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Gigantor by Laurent Durieux - dark hall mansion

March 21, 2012 By 6 Comments

Gigantor posters by Laurent Durieux. Wow!

The fine folks at Dark Hall Mansion have been putting out some pretty amazing prints lately. Remember Tom Whalen’s Great Pumpkin posters and those Snoopy posters by Laurent Durieux? Well, they have raised the bar even higher with this week’s release of officially licensed GIGANTOR prints by Laurent Durieux… “Gigantor: The Lab” Standard Edition of 150, 18 […]

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March 20, 2012 By 12 Comments

Report from the Village Gate Toy Show by the Under Scoop Fire crew

UnderScoopFire is a website dedicated to children of the 80’s and it also offers up one of my favorite weekly podcasts. Last week, the USF crew was talking about the upcoming Village Gate Toy Show in Rochester, New York and I asked Howie Decker if he’d mind sending along some photos of the show. Well, much to my […]

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March 19, 2012 By 30 Comments

This week’s assignment from the League: Zombie Apocalypse

My newest obsession is Doomsday Preppers on National Geographic Channel, and the obvious rip-off, but equally entertaining, Doomsday Bunkers on the Discovery Channel. If you haven’t tuned in to these shows yet, they are about real-life people who are preparing for the worst, whether it’s solar flares, polar shifts, financial collapse–you name it, these people are […]

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March 19, 2012 By 9 Comments

The League has Spoken: Hollywood Blockbusters

Once again, the League has come up with some pure gold this week. Now all we have to do is sit back and wait for the Hollywood big shots to come calling. This week’s assignment asked what movie you would make if you ran Hollywood. The recurring theme seemed to be Kate Beckinsale, but I […]

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March 16, 2012 By 4 Comments

Action Figures at Hake’s

The other day I showed you some great vintage toys up for bid in Hake’s current auction, but there were also a bunch of action figures that caught my eye. Sometimes, it’s just easier to buy an entire collection than to build one piece by piece. So, if you have some cash burning a hole […]

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