Category Archives: Shocker

Rustin's Spoils of the Week #104

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Rustin Parr

Comic Con 2013 - a more wretched hive of toys and collectibles you'd be hard pressed to find. I did my best to "spend wisely" as money is an ever-decreasing excess of mine, but despite that intent I still loaded … Continue reading →

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Soon Forget: Indie Spotlight Cassie Hack

Posted on April 11, 2012 by OAFE

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is Shocker Toys' Hack/Slash Cassie Hack. Cassie would have been part of the Indie Spotlight line, and was planned … Continue reading →

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Indie Spotlight update

Posted on December 11, 2011 by OAFE

Shocker Toys posted an update about Indie Spotlight Series 2 on their Facebook page: We would like to apologize to all the fans for the long wait and delays on our end. We are working as hard as we can … Continue reading →

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Rustin's Spoils of the Week #29

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Rustin Parr

SDCC haul? Yes please! Now, this is about a third of the non-exclusive haul. The second third will be up next week while the third... third got to stay in California in my parents' attic. And now, some more OAFEry:Mattel's … Continue reading →

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Rustin's Spoils of the Week #26

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Rustin Parr

It's Wednesday July 20th which means it is Preview Night for the 2011 San Diego International Comic Convention. No doubt you sit in unbridled anticipation, quivering with undulatory excitement, coated in a briny dew whose manifestation is your mortal flesh's … Continue reading →

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ATFC - Shocker Toys at Toy Fair 2011

Posted on February 5, 2011 by OAFE

We've got a Toy Fair press release for you, today: Ridgewood, NJ February 5th, 2011: Shocker Toys is pleased to announce that we will be attending the International Toy Fair 2011 in New York from February 13th to the 16th … Continue reading →

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The Maxx in motion

Posted on November 29, 2009 by OAFE

In today's review of Shocker Toys' The Maxx figure, yo talked about how MTV ran a cartoon based on that book in the '90s. Sadly, for whatever reason, MTV has decided not to release the series on DVD yet, so … Continue reading →

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The problem with Shocker Toys' ShadowHawk

Posted on July 12, 2009 by OAFE

In today's review of the Indie Spotlight Series 1 ShadowHawk, we said that the costume design was all wrong, but that it wasn't worth making a list of all the inaccuracies. Well, apparently my time is worthless, because here's a … Continue reading →

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Shocker Toys needs an editor

Posted on March 9, 2008 by OAFE

Toy News International has a new press release about Shocker Toys' Indie Spotlight. Now, this post isn't intended to comment on the toys themselves - after all, we have yet to see them. What we can comment on is the … Continue reading →

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Look at what Shocker Toys has done now!

Posted on January 27, 2008 by OAFE

Okay, so when Shocker Toys announced announced their plans for an Indie Spotlight line, we compared them to vaporware - a comparison that seemed especially true when they started losing licenses to ToyBiz and showed off unimpressive prototypes. Well, if … Continue reading →

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