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THING FEET.

Here is my inevitable review of ToyBiz's "Thing Feet,", a new Fantastic Four toy that challenges Hulk Hands to a damning duel for the title of best toy ever. I'd heard of them already, and while they didn't surpass my hopes and dreams, they're still pretty awesome. And they yell things when I walk in them.

While picking these up, I couldn't help but notice how batshit crazy TRU's gone with the Easter stuff. Inarguably a larger stock of seasonal fare than Halloween or Christmas got. There were dozens of store-made baskets filled with overstocks and lesser-solds, but the bigger delight was the many number of "TRU exclusive" two-packs -- essentially a way for the chain to cash in on the holiday by feeding clueless parents undesired toys packaged by the group in makeshift cardboard. I picked up one item of particular interest, which I refuse to name until the next blog entry. Take that.

Posted by Matt on 03/20/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 70 comments

Adults can wear them?

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 03/20/2005 7:08 PM

Sort of. Not as comfortably worn as the Hulk Hands, but they’ll fit if you try hard enough.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 03/20/2005 7:11 PM

Marvel just announced a new Thing comic, so this is cool. Although I think movie Thing looks like the Toxic Avenger.

Who else could seriously get the hands/feet treatment? These are who I think of:

Iron Man
Submariner-he’s does have those wings on his feet.
Beast
Abomination-There is going to be a Hulk 2.
Blob-X-men villain
Juggernaut
A few Spidey villains-Lizard & Rhino in particular
Collosus
Thor- Hands with Hammer
Man-Thing- Movie debuts on Sci-Fi in April
Kingpin
She-Hulk- Girls should have some fun also

Probably a few others.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 03/20/2005 7:23 PM

They fit up to a size 5? Wow Matt, you must have some tiny feet to fit into those, even if they are a really tight fit. Do they make those feet in larger sizes too?

Chestnuts roasted by Destro @ 03/20/2005 7:35 PM

This is the first comment I’ve made here, ever since I spent 17 straight hours reading the photog blog, getting to the end, and finding out that the comments had been cut off like two weeks before.

I can’t believe you don’t have a picture of you wearing the hulk-hands AND the thing feet.

That is all. End transmission.

Chestnuts roasted by Rod @ 03/20/2005 7:37 PM

Ah, I see. I should have read the article first. I assumed they were glorified plastic shoes, not glorified plastic shoe-covers. If it’s open bottom, I can understand the stretch factor here. But, considering I have Hulkish feet like Peggy Hill (I’m about size 13, and I’m not even tall), I’d probably just be better off painting my own feet orange.

Anyway, I downloaded an early clip of the Thing and a truck in January, and, while I wasn’t that impressed with the way the Thing looked in the set photos from Toronto I saw last summer, in action, he looks much better. And I do like that the Thing mainly is a guy in rocky makeup, which I’m sure will be enhanced by CGI, but the character is still a lot more "practical" than computer-generated, and, as such, won’t across as being a character straight out of Shrek walking around a live-action world like the all-CGI Hulk two years ago.

Considering that I like a good dose of comic relief in my superhero movies as I find the entire concept of superheroes to be inherently camp, I’m honestly looking forward to Fantastic 4 more than Batman Begins, which I’m fearing will be aimed at the hardcore Miller-era "Dark Knight" purists who almost literally can’t take a joke, at least in their Batman comics. While I fully admit that the two Schumacher Batman films overdosed on the comic relief, I thought the two Tim Burton Batman films masterfully balanced the dark and the light. I think if you make it too dark, then you just get pretentious goth-fests like The Crow. I have no fear whatsoever that the Fantastic 4 movie will be too "dark".

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 03/20/2005 7:45 PM

I’d never even SEEN the Fantastic Four until I caught the 60s cartoon on Boomerang during a visit to the parents’ house a few years ago. I instantly fell in love with Thing. I like big men to begin with, and here was a big man who not only had a heart of gold and a chest the size of Canada, but just about everything ELSE made of solid rock – and even in the somewhat corny 60s era show, he came across as a nice guy. If I do see "The Fantastic Four" this summer, I’ll be there just to see what they do with Thing.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 03/20/2005 7:46 PM

This looks interesting!! hehe

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 03/20/2005 7:57 PM

I think the best part of that article is that in the picture of the Thing holding the piece of cardboard from the Thing hands, it looks like Mr. Grimm actually has a shit-eating grin on his face.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Carlo Marx @ 03/20/2005 8:04 PM

hey matt I was wondering if you could do an article about airline stuff like little bags of penuts or barf bags, those kinds of things, so when ever you fly remember to grab as much free stuff as possible, also love the artice thank you for being born!, hey get on AIM more i would like to talk to you

Chestnuts roasted by Dude @ 03/20/2005 8:28 PM

sweet lord…new material :)

cool article btw, i liked the final battle…
btw: does easter generate more merch than Christmas does????
I can’t believe it…really???

