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December 7th, 2010
I’m so excited, I just had to share this! The regular edition of the new Outer Space Men action figures from the Four Horsemen have arrived at their studio today! That means those suckers are gonna be shipping out very soon to folks who’ve pre-ordered them (like me!). I’ve been …
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December 7th, 2010
Last month I wrote about Jazwares announcing a new 3-3/4" line of Street Fighter action figures for 2011, and my general unbridled and unabashed excitement about it.
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November 25th, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving, AFi Readers!
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November 22nd, 2010
As you may have read on AFi’s front page, Jazware’s is returning to the Street Fighter license. Street Fighter fans may recall a few years back Jazwares produced a line of 6" Street Fighter figures that were sold at Toys R Us. …
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November 13th, 2010
As most of the dear readers of this blog already know, May 2011 sees the release of the fourth film in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean saga. While this news may have been met with a collective "ho-hum" from those who felt let down by the over-wrought third film, At World’s End, my reaction was one of excitement!
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November 10th, 2010
I started reading and collecting comic books when I was nine years old. Last month…I stopped.
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September 22nd, 2010
I was listening to the Comic Geek Speak podcast recently and one of the hosts mentioned something about collecting comics in the days before the internet, and how there seemed to be few surprises for comics readers these days. He had a good point. Between solicitations in Previews and information from the various comic book news sites such as Newsarama and Comic Book Resources (my two personal favorite stops for comic news) it is pretty hard to not have key plot points or guest appearances spoiled months ahead of time.
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September 20th, 2010
Diamond Select Toys has a new line of Minimates that’s just starting to hit TRUs right now called Minimates MAX (Mobile Action Xtreme). Here’s the description of the line from the back of the packaging: "Never before has a team of heroes like this been assembled! There’s no situation that’s beyond their resources. You can use any mix of parts from any of the members to create your own team, use the gear you want to use and imagine any situation you can for the team to solve. For the first time ever, you can create your own mission as well as team members."
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September 16th, 2010
This past weekend I attended the Columbus Toy Show for the first time in my decade of living in Central Ohio.
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August 13th, 2010
Today marks my wrap up of my Gen Con 2010 reports. Thanks to those who have been reading these, commenting, emailing, tweeting and whatnot. It’s appreciated. I wanted to use my blog here at AFi to share my passion for gaming. I think that gaming has a lot of crossover appeal to the toy collecting audience, and I wanted to share the gaming gospel so-to-speak. I dig video games. I have a PS2 and an XBOX360 and a library of games that I love. However, for me, nothing beats actually sitting across the table from someone and playing out a battle upon a tabletop. I love the social aspect of gaming in person. One of the things that’s so awesome about Gen Con is it that’s place where gamers from all over the world gather together to game. Everyone is from different social, religious, economic, ethnic, etc backgrounds and those things can all be put aside, even for just a few hours, to enjoy the commonality of playing a game we love.
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August 12th, 2010
Today I am continuing my series of reports on the recent Gen Con gaming convention held over August 5 – 8 in Indianapolis, Indiana. This time out I’ll be looking at Dream Pod 9 and their Heavy Gear line of products and WorldWorks Games who make the finest in PDF terrain around! Keep reading!
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August 11th, 2010
Welcome to my third report on Gen Con, the largest gaming convention in North America, which was held this past August 5-8 in Indianapolis, Indiana. If you missed them, Report #1 can be found here, and Report #2 here. FANTASY FLIGHT GAMES In this installment I am going to be taking a look at Minnesota-based Fantasy Flight Games (aka FFG). FFG has been one of my favorite game publishers for several years now both from the perspective of a gamer and from my time as a game retailer. Everything about FFG has always been top notch. Not only do they make incredible games, but they’ve dabbled in movies, graphic novels and recently opened the Fantasy Flight Games Event Center gaming and retail space.
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August 10th, 2010
Welcome back to my Gen Con 2010 Report. This is part 2. If you missed part one (covering Wizkids and Hydra Miniatures) you can check that out right here. Today we’ll be looking at Catalyst Game Lab and Flying Frog Productions and what cool stuff they had on display at Gen Con 2010!
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August 9th, 2010
I spent this past Friday and Saturday at Gen Con, aka The Best Four Days in Gaming. Gen Con was started by Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax back in 1968. It was originally held in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Technically, it started the year before in Gygax’s home, but became a public event in ’68. From these modest beginnings the show has grown to around 28,000 (in 2009) making it the largest gaming convention in North America. It’s a lot to take in, especially in two days. I walked the exhibit hall, saw the sights and tried to discern, out of all the new products shown or announced, what would be the new hotness.
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August 4th, 2010
As Gen Con looms ever closer (the show starts tomorrow, and runs through Sunday), I wanted to talk briefly about another game that I’m really looking forward to: AE Bounty. AE Bounty (short for Alien Encounters: Bounty), from Darkson Designs, is a miniatures skirmish game in a science fiction setting. This will be Darkson Designs second miniatures game. Their first game was AE WWII (Alternate Events: WWII) which was also a skirmish level (individuals fighting, as opposed to squads or armies) miniatures game in the Weird War genre.
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