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“Do-Re-Mi-Quack!” (designed by Jon Barthell) is by far my favorite shirt design to be released by Theadless in a while! Not to say they’ve not been great recently, I just really like this one. I’ll definitely be stopping by to grab this one when I’m in town for the “Taste of Chicago”…

Check to see if they have it in your size, or check out the whole selection…

We just added a gallery of U.B.Funkeys from Radica/Mattel. You can also see some custom Funkeys here in Augiewan’s Customs Gallery.

If you are a fan of the U.B.Funkeys figures and/or game, you can find a whole section devoted to Funkeys here. You’ll find a Funkeys discussion forum as well…

The latest round of artistic shirt designs have been released by Threadless. Ilove so many of their designs, I never know what to buy. Hopefully I’ll make it to their Chicago store this year when I visit.

This image is of my favorite design from this week’s new selection, called “Smile… My Shadow” by Lim Heng Swee. You can check out all the newest designs here. Great shirt designs and great prices! Check them out…

Will Apple do it? Will the iPod and iPhone accomplish what years of making superior (albeit freaky expensive) home computers couldn’t? Will the Apple finally be accepted in the corporate America on a large scale?

Well, in my opinion, yes and no. I still hold to the fact that there are enterprise level things that the Macs just don’t do. Developers will not use Macs. But for desktop use in the office? Why not! Bottom line is that they’re cool and more and more employees want them. And to Microsoft’s chagrin, they can do most everything the average business user expects from a PC and a bit more…

But don’t take my word for it, check out this article over at BusinessWeek. The next few years should prove to be very interesting with the continued growth of Mac popularity and the continued stumblings of Microsoft. Interesting indeed…

The image gallery is now up for the Monster Theater series 1 figures I got a few weeks back, which are now proudly displayed in my office at work. This is a great little series of deformed “old-school” monsters that I fell in love with when I first saw them. They are made by dKiller Panda Toys and distributed by Dark Horse. I found a review and an interview on ToysREvil’s blog from about a year ago talking about the future releases. The illustrations look great, but I’m curious if they’re actually going to happen considering the amount of time that has gone by with no additional series being released. I hope they do, at least for the Faery Tales series that would include figures from Wonderland and Oz!

Click here for the gallery…

Today was the 2008 Free Comic Book Day, and I spent it with my kids at BuyMeToys.com as I have every year (but the one I missed) since 2004 when it all began. This is a really fun day for the kids and my oldest daughter’s best friend has now joined us for the past two years.

I’ve heard of other comic shops having really limited selections and only giving one or two copies away to each person, but BMT has consistently had a huge selection of FCBD comics and they give out five issues to each visitor. It’s definitely worth the trip if you live anywhere even close to Mishawaka, IN.

I personally picked up Arcana Presents (Arcana sampler), Gekiga! (Drawn Quarterly sampler), Cartoona Palooza (Ape Entertainment sampler), Free Scott Pilgrim (Oni Press FCBD comic from 2006) and The Preposterous Voyages of IronHide Tom (2006 FCBD comic from AdHouse Books)…

I haven’t read them yet except for the IronHide Tom book which my daughter picked up at a previous FCBD and I loved. I had to have my own copy when I saw they still had one.

So here you are, the couple pictures I snapped while we were there…

My Moofia figures showed up earlier this week and I just got them shot and added to the Moofia image gallery. Take a look around and enjoy…

I’m definitely liking these and look forward to Bulleto and the three new minions!

Nintendo announced that it is recalling 71,000 character pins that were sold between 2004 and 2007 at it’s Nintendo stores and select electronics stores across the US. The lapel pins vary in size, ranging from 1 to 2 inches in height and feature the following characters: Diddy Kong, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Mario, Mario Kart, Pikachu, Princess Peach, Samus, Starfox, Waluigi and Wario were sold individually. Mario, Princess Peach and Samus were also sold in a set together.

Oh, oh, and wait for it… They were manufactured in China. Wow! What a surprise!

See the story here at Playthings.com…

As I picked up my weekly stash at my local comic shop this evening, I saw a beautiful thing on one of the toy racks. It was a pair of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures, Leonardo and Michelangelo to be exact. “But Augiewan…” you say, “there have been so many TMNT figures to date, why on Earth would that excite you?”. It’s simple. These are the first ones that actually look like the original comics from Eastman/Laird. Those years in the 80’s were the “golden years” of comic/toy culture for me and I haven’t been able to swallow any of the mass-market TMNT stuff that has come out since.

But these figure look perfect! They even have crazy articulation so you can pose them in all your favorite “let’s get ready to rumble” stances. So I’ve scrounged around a few eCom sites for some stock images and picked up a few more from a post on Toysrevil’s site (I can’t believe I missed his post 2 MONTH ago!)

The first wave of four figures of course consists of Leonardo (with katana), Michelangelo (with nunchucks), Raphael (with sai), and Donatello (with bo staff). After chatting about them with the owner of the comic shop, I learned that the second wave would be some of the supporting cast but then he brought up the third wave and I got really excited. It’s to be the four boys again, but this time in classic black & white! I MUST have those…

So anyway, if you’re looking to pick these up the first wave comes individually packed or as a box set. The box set does not come with the diorama bases, so I have no idea why anyone would choose it over the singles unless they’re evil and want to display them unopened. Here are some images followed by some places you can order them…

Leonardo: Amazon.com - eBay
Michelangelo: Amazon.com - eBay
Raphael: Amazon.com - eBay
Donatello: Amazon.com - eBay
Box set of 4: Amazon.com - eBay - Entertainment Earth
Or get all four singles for one price: Entertainment Earth

I was already aware of three new minis ¹ added to the Moofia line soon, but I just caught a post over on Vinyl Pulse that shows the next larger figure to go along with Mozzarella, the Moofia leader.

Bulleto in all his grumpiness stands ready along with his two shotgun shells (one happy, one mad). My Mozzarella and the original 8 minis are on their way to me as I type this, so these additions by tokidoki/STRANGEco will be on my hit list this summer.

Also coming this summer is a Mozzarella plush!