Sunday, April 30, 2023
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 1984 Calendar
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Year 7: April Update
Star Wars Celebration took place in Japan last week and you can check out StarWars.com for a recap of all the announcements. There are more movies and TV shows in development, of course, but I'll just mention some toys and include Indiana Jones here. LEGO has two new Star Wars dioramas and three Indiana Jones sets arriving on May 1st. For Star Wars, there is the Emperor's Throne Room ($99.99) and Endor Speeder Chase ($79.99).
The Indiana Jones sets are: Raiders of the Lost Ark's Temple of the Golden Idol ($149.99) The Last Crusade's Fighter Plane Chase ($34.99), and Escape From the Lost Tomb ($39.99).
Indiana Jones is getting two lines of action figures from Hasbro too. One is a retro line modeled after the Kenner toys from the '80s and the other is a larger deluxe series.
On March 31st, a Sonic the Hedgehog visual novel game was released for free on Steam. I don't have much interest in visual novels and have been busy so I haven't tried it yet but for free I probably will eventually. Sonic already had a LEGO "Ideas" set and now he'll have his own series this August. The sets are Sonic's Speed Sphere Challenge ($34.99), Tail's Workshop and Tornado Plane ($39.99), Amy's Animal Rescue Island ($49.99), and Sonic's Green Hill Zone Loop Challenge ($99.99).
This might be the most images I've posted in an update yet and possibly the most LEGO news but I'm not quite done. There was a new LEGO video game unveiled on March 23rd and it's already releasing on May 19th. LEGO 2K Drive is an open-world racer similar to Forza Horizon with transforming vehicles like those found in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. Multiplayer modes include both online and local split-screen. It's being developed by Visual Concepts and published by 2K Games.
Sunday, April 16, 2023
[YouTube] WTXX-TV Channel 20 (1985/94)
I mentioned WTXX once before on YouTube when I played the Intellivision game Sharp Shot because one of the mini-games was used for contests on the station that my sister took part in and won. The channel also aired a variety of syndicated shows like Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as movies and some sports broadcasts, including the New York Mets, Boston Celtics, and Hartford Whalers. In 1995 WTXX became a UPN affiliate, which was best known for Star Trek: Voyager, and today Connecticut's channel 20 is a CW station.
This is the aforementioned 1985 flyer featuring the morning and afternoon cartoon lineups, plus the envelope I received it in:
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
TSR Hobbies 1983 Booklet
My last toy video was about the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) cartoon board game and now I've got another D&D related post. I was going through a small stack of catalogs to scan yesterday and with the recent movie I figured this would be the best one despite the somewhat recent other D&D coverage. This booklet features of variety of products, including the pen-and-paper games, miniatures, toys, computer games, books, and board games. I do own a few of the toys that may show up here or on the YouTube channel in the future but otherwise I am not familiar with most of the things shown.