The Netflix Original film Bright is the latest to join Funko's Pop! lineup. From the divisive Netflix film (RT - 29% Critics vs 89% Audience), this series features characters from the urban fantasy crime film. They include partners Daryl Ward and Nick Jakoby, and the young elf Tikka featured with wand. Also, look for Leilah […] Read more
Pop! Movies: Bright
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Mike Sutfin x Unbox x Go Nagai -- Devilman
He’s here… Mike Sutfin’s gnarly interpretation of Go Nagai’s Devilman is set for world-wide release on Saturday (12.30) at 7 AM PST from Unbox for $120 (+ s/h). The adventure that began with a Mondo print now brings us this towering (12.5”) soft vinyl menace of a toy. As the...
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Weatherford scraps joint venture, sells a business to Schlumberger
U.S. oilfield services company Weatherford International Plc on Friday sold a U.S. oil-well business to rival Schlumberger NV for $430 million, abandoning a planned joint venture. Weatherford has struggled with losses and has been looking to sell units and raise cash to reduce about $7.9 billion in debt. In March, the company agreed to put its North American pressure pumping and well completions operations into a venture with Schlumberger in exchange for $535 million in cash and a 30 percent stake in the resulting business, called OneStim.
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Marco Rubio criticizes the GOP tax bill
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SPIRIT Edition FAIRY PHARAOH HOUND by Argonaut Resins
"Only special people can see fairies..." and a "surprise" drops alongside the previously announced (Tuttz) "FAIRIES" - currently available to purchase online here for only US$13, the SPIRIT Edition of FAIRY PHARAOH HOUND stands 2.72 inch tall, and comes in a few different colors. Eric Nocella Diaz of added;"These all new micro winged fairy Pharaoh Hounds are 3D printed right off my printer ![]()
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YOLKELS by Jason Freeny x Mighty Jaxx Drops Dec 30th
YOLKELS by Jason Freeny will be one of the last art toy collectibles to be released by Mighty Jaxx before the year ends (launching for pre-orders alongside TOUMA's NEUN SCHWANZ FUCHS) on mightyjaxx.rocks, with a drop-date scheduled for December 30th at 10AM EST (11PM SG / 10AM NYC / 3PM LDN).
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Kumatetsu BE@RBRICK & King Kazuma R@BBRICK from Medicom Toy in 1000% & 400%
This image excites me aplenty - featuring characters from Mamoru Hosoda's films - on-left: "Kumatetsu" from 2015's "The Boy and the Beast" (バケモノの子 / watched), and on-right: is "King Kazuma" from 2009's "Summer Wars" (サマーウォーズ) - both of whom are depicted in BE@RBRICK and R@BBRICK form, in both 1000% and 400% FTW!
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Saturday School: Do You Understand Tax Deductions?
After the year ends and the Champagne of New Year’s goes flat, it’s time to turn to your taxes. Consider it the dreaded hangover after weeks of holiday partying. Almost nothing can make tax season pleasant. ...
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NECA Alien Club Exclusive Kenner Tribute Purple Warrior Figure Revealed
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Jason Freeny x Mighty Jaxx Yolkels (12.30)
If you love food toys, Jason Freeny and Mighty Jaxx are serving up the cutest and coolest eggs we’ve ever seen. At first glance, the Yolkels (3”) appear to be merely fun eggs with attitude. But wait… What’s that bit of yellow showing through the cut-out grinning mouth? Cracking it...
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Skin, the amigurumi shark
Who don’t saw, in the mornings Saturday, the funny Jabberjaw – an animation with one fun
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A Decade of STGCC #onTOYSREVIL: Year 8 (2015)
WHAT-IS: "With the 2017 Edition of Singapore Toy, Games & Comic Con celebrating it's “10 Years” anniversary this year, TOYSREVIL takes a look back through a decade of covering this annual event on this blog … :)”Scroll thru to read more of my rambling and link-backs to posts, or you can simply CLICK HERE to view ALL blog-posts on #STCC2015!
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#toystolookoutforin2018 from INSTINCTOY (Wave 3)
As the end of 2017 is just around the corner (this time next week we'll be in 2018 already!), I'd thought to take a look at what "#toystolookoutforin2018" - with images spotted on my social media feeds (Further product information pending), and perhaps help you navigate what to look out for in the new year of toys to come! Today's post specifically focuses on Japan's INSTINCTOY (*Continued ![]()
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The Great Retro Quiz Reboot: Games of 2017
Happy holidays, everyone! With the new year coming soon, it's time for a look back at the past 12 months in video games. And what a year it's been! Game of the year contenders released pretty much every month in 2017, and Nintendo's Switch might have had the best launch year I've ever seen. In short, it's been a great time to be a gamer, and I hope everyone found a game or three to enjoy over the holidays.
