This week in comicshops - 09/11

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

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Wendy's DC Heroes Set 1 review

Mini-Figure Mini-Reviews

Fast food premiums generally aren't as involved as they used to be. Remember in 2001 when McDonald's had a whole set of unique Bionicle villagers? You don't see stuff like that anymore. But this time last year at Wendy's, you could get one of six sets of DC Comics minifigures - think "M.U.S.C.L.E." or "Monster in My Pocket," that kind of thing. Buy a Kids' Meal (or just ask nicely at the counter), and you'd get a box containing three little plastic superheroes, and a sleeve of tiny cards explaining who they are.

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Mammoths go (Creative) Beast mode

Creative Beast Studio, they of the Cyberzoic and Beasts of the Mesozoic lines, is returning to the distant past once again, this time partnering with PBS to make some ancient elephants.

The project is being run directly on Backerkit, the company that usually just helps fulfill Kickstarter pledges, and the product looks just as impressive as the previous lines. They're starting with a Woolly Mammoth adult and baby, available individually or as a campaign-exclusive "snowy" set, and they've already unlocked a smaller-scale mammoth for the space-conscious collector.

The campaign runs through October 3, so go check it out and grab yourself some prehistoric elephants today. David Silva and Creative Beast have a good track record of delivering quality crowdfunded products, and this looks like another winner.

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A real-life Lego bike

Featuring bonus Mythbuster:

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OAFEnet Email Update for Thursday, September 5

If anyone wants to pay the OAFEnet Email Update $100 grand a week, we'll say the stupidest things imaginable, too.

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Let them fight.

Thanks to today's review, we can finally make this happen on our toy shelves:

the Cobra Kai dojo leader from the first Karate Kid movie stands ahead of his students with his arms crossed sternly, saying "Class, we have visitors..." The second panel is a scene from the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, showing Tatsu flanked by an army of Foot Soldiers

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Soon Forget: Marauder Megatron

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 Animated Marauder Megatron.

It's publicly known that Transformers Animated Season 4 would have seen Megatron escaping from prison and setting up shop on Earth, and that he would have recruited Blackarachnia to give him a triple-changer upgrade, a choice which would have led to him beginning to experience mental issues much like Blitzwing's.

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This week in comicshops - 09/04

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

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Earthworm Jim Heads Pack review

As mentioned in today's review, the first series of Premium DNA's Earthworm Jim line is supplemented with a heads pack. Since one of the big draws of the game back in the day was the super-expressive art style, with Jim pulling all sorts of big, Looney Tunes-style poses and expressions, giving fans a bunch of alternate heads is great. And while they perhaps could have done them as pack-ins with the other figures, almost like a loose adaptation of a Build-A-Figure idea, making those heads a separate purchase for anyone who doesn't want all the other figures in the line is a friendly choice.

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Vintage-style cosplay

a couple at a convention, dressed as the vintage Kenner versions of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Princess Leia, complete with stiff vinyl capes, obviously plastic hair, and accessories held in their immobile C-shaped hands. Obi-Wan's lightsaber even has that weird thin piece at the tip.

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