Epinions Recent Reviews for shocka

Shopping Adventures

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 05:28:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - The Muppet figures are the best thing since sliced bread. Although the upcoming lines include puppets I've never even heard of before, I'll still probably end up with them on my shelf, just because these are some of the coolest toys to ever grace our...

CLOBBERING is GNIREBBOLC backwards ;)

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 05:24:12 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - Since yo already covered the original Thing (and everything else) from the best-selling Marvel Legends line, I was left dry on new toys to review. Lo and behold, I came upon something even yo doesn't have! The...

HA, I AM ON THE INTERNET!

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 05:20:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - Though Marvel Legends already gave us a comicbook version of the Punisher, this Frank castle is the one from the recent movie. Whether you liked it or not is not the focus of the review (though I thought it was a great movie, except for the...

CHUMPVILLE

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 05:11:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - One of my favourite toys from 2002 was this awesome Lego set from the popular Bionicle line. Released alongside the Exo-Toa, the Boxor was the better deal - including an impressive Bionicle vehicle for the good guys, complete with a 'Matoran' villager...

Captain Stupid

Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:06:51 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - Let's get it out of the way from the start: Revenge of the Sith wasn't very good. No, honestly, it wasn't. Although not scraping the terrible depths of the previous two wrecks, Revenge of the Sith was not the godsend everyone claimed, with the...

SMASH!!!

Sun, 7 Aug 2005 06:56:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - Yes, the most awesome toy of 2003 which belongs in every household, college dorm, office and church is now to be reviewed!! ROAR HULK SMASH!!!! Huge and lumbering, the big fists are about 12" by 7" by 7", made of green foam perfect for SMASHING!!!...

Bring back Xevoz!!

Sun, 7 Aug 2005 06:53:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - Since the success of the almighty cool Stikfas, lots of companies have kicked back in response with their own super-articulated figures following the same concept, but none of them have kicked as much butt as Hasbro and their awesome Xevoz line, taking...

Arachnophobia

Sun, 7 Aug 2005 06:50:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - Spoiling plot points and capturing (ripping out?) the hearts of collectors everywhere is the ever-expanding Deluxe Creatures line from the recent hit-flick Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Like the original Harry Potter figure series, the new...

Pepe Rocks

Sun, 7 Aug 2005 06:48:32 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - One of the stranger of the Muppet figures from the award-winning Palisades, Pepe the Prawn King comes direct from the Fifth Series of Muppets toys. A small figure of an uncommon character, Pepe was a regular on Muppets Tonight who most will barely...

ASPARAGUS HORSE

Sun, 9 May 2004 06:03:09 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - Tomb Raider 2 was an appalling, appalling film. How hard can it be to make a good Tomb Raider movie, anyway? You take Angelina Jolie, her airbags and put them in a pyramid or something in which there are traps, CGI monsters, some vague storyline about...

Bionicle: The Game for Windows: Green Toa Up, Green Toa Down, Lift and squat, Gotta Tear the Ground

Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:10:59 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - As you hardcore readers will know well by now, we here at OAFE love Bionicle.(Sadly, you're reading this review on Epinions, which is just not cricket! Head on over to http://www.oafe.net to see the OAFEness in all its glory!)Originating as a twist on...

IT'S GOOD TO SEE WOMEN BACK IN THE KITCHEN

Fri, 12 Mar 2004 04:36:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - When the infamous Muppet character, the Swedish Chef, first uttered his immortal line "Bork, bork, bork!" did he already know that years later he would appear in action figure form in one of the most awesome, detailed playsets ever made? No, of...

I AM EATING, EATING!!!

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:24:36 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - The Chateau fight took place in the middle of the movie, after Morpheus, Trinity and Neo met up with the Merovingian and Persephone betrayed him, taking them to the Keymaker. Just as they free the Keymaker, the Merovingian arrives with his henchman in...

IT's MACTIME NOT

Sun, 7 Mar 2004 13:31:48 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - The reaction to the announcement that Toy Biz's Gollum figure, from the popular Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers line, was going to be a bendy, was a blessed mix. People hated the idea of a fully bendy figure, citing the early Spawn Violator figures as...

SAUSAGE

Sun, 7 Mar 2004 00:50:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - The TRUE evil has come forth. Forget Sauron, forget Satan, forget Todd McFarlane, hell, forget Barbara Streissand - Makuta has risen, and he will destroy all in his path. The Big Bad from Lego's Bionicle series has hit stores and towers over the Toa,...

Ang Lee Disappoints - The Whimsical Hulk

Thu, 26 Jun 2003 21:37:19 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - Adaptations are big business. First theatre, then books, and now this: no longer a term to be scoffe...

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams: Wonderful

Thu, 1 May 2003 04:40:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams is a great movie - it's got some talented young actors, a host of incredible computer generated creatures and locales, colorful characters, and all of it helmed by a director with an imagination and sense of...

Inflicting pain on a puppet has never been more fun.

Thu, 20 Feb 2003 05:08:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - In 2002, the Muppets line from Palisades was one of the biggest hits of the action figure year - the first series sold very well with the second series currently on store shelves and a third on the way for early 2003, including everyone's favourite...

Jackson disappoints again in this wretched display

Tue, 7 Jan 2003 00:43:27 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - "It wasn't as good as it should have been."

This mere observation by a young boy exiting the theatre beside myself serves as the unexpected best critical review of this film of which has been so empowered by over-enthusiastic critics...

The Second Coming

Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:39:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - The Mongroid is a twisted creature - first a fetus in the disgusting external womb that Dr. Talisac had created, it burst free and grew into a terrible monster, like a man with hands for feet and an enormous gaping mouth emerging from its stomach, its...

Hideous Modern Day Frankenstein

Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:36:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - Montefalco grabbed hold of the tapestry. As he did so, Camille named the thing - 'Venal Anatomica." The General pulled off the tapestry and revealed it. As might have been guessed from its scale beneath the carpet, it was of heroic size, nine feet...

Disgusting? Vile? Or Art?

Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:32:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - He hung by his mouth from a device whose purpose was beyond the Generals' comprehension, his mouth hooked up, as though he were a fish. In his perversity, or his genius, or both, he had created some kind of external womb for himself. A...

...you cannot imagine...

Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:26:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - Zarles Kreiger just isn't the man he was once.

There he was. Kreiger, remade. The Scythe-Meister.

There was almost nothing left of the man she'd known. Agonistes' handiwork has transformed the humble assassin into something that would...

Agony.

Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:23:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - The Tortured Souls series is the brainchild of Todd McFarlane, legendary toymaker, and Clive Barker, one of the most well-known horror writers/artists in the world. Designed by Barker then sculpted by the talented team at McFarlane Toys, the...

Back with a vengeance

Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:37:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shocka - Where have I been? It's been a good long time since the Shocka graced these halls to post, so I owe some explanation - I've been over at www.oafe.net, our great site in which myself and two other epinionators have been reviewing toys and action figures...