No Show Sunday

So last night we didn’t have a show my car broke down the timing belt in my car died its really unfortunate. But I will be back this coming Sunday. In the mean time check out my review of Mezco’s Monsters Tower of Fear Playset

Reviews

Some reviews we did posted to You tube recently

Mego Hammer Dracula Figure

Forever Knight Dvd Sets

Tops 1995 Vampirella Cards

Authors and Musicians

Tonight on the show we have Author David J. Skal on the show with us talking about his newest book, David came on back in 2012 and I’m glad he is joining me again. Then releasing his 14th album this week the man who brought us THE TOUCH Stan Bush is on. We will be playing from movies David has done commentary on and music from Stan as well from his new album and from Transformers the Movie The Touch and Dare.

Also THANK YOU to everyone who funded my kickstarter and made it a success we hit our goal weeks ago and ended well above it.

The Toys that collect us

MERRY CHRISTMAS to all and to all tonight on the show we talk about TOYS and how great Toys are we have Ken a local toy collector we can all relate too with an amazing collection of great toys.

We also have the music from Diehard tonight. As it is our tradition for the Holiday.

End of an Era

Toys R Us is going out of business.

Big news for Horror sci-fi and fnatasy toy fans video game collectors and more.

After months of speculation and financial trouble in the bankruptcy process, the once-frequented toy store chain is closing up shop.

On NPR just an hour ago , Toys R Us alerted employees Wednesday that the store’s parent company would be closing all of its United States locations or selling them. The news comes just hours after the company announced plans to close all of its United Kingdom stores.

The information came from an anonymous source, NPR said, as the company has yet to file an official liquidation, publicly at least. That source said they’re unaware how long it would be before stores start shutting down.

Toys R Us, founded in 1948 at Children’s Discount Supermarts, was the go-to place for generations of kids looking to pick up the latest toy or video game. At one time, Toys R Us was a cultural phenomenon, and people knew the company’s name from shopping sprees on gameshows to the can’t-miss appearance of Geoffrey the giraffe.

With my local store there has barley been any employees to find help with.

Stores have already started closing as part of an earlier wave of shutdowns, so expect an official filing in the coming days.

Sectaurs – Warriors of Symbion

Death and Taxes are the only two things in life that will always happen and if there was a third it be boys love bugs. I know my son owns Hermit Crabs ( I know ‘not a bug) and loves Insects. In 1985 I never had a chance to buy these guys and I was always in love with the toys.

The commercials had their own story that ran alongside the He-Man Power of the Sword Movie when it first premiered and I was more interested in Sectaurs than I was learning He-Man had a twin sister. In 1990 I discovered the comic book by Marvel inthe 25c bin of my local comic book store. but still never the toys. Now so many years later I have at long last discovered this amazing new kickstarter,  They are only producing the two main core figures for now but lets hope we may one day see the rest of these awesome toys return.

Sectaurs is making a comeback with an all new line of modern 1/18 scale action figures!

Jess-O-Lantern and He-Man

Tonight on the show on CHRISTMAS NIGHT my co-host steps back for a couple weeks as I fly solo and she acts as a guest on the show. We discuss WHO Jess-O-Lantern is. THEN Danielle steps out of her Penny Dreadful out and into editor for many of the Dark Horse Masters of the Universe book Dark Horse has been putting out.
https://www.facebook.com/JessOLantern/

He-Man and conventions

On the show tonight from a Kickstarter I helped fund we have the guys behind I have the power a documentary about He-Man.

Then as we do every year and now it seems twice a year from the SPRING Super Mega Fest we have John one of the show runners on the show with us.

http://www.supermegafest.com

Music tonight will be from the soundtrack Disturbing Behavior composed by Mark Snow who also composed music for the X-Files. Disturbing Behavior just came on Blu-ray from Scream Factory last month.
https://www.facebook.com/HeManDoc/?fref=ts

Star Wars Friday

Tonight at midnight at Targets Walmart Toys R Us and more STAR WARS EPISODE 7  THE FORCE AWAKENS stufffffff……. ( whatever you can think of) will go on sale.
I will be in Framingham  MA tonight at 10 pm doing interviews with fellow Star Wars fans about the upcoming  movie.

