Collectors tend to keep their toys in the boxes, but if they want them so much why won’t they open them? As I get older the better I take care of my collection. Some of it comes from buying most of all on my own, so because I don’t want to hunt down a replacement....

From time to time collectors and people shopping for collectors wonder if a new comic shop is worth checking out, but it can be a scary endeavor.  Join me once again as I ramble on about the world of collecting, this week talking about shopping at comic shops. They are not all the same, and...

The question every collectors asks from time to time. Sometimes we stay strong, but most of the time we give in.  Money is usually the main factor but looking around my office I am surrounded by toys. So many now I am starting to wonder what I have in all these boxes. So with some...

Marvel’s Contest of Champions has been going strong for 3 years, and shows no sign of slowing down.  There are a lot of choices out there for mobile games, so it is up to the designers to make sure to keep up with content and challenges. Marvel Contest of Champions has been keep up and...

At Hascon we talked with the Hasbro Star Wars team to talk Black Series and beyond.  There are toys and then there is Star Wars, the toy line that just won’t stop. The modern toy lines all have Star Wars to thank for the space in the toy aisles. It is clear that there is...

The whole Hasbro Marvel team talked Marvel and whats coming down the line for Marvel Legends fans at the first Hascon. There was a lot more revealed at Hascon, then we expected after seeing the slate of Cons the team was going to over the next few months. They came to show off the line,...

There is no doubt a return to a collectors market with the Transformers line, and the Hasbro Transformers team talked all about what lead to this trend.  Hasbro pulled out all the stops at Hascon this year for all it’s line, and the common theme was a big return to collectors line. In past years...

We had the chance to talk to the guys behind the Star Wars lines at SDCC and find out how the line has changed and grown over the years.  We caught up with Joe and Steve, two guys at Hasbro who’s love for Star Wars goes beyond toy designers, they are fans like us. Over...

Transformers is about to wrap up year 3 with Power of the Primes with the return of Rodimus Prime, finally being part of the Generations lineup.  We had the chance to talk with Leonard Panzica from the Transformers design team, to see how the line has changed trough the years. Talking with Leonard we touched on...

After all the SDCC reveals we had a chance to talk with Senior Design Manger for Hasbro Marvel Legends, Dwight Stall, to talk about the future of the line.  Throughout the week at SDCC the Marvel Team was updating the cases daily, starting out with everything about to hit shelves, and ending with previewing the...