Adult Toys

Monster Truck Mater The new Cars Toon “Monster Truck Mater” will premiere on the Disney Channel on July 30th at 9:30 PM (via Pixar Planet .) It is directed by John Lasseter himself. Here is the official synopsis. Mater is a professional wrestler who works his way up the ranks from amateur to World Champion Monster Truck Wrestler, wrestling all kinds of characters along the way.

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Monster Truck Mater Premieres July 30th on Disney

This week’s featured photo was taken by Veronica Hage who posts on Doll Divas and the W Club. The doll was originally an Aerodynamic Vanessa Fashion Royalty. She is dressed in the fashion from Bewitching Luchia

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Picture of the Week ~ Veronica Hage

If you go to the Haute Doll site and try to order a subscription or renew an existing one you will get the message “no products found.” Yesterday the unconfirmed statement that they were shutting down erupted on one of the doll boards and spread like wild fire. Later in the day, HD sent the message that they would be issuing a statement

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Rumor: The Magazine "Haute Doll" May Be Closing Down Production

Having recently come back from Conquest BC held at the Compass Inn in Surrey, I thought I’d write a quick con report. Conquest BC was tiny.  There were 80 people at most through the entire weekend with the majority on Saturday and much fewer on Sunday.  Of course, the World Cup might have had something to do with that… Half the attendees were there for the Warhammer tournament, the other half split evenly between board gamers and RPGers.  There was a lot of D&D 4th Ed being played that weekend, with scattered board games for the rest.  I saw games of Battlestar Galactica , Munchkin , Alhambra , Agricola , Stone Age , Galaxy Trucker , God Dice and HeroQuest played that weekend, so not a bad assortment overall.   Half of the named games were run by Alison and myself while we sat around bored. On a vendor’s viewpoint, we obviously didn’t make any money from the Con with so few people there.  Co-ordination and support from the organisers could have certainly been improved.  We weren’t told where we were or when we were meant to set-up even after numerous attempts at getting this information.  In addition, the cost of the Con table itself was extremely high.

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Conquest BC – Con Report

New Board Games Small World Tales & Legends The Napoleonic Wars Vasco da Gama Restocked Board Games Axis & Allies: Pacific 1940 Bang! Dodge City Expansion Battleground Fantasy Warfare : Lizardmen Starter Battleground Fantasy Warfare : Mens of Hawksfold Starter Battleground Fantasy Warfare : Orc Army Starter Battleground Fantasy Warfare : Elves of Ravenwood Starter Battleground Fantasy Warfare : Monsters & Mercenaries Reinforcements Camelot Legends Card Game Castle Panic Chaos Isle: Fresh Meat (Exp 1) Chaos Isle: Reinforcements (Expansion 2) Chaos Isle: The Lunatics (Expansion 3) Chaos Isle: Zombi Deck Claustrophobia Descent Road to Legend Expansion Descent: Well of Darkness Dvonn EuroRails 4th Edition Finca A Game of Thrones Boardgame Gipf kit #2 Gipf kit #3 A Game of Thrones : Ancient Enemies Chapter Pack A Game of Thrones : LCG Core Set A Game of Thrones : Lords of Winter Expansion A Game of Thrones : Princes of Sun Expansion HALO WARS RISK Jambo Expansion Jambo Expansion 2 Kingsburg Last Night on Earth: Growing Hunger Expansion Pandemic : on the Brink Small World Cursed! Small World : Grand Dames Steam: Rails to Riches The Village Word on the Street Junior Yinsh Zertz Share This

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New & Restocked Board Games : July 15, 2010

What child doesn’t love to listen to stories?! Here at Hazelnut Kids , we decided it was time to offer some audio entertainment to our collection of inspiring toys for children. We were pleased to discover Smart Dreamzzz , and we think you will be too! Smart Dreamzzz was created by a parent of two young children, and an expert in child psychology

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Win a Smart Dreamzzz CD!

