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Okay, here's what you want first: Rustin's SDCC reports. You can find them all just by following the SDCC 2012 tag.
- JOE FRIDAY! Nostalgia's fine, but it makes it hard to judge whether the things you liked were good, or if you just remember them that way. You have to try to step outside yourself and judge them impartially, which is tough: for instance, are the Sunbow episodes of "GI Joe" really any better...
- The pants are pinstriped and spattered with blood, and suspenders hang from his waist. Well that's not going to help hold his trousers up! He's wearing gangster shoes, with brown and white panels (and more blood). The shoes are detailed to look like punched leather, which makes them better than...
- MARVEL MONDAY! Loki didn't get a 6" figure for the "Thor" movie line, so it's nice to finally get one now. The likeness of Tom Hiddleston is very good, which is more than we could say for the 4"ers or even the Marvel Select version, all of which looked like no one. He's painted with one...
- MOTU MONDAY! The Mighty Spector is the creation of Scott "Toy Guru" Neitlich - the Mattel Associate Brand Manager - who has been responsible for making the Masters of the Universe Classics happen. It's his entry into the MOTU 30th anniversary Series, the specialist series that previously...
- TRANSFORMERS TUESDAY! Hot Shot's altmode is a made-up sports car, known in-universe as an "Urbana 500." We know because an ad for the car model appeared on tv in one episode, proving that when Transformers take these STBLDF car models, they're still technically "in disguise" for whatever universe...
- I can always tell when Comic-Con is near because my inbox starts filling up with floods of Press related emails. Usually these are generic "come to our booth" or "check out this indie film" press releases but every once in a while something of real interest comes through. Thus it was when a note...
- You have to wonder what kind of parallel evolution had to take place for an alien in a distant area of space would end up looking like an animal that lives on Earth in the modern day. Not an extinct animal, not an animal that will one day evolve here - an animal that exists in a recognizable...
Don't skip the rest of the blog, though: we have a GI Joe figure you'll never see in stores, the new Previews catalog and a chance for you to help bring a toy to life. Peruse it all while you wait for more news from San Diego.
