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Ready for yeti? The Mattel Masters of the Universe Classics King Chooblah is a furry guy with great detailing based on the classic buck. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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Each set from Bif Bang Pow! is $24.99 and due around January.

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Use the code BESTGIFT to get 25% off toys - this works really well when free shipping and such are included.

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Yellow, not mellow! The Hasbro Transformers Generations Combiner Wars Sunstreaker combines into a larger robot. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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There are no specifics as to when the show will take place, or in which continuity, but it's worth noting that 2017 is Star Wars' 40th anniversary and since 1998, that franchise has been routinely stealing Star Trek's thunder. (See The Phantom Menace's 1998 trailer stomping on Insurrection in the press, Deep Space Nine ending during peak George R. Binks mania, Revenge of the Sith's release eclipsing the long drain-spiral of Enterprise.)

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From the article: "Hasbro is launching the G.I. JOE Kindle Worlds Toy Fan Vote to create a new figure in the 2016 G.I. JOE lineup based on these original writings."

It does not specify where or how it will be sold - as a shared exclusive, as a main line item, for the Club, or what, but it's something. Joe fans haven't had a lot to look forward to lately, so this is good news indeed. Voting is live through November 9 for four candidates - two of which are women, and two of which are Cobra.

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He's mean and orange! The Funko Pop! DC Comics Super Heroes Orange Batman Vinyl Figure is an Entertainment Earth exclusive and sells out when he shows up - get him if you can. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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Each is $12.99 - Bugcat is due in February, while Commander Catbug is in stock right now.

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New arcade classic games this week: Arcade Archives Ikki.

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New PSOne games this week: Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return is for $5.99.

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Short! The Hasbro Battle Beasts Eager Beaver is a rodent who gives a dam. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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The important part: "Funko will continue to be led by CEO Brian Mariotti and other members of the existing senior management team, who will all be meaningful equity owners alongside ACON. Fundamental Capital will retain a Board seat and a minority ownership stake in the business." Brian, if you don't know him, is a groovy dude and basically the person you want to keep steering the ship.

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"This is a bundle of 4 Sierra games: Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved, King¹s Quest ­ Chapter 1: A Knight to Remember, Velocity 2X, and Shiftlings."

Also available: Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition, Need For Speed, and The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy¹s Grand Adventure.

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Overrated, but you'll buy it anyway! The Hasbro Transformers Age of Extinction Slog was a heavily discounted item last month, and now... not. It's neat to look at on the cheap, but your Transformers dollar is better spent elsewhere. Read on and come back Monday for more!

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$39.99, due in February.

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Up for the Nintendo Wii U retro library: Stinger from the NES for $4.99.

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Soon to be obsolete! The Hasbro Transformers Generations Fall of Cybertron Autobot Blaster fun, sturdy toy with good joints and an intuitive transformation - and by this time next year you'll probably never look at it again since we're getting a new, bigger, Headmastery Blaster. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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Each set has the first Revenge of the Sith Clone Trooper, plus other troopers of various makes and models. The yellow Attack of the Clones Clone Commander is included, as is an original trilogy Stormtrooper with battle-damage that looks good in person, and it is completed by a pauldroned First Order Stormtrooper. Pre-orders are open now.

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Since it's in Somerville (near Boston) you probably won't be going, but at least there's a new EP en route. Via their mailing list: "I guess the biggest thing is that we'll have an EP coming out very, very soon. We wanted to get something out into the world to tide you over until our next full-length album. It will contain "Phantoms," i.e. our song that will be featured in the upcoming Amplitude, as well as some other delightfully hott traxx. Full details just around the corner, but just wanted to let you know we're also playing a release party too!"

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The catch is that you must be an active member of the club to place an order. Or look at it this way, Christmas is coming up at $10 Transformers are a can't-miss prospect. Assuming, of course, you have a club membership. In which case those figures are probably also fantastic trade fodder on the forums, too.

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Do you trust him? May as well, he's fun to watch. The Playmates Star Trek Elim Garak Action Figure comes with rods and tailor's equipment you can ignore, mostly because it's all bright blue. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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If you like Mini-Cons and Deployers, it looks like the next 15 months are going to be fantastic.

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The animated toy you always wanted! The Takara-Tomy Transformers Legends Slipstream is showing up at importers and exporters for as little as $22. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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The aim seems to be to make the show for fans and sell broadcast rights later. $2 million makes it happen with 3 episodes - stretch goals go up to 12 episodes. It was nearly 10% funded in the first few hours of being live yesterday.

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Each is $11.99 - they should be in stock in January.

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New arcade classic games this week: Arcade Archives Super Dodge Ball.

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Red! The Hasbro Transformers Generations Combiner Wars Ironhide is a decent take on the character, but doesn't look too much like the cartoon. Or the original toy, but I'll always prefer the toy with an actual head. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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It's $350, has 4,600 pieces, 9 figures, 3 smaller ghosts, and is scaled to fit other giant expensive building sets. You know, like the Haunted House you regret not having bought.

