Since everyone has got MASK on the mind, I figure we should check out the cartoon’s opening:

Everything about that show was awesome, except for that stupid scooter robot. Did anyone like that guy?

Now how about a trailer for a live action MASK movie done in a language you probably don’t understand!?

How truly, truly awesome. It looks better than what the G.I. Joe movie promises to be.

Are there any of you here who had MASK toys? I never had any, but that didn’t stop me from thinking that they were friggen awesome to the mask. MASK was one of those toylines that I couldn’t get much from, because I my parent’s buying dollars were dedicated to Star Wars, G.I. Joe, and any clearance items. Not having ever come across MASK on clearance, I was out of luck. My cousin who I was pretty close with had a few of the smaller vehicle sets, so I got to play with them a bit. I still feel like I missed out a little. If I ever see the transforming Camaro for a decent price and in really good shape I might have to get one.

I currently have wave 11 on pre-order and I wasn’t sure if I was going to keep Mr. Trakker or not. This image of the product packaging has pretty much convinced me he’s a keeper. Not only because he’s a neat figure, but it’s so damned nice to see that M.A.S.K. logo in the upper right corner of the card. Come on, Hasbro. There’s got to be a few more characters that you could dig up like this.

So… anyone want to buy an Airborne or Pilot Scarlett?

A little while ago I posted an auction that had rather embarrassing images put into it, due to the seller hotlinking the images from a site that didn’t appreciate it. Well, it happened again! Here’s the top of the auction for some X-Men Mini-mates:

And here are the images are mostly text, but they certainly are an enjoyable read. Oh yeah, and the Mini-mates engaging in sexual relations are back!

That’s great, great stuff. I’d say that the seller has been totally powned, if you will.

Thanks to karamazov80 of the YoeJoe.com forums for the find. I’d like to put it out there if you see something like this, please let me know. I only have so many eyes for finding this kind of stuff and your help is greatly appreciated. Plus, I’ll give you some respect and some link love if you have a site or whatever.

There are a couple of possibilities here, the least likely being that the scalper left the card so whoever found it would buy the items he just purchased from Wal-Mart at his place with a crazy mark up. Another, more likely possibility, is that a dealer thought it would be good advertising so he left his card around where potential customers would frequent. Clever? Yes. A bad idea? Looks like it was. Yet another possibility is that the card was dropped by mistake.

I think the third scenario is more likely, but the second possibility is a good guess too. Hell, I once left a card next to a dead hooker. It didn’t meant that I killed her, but it certainly gave me some publicity.

So congrats to you, toy store owner guy of Turbo Toast Comics, for your free advertising, since it was mentioned on HissTank and now on my prestigious blog.. I hope this makes up for all the douschebagery you have suffered in the last 24 hours. (Note: I blacked out some of the card info. If you want to call this guy or something use the yellow pages.)

But if you really are a scalper, watch out for those raving internet hordes…

I know it’s been awhile since I’ve done a “Hasbro Answers” type of post, but damn it’s a lot of work and I’m ultra lazy. I was looking through the latest one and I saw an Indiana Jones question that I missed when I went an ranted about how the Indiana Jones line is as good as dead:

IndianaJonesCollectors.com: Will we see a vehicle, deluxe set, or exclusive of Henry and Indiana Jones with the motorcycle and sidecar as in The Last Crusade?

Hasbro: Unfortunately, while a motorcycle with sidecar was planned, it will not make it out.

Oh man, how damn depressing can you get? You might as well stick a spoon in my eye, Hasbro! A motorcycle with a sidecar would have been so sweet for my Indiana Jones figures. I also might have used it in conjunction with my G.I. Joe 25th Snake Eyes with Timber. You can’t deny the awesome that is a dog in a sidecar.

This 27 inch long “energy” sword is made by a company called True Swords and is available for the low price of 50 bucks and comes with a wall plaque. I’d suggest keeping this one away from children, because even though I doubt it’s sharp, it sure it one hell of a pointy item.

The Capcom blog didn’t have any details on who made the Bionic Commando action figure or when it would come out, but a quick and very minimal Google search reveals that he’s due out in November, made by that video game loving toy company NECA, and that you can pre-order him at online retailers like Entertainment Earth for for around fifteen bucks.

If you ordered a 25th Anniversary Doc and have been waiting patiently or otherwise for him, Hasbro updated their official G.I. Joe site (which is hardly ever updated) with news that the extra batch of figures they made has reached the US and will start shipping within the next 4 to 8 weeks! Sweetness!

I personally can’t wait for my 25th Anniversary Doc, having gone on a comic two pack buying spree while at the same time purchasing a couple of redemption stickers from a fellow at OAFE.net forums (you should join them now and talk some toys with me) for a couple of dollars. Thankfully, I had just made it under the deadline. Now give me my damn figure already! My old Kellog’s Lifeline is overworked with all the combat my Joes have been seeing.

Not that I play with my G.I. Joes…

Okay, I have no idea what is going on here. Were blowguns prominent in V? It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it, but I don’t remember any kind of blowgun and I definitly don’t remember that many Japanese kids in the show.

The next commercial I’ve got I picked mainly because Robocop seems kind of popular with my readership. He also seems to be more popular with Japanese families than I thought he was:

Woah, Robocop totally got one hell of a wax job. That’s the shiniest I’ve ever seen him. It’s totally “Show Room Robobcop.”

And who knew Robocop loved fried chicken? I thought it was firmly established in the films that he only ate baby food. Hell, who knew the Japanese ate fried chicken?

I have the feeling that the family prepared for Robocop’s insane, lust fueled invasion of their home by putting in a fake refrigerator, otherwise that was the worst prop fridge I’ve ever seen. Luckily, Robocop’s mad cravings for fried chicken overrode any kind of programming that would tell him that he’d been had.

So with the American economy in the dumper (and soon the rest of the world) I’ve been left wondering about my toy buying habits. I had already scaled back and haven’t gotten much in the last few months (aside from a gigantic Millenium Falcon) and I’m expected to buy even less the scarier the news gets.

This is also in addition for the need to scale back because the rising costs of toys. Seven to eight dollars isn’t unexpected for a 3 3/4th” inch figure and an even higher price for larger scale figures doesn’t really encourage me to buy many toys. On the upside, a staggering economy might make it easier to get older toys for a bit cheaper as less people have extra money to spend on reliving their youth.

To make things even more frightening personally, more and more of my work is going to our friends in India… yikes. I guess they’ll have more money to buy toys when I’m eventually pulled out of my job like a tick in a redneck.

Am I the only one here? How if at all has the struggling economy affected your toy buying habits? Is there any point where you’d simply just give up buying toys all together? And if you even type the phrase, “Why doesn’t the government bail me out?” I owe you one punch in the face.