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Designer Toy Review: Lego Minifigures Series 10

16. May 2013

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Calling all Lego fans….round up, round up! Series 10 of the blind bag Lego minifigures have finally been released, and what a mix of characters we have in this set! With 16 new characters for us Lego maniacs to find and collect in their metallic gold packets, series 10 promises not to disappoint!

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Alex’s Blind Box Review: Redrum! Redrum! Redrum!

1. May 2013

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No, I haven’t been cooped up in an American hotel for far too long with a psychopath for a father and numerous visions of two creepy twin girls, this is actually the name of the blind box that I’ll be reviewing this week!

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Uncanny Figure Review: Marvel Select Rhino & Marvel Select Venom

8. April 2013

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Marvel Select action figure reviews: Rhino Spider-man, arguably, has the best rogue’s gallery in all of comics; from Doctor Octopus, to Kraven the Hunter, to the Vulture, but none is more intimidating than Aleksei Sytsevich AKA The Rhino! Originally a common thug, Aleksei was offered a near indestructible Rhino armour which granted him super strength, [...]

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Uncanny Figure Review: Batman Arkham City Wave 4

27. March 2013

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Batman: Arkham City [Wave 4] action figure reviews: Deadshot As we near completion of the roster of characters from the Arkham Asylum/City games, we begin to get some of the more obscure characters mixed in. Case in point being Deadshot, a character who appears in a side-mission in the game. In the comics, Deadshot is [...]

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Uncanny Figure Review: Batman Unlimited Batgirl (New 52)

11. March 2013

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DC’s New 52 reboot brought a lot of awesome stuff back to continuity, one of those things being the original and best Batgirl; Barbara Gordon! In the previous DCU, Barbara was shot and paralysed by the Joker, leaving her confined to a wheelchair. The New 52 explained how she recovered from that and retook the [...]

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Uncanny Figure Review: Marvel Select Barbarian Hulk

4. March 2013

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Check out Barbarian Hulk on the FPI webstore here Jason Aaron’s run on Incredible Hulk was very interesting, and explored the topic that Bruce Banner, was in fact the bad part of the Hulk/Banner character. With thanks to Dr Doom, Banner managed to split apart from Hulk, both living seperate lives;- Banner chose to experiment [...]

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Uncanny Figure Review: DC Unlimited Figures Wave 1

29. January 2013

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DC Comics Unlimited [Wave 1] action figure reviews: Hawkman & Flash (New 52) DC Comics Unlimited, for those who don’t know, is the retail continuation of the DC Universe Classics figures that have been fan favourite DC figures (and DCs answer to Marvel Legends) for years. Mattel felt that they needed to rebrand the figures to reflect [...]

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Gold Diggin’ #1

21. December 2012

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Down here in the Forbidden Planet International dungeon archives, I’m forever coming across treasure of all kinds: rare, brilliant, bargainous, weird, wonderful, etc. Unfortunately, the brass upstairs weren’t too keen on my original plan of hoarding it all away for myself (I think the comparison “like some Smaugian man-child” was uttered at one point), so here I [...]

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Upcoming: Have a Hilda of your very own….

11. November 2012

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More great looking, limited edition (in)action figures for great looking books. First there was Felt Mistress’ Tippy from Blank Slate, and  here’s Luke Pearson’s Hilda in figure form, 8 inches of lovely vinyl, all packaged up in a collector’s box designed by Luke Pearson Details at the Nobrow site. Here she is in her full glory, [...]

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Merch: The Three Doctors

26. September 2012

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All week our various branches and the the blog have been teasing on Twitter and Facebook about a new and exclusive Doctor Who box set to be announced later in the week. Well, it is later in the week now and we’re finally allowed to reveal that it is in fact a special set from [...]

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