Hot Toys is proud to present the 1/6th scale Berserker Predator Collectible Figure from the Predators movie. The movie-accurate Berserker Predator collectible is specially crafted based on its image in the movie, highlighting the newly sculpted and painted head and body armory, interchangeable open and closed mandibles, face mask and detailed weapons

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Hot Toys – MMS130 – Predators: 1/6th scale Berserker Predator Collectible Figure

Originally published at Shortpacked! . Please leave any comments there. Today I noticed that my Big Bad Toy Store preorder on the Cobra Resolute seven-pack went through.

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Auction: 8 “Assault on Cobra Island” figures

Eagle eyed customers might have noticed that certain provinces have seen a huge jump in the amount of taxes they have had to pay.  This isn’t a mistake – it’s due to the introduction of HST in British Columbia. Unfortunately, that means we now have to charge the full HST in all provinces that use that system.  It’s meant an increase of between 8 – 10% in the tax rate for many customers.  Of course, those of you in PST provinces are still only paying GST.

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HST Tax Rates

Glow sticks and LED light up glasses can be added to your “party menu”.  This doesn’t mean any of these products are edible. However, you can make the food especially drinks glow or lighted up by looking into adding light up barware.  One of such best-sellers is the blinking ice cubes.  They are made of plastic but look like real ice cubes flashing. And light up glasses will make the drink change colors.

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Introducing Light Up Glasses, Cups And Blinking Barware Products

It’s been raining buckets the last couple of days, off and on with thunder and lightening. So with the bad weather my son stayed indoors for most of the day yesturday, took a break from video games and made some homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies. This was the first time that he really got it all together with very little supervision and oh my, they were good….now there’s only 4 cookies left.

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Raining Buckets

I’ve been thinking about location once again, specifically I’ve been thinking about our current location and our need for a larger space.  Right now, we are crammed and I’ve had to use a few innovative tricks to keep stock in the storage location. Whatever the case, coome Christmas, we’ll need to expand since we increase stock significantly to handle the increase in sales.  Luckily, our current location has a few office places open that we could rent but which are all bigger than our current location.  It gives us flexibility but at an added cost. Interestingly enough, once we increase to the new size, we’ll be at a point where our rental cost is significant enough that actually renting a small warehouse makes sense.

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Location, location, location

Originally published at Shortpacked! . Please leave any comments there. A heads up: my Shattered Glass Ravage auction ends today!  Also, dudes, I was just alerted that the Mike statue is getting ready to ship!  Hot damn! Blanklabelcomics.com just got a major facelift.

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Blank Label Comics rebirth!

A Clockwork Orange is a speculative fiction novel by Anthony Burgess, published in 1962, and was later the basis for a 1971 film adaptation of the same name by Stanley Kubrick.

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From the Archive – Day 1: A Clockwork Orange

Today our photo is of the beautiful Zita Charles by Wayne Nilson aka Wayne in FL. She is the Zita from the Stardust Convention collection known as “Hostess With The Mostest.” The original dolls looked like this: Wayne restyled her hair by removing her white streak and moving the position of one of the curls.

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Picture of the Week ~ Wayne Nilson

Safety light sticks look and work in the same way as regular light sticks except they are more heavy duty.  They are brighter, glowing longer and with a longer shelf life than regular sticks.   As advertised on the package, the glow duration of safety light sticks is as long as 12 hours.  And their shelf life is normally four years long. When taking a road trip with long periods of driving, it is recommended to bring some emergency glow sticks as preparation for need of light in case your car breaks down in middle of not lit area and for safety purpose, you need to make a sign for passing vehicles to see so avoid accident and to seek help.  Red glow sticks are great for sending emergency signal and green glowsticks are best for lighting.  Light sticks are used for makeshift light for all sorts of nocturnal activities when you require some light for marking, locating things, and fixing things in emergency. For instance, when you want to put some light on for others to see you clearly at night in the streets, glow sticks would be a perfect choice.  Glow necklaces can be worn on the head

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Safety Glow Light Sticks, Longer Glowing Duration And Stronger Lighting Intensity

