What's Your Obsession

A long time ago I ordered the Sam and Max statue and symbiotes (custom designer toys) from Symbiote Studios. I received the statue just fine and reviewed it, with my review going up on their site, IGN, a few other places. I thought that statue was pretty awesome and was looking forward to my Sam [...]

I was linked to Toy Traveling recently and I am beyond puzzled. From what I can tell, you ship them your toy, select one of three packages, then your toy will travel to certain famous areas in Prague without you. This is what you get for 150 Euros : Photographs on CD (50 pieces), print [...]

I’m surprised I hadn’t heard of this earlier, but apparently as of this month, Kidrobot isn’t allowing retailers to open blind-boxes and sell the figures individually, nor are retailers allowed to sell the opened boxes on Ebay. Given that Kidrobot is probably the largest player in the designer toy industry, this seems a downright bizarre [...]

A few days ago I showed off a recast Buffy Premium Format statue. The guys involved were taking statues, stripping them nude, giving them humongous breasts, then adding on really dumb looking optional clothing so they can still sell them on Ebay. I’m against recasting, after all, there’s a Recast Alert section on the site. [...]

For those not aware, Toy Story 1 and 2 were just in theatres for a limited engagement. Both were re-done in 3d, and I had the pleasure to see them last weekend. I’ve seen two other movies in 3d, Superman at IMAX and Nightmare Before Christmas. Superman was a bit iffy, at times it seemed [...]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/homeless_doll_costs_hairstyling_4Ic0hC7Lacpfo8HQbczsQM Fairly large op-ed piece under the cut.