The Toybox
My friend Kate and I have started a new webcomic over on Points of Articulation called “The Toybox.” Check it out!
Toys
This is a list of archived entries published in the Toys category.
New Halo 3 figures
Speaking of Halo 3 toys, here’s a glimpse of some variant Spartans in McFarlane Toys’ upcoming line. Yay for bubble heads!
(On a side note, I recently scored a few more–non-Halo related–articles for ToyFare. Stay tuned for more info.)
New figure review
For the first time in about a year, I have a new action figure review up at OAFE. This one is Erik Larsen’s SuperPatriot.
Toy spinoff blog
I’ve decided to create a spinoff blog that will focus solely on toys. As such, I’ve registered poeghostal.com (Poe Ghostal is my Web pseudonym). I plan to try and design the site myself, so probably won’t start running until sometime in November, since I have to focus on Halloween Month here all October.
I wanted to [...]
My Halo 3 article(s) posted online
ToyFare is doing a “Halo Week” on their website, primarily by posting my article from the magazine piecemeal.
Bungie Jump (interview with Bungie, makers of Halo 3)
Re-Spawn (interview with Todd McFarlane, who’s making the toy line)
Just for Clix (article on Halo Actionclix)
Gear of War (Halo-themed Xbox accessories)
Collecting Spree (everything else)
Big Screen Chief (update on the status [...]
Halo 3 Mamajama
The truth can at last be revealed: the article I pitched all those months ago will finally hit stores this Wednesday in ToyFare #123. Titled “Halo 3 Mamajama,” it’s a huge article about the upcoming release of Halo 3 and the slew of merchandising that will be accompanying it.
The issue will be in comic shops [...]
Legendary Comic Book Heroes
As I think I’ve made abundantly clear on this site, I collect action figures. I started doing so as a wee tyke, beginning with a little plastic totem of Mighty Mouse, then on into He-Man, Star Wars and the original Transformers and finally Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. After TMNT, I had a brief period where [...]
Imperial Universal Monsters
If you were a young boy in the late 1970s and early 1980s, chances are you were quite familiar with the crown logo of Imperial Toys.
From the admittedly limited perspective as a six-year-old boy, Imperial was known for one thing and one thing only: rubber dinosaurs.
Imperial specialized in those solid rubber dinosaurs you’d find [...]
Cthulhu Plastic Figure
NOTE: Originally published under the name “Poe Ghostal” on the now-defunct toy review website The Toy Pirate.
Toy Vault made its first impression on the action figure industry back in 1998, when it released a number of action figures based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. They got the license through the Tolkien Estate, as [...]
Attack of the Living Dead
I tend toward faddishness, and my latest fad (in case you couldn’t tell) has been zombies. This owes in part to the subject of this article, the wonderfully disgusting “Attack of the Living Dead” action figures by Mezco Toyz [sic]. AOTLD is a combination of today’s advanced action figure design and those old gross-out toys [...]