Diamond Select Toys will be offering a “cutaway” version of the original starship Enterprise through retailers across America this summer. The retail price is expected to be around $175. Get more details and see more images at StarTrek.com
I NEED THIS.
Is the big disk area of the Enterprise really just a bunch of empty structural stuff? I honestly thought, like, there were apartments or timeshares or something in there.
Hey, people who care about Star Trek!
I believe strongly that every television show opener ever should be redubbed with the Perfect Strangers theme.
By Chris sims
Q: Has there ever been a Punisher toy line? If not, what kind of vehicles or Punisher toys could you come up with? — @Protoculture27
A: Back when I was still buying action figures that weren’t Destro, I always kept an eye out for Punisher figures, but unfortunately, he’s never been able to carry a full line of toys himself. And really, I can see why: You might be able to get a few variations out of Frank Castle himself, the rest of the line would pretty much consist of Microchip, Jigsaw, and maybe an “army builder” box full of dead mobsters that you could pile up around him. That’s about as far as you could go with it. There just aren’t enough recurring characters to fill out an entire line.
Of course, there’s also the fact that the Punisher is a guy who straight up murders people all the time, and that can be a difficult sell to parents out doing their Christmas shopping.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that there haven’t been any Punisher figures. There are plenty, mostly because the Punisher hit the high point of his popularity during a time when Marvel Comics was owned by a toy company, and as we all learned from America’s daring, highly trained Special Missions Force nothing quite appeals to the kids like an action figure of a guy who comes with his weight in guns, especially if they actually fire!
That’s the thing about Punisher figures : As much as I love the character he is the last person that should ever be made into a toy for children. The best thing you can say about him is that he fights bad guys, but even at his absolute best, he’s a guy who does nothing but kill other people, and he does it constantly, because he hates them. It is completely insane that someone would make a toy of that, but they did, and the fact that these exist will never stop being hilarious.
Much more on this at ComicsAlliance.
Lego Reveals More Upcoming ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Sets
By Caleb GoellnerThe New York Comic Con reveal of Lego’s new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series was a welcome sight to fans who either weren’t sold on the prior Mega Bloks brick toys, or missed them entirely. Judging by the reveal of multiple new TMNT Lego sets scheduled to arrive in 2013, the toys will also prove a huge boon to what is surely a near-nonexistent group of Lego pizza collectors (the 1994 “Pizza to Go” set started me off on a dark path as a kid!). Joining the previously-revealed Shellraiser will be sets featuring Shredder, the Kraang, Fishface, April O’Neil, Baxter Stockman, Splinter, mousers and all kinds of Foot Clan ninjas. The hallmark of the line is easily the Sewer Lair playset, though. It’s got almost all the playability of Playmates’ massive TMNT HQ, at a much more manageable size for fans who may or may not have much space left in their residence for more plastic mutants.
Check out the rest of the TMNT Lego sets on ComicsAlliance!
you mean i can get a set with april AND donatello AND raphael AND baxter stockman AND a giant robot for baxter stockman???
Our new place has a basement, and I’m finally putting some toys up on shelves down there. And now that I have somewhat adequate lighting down there as well, here are some photos I won’t indecisively take down thirty seconds later.
When I came home from my boat, there was a bounty of toys waiting for me! Here’s one with his Past Self.
News - TNG season 8? StarTrek.com has exclusive details about an upcoming satirical book exploring the unaired 8th season!
We know you loved season eight of Star Trek: The Next Generation and have been waiting patiently for a detailed guide chronicling each and every episode of that memorable year. Wait. Before you bombardStarTrek.com and/or our Facebook page with comments, go with us on this. Imagine there had been a season eight. What would it have been like? Now imagine that there’s a guide, and a satirical /mockumentary-style one at that. Put it all together and you’ve got Star Trek: The Next Generation - Warped, An Engaging Guide to the Never-Aired 8th Season, written by Mike McMahan and due out on March 3, 2015 as a Gallery Books trade paperback and eBook.
