No Ghostbusters Props from Master Replicas

According to a post from Toy News International, MasterReplicas will not be making any props from the Ghostbusters movies.  Their original plans were to make a 1:1 scale Ghost Trap and a 1:1 scale Proton Pack, but according to CSTom on MR’s Ghostbuster forums, we cannot afford to give Ghostbusters prop replicas the justice and treatment they deserve and I apologize for any frustration or disappointment this will cause any fans. A shame; anything that would put out more Ghostbusters product would have been cool.

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BotCon ’09 – Kup Revealed

So, BotCon.com revealed the first of the toys today, namely Kup. Wow.  He sure is blue, although the image looks heavily processed and probably not representative of the final product.  I hope it’s not, as it doesn’t seem to be the right shade of blue.  The orange is a nice color to go with it… not sure of the deco used, but it’ll work, I suppose. He’s using Cybertron Red Alert’s mold with a new head.  The new sculpt does make him look like a younger version of the G1 version we know.  Don’t remember liking the mold all that

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Fred Rogers – An Appreciation

“What is Essential is Invisible to the Eye” When the alarm clock went off this morning, I was instantly dropped into the middle of a conversation on the radio. For some reason, the radio team was talking about Fred Rogers, the host of the long-running Public Broadcasting Service show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” For one brief second, my still groggy mind thought, “Why are they talking about Mister Rogers?” Then it hit me — he must have died. And as I clung to a brief hope that maybe he was in the news for getting some major award, I knew that

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