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TOUMA's SLITHER vinyl-snake autographed in metallic green ink @ The Singapore Toy & Comic Convention 2008 (circa June 29th) *Note: this is a gratuitous image-post- CLICK THRU FOR MORE

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I remember very clearly one week ago this Monday, I was writhing in pain, from my aching thighs, knees and calfs - wrought from going down on my knees for the umptieth time - to snap me some pictures of toys on display at lower-shelves (remember to do your warm-ups next time kids!) - the few days prior, leading up the weekend that was the whirlwind vortex that was the first ever (and my first

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If you are one of the lucky many who'd held unto your "Passports" for the Singapore Toy & Comic Convention PASSPORT PROGRAM when you claimed your freebies [WHAT IS] - you're still in for a variety of treats well after the Convention had ended last weekend (or at least til 31st of July 2008 - when it expires) with promotions with a select group of stores specialixing in toys, designer vinyls,

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And so I got a "Media-Pass" for the recent Singapore Toy & Comic Convention last weekend just (making the "Official Online Media"-tag pretty redundant actually), and with it a certain sense of responsibility (to my readers), as well as an acknowledged seemingly false sense of expectations based on my wild imaginations, ludicrous on hindsight now actually = READ-ON! FREE SWAG: - For this I cannot

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A BOOKWORM BABY TREESON joins the Treeson Family by way of a brand new limited special box set of Bubi Au Yeung's (first book) "Treeson & Other Stories" (我愛樹仔) published by China Times Publishing Company - with the box set including a Treeson greencard and the "Treeson & Other Stories" story / picture-book - limited to 500 sets and is slated for a July 2008-release. It is availabl in Taiwan only

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Frankly, I'm more jazzed about watching HELLBOY2 than The Dark Knight. The trailers on heavy-rotation on Singapore-TV make it nigh attractive, it does, and July 10th is literally just next week! Altho I haveta say, the toys are looking spiffy, especially with Mezco's 7-inchers (altho I'd still prefer their earlier more stylized Mignola-design themed series, IMHO) and 18-incher (last seen @ NYCC)

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One week ago today I was knee-deep at STCC'08 - and what happened within a week? Well, with a coupla weeks more to The Dark Knight's premiere on July 18th, a new online viral featuring The Joker's TO DO LIST had happened (peep SHH - which I totally missed) and yielded a new macabre DK-Poster (cheers for the headsup, Noferin!) ... Hot Toys officially announced their 1/6th-scaled Tumbler, Bat-pod

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are fake. or rather fan-made instead of "officially released" - made specifically by "Marobot" as reported by TLAMB (I'm still holding out on my cybord-assimilation poster meself :p) but they managed to make me wanna go peep my Transformers movie DVD again, so that's pretty "effective" in and of itself, IMHO. heh.

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So what did BERTIE REALLY SEE? Well, these following submissions show different options of what Bertie sees and it's up to YOU to VOTE for the one you like the most! And you have until 12th July (by 11:59pm UGT/GMT+8hours Singapore time) to do it, whereby the picture with the most votes will win an original sketch by Ashley Wood! State the number you're voting for in the comments section of THIS

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David Lanham's 7"-tall ZOG creation [tagged] moves from wax models to full colored images [via] featuring the Regular/Original Purple marshmellow-chasing ZOG (gotta dig the white soul-patch LOL) and the Frank Kozik SDCC-variant Redrum-colorway MURDER ZOOOOOOOOOOOG (*fill in your own echo-into-infinity sound effect*) - slated for a San Diego Comic Con debut @ Strangekiss's Booth #4637 (will also

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UPPER DECKS' All-Star Vinyl Figures [www] were spotted in their glory at last week's Singapore Toy & Comic Convention - with Football, Baseball, Basketball and Hockey in near quasi-full-force - which unfortunately were just only displays, and not available for individual sales/purchase ... It remains to be seen if they will ever be available on Singapore's toy-shelves tho ... meanwhile CLICK

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WHAT ARE STIFLES? "The Stifles are little creatures who spend all of their time kneeling and watching human activities. their favorite spots are public spaces. they also love to get taken around by you since they won't move by themselves. it is not known where they originally came from, but they seem to have adopted certain aspects of human culture. büro destruct reveals the first series of 8

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I watched my first (near) full episode of BEN10 [wiki] today on the telly. Via pure happenstance I clicked unto the kids' channel this Saturday morning and watched Ben dial and transform into a multitude of super-powered Omnitrix characters (reminds me loads of "Dial-H-For-HERO" tho) ... and I remembered also standing, transfixed at both 12-incher tall EPIC Alien Figures FOUR ARMS and HEATBLAST

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OOPS? Looks like I jumped the gun 24hours early! Reader tw.ah.c clued me in on my dateline faux par for the WHAT DID BERTIE SEE? Photo-contest to win an original Ashley Wood-sketch. The "actual" dateline is for submissions to be mailed into toysrevil [at] gmail [dot] com BEFORE the second hand ticks past 11:59pm / 2359hrs (+ 8 hrs GMT - Singapore Time) on July 5th = TODAY. So keep your

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Looks like it's all gone to Sith, with DARTH SIDIOUS being the first Flashdrive-design from Star Wars Mimobot Series 3 [tagged] to be revealed on NOTCOT (image via) - featuring a more realistic depiction / portraiture of the Sith-lord, as opposed to stylized super-deform-cuteness of Series 2 (IMHO). 3-more designs to go until it's full reveal at the San Diego Comic Con 2008 on July 23.

