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No word yet on pricing, availability, or viability as a consumer product. Analogue's Pocket console is still set for 2023 (for new pre-orders), and at press time has no ability to sideload your own ROMs on it. (But you can get .pocket files running on it.) There are also dozens of emulator handhelds to be bought if you need something sooner.

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It's a follow-up to the HEAP robot, which is also pretty excellent. They're low-run toys, and each one is a little different - give 'em a look.

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It's not for sale, but it supposedly works - and really, I had to share it. Just look at it.

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Good, and you've got options! The Hasbro Transformers Generations War for Cybertron Kingdom Leader Galvatron Action Figure has battle-damage paint, but the Legacy one in stores now doesn't - and you may be able to find the latter. It's a pretty good, if troubled figure. Mine had bad shoulders that needed fixing, hopefully yours does not. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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This may be particularly exciting because if you have your real original release of Wario Ware Twisted!, the rumble just plain stopped working in a lot of cases - you can replace it with a cheap cell phone motor, though. This may be the first time a lot of players tried it on a monitor with rumble - Game Cube owners with a Game Boy Player could not play the game with a controller since the motor to control the game was in the actual cartridge. This should be fun.

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The War for Cybertron character has lots of extra weapons, an Energon canister, and an adapter to plug Cog into Arcee like on the show. But she had a blue one. So hopefully you bought one.

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Sold out! The Healey Made Assassin (GID) Action Figure is a glowing figure that looks something like your old Kenner figures, and therefore, I had to have it. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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The album took about four years to deliver, but they have since followed up with lots of remixes and special bonus tracks - which is incredibly welcome.

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The story adds "As part of the investment, eBay and Funko agreed to make eBay the preferred secondary market for Funko products." Now I have no idea what that really means, but sports teams do weird things. In Phoenix, Streets of New York Pizza is "the official pizza of the Phoenix Suns." I don't think it changed anybody's life, but literal eBay exclusives are now possible and those have historically been scarce. Hasbro did do one for Star Wars: Jedi Force just over 15 years ago, with a weird orange-stripe X-wing, but you'll be forgiven for not remembering it because nobody does.

As a wildly successful company - the Pop! Vinyl figure has effectively done for character-based collectibles what Hot Wheels (and Matchbox) did for collectible cars - it's interesting to see they still view lots and lots of untapped potential in the toy brand. And indeed there are tons of characters and licenses that haven't been made yet, or licenses that haven't been signed yet - Nintendo, for example, is unrepresented outside Pokemon. There are quite a few classic TV shows that have yet to hit the format, scores of musicians, armies of advertising mascots, and goodness knows what cult revivals await us. Until fans eventually run out of space... and that could be years away.

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New orders are welcome, and figures are expected mostly in 2023 - but you can order now. And have Armus while you're at it.

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An accesory kit with a figure! The Hasbro Transformers Studio Series 86 Coronation Starscream is probably worth buying just for the cape, pads, crown, and throne - which is good, particularly if you bought Starscream back in 2020. This rerelease has slightly different paint and new jointed finger hands, so it might be worth getting anyway. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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The store is pretty much empty, so hopefully you won't miss whatever it is that goes live this weekend.

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The sound you hear is a bunch of a fans rushing to dig out their previous Impactors to sell before the market falls out.

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The Mammoth is based on an existing ceratopsian mold with new heads and weapons, while Leadfoot takes the Mirage mold, makes some adjustments, and paints him to look sort of like the Wrecker in the Regeneration One comics you totally didn't skip reading. At $45, the set is slightly cheaper than a couple of boxed single Deluxe guys.

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But new items are in stock too - get free shipping on orders $39+, like the shared Transformers Studio Series 77 Deluxe N.E.S.T. Bumblebee - Exclusive.

Old! The Fisher-Price Imaginext Series 8 Collectible Figures Woodland Mystic is a figure that's probably long gone from stores by now, but something I stumbled on kind of after the fact at a grocery store. That's still not a bad place to look for stuff. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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The Springer is a repaint of the Siege one - which was good - and now it's in comic/toy colors. It looks surprisingly different from the 2019 version, and I daresay it's probably worth getting again.