New Board Games A Game Of Thrones LCG : Return of the Others Chapters Pack Armorica BattleLore! Horrific Horde Goblin Expansion Egizia Igor the Life of the Party Game Queen’s Ransom Tien Zi Que Restocked Board Games – this is an incomplete list highlighting the most popular restocks Adventurers: Temple of Chac BattleLore! Creatures Expansion BattleLore! Dragons Expansion BattleLore! Heroes Expansion Descent Design Series : Quest Compendium Descent Journey in the Dark Descent Sea of Blood Expansion A Game Of Thrones LCG Core Set Mini Pitchcar ThunderStone Ticket to Ride Ubongo Warhammer: Invasion LCG Core Set : Invasion LCG Assault on Ulthuan Share This

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New & Restocked Board Games : July 9, 2010

Thought I’d better get this post out of the way as the tournament reaches it’s climax. Got all these from my usual football specialty store as free promo items from buying football shirts. Spain adidas World Cup 2010 scarf Germany adidas World Cup 2010 scarf Argentina adidas World Cup 2010 scarf adidas World Cup 2010 messenger bag adidas World Cup Mini Jabulani

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My World Cup 2010 adidas Freebies

Every summer many children tell their parents the they “Don’t Have Anything to Do!” In answer to that, we have our Summer Activities Sale – lots of ideas for fun activities for the whole family and neighborhood! AND – all at reduced prices! As an example, up above is the cover of a brand new craft book from American Girl – The Cutest Nature Book Ever . It’s filled with crafts and games designed to get everyone outside

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Annual Summer Activites Sale!

My reservation is made! Sandra Stillwell, widely known for presenting fabulous doll events, has announced the event of the summer. She is calling it The Golden Age of Doll Couture. Read the description below to find out more

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Sandra Stillwell presents THE GOLDEN AGE of DOLL COUTURE in Nashville

July Newsletter Review Contest Winner – Our Review Contest Winner! On-going Contest – The On-Going Review Contest Site Updates – A Convention, After Holiday Works & Site Change Upcoming Games – Some of the most anticipated games that are to be released Contest Winner Announcement This month’s winner is Hogan with his review of the Settlers of Catan . I love his comment on the game – “The Ultimate Board game hater conversion tool”.

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July 2010 Newsletter

Wow what an utterly fantastic weekend in Cleveland,  Bazaar Bizarre was so much fun as were the hundreds of people who stopped by to say hi to the critters,  Smithy even decided he liked Cleveland so much he was going to stay and call it home… Wanna see a picture of the booth with my new theme?

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I’m Back…..

Hot Toys is proud to present the 1/6th scale Ezio Collectible Figure from the Assassin’s Creed II video game series. The real-like collectible is fully poseable, specially crafted based on the image of Ezio in the video game, highlighting the newly developed head sculpt, highly detailed costume and weapons

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Hot Toys – VGM12 – Assassin’s Creed II: 1/6th scale Ezio Collectible Figure

Discovered as a result of Googling for “Tea Time at the Plaza” Gene: “1999 FAO Schwarz Exclusive Tea Time during a Plaza Gene In 1999, a brand new Gene doll was denounced during a special eventuality during FAO Schwarz.”

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When Bad English is Good for a Laugh

Mel posted a link to an interview of himself done by Philip Clark on his blog, The Artpoint. The interview is punctuated by numerous illustrations done by Mr. Odom

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Artpoint Interview of Mel Odom is a Must Read!

“Danae” OOAK Ficon “Alpha” sculpt with face up by K. Superdoll Sybarite “Sureal” dress and “Avalon” wig. Silver star bangle bracelet (maker unknown).

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Happy 4th of July ~ Picture of the Week ~ Rae from the Doll Page

As part of the numerous promos in conjunction with Sideshow Collectibles’ Online Comic Con 2010, the generous folk at Sideshow Collectibles have offered quite an awesome item up for grabs! To give you an idea of how amazing this item is, here it is next to 1:6 Hot Toys Iron Man Mark III.

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Win a Sideshow 21" Hulkbuster Iron Man Statue!

A few years ago, when we first created the Made in the USA category , it was a relatively small endeavor. Manufacturers were mostly making their products out of the country, while parents and retailers like us were just beginning to look for products not only based on price and quality, but also where they were made

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Made in the USA!