Nuking The Cat

“The man in black fled into the desert and the gunslinger followed.” It’s from this single sentence that Stephen King’s massive Dark Tower series of books sprang forth, spanning 8 volumes and 4,250 pages. Influenced by Tolkien, Arthurian legend and ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’, it also serves to provide a loose framework containing hints or elements of Stephen King’s other works, in some ways shaping a multiverse comprised of all his stories. With elements of fantasy, s

You know, personally, I think most reviewers are just butt-hurt over the fact that Wolverine’s not in this one. But, truth be told, people in general don’t like attending a funeral and if X-Men: Dark Phoenix is anything, it is a funeral, both for some of the characters within the film and for the Fox franchise that has run for 20 years. And that’s really the rub here: the film was touted by Fox as the triumphant close of an era and directly compared to Avengers: Endgame. Bu

When I first learned that we’d be getting new Dinobots in the Power of the Prime line, I was excited…especially upon seeing that they were going to be rooted in their G1 appearances and that it was going to be the full roster. Sure, we’ve gotten Dinobots in the past here and there, but it was never the full set…and when it was, back with the Michael Bay inspired set to coincide with the fourth movie, they were…well…I hate to use this word, but they were Bay-formers, overly c

Since you’re likely a nerd reading this site, I’m hoping I won’t have to overly explain myself with the following analogy. You know how every so often (once or twice a year for DC, once or twice a week for Marvel) there’s a line-wide crossover…’Worlds live, worlds die and nothing will EVER be the same’, that sort of deal? In these, there are the peripheral tie-ins, maybe making some mention of the great cataclysm that everyone else seems to be participating in or focusing o

So what happened to the toy reviews?!? Asked nobody. I was kinda surprised. [Given how long it takes you to write a damn article anymore, has it occurred to you that everyone’s moved on to sites that can actually update routinely? – Ed.] Anyway, to make a long story short, it’s hard to write up toy reviews when you don’t have any space to take pictures of the toys! After a long, apartment-wide restructuring, we’ve finally got a set up that works…for now. In the time since our

Meh. The sound of indifference. The sound you make when you don’t necessarily want the time you just spent back…but you could think of a few better ways you could’ve spent it. It opens the door for so many avenues of ‘damning with faint praise’. And for me, it should never be the sound coming from me as I exit a Star Wars movie. Yet…here we are. Now, to be fair, with all of the behind-the-scenes drama Solo: A Star Wars Story had, comparable only to Justice League…and even t

It’s plodding. The tutorial doesn’t really serve to be much help as sometimes abilities just come and go or buttons do something that you were never shown or tipped off to. It resembles none of its predecessors, save for what I’ve heard about the Japan-only Dreamcast game. And, for some reason, I always felt that I was playing the game wrong…like there were things I wasn’t doing right or that there were moves that are possible within the interface that I just had no idea h

Okay, one final rush to get the remaining Titans Returns toys off my damn review desk. This time, we’re dealing with exclusives…some hard to get, others not so much. But thankfully, they’re mostly repaints, so I can be cheap and just add links to the original reviews while just briefly discussing what sets these new items apart. Starting things off, we’ve got Wonder Fest 2018 Winter TakaraTomy exclusive Black Convoy…or RiD Scourge as he’s known in the west. He’s a recolor

Pacific Rim: Uprising commits, for me, two cardinal sins of cinema that makes reviewing the movie difficult. You see, all the robot on robot and robot on kaiju action we see in the trailers is indeed just as awesome as you’d hope…but given that the first of the aforementioned sins takes place within the first 15 minutes of the movie…ugh. As a viewer, I had to fight to get through this one…or at the very least, just hang on with all I could until another action scene took pl

While most of the early Transformers were taken from Takara’s Microman and Diaclone toylines, giving them the Masterpiece treatment was pretty easy with minimal fuss. However, some of the toys in the 84 and 85 waves were licensed from other toymakers…most notably Shockwave and Jetfire. With this aspect deflating collectors’ hopes in ever seeing a Masterpiece Shockwave, as usual, third-party companies sprang into action to provide their own versions. The one that caught my

Here it is…the last gasp of Titans Return…but man is it a good one! Here we have two leader class figures that see their origins in the old Japan-Only series Transformers: Super God Masterforce…but only one of them officially made the leap over the Pacific to become an official Hasbro toy, that being the final leader class release (wave 5 for those of you still keeping track) of Overlord. But for those that bought the Siege on Cybertron set, well, then no Titans Return coll

With Wave 1 of Power of the Primes hitting store shelves at the time of this writing, I figured it was time to get off my butt and wrap up our Titans Return reviews! So, here we are with the very late in the coming review of the last combined wave of deluxes…Wave 5, plus Slugslinger. Twin Twist: As you’d expect, he’s a remold of Topspin from Wave 4. Given how good that mold was, I certainly can’t complain about seeing it again so soon. That, and to be honest, for whatever

We continue with our ‘clip show’ reviews here as we continue to make the transition from Titans Return to Power of the Primes…this time with the Big Bad Toy Store exclusive box set: Siege on Cybertron. [Well, it was a BBTS exclusive in the US, I think Toys R Us had it in Canada…and I have no idea with regards to the rest of the world. – Ed.] While like the previous box set, Chaos on Velocitron, there really isn’t anything new here…just interesting repaints of previously rel