http://www.oafe.net OAFE - Online Action Figure Entertainment Reviews of new and collectible action figures, news and commentary, Figuretoons, humor, a discussion board and links to other useful resources. en-us http://www.oafe.net/yo/gijmstone.php JOE FRIDAY! Sgt. Stone has a balljointed neck, swivel/hinge shoulders, swivel/hinge elbows, swivel wrists, balljointed torso, balljointed hips, double hinged knees and swivel/hinge ankles. The elbows look odd, for some reason - kind of outdated, like they were designed for a G2 figure. It's not like we haven't seen bare-armed Joes before... http://www.oafe.net/yo/7ksili.php Siliskk's body is a modified version of the queen's - she gets new smooth arms and her abdomen looks a bit thinner - Alluxandra is clearly wearing a shirt, evinced by the wrinkles and the large seam running down the center, but Siliskk's midriff is bare. In fact, MOST of her is bare: this girl's got her intricate metallic top, knee-high leather... http://www.oafe.net/artemis/legosphyp.php Lego, like pizza and sex, has very few bad permutations. Last season's Mars Mission, for all its creepy aliens, was kind of plausible in its own way: if you stretched your mind a bit, you could imagine vehicles like those being deployed if NASA ever got really serious about extra-terrestrial colonization, and got a big enough budget to let their R+D go... http://www.oafe.net/yo/tfcl_lp.php TRANSFORMERS TUESDAY! Recognizing the importance of the burgeoning collector market way before any of their contemporaries, Hasbro was the first company to offer an online store and exclusives. Yes, today HasbroToyShop is the prime example of a corporate store done right, but in the late '90s, we had HasbroCollectors. It featured unreleased figures... http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=67878970&blogId=518860535 Find out what toy-related items you can get at your local comicshop this Wednesday. http://www.oafe.net/yo/mu_gb_sgmca.php MARVEL MONDAY! Harking back to Marvel Legends' glory days, the Gigantic Battles sets each come with a reprint comicbook. This set includes "Secret Invasion" #6, which definitely doesn't feature Skrull Giant-Man, but is the turning point of the series, as the heroes rally for the inevitable underdog comeback. And it does have Captain America... http://www.oafe.net/yo/is1_scud.php Rob Schrab's "Scud" was part of the '90s indie comics boom. "Bone," "Strangers in Paradise," "Castle Waiting"... this was the crowd Scud ran with. The book had a very trippy kind of cool - hell, just read the description of Jeff in the bio. Does that sound normal? I even made a custom Scud myself from a Robocop toy, but it was pretty crappy... http://www.oafe.net/poe/dcuc7_bg.php Booster Gold uses the "buff male" body, the same one used for Batman and Superman. The only new sculpting is the head, forearms, and gloves. There are actually two versions of this figure available - modern Booster Gold has the costume he's wearing in the comics, more or less, while the "classic" variant has a slightly different paint scheme... http://www.oafe.net/yo/gijresbox.php JOE FRIDAY! You should already be familiar with "Resolute," the modern reimagining of the Joe vs. Cobra mythos. It was written by Warren Ellis and designed by Dave Johnson, so no surprise it shares more with the comics than the old cartoon. Sadly, because of the timing of the series' release, only a few toys made it out before production switched over... http://www.oafe.net/artemis/necatnmb.php "Twilight" - loathe it all you want, but you can't deny it's a huge hit with lots and lots of people. Mind you, so are Scientology, movies made by the Wayans brothers, crystal meth, and the Pope's stance on birth control. You know what they say, there's one born every minute. Although I guess I have to 'fess up to being one of those, specifically the kind... http://www.oafe.net/yo/legoctpwts.php The holidays are coming, and that means a busy time in the toymaker's workshop! This scene from a winter wonderland includes a charming shop filled with tools, toys, and even a light-up tower window. Outside, minifigures sing carols by the bench and lamppost, ski on the snow drifts, build a snowman and play with snowballs, and decorate... http://www.oafe.net/yo/tfcl_pg.php TRANSFORMERS TUESDAY! The 1985 version of Powerglide was one of the Minibots, which means he could fit in the palm of your hand. The 2009 version is an Ultra Class figure, which means he's just about the largest you're likely to see regularly on store shelves. Quite a shift. But hey, he's still an A-10 Thunderbolt, so that has to count for something... http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=67878970&blogId=518027704 Find out what toy-related items you can get at your local comicshop this Wednesday. http://www.oafe.net/yo/mmmstsk.php MARVEL MONDAY! His chest cap is entirely new, since there's no existing figure from which they could steal a bulky chest with fur trim. The ruff starts in the area of his nipples, then goes over the shoulders and behind his head. The figure also gets new hands, done as large blocky claws. Why are the hands new, rather than re-uses of the existing claws... http://www.oafe.net/yo/abtcwd.php The original idea for Trashcan was indeed a little trash compacter that made stackable bricks of junk, but then of course "WALL*E" came out, and that had to be reworked - they even made their garbage look different. As seen in the film (and on the toy), Trashcan is a flip-top waste container that has undergone a most startling Endoggination...