It's over 10,000 again (again)!

For the third time, my camera has reached "IMG_9999" and rolled over to new numbers, starting with this photo:

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Street Fighter Ryu addendum

Two photos we never used, of both SOTA and Jada's Street Fighter packages:

Seems "arcade cabinet" was the order of the day.

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It'll be 20 more episodes before it finishes breaking

My friend's windshield cracked and look how he fixed it *photo shot from inside a car looking out through the windshield. As reported, the windshield is damaged, with a series of fine cracks running straight out from a central point. Standing on the car's dashboard are two Dragon Ball toys: Tien Shinhan is punching Mystic Gohan in the stomach hard enough to lift him off the ground. They're posed directly under the crack, so it looks like a really harsh impact effect.*

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GI Joe Classified Shooter addendum

Okay, important things first:

Larry Hama shares a letter he got from a fan, basically asking for a free sketch. He publicly responds: "I'm starting to get these again, mailed to my home address. I am going to discard all mail from unknown addresses unopened from now on. I literally do not have time for this. I'm 75, and I'm still working because I can't afford to retire. I do not receive royalties from any of the GI Joe material I have worked on, and I do not receive royalties from Marvel foreign sales. I live on my page rate which hasn't gone up in thirty years. I sign comics and toys for free (two items) as long as they are dedicated ('to so-and-so') but I charge for undedicated sigs, and I charge for sketches."

Larry Hama is basically responsible for creating the brand from scratch, and still has to work in his 70s to stay alive? It would be one thing if he was choosing to write, but to have to? That's bad. Hasbro, fix your shit.

Also, comics companies give him a higher page rate. No one should be making the same money in 2024 they did in 1994.

Now, on to the fun stuff.

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Soon Forget: Darkstalkers Jedah Dohma

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. We continue our look at SOTA's planned Darkstalkers line with the demon Jedah Dohma.

The first Darkstalkers game introduced the fighting monsters, while the second brought in hunters who wanted to eliminate them. For the third entry in the series, the developers needed an enemy who could be a threat to both sides at once. Jedah is basically this world's version of the Grim Reaper, which is why his "wings" are shaped like blades (the ones on his head are a reference to Go Nagai's Devilman).

While Ankaris was seemingly the first figure cancelled, Jedah is at the other end of the spectrum, being the last one created. When the planned revamped line was shown off in 2007, he was still early enough in production that all we were shown was the wax sculpt, without any paint on it.

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This week in comicshops - 03/13

Find out what toy-related items you can get at your local comicshop this Wednesday.

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Marvel Legends Mindless One addendum

As mentioned in today's review, the game art that may have inspired the Mindless One's optional "smoky eye" look:

And the accessory in question:

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No, I'm pretty sure he's had LOTS of jobs

the pipes underneath someone's kitchen sink have been painted green, and figures of Mario and King Koopa have been posed standing on them. You had one job and you nailed it!

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National Barbie Day - always revise your first draft

Karate Barbie says "OK brain, let's solve this problem!" Barbie's brain says "Suicide?" Karate Barbie karate chops the brain and says "OK let's try a little harder!"

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Chicago has the chance to do the greatest tribute ever

User Bigsquishyfrog imagines fighting the Chicago Bean, except they imagine it as a JRPG boss fight.

So user Pullahoko responds with God tier Photoshop. A photo of the giant metal bean gets cartoon eyes and a mouth and a golden crown, making it look exactly like the Metal King Slime from Dragon Quest. It's adorable and invincible.

RIP, Toriyama. Your art made everybody's lives better.

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