First, I found JEM characters in Transformers. Now?


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And now, for something no one will remember: Shadow Strikers.

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Shadow Strikers was a toyline by Kenner in the same scale as M.A.S.K. Instead of having neat transforming vehicles, it had mostly transparent vehicles that you could see the "internals workings" of, and also the figures became transparent when you dipped them in water (I forget if it ( Read more... )

I have achieved the technological development of transferring from VHS to PC ( Read more... )

How does your community rate on the Despotism Scale?

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This is actually rather fascinating overall, but I can't help but smile at the mob boss who is clearly Lou Costello.

So there's a project I'd like to do, but I need people bilingual in either Spanish or Portuguese. Anyone on the ole' friends list fit the bill?

I recently bought a pile of Hasbro Toy Fair catalogs (~1996-2001) and assorted suchlike from a German seller on eBay. Initially, not as much interesting TF stuff as I'd hoped for, but I'm still going through it.

However, the lot inexplicably included... an autographed photo of Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian.


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Sometimes, Japan does awesome things.

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So yesterday I watched the commercial release of the Computer Warriors pilot. It included a five-minute "Making Of" featurette that the VHS included with the toys did not have. This featurette was, unbeknownst to me until I watched the tape, done in rap form, presumably because it was made in 1990 and they were trying to be modern ( Read more... )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_West

A few years earlier, one of the oddest of all western characters, Six-Gun Gorilla, appeared. This was an actual gorilla who strapped on a pair of Colts to avenge the death of the kindly prospector who had raised it. His adventures ( Read more... )

Japan, this is the 80s-est outfit to ever come out of 1992. You should be ashamed. Or maybe proud?

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(One of those guys is wearing elf shoes.)

(I seem to be doing nothing but posting random youtube videos to LJ of late. Oh well.)