Originally issued at a convention in 3 different variations, King Grayskull returned to shelves for a little more than a day on Mattycollector.com.

The figures offered at the convention were a standard full color King with the He-Man accessories of a shield, ax and sword. He also included a cape and was packaged in a Castle Grayskull box. The variants were one in translucent blue, the ghost version and a bronze statue version. I always prefer the standard full color and detail over the odd variants.

The new figure in Classic’s packaging includes a shield, a orb of power, a flocked …

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Mattycollector.com’s featured figure of the month of November is Grizzlor! The ferocious figure with fur is back with actual brown fur over a highly detailed and articulated body.

Grizzlor comes complete with an arsenal of weapons not offered with the figure before. Including his classic Horde body armor and a new tribal-like loin cloth; Grizzlor also includes an array of weapons. The standard Horde crossbow is just the beginning, this furry bastard comes with a machete, sword and ax. His weapons can then be mounted to the back of his armor to keep it all together.

The figure I received was …

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G.I. Joe is back after the 2009 movie series of action figures. Now, the Joes and Cobra are more realistic, nastier looking and have amazing detail and loads of accessories!

If you are looking for Cobra Commander, don’t bother, it’s impossible to get, so Ebay should have it for 10 times the price. The Commander is cool, but all he really is, is a repaint from the movie figure with a chromed head.

However, the Jungle Viper or better version of the Night Viper is slightly easier to acquire. This Viper is also cooler than any figure that has been produced …

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If I was held at gunpoint for some insane reason and asked who my favorite Transformers character is I’d choose Soundwave.

As Megatron’s right hand bot, the Soundwave of the 80’s was a mini tape deck that implored the use of micro cassette soldiers to do his dirty work. Sending the thugs Rumble and Frenzy along with his falcons Laserbeak and Buzzsaw–followed by Ravage the panther and Ratbat…the rat bat–was what made him cooler than the Megatron P38 pistol and all of the seeker jets combined.

Over the years Soundwave came in many different incarnations including a jet, satellite and currently …

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In 1986 the Transformers movie came out to an awesome story, great new characters and the tear-filled eyes of almost every child who watched.

With the death of Optimus Prime at the hands of Megatron a new leader for a new generation had to be born to not only lead the heroic Autobots against the evil Decepticons but also to sell the new line of toys to the masses.

Rodimus Prime was this bot and he was “stepped on” from the time he installed the Autobot Matrix of Leadership into his crankcase.

Originally Hot Rod–Autobot Cavalier and young upstart in …

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Director Jacques Audiard has created an incredible mafia masterpeice.  A Prophet (not to be confused with Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet) follows nineteen-year-old Arab Malik El Djebena’s rise within the ranks of a French prison where he is originally sentenced for six years.  El Djebena quickly falls in with the Corsican mafia at the prison and using his wit and incredible survival instincts, not only survives there but thrives.  His mentor/tormentor, mafia kingpin Cesar Luciani is El Djebena’s grudging father-figure in prison, under whose inadvertent tutelage he learns how to get ahead in this vicious and ruthless world of cash, hash and …

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Legend Of The Black Scorpion is a Chinese period piece based on Shakespeare’s tragic stage play, Hamlet. Originally called “The Banquet” in China, the story is about a Prince named Wu Luan (Daniel Wu). He falls in love with a strong and vindictive woman, Little Wan (Ziyi Zhang). The problem is that Little Wan is married to Luan’s dad, the emperor. If the situation wasn’t already messed up, the emperor gets killed by his brother and tries to marry Little Wan. Luan plots his revenge against his uncle, while Little Wan also has her own agenda to take over the imperial …

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Strikeforce might not be a household name but they’re UFC’s biggest threat. Strikeforce even partnered up with EA to release the EA MMA game. This is there first ever DVD release. The two disc set features 3 events, showcasing their biggest stars including Fedor Emelianenko, Allistair Overeem, Cung Le and Renato “Babalu” Sobral.

The first disc only has the first event, Heavy Artillery. The main event has heavyweight champ, Overeem going against Brett Rogers. I thought this was going to be a great fight but it turned out to be one sided. The rest of the card includes:
Rafael Cavalcante …

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2 big movies are coming out this weekend, Paranormal Activity 2 and Clint Eastwood’s HereAfter.  I was bored with the original Paranormal Activity but there’s plenty of buzz for the low budget movie.  HereAfter is getting a wide release this week but this one will probably flop. 

Paranormal Activity 2 is getting a 72% rating at Rottentomatoes.  I thought Paramount releasing a crappy sequel but I’m probably wrong.  It seems to have enough scares and character development that the critics liked it.  Larsen On Film describes it as a great horror movie: “As a portrait of an American family under …

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It seems like the new Fallout is more of an upgrade than a new game.  IGN is reporting the game still takes a while to load and there’s glitches, including my pet peeve, freezing (Red Dead Redemption did this often as well.)  Having said that, the game is still fun because you interact with the people from New Las Vegas.  Just like part 3, you can also choose whether to be a hero or villain.  With me, I always choose to be the good guy at first because I feel guilty killing innocent characters.  Once I beat the game, then I …

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