Seriously? This peculiar Mickey Mouse toy, in all of its obscurely-motivated, cross-promotional, outright oddballness, makes more sense to me than anything that happened in Michael Bay’s Transformers.If 2009’s Transformers: Revenge of the Idiotic Plot Contrivances ends up having anything as cleanly-designed and simply recognizable as Mickey here, I promise to throw away all the “Michael [...]

I had planned to write nothing on this site about next summer’s crapquel Transformers: Rise of the Bile. After all, my one-blog army that took on Michael Bay and the Geekformers in 2007 had surprisingly little impact on that movie’s box office results, so I had begun to think that the Allspark-like power of my [...]

Best. Toy. Ever? Having three boys and being something of a textbook case in stunted emotional development, it’s not at all rare for me to play with and even covet some of their cool toys. But this Indiana Jones Whip, recently gifted to Sonny Corleone at his fifth birthday party, is something spectacular indeed. Yes, [...]

The weird marketing vibe that I keep getting from the upcoming Wachowski brothers live-action imagining of Speed Racer continues to get weirder. And vibe-ier. Take a look at the Mach 5 toy seen below, recently featured at the great blog Topless Robot. (click the image for a bigger version)

I realize that I’m feeding directly into [...]

Just thought I’d draw your attention to a new sidebar feature here at Burbanked: the Action Figure Mood Indicator! in which your favorite movie stars, forever immortalized in China-manufactured plastic, convey to you their true thoughts, feelings, dreams and aspirations.
Is it useless and pointless? Is it more fun than a barrel of monkeys hopped up [...]