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Coarse Toys drops word that their "CHOPPER" Edition of 1:3 FLAKE vinyl figure is now on preorder @ rotofugi.com @ a SRP of US$290 (total). Designed by Mark Landwehr and standing a whopping 25-inches tall, "Chopper-Flake" is strictly limited to 200 pcs - and was initially sold exclusively at the Vans in store Berlin/Germany/Europe. Now a few are made available for global distribution, and

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Taiwan's Phalanx Studio will be having a Toy Charity event called "MY HERO, MY LEGEND" [www] during this year's Taipei Toy Festival - to help raise funds to benefit the people from the Sichuan earthquake in China a few months ago. "My Hero, My Legend" is a conceptual project utilizing a platform figure (designed by Mark Cheng) for a variety of participating artists to interpret their version /

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Jamie/LJ drops word of Paradise Toyland's coming exclusive offerings for Taipei Toy Festival - including InTheYellow's 16-cm tall Glow-In-The-Dark MECHA SAD BEAR by Luke Chueh [blogged] and Joe Ledbetter's MONO HAMMERHEAD [blogged] and GAMERITA (shown below / via). Kaijin's STEEL FAIRIES from Fewmany (above-right) will also be made available @ a SRP of NT.1300 (US$x)- limited to 50-pcs at

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Peep EASY HEY's KID ONION figure currently on display @ "Bread and Butter" in Barcelona [via] in a multiple of colorways and who has actually appeared in numerous forms prior to toys (which incidentally looks quite like Jam Factory's Sweetie DROPLET-form, innit?) - on drawings and even as a Dunny skin-design! Slated for an October-release, Easy Hey's sneaker-wearing Kid Onion is the second

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With a name like "CHAOS MONKEY" - Im undecided whether this be a monkey folks should be scared of, or look forward to LOL - created by French-designer BUNKA - based on his character-design seen in numerous print and 2-D artwork (most notably the recent art-combo show WE ARE CHAOS! with Niark1) - now seen as hand-painted prototypes on display @ "Bread and Butter" [via] - a glimpse of an upcoming

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The "final" preview of Rocket World's line-up for SDCC'08 is of the IWG ASTRO KRIEG MINI FIGURES - in 4 Space Suit colorways: Covert Space Pirate Black with Laser Green Bubble Helmet / Classic Galactic Silver with Ice Clear Bubble Helmet / New World Eco-Green with Laser Orange Bubble Helmet - as well as a SDCC08-Exclusive Moon Glow in the Dark with Ice Clear Bubble Helmet (limited to 100-pcs only

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UNKLBrand releases some info about their upcoming SDCC'08 release schedule: Thursday, JULY 24 SUG H60 in two colorways (pic shown below via Spankystokes) - Green (350 produced) @ US$80 - Blue (150 produced) @ US$100 UlliGUS H60 in two colorways (no pics) - Green (350 produced) @ US$40 - Blue (150 produced) @ US$60   Friday, JULY 25 MaK.Po Green (400 produced) @ $150 [peep] MaK.Po Orange (100

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*bleeding scarlet* be the color of choice for 2008's SDCC-Exclusive INVISIBLE BUD from Jamungo x Threezero - the clear "stealth" mask of yesteryear now runs red cowled within a dark-grey camo parka = *delish* *stay tuned for further product details of this 9-incher BUD*

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PINK IS THY COLOR OF ANARCHY! Well, at least for this coming SDCC-2008 for Jamungo with their interpretation of Frank Kozik's ANARCHY icon made 3-dimensional (part of Kozik's exclusives) Earlier reports has it around 8" tall with multiple GID-versions of this sculpt, which can be detached from it's base and hung from the wall via a TM molded out back. *stay tuned for further product details*

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In addition to Bambalandstore.com - you are now able to procure both Desert Rat and Dirty Deeds Variants of BERTIE The Pipebomb at Sideshow Toys (click on links) - along with a spiffy product description: "Imagine a WWII Sherman tank crossed with a maniacal killbot who has a particular passion for destruction… Bertie is 14.5” tall and has 46 points of articulation down to the tips of his fingers

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