Just like last year, we're going to take a look back at the most memorable games of 2017. It's been a while since we've done one of these, but I hope everyone remembers how to play. Our grand prize this time is $20 worth of Steam credit, and big thanks to Niero for providing it. This is a worldwide contest, so everyone is eligible!
I'm going to switch up how you provide your answers this time, to make it a little less easy to look at another player's paper. Instead of posting your answers in the comments, please post your Twitter handle below and tweet your answers to @Retroidpodcast with the hashtag #GRQ. If I can't match up a Twitter answer with a comment below, that person will be disqualified and I'll move on to the person with the next most correct answers.
We'll run the contest until 11:59 PM Pacific time on January 3, so the winner should juuuust be able to take advantage of the winter sale. Results will be posted the day after the contest ends, but I'll try and get the code to the winner as soon as possible after I tabulate the results. In the event of a tie, the winner will be the first tweet with the most correct answers. There may be some light spoilers for this year's games, so if you obsess about that sort of thing, maybe don't read the answers or comments below. Official rules for winning the Steam credit are below the quiz. With that out of the way, let's get started!
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(Update) Nobody should die because of a video game
[Update: An arrest has been made in this Swatting tragedy. According to NY Daily News, Los Angeles resident Tyler Barriss was taken into custody yesterday afternoon. The 25-year-old is the one believed to have made the fraudulent call to 911 operators that ended with Andrew Finch being killed.
Barriss has been in trouble with the law before for similar actions. According to the report, he was charged in 2015 for making bomb threats against an ABC station in LA.]
Andrew Finch, a father of two and 28-year-old resident of Wichita, Kansas, is dead, shot by police who were called to his home with a report of a hostage situation. There was no hostage situation happening, not even a gun inside the house. But Finch was there with his family. He opened the door when he saw flashing police lights and was killed moments later.
Police are now saying the shooting is the result of a Swatting call. Deputy Police Chief Troy Livingston described the act as a 'prank' and the actor as a 'prankster,' words that honestly fail to do this monstrous situation justice. It's a gross tragedy, one that feels particularly disgusting because it may be the end result of a feud between two Call of Duty players.
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Mike Sounders's indecisive six best games of 2017
2017 was a great year for video games wasn't it? Yes we've all heard it said dozens of times already, but it's true nevertheless. This has easily been the hardest year in my life where I couldn't decide my absolute favorite game of the year. So as a result, after weeding out at least a dozen other games, I am left with six of them. Six games that I had the greatest time of my life with this year, and am struggling to say 'I'd give this my personal GOTY award' over the other five.
So as a result, I'm just going to list all six of them. I love all of them equally, and they all deserve equal spotlight. If you don't see a game you liked mentioned, it's due to me not getting around to it, such as Final Fantasy XII: Zodiac Age or Gravity Rush 2, or barely got cut, such as Fire Emblem: Shadows of Valentia, or I did not enjoy it, like Breath of the Wild.
So without further delay, here are my six favorite games of 2017.
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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds sets another concurrent player milestone
Whether you like it or not, PUBG is a massive hit. The game is such a big hit, in fact, that it just passed three million concurrent players on Steam! While it has been the most played game on the service for a couple of months now, this upward trend of people playing is only widening the gap between the competition. How can anyone catch up?
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Unbox Industries' Year-End Releases for 2017
Unbox Industries has had a fruitful year, indeed - with multiple online releases and events (including stints at Toy Soul (above pic) / Designer Con / Taipei Toy Festival / Tokyo Comic Con / Wonder Festival (Summer) / Singapore Toy, Games & Comic Con / Thailand Toy Expo / ToyCon UK / Super Festival Vol.74), and their very own solo "Unbox & Friends" shows in Hong Kong (T-8) and Shanghai ... a ![]()
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MP-15/16-E Masterpiece Cassettebot & Cassettron Set - Hasbro Asia Exclusive Collector Coin & Packaging
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Hasbro Asia's collector coin bonus for non-Japanese Asian markets is often very well presented for a little hunk of metal. But this one - seen via the Masterpiece Transformers Facebook page - has one of the most ingenious bits of packaging yet: a sleeve designed to look like a cassette box with a double-sided package representing both Autobot and Decepticon Tapes inside! The coin itself features the head of Enemy, and the reverse calls him out along with the other figures in the set: Nightstalker, Wing Thing, and Stripes. Keep reading to see!
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Bumblebee: The Movie - Official Photo & Plot Synopsis Press Release
Paramount has sent out a press release for Bumblebee: The Movie giving a synopsis of the plot and a higher-quality version of the image that circulated the other day of Hailee Steinfeld's Charlie character and Volkswagen Beetle Bumblebee. It's a fairly barebones description of the movie, but we have final confirmation that Bumblebee is indeed a VW Bug in the film. (Toys? Hopefully?) Keep reading to see!
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