It’s not a snow day without an Empire Strikes Back toy

Terrific Father's Day gift idea

Okay so is this real or not

The Rundown remains, in my opinion, one of the best Dwayne Johnson movies, an incredible Walken movie, and an all-around underrated classic.

*TRUMP’S GLOBAL TARIFFS STRUCK DOWN BY US SUPREME COURT

Wait there’s a real Ohio GOP mayor named Wesley R. Dingus? *and* he‘s been accused of sniffing an underage relative’s unmentionables? Stranger than fiction good lord

Okay, these Newbee NB-02 articulated Devastator hands are fantastic. Highly recommended. #transformers #hasbro

So the NYT published an entire article that can be summed up by the first two words of the headline. It drives me insane how the social media era is defined by massive amplification and sanewashing of the views of tiny percentages of the population.

Coming true in 2026 via McFarlane Toys

NECA Ducktales

NECA Fortnite x Horror Icons

NECA Dead by Daylight and Friday the 13th

NECA McDonalds

Imagine being a wannabe teenage MAGA influencer who gets rekt by a Far Side kid

No words left.

Wake me when AI solves efficient fusion energy.

Happy anniversary to THE LAST DINOSAUR! lytrules.substack.com/p/the-last-d...

Jeez Mattel, no need to do Mantenna dirty like that

Two weeks ago, I was sitting in a chair in the living room, started to get up, and my left QL muscle went into full spasm. Today is the first day I've felt even remotely close to normal. Still in pain but I can stand for 10 min at least.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Holy crap, they’re gonna hit a million, maybe tonight www.kickstarter.com/projects/rif... @billcorbett.bsky.social @rifftrax.com

This is who runs this account

Helen of Troy DIDN‘T FUCKING EXIST and even if she did she wouldn‘t have been blonde. Here’s hoping Elon negatively polarizes the Nolan stans.

Immediately backed! Woohoo!

Full Masters of the Universe trailer. I think it looks fun. I don't need it to be a critical darling, I just need it not to be shit. Not being able to see Jared Leto's face helps ameliorate the everything-Leto-touches-dies aspect I think/hope).

If you accidentally said something dumb at work today, take heart - at least it didn’t ruin your career and become something you‘re remembered for 2,400 years later. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegeloc...

Evergreen, but Naziferatu can fuck right off.

@peark.es Not sure if you're a Transformers guy but thought this might interest you www.tfw2005.com/boards/threa...

The last thing you see before you die

By the request of THIS reader! A big thank you to @lytrules.substack.com for reviewing this childhood favorite of mine!

I’ve always been a casual Stranger Things fan, but my daughter got really into it so we binged the entire fifth season over the last few days. My wife mentioned some fan drama and all I can say is, I’m glad I’m too old to care about or even be aware of this sort of shit anymore.

As John Oliver said at the standup show I attended last weekend, let's kick 2025 in the groin and run the other way! And in that spirit, I'm skipping any further wrap-up of this POS year and looking forward to my five most-anticipated action figures of 2026.

For all its success, the only collector-oriented action figures we’ve gotten for Stranger Things are those awkward McFarlane figures from 2017 and a few figures from Bandai.

Saying bye to 2025 like…

This is brutally hard for this year, but I've got to give it to my boy S.H.MonsterArts Anguirus. Runners-up: SS86 Megatron, Hiya 1991 Ghidorah, @bossfightstudio.bsky.social Odie, S.H.MonsterArts G2000, McFarlane Batman Returns (esp. Catwoman), Gong Batman, Elite Ed. Spawn, Black Series ANH Han Solo

Stood next to Natalie Portman as we both checked to see which writing classes we'd gotten into in college.

In October 1989, my father and I hunted up and down the South Shore of Massachusetts looking for the Turtles, finally finding them at King’s Castle Land. My dad then put away until Xmas. The Great Turtle Hunt remains one of my fondest childhood memories.

…wow.

Watched Batman Returns last night and here’s my thought for the holidays: did the Penguin murder his parents? I think he did.

I know it's annoying to respond to these sort of posts with "I wish they'd give us X" but...I wish they'd give us a new Blade 1998 or Blade II figure.

For anyone worried AI will replace all of us. Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986” I dare you to find 10 things that are right.

Marvel Legends Deadpool & Wolverine Cassandra Nova

Honestly I adore Christmas-themed PVC figurines, and I wish they were still a thing. Not pictured here is the one with the Incredible Hulk busting out of a Santa costume (that's at work). It bugs the heck out of me there's no PVC figurine of Batman with a Santa hat (just a few ornaments).

One angle of this fight between Netflix and Skydance over WB that none of the articles I’ve read seem interested in is the fact that two of WB’s biggest assets - Superman and Batman - enter the public domain in less than a decade.

I revere the original Rudolph and Frosty specials as sacred texts, but I’m surprised no one has tried to make a big-budget movie out of either of them, especially during the licensed property gold rush of the last couple of decades.

Man-E-Faces’s in charge of candy canes, Moss Man’s being trimmed, and He-Man and She-Ra are enjoying family holiday time. Happy Holidays from Eternia! ❄️🎁 #MastersOfTheUniverse #MOTU #MOTUOrigins #Masterverse #HeMan #SheRa #Orko #MossMan #ManEFaces #ActionFigures #ToyPhotography #ChristmasDiorama

So as it turns out, my crippling inability to accept praise and positive reinforcement serves as an excellent vaccine to the seduction of AI obsequiousness.