Lampreys, Gyro-Vipers, BATs, Techno-Vipers

One more group to add to the big list of companies trying to rehabilitate their image through a bit of light rainbow-washing:

an official Hasbro T-shirt with the Cobra logo in Pride Month rainbow colros

First masks, now this? Cobra may be an evil terrorist organization, but they're not stupid.

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OAFEnet Email Update for Thursday, June 1

Be intimidated by OAFEnet Email Update.

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Hot Wheels Character Cars Aang and Appa reviews

It's been a long time since we've reviewed any Character Cars, huh? I almost wondered if they'd stopped making them. But geeze, what a great way to come back!

Nickelodeon had its first Character Cars all the way back in 2013, with an entire series of SpongeBob SquarePants Hot Wheels. It then took until 2020 for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to get their turn, but fortunately it was not a seven-year wait before another Viacom property stepped into the spotlight: Avatar the Last Airbender.

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Soon Forget: Generations Nightbeat

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is Hasbro's Transformers: Generations Nightbeat.

Now, there was a Generations Nightbeat, under the "Thrilling 30" heading in 2014. It was retooling of Goldbug, but that wasn't the original plan.

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This week in comicshops - 05/31

Find out what toy-related items you can get at your local comicshop this Wednesday.

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The Theory of ALF-olution

Thanks to Green Lantern, we know the planet Melmac, in the Adromeda galaxy, exists in the DC Universe - but it turns out it also exists in the Marvel Universe!

In the '80s, Marvel published an ALF comic that managed to run for 53 issues. In the '80s, when companywide crossovers were just gaining popularity, Marvel tended to restrict theirs to the books' Annuals, rather than interrupting the main story; the 1988 crossover was "The Evolutionary War," in which the High Evolutionary undertakes several simultaneous efforts to accelerate human evolution, meaning lots of different heroes could fight him in lots of different ways without having to, say, gather in one room and talk about it first; it's hard to conceive of a threat that both the Silver Surfer and the Punisher can deal with, y'know? Anyway, ALF Annual #1 got the "Evolutionary War" trade dress and the High Evolutionary showed up in two of the contained stories, warning ALF not to interfere with his plans for humanity. And also theorizing that Phoenix was the one who destroyed Melmac (though ALF said he had never heard of her).

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Final Faction: Alpha Team Cyberarms Weapons Pack exclusive review

Shift and Scope weren't the only ones to get specialized Weapons Packs in Series 2 of the Final Faction toys: team spy Torn also had a dedicated set, though it's very odd and not really what you'd normally think of as being conducive to sneaky infiltration types. It also isn't something that's appeared on the cartoon yet, but considering where he was left off last time, he may find it (or something similar) soon.

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OAFEnet Email Update for Thursday, May 25

Fall asleep to the gentle, soothing sounds of the OAFEnet Email Update.

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Super7 Animaniacs addendum

Unlike Yakko and Wakko, Dot does not have a signature song. It's not like Tress MacNeille can't sing, but "I'm Cute" is more of a trivia note than something memorable. Come on, guys, she could have sung the universe song or something!

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Marvel Legends: dat (tall) body

With Vulcan, Hasbro introduced a third "pectoral hinges" torso, this one flatter and taller than the other two:


Here's a list of everyone who uses it:

Now we can link to this page every time we mention it.

Dem bodies!
teen boy | teen girl
small male | medium male | beefy male | big male | suit male
superarticulated skinny | superarticulated thick | superarticulated large
skinny female | petite female | slender female | medium female | big female | giant female
Wolverines | Iron Men

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