Posted by plannedbanter on September 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Note: Size of talent/imagination and potential are not to scale, sizes are for demonstration purposes. Some objects might be smaller than they appear (guess which, *it’s not potential). By Jaysun
Posted by plannedbanter on September 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Sometimes, it’s really hard being a toy collector. It’s a ridiculous seeming hobby to a lot of people, one where you struggle for legitimacy in the face of people who just assume you’re immature because you happen to like something that’s ostensibly intended for kids. You really have to work hard not to seem impractical … Continue reading →
Category Action Figures, Animation, Anime, Bandai, James Cameron, Movies, S.H. Figuarts, Tiger & Bunny · Tagged with Anime, Bandai, Battle Angel Alita, Figuarts, James Cameron, John Carter, Pixar, Shattered Glass, Soundwave, Tiger & Bunny, Transformers
Posted by plannedbanter on September 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The 100th episode is in the can! Unbelievable we made it this far as a small group with no local sponsorship, no famous friends, no endorsement deals from huge corporations, and especially no goddamn celebrity hosts that’ll draw more listeners by accident in a day than I could with promoting non-stop for six months. But … Continue reading →
Category Action Figures, Animation, Anime, Bandai, Manga, Movies, News, Planetes, Richard, S.H. Figuarts, Studio Ghibli · Tagged with Anime, Bandai, Best Animated Feature, D-Arts, Megaman, Planetes, Shawn Ryan, Terriers, Up on Poppy Hill
Posted by plannedbanter on August 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment
It’s not every overstaffed-with-idiots-on-a-Sunday that you experience an actual fire breaking out where you work, but that’s what happened to me yesterday. In between yelling at the slack-jawed employees taking the bosses’ little girl out to admire nature’s destructive fury at its most unpredictable and getting yelled at by patrons for something that’s literally beyond … Continue reading →
Category Action Figures, Bandai, Movies, News, Rants, Richard, S.H. Figuarts, Video Games · Tagged with Ciaran Hinds, Dark Tower, Game of Thrones, King of Fighters, Metal Slug, Neo Geo, Power Rangers
Posted by plannedbanter on August 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This is the big one, the Showa era that is beloved by the most casual of Godzilla fan. The era that defined what “crappy monster movies” were all about. From the young to the old, the major fun of Godzilla. Lip syncing to rubber suits, this is what we love. MonsterArts has been a line … Continue reading →
Category Action Figures, Bandai, S.H. Figuarts · Tagged with anguirus, gigan, Godzilla, hedorah, Heisei, jet jaguar, kaiju, Mothra, showa
Posted by plannedbanter on June 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This is apparently the year when everyone decided to apply their dissatisfaction with George Lucas to everything else in the history of ever as I can guarantee that something like 3000 articles will appear about Brave not being as successful as the other Pixar films because it “betrays the brand” by seeming too much like a Disney … Continue reading →
Category Action Figures, Asterix, Bandai, Comics, DC, Fantasy, G.I. Joe, He-Man, Lego, Masters of the Universe, Masters of the Universe Classics, Mattel, Merchandise, MOTUC, Movies, News, Rants, Richard, S.H. Figuarts · Tagged with Albert Uderzo, Asterix, Bandai, Captain Marvel Jr, Dragonball Z, Figuarts, Geoff Johns, GI Joe, Kickstarter, Lego, Masters of the Universe, Osamu Tezuka, SDCC, Sideshow Toys, Sir Laser-lot, Unico
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