[Pimpin'] Topless Robot

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Today, we introduce you to Topless Robot!

Topless Robot is a blog site that covers everything that matters in the world of pop culture. The site boasts of entries about our fave toys, comic books, cartoons, movies, and video games! The blog posts are funny as hell, yet very informative, and I've actually learned a lot of geeky stuff just by spending a few hours browsing the site! Watch out for the amazing lists of best/worst/funniest/(insert adjective here) things (like the pictured "18 Greatest Exclusives at the 2011 SDCC") cooked up by the wicked mind behind the site!

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[Adddress] Moving Forward

Good day, dear readers! Thank you for making P-Dub's Playground a part of your daily internet fix. As a token of gratitude, I'll be giving you an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at my current HQ (yup, this post won't get the Facebook treatment). I'll also let you in on some of the plans for the site's future endeavors, so click that "Read more >>" link and get the low-down on things to come!

[Heads Up] Avengers 101 on fhm.com.ph

 
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[Acquisitions] Captain America: The First Avenger Heroic Age Captain America and Captain Britain

 

These two figures may very well be my last 1:18 Marvel acquisitions until I complete my line-up of Autobots from the three Transformers movies. I was originally planning to track down the figures of several members of the Avengers from the old Marvel Universe releases but a change of plan was necessary as I got hooked on the Transformers movie toys. So, let's make this one quick because I still have some toy cars to convert (err, i mean transform) into bad-ass robot figures.

[Acquisitions] Thor: The Mighty Avenger 1:18 Warriors Three Figures

  

When the Thor movie figures came out last March, I actually had no plans of getting any fig from the line except for a couple of Thor figs. I'm a big Avengers fan but none of the other characters who were given the action figure treatment are (or were) members of the Avengers, making it quite easy for me to pass up on the other figures. But then I realized that the characters from the movie are all part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe along with Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and the likes, meaning they exist in one reality/continuity and that I can make a Marvel Cinematic Universe display comprised of figures from the toylines of various Marvel movies. Geek-gasm!

[Acquisitions] Iron Man 2: 1:12 Mark V

 
Jeez, I'm still on a slump. My sincerest apologies.

Okay, let's just talk about toys. I was able to get this 1:12 Iron Man Mark V armor a few weeks back, and I think I made a good decision buying this one loose for only 500 bucks. This figure was released more than a year ago, but I wasn't able to get one immediately as every figure I spotted back then had extremely bad paint bleeds (the red paint bled on to the silver parts and totally messed up the figure's looks). I actually saw a bunch of carded Mark Vs in Greenhills before I bought this figure, but I will never be caught spending a thousand bucks for a mint-on-card figure with terrible paint apps. The one I got also has the said paint problems, and it didn't come with the extra sets of hands and the "transport" case, but I firmly believe that I made a wise purchase as the value of those extra items will never add up to another 500 bucks. You can call me a cheapo, but I'm just glad to acquire another Iron Man armor to bolster my 1:12 armory.