My wife’s new movie is playing Hollywood! Please come and check it out. PASSIONS JUST LIKE MINE Thursday, November 13th 8:00pm at the Vine Theater 6321 Hollywood Blvd $5

Thanks to Jim of the IDW Publishing forums, we have the solicitations for the Transformers comics slated for February release. The solicitations, like most, contain possible spoilers, so you have been forewarned! TRANSFORMERS #4 Mike Costa (w) bull; Don Figueroa (a) bull; Figueroa, Andrew Wildman (c) His ambivalence cost him his allegiance. His betrayal set the stage for AUTOBOT victory. His name is THUNDERCRACKER, and this issue reveals what he#039;s been doing these past three years after his brutal expuls

CLICK THRU for TRE-Tweets for Day One of Anime Festival Asia 2009 @ Suntec City (Halls 403-404) circa Saturday November 21st.FYI: AFA09-Blog-updates have hit a huge snag, as there was a requirement to sign a clause whereby images (snapped within the premises) to be posted / blogged about are to be vetted for "approval" first prior to posting ~ and although I've already been seeing images pop-up

• Former Morning Musume Ai Kago in New Jersey on Sunday

Also at Leeds: Summer Wars from The Girl Who Leapt Through Time's Hosoda

The description of the Marvel Comic Book Chair Rail Prepasted Wall Mural* immediately makes me wonder when wallpaper started costing $150.

” Just dip in lukewarm water and bring to the wall each sequentially numbered panel. It’s printed on Surestrip, a revolutionary material that removes in full strips and in seconds. Just pick a corner and pull off.”

Hmmmm. Get it wet, stick it to the wall, and you’ll have a pre-printed image on your wall instead of a flat paint. Yeah, I’m calling this item high ticket wallpaper.

“Does your home need a little something special? We suggest the Marvel Comic Book Chair Rail Prepasted Mural. Tons of comic book covers, including Secret Wars, Thor, and others, can be placed on your walls with this sticky mural. It’s not glued, so you can easily pull it off. Swell! Order yours now!”

Available now at Entertainment Earth.

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I remember this old, old commercial for the Mad Scientist Monster Lab toy, but I don’t actually remember anyone I knew ever owning the toy.

And as with every single weird toy from the eighties, there are people out there who love this thing more than anyone every should. For example, Duke Nostalgia’s Mad Scientist Page has everything you could ever want to know about this toyline. (A board game? Sure enough, BoardGameGeek even has a page for the game.)

And if that’s not enough for you then you’ll also want to hit this article at RetroJunk. Yeah, the internet is packed with more worthless information than I could ever enjoy in one lifetime. Thank you, internet, for hosting so much nonsense.

(And hey, I fully admit that battlegrip.com contributes to the useless nonsense on the internet. Just think of it as my way of giving back.)

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Gentle Giant is releasing this deluxe 1/6 scale R2-D2 statue early next year, and this thing’s definitely blurring the lines between 12-inch scale statue and 12-inch scale action figure.

I don’t own any of the Gentle Giant Star Wars statues, but several of their releases have caught my eye and been quite tempting. This Boba Fett and Carbonite Maquette*, for example, continues to make me think it would look awesome at home. Christmas, maybe?

Source: Several places, including ActionFigurePics and Action Figure XPress.

If you’ve never taken a look at the Gentle Giant selection, and you like statues and high-end collectibles, you should take a few minutes to look through their website.

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This Ghostbusters cereal commercial makes me wonder if today’s cereals include cool extras and prizes like the trading cards printed on the back of the box. I’m pretty sure that there’s not a single glow-in-the-dark cereal box on the market today, regardless of the extras and prizes that are packed with the cereal.

I should take a close look at the different cereals the next time that I’m in the grocery store. I might very well be missing some cool stuff these days.

If you’ve already got a 12-inch scale Boba Fett action figure (and I’m not talking about the vintage 12-inch scale Boba Fett), then you may want take take advantage of this Han Solo in Carbonite Second Chance Opportunity* at Sideshow Collectibles.

“The Han Solo in Carbonite 12-inch Figure Environment captures every detail of the carbonite slab as Han hung suspended as a trophy on Jabba’s wall, motionless and frozen in time. The piece is constructed of highest quality materials, incuding heavy-weight polystone, then hand painted and hand-finished to Sideshow’s exacting standards. Han in Carbonite is suspended from the palace wall display using a single pin and magnet system, and can be removed from the wall for additional display configurations.”

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