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Tag Archives: Universal Monsters
Rustin's Spoils of the Week #210
I promise I'll get back to contemporary/immediate Spoils soon, but yet again my hopes for being current have failed me. So, we'll dig in a lovely potpourri from last year (which I imagine might also be a nice break from … Continue reading
Posted in Rustin's Spoils of the Week
Tagged Avengers, Batman, Captain America, castle, Cthulhu, Game of Thrones, Hot Wheels, Hulk, Iron Man, Pirates, Power Rangers, Predator, ReAction, Rocky Horror, Spider-Man, Star Trek, Terminator, Universal Monsters, zombies
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Rustin's Spoils of the Week #205
Okay, here's another much-delayed "on the road" edition of Spoils. Please accept my apologies for these hotel room/lighting photos, but what's a writer to do when work has them many states away from the dumpy old desk of proper photography. … Continue reading
Posted in Rustin's Spoils of the Week
Tagged Batman, Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, Justice League, Nintendo, Star Wars, Terminator, TMNT, Universal Monsters
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Phantom of the Opera addendum
via @nwalks on twitter comes "When your friend says they have never seen Phantom of the Opera and you have no plans to leave the apartment today": And now, some more OAFEry:Universal Monsters Minimates: Bride of Frankenstein & Villager reviews … Continue reading
Horror Classics Mystery Minis - The Wolf Man
We're reviewing Horror Classics Mystery Minis for October, and you thought I wasn't going to do both werewolves? And now, some more OAFEry:Flippin' through Previews - November '15 Mad Max: Fury Road Mystery Minis - Immortan Joe review Retro Videogame … Continue reading
Soon Forget: more S.L.U.G.s
Last year, we showed you the cancelled Series 5, 6 and 7 of Jakks Pacific's SLUG Zombies. Today, in honor of our review of Series 1, we've got something else entirely. And now, some more OAFEry:Rustin's Spoils of the Week … Continue reading
Posted in addendums, cancelled toys, Jakks
Tagged Alien, Buffy, Ghostbusters, Universal Monsters, vampires, Wolverine, zombies
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Soon Forget: Hero Mashers Monsters
This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figures today are Hasbro's Hero Mashers Monsters. The Monsters would have been an expansion of Hasbro's Hero Masher line, which also … Continue reading
Posted in cancelled toys, Hasbro
Tagged GI Joe, Jurassic Park, Toy Fair 2016, Transformers, Universal Monsters, Xevoz, zombies
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Universal Select Mummy addendum
In the February, 1933 issue of Modern Mechanix magazine (published by a name comicbook fans will recognize, Fawcett Publications) printed a story about how Boris Karloff's Mummy makeup was made. And now, some more OAFEry:Rustin's Spoils of the Week #154 … Continue reading
Rustin's Spoils of the Week #164
Work - am I right guys? Thanks for you everlovin' blue-eyed patience with the variable time constraints on getting this column up! Here's kind of a fun one as I continue to get caught up on my deep backlog. Today … Continue reading
Posted in DC Direct, Hasbro, Lego, Mattel, Playmates, Rustin's Spoils of the Week
Tagged Alien, Doctor Who, Minimates, Spider-Man, TMNT, Toy Story, Universal Monsters, zombies
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Rustin's Spoils of the Week #163
Funko has spent many years cultivating a niche "novelty" avenue before stumbling upon the shocking goldmine that is the Pop! aestethic/line and then they took all that Pop! and suddenly went all-in for action figures last year, launching both the … Continue reading
Flippin' through Previews - May '15
It's time once again to thumb through the toy section of this month's Previews, and see what goodies we can uncover. Scheduled to start shipping in July. And now, some more OAFEry:Flippin’ Through Previews - September '07 Supervillain primary debate, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien, Batman, Blue Beetle, Dr. Strange, Flash, Ghostbusters, Godzilla, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Gremlins, Justice League, Marvel Select, Minimates, Mortal Kombat, Pacific Rim, Predator, Pulp Fiction, Rocketeer, Shazam, Transformers, Universal Monsters, View Askew
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