Nerd (Un)Culture
Background While Hot Toys has made plenty of collectors salivate with their Batman: The Dark Knight Joker figures, it’s a slightly smaller line of Batman figures that we’ll be taking a look at today. The Batman Cosbaby line is a…
Background Last year, Tonner Doll Company announced that they’d be turning one of the video game world’s most popular vixens into a line of Tonner Collectible Figures. Not so surprisingly, they introduced the Lara Croft Tomb Raider Legend license from…
Background Sideshow Collectibles really gained notoriety with their The Lord of the Rings license. They released busts, dioramas, scaled replicas and statues during the heyday of LOTR collecting mania. More recently, they’ve released several of the most popular characters as…
Background Edward Scissorhands, the 1990 film that starred Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder, tells the story of a quiet young man (with scissor hands) and how he falls in love with a suburban high school girl. The film was the…
Background Last year, Swedish raised and New York based designer Daniel Svanberg introduced us to his Spök-Spök label. With a number of plush characters, Daniel launched us into his colorful world. One of the first characters we were introduced to…
Background About a year ago, Erick Scarecrow’s Mousey Micci line won our 2007 Plush Toy of the Year. ESC-Toy is back with a new set of slightly smaller plush aliens in brand new mousey suits. The character has gone from…
Background Patch Together, the website that gives everyone the shot at being a toy designer, recently released mekazoo’s Robolucha vinyl in three different colorways. Robolucha was created by using the DNA of a famous Mexican wrestler. He was fighting at…
Background Applehead Factory, primarily known for producing the Teddy Scares line of plush bears, released their Tofu the Vegan Zombie PVC figure based on an animated short named Zombie Dearest. Sideshow Collectibles is currently distributing the figure. “Tofu” is a…
Background “Indiana Jones, professor of archaeology, is frequently called upon to save priceless relics from falling into the wrong hands. Dr. Jones faces many dangers as he travels the world, battling enemies from power-hungry Nazis to voodoo priests. Jones pieces…
Background The last time we saw Erick Scarecrow’s Old Skool Kaiju collection, we were introduced to its first vinyl figure – Dizign. While that character appeared to be less of a monster and more of a superhero, the second –…
Background Tonner Doll Company’s Women of Power line includes five of DC Comics’ top women superheroes (and one villainess). So far, we’ve reviewed three of the TonnerDirect exclusive TCFs. And we’re currently up to Mera, the Queen of Atlantis. Mera…
Background Spanish designer – Emilio Garcia – describes his Jumping Brain character as “all the prodigious brains that day by day, with their art, work (to) stimulate the scene of pop-surrealism.” We look at it and see a brain crossed…
Background Appleseed Saga: Ex Machina is a futuristic anime film that was directed by Shinji Aramaki and was produced by John Woo. The plot, as summarized on IMDB is as follows: When a paramilitary task force called E.S.W.A.T. and its…
Background Before there was Jack Sparrow and the trio of films, Pirates of the Caribbean was the dark and musty ride at the Disney Theme Parks. Loaded with animatronic pirates, the ride was one of the last that Walt Disney…
Background One of the most iconic scenes from the original Star Wars trilogy was the opening of Star Wars: A New Hope. The scene shows the capture and boarding of the Tantive IV by Darth Vader and Imperial Stormtroopers. One…