Tag: toys

  • Force Friday Midnight Event at Toys “R” Us

    I’m not much of a person for midnight releases… of anything; movies, black Friday stuff, etc. But when I heard that every Toys “R” Us was going to be doing a midnight release event for the new Star Wars Force Awakens toys, I was intrigued.

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Signing

    To this day, my favorite, and arguably the best, comic book / cartoon / movie / toy lines is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I still have vivid memories of being a young kid in the toy aisle of this store called Roses, seeing those first toys on the pegs.

  • Recent Life Musings Stanley Cup Edition

    The wife was away this weekend to a fitness blogging conference in Portland, OR, so I had myself a fun little weekend. I saw a couple movies, did a bit of shopping, and played some nerdy games with friends. I missed Dani, but it was nice to have some play time. I picked up an…

  • June 2013 Loot Crate Unboxing

    I came home from our weekend away in Syracuse to find the June 2013 Loot Crate waiting at my door. Score! The topic this month was MASHUP and we have seen some pretty rad mashup posts from the Loot Crate crew on their Facebook page leading up to this months delivery.

  • May 2013 Loot Crate UnCrating

    A bit different look for the crate this month. There wasn’t really any high-end item like the previous couple months with the Funko and Kid-Robot toys. Still, it was a pretty nice box, and I finally got my loot crate ID card!

  • 2013 Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo

    This post is quite a bit late in coming, but I wanted to revisit my awesome weekend in Chicago. I had originally planned on going to this show’s sister show, the New York Comic Con this past October. But due to having my place to stay fall through and it being absurdly expensive to get…

  • March 2013 Lootcrate Unboxing

    Today I received my first ever Loot Crate. If you don’t know what that is, it’s ok. You soon will. Loot Crate is a monthly subscription box service where they ship you a box of cool geek / gamer culture related items.

  • Matty Collector Toy Review – September, 2011

    The September release from the Masters of the Universe collection included two new figures and one re-release. We get two new figures in Leech and Hurricane Hordak, both part of the 2011 subscription.