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- JOE FRIDAY! The third series of RAH Combat Heroes was meant to come out before the movie, but slow sales of Series 1 (ie, being WAY over-ordered) meant that Series 2 barely ever made it out, let alone 3. Hasbro "postponed" the release without ever officially cancelling it, and promised they'd bring the figs out after the movie. Well, it's been...
- This is the "big hulking mech-suited" kind Monkey Boy mentioned back in his review of the OTHER Spacetrooper - Thrawn's answer to Robert Heinlein, a massive, bulky powered suit with a thruster pack on its back, looking considerably more indestructible than regular stormtroopers (although, being stormtroopers, they probably explode if you kick them...
- Jonah Hex has an advantage most comic characters don't: a lot of the events in his life have set dates. Hex was born November 1, 1838, the son of a drunkard who sold the boy to Apaches in exchange for some pelts in July of 1851. At 15, he saved the tribe's chief from a puma, and the chief declared Jonah his second son. This pissed off Son #1, Noh-Tante...
- MOTU MONDAY! King Randor goes as far back as the original He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Bible, written by Michael Halperin in 1982 before the cartoon was even created. He's appeared since then in every incarnation of the He-Man story, including the New Adventures where, in the first episode, he and his wife Marlena finally found out the truth...
- TRANSFORMERS TUESDAY! Converting Megatron is fairly challenging, but not frustrating. Well, except for the fact that the blaster sound will not. Stop. Going. Off. as you change him. Plug the legs in their new position, the gun fires. Move the turret over, the gun fires. Tilt the robot's head back, the gun fires. Put the damn tank down and walk away...
- A nice touch is that both of the coat's side pockets - the left hidden by a cloth tucked into it - are bulging slightly, reflecting McCoy's tendency to keep his scripts in them while filming (the top of a script was even visible - although not identifiable - in some scenes; perhaps inadvertently foreshadowing "Blink," when the Doctor really DID...
- There's one thing missing from the figure, though, and it's a biggie: he's got no tail. That may seem like a minor thing, but the "constrictor" powers mentioned on the packaging? It's not something he can do himself, it's a feature of the suit, housed... in the tail. Yeah. It's like selling a Batman figure with no utility belt, or GL without a ring...