The book Shattered Empire comes out soon as well detailing  the day after the Return of the Jedi.
Check out the link below for more details on what each store is offering to Star Wars fans.

http://www.starwars.com/news/force-friday-event-guide

Happy New Year with over 40,00 visitors and counting

We at Radio of Horror would like to thank every one we has joined our blog we now have 306 subscribers and over 40,000 visitors we hit the goal I wanted to hit as of New Years Day. Thanks to every one who has supported this show since it started in October 2007. The blog was starter in July 2009. Keep telling every one about Radio of Horror on 91.3 FM Wcuw in Worcester MA.
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Help Radio of Horror

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We need a few more subscribers and some more visitors
Pick an article and re-blog it send it to friends
I would like to hit my mile stone by New Years Eve
We been on their air since 2007 and the blog has been up since 2009.
Help Radio of Horror end the year with a bang.

RIP Ralph Baer

Castlevania, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Atari, Nintendo, Sega,
and so many more owe it to this man Ralph Baer. On Sunday he passed away he was 92 years old. He was the father of the video game console.
Ralph was a Jewish immigrants who’s family escaped Nazi Germany. He became and inventor. Below is a link to his site and a list of his great inventions including the light puzzle game Simon.
The game system he invented was the Odyssey the first game was PONG.
You gave me and many other gamers a great invention Ralph you will be missed.

http://www.ralphbaer.com

Thrillers and Transformers

Tonight on the show we have from the new Anchor Bay thriller Directed by Malek Akkard the producer behind Halloween is Sarah Butler. She was also in the remake of I spit on your Grave. Then we have someone who I have admired Bensen Yee the man behind BWTF.com one of the first Transformer websites to launch back in the 1990s. Its an honor to have him on my show. We will play some music in honor of Wayne Static from Static X. May he rest in peace.

Still recovering from Halloween and the ups and downs of the RI comic con will be discussed.

http://www.bwtf.com

Review – Transformers: Age of Extinction

I had to reblog THIS one from my friend Dan Kimmel, you can hear my co-host and I review this weekend on the show and on you tube.
Movie is playing at Blackstone Cinema Delux and Leominster Entertainment Cinema.

NorthShoreMovies.net

With Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor. Written by Ehren Kruger. Directed by Michael Bay. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, language and brief innuendo. 165 minutes.

“2001: A Space Odyssey” was 160 minutes. “The Godfather” was 170 minutes. There is no reason on Earth (or beyond) that TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION needs to be 165 minutes. It is a bloated, incoherent mess that may divert children (and grown-ups who enjoyed playing with the toys) who have turned the last three films into international hits. It’s a prime example of why box office is not a good measure of quality.

Written by Ehren Kruger, the once promising screenwriter who now makes a lot of money for “Scene: Good robots fight bad robots,” sets us up with Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg), a Texas inventor who is about to lose his home. It’s five…

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Alien toys

Re-Action toys has the Alien figures, a great homage to older toys from the 70s. At Toy fair we learned of some new figures coming from them all with that 70s style of toy.
Super7 Store sent me The Alien and Ripley , other figures are Ash, Dallas and Kane. Not sure if they are making the other characters in to toys. They look like the toys Kenner put out for Star Wars. The card the toy sits on also has that feel of old school toys. It be cool if they made the Nostromo ship to go along with them.

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Radio of Horror Channel

We took our interviews and created a channel on you tube to listen to old interviews for an archive we will have 100 posted by June when we go to Terror con stay tuned, for now check us out there, thanks to Pam for setting it up. 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnl4YRwmzCoIi_dqvFhOUOA

ALIEN 35th ANNIVERSARY

Fox put out a press release about the 35 Anniversary of ALIEN, New toys video games books novels comics, They are GOING SUPER ALIEN CRAZY this year. Makes you wonder what will happen in 15 years during the 50th Anniversary.

 

 

From the Press Release 35 years later, fans are still “screaming” in space as Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products celebrates the 35th anniversary of the groundbreaking film ALIEN, one of the most enduring sci-fi horror franchises of all time, with multiple iconic partners for exclusive branded merchandise available worldwide.

National Entertainment Collectibles Association (NECA), an entertainment conglomerate and global leader in licensed consumer goods, in association with Fox Consumer Products, announces today the first-ever action figures of Lieutenant Ellen Ripley that feature the likeness of actress Sigourney Weaver, who was nominated for an Oscar® and Golden Globe® for ALIENS in 1987. The officially licensed Ripley action figures from NECA will span multiple movies within the ALIEN saga: Initial plans include a figure of Ripley in her Nostromo jumpsuit from the original 1979 film, to be followed later by a Ripley figure based on the 1986 movie ALIENS, directed by James Cameron.

