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Cut & Thrust Wargaming Up-Date

July 24, 2010 – 3:17 am

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 [...]

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Cut & Thrust Wargaming

June 19, 2010 – 6:56 am

 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 [...]

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Raje Toys??

May 14, 2010 – 6:17 am

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 [...]

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Space Patrol Orion Figures

May 1, 2010 – 2:49 am

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+ [...]

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Jack Staff -The Action Figure!

March 5, 2010 – 9:52 am

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 [...]

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Wanna See The Surface Of The Moon?

June 1, 2009 – 1:18 pm

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/

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For Big ‘Kids’ Everywhere!

April 19, 2009 – 5:48 pm

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/

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Who Plays With The Watchmen…

August 7, 2008 – 12:51 pm

..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 [...]

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New DC Comic Figurine Collectibles

March 13, 2008 – 11:17 am

Well,if you’ve been collecting the magazines with the Marvel Comics figurines you’ll be interested to know that there is now a magazine from Eaglemoss with DC figures! The magazine site where you can get more info is: http://www.eaglemoss.com/dc/magazine.html These look very nice and you can get… SUPERMAN BATMAN THE FLASH And my all-time favourite after [...]

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Nostalgia for Old Boys!

February 28, 2008 – 4:34 pm

It seems my little item on the Swoppet Captain Scarlet raised a few tears of nostalgia from some oldies out there!  The question was raised re. the size of the figures.  There are two main sizes -1/72nd scale is between 23-25mm in height or,if an old Airfix collector “Ho/00” -and there are MANY sets out [...]

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