C2E2 Guest Update – David Newell and John Barrowman!

Holy crap. I thought that C2E2 was going to be a great show. Now I know it’s going to be a FANTASTIC show! A couple of weeks ago, C2E2 announced that David Newell would be coming. Who’s David Newell? Mr. “Speedy Delivery” himself, Mr. McFeely from “Mister Rogers Neighborhood”! Now, I am a HUGE Mister Rogers fan. I have been since I watched the show religiously as a kid for years. I happened to be out of work at the time his last show was on the air in 2001 and I sat down and watched it. I heard him

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Comic Review: Transformers: Infestation 2 #1 & #2

I loved Transformers: Hearts of Steel when it was released several years ago. The Transformers saga, set in a different time? Especially a Victorian/steampunk era? It was great! Seven years later, in preparation for this new mini-series, I tried to remember what happened in HoS, and to my surprise, I couldn’t. I remember John Henry being there, I know that the Autobots won and went back to sleep… but the details were lacking. I knew the designs were great, but I couldn’t recall much else. Added to this was the fact that I couldn’t find my copies of the series,

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Toy Review: Transformers Prime Deluxe Wheeljack

Transformers Prime WHEELJACK is one of the famed Wreckers, an elite group of Autobot warriors. Back in the day, he and Bulkhead were teammates, wrecking Decepticons from one end of Cybertron to the other. After Bulkhead left to join Optimus Prime’s crew, Wheeljack kept doing what he did best until the day he had to leave the planet himself. Wandering the stars alone in his ship the Star Hammer, he kept looking for his friend. When you look at Wheeljack, you instantly know he’s an homage to his Generation 1 namesake. But how is he as a toy? Read on!

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Toy Fair 2012 – 2012 Toy of the Fair Awards

Well, Toy Fair 2012 wrapped up last week, and with any big show, sometimes you need a few days away from it to get a clear perspective on what you saw. So that’s what I did, and it totally was not me being lazy in writing a wrap-up post. Nope. No sir. So, now I present to you the 2012 Toy of the Fair Awards!  Catchy, eh?

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