Collector’s Edge – Why have you ruined vampires for me?

The whiniest story ever

Yep, that’s the official Twilight set of Barbie and Ken dolls. If you followed me on Twitter, you’d know I have a soft spot for these type of Barbie Collectables. They are fun. Now let me get something straight here about Twilight – I read the books. I didn’t undertand what the draw to the first one is cause it’s about 200 pages of a whiny girl wanting to be a vampire and a whiny boy saying no. Seriously. Then I read the second book and it was actually pretty good, and kinda made the first one seem to make sense overall. Didn’t read the last two. Yet. And then I saw the movie and it was probably the gayest thing I have ever seen. It made me really like the book that much more. But all of that aside, I have no doubt this doll set will become an ultra hot item very, very soon cause there is an army of Twilight Fangirls out there drooling to be Bella. Oh well, at least my like of vampires hasn’t been tainted by this chick flick fodder vampires we get today. Now I say give me a TruBlood collector set and then I would be excited.

The best science kits ever

I walked into TRU the other week and saw this entire new line of Star Wars Science sets. Imagine science expirenents with a Star Wars license! It is amazingly sweet. The sheer variety of what they have to offer is quite impressive as well. I will be picking these up for my son and will be doing a review on them soon.

The smell of death

Ok, I am no Star Trek lover or anything, but these are pretty sensible tie ins for a Fanboy. Star Trek cologne. Yep, they actually made one called Red Shirt. What does it smell like? Desperation and death? I must seek these out to see why they got made. They must smell good, you know they have to other wise why bother? I am hoping the Red Shirt is the one to get. It’s just too funny to pass up. “Oh, what’s that dashing scent you have on tonight?” “Red Shirt.” Cue drive by and bam! you got yourself a great evening.

Bring your change to the dark side

I am going to file this one in the pointless bin, which really stings me deep. Especially after I just sent up the Star trek cologne line. Especially, especially since this is a Star Wars themed item. It’s not even, well, cool or warranted. I don’t know about you but unmasked Darth Vader does not scream ‘Put your money in me’. I know not every Star Wars collectable needs to be top of the line, but were they even trying with this one? Way to go Lucas Film. This is another pitch meeting I would have loved to be in on. “Hey I got this great idea for a piggy bank. Ready for it. Darth. Vader. Unmasked.” Someone give that guy a raise.

Toy Story Toy’d. Again

Ok, makybe I missed something somewhere, but weren’t the original toys from the movie pretty good likenesses? I had a bunch of those, even the hard to find 12″ Buzz Lightyear that came in a, you guessed it, box exactly like he did in the movie. So now they are hailing this new Definitive Collection as the next coming. The Definitive Collection will feature exact likeness of the films characters and come in packaging that reflects their original packaging in the movie. Ok. They did that last time. So yeah, I wrote this off as a money ploy. But then I got to actually read about this new Ultimate Buzz Lightyear that not only looks like he did in the movie, but ACTS like he did in the movie. Walking, talking replica. Holy hell that is freaking awesome. So is the $130 pricetag. So i dug further into the line and realized that these do really look better than the old line of toys. Which I don’t understand. How can you mess up making a toy based on a toy? But compare the original Buzz with this ultimate Buzz and you can actually tell the difference. That and the old Buzz doesn’t walk. I want one of these Ultimate bad boys.

Gavin’s Most Wanted!

I am an AstroBoy fan. Always have, always will be. And yeah, I am excited for the new movie though I fear it won’t have the same Anime feel I crave. But who knows. And this figure is just plain sweet. Way to go Sideshow. You got some great partners there.