Soon Forget: Generations Nightbeat

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is Hasbro's Transformers: Generations Nightbeat.

Now, there was a Generations Nightbeat, under the "Thrilling 30" heading in 2014. It was retooling of Goldbug, but that wasn't the original plan.

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This week in comicshops - 05/31

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

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The Theory of ALF-olution

Thanks to Green Lantern, we know the planet Melmac, in the Adromeda galaxy, exists in the DC Universe - but it turns out it also exists in the Marvel Universe!

In the '80s, Marvel published an ALF comic that managed to run for 53 issues. In the '80s, when companywide crossovers were just gaining popularity, Marvel tended to restrict theirs to the books' Annuals, rather than interrupting the main story; the 1988 crossover was "The Evolutionary War," in which the High Evolutionary undertakes several simultaneous efforts to accelerate human evolution, meaning lots of different heroes could fight him in lots of different ways without having to, say, gather in one room and talk about it first; it's hard to conceive of a threat that both the Silver Surfer and the Punisher can deal with, y'know? Anyway, ALF Annual #1 got the "Evolutionary War" trade dress and the High Evolutionary showed up in two of the contained stories, warning ALF not to interfere with his plans for humanity. And also theorizing that Phoenix was the one who destroyed Melmac (though ALF said he had never heard of her).

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Final Faction: Alpha Team Cyberarms Weapons Pack exclusive review

Shift and Scope weren't the only ones to get specialized Weapons Packs in Series 2 of the Final Faction toys: team spy Torn also had a dedicated set, though it's very odd and not really what you'd normally think of as being conducive to sneaky infiltration types. It also isn't something that's appeared on the cartoon yet, but considering where he was left off last time, he may find it (or something similar) soon.

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OAFEnet Email Update for Thursday, May 25

Fall asleep to the gentle, soothing sounds of the OAFEnet Email Update.

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Super7 Animaniacs addendum

Unlike Yakko and Wakko, Dot does not have a signature song. It's not like Tress MacNeille can't sing, but "I'm Cute" is more of a trivia note than something memorable. Come on, guys, she could have sung the universe song or something!

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This week in comicshops - 05/24

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

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Ace is the place with the helpful hardware Newtypes

I knew hardware stores had pretty much everything, but I wasn't expecting this!

an electronic sign out in front of an Ace Hardware store, advertising that they sell Mobile Suit Gundam kits

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Mighty Mutant Power Rangers

This art was created by Jordan Gibson for a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II variant cover:

the Power Rangers depicted in the style of the animated TMNT, with each Ranger turned into the dinosaur their power represents, and wearing their colored costumes

Designed to look like one of the old VHS boxes, it was used on issue #4, though not the logo - apparently that was too much of a legal hassle.

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The greatest mafia Pops ever made

Funko Friday

At long last it's happened: Goncharov Funko POP!s:

AI-generated images of Funko Pops based on the non-existent Martin Scorsese movie Goncharov

Everybody always talks about the boat scene, or the stuff about the clocks, but for my money, the thing everybody should be talking about is the fact that director Matteo JWHJ0715, a man who is ethnically half-license-plate, somehow managed to get a young Andre the Giant as the goon guarding that old-timey computer bank!

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