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Too Much Awesome Feature Guide [Updated]

We here at Toy-TMA do a lot of writing. Sometimes we do more writing than usual, but we’ve been very good about creating content every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at a consistent pace. Thankfully, a lot of our favorite articles have been viewed over and over again, and even have comments in staggering numbers for [...]

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Strange news from the World of Barbie

At the risk of infuriating Mattel’s ever-present swarm of high-circling legal eagles, this week we’re going to talk about Barbie. Specifically, two pretty significant and even, dare I say, bizarre milestones in the history of the line have emerged this week. As I’ve mentioned before, the Mattel, Inc. v. MGA Entertainment battle for custody over [...]

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Toys of 2010 that were just plain bad ideas

It’s almost New Years, and that means everyone and their dog is trotting out their end of year lists. We’ve talked about toys to look forward to for 2011 and cool new toys from 2010, but I feel I would be terribly remiss if I let the year go by without remarking on its dark [...]

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Welcome to the Grid, Again: A Review of TRON Legacy

“We’re living in a time where we’re making the worst movies in history. They’re geared toward the video-game generation.” -Billy Bob Thornton It’s taking just about every ounce of my willpower, plus three quarters extra, not to virtually pulverize Mr. Thornton right now. I thought we had enough well respected members of the media industry [...]

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A Sneak Peek at 2011

2010 is almost outta here! As the New Year gets closer, let’s steal a glimpse at the year to come. We’re looking at a massive amount of line revivals this year- the 80’s are coming home to roost with major remakes of almost every definitive toy line you remember, and a couple you might not. [...]

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What You May Have Missed In November 2010

We had a good November, didn’t we? Well, we’re into December now, but don’t let that spoil the fun from November. Here’s your recap for November 2010: A Hero’s Best Friend: The Top 5 Video Game Pets:

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How To Survive Black Friday

Today is not Thanksgiving. However, tomorrow is Thanksgiving! How exciting! But after all that delicious turkey, hearty mashed potatoes, succulent spiral ham, decadent pie, savory gravy, scrumptious rolls…I had a point, right? Right! After getting stupidly full, what happens next? First, you pass out. Then, you wake up for seconds. Then you pass out again. [...]

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The End is Nigh: A Review of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1

Wow. Just… wow. Call me mad, but I think we have quite an astounding feat here. The Harry Potter movies have got to be the most persevering franchise of this generation, bar none. I grew up watching these movies, and you know what, they’ve been fun. All of them. None of them I will admit [...]

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Ten Radical Ninja Turtle Action Figure Side Characters

While searching through the archives at the Virtual Ninja Turtle Museum for really cool Ninja Turtle outfits, I came across a ton of really, really awesome action figures that I couldn’t mention due to the limitations of the list parameters. Therefore, it’s time for another list focusing on only the side characters released via the [...]

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What You May Have Missed In October 2010

October is now over and with it leaves the articles of October. But did you get a chance to read them all? We had a lot of good ones to pick from this month, so if you’ve still got to catch up, now’s the time. Take a look back at October 2010 in review. Chris’ [...]

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