Andy Wood

Not only to have have the honor of being the local ‘Comic Book Guy”, but today a young man picked up one of the new Halo Mark IV Armor packs.

Then about 3 hrs later, he returns (along with his mother) claiming that the toy was broke.

<Quick Hat switching>

As not only am I Connoisseur of comic books, but I play with toys too!

I was able to quickly demonstrate that the swapping of heads takes just a little bit of patience and they will snap on and one can easily swap them out for the other helmets that come for the Spartan.

Ah ha!, but there was yet another challenge.  It would seem that the chest piece was ‘deformed’, not really.  One of mounting posts was a little longer and discolored, but I was able to demonstrate how to correctly affix it to the Master Chief so that he could battle the swarm yet another day!

<Quick Hat re-switching>

Worst excuse for a pulp-ize ever!

Go Tony go!

I remember when there was a madding craze for match box and hot wheels.  I was more of a hot wheel person though and the time that I spent assembling those orange and yellow pieces of track to make my own race way , was a ton of fun.

Over the years, I have seen then in the stores, but never really gave them a notice until now!

Check it out!  Hot Wheels just came out with 1:50 scale die cast miniatures!

And you know that I hooked up with one too:

This is just too funny to not share.  Okay, since I am slightly into Mini-mates, I got a good laugh out of this and the simple fact that Hulk is beating the snot out of Robin with his own arms is just classic.

I can tell you what was my very first comic book that is still in my collection is Howard the Duck #8.  I can also tell you that Iron Man is my favorite comic book character, but who was my hero growing up?

Lone Ranger? Nah, didn’t like the whole cowboy and indian thing.  Neal Armstrong?  Cool idea, but someone like that just wouldn’t have been around enough.  Bob Wilkins?  It is very true, I spent many a late night in front of the black and white tube watching this dude, but then I would need to have an uncle like Tom Savini to make it a set.

Nope – since I was a typical kid growing up, I was hooked on the Saturday morning ‘toons.  The corny, but good ones like Space Ghost, Herculoids, Johnny Quest, but my absolute favorite was:

None other than Frankenstein Jr and his pal Buzz.

Hot on the heels of its ratings success with “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” the Cartoon Network is looking to strike while the iron is hot and add more original animated content to their  line-up. 

First up will be a new Saturday morning series based on the popular Hot Wheels toy line, called “Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5.”

According to Variety, the move is in keeping with chief content creator Rob Sorcher’s desire to cultivate  boys’ action and adventure shows, with an emphasis on bankable brands like Batman and Star Wars.

The new animated series will be produced by Nelvana and Vancouver’s Nerd Corp Entertainment.  The series is set to debut early in 2009.

On a related note, there is also a potential Hot Wheels movie in development.   Sony Pictures is currently toying with the idea and looking at Joel Silver to produce.

Over 25 participants took part in Zombie Apocafest 2008 at BrickCon 2008 in Seattle, WA. Below are some of the scenes from the great zombie apocalypse in LEGO land. You can check out all 63 photos on Flickr.com.

So cool..

Source

If you liked remake of "The Thing", stop motion animation and GI Joe action figures, then you will get a kick out of this.

The UK-based Hornby Hobby Toys has acquired the brand, tooling and intellectual property rights to Corgi International, returning the maker of collectible die-cast toys English control and uniting two popular UK brands.

Corgi has licensed the die cast rights to Star Trek, Batman, Harry Potter, James Bond, the Beatles, and Halo as well as the PopCo and Master Replica brands.

(more…)

7-inch figures of Zombie Colonel America, Zombie Spider-Man and super cool Zombie Hulk. When you assemble them as a diorama, you can see that they just finished feasting on Silver Surfer.