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Vile Creatures!

As any fan of Forbidden Planet NYC can attest, the store and Uglydoll have gone together like Vulcans and Pon Farr for a number of years now.  This week Travis Fowler and Andrew Greer felt the need to illustrate that further by shooting an Uglydoll promo…  Beware the horrors of the FP storage area.  There [...]


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Paper Mache Hand Puppets from Austin English

Cartoonist and former employee Austin English (Christina and Charles, Windy Corner) is producing  a series of nifty paper mache hand puppets as he freezes his ass off in Stockholm, Sweden.

Largely an attempt to pay off his exorbitant gambling debts, he’s offering them for a mere thirty bucks (plus $7 shipping).  They’re hand made and painted [...]


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Tuesday Toys 2/16/10

Yes, the majority of the toy world’s focus is centered on Toy Fair (being held this week here in NYC at the craptacular Javits Center) and all the neat-o toys coming out in the future.   But here at FP- in the present- we’ve got a  whole bunch of new stuff for you.  NOW…
Hot Toys [...]


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Playing with Toys 2/9/10

This is also this week’s edition of Tuesday Toys:


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Tuesday Toys 2/2/10

Select toys uploaded to forbiddenplanetusa.com today…
Battlestar Galactica Tigh & Gaeta 2-pack
Accessories included:  sidearms, Dradis display, clipboard, and, of course… HOOCH!
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen N.E.S.T. Battlefield Bumblebee & Infiltration Soundwave 2pk.

Classic Monster Funko Force figures:
Dracula

Werewolf

Creature from the Black Lagoon

and Frankenstein.

Fantastic?  Yes. But where’s the frggin mummy????


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Playing With Toys 1/29/10

fptransmissions presents the first in a series of videos in which we demonstrate various toys we sell.  A wage slave from the FP toy department, the incomparable Mr. Alec Lewellyn, kicks things off.
WARNING! This episode is not for people who might be offended by Uglydolls faking orgasms.


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Thursday Toys

Sorry for not getting this out there this past Tuesday, as my plan calls to do every week, but as is the case in the hustle and bustle of my life in geek retail, my time and attention were chewed up by emergencies, other duties, and a unique opportunity… in this instace an on-camera interview [...]


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Tuesday Toys

TONS of toys arrived at Forbidden Planet USA today, all of which I will tell you about right now:
Hot Toys X-Men Origins Wolverine 12″

Features include:

Newly developed Hot Toys hirsute muscular figure body with over 30 points of articulation

Authentic likeness of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and looking like a badass

Jacket, undershirt, shirt, jeans, and [...]


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Bidi Bidi Bidi… That’s the Frikkin Bomb, Buck!

Been playing with this in the wee hours of the evening after closing the FP NYC store…

Go Hero’s Buck Rogers 12″ Action Figure

… That’s right.  Playing with it.  Grown man, playing with a toy.  Flying Buck Rogers around, flirting with all the female action figures in sight, battling monsters, having adventures… Y’know. Playing.
I’m a [...]


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