JoeCon 2013 script reading

At JoeCon 2013 in Indianapolis, Mary McDonald-Lewis and Bill Ratner reprise their roles as Lady Jaye and Flint from the '80s GI Joe cartoon. Lady Jaye has something to tell Flint.

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OAFEnet Email Update for Thursday, May 16

The OAFEnet Email Update is dedicated to Artemis.

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Rustin's Spoils of the Week #95

There are few things I love more than Star Trek so with the new movie, Star Trek Into Darkness, opening this week I figured I'd dedicate a Spoils to all of the nonsense Hasbro is forcing me to buy. See, just as with the previous film (released four years ago!?!?), I am getting slammed with a hardcore (nerd/"first world") dilemma – My love of Trek versus my loathing of undesirable toys. Well, in both cases Trek won out, and VERY slimly this time around. What I have to believe is that if enough of this junk moves then Hasbro will see Trek as a viable property and make some proper action figures rather than just ab/using it to push their struggling "we outright stole someone else's idea" products.

I'd also like to take a moment to bemoan the death of the multi-category marketing tie-in program; I had a remarkably fun time collecting up all of the Burger King toys and glasses, the cereal pack-ins and mail-aways and just all of those "special packaging" things. It reminded me of being a kid and how excited for something we were able to become, but nowadays, with a "major" blockbuster opening every week I guess that kind of thing is over. I was really looking forward to a new set of BK toys and glasses.

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Wreck-It Ralph: Swizzle "The Swizz" Malarkey review

Lover of adrenaline, Swizzle "The Swizz" Malarkey thinks that life must be lived to the last breath. There is nothing he can't defy, no stunt he can't perform or individual he can't beat. His racing is fast and elegant, just like his philosophy of life.

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Oh god why: Equestria Girls

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This week in comicshops - 05/15

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

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Portal 2: Chell addendum

Today we reviewed the Portal 2 Chell figure from NECA Toys, and yo mentioned a live-action film. Here it is:

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If "Ghostbusters" met "The Shining"

Or, "What would happen if the Sedgewick Hotel and the Overlook Hotel traded places."

And yes, that's NECA's Slimer edited in there.

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Star Trek: The (Stop-)Motion Picture

So while you're waiting for Star Trek: Into Darkness to open next week, you can enjoy this:

Someone took an old kids' audiobook of Star Trek: The Motion Picture and used the audio to retell the story with action figures standing in for the cast. No longer is the story long and interminable! At last you can remember what the heck happened in the movie!

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OAFEnet Email Update for Thursday, May 9

Live! Via satellite from the same parking lot where you're already standing! It's the OAFEnet Email Update!

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