Archive for the 'Toy Fair 2010' Category

You Made the Grade

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

We have a winner in our Pop Quiz!
Thanks to all who entered and gave the answer of approximately 10 hours. That is correct on the hour scale, but we toy geeks are, well, let’s say "more specific" than most people. So as fellow toy geeks and calculator owners, we did expect an answer accurate to […]

POP QUIZ!!!

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Please note that this is not a blog post — we just need this format for responses.
[EDIT: Yes, we have a winner, and details will be forthcoming tomorrow. Stay tuned!]

The PRIZE is pretty big. It’s an AT-TE courtesy of the HunterPR team (thank you Joe and Danny) and Hasbro (thank you to the entire team […]

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 figure […]