Archive for the 'Tips' 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 [...]

DisPLAY With Your Toys From The Clone Wars #1.

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Off the top of my head…Cody’s blast is blue because he doesn’t use that weapon all that often. Clone Trooper skidding into home under the Separatist Crab Droid is either the product of a rapid-training military school education and a give ‘em hell attitude — or it’s better to go down guns blazing than to [...]

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 [...]