New Article: Today’s feature is all about Manglors, action figures that could be pulled and ripped into pieces without any signs of permanent damage. This one is actually often requested, though when people e-mail me about it, they can’t remember the name of the line and instead depend on attempting to describe the toys to me. Hopefully this article will discontinue the sporadic “it was this toy made of rubber that stretched, I think it looked like a black Godzilla” e-mails that land in my inbox.
That covers today, but I think I’m taking Sunday off so I’ll finally have a chance to bring my robots to life. Expect a new article on Monday about a horror flick we watched tonight that seems to have been filmed strictly for movie reviewers to have lots of things to make fun of. There’s at least two more article topics on deck for next week too, ranging from the usual to the not-so-usual and even the fabled unusual. It’ll be a party.
The archives are currently being worked on, and they’re coming out real nice. The way they’re being set up is more of less what many readers of the site have requested for the past few years. In the meantime, some of you voiced your concern over a lack of a search box on the new design, so we went ahead and added that back yesterday. Feel free to use it till the archives are done. As for the rest of the weekend…never know when more fish will show up.
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Woo hoo…I think I’m the first to post a comment here. Loooong time reader, first time poster. I’m hoping someone can somehow assure me that I’m not mad and don’t have implanted memories, but I remember these toys and I remember being amazed by the commercial and not understanding how you could rip them apart and put them back together (which I still can’t comprehend), but then someone at school had the green dude from the other wave and sure enough, it worked as promised. So I got the purple pterodactyl, opened up the egg egg eggeggeggeggeggeggeggegg (it is kinda fun to type) and joyfully ripped its head off. About five seconds later I discovered that I couldn’t reattach its head and I was left feeling very disappointed and confused. Periodically, over the years, I would go back to it and try again, hoping that somehow I had gained the wisdom needed to successfully reattach the head, but to no avail. So I ended up with a totally worthless, headless piece of crap and a slew of unanswered questions. I soon after gave up any belief in god and I haven’t been the same since. Did anybody else have this problem??
Anyway, I doubt anyone is still reading (thus negating the whole purpose of my posting) now that this post is longer than the article that spawned it, so I’ll wrap this up:
Love the site, not crazy about the redesign, wondering why in the hell you never did an article about the new He-Man show (which, though crappy, has a a great reference to the old show in its opening) and/or toys (except for the admittedly great Mario Joyner thing), and begging you to at least type three simple lines listing the remaining contents of the damn Advent calender (or at least acknowledge that you’ve utterly given up)….that should do it for the longest posting ever, but don’t worry, I’ll probably go back to lurking for the rest of my days.