#0093: Trapped in Bat Wing Hall
I may not look it, but I'm actually a very hardy young man. I've survived being forcibly conjoined, painfully frammilized, and subjected to Gwyneth Paltrow's acting. Despite all of these mishaps, I've...
View Article#0094: THINKChip Pokemon Battle Stadium
I try to strike a balance on this blog as I send yesteryear's paraphernalia into the ether; the major impetus, obviously, is to select things that may be of some interest to the wider toy-collecting...
View Article#0095: The Terminator(s)
Deciding which Terminator film you prefer is similar to comparing pizza with ice cream. On the surface, they're both foodstuffs, and one can easily be enjoyed immediately after the other. However, they...
View Article#0096: War Planets
When you're a kid, you just kinda... have stuff. For whatever reason.Sometimes it's an impulse buy from your parents, desperate to appease your insatiable hunger for consumerism, while other times,...
View Article#0097: Storm Toad Trooper
Who could have ever imagined that we would be talking about Bucky O'Hare in 2018, and it would actually be vaguely topical? For you see, over the last few years, a company known as Boss Fight Studio...
View Article#0098: Timon & Pumbaa's Jungle Games
Remember that Lion King video game? Unless you're a filthy millennial, you probably should. It graced all major consoles at the time, and was even available on MS-DOS. It was like they were hunting...
View Article#0099: Big Slammu
So let's talk Street Sharks for a second. I certainly haven't got anything more important to do with my evenings, and if you've dared click on this accursed blog, I'll fathom that you're much the...
View ArticleMy Letter From Sonic
Some childhood memories are weird.They're not necessarily bad, they just make you ponder a little bit. One that came back to me recently was the time I received a letter from Sonic the Hedgehog. I...
View Article#0100: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mini Mutants
Holy fucking shit.I can't believe we finally got there. Since its inception in January 2011, INAKA has seen all kinds of weird, wonderful and occasionally woeful toys. Action figures, plushes, video...
View ArticleToy Eulogy
Does this picture seem familiar? It should; it's the one that has been floating around the background of my blog ever since it first launched in January 2011. It's hard to recall the thought process...
View Article#0101: Nickelodeon Magazine
Once upon a chipmunk I alluded to my storied history in magazines. Back in 2012, I was still amassing Sports Illustrated to the best of my ability, but alas, it has slowed basically to a halt in modern...
View Article#0102: Mario Kart Yoshi
'Welcome to Mario Kart', declares Tony, grandly entering the room with all of the levity of a six-year-old's birthday party. He has a hollow grin plastered on his face, and half-empty bowls of candy...
View Article#0103: Zeddy Bear
Despite the fact that I have spent the last two decades down south in Straya, fragments of my childhood in Canada occasionally bubble to the surface in weird ways, like a rash that only seems to appear...
View Article#0104: Pride Rock
They say the lion is calling DadSay uhm a lionAs the lions go, they areWe say uhhmm a lionLionIt's VictoriousLionThe lion and the leopardThe above may not seem awe-inspiring by any stretch of the...
View Article#0105: Cave-Beast Bebop and his Bodacious Brontosaurus
Toronto Raptors, Toronto Raptors, Toronto Raptors, something something, Toronto Raptors.Allow me to be as transparent as the shirt Christian Cage used to wear in the late 90s: the only reason I'm...
View Article#0106: Insaniac
Ahh, Small Soldiers.This thrilling family blockbuster hit theatres in 1998, and it was a rollicking good time from start to finish. Tommy Lee Jones as the gung-ho villain. Phil Hartman being his usual...
View ArticleYou can take your #NotMyAriel garbage and shove it down your gills
Is it possible to be disappointed, yet completely unsurprised all at once?That’s the general feeling among rational people in the wake of the fallout following Disney’s announcement that Halle Bailey...
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