I was recently surprised to find myself blurting out the name “Oscar Goldman” to the television. As this is not something I typically do I feel it important to explain that I was (finally) watching the film “The 40 Year Old Virgin“. In the movie there is a scene in which the main character explains the importance of one of the hundreds of collectible toys lining the walls of his apartment. In this case it was a bland looking doll wearing a Continue Reading
Last week our friend Bob announced that he was going to sell a few old Star Wars toys he had laying around his house. This of course piqued my interest, as I’m one of those millions of children who were imprinted with the plans for the Death Star back in the summer of 1977. Like many of those kids, my formative years were spent poring over pre-production illustrations by Ralph McQuarrie and building my own models of the ships out of balsa wood and styrene. Looking back, I thought that I had a pretty great collection of lovingly-used Continue Reading
As spotted on BBC.com: It looks like there will be a new spate of Dr. Who themed toys on the market soon – timed to coincide with the revived television program (one of my absolute all-time favorites if you pay attention to my sci-fi prattle). Chief among these will be radio-controlled Daleks, one of the Doctor’s most-hated enemies and clumsiest-looking robots in the history of cinema. Continue Reading
