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Toy Fair 2012 (a.k.a. “Sometimes I get paid to look at toys. Yes, it’s a rough life.”)

February 14th, 2012 · No Comments

Toy Fair kicked off this week, but I got an early start on the show Saturday, courtesy of Hasbro’s annual Fan Media Day. I wrote up two reports on the event for Newsarama, with one focusing on the company’s upcoming Marvel toys — which includes toys based on the “The Amazing Spider-Man” and “The Avengers” [...]

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Tags: clips · comics · movies · toys

Monday Mix: Two great trailers (for very different reasons), a Doctor Who contest, Archie meets KISS, and more…

November 14th, 2011 · No Comments

I decided to skip last week’s compressed “Friday Wrap-Up” and save everything up for today’s “Monday Mix,” since I was out of town and off the grid most of the week and didn’t collect many links. Now that I’ve had a chance to catch up, here are the open links that have been accumulating in [...]

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The Best & Worst Robot Brawls In Movies

October 5th, 2011 · No Comments

Sometimes when you write up list-style features, it only takes about 15 minutes after the article is live for you to realize you totally forgot to include something that really should be on the list. In the case of this “5 Best and Worst On-Screen Robot Brawls” feature I wrote up for Movies.com, I’m feeling [...]

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Monday Mix: Bioshock Infinite, tasty Transformers, retro Muppet posters, and more…

September 19th, 2011 · No Comments

Well, our three-weekend binge on college football concluded with Saturday’s game at West Point, and though it was a less than satisfying finale (for more reasons than just the final score), it’s nice to look at my upcoming calendar and see a few weekends without travel plans. Of course, the absence of travel plans really [...]

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