The Toys Are Back In Town Yet Again: Toy Story 3 Toys
June 16, 2010 by Chris Pranger
Filed under Movie and TV Toys
These are some pretty high quality toys right here. Toy Story's still got it.
I don’t want to jinx this, but I’d really like to see Toy Story 3 receive a perfect 100% at Rotten Tomatoes, thus making the Toy Story series have a perfect score. While it’s most likely not going to happen since at least one reviewer will be jaded for no reason other than to cost it a perfect score, it’ll still be a hugely successful movie. And you know what that means? Merchandise! Toy Story has always had toys tying in, I know you’re shocked, and now that the new movie is a few days away I think we should talk about those, don’t you? So let’s go to infinity and…let’s, let’s just go. Read more
I Am Still Iron Man: Iron Man 2 Toys
April 26, 2010 by Kyle Martinak
Filed under Action Figures
The man of the hour, or rather, the Iron Man of the hour. See what I did there?
Tony Stark’s technological marvel is back with plenty of articulation, tons of oversized weapon attachments, and each with a personality of its own.
The figure series consists of a wide variety of Iron Man and War Machine suits, all lying out like a roll of schematics. It conjures a funny image of Tony Stark’s garage littered with Iron Man armor: white for snow, blue for underwater, black for stealth, etc.
They Come From a Land Down Under: Alice in Wonderland Movie Toys
March 19, 2010 by Chris Pranger
Filed under Movie and TV Toys
Hey look, movie toys of Alice actually exist. They look boring, but they exist.
It’s been a long week of finals for me, and after all that I realized I had one last assignment to complete: Do a write-up for toys based off of Tim Burton’s new movie, Alice in Wonderland. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? It’s not exactly a sequel to the classic Disney movie of the same name, nor is it quite a sequel to the Lewis Carroll books (which your kids really should read). It’s just another one of Tim Burton’s “I’m weird and here’s my movie” movies. I haven’t seen it either, so I have nothing to say about it one way or another, though the Rotten Tomatoes score could be a helpful guide… Read more
Review of Avatar Action Figures: Not So Much
January 8, 2010 by Chris Pranger
Filed under Action Figures
He kind of looks like Nightcrawler if Nightcrawler decided to go in a new direction.
Big movies mean tons of merchandise. It’s inevitable. Action figures must be made regardless of how much sense it makes. So clearly, if Space Jam required action figures, then Avatar, the movie by James Cameron that is exploding everyone’s heads with visuals and everyone’s hearts with joy, darn well has a series of action figures for it. But are they any good?
Where the Wild Things Are: New Toys Come with the Movie
September 2, 2009 by Chris Pranger
Filed under Movie and TV Toys
This costume is coming to a Halloween near you.
Where the Wild Things Are is a classic book by Maurice Sendak. Every child should have read this book by now. Have you? If not, go read it right now. I’ll wait. I’m having a tea party right now, so I don’t mind.
New Star Trek Action Figures Unveiled
January 28, 2009 by dungan
Filed under Action Figures
It’s official, the new Star Trek action figures will be released on April 19, 2009. These classic figures are made by Playmates, and will be available in 3¾-inch ($7), 6-inch ($9-$10) and 12-inch ($30) models, according to USA Today.
