Welcome to the first selection in FBOTU’s 12 Days of Geekmas buying guide! What is Geekmas, you ask? What is Geekmas? Why, it’s only the most magical time of the year, when you can still place an order online and receive it before the holidays! So, for the next 12 delirious days, Fanboys of the Universe will help you find the perfect gift for the special fanboy…
Internet sensation Nick (aka site member Havoc), along with his trusty feline sidekick Kat, open and test San Diego Comic-Con exclusive “color-changing” Orko from Mattel. The Masters of the Universe Classics line has inspired a whole series of online videos and reviews, but most lack the charm and toy expertise exhibited by Nick and Kat. The British accent…
Think Madonna‘s kicking herself for not thinking of this sooner? Rubie’s Costumes, the venerable American Halloween institution, presents their officially licensed Lady Gaga collection. The lineup for Halloween 2010 includes some of Gaga’s most recognizable fashion creations from her videos, performances and awards appearances. I kind of figure the gays…
I apologize for not having more coverage of Celebration V over the weekend. Since I was unable to attend, I was mostly pretending that it wasn’t happening. Maybe we can get reports from site members who attended. Then I’ll pretend they don’t exist. However, what I can’t simply ignore or pretend away via mental hydroplaning is the batch of exclusives…
It was a very different world when I was born. Dinosaurs roamed the earth (so annoying); there was no internet (I blogged on cave walls); and The Simpsons had only been on for two seasons. A lot has happened since I waved goodbye to friends and family as Pangea slowly broke up to form the continents we know today, but in all the time between then and now, I never dreamed…
I was in the midst of moving across the country when my Masters of the Universe Classics She-Ra arrived on the steps of the FBOTU Compound. Not wanting to delay a review, I asked Long-Suffering Boyfriend to open her and take a stab at a review. Here…are the results, including a super creepy photo he took with his cell phone. I never had the desire to own a G.I. Joe…
I consider myself a very reasonable sort of fanboy. I have forgiven major toy companies for a lot, all because I thought they probably meant well. I’m talking about shoddy paint applications, weird packaging, bizarre sculpts. For instance, how did the designers of the Prince of Persia action figures take a perfectly sculpted human like Jake Gyllenhaal and make the…
Believe it or not, I do not have an iPhone. I’m very happy with my Sprint service and coverage and haven’t felt compelled to give that up just yet. So, I’ve been holding out, plugging away like a caveman on my Palm Treo 750. Then, quite out of the blue, Long-Suffering Boyfriend surprised me with the new HTC EVO 4G phone from Sprint! I have no idea what…
George works in mysterious ways. A few years ago, I was up to my neck in Star Wars collectibles. I simply ran out of room in my house and my life for any more stuff. Realizing something had to be done, I decided to limit my collecting solely to toys and memoribilia from The Empire Strikes Back. And only things I had a strong emotional reaction to. Since that declaration,…
Little. Yellow. Evil. Our favorite jaundiced warrior goddess has arrived! Masters of the Universe Classics just released Evil-Lyn. She is certainly one of the more popular MOTU characters, and it’s not hard to see why. She’s a bad girl. She’s got attitude. And, let’s be honest here, she’s probably the only competent minion Skeletor has. Did…
Hopefully, you know me well enough by now to realize that nothing in Heaven, on Earth, or on Mount Olympus is going to keep me from spending $150 for Sam Worthington in a little skirt. Action figure sculpting and technology have come a long way, baby. Why, back in my day, a toy company would hand you a slab of white plastic with a daub of yellow paint on top and call it…
I’ve written about my love for a certain Orange Lantern before. My beloved Larfleeze, in all his greedy glory, continues to shine in DC’s Blackest Night epic. Though I stopped understanding the plot about three months ago (something about rainbow midichlorians), Larfleeze has been a consistent scene-stealer throughout. So imagine my delight when I was browsing…
In the interest of full geek disclosure, I never had a Moss Man figure when I was a kid. He was just one of those figures that always seemed to elude me. Plus, even the most persuasive 10-year-old would find it challenging to convince his parents to drive 60 miles to the nearest Toys R Us to look for a fuzzy, green piece of plastic. If he wasn’t at the local department…
After the sturm and drang of last week’s sale at Mattycollector.com, I assumed my reaction to receiving the actual toys would be subdued. However, no matter what shenanigans Mattel employs in their business practices, I can’t deny that the Masters of the Universe Classics line continues to exceed my expectations. This month, the bonus figure that had the whole…