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Six new figures come out Sunday, with a Battle Beasts-inspired new Granthan and new Noboto figures too!

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"Rise of the Tomb Raider delivers a cinematic survival action adventure where you will join Lara Croft on her first tomb raiding expedition. Huge ancient spaces littered with deadly traps, solve dramatic environmental puzzles, and decipher ancient texts to reveal crypts as you take on a world filled with secrets to discover. Conquer a world fiercely protecting its secrets, endure perilous conditions and unstable landscapes, face dangerous wildlife that act as guardians to ancient tombs, and explore huge interactive environments. Use the environment to your advantage, scale trees and dive underwater to avoid or takedown enemies, configure LaraÕs gear, weapons, and ammo to suit your play style, craft explosives on the fly to sow chaos, and wield LaraÕs signature combat bows and climbing axe."

Also available: Fallout 4.

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From the creator of Sock Monkey! The DC Collectibles Batman Tony Millionaire Batman Statue was delayed, but it's nifty. Read on and come back Monday for more!

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$12.99, due in January.

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Up for the Nintendo Wii U retro library: Contra Advance: The Alien Wars EX from the GameBoy Advance for $7.99.

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Have a cow, man! The Hasbro Battle Beasts Bodacious Bovine has sculpted patterns but none of the black or brown spots you might hope for. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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I saw a full case at Toys R Us at $3.99 a whack - NES fans will enjoy pixel versions of Link, Mario, Luigi, and Donkey Kong. Non-pixel figures in this wave include Skull Kid, Dixie Kong, Shy Guy, and Yellow Pikmin. These cost considerably more on Amazon, where they're available right now. Good hunting.

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American retailer Entertainment Earth (and therefore me) have received Combiner Wars Onslaught and Scattershot, and I cracked mine open. (Scattershot review Wednesday.) Onslaught has the grey combiner mode chestplate and, so far, seems to have parts tolerance issues - the vehicle front won't peg together, and parts of the combined torso don't quite peg together. Meanwhile, Scattershot is basically perfect - the only complaint is that you may not really have much use for his lack of brown or the lack of a new combiner mode head/chest. But structurally, he's exquisite. I posted pictures of his bio to my Tumblr account.

Lastly, Titans Return Fortress Maximus Leaked?! It looks like a "yes" - the watermarked image has a name of David Chua, who Google says is a Hasbro Asia employee. This item appears to be a shared exclusive given the data (release date, edition size, features). Since this one has premium G1 Deco and Labels, with a fairly low run and a higher-than-usual price, it sure as heck sounds like a special to me. We'll see what happens once an official announcement is made.

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Take a stab at finding the Mattel Masters of the Universe Classics Blade because he's pretty cheap now. Movie guys don't get the love the cartoon guys do, so get it if you like - he's got a whip, two swords, and some of the best sculpted detail in the entire line. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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Not much specific info was given, but it's a long time coming. Hasbro had the Micronauts logo in its Toy Fair showroom 7 or 8 years ago, and there have been rumors-that-weren't-rumors about a movie for quite some time. Here's looking forward to Toy Fair.

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New head, new jet, same old combiner torso! The Hasbro Transformers Generations Combiner Wars Scattershot lets you make Betatron using your existing limbs - find out which ones in today's review! So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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Joel Hodgson or his court-appointed Kickstarter medium writes: "At the end of the day, he's just another regular guy in a yellow jumpsuit - not so different from you and me. I'm excited to see what he can bring to the next hundred episodes of Mystery Science Theater, until it's time to hand the jumpsuit over to someone else."

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Each is $23.99 - they should be in stock in June.

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I also read somewhere that the next TV show would be a prequel to movie #5, but I can't find it now and it doesn't necessarily correspond with the timeline. But hey, it might - it depends on how long Hasbro plans to milk that last year of Robots in Disguise.

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New classic games this week: Super Star Wars.

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Red! The Playmates Gormiti Insecticus and Branchtearer the Furious brings you plant monsters and lava bugs. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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$13.99, due in January.

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Click here to see the Saber Tiger and Click here for Shield Liger.

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"Feeling the ominous thud of an AT-AT stomping down on the frozen tundra of Hoth. Rebel forces firing blasters as Imperial speeder bikes zip through the lush forests of Endor. Intense dogfights between squadrons of X-wings and TIE fighters filling the skies. Immerse yourself in the epic STAR WARS battles youÕve always dreamed of and create new heroic moments of your own in STAR WARSª Battlefrontª."

Also available: Game Of Thrones Ð Episode 6: The Ice Dragon, The Crew Wild Run Edition, Deadpool, Resident Evil Revelations 2 Deluxe Edition, and Knight Squad.

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Stealthy! The Playmates Star Trek: The Next Generation Lieutenant Worf in Starfleet Rescue Outfit Action Figure got caught pretty quickly, but at least it wasn't his costume's fault. Read on and come back Monday for more!

