Archive for the 'Plugs' Category

Celebration V – SURVIVE

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Spending Warm Summer Days Indoors… So here’s the breakdown — I live in “Hotlanta” now, but I was born and braised in Florida. My partner and I lived in Orlando (tip — don’t call it “O-Town”) and I’m going to cut through all of the shiny, sunny public relations spiel to give you advice that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]