For the few lurkers that venture this deep into my personal/professional “love me” site, I’m back to start doing some regular updates. I’m not sure if they’ll be daily, but […]
Category Archives: Media
Blast from the Past – MMPRToys visited PowerAnime
Back in the days of physical store Power Anime 2.0 (Mitsuwa), some strong influencers swung by to share their passion with Power Ranger Keys we had in our Gashapon machines […]
What is anime?
Simple question, and recently I’ve heard all sorts of thoughtful (and not so thoughtful) ideas about what it is. With its meteoric rise of popularity in the early 2000’s thanks […]
Thoughts: A Positive Economic Effect of COVID-19? Inventory hoarding is now good business
Its no doubt that the much feared coronavirus that sprung up from Wuhan, China late last year has created some serious waves with product supply all over the world. With […]
Happy New Year, 2020!
For the FigWiz, it truly is starting anew. If you hadn’t seen on my LinkedIn yet, I am now a Sr. Brand & Product Manager of Loot Crate, a new […]
Bellwether Updates: Linear Regression Breakthroughs and Brands put on point!
I did some exciting additions to the Bellwether system including a trendline on our graph using linear regression and a ranking page by license showing top and bottom 10 on […]
Perspective: The Toys That Made Us (TTMU) Season 3 Episode 1 – Mighty Morphin Power Rangers / BANDAI America
What a way to start off a Friday! I’m a big fan of the entire TTMU series by Netflix as a toy buff myself, and the first episode of the […]
Brands Waking Up to the Amazon Effect
In a bold move, Nike has decided to pull the plug on direct retail with Amazon. Decrying that “Amazon is just a traffic aggregator that reduces friction in consumption… It […]
Introducing The Bellwether
I see online that many professionals share artwork, animation samples, video edits, TED talk speeches, seminar sound bite platitudes, and incredibly well thought out articles on everything from how to […]
Brand Burnout – A stream of thought
Having been in the hobby industry of nerds for the last 20 years and a life long fanboy of all things geek before they were chic, its been an incredible […]