Monsters among us

Added The Gallery of Monster Toys to the blogroll.

The detective

Batman @ Home by Adrià garcía
A Creative Commons-licensed photo by Adrià garcía.

Toy review roundup

yo go re reviews the DC Direct Trinity Ra’s al Ghul figure.

yo go re reviews the Hasbro G.I. Joe 25th Anniversary Buzzer figure. (See also.)

Terry Dizard reviews the Hasbro G.I. Joe 25th Anniversary Doc mail-away figure. (See also.)

Goldrich Castillo reviews the Bandai SOC GX-01R+ Mazinger Z (10th Anniversary version) Tamashii Nation 2008 exclusive figure. (See also.)

Michael Crawford reviews the Hasbro Indiana Jones German Officer and Cairo Swordsman 1/6 scale figures from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Dave Van Domelen reviews the Hasbro Transformers Movie Allspark Power Deluxe Stealth Bumblebee and Salvage figures. (See also.)

Michael Klein reviews the Hot Toys Movie Masterpiece Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man’s Chest Cannibal King Jack Sparrow and At World’s End Will Turner 1/6 scale figures. (See also.)

Svelte Corps reviews the Lego Indiana Jones 7627 Temple of the Crystal Skull set from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

David Yeh reviews the Tonner Doll Company Harry Potter Lord Voldemort Tonner Direct exclusive and Dobby dolls from the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets movies respectively.

Michael Klein reviews the Tonner Doll Company Pirates of the Caribbean Captain Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth Swann in Court Gown dolls.

Jon Clarke reviews the Hasbro Indiana Jones wave 1 carded figures (part 2), sets and vehicles.

Retro reviews

WIKD reviews the Kenner Techno Zoids Storm Tiger kit.

Mike reviews the Hasbro G.I. Joe Tiger Force Frostbite figure from the Tiger Cat set. (See also.)

Tom Prankerd reviews the Select Convertors Mini Bot Wagon and Van figures, and Spies Focus figure.

The explorer

Uncle Terry by didbygraham
A Creative Commons-licensed photo by didbygraham.

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Toy links

Wicket victorious.
Those teddy bears are vicious.

Tonyz Customz’s custom Old Snake.
“… after just getting the new statues(hardly any articulation) from Medicom Toys I felt Old Snake needed some fully articulated love.”

Blazing Saddles.
A Lego diorama by Joseph Pinaud.

The Punisher.
A very cool portrait of the Marvel Legends figure by Ken Batallones.

Speedlines.
A photo by LuciusVorenus.

Cobra-a-a-a!
Another nice portrait of the Commander by Timothy Lim. (See also.)

Shinkiformer.
Scroll down to see a Busou Shinki Zelnogrard figure transforming with the help of Trans Scanning Bumblebee parts. (See also.)

Magnemo power.
Microman MagnePowers fanmodes. (Click on the images for a better view.)

Toy packaging: then and now.
“… while today’s toy packaging is certainly state-of-the-art, it’s also probably racked up some of the very biggest crimes in the entire packaging industry in terms of excess and waste.”

Eye and flesh tone painting guide.
By figure customiser Jin Saotome.

If you only knew the power of the blogroll

Created a Star Wars section for the blogroll and added Rebelscum, Yak’s Pub, Star Wars toys Flickr pool and Stormtroopers Flickr pool.