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The snow has started falling, so you know what that means!

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Batman the Animated Series: Killer Croc addendum

Just as an experiment, here's what the two versions of DCAU Killer Croc would look like with their facial designs swapped:

What do you think, does the "horse skull" face work better on the redesign than it did on the original?

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Soon Forget: Visionaries Croil

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

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This week in comicshops - 12/04

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

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Wendy's DC Heroes Set 5 exclusive review

Mini-Figure Mini-Reviews

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Indiana Jones: Elsa Schneider addendum

The bio in today's Elsa Schneider review is taken from the 2008 figure, because the 2023 ones don't have any text associated with them. However, before finding that, yo had written a different intro, using Topps' Indiana Jones Masterpieces trading card #16. Since I made him delete that and rewrite it, the least we can do is share the cut content with you. Consider it a deleted scene:

Like Walter Donovan, Dr. Elsa Schneider is a secret Nazi sympathizer who is not-so-secretly obsessed with finding the Holy Grail. She has the distinction of getting to know both the senior and junior Dr. Jones, and winds up destroying her employer by choosing a false grail for him to drink from. Unlike the Joneses, however, Elsa's obsession becomes more important than her own life, and she eventually pays a terrible price.

Just so we're all in agreement, when that text we copied from a trading card says "getting to know" both of them, it means sex, right? She boned Senior and Junior? There's probably a deleted Crystal Skull scene somewhere where Mutt Williams mentions the time he'd "gone parking" with a mysterious old woman who had a bunch of unexplained crag-injuries. Why not, they put every other stray idea they had in that script.

And then it was the same from there on. Believe it or not, we do edit these reviews before you see them!

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Godzilla Mystery Minis - SpaceGodzilla review

Funko Friday

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OAFEnet Email Update for Thursday, November 28

Hold space and feel the power of the OAFEnet Email Update.

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C is for Cookie, that's good enough for Me(na Suvari)

American Beauty (1999, dir. Sam Mendes) #OnePerfectShot

ReAction Cookie Monster having an American Beauty moment in a bowl of chocolate chip cookies

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Slightly LESS haunted, now

It seems the Four Horsemen were offering a new edition of their Figura Obscura Ghost of Jacob Marley, done in "Haunted Blue" glow-in-the-dark paint. The keyword there being "were," because they've given this update:

Hunted Blue Ghost of Jacob Marley

The new “Haunted Blue” Ghost of Jacob Marley is ready to hit collections as part of the 2024 Retailer Appreciation wave, which has a street date of next Friday – 11/29. Unfortunately, as we were digging into this latest wave, we noticed something was missing from Jacob – his glow effect. If you ordered this figure from one of our Approved Retailer partners, here is what you need to know:

First off, the new blue Ghost of Jacob Marley figure looks great. The colors are super vibrant, and since he is inside a sealed package, you would never even know that he is missing his glow until you take him out and turn off the lights.

Getting the glow to work on this figure, while maintaining the rich colors of the paint master, was a challenge, and there was ultimately a miscommunication with some feedback we provided, causing the factory to run the figures minus the glow. We didn’t realize this until we had the production figures in hand.

So what is the plan? Retailers will be contacting all customers who purchased these items to see if they still want them. If you DO still want this figure, please understand that you are buying an awesome looking figure, but it does not glow in the dark as originally intended. If you do want your Haunted Blue Marley, nothing will change and your retailer will fill your order as planned.

If you do NOT want the figure, the retailer will refund that purchase for you. Note that this needs to be communicated BEFORE these items ship, since opened, loose figures cannot be returned for a refund. If you do not want this item, please be sure to tell your retailer.

One thing to be aware of is that there will NOT be another version of Marley that glows. This is it. If you decide to pass on Haunted Blue Marley, there will not a glowing version that will be offered in the future.

As always, we strive to create the best products possible, but when issues like this do arise, we are committed to communicating clearly and doing what we need to do to make it right with our customers and our retailers.

Thank you for your support of 4H. Even though he doesn’t glow, Blue Marley does look amazing, and we hope you will still add him to your collection!

No more glow-in-the-dark, just paint?

Dang. "He blue."

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This week in comicshops - 11/27

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

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