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These Marker Fumes Are Fantastic
May 3, 2010 |
Star Wars Figure of the Day Updated
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 Galactic Hunter has posted a new Q&A column this week! Be sure to click through and read up on the latest! Also, be sure to send in your questions for next week's thrilling update.
Figure of the Day has updated once again! The daily feature on figures you might have but might not-- either way, here's what you've been missing! Spanning from the original Power of the Force series of 1995 to the latest of The Legacy Collection, it's almost like a history lesson!
Today we look at the Sora Bulq Jedi Knight action figure, first (and only) released in 2006. Go to Figure of the Day for the next update, with the latest installment in our ongoing series!
Finally, Hasbro announced some new stuff. Here's what's up for pre-order, including new Vintage figures and the big AT-AT!
These new items are expected in or around August of this year. Most of these were shown at New York Toy Fair, so we've been waiting a while for these ones.
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Many New Transformers Announced, Pre-Orders Too
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 Over the weekend, a ton of new toys were revealed, announced, and put up for pre-order. The first batches of new stuff are on the way, finally! Here are some pictures from our corporate overlords at Entertainment Earth.
What's new? New Revenge of the Fallen: Pursuit of the Decepticons items, big Power Core Combiners sets as well as smaller ones, and some swell War for Cybertron and Generation 1-themed toys from the Transformers Generations toy line.
The Bludgeon redeco is actually Banzai-Tron. We're pretty excited for a lot of this stuff.
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G.I. Joe Convention Round-Up
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 There was a big G.I. Joe convention in Rhode Island this past weekend. What did you miss?
A partial video of a presentation from Hasbro shows some new future releases, although it's worth noting that the items shown at last year's show still haven't been released yet.
Also, The Terror Drome seems to have some great panel coverage, with a lot of fun stuff you've heard and some nifty facts that were new to us. Worth a check.
But what about stuff you can buy around August of this year? Here are some new announcements/pre-orders/pictures.
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Mutliplayer XBLA Castlevania Rumor
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 A pretty exciting info-based Castlevania rumor is going around with multiplayer, hi-def 2D vampire killing on the horizon. We really hope this is true. We don't know that it is, but we're hopeful.
--AP
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Write, Clean, Repeat
May 4, 2010 |
Star Wars Figure of the Day Updated
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 Figure of the Day has updated once again! The daily feature on figures you might have but might not-- either way, here's what you've been missing! Spanning from the original Power of the Force series of 1995 to the latest of The Legacy Collection, it's almost like a history lesson!
Today we look at the Pit Droid figure which used to be worth a small fortune-- literally a couple hundred bucks. And then Hasbro rereleased them in a 2-pack for about seven bucks. Which, well, we're happy to see because it was pretty tough to get. Go to Figure of the Day for the next update, with the latest installment in our ongoing series!
--AP
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PSP Darius Burst Coming to the USA
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 If you like your shooters with robotic sea life, this quasi-confirmation of a US release of Darius Burst should come as a piece of good news. The Japanese release last year seemed to do OK so we're quite pleased we don't need to spring for the import, although we're not sure when to expect this one to show up over here.
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Old Playstation Controller Looks Like Wii Classic Controller, Smaller
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 Gaming superstore NCS has a picture of a Playstation 1 controller not yet released outside Japan, and here's the thing-- it's tiny. The "pocket analog controller" is a dual-shock compatible (but about half the size) controller that can be used on either of the first two Playstations. As fans of strange controllers, this one is neat just because a) it's tiny and b) it looks almost exactly like Nintendo's Classic Controller for the Wii.
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Nintendo Wii Downloads This Week: Funk Fu
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 This week's WiiWare offerings are Kung Fu Funk for $5/500 points (was "Funk Fu" taken?) and/or Zombie Panic in Wonderland $10/1,000 points.
There are no Virtual Console games this week.
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Nintendo DSi Downloads This Week: 5 Games
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 There are five downloadable games this week. These include: BLOONS, Sokomania, 1001 Crystal Mazes Collection, Bounce & Break, and Crazy Golf. Most are $5/500 points, or less. Crazy Golf (pictured) sounds interesting, as it seems to involve things like pencils and paper airplanes. It seems like some freak Mac shareware project from the 1980s.
--AP
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