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/sweucess.php STAR WARS SATURDAY! Armed with a powerful blaster rifle and dressed in black armor designed to increase sensor-stealth, these stormtroopers loyally serve a mysterious agent of evil named Carnor Jax. Trained to fight without mercy for any opponent, these stormtroopers obey Jax's order to locate and eliminate an Imperial Guardsman named Kir Kanos... http://www.oafe.net/yo/gij25buz.php JOE FRIDAY! Buzzer was an extreme left-wing Cambridge sociology don who went to Australia to research the biker gang phenomenon only to be changed into the very object of his research. Years of intellectual displeasure and extreme indignation at society's two-faced morality manifested into the intense desire to chainsaw apart expensive geegaws... http://www.oafe.net/yo/dcdtrag.php Paul Harding sculpted this figure, and did a great job of turning Matt Wagner's sparse, disconnected art into a three-dimensional form. True to form, the chest is far bigger than the rest of the body, because that's the way Wagner draws. The prototype showed a chain helping keep the cape in place, but on the final figure, that's been scrapped... http://www.oafe.net/yo/tfu_dev.php TRANSFORMERS TUESDAY! In real life, there are no such things as construction vehicles painted green and purple. Yellow? Absolutely. Neon green? Sure, sometimes. But lime green and purple? Nuh-uh. But ask any Transformers collector what color they'd choose for a new construction-themed TF, and their answer is clear: give us a throwback to the original Devastator... http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=67878970&blogID=390520232 Find out what toy-related products you can get at your local comicshop this Wednesday. http://www.oafe.net/yo/sw6ewl.php STAR WARS SUNDAY! These little guys were released in a two-pack in 1998, as part of the Power of the Force 2 line. In fact, if you remember the "Freeze Frame" figures? That's what these were. They even predate the "Episode I" toys by a year, which makes them almost depressingly old. A sizeable chunk of our audience was barely forming coherant thoughts when these were released... http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=67878970&blogID=390511465 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. http://www.oafe.net/artemis/sg1_dsc.php This is Sam in "desert combat" gear, as seen in a bunch of episodes where SG-1 stopped pretending a forest near Vancouver was an alien planet, and pretended a sandbox near Vancouver was an alien planet instead. She's kitted out in desert scrub camo pants - the same sculpt as her previous figure - and a buff tank top. Er, that's the colour buff... http://www.oafe.net/yo/gij25cih.php JOE FRIDAY! Now that Hasbro's GI Joe 25th Anniversary Collection is a verified success, they're finally breaking the seal on what we all knew was coming: infuriating store exclusives. Yes, Hasbro is a company that loves its exclusive toys, and the TFAC line has its first three with the Target-exclusive "Attack on Cobra Island" series... http://www.oafe.net/artemis/dcdjla2hg.php She's also a member of the Justice League of America, because she happened to turn up to a fight one day while Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman had adopted the time-honoured "next half-dozen people we see" method of selecting the world's best and brightest heroes. Even more notably, she wears pants, and doesn't have her underpants on outside of them... http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=67878970&blogID=388458541 The first Saturday in May is always Free Comic Book Day, so find out what free stuff you can score before seeing "Iron Man" this weekend. http://www.oafe.net/yo/dcdjla2di.php Part of the appeal of Dr. Impossible is that he seems like an old character who hasn't been used in a while, rather than a new creation. The concept of an anti-Mr. Miracle seems just like something Jack Kirby would have come up with, and the character is true to that. The costume is very much a classic Fourth World design, but with some modern sensibilities... http://www.oafe.net/yo/tfu_dev.php TRANSFORMERS TUESDAY! In real life, there are no such things as construction vehicles painted green and purple. Yellow? Absolutely. Neon green? Sure, sometimes. But lime green and purple? Nuh-uh. But ask any Transformers collector what color they'd choose for a new construction-themed TF, and their answer is clear: give us a throwback to the original Devastator... http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=67878970&blogID=387400303 Find out what toy-related products you can get at your local comicshop this Wednesday. http://www.oafe.net/yo/mmmwas.php In 2007, Target was scheduled to get a whole series of exclusive Spider-Man Minimates, but they backed out of the deal. Four of the planned figures had already been released in the Classic Spider-Man box set, but that still left half the series up in the air. It's not like Art Asylum could suddenly find space on the schedule for a bunch of unexpected two-packs...