Want to add the First Order Commander to your collection? Toys R Us is here to help. Representation of women in the Star Wars toy line has always been a little bit shaky. It didn’t help that the Original Trilogy only featured one female character in the core cast, but now it’s 2015, and we’ve got the much more gender-balanced...
Author - Bill Sencio
One New York Comic Con exclusive. One charity fundraiser. One awesome female-positive toy company. And two awesome new action figures. If you haven’t heard of I Am Elemental, let me catch you up real quick. Tired of the scantily-clad, un-realistic body proportions often seen in the world of super heroes, Julie Kerwin and her team created...
Marvel already has their Mutant surrogates The Inhumans all over Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but it looks like it won’t be long before Fox’s X-Men universe hits the small screen, as well. A report from Deadline says that not one but two shows are being developed, both Executive Produced by X-Movie maestro Bryan Singer, along with Lauren...
Last week at New York Comic-Con, I had the chance to sit down with the Hasbro brand teams that manage two of the hottest properties in the toy world, Marvel and Star Wars. Both toy properties have stood the test of time, and remain wildly popular among both kids and collectors, and most of that has to do with these brand managers, whose insight...
Gender doesn’t really matter in the galaxy far, far away… and that’s a good thing. Executive Producer Dave Filoni and actors Sarah Michelle Gellar (The Seventh Sister), Ashley Eckstein (Ahsoka Tano), and Taylor Gray (Ezra Bridger) shared a preview of the second season of Star Wars Rebels at New York Comic Con, and not only did...
…Still no Rey, though. UPDATE October 8th 1:00AM EST: While Jakks Pacific has yet to announce a Big Fig Rey action figure, Hasbro has showcased their 12″ Epic Heroes Rey figure at the New York Comic Con Pre-Party. #ForceFriday made a bigger impact than many retailers and toy companies had anticipated, but now a month later, we’re...
While we don’t know exactly when Pacific Rim 2 will happen, a new comment from Guillermo Del Toro has given us a potential hint about a new face we may see in the sequel to the 2013 Kaiju versus Jaeger epic. The director tweeted about a meeting he had with Maisie Williams (Arya Stark, in case you didn’t know), and he was...
Hasbro‘s Star Wars Design Director, Steve Evans, discusses the company’s perspective on female fans, and fair gender representation in the Star Wars toy line. Here’s a simple fact about me– I am a die hard Star Wars toy collector. Yes, the prequels struck a blow to my confidence in calling myself a true Star Wars geek...
Female-positive, body-positive toymaker IAmElemental is bringing an exclusive new action figure to New York Comic Con. IAmElemental was a Kickstarter darling when their campaign launched in 2014. The concept behind this toy line, created by Julie Kerwin, was simple– tired of seeing toy lines and comic books filled with sexually objectified...
The dark, funny, razor-sharp satirical sci-fi anthology is returning with 12 new episodes coming to Netflix. Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones‘ Black Mirror is a really, really good show. An anthology series in the tradition of The Twilight Zone, each stand-alone episode offered keen insight into the sociological, psychological, political...