This year at ACE a bunch of artists were given Munnys to customize at the show. Andy Runton and I teamed up on a Munny and Munny Mobile based on this guy with flowers in his mouth. This little guy along with the mobile and tons of other Munnys will be actioned off sometime soon with the real money going to RIF.
3 more robots that I got for my Birthday from my sister. I left these guys in plastic because I couldn’t bring myself to eat them. My son, on the other hand, has had no problems devouring 2 of them. You can order yourself some Robopops from Hearth Song magazine where they say:
Pop a robot pop in your mouth, and it fills your mouth with fabulous fruity flavors that really POP. A super solution for Easter baskets, the set of three candy contraptions includes orange, apple, and blueberry flavors.
He never mentioned that they poped like pop rocks, maybe I’ll have to try the last one.
While you’re ordering why not pic up a Sky Rocket or Space Blaster.
These guys are made by super cool toy makers Rocket USA.
According to their website they say if you can draw it they can make it. FAO Schwarz now offers custom stuffed animals based on your childs drawing. One of a kind stuffed animal and it’ll only cost you two hundred and fourty nine dollarinos.
While your there why not pick up a few of Brian Froud’s Goblins. I still wish I had a copy of his The World of the Dark Crystal book.
While we’re talking about Mr. Froud and the Dark Crystal, did you know they are making a sequal? The Power of the Dark Crystal! I know!! And Mr. Froud is all over it along with Genndy Tartakovsky!
Edit: Like a big dum dum I forgot to mention the new Dark Crystal graphic novel series by Tokyopop. It’s Legend’s of The Dark Crystal and it’s a prequel to the original Dark Crystal movie.
I checked out early. I am driving home and forcing my wife to blog for me so I do not lose a bet. I bought some of these Whirl-O’s on the way out of the show from RocketUSA.
The 30th anniversary of the death of Elvis is coming up on August 16th. It’s a pretty big deal and they’ll be doing all sorts of crazy stuff in Memphis, Tennessee. I’m an Elvis fan but not a real big one. I just basically like the theory that he faked his death and is still out there some place. That concept was covered nicely in the film Bubba Ho-Tep played by the always amaziningly funny (pre Burn Notice) Bruce Campbell.
So anyway, I really didn’t know about the 30th anniversary until I heard about it from Chris Staros. Who is a gigantic Elvis fan, probably the biggest that you’d run across at any comic book convention. He said he liked the Buba Ho-Tep movie and when I ran across this action figure (Wizard World is covered with toy booths) from NECA I had to buy it for him. It’ll probably end up in a box in the Top Shelf warehouse but it’s the thought that counts. It’s actually a pretty neat sculpt.
Being a semi-Elvis fan I’m glad I was able to draw my version of dead Elvis for the Recalcitrant Jones and the Deadbeats comic in Students of the Unusual. I actually dressed up as dead Elvis for Halloween about 10 years ago. No I will not post a picture of it.
Internet surfing is bad. I was just looking for info about the Kermit Swamp Years movie and stumble upon this. 
A dvd set full of old skits with some of the characters and cast that aren’t used today. Finally my son will know who that funny little man is in his Sesame Street Playset. Oh and Roosevelt T Franklin also.
Fingers crossed it’ll have some Sam The Robot on it. I still haven’t gotten the The Best of The Electric Company Box Set and yet to locate the Kermit movie. I’ll just have to Amazon it.
www.muppetcentral.com is loaded with information.
Sergio Peruyera over at Schylling Toys gave me the scoop on those “Marvel Fighters”.
“Here is what those Marvel Fighters are.They are made of tin and the handle of them fits in your palm. When you squeeze it, the figures move from left to right…like they are fighting. It’s Battles and Team-ups so, there are 3 ‘vs’ fighters, 2 ‘team-up’ fighters and 1 ‘big villian/little heroes’ fighter. I’ve attached a picture of what one actually looks like.”
He informed me the images I posted are prototypes, that’s what I get for swiping and not taking my own pics. I’ll say this, Schylling has some killer package design!
Also here are some pics of the Marvel Jack in The Boxes in their final forms. Thanks Sergio!
So I’m at our local Maste General Store with my dad checking out the tin toys and egle eyed dad spots this. 
It’s an ultra cool tin friction Spiderman car with old school illustrations. Even has bullet holes in the roof where the crooks have taking a couple of shots at our friendly neighborhood Spidey. I wanted it but I thought it would be expensive. My dad said it would be 10 bucks and I bet it would be more. So we bet each other and the loser had to buy it. Yes I lost and yes it was only 10 smak-a-ronnies. The box is cool also, but I’ll let you enjoy that part.
So after enjoying it and all the neat detailing I decided to blog about it and went to swipe a picture from the Schylling website. Well that’s when I saw these fellas. Check out the backs of the lids! Yes Foster will so be having an Old School Spiderman Jack In The box.
Captain America Jack In The Box
No it doesn’t stop there. They’ve got a few more Marvel items. Including whatever the heck these finger fighters are. “The battles between good and evil continue with these Classic Marvel characters • Squeeze the handle and the heroes battle it out with their nemesis’” Captain America and Iron Man nemesis, maybe someone was reading “Civil War” when they put these together. But Thing and Hulk nemesis? OK I guess if you count the time when Wolvie carved up Things face and he wore that bucket on his head for a year. Stick to the tin toy business Schylling.
