Swords and Spaceships

Hasbro at Celebration IV, courtesy of JediDefender Man. Ewoks! SA bounty hunter! A-Wing Pilot! Han with a torture device! I never thought I'd see that last one. It's also great to see the AOTC Jedi Starfighter with the hyperspace ring. There's some great stuff there, and not just from Hasbro. Check it out, won't you?

I say "possible" because I don't think anyone would dare to make a movie this awful in a post- "Batman & Robin" world. Clicky. Seriously, it's awful.

Wave 5 of the 30th Anniversary Collection. It's great, and something I'll be buying a full set of.

Linky. We can be nostalgic for other stuff besides toys here. VH1 Classic is streaming videos from several awesome bands at that link. I've linked to the KISS videos, Shout It Out Loud in particular, but you can go anywhere from there. It's weird- VH1 will have all this music content online, and if you even try watching VH1 on basic cable, it's like MTV all over again- no fucking music whatsoever. Pathetic.

Transformers movie sandals. For MEN. Yeah, you got that right. Movie tie-in sandals from a summer movie, for grown men. Show me a man who will wear these, and I'll show you a man who's going to die alone.

Linky because I don't want to host all that hi-resness here. Man. Wow. War, man. Wow. If those 5-packs play music, that means I'll have to buy two sets, or just really be careful opening the box. I know I'm in for two sets of the single carded figures, since those are absolutely fanfuckingtastic.

Finally procured my set of movie preview toys tonight. I went through all sorts of fuzz to get them. I started at Toys R Us, who hadn't stocked them yet. I was dejected, but we're only getting started. I next popped over to Target, who hadn't put them out either. They at least had space set aside, so it was progress, but no toys=no good. So then I went to the two local Wal-Mart stores, which I will note I despise with a passion. I was also looking for the recent Transformers exclusives they have from the Classics and Alternators lines, and they had not a fucking thing. No movie toys, no exclusives, jack shit. So I got out of there while avoiding the midday mob. I figured that K-Mart would have them, since they're the only place left in town I hadn't checked. They didn't have them either. I was all "dammit" so I went back home and watched TV. I took the day off since I needed a day off, so I enjoyed the rest of it. About 8 PM, I decided I'd check TR...