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74% off Venture Bros., 83% off Lost, 67% off G.I. Joe, and more killer deals can be had - provided they don't sell out.

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Up for the Nintendo Wii U retro library: Super Street Fighter II: Turbo Revival from the GameBoy Advance for $7.99.

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One of five lone men! The Hasbro Transformers Generations Combiner Wars Prowl gives Optimus Prime a leg up on fighting Decepticons. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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I was seeing some unusual Jakks Nintendo items on eBay and noticed this one. The box is $30 plus shipping ($9) making it not cheap - but certainly interesting if you're like me and said "This figure would be awesome with a better paint job." Given Samus is pretty scarce in the first place, it may be the best shot most of you have at getting one. Their policies say you can sign up once and then cancel immediately, so I'm giving it a shot - this figure is due to ship out the first week of December. Possible regrets recur every 30 days. Other items included in this box are a Darth Vader comic book, and since I was about to pay $30 for the Samus on eBay that was good enough for me.

If you were curious as to what kind of junk quality merchandise the box has, I suggest checking My Subscription Addiction - they do a good job inventorying all of these things. It looks like you get the usual selection of not-quite-licensed t-shirts as well as posters, plush, luggage tags, Blu-Ray discs, mugs, comics, and other future fodder for regifting or your junk drawers. I may not necessarily agree with their definition of "value," but I look at it like this - would I pay $30 for Samus on eBay anyway? Yeah. So I jumped for this one.

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Let's finish the set - we're getting close! The Mattel Masters of the Universe Classics Terror Claws Skeletor and Flying Fists He-Man brings you two figures with a sword, claws, big spinning weapons, and the same sculpting you've come to love. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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Also, the Star Wars The Black Series Imperial Forces 6-Inch Action Figures - Entertainment Earth Exclusive is in stock now! $99.99 gets you 4 exclusive action figures and free shipping in the USA. Don't miss it!

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If you like the idea of robots watching movies, and what comes as a result, you'll want to check this out.

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A link to 1987! The Jakks Pacific World of Nintendo 8-Bit Link Action Figure has a green costume and is pixel-riffic. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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The aim is to pick the next big Transformers toy - Trypticon is in the lead on many informal polls, and he's joined by Omega Supreme and Scorponok. For those who have watched other Fan's Choice polls, we've found quite often that the collector sites do not always correspond to the actual winners. Star Wars polls are notorious from surprise upsets, mostly because collectors spend a lot of money but do live in a bubble. We look forward to seeing how this shakes out. The toy you vote on is expected Fall (meaning near Comic-Con) 2017.

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$105.99, due in April.

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New arcade classic games this week: Arcade Archives Arcade Archives Shanghai III.

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Red! The Mattel Hot Wheels Loopster is a car that can link to itself and go through loops, making a roller coaster in your own home. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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56% off Pop! figures, 37% off retro Batman exclusives, 70% off Doctor Who, and more killer deals can be had - provided they don't sell out.

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"Minecraft: Xbox One Edition Holiday Pack delivers a cinematic survival action adventure where you will join Lara Croft on her first tomb raiding expedition. Huge ancient spaces littered with deadly traps, solve dramatic environmental puzzles, and decipher ancient texts to reveal crypts as you take on a world filled with secrets to discover. Conquer a world fiercely protecting its secrets, endure perilous conditions and unstable landscapes, face dangerous wildlife that act as guardians to ancient tombs, and explore huge interactive environments. Use the environment to your advantage, scale trees and dive underwater to avoid or takedown enemies, configure LaraÕs gear, weapons, and ammo to suit your play style, craft explosives on the fly to sow chaos, and wield LaraÕs signature combat bows and climbing axe."

Also available: Minecraft: Story Mode Ð Episode 3: The Last Place You Look.

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Finally, a more expensive black repaint! The Takara-Tomy Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Scourge costs close to three times a normal Optimus toy, and includes a giant red sword plus a comic book. That's what you get. Read on and come back Monday for more!

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$159.99, due in December.

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Up for the Nintendo Wii U retro library: Konami Krazy Racers from the GameBoy Advance for $6.99.

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A robot designed to benefit all of mankind! The Takara-Tomy Transformers Legends Nightbird Shadow is Arcee with some new deco, new weapons, and a new head and chest - it's great. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more!

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In this custom project you simply must see, Rook becomes Inferno, Alpha Bravo becomes Evac, Streetwise becomes Red Alert, and Offroad becomes Prowl. It really works well! Hopefully someone out there is taking notes. Maybe not on how this particular Evac was executed, but everything else is wonderful.

Also fun, via TFormers.com is: Combiner Wars Sky Lynx In Hand Photos Featuring Improvised Lynx Mode. This probably means that the toy is going to be up for pre-order pretty soon, and you get a look at his various modes. Start scratching your head to figure out any possible repaints!

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