On this week’s 16th episode of the Legion of Leia Podcast, my co-hosts Anastasia Washington, Sabina Ibarra and I welcome Claudia Dolph, co-founder of Geek Girl Authority, co-host of the podcast Poll Cats and host of C & C Variety Hour here in Los Angeles. This week we take on #WheresRey, a little hashtag I started when I...
Category - toys
Our friends over at Comicbook.com have discovered something truly amazing: foam lightsabers that light up! Why is this such a big deal? It means you can finally smack your friends around with abandon in the middle of the night without any serious harm! Thanks to this Kickstarter, which has already surpassed it’s $40,000 goal, you can have a...
I spent this weekend shopping for an overseas trip, but as I do in any store, I always migrate over to the toy section. Especially since the new toys for Star Wars: The Force Awakens came out. There is too much empty space on my desk (some might argue that this is absolutely not true, but you can clearly see a few inches) and I must fill it with...
GoldieBlox, a toy company dedicated to fostering young girls’ interest in engineering through it’s award-winning construction toys for girls, has just released a new ad that plainly comments on current issue of representation of women in film by raising the question, “What if all the action heroes who save the world were...
The big Star Wars rumor of the day is that Disney will be retiring Slave Leia merchandise. Of course everyone assumed I’d be all for this. I’ve been hearing about it all day. Not so fast. First of all, here’s the info. The rumor comes to us from Making Star Wars, who says “Princess Leia’s Slave Leia costume is being...
When LEGO made the announcement that they would create a Ghostbusters Ecto-1 playset for 2104, fans went nuts. Not long afterwards rumors began to swirl that LEGO had planned to create an even more impressive playset to accompany the iconic vehicle for the supernatural scientists. Now, we can confirm the rumors. Just in time for Halloween, EW...
Let’s be real. Barbie has been the doll young girls grew up with. We’ve been told through alluring fashion statements and pretty pink packaging that Barbie can do anything she puts her mind to (even though her accompanying stories reveal that she can’t). At the end of the day, however, the wide-eyed little girl whom Barbie...
Yup, writing titles in the first person again! Hey Legion! Are you going to be in LA on Halloween weekend? I’m doing ten, yes, ten panels at Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo, including two with the incomparable Stan Lee! I’d love to see you guys! We have a table on the floor (#KO6) this year as well and I have Legion of Leia shirts...
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...
Toy Designer Christine Kim heads up the daunting task of reinvigorating the superhero brand for girls, which will be designed by women and not men. Groundbreaking stuff, we know. Whodathunk that women would have the best insight in making super heroic dolls for little girls? Did you know that Wonder Woman appeared just three years after Superman...