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2009 — A Year In Refute, Too (Mea Culpa)

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

First off, this should have been posted on SATURDAY (because of the rich heritage of cool Star Wars action figure and toy commercials) but AT&T decided to have a day of digital schizophrenia (i.e. home connection went up and down and all-around).
After writing a brief and not-too-kind rundown of toys from The Clone Wars action figure […]

Dégueulasse, Tes Jours Sont Comptés!

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Merci, Mssr Truffaut, éternellement…
Tying up some of 2009’s loose ends, I think we’ve seen the last of Q&A until Toy Fair 2010. (Save the date — all the sites — will be working hard for you on/around/through St. Valentine’s Day.) I bit my tongue holding back (and hoping) that Imperial Scanning Crewman #2 would miraculously […]

Can you listen to yourself for just once in your life?

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

OK Collectors… It’s time that someone knock some sense into a bunch of you. First I want to lay things out from my perspective. I’ve been collecting since the "Peek-A-Boo" testing-the-waters soft launch of the line in 1995. Well, that or senility has set in early. As a struggling student, I lived on bread and […]

Trouble Loves Me

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

OK…  some technological issues caused a slight delay in getting this out there, but congratulations to Joe Jr Lusignolo, who is the winner in the Galactic Blogger Show Us Your BMF Contest.
I had planned on rolling this contest around just a little bit until (hopefully) a Turbo Tank Holiday Value Set was unveiled for […]