Author Luke Y. Thompson

Playsets are a rare thing for toy lines in this day and age, as they cost a lot to create, and take up shelf space that most retailers would rather stock with smaller items that sell faster. But to their...

RLJE Films Full disclosure right off the bat: I am generally a fan of David Ayer. I'm wearing a Suicide Squad T-shirt as I type this. And odds are you like him more than you think -- did you remember that...

Solstice Studios Once caricatured on South Park as a sort of singing Popeye, Russell Crowe in Unhinged has become a version of Bluto, an aggressive plus-sized potato sack of a human being who thinks...

It's fair to say at this point that BBC/HBO's His Dark Materials season 1, out this week on Blu-ray and digital, is the best version of Philip Pullman's Northern Lights (a.k.a. The Golden Compass) to exist...

The first thing you'll notice about Diamond Select's new "Tactical" John Wick figure is that he's large. Not just by Diamond standards, but to a point that he's likely not compatible with anything else in...

My mother-in-law, while very respectful of my toy collecting and photographing hobby-slash-semi-profession, enjoys being extremely vocal about the aesthetics of certain figures. If it's a variation on an...

Disney For anyone thinking Disney has a magic touch for cinematic sagas due to their stewardship of Star Wars and Marvel, Artemis Fowl may come as a massive wake-up call. Maddeningly vague in its initial...

Editor's note: Please welcome new contributor Luke Y. Thompson, who will be talking all things toys with us at FreakSugar! Everybody wants a piece of that sweet Funko Pop action, but nobody else seems quite...