Open Your Toys Cast

Have you ever looked into someone’s window and thought about what their life might be like? Well for this episode we let you peer into our window. In other words we indulge our egos and talk about ourselves the entire time. Have you ever wondered how Mrs. McFavorite and I got into collecting? Or maybe how we even met? If not, then go ahead and tune in next week when we’ll return with all the lates...

This week we got some great news via that new fangled InterWeb. Have you seen the group shot of the Botcon set? If that doesn’t excite you, you better check your pulse kids. Dark of the Moon toy news has slowed down a little since Toy Fair, but the first figure has popped up at retail. We talk about the new Star Wars packaging and fawn over some amazing new West Wars figures by the one and only Si...

How excited are you after Toy Fair? I guarantee you’re not more excited than me. WOW there are some great toys coming out in the foreseeable future. Perhaps my favorites are coming to San Diego Comic-Con. There’s the gigantic Death Star 14-pack of Star Wars Vintage Revenge of the Jedi carded figures. Coming a close second is the first ever official G.I. Joe Transformers cross-over Starscream Sky S...

If you’ve seen the length of the show, you can probably tell we’re drinking again. But wow, almost three hours! So, yeah we go off. I suggest breaking it up into a couple or five sittings. First up, Transformers: ANIMATED STUNTICONS! We just got Drag Strip today. She’s real and she’s spectacular. SDCC passes sell out in one day. Transformers: Prime toys are so good they make me want to like the sh...

We’ve got a few lists this time around. First we get what seems to be a pretty complete one of the first wave of Dark of the Moon figures. Then I compare my top 5 2010 MOTUC figures to the peeps over at He-Man.org. A Walmart list reveals Generations Arcee and WARPATH! Don’t forget my list of toys for sale. Lotsa Star Wars toys are being leaked. Remember all those cool PoC vehicles we saw at SDCC a...

I know everything gets better with time, but damn we collectors (especially us 30 somethings) are getting amazing nods to our childhood. The Vintage Collection is putting out some amazing new figures. We are seeing Transformers I thought I would never see. To top it all off there is going to be a set of Joes I always wanted and one of my most favorite Christmas gifts ever. What can I say, life is...

Black Friday 2010

While we seem to have less news, we spend just as much time talking about it. There is a lot of Transformers news especially from Japan. Unfortunately the Transformers Q and A doesn’t produce much (as usual). However the bi-weekly Matty Q and A kind of does. Can you say Castle Grayskull? No, it’s not a confirmation, but you better start saving your pennies. Do you need anything Hasbro? The best sa...

What keeps bringing you guys back? Is it habit or love? Whatever it is, here we are and there’s tons to talk about. We finally get a look at TVC wave 5 and yawn. MOTUC’s Panthor looks great. Mattel and the Four Horsemen sure know how to rock those bucks. Unfortunately even the fan projects are getting to be pretty meh. What is exciting me is next year’s Transformers line-up. Can’t wait for new ver...

This time around the collectors clubs hit us over the head with their propaganda. We get tons of information about Masters of the Universe Classics both through a Q and A and boards. Quite a bit new product is starting to hit as well as some great pre-orders. We take a look at FrenzyRumble’s custom Warpath and review WST Ultra Magnus. STAR. WARS. In. The. 3D! Lastly, congratulations to Steve, our...

Rumors and confirmations are running rampant. We got mad Q and A's with Star Wars, Transformers and MOTU representing this week. We talk about some possibly very cool new stands. We rock out with our Millennium Falcons out. Gygor is our review of the week. Famed Star Wars author doing The Transformers Vault? The Horsemen show us perhaps one of the coolest figures ever. Lastly, don't forget to ente...

This week we get back to business. That’s right, TOYS! And unless you’ve been sequestered involuntarily, you know they’re hitting fast and furious. New waves from the big four (well three at least) have been hitting almost every week since SDCC. Believe it or not, we have con news already. KOs and fan made Transformers stuff still dominate the news. We talk about the last couple Matty MOTUC Q and...

Celebration V was AMAZING. It was kind of like Comic-Con with multiple tracks of programming and tons of “celebrities”, but the difference was I wanted to see and do it ALL. My biggest disappointment was that I couldn’t. However, I did do most of the things that were tops on my list. Got to see Mark Hamill and even better, the creator, the big GL . Of course we hit the Hasbro panel with its smatte...

