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  Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: BB-PR0UD (Pride Collection, Droid Factory) . The first in the series remains a difficult-to-obtain and expensive rainbow robot, but this one? You can get this one. BB mania has sure died down since BB-8 was introduced 11 years ago, and this one has a lot going for it. Check out the bright blue and yellow, and the silver paneling. The dark indigo body looks unique in a sea of droids. Granted, it doesn't do much as a toy but sit there and look cool - which seems to be what most collectors are looking for these days. Read the whole review.
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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!
Pink! The Mattel Hot Wheels Mad Drip is new, and as such may be in a store near you right now. I've been seeing some Hot Wheels waves show up in abundance a month or two late, so be sure to look for #197 when scouting out cheap cars at your store. The clear pink is a close match for Glyos, and it even has a stick in the back. It's nice.
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  We saw Supergirl on Monday, and it was not what I expected. The reasonably paced 108-minute movie spent very little time on Earth, and instead focused on the 20-something of steel going from planet to planet and encountering aliens in bars with the fights one might expect. If you saw and liked Guardians of the Galaxy and are amused by French Ye-Ye music on an alien jukebox (as you should be) you'll probably find a lot to like here. The aliens are plentiful and in some cases, gross, with designs that looked a lot like what we got out of the Men in Black movies. Or Kit Fisto, with lots of prosthetic eyes and visible (albeit made up) lower mouths.
Since I watched zero marketing and don't actually read super hero comics, I am unfamiliar with The Woman of Tomorrow comic series which this film adapts. It just seems to borrow a bit from some Westerns, and that sort of thing goes well with space adventure.
The story was similar to a lot of recent movies - you'll see shades of the Furiosa stories, Guardians of the Galaxy, a bit of what I expected The Mandalorian and Grogu to be like, all with a soupon of Natasha Lyonne-ness to the proceedings. I won't contest that the movie feels a lot like the last decade of big blockbuster films, but it's one of precious few non-Star Wars movies where I'd really like to see a big art book with all the creature and costume designs. They really went to town here, making lots of designs that are far better than the human stooges we saw on the planet that really went for salt in The Mandalorian and Grogu.
Will it change your life? No. Was it well-cast, edited down to a reasonable runtime, and generally designed in a way that makes you want to pour over crowd shots and space buses? Yes. Obviously I'm more hung up on the craft than the story, but sometimes that's what you get - a ton of really good parts, a nice completed product, and I'm guessing it's weird enough in spots that it's going to inspire some mega-fans down the road.
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