“As we celebrate the 35th anniversary of one of the most successful film franchises of all time,  we are thrilled to introduce an array of commemorative products across different categories in partnership with iconic brands including NECA, SEGA, and many more,” said Jeffrey Godsick, president of Fox Consumer Products. “In addition to the highly anticipated release of Alien: Isolation™, hardcore fans can finally add Lieutenant Ellen Ripley to their ALIEN collections as we welcome her NECA figures into the family of officially-licensed merchandise. Many other exciting first-time and limited edition products will also release to celebrate this exciting milestone this year.”

Prominent partners participating in the ALIEN global anniversary campaign include:

• Bandai – Bandai’s premium collectors label “Tamashii Nations” will release super-articulated S.H.MonsterArts figures featuring diecast material. S.H.MonsterArts ALIEN Big Chap will be available May 2014.
• Dark Horse Comics – A new comics program will debut later this year which includes Alien, Prometheus, Predator, and Aliens vs. Predator.
• Diamond Select Toys and Collectibles – New collectibles including MiniMates block figures, vinyl banks, bottle openers, and a reproduction of the original 18-inch Alien figure, available this summer/fall.
• Insight Editions will produce a highly-illustrated and a detailed guidebook to the Alien creature.
• NECA – Figures, board games, bobbleheads, plushes, and toys will hit major retail stores beginning in March 2014. Prototypes of the Ripley figures will debut later this summer at San Diego Comic-Con.
• SEGA – The highly anticipated first-person survival horror game Alien: Isolation will be available on PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, and PC in late 2014.

 

• Sideshow Collectibles – High end, limited edition Alien franchise products, including an immense bust of the Big Chap Alien design, available for pre-order in April 2014! Check out SideshowCollectibles.com for Alien Franchise products, and more!
• Super7 x Funko – Glasses and retro ReAction Figures currently available online.
• Titan Books will release all-new canon fiction novels based on the film franchise, followed by a 35th anniversary retrospective called “ALIEN: Archives,” which will be the most comprehensive book ever created about the ALIEN franchise with new exclusive interviews with Ridley Scott and Sigourney Weaver and content that has never been released.
• Other partners include Hollywood Collectibles for highly-detailed prop replicas, Upper Deck for an all-new collectible card game, Hallmark for ornaments, Square Enix for Aliens: Colonial Marines Play Arts KAI action figures, Titan Merchandise for stylized mini vinyl figurines, Rizzoli for wall calendars, and Rubie’s Costume Company for amazingly detailed Halloween costumes in addition to even more partners with apparel and additional collectible merchandise to be released throughout the year.

 

LEGO GHOSTBUSTERS

Finally here! Just in time for Toy Fair 2014, we have your first look at the official LEGO Ghostbusters set, and it is pretty amazing. This is fantastic if you bought the Lego Monster set and now you can have the two interact. Lego are very expensive but this is one set I am definitely picking up. They have Lord of the Rings and Marvel and DC and TMNT and a MONSTER sets what not Freddy and Jason and Michael. They have the some bloody body count as the monsters do and they made Lego’s out of the villains from Marvel and DC comics, are you really going to tell me Carnage, Dr.Doom, The Green Goblin, Dark Side and even The Shredder don’t have a huge body count??

The line was original conceived by fan Brent Waller.

“We’re thrilled to take the ECTO-1 and minifigure characters from Brent Waller’s Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary project…” said the company in a prior press release. “This is an amazing model, and the set will be a fantastic representation of the cult classic film.“

The LEGO Ghostbusters will make their debut in early June. Fans will have the chance to build brick versions of Ecto-1, the ghost-fighting team’s classic vehicle, and play with minifigure versions of Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler and Winston Zeddemore.

Classic Cinema, Trauma FIlms and Vampires.

Tonight new GRIMM AND DRACULA, but if your in the in Leominster MA we step away from Horror which is fine as tomorrow its my VAMPIRE THE MASQURADE NIGHT followed by a chance to meet Llyod Kaufman the creator of Trauma Films at the Coolodge Corner Theater.

TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE

At 12 midnight prizes will be given away and thanks for the help from Out Back Steak House

http://entertainmentcinemas.com/locations/leominster/