Toy Tribute: Galoob Star Trek: The Next Generation Aliens

With the release of Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-ray, it's a good time to revisit the too-often overlooked TNG line from Galoob. With excellent sculpts based on Season 1 character designs and a 3 3/4" scale that's relatively uncharacteristic for Star Trek, the Galoob line was awesome in its own right but was completely overshadowed by the insanely successful Playmates line. I've already covered the Starfleet officers released in this scale, but let's take a look at the super-rare aliens!

Movie Review: Star Wars The Phantom Menace 3D

When Lucasfilm announced that they were releasing yet another version of the Star Wars movies in theaters, this time in 3D, I swore that I would boycott them all. Especially the Prequels. Anything beyond the Original Trilogy is dead to me now and the whole 3D fad is overplayed, overhyped, and pointless. But the ghost of fandom past pulled me into the theaters and I succumbed.

Toy Review: Green Lantern Movie Voz and G'Hu (4"-scale)

Although the 4" Green Lantern movie figures were almost universally panned, I loved them. There was something about them that was inescapably toy-like, much more so than the supposedly “better” lines like Thor and Captain America. Besides, the alien designs were some of the coolest I had seen in years.  That added up to a line that was a load of fun... for this collector, at least.

Toy Pix: Lobot, Then and Now

My opinion of Lobot has changed dramatically over the years. The Bespin environment wasn't particularly exciting to me as a kid because it seemed to rebel against the distinctive "used universe" look other Star Wars planets. The costumes of its inhabitants weren't very heroic or science-fictiony, either. So I wasn't particularly interested in any Bespin-related action figures, especially Lobot.

Toy Review: ThinkGeek Plush Enterprise

Now this one is out of left field. When I saw this plush Enterprise on ThinkGeek.com, I thought it was such an unconventional piece that I just had to pick it up. Plush toys aren't new to Star Trek as they've done a few times before like the creepy Knickerbocker Kirk and Spock from the Motion Picture. But a plush Federation Starship? It's going where no collectible has gone before! Let's take a closer look.

Toy Pix: King Kong Mini-Figure

Prepare yourself for Mini-Figure Mayhem, a new feature here at the Dork Dimension! Inspired by the super-awesome Figure Fotos over at MinifiguresXD (also known as Toypedia), I thought this would be a great way to showcase those few hundred mini-figures that are so often overlooked in my collection. Let's start with this interesting little King Kong that I found in the "garbage bin" at a comic shop last week.

Toy Review: Vintage Collection Logray

Logray was a special figure for me back in the vintage Star Wars days. He and Chief Chirpa were the first Ewoks released in Kenner's ROTJ line and because Lucasfilm wanted to maintain some degree of secrecy regarding the Ewoks, they were blacked out on the first ROTJ card backs. But I remember if you angled the card just right, you could just barely see their outlines. Of course, that made both Ewoks that much more desirable and cemented Logray as one of the coolest figures in the vintage line... for this dork, at least.