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ZapCon 2022
I spent yesterday, April 30, 2022, at ZapCon, Arizona’s arcade & pinball convention. All the local arcades and independent machine owners bring their machines together at the Mesa Convention Center.…
Posted inToys
TMNT Mondo Gecko custom toy
Image from TMNTToys.com Mondo Gecko is the "Rip-Roarin', Skateboardin' Reptile." And that's it. That's his personality. He's a late 80s/early 90s surfer dude that got mutated into a gecko, and…
Posted inTabletop Games
OverPower Scarlet Spider Kaine custom cards
OverPower was a mid-1990s trading card game by Fleer, which, I believe, was owned by Marvel Entertainment Group. In 2014, I thought it would be fun to update the Scarlet…
Posted inJournal Pro Wrestling
Shootin’ at the Walls of Heartache, BANG BANG!
I have no idea why the Ultimate Warrior is playing guitar (although I'd wager that the Honky-Tonk Man is involved), but sometimes you just come across something and need to…
Posted inToys Video games
TMNT Tournament Fighters Rat King
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters is a pretty solid fighter, coming from that brief period in 1993 where the popularity of TMNT hadn't QUITE ended yet, but the popularity…
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Transformers MC-20 Microscope ReAction Figure
It’s Perceptor! In black! Much like Megatron and Soundwave, Perceptor was part of Takara’s Micro Change toy line, which had everyday objects that were secretly miniature robots! When Hasbro licensed…
Posted inPro Wrestling
Ultimo Dragon and his Belts
This photo's been floating around the Internet for as long as I've been on it. This is the wrestler Último Dragón, and in 1997, he held TEN wrestling championships at…
Posted inToys
TMNT Bebop & Rocksteady yellow custom toys
In the second episode of the original 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, we meet Rocksteady and Bebop, the Shredder's hench-mutants. About 18 and a half minutes into the episode,…
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The TMNT 2 Comic Adaptations are fascinating
In 1991, the sequel to the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was released. And since it was the early 90s and films stayed in theaters for more than a…
Posted inToys
Transformers GunRobo ReAction Figure
One of the things about having been a Transformers fan for so long is that I end up running into the same characters over and over again. I've already talked…
Posted inComics
Soggies May Rule!
The Soggies are the thing that gets your cereal all mushy and gross. They are led by the Sogmaster. They may rule.
Posted inToys
TMNT Metal Head custom toy
Metalhead was created by Krang to destroy the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But the turtle who "does machines," Donatello, reprogrammed Metalhead, and now he's one of the turtles' allies! And…
Posted inToys
Spawn Redeemer custom toy
Todd McFarlane's Spawn was ostensibly a comic about the war between Heaven and Hell. I say "was," because I stopped reading after it seemed like Hell was defeated, and now…
Posted inToys
Transformers Soundblaster ReAction Figure
I've talked about Soundblaster before, but here is an honest-to-goodness North American release of a Japanese-exclusive Transformers character. "But, Andy," you say. "The War For Cybertron: Siege Soundblaster toy came…
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Spinister is the stupidest person in the entire universe
From Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #7 (2012) by IDW Publishing.
