The OAFEnet Email Update makes it in just under the wire!
- JOE FRIDAY! Footloose was valedictorian of his high school class, captain of the track team, and an Eagle Scout. He was going for his degree in Physical Education on a state scholarship when he suddenly dropped out, moved to the West Coast, and spent three years searching for elusive answers...
- Mawhonic is a Gran, the same species as Ree-Yees, the three-eyed goatman who hung out in Jabba's palace. Three eyes, Ree-Yees, get it? Anyway, there hasn't been a Ree-Yees figure made since 1998, so Mawhonic has an all-new head. It's small and pink and gross-looking, and in a neat piece of...
- MARVEL MONDAY! Spidey is built from Hasbro's version of the Bullseye body, which means he's almost identical to Black Costume Spider-Man, right down to the too-large waist chunk. Come on, Hasbro, fix that already. He does have a few new pieces, which may or may not come from previous Spider-Men...
- TRANSFORMERS TUESDAY! The original Clones were pairs of Transformers that had identical robot modes, but changed into different altmodes, so this isn't quite the same deal - in Transformers 3 (aka, the "good" sequel), there was a team of Decepticons known as the Dreads. All three disguised themselves...
- Just as in the books, Superboy's costume is a T-shirt and jeans, which isn't exactly a thrilling look for an action figure to have, so Mattel went a different way, putting him in his first-appearance-only "solar suit," the white bodysuit that provided him with a steady stream of yellow...
This week on the blog we had a review, some Legos, and even Poe Ghostal's tramp stamp. Go see it!
