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To be fair, the comic Batman has seen a "power creep" as bad as any other popular character (Wolverine, especially in the films, got really OP). I think this film was REALLY good at finding a nice medium at showing him being EXTREMELY capable all around (as a fighter, a detective, an engineer)...

Looking at Sorohan’s repaint charts just remind me of this:

I’m on a mobile, so I’ll have to slap a video later….but I recall a LOT of people were bothered by the “jet engine/rocket” on a rather regular looking car. In the film, it makes it MUCH clearer that the Batmobile is a highly customized muscle car, and the “blue flame” is VERY similar to nitrous...

I wasn’t planning to start a thread about toys for the upcoming Pixar film Lightyear. We all assumed there would be toys, obviously. The usual stuff like a big feature figure, a 5 inch “XL” series that features some cross play features, Imaginext…the usual movie tie in stuff. But I didn’t...

Hasbro bumped prices across the board. Seemed to go in to effect with the spring assortments that are going into preorder now. Core: 11.99 Deluxe: 24.99 (and applies to all of Hasbro's 6" collector lines) Voyager 33.99 Leader: 52.99 (and may yet hit 54.99 by the end of the year)

FWIW, all the riddles in that sequence were used in the assorted trailers. I agree it got a touch long. The ending, in particular, felt a little bloated for the messaging I think they were trying to convey. But until that point? I ADORED IT. It’s a wonderful pulpy-noir detective thriller...

Crunchyroll and Funimation are now...ONE https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/crunchyroll-adds-funimation-anime-sony-1235192876/

And I will not stop until I get a Titan Grand Mal Megatron! Also, Pulse has the newest Beast Wars reissues available. I find Scorponok's price particularly galling with the full fledged Ultra figures being a mere $5 more. Guess I'll be waiting for a sale at Walmart then.

As part of the big Pulse update/restock thing, they're finally offering Core Hot Rod for the new price of 11.99. Not really worth it on its own, but if you're preordering other stuff it isn't terrible.

The eve of the BAT is upon us! Toys are out at retail. WB has posted the entire soundtrack for Youtube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBKadB95sF44svAf6GEN3TTFPJwFdwrmm And early reviews are rolling in. By and large, the response has been TREMENDOUSLY positive. I'm aiming to see it...

The tooling was modified, something Hasbro was more willing to do at the time. Again, o-ring figures and ME figures have different foot peg sizes (ME is smaller) Yeah, part of the problem I’ve observed in the Joe fandom is that there really isn’t a sense of “history”. Largely because the...

I responded but basically: depend on the vehicle. Modern GI Joe figures are a bit bigger than o-ring, but they should work fine for the HISS tank.

Foot pegs for o-ring figures were larger than the pegs used for “Modern Era” figures. The back pegs are also MASSIVELY smaller than the o-ring figures. ME are also generally bigger than o-ring figures, though compatibility varies by vehicle. The HISS tooling was used in 25th so ME figures...

Even then, a LOT of the reissues have not been terribly original selections. A majority of what we’ve seen were heavily used in the first reissue/refresh phase in the late 90s and early 2000s. “New” isn’t very likely in this overall toy climate (GI Joe or otherwise), but I feel there were more...

FWIW, I DO like the Photoshop that integrated the silver into the HISS mode. No, it’s not a “pure” 83 HISS, but after things like HISS 3, Crimson Squad and the black original, a silver version really pops against that line up. But not so much that it would overtly stand out as being...

I also realized part of my issue with the set is something of a “dissonance” between the offerings: The Hisstank mode is based on 1983 vehicle and slavishly recreated. Baroness is a remake of a 1984 figure. Both very retro in concept and execution. Then there’s Megatron, who’s sporting...

Feels too much like what happened with GI Joe 25th to me. Started the same way with some soft reimaginings (Zartan and Buzzer, in particular)…then transitioned to straight remakes. Or remakes of remakes given how crap the majority of the first year offerings were in the line. I see what...

Kamakura was the most interesting thing they've shown in YEARS. It was wonderful to see them pull from beyond the 80s that wasn't a variation of a character from the 80s. The Crimson Guard was looking solid, probably the best iterations since Sideshow's. A solid showing, and the live show...

I WANTED to be excited for this, I really did. But it's just not clicking with me (except that GORGEOUS packaging). The set largely fits what I expected: a chunky robot that (perhaps rather simply) transforms into a HISS tank and an O-ring figure. I think what deflated me the most was...

I'm still claiming a partial victory since it's pretty obvious a LOT of Siege Megatron's assets were used!