In honor of the upcoming release of the latest Marvel summer tentpole flick, The Guardians of the Galaxy, Hot Toys is coming out with a movie-accurate Rocket and Groot duo — a clear indicator that the next movie-comic franchise is on the rise. Like many a comic nerd, we’ve been anticipating the film ever since the first […]


Hot Toys has been hooking it up with intensely accurate Dark Knight collectibles for some time now, if you remember  the Batmobile and the Bat having made some bat-stops here before. (And let’s not forget other LIAS favorites like Robocop and Spiderman.) Here we bring you the the Hong Kong toymaker’s second highly detailed Joker figure, this one […]


8 Jul
In celebration of Batman's upcoming 75th anniversary

High-end collectible toy manufacturer Hot Toys presents “The Bat”, a collectible set based, with eerie amounts of authentic likeness, on Batman’s stunning aerial vehicle from Dark Knight Rises. The set centers around a photographically on-point, 1/12-to-scale prototype aircraft with visual likeness right down to the weathered paint job. Figures of Batman, Selina Kyle and the fusion reactor are also […]


Eva Green is a French-born twin-sister-having starlet, which means she already has enough built-in femme factors to provide a forest full of wood. But now, let’s add her visibility that’s got her scandalous Sin City 2 poster rejected by the MPAA. Apparently those self-proclaimed judges of propriety got wild upon the site of her underboob, in conjunction […]


No one knows the moment when it happened. Sriracha used to be reserved for sprucing up yesterday’s pad thai, and then things changed. Now Sriracha, as either a brand or a flavoring, is so infused to everything pop culture that people will squirt it on tacos de carnitas with a straight face, as if there […]


2 May
Your perfect 30-point of articulation date for movie night

If you’re not amped enough about the opening of The Amazing Spiderman 2 this weekend, you should probably start collecting action figures — stat. Perhaps you should also cut some popcorn holes into the face of your Spidey suit for when you go to the premiere — sans any self-respecting date. Well, maybe you think that you don’t […]


We all know Electric Daisy Carnival as a bacchanal frenzy of post-rave digital hedonism. Think young millennials in a cloud of furry boots, bikini bottoms, copious neon and blissful nescience. An orgy of EDM beats, sweaty teens and sunrise memories/regrets. But there’s another demographic at the Biggest Rave In America that is rarely mentioned: the […]


5 Jun
Relive the sci-fi cult favorite with MMS Diecast Series

It’s time to let the inner sci-fi nerd that lives in your heart free, let him bound down the streets with joy as it sees the release of this incredibly detailed ED-209 figure from the Hong Kong crew over at Hot Toys. Part of Hot Toys’ highly collectible MMS Diecast Series, the ED-209 figure features […]