Entries from Shadowbot tagged with 'Hasbro'
Iron Man Mark I - April 1, 2008 1:51 PM
As you might have picked up, I'm pretty excited about the Iron Man movie. I'm really looking forward to seeing the archetypal character, without all the Extremis/Civil War/SHIELD garbage that's mucking up his current comic incarnation. The first line...
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- ⇒ Is that [action figure] gonna kill me? (link from Jun 21, 2007)
Neat little article about toy safety testing from Slate's Explainer. I didn't know that the vast majority of testing was voluntary, but I should have realized it would be so. One of the tests they didn't mention is the bane of all Transformers collectors: the Drop Test (where they drop a toy from X height to see what breaks off) is what stopped Hasbro from re-releasing Fortress Maximus in the R.I.D. era.
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Transformer Movie Toy Roundup: Ironhide - June 14, 2007 3:27 PM
When I got my first batch of movie figures in the wee hours of the morning on June 2, I hadn't planned for Ironhide to be among them. I wasn't a fan of the photos I'd seen thus far, and...
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- ⇒ That's tricky: A Leader for the Ages Optimus Prime (link from Jun 7, 2007)
This is just tricky. The promotional text on the Hasbro page reads:
This special two-pack contains G1-inspired OPTIMUS PRIME—perfect for the Dad who played with OPTIMUS PRIME as a child. The kid today can enjoy the new movie version of OPTIMUS PRIME.
But the box art doesn't say anything about "G1-inspired"; the labels under the figures read '2007 Optimus Prime' and '1984 Optimus Prime'. But it's not Prime from 1984, it's instead the most horrible G1 style Prime to be released in years, the one from the Classics two-pack with tank Megatron. I can imagine guys my age, walking through the toy aisle with their kids, thinking to themselves, "Damn, I remember that guy being so much cooler."
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