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The unofficial builds were pretty sturdy with tons of exciting features, like widescreen support. And also you can play Castlevania: Symphony of the Night on it.

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The Bulkhead is a repaint of the Legacy one - and it's excellent. This one is a different shade of green with camo on it, and the set adds a hammer in addition to a black gun (instead of blue.) The silver wrecking ball is still there, too.

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The Twin Twist is a repaint of the Titans Return one - the Headmaster/Titan Master construction is a lot of fun and the original release from five years ago is somewhat expensive. At $24.99, this one is slightly cheaper.

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A mighty blue Heavy Armor Sincroborg Ennosarc seems to be the centerpiece of a really robust series, filled with silvers, purples, and more. New printings, a crossover figure, and lots of build parts make this wave stand out.

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There's also a TimMee Galaxy Laser Team Space Figures - Tan vs Olive Green Set that I missed - I have the green/blue, black/white, and orange/red sets. I recommend buying one of 'em, but as to which, that's your call - they're basically knock-off Star Wars designs and they're great.

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In stores now! The Hasbro Transformers Buzzworthy Bumblebee Legacy Deluxe Silverstreak Action Figure is a sharp repaint of Bluestreak, who shares molds with Barricade, Prowl, and Smokescreen. This one is pretty sharp and not a common coloring for these molds, so take a look and check your store for availability - the yellow on the crest varies a bit from figure to figure. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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As such, don't be shocked if you see these in stores, and also if you try to cancel your pre-order and can't. People are finding these, so check your order status and remember your mileage may vary because some people have purchased these already in a store.

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It's a dead man's party! The Playmobil "Fi?ures" Figures Day of the Dead Man is a figure that's unsurprisingly more expensive when people sell identified figures, because it's awesome. The level of painted detail is excellent, with lots of gold accents, bone markings, a belt, and a uniquely painted face that is going to go well in pretty much any figure collection. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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Pretty dang good! The Hasbro Transformers Studio Series 86 Perceptor is still hitting stores with 3 movie guys, and he's usually the first one to go. While not quite as robust as the Titans Return toy, it's a surprisingly fun action figure that contorts into a decent but non-working toy microscope. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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The Authentics toys are mostly sold overseas, but US Food/Drug/Value stores stock them. Hasbro tends to only put about one or two new molds per year in its Alpha and Bravo size classes, which make them easy/cheap to collect, also because pretty much nobody cares about them you may actually find them. He'll be in Figure of the Day soon, but for $10.99 I'd say go run out and get one.

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This probably means you/I should get a Sega Saturn controller adapter cable now. USB Sega Saturn controllers are cheap and widely available, but for those of us with the 3D Analog pads or Fight Sticks, well. They're good.

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I have no idea if more modules are in the works, but I hope so - it's a fun idea.

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Order yours now! Or don't! These old Marvel Legends were also found and are in stock now. Limit 2 per order.

New! The Hasbro Transformers Legacy Voyager Prime Universe Bulkhead Action Figure just hit stores, and a "Wrecker" variant is coming in a few months if you prefer that flavor. It's pretty neat, even if it's not the Animated-as-G1 version many were wanting. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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Override is also going to be packed thi way, assuming these are real, and not an elaborate hoax. These haven't been announced or released yet but Walmart has incomplete listings right now.

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Maybe still in a weird store near you! The Hasbro Transformers Studio Series Kup Action Figure is not as good as the Buzzworthy version, but as the first release of the mold it does warrant a look. He has a weird decidedly not-cartoony chest, but also a nifty Energon Goodies dispenser and a perfectly nice blaster - plus limbs you can yank off. This makes him fun to play around with. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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The licensed plush toys have sound but no size or specifications as to the sound were listed. At current exchange rates, it's about US $32 for the non-sound version and $43 for the sound version.

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