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Sold out! The Healey Made Raider (Revenge) Action Figure is based on the character's revised armor, which is nice, because Hasbro's won't be out for a little while longer. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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New! The Transformers Generations Legacy Selects Lift-Ticket Action Figure is the first "Legacy" branded toy to hit, and it's basically Earthrise Hoist in red. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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Also available, Glow-in-the-Dark Mutagen Man qualifies for free USA shipping, so grab it while you can!

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'Star Trek: Picard' Production Paused After More Than 50 Test Positive for COVID-19 (Exclusive, THR) - this follows news of Whoopi Goldberg, who is returning as Guinan, coming down with the virus a few days ago. From the article: "Production on the series was immediately shut down Monday and has remained dark since. Sources say filming is expected to resume early next week, if not sooner, though details remain in limbo."

E3 2022 Cancels In-Person Event, While Digital Show Remains Uncertain (via IGN). The show is normally around June, so this may foretell a lot for the next six months.

CES 2022 Is Smaller and Quieter This Year. What I Learned From the Show. (via Barron's) We are hearing that it's a ghost town, with lots of lightly- or unmanned booths including stories of big manufacturers loading up their spaces with QR codes for more information. This event is happening this week.

Toy Fair loses major retailers over Omicron fears - but still slated for Javits Center (via NY Post). The organization put out an optimistic press release this week, but Hasbro pulled out, as has Jazwares and MGA Entertainment, and others who have yet to make statements. Neither Galactic Hunter nor 16bit.com will not be covering the event in person if it takes place next month.

Grammy Awards Officially Postponed (via Variety), with no new date listed.

As far as I've heard, Star Wars Celebration, San Diego's Comic-Con International, C2E2, and all the other big shows are still planning to happen.

Also, Saturday Night Live returns January 15 for first, hopefully Omicron-free show of 2022 (AV Club) so that may be some good news.

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Wave 92 is small, but cool - check out the Boba Fett-ish Glyans! At press time, the entire drop appears to still be available.

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Sold out! The Hasbro Transformers Generations War for Cybertron Trilogy Selects Megatron Action Figure is the kind of repaint I love - garish. He's in short supply these days, so if you can get one for around the $30 price tag you shouldn't hesitate to get him. (Or you can get Ramjet or Sandstorm to scratch that G2 itch.) So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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Of note, the words "delayed," "pushed back," or "postponed" aren't mentioned in the release, nor was that some areas of the toy industry are doing phenomenally well right now despite any sort of central toy show. With Zoom and Teams and other teleconferencing, toys will still be made, presented, ordered, and delivered, but our sources have said that they don't expect a return to anything resembling normalcy regarding distribution and production until 2023. So keep ordering online, kids.

Other big events which haven't been canned yet for 2022 include Anaheim's Star Wars Celebration, The 56-Year Mission in Las Vegas, San Diego's Comic-Con International, New York Comic Con, C2E2, and Emerald City Comic Con. I feel I should set up some sort of cancellation bingo card.

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Chunky! The Onell Design Glyos Syclodoc Glyaxia Command Sentinel is a mold we don't see run anymore, in a format Onell Design doesn't do anymore either. The hollow soft vinyl figure is almost more impressive eight years on, because it's pretty big and has swappable heads. And great paint. Also it looks super cool. (They should make more like this.) So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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Also interesting, the carry case sets are showing up at US Walgreens sets for around $10 alongside other stuff as part of their long-delayed toy aisle reset. Given most US big box stores don't carry Playmobil, it's nice to see.

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Toy Fair New York 2022 Cancelled - pretty much says it all. The February event isn't happening.

Pixar's Turning Red to go straight to Disney+, skipping theatrical release (via EW). This follows in the footsteps of other Pixar movies.

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You probably don't know this band, but they're pretty good, and they put on a pretty good show too - tour dates are up for April in the USA and Canada, assuming those dates happen.

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Newish! The Hasbro Transformers Generations War for Cybertron Kingdom Deluxe Slammer Action Figure is Metroplex' old sidekick, and you can take him apart and use him as weapons, armor, and platform shoes. The robot mode is new for this release - originally, he was just a small tank. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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While more animated Prodigy and Lower Decks are expected later this year, no live action shows are known to be coming after the summer.