I still would give A LOT to get some Mauve Easter Pringles…oh yeah!

Chestnuts roasted by melonian @ 03/20/2005 8:30 PM

I’ve seen that there’s also going to be a Human torch dress-up set for kids. No word if it includes oily rags and a lighter. If it does,Irwin Mainway would be so proud.

Chestnuts roasted by Overlord @ 03/20/2005 8:40 PM

squee, this is from the l;ast blog entry, but damn, Fonzi jumping the shark again has got to be the funniest thing I’ve seen all week. Go, Fonz!

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 03/20/2005 8:55 PM

I could have sworn Matt did an article about a barf bag once, or an inflight magazine, or something.

Ok, are you wearing heels in that "beneath the feet" picture? Or did you convince your girlfriend to wear the Thing Feet for the photo op?

I have to ask – have any of you met BikerFox yet? I can’t decide if I should laugh or cry. (Here’s hoping I did the link right.)

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 03/20/2005 9:10 PM

Nope. Crap. Well, here’s the link:
Pictures – http://www.bikerfox.com/foxphotos2/

Bikerfox’s bio (he was delivered from the mouth of an alligator, yo) – http://www.bikerfox.com/Profile/profile.htm

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 03/20/2005 9:12 PM

i wish my feet looked like that

Chestnuts roasted by Pewing33ny @ 03/20/2005 9:27 PM

I found an egg in that article. ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Mysterious! @ 03/20/2005 9:28 PM

That video is simple but hilarious. Who else watched it fourteen times in a row?
I’ve noticed that the stores are stocking "Easter" products. Sure there are still "Spring into fun!" cop-outs, but there are plenty of products willing to actually put the name of the holiday right on the package. I wonder if it’s because Easter’s inherently less secular than Xmas, or just because it’s hard to justify leaving the word "Easter" off a box of egg dye.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 03/20/2005 9:50 PM

I’m also surprised there’s no picture of Matt with both Hulk Hands AND Thing feet.

And, I gotta say I’m now looking forward to the FF movie. It’s gotta be better than their last attempt.

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 03/20/2005 11:22 PM

Aww, my feet’d ever squeeze into those. No earthquake stompin’ sounds for me. Sounds like a Linkin Park song.

"Noone understands..the pain..
How hard it is..each day..
Seeing everyone else..
With their THING FEEEEEET [insert bad riff]"

Chestnuts roasted by onslaught86 @ 03/20/2005 11:24 PM

Speak of the Devil, Matt, I was just working at my KB Yesterday and what did I come across? THING HANDS. And on the side I also noticed besides the feet are the Thing mask & Torso set…so get those 2 sets and just wear your jeans to actually look like Thing. Heh.

I also had my first Cadbury Creme Egg today…MMM…

And also my first Marshmallow Peep. Fucking. Horrible. Ick.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 03/20/2005 11:39 PM

I have high hopes for the impending FF movie, but, alas, I also had high hopes for Hellboy. I think Sin City is going to deliver the goods like no other comic-book inspired flick ever has or will. Of the two comic-flicks being released this summer starring Jessica Alba’s midsection, my money’s on Sin City.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 03/20/2005 11:55 PM

Hey traj, did you get my email? I emailed ya…and nothing. Checked spam filters too!

Where is Manimal? We want, nay, demand new pics of E.Claire.

We go in today, I believe we are at 23-24 weeks. I just hope this sucker finally shows what he or she is made of!

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 03/21/2005 1:50 AM

sounds like the perfect toy to give to someone-you-hate’s kid. *smash crash crash bash mash*

although, they would probably make walking the dog a quintillion times more fun.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 03/21/2005 1:58 AM

Uh… sorry to be off-topic, but what happened to the Photog Blog? I can’t seem to find where to reply to it…don’t tell me Matt closed it?! We must continue the discussion!

Chestnuts roasted by Ceejus @ 03/21/2005 4:54 AM

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