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Post by ToyfareMark on May 20, 2024 8:07:36 GMT -5
My username says it all. I was the biggest fan of Toyfare back in the late 90's and early 2000's. I was a casual action collector at best, but I always bought Toyfare for the humor throughout the magazine, especially Twisted Toyfare Theater.  Not only was it hilarious, but I actually learned a lot about the history of so many comic characters from it. I know these guys went on to do Robot Chicken, but honestly I preferred TTT more. Who else was a fan? |
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Post by tirtefaa on May 20, 2024 8:12:05 GMT -5
They were way better than anything Robot Chicken did.
One particular item I always enjoyed them referencing was Iron Man's alcoholism. So cruel, yet I laughed every time.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on May 20, 2024 8:52:08 GMT -5
You remember TTT? This is all Richards' fault! RICHARDSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!
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Post by WoodStoner1 on May 20, 2024 8:53:31 GMT -5
And this may be a good place to ask...
Does anyone remember a comic made for Wizard proper, where the current at the time Justice League faced off with the Superfriends?
(Current including the likes of Barbarian, Hook-Handed Aquaman and Blue Superman, BTW)
I have yet to see it turn up scanned online.
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Post by thechase on May 20, 2024 8:53:42 GMT -5
It's spiritual successor was always "I'm A Marvel/I'm A DC"
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on May 20, 2024 9:13:15 GMT -5
I think i've got the first three collections of this that I haven't read in ages. There's a story in issue, I think 6??, of the magazine where Hulk wrecks the price guide that I wish had been reprinted.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on May 20, 2024 11:45:30 GMT -5
And this may be a good place to ask... Does anyone remember a comic made for Wizard proper, where the current at the time Justice League faced off with the Superfriends? (Current including the likes of Barbarian, Hook-Handed Aquaman and Blue Superman, BTW) I have yet to see it turn up scanned online. No, I remember Gareb having a comic line I think under the title Black Bull publishing, but do not remember that. Random sidenote, the reason I discovered Wizard Magazine was because I was in a Walmart and saw a cover that was about Blue Superman. My folks bought me the magazine, and eventually found me the electric Superman change issue a few months later. I was a regular reader from 1997-2009 |
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Post by ToyfareMark on May 20, 2024 17:52:14 GMT -5
I know DC threw a hissy fit about their characters appearing in TTT, so in reprints they are replaced by different characters. One of the worst was Iron Man replacing Superman in Mr. Spidey Goes to Coruscant.
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Post by Vampiro138 on May 20, 2024 19:48:55 GMT -5
When did they change the name from Twisted Mego Theater?? Was it around the time DC sent them a C&D and threatened a lawsuit? I loved the one story of Spiderman house sitting for Bruce Wayne and he just sits and watched tv while pure chaos goes on in Gotham through the window.
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Post by ToyfareMark on May 21, 2024 18:05:46 GMT -5
When did they change the name from Twisted Mego Theater?? Was it around the time DC sent them a C&D and threatened a lawsuit? I loved the one story of Spiderman house sitting for Bruce Wayne and he just sits and watched tv while pure chaos goes on in Gotham through the window. I believe it was in late 1999. Because DC characters were still appearing in TTT when it was making fun of Phantom Menace during its release. |
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on May 21, 2024 19:45:15 GMT -5
If I put some effort in, I could probably find my diploma from Xavier’s School of Gifted Youngsters that came from a Wizard Magazine. 12 year old me signed it in calligraphy, I was quite proud
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on May 21, 2024 20:19:00 GMT -5
When did they change the name from Twisted Mego Theater?? Was it around the time DC sent them a C&D and threatened a lawsuit? I loved the one story of Spiderman house sitting for Bruce Wayne and he just sits and watched tv while pure chaos goes on in Gotham through the window. I believe it was in late 1999. Because DC characters were still appearing in TTT when it was making fun of Phantom Menace during its release. Yea they were still using DC when I stopped getting Toyfare. Which would have been fall or so of 99 |
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on May 21, 2024 20:53:52 GMT -5
What was the name of their card game magazine? There was Wizard, Toy Fare and a CCG magazine
EDIT: Was it Inquest Gaming?
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Post by Vampiro138 on May 21, 2024 21:15:01 GMT -5
I will say, thanks to ToyFare and being a subscriber to the magazine when I was a kid, that magazine introduced me to Wizard World in Chicago which wound up being my first ever comic con, ive gone every year since 99! I will forever love Toyfare and Wizard for introducing me to this thing that made me feel like there were more people like me out there!
Back to TTT, another favorite story was the House Party Doom threw where the house got blasted into space at the end, but Hulk also took a dump in Doom's hot tub before that.
Also, somebody was mentioning when Hulk ran around in the price guide destroying stuff earlier, it was after he drank Jolt Cola, he had a major sugar high and went wild.
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Post by ToyfareMark on May 22, 2024 6:04:06 GMT -5
What was the name of their card game magazine? There was Wizard, Toy Fare and a CCG magazine EDIT: Was it Inquest Gaming? Yeah that was it. I never had any issue's of that since I wasn't into CCG's. But somewhere in my attic is box full of Star Wars CCG game cards. I only bought them because it was Star Wars. The rarest card I have from it is the super star destroyer Executor. |
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Post by crashmatsbazz on May 22, 2024 6:22:05 GMT -5
I'm gonna have to dig out my trades of this.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on May 22, 2024 14:54:01 GMT -5
What was the name of their card game magazine? There was Wizard, Toy Fare and a CCG magazine EDIT: Was it Inquest Gaming? Yeah that was it. I never had any issue's of that since I wasn't into CCG's. But somewhere in my attic is box full of Star Wars CCG game cards. I only bought them because it was Star Wars. The rarest card I have from it is the super star destroyer Executor. Yeah, I wasn’t into CCG’s at the time either. Played a bit of the Star Wars one, got into MTG for a bit in the early 00’s and absolutely had a year or so I was big into Pokémon TCG, but that was mostly collecting not playing. I still have most of the first 3 sets of Pokémon TCG kicking around |
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Post by ToyfareMark on May 24, 2024 6:07:30 GMT -5
I think there were two reasons they took out the Mego name. One was because there was a trademark issue with the Mego name, and the other was they started using non Mego toys in the strips like this.  They really cut it close to the bone in terms of content, this couldn't really exist today. |
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