There’s toy news this week as well as the second part of my Heroes and Villains experience- let’s dive right in! The second day at Heroes and Villains was as awesome as the first, this […]
Way back in January, I was excited to go to the inaugural NY/NJ Heroes and Villains Fan Fest held at the Meadowlands Convention Center. I had purchased my ticket to the show on Black Friday […]
While at EternalCon two weekends ago, Justin and I walked around and saw many vendors with old toys, including some with figures from the old 5″ Toy Biz lines. Toy Biz was one of the […]
This week’s issue of the Weekly Planet is dedicated to the huge crossover events that have defined DC and Marvel comics for the past three decades. In that vein, this week’s column is dedicated to […]
It is convention season as comic cons will begin their summer reign as soon as this weekend. MegaCon is taking place in Florida over this coming Memorial Day weekend, next weekend is Wizard World Philadelphia […]
This week’s issue of the Weekly Planet is an all-villain issue, so this column is a tribute to some of the bad guys and gals of the toybox. Whether they originated in the movies, TV […]
Hey readers, we’ve got some cool stuff in this week including a couple of new Hot Toys, some eagerly anticipated Funko POP figures and I’ve got some cool toy news to share as well. Our […]
It is a fairly light week in FP’s toy department. There are a few items on their way in to us however and I’ll tell you about them now. It’s also our 500th issue of […]
Marvel’s got a massive movie coming out this May which is essentially as close to an Avengers film without actually being one. I am of course talking about Captain America 3: Civil War. Marvel is […]
She’s here! Actually that phrase applies to a couple of items we have received over the past week and a half. I mentioned in last week’s article that we’d gotten our shipping notice for the […]
This week’s column continues the Toy Fair excitement and this time around, we will look at the various Marvel action figures heading our way this year. Hasbro, Mezco and Diamond Select lead the pack for […]
It’s a relatively light toy week at the Planet, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to talk about some of the forthcoming product that we’ve already seen before Toy Fair reveals the rest of […]
Hi Readers! As you know and probably lived through, we had a horrendous winter storm in NYC this past weekend and thus my planned column on the Heroes and Villains Fan Fest that took place […]
As we get further and further away from the beginning of the year the toy releases are starting to trickle in slowly. I’ve got some intel on what Hot Toys we should be getting within […]
There’s just one shopping weekend left til Christmas and this one is full of DC Collectibles goodness. There have also been a few new things out within the last couple of days that I will […]
There’s plenty of new product to discuss this week including more from Funko, a new series of Marvel Legends and more. As I write this I have just finished receiving some new POP figures from […]
Hey readers, I still haven’t completely gotten over Yvonne Craig’s death, but I am coping. Since last week’s column, they’ve announced more new Batman ’66 merchandise featuring Batgirl including Funko’s Vinyl Idolz figures which will […]
It’s another new release Wednesday here at the Planet and there’s some cool stuff coming in this week and beyond. Let’s talk about the toys coming out this week first and then I’ll talk a […]
Greetings toy fans and column readers! I’m writing this from a house in the woods in upstate New York as I take a well-needed break from the hustle and bustle of the city. I still […]
Hello readers, it’s a new month here at Forbidden Planet and we’ve got some cool new toys coming in this week. Almost all the new toys releasing this week are characters from motion pictures past […]
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