Category Archives: DST

Madballs at Five Below

Posted on October 15, 2025 by OAFE

Remember the Target Madball knockoffs? You can now get them - and several others - at Five Below: It's still a mix of stolen designs and more original work, but if you missed them before, you now have a second … Continue reading →

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Madballs at Target

Posted on September 28, 2025 by OAFE

Okay, they're not technically Madballs, they're "Mutant Monsters"... which are just knockoffs of Madballs. The green one is Slobulus (from Amtoy in the '80s) and the blue one is Repvile (from Art Asylum in the '00s), and the red one … Continue reading →

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Soon Forget: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Posted on April 3, 2025 by OAFE

Today is the 50th anniversary of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, so today let's take a look at the figures we didn't get. In 2003, Diamond Select Toys released a series of three Holy Grail figures, featuring Arthur, Sir … Continue reading →

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Marvel Legends Winter Guard

Posted on February 3, 2025 by OAFE

Red Guardian Darkstar Crimson Dynamo Ursa Major Red Widow <i>And now, some more OAFEry:</i>When asked, all of them described it as "uncanny" Working SHIELD Helicarrier Minimate Mini-Review #125 - Civil War Captain America & Arnim Zola Flippin' through Previews - … Continue reading →

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A quick look at DST's Merry and Pippin

Posted on November 8, 2024 by Monkey Boy

With Merry and Pippin we finally complete the Fellowship form Diamond Select. Each of these figures is frustratingly flawed in their own special way but I’m still glad we managed to get all 9. <i>And now, some more OAFEry:</i>Rustin's Spoils … Continue reading →

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Overlapping interests

Posted on October 27, 2024 by Monkey Boy

I got a Christopher Lee Dracula so please enjoy my collection of Draculas and Christopher Lees <i>And now, some more OAFEry:</i>The biggest properties of the '90s Rustin's Spoils of the Week #142 Hasbro re-ups Star Wars license... and Indiana Jones … Continue reading →

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Now that's how to display Muppets!

Posted on October 13, 2024 by Shocka

This is such a good idea! Taken from Facebook so you don't have to go there <i>And now, some more OAFEry:</i>Flippin' through Previews - December '15 It's time to steal a rocket, it's time to take test flights A killer … Continue reading →

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A quick look at DST's Gimli

Posted on August 25, 2024 by Monkey Boy

Diamond Select casual Gimli. Includes everything the original Gimli had, plus cape, non helmet head, pipe and mug. <i>And now, some more OAFEry:</i>Rustin's Spoils of the Week #131 Minimate Mini-Review #313 - Gandalf the White & King Theoden Rustin's Spoils … Continue reading →

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Mods are asleep, post Creatures

Posted on October 12, 2023 by Monkey Boy

[Jack Black Bowser voice] Creatures creatures creatures creatures creatures I LOOOOVE YOOUU 🎶 <i>And now, some more OAFEry:</i>TMNT is back, baby! Funko POP!s with human eyes Universal Monsters Minimates: Bride of Frankenstein & Villager reviews The Aliens/TMNT crossover that never … Continue reading →

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Soon Forget: The Mummy Minimates

Posted on June 26, 2022 by OAFE

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is The Mummy Minimates four-pack. This set would have been part of Series 3 of the Universal Monsters Minimates … Continue reading →

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