Category Archives: Mattel

Castle Grayskullman addendum: interview with creator Daniel Benedict

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Poe Ghostal

In preparation for today's Castle Grayskullman review, I conducted a brief interview with CGM creator Daniel Benedict. <i>And now, some more OAFEry:</i>Garbage Pail Kids fan art Children of the '90s Try to Explain '80s Cartoons Flippin' through Previews - March … Continue reading →

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Rustin's Spoils of the Week #75

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Rustin Parr

And we’re back! This episode of Spoils of the Week brings you a right smattering of products from around the, well, frankly, aisles of Toys R Us. Yes, that once fault-less bastion of toy good-ery! Bask, dear friends, bask in … Continue reading →

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Rustin's Spoils of the Week #72

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Rustin Parr

Continuing on with some August purchases we get a selection of figures here that I picked up during my life on the road as man of business traveling variety. <i>And now, some more OAFEry:</i>Flippin' through Previews - March '16 DC … Continue reading →

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Rustin's Spoils of the Week #70

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Rustin Parr

Last Saturday I had a fairly expensive and pretty exciting haul - across Toys R Us and Target I managed to nab two hard-to-find comic villains and the latest series of my two favorite NECA lines!!! Both of the latter … Continue reading →

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Rustin's Spoils of the Week #69

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Rustin Parr

After a much prolonged hiatus of Comic-Con attending, recuperating and working our dear and beloved Spoils returns with a mighty onslaught Con exclusive toys. Now, I will note this is not every exclusive I bought. What's excluded, though, is being … Continue reading →

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A second real-life Hot Wheels stunt

Posted on August 29, 2012 by OAFE

Remember the Hot Wheels jump at last year's Indianapolis 500? Well they did something cool again this year, at the X-Games: That's 100% real, no tricks. Now all we need is for them to do the big arch that runs … Continue reading →

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Batman offers Catwoman a ride

Posted on August 22, 2012 by OAFE

In honor of the 10th anniversary of our first Figuretoon, we posted a new one today. And yes, it was entirely just an excuse to post this joke. To see the punchline, though, you'll need to go read the toon. … Continue reading →

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Mattel screws customer out of Voltron

Posted on August 15, 2012 by OAFE

An article posted today on Consumerist once again highlights the idiocy of Mattel and its subscriptions. A fan signed up for "Club Lion Force," aka the Voltron sub. He was living in New York at the time, but recently got … Continue reading →

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Batman addendum

Posted on August 1, 2012 by yo go re

Swamp Thing, Plastic Man, even the Wonder Twins all came in fancy, over-designed boxes. And there have been ones with play features before, like Man-Bat and Solomon Grundy, but even they don't hold a candle to this year's. The outer … Continue reading →

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On the subject of Mattel and its subscriptions

Posted on July 28, 2012 by OAFE

You ever hear those stories about drug dealers who work at school cafeterias, who salt the french fries with cocaine or speed to get kids addicted, then sell them the product later? Well, no, probably not, unless you still haven't … Continue reading →

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