The latest Hake’s catalog arrived recently, and as usual, it is overflowing with incredible pop culture collectibles. I usually take a few hours to pore over every page, leaving a rainbow of post-it notes sticking out from the pages, tagging items that I want to research and add to my watch list. I have winnowed […]
Here there be monsters
This week’s Pop Culture League challenge is all about monsters, so I wanted to show a few of the beasts that live among me in the cave. If you grew up watching the Addams Family, you remember the Thing. This bank is basically a big black plastic box. When you put a coin in the […]
X is for Xenomorph
Alien Day was earlier this week, and I feel a little dated by posting this article a couple of days later, but what else was i going to post for “X?” The Xenomorph is the cuddly “big bad” from the Alien movie series, who has a penchant for killing space marines and pretty much any other […]
My new copilot has already been grounded
I couldn’t resist this awesome Neca Alien body knocker at the toy store yesterday. My wife was thrilled to find him stuck to the dashboard of our minivan this morning while taking the kids to school. When she returned, it didn’t take too much effort for me to remove all the duct tape residue once I found the bottle of Goo Gone. […]
Funko ReAction SDCC Exclusive Alien figure
In space, nobody can hear you scream.. but you may have heard me give a little “whoop” when I found out this beauty was coming my way. I need to extend a huge thanks to Philip Reed over at Battlegrip.com for hooking me up with this creepy new addition to the space lab. This is an […]
Alien ReAction Facehugger and Chestburster figures? Yep.
The second wave of Funko ReAction figures shows that Funko is clearly responding to its fan base. Not only will we get an Alien facehugger, but there’s also a chestburster! These new Funko ReAction figures will be available in November. I can’t wait to see what they come up with for the other movie lines.