Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Hasbro Toys to Ring in the New Year – PLAY-DOH, PEPPA PIG, and MY LITTLE PONY

HASBRO is starting the New Year off right with a variety of brand-new toys from your favorite brands, including PLAY-DOH, PEPPA PIG, and MY LITTLE PONY, all available January 1st at select retailers! These exciting new toys are perfect for your little ones to whip up engaging creativity, stepping into new worlds of playful imagination.

PLAY-DOH has inspired generations of imagination through tactile and sensory play, and it’s just getting started! Whether you are blending up a delicious treat with the SWIRLIN’ SMOOTHIES BLENDER PLAYSET, styling the silliest look with the HAIR STYLIN’ SALON PLAYSET, or even exploring the globe with the AIRPLANE EXPLORER STARTER PLAYSET, there are no rules or expectations... Anything is possible!

PLAY-DOH SWIRLIN’ SMOOTHIES BLENDER PLAYSET

(HASBRO/Ages 3 years & up/Retail Price: $9.99 /Available: 1/1/24) 

Whirl into imaginative play with the PLAY-DOH Swirlin' Smoothies Blender Playset! This kit lets children create PLAY-DOH fruits and vegetables, pop them into the blender, and press through to swirl them into super colorful pretend smoothie creations to "pour" into cups! Perfect for kids who love to play in the kitchen, the playset includes a blender with a plunger, extruder, scoop, ice cube tray, 2 cups, and 5 cans of PLAY-DOH Compound to create a variety of ingredients and toppings. Pink Play-Doh whipped cream? Why not? Pretend yellow strawberries? Of course! Make-believe blue broccoli? Go for it! PLAY-DOH sets like the Swirlin' Smoothies Blender Playset make great creative toys for 3 year old girls and boys and up.

Purchase HERE

In Stores This Week From DST: Star Wars, Marvel and the Green Hornet

It’s time for another shipment of toys and collectibles to arrive at your local comic shop, courtesy of Diamond Select Toys and Gentle Giant LTD! This week, there are busts and statues from Marvel, Star Wars and the Green Hornet – it’s the best of all worlds! Find a store near you at comicshoplocator.com, or order online at diamondselecttoys.com and gentlegiantltd.com!

Green Hornet Kato 1/7 Scale Resin Mini-Bust

A Diamond Select Toys release! Gangsters beware! Green Hornet’s sidekick Kato is battling his way into the Diamond Select Toys line of mini-busts! Standing approximately 6 inches tall, this 1/7 scale bust of Kato is based on his appearance in the 1960s TV series, and sits atop a detailed pedestal base. It will look great next to your Batman 1966 mini-bust collection! Limited to 1,000 pieces, it comes packaged with a hand-numbered certificate of authenticity in a full-color box. Designed by Barry Bradfield, hand-sculpted by Jean St. Jean! SRP: $59.99

https://www.diamondselecttoys.com/kato-mini-bust/

Monday, January 1, 2024

New Year! 2024 is Time for Us to Get Back on Track!

Happy New Year! Let's start off 2024 with what this blog/site was before the pandemic. Just need to get back into this and not get burnt out. Lost some of that passion the last few years. Pandemic, injuries and just not mentally wanting to take the time to fully commit to this anymore. Collecting never stopped but just a lot of personal stuff with the day job, life, friends, family and this year mostly need to do better at balancing everything. Still have some of that passion to continue this blog / website. This year the loss of a few people in the art toy community was a huge blow to so many. Collecting is what brings a lot of people together. Collecting and this blog is my outlet and what takes me away just for a little bit out of the real world and the daily grind. It brings a different type of happiness that is hard to explain. With that said, it's time for this blog to rise back up and to start posting a lot more. Here's to 2024 being a better year for everyone! Keep on collecting!