Sighted: Power Rangers Megaforce!

09.09.2013 – The Power Rangers has become part of the American culture and for the past 20 years they continue to bring new shows every year based from the Japanese Super Sentai shows that has become a global brand for Bandai when it comes to merchandise. This year celebrates 20 years of Power Rangers and to bring in the anniversary they have released the latest series in Megaforce known in Japan as Tensou Sentai Goseiger. The toys have already been sighted in the Philippines and also have some of the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers action figures.

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Happy Meal 2013: It's the Smurfs 2!

07.24.2013 – The unprecedented success of the Happy Meal brand for McDonald’s has been followed by other fast food restaurants. The aftermath of the Despicable Me 2 featuring the beloved minions has caused the marketing to bring the next one –- Smurfs ! The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs in French) has been around long before merchandise marketing was born for collectibles as it first appeared in a Belgian comic and television show. Smurfs first appeared in comics on October 23, 1958 by Peyo (pen name of Pierre Culliford).

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Sighted: The Wolverine from Hasbro!

06.16.2013 – More than a week ago The Wolverine merchandise has started appearing in toy stores across Metro Manila. Just like the being trained by the Japanese Samurai from Japan the toys slowly appeared on display. The upcoming film looks promising but “The Wolverine” merchandise particularly the 4 inch action figures where somewhat a little underwhelming which is similar to “The Amazing Spider-Man” that has lack in quality compared to when the X-Men Origins came out some five years ago.

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Toy Sightings: KRE-O Star Trek!

05.01.2013 – Early last year we reported that Hasbro has acquired the Star Trek license and revealed that they have plans to produce new Kre-O building toys with Korean toy maker OxFord. They are the same company who brought in Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Battleship for the Kre-O brand. The new line was released in the Philippines over the weekend which featured the some of the familiar ships from the 2009 movie and some sets based from “Into Darkness” that are sometimes potential spoilers prior to the release of the film.

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