Attention Space Ranger Recruits! The next big Disney Pixar animated movie, Lightyear–a science fiction adventure reboot/origin story/prequel of sorts with Chris Evans as the voice of Buzz Lightyear of Toy Story fame–is right around the corner, coming to theaters in June. Sure to be one of this summer’s blockbusters, the film’s previews (see below) have […]
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More than a year ago we previewed a new line of Super7’s retro-style Kenner action figures featuring Star Trek: The Next Generation. This was a reboot of a line of Star Trek original series figures we discussed here at borg back in 2015. The second wave includes Commander Will Riker, Counselor Deanna Troi, Lt. Cmdr. […]
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Any time is a good time for more Bruce Campbell. With a new Sam Raimi movie in theaters, whether you’re a Sam Raimi or Evil Dead or Bruce Campbell fan–or all the above–it’s a good time to capture Super7’s line of Army of Darkness action figures, available here at Entertainment Earth. Featuring Campbell’s Ash Williams, […]
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Hasbro taps Super 7 for reboot of G.I. Joe animated series action figures–19 available for pre-order
Normally this would be the kind of news you’d find at San Diego Comic-Con, which was canceled this year again because of the pandemic. Hasbro is farming out to action figure and pop culture collectible company Super7 to deliver two new action figure lines, rebooting the classic small-scale action figures based on the 1980s G.I. […]
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Last summer we previewed the first phase of a new, retro style line of GI Joe action figures for fans of the 1980s animated GI Joe: A Real American Hero series and the corresponding reboot of GI Joe toys. The first wave of G.I. Joe ReAction figures–the Kenner-style 3.75-inch figures with less articulation joints than […]
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The Munsters have arrived in collectible toy lines before, but none who could hang out at the Death Star or Mos Eisley cantina and mingle one on one with your other action figures. So it’s kind of a big deal for the 1964-1966 classic horror comedy series to be getting its Kenner-scale debut this month […]
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Of all John Carpenter’s films, They Live may be the most riveting. It’s one of those uses of science fiction to advance social commentary, and it did it like nothing before. When you think of science fiction movies, the big franchises probably come to mind first, but then there are those gold nuggets that […]
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This week saw the passing of Robert Fletcher at age 98. If you don’t know the name, you definitely know his work. Nobody creating the 20th century’s view of futurism through clothing was more influential than Fletcher, who created more Star Trek costumes than any other designer, including William Ware Theiss before him and Robert […]
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Super7, the toy company known for its wide variety of action figure licenses and its retro Kenner style carded, 3.75-inch action figures, greatly surpassed its delivery at last year’s Toy Fair (shown here and here) by bring hundreds of prototype figures, card back mock-ups, and final versions to New York Toy Fair 2020 this past […]
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As we previewed here at borg.com, toymaker Super 7 featured great exclusives at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con with both an onsite presence and an offsite store featuring both a Masters of the Universe theme and a Universal Monsters theme. If you were early enough you could have even scored a pair of four different […]
