May 23

Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles

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Lego is continuing their Star Wars collection with a new animated special The Yoda Chronicles. On May 29th, Cartoon Network will air the first special called “The Phantom Clone”; then later this year the following two specials will air.

SW4In promoting this special, Lego has sent out an exclusive souvenir celebrating the premiere. This Lego set is a council scene with Yoda, a unknown Jedi, and a robot sitting in a throne room/meeting room.

This a very nice Lego set that was easily put together in approximately one hour. The parts came in three bags, each bag separated for each character and their adjoining seat. Once each set was assembled, they fit perfectly together to create a half circle scene. Even the back of the set had some decorations to not just be blank.SW2

The characters were as well detailed as you can get for a Lego figure. Yoda and the Jedi came in three pieces, while the “floating” robot came with more pieces. The robot was a bit more difficult to put together as sometimes it would snap apart while attempting to assemble. Though once assembled, the characters flowed well with the set pieces.

 

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Check out The Yoda Chronicles on Cartoon Network on May 29th! For more information, go to the official site.

May 22

Review: IDW TMNT Micro Baxter Stockman

TMNT_Baxter_cvrA_LOWRESsmIn the second issue of Mirage’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles we were introduced to a man who would become an iconic character in TMNT History, Baxter Stockman. Creator of the Mousers, boss of April O’Neil, and a totally evil mad scientist.  Baxter was taken in for the original cartoon character first they change the color of his skin, then they turn him into a fly.  Mirage brought him back in Volume 2, turning him into a robot.  4Kids TMNT brought Baxter in much like he was in the Mirage comics and he went through many different changes with robot bodies.  Now IDW has taken on the character of Baxter Stockman, having him working for Krang.  The man behind the Turtles Mutation, April’s boss at work, and now the one in charge of the Technodrome.  A lead character for the IDW Comic Series.  Today the Micro series issue came out based around Baxter, with a bit more about his history.  Check out my review here.

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May 21

Review: IDW TMNT Micro Series “Krang”

KrangCoverLife has been crazy busy lately.  With traveling, conventions, family stuff, and so much more.  I have been on the road more than home once again and finding time to write has not been easy. Back in April IDW released the Krang Micro Series issue and sadly I did not get to it the week it came out.  Really I did not even know it was out till I had a comment asking why I did not review it yet.  I did take the time to read it, but still had so much other stuff going on that it’s taken me this long to finally get the chance to write this review.  Sorry this is so late, here is IDW TMNT Evil Micro Series #1 Krang review.

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May 20

Review & Comparison! OS TMNT 6 to Nick TMNT

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This is the day I would normally write a review about the newest episode of Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  I would go on about the plots, characters, favorite scenes, and if I like or don’t like the changes made to characters in the show.  These are normally fun write ups sharing my inside view of the Nickelodeon series.  And while I wish I could say these are weekly, they’re not.  Nickelodeon every now and then takes a break, making us fans hold our breath just a little bit longer in waiting for the next installment of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  So what do I do?  I re hatch the old series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  Today I’ll do a review comparison of the sixth episode of the original series, comparing it to the Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant NInja Turtles series.  Hope everyone enjoys this read.

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May 17

Movie Review: “Star Trek: Into the Dark”

star-trek-into-darkness-posterGrowing up I have always known of Star Trek, it was one of those things that I would see on the TV often. While no one in my family is Trekkies, we would watch the series when they were on. I personally enjoyed Next Generation and Voyager. Though by no means would I say I’m a Trekkie or even a Trekker. It is however a fandom I can respect who have lived long and through many different versions of the series. Now these fans face a new change their path, as most versions of Star Trek go with new crews, the last movie that came out introduced a new cast picking up classic characters. Some fans embraced the new, the changes, and the cast. While others remain true to their classic series. The sequel to that movie is now coming out, and thanks to Gofobo and Fox 2 Detroit News I was able to see an advance screening of the film. Here is my thoughts on “Star Trek : Into the Darkness”.

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May 16

Review: LEGO TMNT Shell Raiser Bag 3

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It has been awhile since I posted the next part of putting the LEGO Shell Raiser set together, as I did Bag 1 as a video back in early February and bag 2 in early April.  I’ve got so many stories that it is hard to get back to some of these videos as much as I would like to.  I have finally got some time to breath and put together Bag 3 of the LEGO TMNT Shell Raiser set.  This Bag is the beginning of putting the Shell Raiser together.  This is part 2 of 3 videos for this one LEGO set.  As LEGO did an amazing job on each of their sets.

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May 15

Review: IDW MLP FiM #7

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This month has been so busy that I really did just totally forgot about things I needed to do. Even fell behind in stories for Cowabunga Corner, as we’ve been traveling, came down sick, and working on fixing up the house. So when I saw the new issue of My Little Pony : Friendship is Magic was coming out today, it took me by surprise. My mind raced to remembered the previous issues so that I knew where I was picking up. Luna is on a mission with Twilight Sparkle and friends to save Rarity from Nightmare Moon. I remember the other issues was building up the story and I was not sure how I was going to feel with where things were going with this plot. Here is my review of My Little Pony “Friendship is Magic” issue 7 by IDW.

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May 14

Press Release: Pretty Ugly Announces Custom Designed Footwear with The Ave Venice

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 Pretty Ugly Announces Custom Designed Footwear

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Green Brook, NJ – May 14, 2013 – Pretty Ugly™, LLC owner of the UGLYDOLL® brand has partnered with The Ave Venice, a concept store that delivers unique and legendary footwear. The Ave Venice will be offering a selection of custom designed and printed UGLYDOLL Converse Chuck Taylors.

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May 14

Random Collection #21

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Throughout the years of being a Ninja Turtle fan, my collection has been growing.  Every year I get something new that joins the collection.  Growing since 1989, I have over 500 Ninja Turtle toys out of package and over 300 in package, as well as books, animation cels, original comic art, scripts and so much more.  To cover all of this on Cowabunga Corner is not something I really think I can do.  Though I get a lot of questions about my collection, so I figured I could do random stories from time to time to share one item in my collection.

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May 13

UGLYDOLL Teams up with DC Comics Super Heroes to Launch Toys and Accessories this Fall!

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UGLYDOLL Teams up with DC Comics Super Heroes to Launch Toys and Accessories this Fall!

NEW YORK, May 13, 2013/– Green Brook, NJ — Pretty Ugly, LLC. and Warner Bros. Consumer Products, on behalf of DC Entertainment, announced today that they have entered into a co-branded collaboration with DC Comics Super Heroes and UGLYDOLL characters. GUND, a division of Enesco, will produce a diverse range of colorful and collectible Super Hero plush based on the DC Comics and UGLYDOLL character universes. The initial release this fall will be a trio that includes two versions of Ice-Bat™ as Batman™ and Babo™ as Superman™.

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