Flashback Friday Figure Addendum #0055: Shatterstar II SHATTERSTAR II X-FORCE (TOY BIZ) Well, last week was all special cuz it was Black Friday, but this week’s just, like, a regular Friday.  Either way, I’m doing a Flashback Friday Figure Addendum, so I guess it doesn’t matter much to me.  I’m…

So, I’m out driving just a bit ago, and I passed a car that was legit filled with bread. Like, floor to ceiling, all the seats, windows rolled down slightly to not squish the corners, trunk popped open and bungied shut, legit piled up in front of the windshield even.

#3968: Death Star with Darth Vader DEATH STAR with DARTH VADER STAR WARS: POWER OF THE FORCE II (KENNER) “Designed to invoke fear throughout the galaxy, the Death Star battle station is the largest, most powerful object in the galaxy. The size of a planet or small moon, the massive weapon took…

#3967: Janice Rand JANICE RAND STAR TREK (PLAYMATES) Well, I’ve officially run out of Playmates Star Trek figures based on “The Cage” and while I could easily use that as a reason to stop doing Trek reviews, I’ve decided to not…do…that.  Because I’m nuts, or something.  I’m sticking to the Classic…

#3966: Red Tornado RED TORNADO JLA (HASBRO) “Although the robotic being known as the Red Tornado was originally created by the Justice League of America's foe T.O. Morrow, his heroism has never been questioned. Red Tornado's capable of generating and maintaining winds of tornado velocity - and…

What's even the point of owning a house without its own Coat Bath?

#3965: Namor the Submariner NAMOR THE SUBMARINER FANTASTIC FOUR (TOY BIZ) “Born from the depths of the ocean, Namor, the avenging son, is Prince of the noble underwater city of Atlantis. The hybrid offspring of a human and an Atlantean, Namor's quest for adventure brought him into contact with the…

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Flashback Friday Figure Addendum #0054: Gambit GAMBIT X-MEN (TOY BIZ) Hey, it’s Black Friday!  …which, for the purposes of this site directly…doesn’t really mean much.  You know what?  I’ll give you guys today’s Flashback Friday Figure Addendum free of charge.  How does that sound?  Like it’s the…

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#3964: Airspeeder with Airspeeder Pilot AIRSPEEDER with AIRSPEEDER PILOT STAR WARS: EXPANDED UNIVERSE (KENNER) “A series of publications called The Art of Star Wars unveiled how a group of artists whose talent for intricacies revealed a far-away galaxy that continues to capture the imagination…

#3963: Talosian Keeper TALOSIAN KEEPER STAR TREK (PLAYMATES) “After a disastrous mission on Rigel VII, the U.S.S. Enterprise received a distress call from survivors of the S.S. Columbia on Talos IV. The landing party found a group of aging scientists and a young woman named Vina. But it was all an…

#3962: Superman – Hush Version SUPERMAN — HUSH VERSION MAFEX (MEDICOM) My last MAFEX review kept running with my general investment in the DC theme, but broke from the otherwise Batman: Hush-ness of the reviews up to that point, instead jumping over to the Superman side of things.  Today, I…

Watching Moonraker, and Hugo Drax has such Elon Musk vibes, I was expecting him to offer Bond his sperm during their first meeting.

#3961: Annihilus ANNIHILUS FANTASTIC FOUR (TOY BIZ) “An experimental spore, released on a planet in the anti-matter universe known as the Negative Zone rapidly grew, and developed into the insectivoid entity called Annihilus. Cosmic power, harnessed through a Control Rod, grants Annihilus…

Flashback Friday Figure Addendum #0053: Captain Christopher Pike CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER PIKE STAR TREK (PLAYMATES) It’s a crazy thing going on here, because not only did I write a Star Trek review earlier this week, but now I’m also dedicating a whole Flashback Friday Figure Addendum to the…

#3960: Cloud Car with Cloud Car Pilot CLOUD CAR with CLOUD CAR PILOT STAR WARS: EXPANDED UNIVERSE (KENNER) “Cloud cars are atmospheric vessels that employ both repulsorlifts and ion engines, filling the important gap between airspeeders and starfighters. Functional in many ways, twin-cockpit,…

#3959: Mister Spock MISTER SPOCK STAR TREK (PLAYMATES) Back at the beginning of the year, I had a small string of Star Trek reviews, which was certainly notable, because I don’t do a lot of those.  Did you know that I actually planned to go further but got distracted had other things to drop on…

#3958: Superman – Golden SUPERMAN — GOLDEN DC HEROES UNITE (SPIN MASTER) It’s been *over a year* since I last looked at anything from Spin Master’s DC line, despite them still very much holding the license (at least until the end of the year when Mattel takes over as master license holder again),…

First off, my suspension has ended. Got a little harsh with a post a few days ago but I didn’t have my feet on the ground and I’m sorry if I offended anyone. Will try to be more chipper. Knock on wood!

