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	<description>Jason Geyer has been part of the online toy world for over 10 years, having founded some of the very first toy sites on the web including Raving Toy Maniac, ToyOtter, and now Action Figure Insider. He is also a former toy designer who is now a marketing genius. If he does say so himself. And he does.</description>
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		<title>Big Fat Yellow Frog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I post about more unseen Star Wars stuff, I thought I&#8217;d do a bit of follow-up to some that I&#8217;ve already shown. One of our biggest heartbreaks in designing stuff for Phantom Menace promotions was getting all the way to prototype on a big Jabba the Hutt beanbag, but having it rejected for cost/size [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/ottertorials/2008/06/09/big-fat-yellow-frog/</link>
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		<title>What have I done?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I started this year vowing to cut back on the toy buying. In fact, I had quit buying almost all together, thanks in part to it being so hard to find Mattel&#8217;s latest offerings and the fact that Hasbro has delayed the next batch of Marvel Legends for so long. In any case I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/ottertorials/2008/06/08/what-have-i-done/</link>
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		<title>Rap-O Clap-O! Crazy Cuts!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I miss the 80s. Sure, it was a weird time, but it was also a really fun time. And pre-internet, the early days of cable TV held so many hidden riches, not the least of which was MTV actually airing music videos all day long. I&#8217;m not sure what kids today watch in the afternoon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/ottertorials/2008/05/27/rap-o-clap-o-crazy-cuts/</link>
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		<title>Painting Yourself Into a Corner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Today&#8217;s toys have risen in quality in leaps and bounds over the toys of my youth. The sculpting is better, the molding is better, the packaging&#8230;can be better at times, and the articulation is in a whole other league. And for the most part, the painting is better. Well, sometimes, that is. For companies like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/ottertorials/2008/04/15/painting-yourself-into-a-corner/</link>
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		<title>Our 3rd Anniversary Begins!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Wow. It&#8217;s been three whole years since I agreed to help out my friend Daniel Pickett set up a new site. And all I originally intended to do was just help design some stuff and then return to not updating ToyOtter.com. Ever since leaving RTM, I had decided to never run a big toy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/ottertorials/2008/04/14/our-3rd-anniversary-begins/</link>
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		<title>Monkeys Rock!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so I&#8217;ve been away from the blog for awhile. Work has been kicking my ass, big time.
Lots to blog about, lots more unseen concepts to see, and lots to talk about concerning upcoming toy news that we can&#8217;t speak of just yet.
In the meantime, I&#8217;m not sure anything I could write about can possible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/ottertorials/2008/04/02/monkeys-rock/</link>
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		<title>A Rejected! Star Wars Follow-Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow. I had no idea that this blog post of crazy Star Wars concepts would get picked up so fast and spread around the web. So welcome, new readers! Go check out the post on Mister Dog, you won&#8217;t regret it! And stick around next week for Toy Fair; we&#8217;ll have big pictures of lots [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/ottertorials/2008/02/14/a-rejected-star-wars-follow-up/</link>
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		<title>Rejected! A long, long time ago&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten years to be exact. That&#8217;s when I left the oil fields (where I was shooting industrial video) and entered the world of product design. I got really lucky, having made some contacts through Raving Toy Maniac when I was running it with Eric G. Myers, to somehow stumble into a new career despite having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/ottertorials/2008/02/10/rejected-a-long-long-time-ago/</link>
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		<title>Bow Wow Wow, Yippee-O, Yippee-A!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so I&#8217;m in the grocery store the other day and while I was walking down the aisle between the fine products from Campbell&#8217;s Soup Company and the displays of healthy Reese&#8217;s Peanut Butter Cups there was a sidecap rack with Little Golden Books on it.
Never one to pass by a literary opportunity, I glanced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/ottertorials/2008/02/08/bow-wow-wow-yippee-o-yippee-a/</link>
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		<title>Rejected! JLA Satellite Curio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t done one of these posts in awhile, but I&#8217;ve been rediscovering stuff I&#8217;ve been sent over the years that never made it to shelves and thought that it was high time that some of it been seen. 
This little piece was sent to me by an anonymous soul who has dropped a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/ottertorials/2008/02/02/rejected-jla-satellite-curio/</link>
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