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- JOE FRIDAY! Since movie Zartan doesn't use masks, the figure doesn't include one. However, you can still change his appearance thanks to the inclusion of a complete second head. The alternate head is blonde, like Zartan, but has a distinctly different face: different nose, different jawline... basically, this is the guy Storm Shadow cut down.
- The sculpts and paint applications were crude even by contemporary standards and there was nary a point of articulation to be found on them, but when I was a kid that hardly mattered. The rubbery feel of the dinosaurs' skin, coupled with their Godzilla-like indestructibility, made them the preeminent dinosaur toys of my youth...
- Most of the ghosts in this set are designed to be built from a specific (and uncommon) set of Minimate pieces. The entire Gruesome Ghosts kit was designed around two box sets: "Battlestar Galactica: Razor" and "The Spirit." Both sets were only available through the specialty market, so it's not like you can go grab one at Toys "R" Us or Suncoast...
- MARVEL MONDAY! When was the last time Hobgoblin showed up? A decade ago, maybe? Well before Norman Osborn was outed as Green Goblin, that's for sure. Kingsley's just been living it up on some tropical island since then. In other words, not exactly a character who's on everyone's lips. The Marvel Universe line seems to be flirting with re-creating...
- MARVEL MONDAY! Julia's new costume made its debut when she joined Omega Flight, a fancied-up version of her old I-can't-believe-it's-not-a-symbiote Spider-Woman look, with the white spider symbol enlarged to cover her whole torso (and mirrored on the back), with the legs extending over her arms and legs in the form of long, angular stripes...
- TRANSFORMERS TUESDAY! Mags' accessories are a bit different than Convoy's: he has the gun and all the same hands, but he doesn't have the Matrix of Leadership; to make up for that, he has a new hand/accessory, which allows he and convoy to clasp hands in a totally hetero and non-romantic way. You know, like Maverick and Iceman in "Top Gun"...
- TRANSFORMERS TUESDAY! Constructin' Devastator (yes, that's really his name, not "Construction" or "Constructicon" - Constructin') actually does a decent job of duplicating the movie design, in its own simple way. The figure is 4¾" tall, and his limbs connect to the torso via balljoints - the only articulation anywhere on the figure...
- Nowadays there's a new crop of porn megastarlets doing the rounds, and Jenna's more or less retired to sitting in an office raking in the cash as a studio head (and spending it on not entirely successful face jobs, sadly), but at the turn of the millennium when Plastic Fantasy came onto the scene (zing), she was still the biggest name on the front lines...
- The robot in "Metropolis" isn't actually named Maria. In the film she's referred to as "Maschinenmensch," and is only called Maria by characters who don't know she isn't the real woman. In the novel, her inventor (the unfortunately named Rotwang) calls her "Futura ... Parody whatever you like to call it. Also: Delusion ... In short a woman." He had issues...
