by Slick McFavorite | Mar 25, 2010 | Open Your Toys Cast
Can you smell it in the air? The scent of anticipation? The odor of excitement? The stink of unshowered masses? I can remember back just a couple years ago when I really wished I could go to some of the bigger conventions. Fortunately in the last two years the Mrs....
by Slick McFavorite | Feb 24, 2010 | Open Your Toys Cast, Toy Fair
Do all caps and an exclamation mark do justice to how excited I am about Toy Fair 2010 ? Not even close. With all of the leaks, with all of the stolen Chinese toys, they still seem to absolutely amaze me. There’s usually at least a few pure unadulterated...
by Slick McFavorite | Feb 16, 2010 | Open Your Toys Cast
Hey toy fans! Mr. Slicky here, happy as a clam. How happy is clam anyway? Well it really doesn’t matter, I’m still sitting here with a big stupid grin on my face. Yes, I have been drinking, but it has much more to do with all the news from Toy Fair 2010....
by Slick McFavorite | Jan 20, 2010 | Open Your Toys Cast
Wow, finally. I thought the holidays were never going to end. We have officially started to take down our Christmas decorations. We were not being lazy for once, we actually had a good reason. Last Saturday was the triumphant return of "Homie Christmas"....
by Slick McFavorite | Jan 11, 2010 | Open Your Toys Cast
As I sit here sober on a Sunday night, which hasn’t happened in a very long time, I’m excited, which also hasn’t happened in very long time. Okay, I’m actually very easily excitable and it happens quite often. What I really mean is excited...
by Slick McFavorite | Dec 31, 2009 | Open Your Toys Cast
In the immortal words of Clark W. Griswald, "Hallelujah…Holy shit…Where’s the Tylenol?". Has it already been a year? A decade? Really? Seems like just yesterday we had started our own podcast and were ranting on almost every other subject...
by Slick McFavorite | Nov 27, 2009 | Black Friday, Open Your Toys Cast
I am sitting here so uncomfortably stuffed it’s not even funny. My only reprieve from the discomfort is knowing that we won’t be standing in a line out in the cold waiting for a store to open, fighting the hordes of deal hungry soccer moms or standing in...
by Slick McFavorite | Nov 27, 2009 | Open Your Toys Cast
Hey there toy fans. It’s Thanksgiving and this should have been up a few days ago. Oh well, there is another cast being posted almost immediately after this one. If you can’t guess, this is just a continuation of the last cast. Basically that means...
by Slick McFavorite | Nov 18, 2009 | Open Your Toys Cast
Hey toy fans, welcome back. Damn it feels good to be casting again. It had been one crazy summer. We blinked and fall is almost over. The stores are in full-on holiday mode. I even heard Christmas music doing a toy run during a blizzard the other day. The end of the...
by Slick McFavorite | Nov 6, 2009 | Open Your Toys Cast
That’s right, the much anticipated, by me at least, conclusion to our one year anniversary show is now officially part of Internet history. More so for the fact that it is finally up as opposed to any actual measurable value, except for possibly fun....