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Tarty Black Canary Barbie

17. July 2008

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“Barbie has always been on the tarty side and this is taking it too far. A children’s doll in sexually suggestive clothing is irresponsible – it’s filth,” Christian Voice – at least, that’s what they said according to the Sun, but I generally take what’s in a tabloid with a large pinch of salt (okay, [...]

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Bertie

4. July 2008

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How utterly cool are these Ashley Wood-designed Bertie figures? Compare these very detailed finished versions with (what look to be wooden?) early designs on Ash’s own blog from last year.

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Ask Russell

3. July 2008

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Following their ‘ask the Shat’ feature with Bill Shatner the BBC website is lining up a similar interview with the mighty Russell T Davies – and like the Shat interview the public are being invited to send in their own questions to be considered. So as we look towards the grand finale of the current [...]

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“Spud gun to ‘chips’…”

17. March 2008

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Since it is Saint Patrick’s Day: (Steve Dillons ‘Emerald Isle’ cover for 2000 AD Prog 727 where Mega City One’s iron lawman meets the rather more laid back Judge Joyce; one thing the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic has been brilliant at over the decades is taking the mickey out of home islands national stereotypes, with Emerald [...]

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Taters of the Lost Ark

21. February 2008

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Normally when it comes to movie merchandise we like to see highly detailed creations, be they statues of the characters or movie props. But when the Mr Potato Head toy was first adapted (remember the Imperial Spudtrooper??) we thought to heck with all that, this is very silly but great fun! Obviously a lot of [...]

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Primeval action figures

8. February 2008

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I’ve been quite enjoying the second season of ITV’s Primeval, which seems to have kicked things up a notch since the first season – the inclusion of background story arcs involving the present having been altered and the scientists questioning the morality of the government maintaining secrecy over the temporal incursions even though members of [...]

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Bad Taste Bears

7. February 2008

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My colleague Lee has been busy adding The Bad Taste Bears to our website; I especially love this Alex one riffing on Kubrick’s classic A Clockwork Orange imagery, just the bear to have with you when you go to the Milk Bar: (if you go down to the woods today you’re in for a big [...]

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Torchwood time!

16. January 2008

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It seems like the SF world is going into a Torchwood tizzy right now. Obviously we’re all pretty excited about the second season of Torchwood which starts tonight at 9pm, now promoted to terrestrial channel BBC2 from the digital BBC3. We’re super-stoked about Captain Jack – the brilliant John Barrowman – we love John Barrowman, [...]

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How to spot a Cylon

5. December 2007

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Adam Levermore-Rich, who designed the exceptionally cool Blue Sun Travel posters, beautiful images, some with a lovely retro-style, for tourist destinations in the universe of Joss Whedon’s Serenity, has turned his attention to another top-notch science fiction series, Battlestar Galactica, with his How To Spot a Cylon poster. The Blue Sun posters were really popular [...]

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Doctor Who Micro Universe

4. December 2007

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No, that isn’t the title of a new episode of Doctor Who but the start of a new range of merchandise which looks terrific fun. The Micro Universe will be a range of ships from Doctor Who complete with a tiny figure – this is much smaller than the main action figures we all know [...]

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V For … Halloween???

31. October 2007

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Colleagues in FPI’s Edinburgh branch tell me Halloween has occasioned a real run on V For Vendetta masks, with a substantial stockpile of the Fawkesian visages rapidly shrinking throughout today, with several folks standing in line at one point all to buy the masks. Looks like Edinburgh will have more than its fair share of [...]

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“Smile”

17. October 2007

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DC has announced a 20th anniversary special hardback edition of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s classic Batman tale The Killing Joke, one of the best standalone Batman tales of the last couple of decades in my book. Alan – as usual – created a lot of atmosphere for such a short tale, delving beneath the [...]

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The twelve toys of Christmas

10. October 2007

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Each autumn experts in the toys and retailing industries pick out the toys they think will be the most sought after for Christmas – these are the ones they expect will have parents fighting one another over in busy stores, seasonal goodwill forgotten as they desperately try to get the must-have toy for their present [...]

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Sarah Jane figure

3. October 2007

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The new Doctor Who spin-off the Sarah Jane Adventures is already set to have it’s own merchandise alongside the very popular range of Who merch, including a Sarah Jane action figure (30 and 40-something Who fans who grew up in the Pertwee-Baker era are swooning at this news as I speak), an alien communicator with [...]

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Harrison Heart Foundation signed Dalek now on Ebay auction

2. October 2007

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Following on from yesterday’s news of the extremely rare – one-of-a-kind being about as rare as you can get – Character Options remote controlled Dalek which was made specially for the Jonathan Ross show’s David Tennant appearance (and is signed by Tennant) which is being auctioned for the very worthy cause (the Harrison Heart Foundation) [...]

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