Jul 21 2010
Brian McCarty Art-Toys Signing and Release @ SDCC
 

Look up “Toy Photography” in an encyclopedia and I’m pretty sure you’ll see a picture of Brian McCarty. Brian takes amazing photos of toys in physical environments that capture and bring out their essence and personalities

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Brian McCarty Art-Toys Signing and Release @ SDCC

Jul 21 2010
TRANSFORMERS BOTCON 2010 G1 COMMEMORATIVE PIRANACON & TF ROTF BATTLE BLADE OPTIMUS PRIME IN STOCK NOW … 20-07-10
 

TRANSFORMERS HUNT OF DECEPTICON ” BATTLE BLADE OPTIMUS PRIME ” !!! SOLD OUT !!! TRANSFORMERS BOTCON 2010 G1 COMMEMORATIVE PIRANACON !!! SOLD OUT !!!

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TRANSFORMERS BOTCON 2010 G1 COMMEMORATIVE PIRANACON & TF ROTF BATTLE BLADE OPTIMUS PRIME IN STOCK NOW … 20-07-10

Jul 20 2010
Kidrobot SDCC Schedule and Signing
 

Wednesday, July 21st 6” Lard Lad (Simpsons) Pre-release (150 available, $45) 3” DJ Lance Dunny (Yo Gabba Gabba) Pre-release ($11, signing on Sunday) 3” Super Special Dunny Pre-Release (Sket-One Sketchup ?) Thursday, July 22nd [11 AM-12 PM] Ron English signing : Kidrobot Exclusive ‘Figment’ Bust (20 pieces, $200). [1-3 PM] Shawnimals signing : Ninjatown vinyl minis ($9) and KR exclusive Yeti Ninja Plush (50 pieces, $45)

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Jul 20 2010
SDCC 2010 Exclusives Links and Blogs
 

New Toynami just posted: http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_exclusives.php?company=toynami Lists with pictures: http://www.actionfigurepics.com/tag/sdcc-2010 http://toynewsi.com/index.php?catid=293&blogid=1 Comic Con page: http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_exclusives.php?company=toynami Strangeco has no love for tokidoki this year http://www.vinylpulse.com/2010/07/06/index.html Buff Monster, Gay Empire (hehe), Shawnimal wee ninjas, an other random stuff http://www.vinylpulse.com/sdcc-2010/ Free moonbaby plush with secret word cheeseburger http://forums.kidrobot.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=161237 Comment on Kidrobot Blog Contest for a free labbit at SDCC http://forums.kidrobot.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=161266 Stuff worth looking at?

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SDCC 2010 Exclusives Links and Blogs

Jul 20 2010
Sesame Street Presents: The Body Exhibit now at The Science Center in Louisville, Kentucky
 

Sesame Street is all about teaching children about the world around them and the world inside of them. Sesame Street Presents: The Body is a touring exhibit that has been at several museums across the country.

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Sesame Street Presents: The Body Exhibit now at The Science Center in Louisville, Kentucky

Jul 20 2010
Itokin Park x Lamour Supreme Baby Huey @ SDCC
 

It looks like Itokin Park x L’amour Supreme’s Baby Huey figure that we last talked about HERE is making it’s way to SDCC. Designed by L’amour and sculpted by Itokin, Baby Huey will be making it’s Debut at the Super7 booth (#4729) during L’amours signing with Brian Flynn and Katope….

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Itokin Park x Lamour Supreme Baby Huey @ SDCC

Jul 20 2010
Haute Doll Confirms: Ceasing Publication
 

Here is the full text of an email I just received from Haute Doll: Dear Valued Partner: We wanted you to be among the first to know that after many wonderful years of publishing Haute Doll, we have decided to turn the publication over to Madavor Media/Doll Reader.

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Haute Doll Confirms: Ceasing Publication

Jul 19 2010
Light Up Sunglasses and Balls Designed With LED Lights Embedded
 

One light up item that is super fun is the flashing sunglasses , also called light up sunglasses.  They are empowered by a few replaceable button batteries.  When the sun goes down, put on a pair of these cool sunglasses and they will for sure to spice up the party!  They are comfortable wearing and one can switch the flashing modes among quick flashing, strobe and steady light up.  Both the arms and the frame would light up as little LED light bulbs are embedded.

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Light Up Sunglasses and Balls Designed With LED Lights Embedded

Jul 19 2010
Transformers Hasbro G1 Commemorative Series Decepticon Piranacon (Seacons)
 

Being a G1 Trannies freak, I was quite delighted to score this toy today. I don’t really care about comments on the paint accuracy by purists, cos for me, this is a cool toy to be appreciated and enjoyed. Hope to play around with it soon.

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Transformers Hasbro G1 Commemorative Series Decepticon Piranacon (Seacons)

Jul 19 2010
1:6 Hot Toys Iron Man 2 Mark VI
 

Hot Toys is proud to present the 1/6th scale Mark VI Limited Edition Collectible Figurine from the Iron Man 2 movie. The movie-accurate Mark VI collectible is highly detailed and fully deployed, specially crafted based on the image of Robert Downey Jr. as the iconic character Mark VI in the movie, highlighting the newly sculpted head, light-up functions, well equipped armor, battle damaged

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1:6 Hot Toys Iron Man 2 Mark VI

Jul 18 2010
Monster Truck Mater Premieres July 30th on Disney
 

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

Jul 18 2010
Picture of the Week ~ Veronica Hage
 

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

Jul 17 2010
Rumor: The Magazine "Haute Doll" May Be Closing Down Production
 

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

Jul 17 2010
Conquest BC – Con Report
 

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

Jul 16 2010
New & Restocked Board Games : July 15, 2010
 

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

Jul 16 2010
Win a Smart Dreamzzz CD!
 

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!

Jul 16 2010
Hot Toys – MMS130 – Predators: 1/6th scale Berserker Predator Collectible Figure
 

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

Jul 15 2010
Auction: 8 “Assault on Cobra Island” figures
 

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

Jul 14 2010
HST Tax Rates
 

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

Jul 14 2010
Introducing Light Up Glasses, Cups And Blinking Barware Products
 

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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Jul 14 2010
Raining Buckets
 

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

Jul 13 2010
Location, location, location
 

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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Jul 13 2010
Blank Label Comics rebirth!
 

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!

Jul 12 2010
From the Archive – Day 1: A Clockwork Orange
 

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

Jul 12 2010
Picture of the Week ~ Wayne Nilson
 

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

Jul 11 2010
Safety Glow Light Sticks, Longer Glowing Duration And Stronger Lighting Intensity
 

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

Jul 10 2010
New & Restocked Board Games : July 9, 2010
 

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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Jul 08 2010
My World Cup 2010 adidas Freebies
 

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