Beyond My Geeky Life

 Mattel has put out a new series of Masters of the Universe toys called the Origin collection. They are taking the classics figure, adding more articulation and some slight cosmetic changes, but making sure they have the basic aesthetics of the original figures.  It is a great collections. Leave it up to a fan to go and really makes something awesome with the collection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fHmubBPJnA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBDYMRueM4k Those are unofficial commercials for the new line done in the style of toys commercials from the 80s. That is just awesome. With modern technology fans really can do so much in the way of being creative. With all the toxicness I see on youtube from so many, it is really pleasant to see something like this. It is celebrating and having fun with a fandom in away that should be enjoyable to everyone. No attacking going there. I want more of that. 

Last night I misbehaved and allowed myself to participate in an auction the Gnarly Toybox (You should check out this shop as the guy who owns is really cool) was doing via Facebook. In his first set of items he had a vintage Darth Vader costume from Ben Cooper Inc. I had been wanting to add one of these to my collection for some time, as I remember from my youth as well as it being Star Wars and decided to spoil myself. I won the auction and got a good deal in the end. The picture above are not the one I won, the box is in a lot better shape. After I won I kept watching to see what else they had and how much everything was going for. The vintage Star Wars figures did real well and went for about the prices you'd expect. They were obviously still in demand. Most of them I already have, so I was not too interested, even the ones I didn't have are not that hard to find. There was nothing hard to come by for vintage figures. He also put out some of the 90's Power of the Force f...

The following is an actual e-mail I sent to Disney Corporate (TWDC.Corp.Communications@Disney.com) and while I do not know if anyone will actually take it seriously, I felt with all the toxic fans being vocal and calming Disney is listening to them, someone needed to try to convey an alternate voice to all the toxic nonsense. I do encourage people to go out and let their voices be heard to counter the loud voices of the other side.   This is a general letter to the heads of Disney, although I have no idea if this will get to the hands of anyone who can really make a difference and ensure some level of common sense remains with-in Disney as a whole. There are several youtubers who are right now making some rather frightening claims that I truly hope are just rumors based on their own childish biases.   The idea that someone is actually considering redoing the Star Wars sequel trilogy is just insane. Throwing out what was done and replacing it with a new one based off of Lucas’ ...

 A few posts back I was going off on Doomcock (That name still is so stupid and idiotic. How can he even take himself seriously?) and his his poorly thought out, toxic ideas. If you watch his videos, it becomes clear he is a true toxic fan. He dislikes everything that does not fit with what is clearly a narrow view of the world. It is clear if he were alive at the time of the original Star Trek, he would have hated it because it was too political and was forcing a 'woke' (Yes I know the term did was not in use at the time) narrative down everyone's throat. If he had his present attitude and went to see Star Wars for the first time in 1977, he would have found Leia to be forcing a feminist agenda on us as she talked down to Han Solo who was only trying to rescue her. And the famous cantina scene was clearly just an unneeded political statement about accepting diversity. If you listen to his statements, this is very much the kind of logic he uses to say the modern releases of...

With all the rumors flowing around about Star Wars right now, the batch of toxic fans who basically are the ones responsible for any troubles the franchise is going through right now, as there is some logic to say they helped make Solo perform so badly in theaters. (All the other Disney Star Wars movies have made blockbuster level returns.) It was the failing of Solo that has caused Disney to look at the franchise and think about doing some drastic, unneeded changes. With Star Wars, the ultimate toxic fan, Doomcock (Emperor of the dumbest name a misogynistic a-hole could come up with) is spreading rumors about Lucas' return as the head of Lucasfilm as the divine savior of the franchise. Outside of the fact that Lucas gave up his company for a reason and I've seen nothing to suggest he has changed his mind, there are so any flaws to embracing this belief. Those like Doomcock (How can anyone take an seriously someone who choose to be called by such a lame-ass name?) are able to...

So at Wal-Mart right now the most expensive Transformer figure on sale is: A sixty dollar figure, but you don't get to see it or even know who it is, all because it is a spoiler for some reason. Now of course this is the day and age of the internet, so this secret lasted all of five seconds. And the big reveal was the figure is none other than, yet another Ultra Magnus. Not only is this a character that has been around for some time with dozens of figure made of it, this is just a repaint of one they released last year with a special mini figure that is also a repaint. So the big question is 'how is this a spoiler?' It is a character that makes sense to be in the new show. There is nothing new to its transformation. By labeling it a 'spoiler' figure, I am now speculating that Ultra Magnus will be doing something more significant than I would have thought. If they did not label it as being a spoiler, then it would have been easy to just see ...

There is an internet personality who calls himself Overlord  Dicktor Van Doomcock (DVD), yes that is the name he goes by and I believe he believes it is a clever name. He has a whole Youtube channel dedicated to him being a toxic fan and putting down anything and everything that does not   live up to his beliefs of what is worthy   entertainment. He shows himself to be a true misogynist. For as he puts down anything that has the slightest essence of female empowerment, he claims he is all for powerful female characters as long as they fit into his little box of female characters. The basic idea is that he knows better than everyone else how stories should be told and   that all he is doing is trying to safeguard our modern myths, painting himself as a heroic force here to save us all. Understand, this a is guy who is upset with the   questionable   science of only the newest seasons of Doctor Who, the ones starring Jody Whittaker, the first female Doctor....