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New! The Super7 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ultimates Glow-in-the-Dark Mutagen Man Action Figure is available now and boy howdy is it a bright glowing figure. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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The console is very much like Analogue's Nt Mini, but cheaper. It used to be easily bought for under $200, but is now out of stock and sold out until 2023. It's a really good console if you like old Famicom and NES games, and it goes for quite a premium on eBay right now too, but it might be worth it if you have kept putting off getting a really good HDTV-compatible way to play old cartridges without modding.

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This 3 3/4-inch set was set to be reissued for a while, but they were out looking for the molds - and found them. It comes to you in a plain brown box with stickers and some weapons for your 3 3/4-inch figures - presumably this was meant to go with the popular G.I. Joe range. It's also huge - about 13-inches tall and 38-inches across.

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This probably doesn't mean anything to anybody, but other than McFarlane Toys there isn't a heck of a lot of corporate toy industry presence here in Arizona. (Collectors yes, freelancers yes.) It is speculated that benefits may include more and cheaper land, potentially fewer regulations in light of another lockdown situation, and a handy location - it's much quicker (and cheaper) to get materials to California and other neighboring states than it is from the Pacific Northwest. But note, it's just a warehouse - and a big one, at that - so this isn't a place you can go to buy stuff or take a tour.

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Marvel ran a Transformers series from 1984-1991, with Dreamwave picking up the books from 2002-2004 (when the company folding.) IDW has run with the brand since 2005, with a whopping 17 continued years of one or more books per month including crossovers, reprints, and a preposterous amount of stories that did a great job creating demand for old toys (and toys that didn't yet exist.)

At least so far, Hasbro has avoided being gobbled up by Disney or another conglomerate to be absorbed into their content machines.

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From last summer! The Transformers Generations War for Cybertron Trilogy Sparkless Seeker with Caliburst and Singe Action Figures is a weird set - the figure may not really be a Sparkless Zombie, and the gun buddies are kind of unnecessary, but everybody loves a seeker so he sold through anyway. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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While more waves are expected, we are not privy to what they are. It's heartening to see regular uniforms and no battle damage, and two new characters to the format. But we've got no idea if this is going to be a very small and incomplete collection, or if it will be built out with the Stamets, Tilly, Scotty, and Worf that we need.

For those of you who weren't around for the 1990s, Playmates' Star Trek line was a huge deal - some figures were made in quantities over 200,000 and sold all over the world. Each figure was $4.99 and included a stand and several accessories, a remarkable value because Kenner's figures had 1-2 accessories and were $5.99 most of the time. Playmates' line grew, but also got repetitive in year two with redux figures of almost the entire main cast alongside some really tip-top weird choices that would qualify as a deep cut today since we're all nearly 35 years out from the first episodes of Picard's adventures. The original figures are also surprisingly cheap - you can get many of them at collectible toy or comic shops for fairly reasonable prices, although some command a pretty penny.

The figures were famous for their decent articulation and mostly excellent likenesses. The sculptors did amazing work, and the new likenesses are even better. (The heads and hands are not slightly enlarged for the 2022 line, another improvement.) We've got no idea how robust this one might be, and there are so many great figures Playmates never did like Martok, a non-accessory Nog, and Iggy Pop's Vorta Yelgrun. (Just to name a few.) We're also hoping for our friend Captain DeSoto.

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Awesome! The Playmobil "Fi?ures" Figures Steampunk showed up at dollar stores last year, and I lucked into one. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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Hasbro has been making Disney Princess stuff since shortly after the tidal wave following the unexpected success of the original Frozen movie - back when we had Toys R Us and Kmart to shop at. Slices of Disney dolls have also gone to other companies like Jakks Pacific for some movies Hasbro didn't necessarily want to support - and Mattel tended to take them all back when they had it. So, let's see how this goes.

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We just ran out of Darksabers, so grab some action figures while you can!

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A demo is available. It seems to bug out when you leave the screen, but what does work looks decent.

It looks sort of like standard 16-bit-era RPG fare, which could be really good. These guys made Eyra: The Crow Maiden the The Curse of Illmoore Bay, which is a pretty great track record.

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