It's TRANS AWARENESS WEEK and that means it's a great week to ignore the hysterical nonsense of bigots and understand that Trans people are awesome and deserve respect and love.

#3957: Triton TRITON FANTASTIC FOUR (TOY BIZ) “Cousin of the mighty Black Bolt, Triton is another powerful member of the Royal Family called the Inhumans! Like his relatives before him, Triton was exposed to the mutagenetic qualities of the Terrigen Mists at an early age. He emerged with aquatic…

Flashback Friday Figure Addendum #0052: Domino DOMINO X-FORCE (TOY BIZ) It’s finally Friday, which is great, but also feels like it took more than a week to get here, because that’s just the world we live in these days.  Let’s jump back to when it wasn’t the world we lived in with another funky…

This a really bad call on Bluesky’s part. Oswalt is *clearly* being hyperbolic, and going to bat to for a woman justifying sexual abuse is a very bad look

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#3956: Wampa & Luke Skywalker WAMPA & LUKE SKYWALKER STAR WARS: POWER OF THE FORCE II (KENNER) Sometimes, your sci-fi adventure series needs cool, original monsters, and sometimes, it really just needs a pretty standard issue sort of monster that everyone understands.  The latter is well…

we need a department of kerning

#3955: Fantastic Four MISTER FANTASTIC, INVISIBLE WOMAN, THE THING, & HUMAN TORCH WORLD’S GREATEST SUPER HEROES (MEGO) Hey, remember last week when I was talking about Mego, specifically how they finally got a chance to bring back Marvel?  Cool, well, there’s more of that going on today. …

What if they bring Daniel Craig back for one scene, where he gets up after the explosion and then regenerates into a new actor? Bond’s been a timelord the whole time! And so are Felix & Bloefeld. Never worry about the recast again.

#3954: Superman – Zero Hour SUPERMAN — ZERO HOUR DC MULTIVERSE (McFARLANE) In the ‘50s, DC rebooted its super hero line, starting with the introduction of the second Flash, Barry Allen.  In the ‘60s, they brought back the original Flash, Jay Garrick, establishing the existence of a Multiverse.…

#3953: Super-Skrull SUPER-SKRULL FANTASTIC FOUR (TOY BIZ) “By the order of his Emperor, a select Skrull warrior was bionically re-engineered to become the living weapon in a plot of revenge against the world's greatest super-hero team. Through advanced technological means, the Super-Skrull was…

I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis. I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO. Full statement:

Watched Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein last night & I really, really enjoyed it. As a huge fan of Del Toro, Isaac, & Frankenstein in general, I might be a bit biased, I suppose. My wife, who is classically not a Frankenstein fan, also really loved it, and wants to read the book now.

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Flashback Friday Figure Addendum #0051: Firelord FIRELORD FANTASTIC FOUR (TOY BIZ) I started the week with som Toy Biz Fantastic Four, why not wrap the week with a revisit to the line?  That’s what a good Flashback Friday Figure Addendum is all about!  So, let’s return to a guy who’s probably not…

#3952: Ronto with Jawa RONTO with JAWA STAR WARS: POWER OF THE FORCE II (KENNER) Given it was the line running when the movies were released, Kenner’s Power of the Force II makes up most of the admittedly pretty small selection of toys based on the Star Wars Special Editions.  Mostly, the focus…

#3951: Spider-Man, Green Goblin, The Lizard, & Electro SPIDER-MAN, GREEN GOBLIN, THE LIZARD, & ELECTRO WORLD’S GREATEST SUPER HEROES (MEGO) After a few sort of false starts in the ‘00s and early ‘10s, Mego seems to have well and truly made a return in recent years.  Perhaps their biggest boon for…

I’ve been rewatching Community and also watched both the 1982 Thing and its 2011 prequel, and Eric Olsen, who plays Vaughn in Community, is in the prequel, so I’ve just had “Hey, Hi, Who Goes There?” rattling around my brain.

#3950: Superman SUPERMAN SUPER FRIENDS (McFARLANE TOYS) While the main offerings from McFarlane’s DC line are all in the 7-inch range, the Batman: Classic TV Series line notably broke from the pack in its decision to go with 6-inch, thereby allowing it to *sort of* serve as a continuation of…

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#3949: The Thing II THE THING II FANTASTIC FOUR (TOY BIZ) “Bombarded by cosmic rays during an exploration in deep space, Ben Grimm's body underwent an extraordinary transformation. His strength, endurance and durability were boosted to super-human levels and his skin became an orange colored,…

Flashback Friday Figure Addendum #0050: Cantina at Mos Eisley CANTINA AT MOS EISLEY with SANDTROOPER STAR WARS: POWER OF THE FORCE II (HASBRO) Hey, who’s ready for a thematic tie-in?  I sure am! Yesterday, I looked at one of two cardboard playsets released during Power of the Force II.  The first…