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Chang31ings

Comic creator David (“The British Manara”) Gordon and his partner Lesley have a new page and if you are into action figures -exclusive ones- check it out!! Chang31ings dolls has a page up…please support it https://www.facebook.com/Chang31ings Plenty of photos of figures!!!

New Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn Limited-Edition Statue

New Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn Limited-Edition Statue Statue Reveal & Pre-order on November 2nd     Tempe, Ariz.— October 31, 2012 – McFarlane Toys has teamed up with Microsoft Studios and 343 Industries to bring you a new iconic collectable from the Halo universe.   Leading up to the highly anticipated release of Halo [...]

Cut & Thrust Wargaming Up-Date

This just in from Tom Kolodotschko: Hi all, Just to keep you up to date a little. I am currently working on the site for Cut & Thrust but it will still be a while before it is fully up, hopefully make some good headway on it this coming week so you should have a [...]

Cut & Thrust Wargaming

 I was on the No.24 bus going to do my shopping when I noticed that the rather imposing building in Old Market that I keep passing had a new sign:Cut & Thrust Wargaming” -which would catch my eye.  Got home and checked it out online: “Cut and Thrust Wargaming is a new, 3 storey, table [...]

Raje Toys??

Need some help here. After I announced that CBO WOULD start reviewing comic related or inspired toys I got a few emails.  Here we go: 1] No,I have no idea whether Wizkids are relaunching Heroclix but I’ll check! 2] Role Playing Games -open to that. 3] Nothing new yet?  Well,I’m willing to review but I [...]

Space Patrol Orion Figures

Now,I’ve done a couple articles on CBO about the 1960s German TV show,Raumpatrouille Orion [Space Patrol Orion].  There was my translated comic strip on CBO from this series.  I even mentioned the figures that were due out…but nothing appeared! Now,as you’ll see from the above photo,they have.  Problem is,they’ll cost you 179+ Euros or £170+ [...]

Jack Staff -The Action Figure!

Being a double-dumb-bum I realised that there is a toy item related to the Weird World Of Jack Staff review…a Jack Staff action figure!  On the WWOJS Face Book page: I am hoping to have some to sell at the Bristol Comic Expo in May, and I can do a bit of mail order on [...]

Wanna See The Surface Of The Moon?

Pete,owner of the best Major Matt Mason Yahoo group you’ll ever find [check blogroll] has sent me a link to his Flikr page with the MMM moonscape he set up and photographed. Uber cool…or am I just an overgrown kid? Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/26616927@N02/sets/72157619015474233/

For Big ‘Kids’ Everywhere!

I know I’ve mentioned Major Matt Mattell and the Yahoo group but the guy running it has a fantastic collection of classic toys that I’m sure more than a few of you will drool over!  He has 5 pages of photos on Flickr which I will recommend. Don’t drool over the monitor! http://www.flickr.com/photos/26616927@N02/

Who Plays With The Watchmen…

..or are you sad and store the figures away in their boxes,in a cupboard to,uh,”accrue value”? I make an exception [since companies don't send the items they usually don't get publicised ] by showing you the range of Watchmen action figures [no Dr Manhattan figure yet] due out in January/February 2009 from DC.  You can find [...]