted to see, and the Transformers area was right up front when you entered the show. Tucked in were new Power of the Primes toys, with the new Dinobots being the best thing I've seen in a while. It's Sludge, people!

I loved getting to look at Transformers Grey Prototypes since they had new Power of the Primes toys and previously unseen things like scraplets and Blaster from the movieverse.

I didn't see much new for Transformers The Last Knight. Everything was shown before, but if you haven't seen it you're in for a treat.

If you entered the convention hall, there's no way you could miss Transformers Props and Displays. Full-size cars and a giant Optimus Prime were just some of the things on display.

Similarly, Transformers Robots in Disguise was mostly previously announced toys. I like it.

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Maybe available at HasCon today! The Hasbro Revolution First Strike Comic Preview Mega-Set is the best monument to Hasbro IP this side of the new millennium, so I hope you got/get one. So read on, and come back next week for more!

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Set for a Friday release, the item was up for ordering late Thursday night. Check the store and order accordingly - as far as I know, this is the last known/scheduled glow figure. More may come, but weren't produced yet (as far as I know.)

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Free! The Playmobil 2017 Toy Fair Roman Troop Figure is a freebie. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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"From the makers of the acclaimed hit game Destiny, comes the much-anticipated sequel. An action shooter that takes you on an epic journey across the solar system. Humanity's last safe city has fallen to an overwhelming invasion force, led by Ghaul, the imposing commander of the brutal Red Legion. He has stripped the city's Guardians of their power, and forced the survivors to flee. You will venture to mysterious, unexplored worlds of our solar system to discover an arsenal of weapons and devastating new combat abilities. To defeat the Red Legion and confront Ghaul, you must reunite humanity's scattered heroes, stand together, and fight back to reclaim our home."

Also available: Life Is Strange: Before The Storm Episode 1, Echoes Of The Fey: The Fox's Trail, Don't Knock Twice, and Squish And The Corrupted Crystal.

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The last big Headmaster? The Hasbro Transformers Generations Titans Return Decepticon Overlord is starting to show up, so get or pre-order yours. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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New classic games this week: Art of Fighting Anthology.

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