Mr. Rant’s says, “Stop releasing so much at once!”

Dear Matty, Congratulations on another great showing at San Diego. Again, you’ve seen fit to tempt us with the delicious candy of your SDCC reveals. Every year, we look forward to being teased by images from the con that will keep us watching our calendars and toy sightings forums for the next few months.

Particularly, I love the product that you and the Four Horsemen have planned for MOTU Classics and DC Classics. I’m down with just collecting those two toy lines, but I might not be able to afford to pick up both.



ItsAllTrueReview: 7th Kingdom Akkuli (SDCC Week Continues!)

When you can't attend SDCC, you usually spend the next couple weeks anxiously anticipating the exclusives from the show making their way to you. That's how I've spent the last few days. Starting with the middle of last week and continuing into this week, I've come home every day to find a new package on my doorstep. I don't normally pick up as many exclusives as I did this year, but SDCC seemed to offer a neverending supply of interesting things this time around. You've already seen my review for the Ghostbusters Video Games Minimates and He-Ro. Today, ItsAllTrue's SDCC Exclusive Week brings something a little different: Akkuli from the Four Horsemen's Seventh Kingdom toy line.

MOTUClassics.Com: He-Ro Review (SDCC)

He-Ro is the first MOTU Classics figure that doesn't have a childhood connection for me. I didn't have the original versions of all the previous MOTU Classics releases, but I knew about them as a kid. He-Ro's an exception because his vintage version never reached store shelves. Very little is known about the character, just bits and pieces that have leaked out of Mattel since he went into toy limbo. He was an ancestor of He-Man from Pre-Eternia, got to ride around on cyborg dinosaurs, and was going to be used to reveal the origin of the Powers of Grayskull. Pretty cool, right? But it never got a chance to bear out because the line was cancelled. The last mini-comic, featuring He-Ro in a small capacity, left fans and He-Man asking the same question, "but who is he?"

Most Requested Figures: JLU Toyman

Sometimes as toy collectors, we can look across our displays and only see the toys that aren’t there. They are the missing figures. The characters toy companies never got around to, never thought were important enough, or worse – the figures companies felt the need to show us at comicon in the “We’re Never Gonna Make These” case. Saturdays are for these figures...