Here’s the full synopsis from the publisher:
On Twitter, Star Trek: The Next Generation lives on for one more season in the form of @TNG_S8—a satirical eighth season that never aired! Each tweet to its more than 85,000 followers (and retweeted four times that amount) is a hilarious recap and spot-on exaggeration of one of the most beloved TV series ever aired. Now, @TNG_S8 creator Mike McMahan presents an officially licensed mockumentary-style book-length “episode guide” to Season 8. With colorful illustrations by Joel Watson of the HijiNKS ENSUE webcomic, and Jason Ho, longtime artist at Bongo Comics (publisher of the comic book versions of The Simpsons and Futurama), each “episode” contains plot descriptions, trivia, aliens new and old, set photos, and behind-the-sceneslooks at the troubled production. This book will appeal to casual and obsessive fans alike, keeping the world of the show intact while hilariously exaggerating it.
"I thought it would be fun to create an artifact from an alternate version of our universe: a tongue-in-cheek guide to the production of an — admittedly silly — season of TNG." McMahan told StarTrek.com. “I had a great time taking the tone of the jokes in @TNG_S8 and applying them to the expanded format of a guide, which gave me room for crazier episodes, dialogue, trivia, and plenty of Riker. I hope fans enjoy laughing with Geordi, Data, Worf and good old Barclay as much as I enjoyed writing their antics.”
Keep an eye on StarTrek.com for additional details about Star Trek: The Next Generation - Warped.
Wesley Crusher turning into a girl.
are there star trek mangas that I’m not reading where shit like this happens.
Star Trek manga, whut?!
Riker is totally into this.
I dearly love Star Trek: The Next Generation. I started watching it with the very first season in 1987. The same year, incidentally, as I started watching Doctor Who. I was eight years old. And they both warped molded my brain forever. In wonderful ways, mostly. I’ve been re-watching the TNG episodes on the uniformly brilliant Blu Rays. I just got to the episode Time Squared, which I remember liking a lot as a kid. And I was struck by how bizarre the opening scene is.
So, Riker is setting up dinner. Is it a romantic get together with his Imzadi?*
*Yes, I realize there are too many dollar store transparent blue plates for that to make sense, but I wasn’t staring at a still image at the time!
Anyway, he’s actually making Dinner (Brunch? Breakfast? It’s hard to tell in space) for Worf, Dr. Pulaski, Data and Geordi. He opens up an art department-colored egg and gets to whippin’.
The gang comes in, each of them with a vital component to the dinner, all Stone Soup-like. Dr. Pulaski has brought some ale (?) because Riker’s omelettes deserve no less. Ale and omelettes? I mean, I guess it’s the future, folks. Maybe that makes sense. And this really could be brunch. It’s just the lighting on the ship really throws me off and feels like dinner.
So, Riker gets to making his omelettes as the crew basically fill time during the pre-credit sequence talking about the lost art of breaking bread, blah blah blah. It is important to note (for later) that Riker specifically talks about how the replicator can’t mimic a good cook because it lacks the human flair that pre-programmed recipes with their perfect proportions lack. Anyway… Data looks a bit confused…
Which, I don’t blame him for. Because Riker adds absolutely NOTHING to these “omelettes”…
And then he stats breaking the grayish-yellow cooked eggs all up. These are not omelettes, my friends. These are scrambled eggs! Scrambled eggs without any apparent salt or pepper! Now, it did occur to me that maybe omelettes are made differently all over the world. And maybe somewhere omelettes are made without any toppings or spices and crumbled up like scrambled eggs? I actually tried to look this up through Google and could find no such mention. Omelettes are made all sorts of ways, but they all involve SOME sort of toppings. And they aren’t scrambled. But that’s not the weirdest part…
Everyone but Worf hates them. Geordi asks where the eggs came from, and Riker says they are Owan eggs that he just picked up from the last star base. The implication is that he has never actually tried these eggs himself.
So, to recap:
The Enterprise-D crew got together for (what really feels like) dinner, and in Riker’s mind the perfect meal to make for his friends consisted of nothing but plain, un-spiced scrambled eggs that he’s calling an omelette, using eggs he’s never tasted himself. No wonder Pulaski brought the ale!
Probably best to let the replicator handle it, Commander.
Riker is my kind of cook.
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Who is your dad, now?
I WILL reblog this video every damn time I see it because this kids is A GENIUS
