After we make our ritual walk to the CARS of your nearest TRU (that you could get there blindfolded, of course), it’s always amusing to wander through the clearance aisles of TRU during the Christmas season because  if it’s STILL on the shelf at a reduced price during the season when people will buy nearly […]

“Go motion may have been extinct overnight, as if by a meteor bombardment, but Phil Tippet reinvented himself as the head of a CG studio, and many of his go-motion animators were quick to retrain as CG animators, adapting their old skills with relative ease to the new way of working. During the early 1990s the shift […]

Nelson Blindspot is a nice addition to the Deluxe lineup. Not only is he is a huge metal diecast but he comes with glued on headset AND a giant plastic camera accessory. Thanks, “John H.” for some great photos. At a quick glance, he looks like a repaint of “Murphy,” from the Sarge Boot Camp […]

As you may have heard, Target was the target of underground hackers … so if you still have a credit limit, Target is saying it’s all good – bring back your credit card and get 10% off this weekend! Target’s CEO openly apologized today for the hack that swiped data from about 40 million credit […]

The Gloria C8F is essentially a scale down Formula 1 race car – you get a in car view riding with Liber Federico, the winner of this year’s Cividale Castelmonte Hillclimb timed race. More details at LiveLeak. You can read more about the Hillclimb event HERE.

“John H.” sends along great photos of Mattel’s Franz Fliegenhosen, which is a fun diecast. The back propeller spins.   It is nicely detailed.   But compared to the Disney Store Franz, he is lacking the split feature – he is a flying car that tows his wings. As you can tell, Disney Store Franz […]

Finally, a carrying case of all your extras Francesco’s.

If you collect variants, Snot Rod with Flames is a definite production variant. It seems the first production ones were transparent at the base and opaque at the top of flames (foreground one). Production seems to have moved to Mattel’s own plant so the flame is now mostly transparent from top to bottom. Yes, this […]

If you have 200,000 LEGO bricks laying about, you too can build your own Rivendall (from Lord of the Rings, of course). Good luck! You can check out more photos at WIRED.

Not sure when they are coming but we can count the current ones as Wave 1. Wave 2 is coming soon – these will obviously be out after Wave 2 – so presuming Wave 2 is late winter (post Christmas reset?), then these should be out by Spring, 2014. There is a Netherlands PLANE – […]