Archive for the ‘Toys’ Category

The Last Airbender Action Figures

Spin Master’s Highly Anticipated Toy Line Hit Shelves to Coincide with Theatrical Release of The Last Airbender Feature Film

Just in time to coincide with the July 2 theatrical release of The Last Airbender, Spin Master Ltd.’s toy line for the movie has hit shelves. Build your Airbender world by collecting all of the most popular characters from the movie! Check out each highly-articulated figure with amazing detail. Each 3 3/4″ figure includes one unique weapon/accessory.

“The epic and imaginative nature of this film made it made it an extremely fun project to work on, and a challenge for us to push our boundaries once again in creating an original and fun toy line that would resonate with the fans of this franchise.”

Based on Nickelodeon’s international hit animated series, the live-action release of The Last Airbender tells the story of four nations — Air, Water, Earth, Fire –tied by destiny when the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others. A century has passed with no hope in sight to change the path of this destruction. Caught between combat and courage, Aang discovers he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements. Aang teams with Katara, a Waterbender, and her brother, Sokka to restore balance to their war-torn world. The Last Airbender is the opening chapter in Aang’s struggle to survive.

The DS Successor

Nintendo 3DS will bring 3D without the glasses.

Will it be another Virtual Boy?

Nintendo recently announced (PDF) that their new handheld console device will go on sale “during the fiscal year ending March 2011″, but probably only in Japan at first. The device will be called the Nintendo 3DS and is said to be capable of 3D-like effects at the software level without the need for any special glasses. The device should also be fully backwards-compatible with all DS and DSi games. More details expected at the E3 show, which is scheduled to be held from June 15, 2010 in Los Angeles. Let the speculation begin.

Perhaps it’ll be like if Captain Eo and Virtual Boy had a baby.

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New Nintendo Rewards

New Rewards Available Now at Club Nintendo!

New rewards are now available at Club Nintendo! Spend your hard earned coinage on the new folder set with bookmarks or new greeting card sets both featuring iconic Nintendo character artwork. Don’t forget to redeem your coins for exclusive items only available at Club Nintendo!

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Pac-Man Watch

Tell time with Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde with this limited edition Pac-Man watch!

Do we have any Pac-Man fans out there? For a limited time over at ClubNamco, you can get this cool looking Pac-Man Pellet Time watch.

Pac-Man and the ghost gang are featured on the watch face, with Inky, Pinky and Clyde trapped inside a ghost nest, and Power Pellet hour markers around the dial. Pac-Man moves with an invisible ‘second’ hand around the dial to chomp up pellets, as well as bonus cherries and Scaredy ghost which accent the ’3′ and ’9′ hour markers.

In grade school, a friend of mine had the old LCD Nelsonic Pac-Man watch, which entertained us during class. What I really could use is the full-sized Pac-Man cabinet arcade game.

Posted in Flashback,Games,Toys |

Luchador Toast

Luchador Toast (Light Blue Version) by Dan Goodsell.

For those of you fans of the Mexican wrestling that fights in the lucha libre style, here’s the Mr Toast for you. This is the second time Dan Goodsell’s done this and yet has there been a limited version available. If your interested in getting one of these, let him know!

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Make Playtime Fun

Amazon's Amazing Toys: A city-park-size playground system!

You might have noticed that I’m part of Amazon’s Associates Program. I do the occasional post recommending fun products that I think you’ll enjoy. For ever purchase that you make, I get paid a small percentage of the cost of the item.

Have you ever gone to the park and all the swings are taken or the slide was in disrepair or perhaps the jungle gym was too crowded? I bet seeing that made you and/or your kid pout. Well now you can do something about it. I’d like to recommend this city-park sized playground system for your very own! It’s a steal at a mere $34,933.07, so get one for everyone in your family! Xmas is coming up – it makes a great gift!

Think of the convenience and the fun of having your very own park. Buy the product at Amazon today.

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Mini 31st Century

Futurama Mini Figures<br />
3-Inch from Kidrobot.

Good news everyone! The 31st century has arrived, bringing 3-inch versions of Matt Groening and David X. Cohen’s cast of unthawed pizza boys, alcoholic automatons, and sexy mutants with it! These Futurama Mini Figures are available now from Kidrobot. Each blind boxed figure includes a character-specific accessory that will have you walking on sunshine! I like the Robot Devil and Dr. Zoidberg ones best.

Posted in Television,Toys |

Eat Like a Jedi

An original Star Wars film plate from the Hamilton Collection. Dinosaur Toy Vault.

My friend Paul over at Toy Bender has got a lot of his old toys and stuff for sale over on his Dinosaur Toy Vault. There you’ll find old Transformers, Star Wars, G. I. Joes and such, but what caught my eye was the Star Wars collector’s plates. I can just imagine Luke or Darth Vader sitting down for a big dinner before a lightsaber battle and only wanting to use their favorite Jedi themed plate. Perhaps the plates have midichlorians in them. So if you had the plate, you might become a powerful Jedi just like those other guys. I’d buy the plates myself, but I’ve already got some super powers and I don’t want to be greedy.

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ShadowHawk Shock

Shocker Toys: Indie Spotlight S1 - ShadowHawk Variant Review

It was a nice surprise when Shocker Toys graciously sent over one of their new ShadowHawk Variant action figures. It’s from their great, new Indie Spotlight series of popular comic book characters of yesteryear. Series 1 includes five collectible action figures such as Terry Moore’s Katchoo from Strangers in Paradise, Rob Schrab’s Scud: The Disposable Assassin, David Mack’s Kabuki, Sam Kieth’s The Maxx and Jim Valentino’s ShadowHawk. Each figure comes with its own accessories, like a white/black Isz or Pink Fairy.

When shopping for a toy and perusing the shelves, the first thing that catches your eye is the packaging. This ShadowHawk figure comes in the classic carded packaging with a bubble shell. While the “busy orange” background does get your attention, I don’t think it helps this stylish figure stand out. What I do like about the packaging is the fact that it is collector friendly. You don’t have to tear it apart to get your figure out and it’s easily resealable so you can put the figure back in for displaying. Yeah!

The ShadowHawk figure itself is solid, nicely painted and well balanced for an action figure. It’s great that it can actually stand on its own and with the many points of articulation you can pose him just about anyway you want. (I noticed that the chest articulation is similar to the 25th Anniversary G.I Joe figures.) He looks quite cool in all different types of poses, so you can show him off in a number of ways.

If you’re a fan of ShadowHawk, you’ll definitely appreciate this cool action figure. Overall, I’m quite impressed with this figure.

Note: I’ve got more pictures of the figure over here, if you’re interested.

Posted in Comics,Flashback,Toys |

Candy Corn Plushes

Candy Corn plush dolls by Dan Goodsell of Mr Toast.

Our friend Dan Goodsell has come out with a few more sweet plush toys for your enjoyment. These new Candy Corn dolls arrived just last week and they’re sweet enough to eat. (Please do not ingest said plush.) There’s three styles – Candy Corn, Vampire Candy Corn and Indian Candy Corn. They are 9″ tall and ready to sweeten your day. You can order them from Dan’s (Mr Toast) website. Get your Halloween candy fix early.

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