26 August 06 - 18:32Angel Meg

After seeing Hakua Ugetsu`s art, I watched the anime serie Burst Angel. After a few episodes I must admit that the serie is a bit disappointing. But fortunately Ugetsu`s art isn`t.
So when I saw this cute little action figure of Meg on eBay, I just had to place a bid. 

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23 August 06 - 19:04Think your boss is bad?

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19 August 06 - 13:21Full pictures of Bumblebee?

The first first pictures of Bumblebee of the Transformers Movie in full robot mode have been found on the net here. I hope it`s just hoax, because it looks like crap to me. Too much stuff, and complicated design. They should have just stylized and kept it simple IMO.

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14 August 06 - 22:07The pictures have been found

TV hit serie Lost will be getting another merchandise boost, this time by fan favorite Spawn Toys. After a teaser pic of Charlie a few weeks ago, pictures are posted at Spawn.com now for all the figures in the first series.

For such inexpensive toys, the likenesses are astounding IMO. And they don`t seem like toys anymore, but small statues like most of the Spawn figures. Just a few months more before these babies get released in November 2006.

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13 August 06 - 18:38CGI in a slump?

At the Variety site there`s an article briefly discussing the big number of CGI features that have or will hit the big screen this year, with varying BO results.

Two years ago, a CGI feature was equal to guaranteed BO success, but seeing that at least 3 CGI movies have already flopped ths year, it seems quality is still what makes a movie a financial success.

Hopefully the studios will stop kranking out those horrible CGI`s and make some good traditionally animated movies again.

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10 August 06 - 00:14Big, Bigger, Biggest?

Last week there was an article in The Japan Times about a new Gundam kit that Bandai will be releasing on the (Japanese) market in December 2006.

What`s so special about that, Bandai releases numerous Gundam kits, you think? Well the difference is, this Gundam kit will be 1,5 meters high when assembled!

And yes, you`ll probably have to assemble the thing like the regular 1/144 or 1/100 scale Gundam kits. How the hell are they going to hide that thing under the Christmas tree ;)

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09 August 06 - 21:16Girly Power

When Mattel wanted to sell He-man to little girls, they made up She-ra, He-man`s twin sister. And of course She-ra also needed the support of a animated series to brainwash little to girls into buying the action figures (or were they dolls now that they were aimed at girls?)

Now that the He-man series is been released entirely on DVD it`s time for She-ra to make her appearance on DVD.
Just like with He-man, BCI has first released a "Best of" DVD before bringing out the big guns as boxsets.

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06 August 06 - 13:43He-man continues

Another box that was in my dreadful package from July that got snagged by those assholes from customs, was the first volume of the second season of He-man & The Masters of the Universe.

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02 August 06 - 19:41Justice League continued

In one of my DVD packages of July (the one those motherfuckers from customs intercepted - hope they all rot in hell) was the second season of the Justice League. In general I`m very critical of cartoons from the 90`s and beyond. But JL is one of those rare gems in TV cartoonland that like as much as the best classics from the 80s. I`m even willing to go so far to say that JL is probably the best toon (or at least one of the two best toons - Spongebob being the other, and yes I`m not afraid to admit that I like Spongebob) of the current decade.

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