Mr. Rant & the cardboard Ford Explorer
I didn’t much feel like ranting this week, that’s how you can tell I’ve been sick. But then something happened on Tuesday that spurred me to the site for at least one brief spiel. Hold onto your hats, this will go quick.
Jurassic Park toys. Apparently, this line has been hanging onto the fringe of the toy world through KB Toys exclusives ever since the last movie. I didn’t realize this until recently when the line was “revived” by Hasbro as a Toys R Us exclusive. Seems like Hasbro, at least with this line, has really mastered the art of taking decade old molds of dinosaurs, repainting them god awful neon colors, and re-releasing them every few years. Kudos to them, I guess…
You could say Tri-Klops is the first hassle-free MOTU figure since He-Man and Beast Man. He didn't sell out in a matter of minutes. He didn't invoke the red screen of doom. He doesn't have soaring secondary market prices. He was up, he sold, and he lasted for a few days. Spiffy, huh? We're not sure what the production level on Tri-Klops was, but we know it was the highest yet. I'm interested to see what next month, Webstor, and the subscription kicking off brings. 
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…