Par for the course it’s about a month after San Diego Comic-Con. We’ve have finally posted photos, videos of the booths and my favorite part, videos of the panels. While I’m sure if you wanted to see them by now you have, but you have you heard them with my drunken “Yeah”s and ”Alright”s? The wrap ups, that’s right wrap ups, 2 of them (there was supposed to be a third, but we have been way too dam...

Par for the course it’s about a month after San Diego Comic-Con. We’ve have finally posted photos, videos of the booths and my favorite part, videos of the panels. While I’m sure if you wanted to see them by now you have, but you have you heard them with my drunken “Yeah”s and ”Alright”s? The wrap ups, that’s right wrap ups, 2 of them (there was supposed to be a third, but we have been way too dam...

Botcon 2010, enough said.

So Botcon, I mean BOTCON! Of course, Botcon is definitely not the only thing going on. Even in these driest of dry times we've still gotta lot to yap about. Of course there's C5 news. We get looks at the newest MOTUC figures. There's lotsa of shady stuff going on, including Toy Fair Lego McQuarrie Boba Fett, Qui-Gon/Eopie mail-away, and fake AFAs? We've even got a G.I. Joe and Matty Q and A to boo...

I registered for Botcon. Did you? What number were you? I didn’t even get close to the first 100, but if feels good to have that done. I’m getting really excited. We talk about all the new guests for C5 and guess how I’ll be spending an extra $60 at SDCC. We highlight the best news from the latest Star Wars and Matty Collector Q and A’s. Not much out there, but we still manage to get a ton o’stuff...

We’ve got a long one to make up for the time we’ve been gone. In con news we talk about Orko and his “accessory”, Prince Adam. We also recap all the new information from Joecon 2010. Are we getting a Rodimus Masterpiece? What about all those Botcon leaks? While new stuff isn’t hitting shelves or pegs, the webs are on fire with pre-orders. Did I mention we actually have a review this week? Too bad...

Have you seen all the new Star Wars Comic Packs? I haven't. Have you seen the latest wave of Clone Wars figures? I haven't. Have you seen...well you get the point. I didn't miss the new Transformers Collector Club exclusives, did you? Fan projects are still dominating transformers. Three words, ANTIQUE FORCE DETAIL! Where's all the Joe and Masters news? Lastly, we're getting an Ikea! WE'RE GETTING...

This time around we discuss all the latest con announcements and chime in on the latest Matty Collector debacle. Do you realize we have used that word to describe Matty almost every single month? There have been tons of new sightings since Toy Fair. Some great new pre-orders have hit including the G.I. Joe Collectors Club’s 3.75 Adventure Team, FansProject’s Warbot Defender (Springer) and the newe...

Toy Fair 2010 has come and gone. We recap the show and talk about some of the stand outs: Transformers' Drift and SDCC Blaster re-issue, G.I. Joe's SDCC Sgt. Slaughter done 25th style, MOTUCs 12" Tytus and SDCC Mo-Larr/Skeletor (sans impacted wisdom tooth) 2-pack, and last but certainly not least Star Wars' Vintage and SDCC Maul Visionaries comic pack complete with mech legs. We also berate some o...

So what exactly do we cover in almost 4 hours of yapping? Well it is beginning to look a lot like Con’ Season everywhere you go. We get a better look at Transformer Collector Club exclusives. Then there is the first okay shot of the BAT-AT. Did you hear we might see a reissue of Predaking, again? That makes me very happy. Ridiculous amounts of toys are hitting pegs and shelves across the country,...

So what exactly do we cover in almost 4 hours of yapping? Well it is beginning to look a lot like Con’ Season everywhere you go. We get a better look at Transformer Collector Club exclusives. Then there is the first okay shot of the BAT-AT. Did you hear we might see a reissue of Predaking, again? That makes me very happy. Ridiculous amounts of toys are hitting pegs and shelves across the country,...

So what exactly do we cover in almost 4 hours of yapping? Well it is beginning to look a lot like Con’ Season everywhere you go. We get a better look at Transformer Collector Club exclusives. Then there is the first okay shot of the BAT-AT. Did you hear we might see a reissue of Predaking, again? That makes me very happy. Ridiculous amounts of toys are hitting pegs and shelves across the country,...