Again discounts were provided on the night by Kings if you are a Curicon member so if you aren’t a member already make sure you register before the next event!

We’ll hopefully be holding another event soon, the best way to watch out for this is to follow our Facebook page and register to the Curicon group on Meetup where we post all our announcements regarding future events.

See you next time! (more photos to come soon)

- Mike Robins

Since then, several writes have taken up the Tarzan storyline, making the jungle-dwelling warrior one of the best-loved and most recognisable fictional characters in history.

The most recent Tarzan project is the brainchild of writer Roy Thomas and artist Tom Grind berg, who have collaborated to create the All New Tarzan Comic Sunday Strip which is being hosted over on the Edgar Rice Burroughs website.

You can log in and see the latest and all archived Tarzan comic strips, plus bonus material. I’d highly recommend a visit. It’s a really great collaboration and well worth a peek!

Ryan Huff, part-time blogger on Geek of Oz and full-time nerd tells us about his love affair with Star Wars and the plastic friends who made his childhood special.

As a kid, I had no shortage of toys at my disposal and even as a young child I had the utmost respect for these little plastic men and women. These were the friends that you could play with when your other friends weren’t around. While I had a multitude of toys from a broad range of franchises including Transformers, He Man, Voltron and more, it was my Star Wars toys that held pride of place. When Mum and I would go shopping I was always on the look out for secondary characters to fill out my own little “Galaxy Far, Far Away”. Characters like R5-D4, 2-1B and Lobot were a dime a dozen because other kids didn’t want them. Other kids were after the A-Grade characters like Luke, Vader and Yoda but I, after already procuring the main cast, decided that it just wouldn’t be “real” if I didn’t have a supporting cast of characters, the characters that made the Star Wars universe so rich.

My absolute favourite figure in the bunch was a plain, old trooper but not just the regular Stormtrooper, the Biker Scout from Kenner. While other kids went crazy over the Mandalorian armour clad Boba Fett, I was enamoured with the Biker Scout, visored helmet and all. Even to this day, their uniform just seems so utilitarian. While riding through the forests on the forest moon of Endor they needed armour that was less protective, allowing for more range of movement. While having their thighs exposed and covered only in cloth may seem foolhardy, even as a kid I realised that their thighs would be out of harms way when on their mount. Their knees, on the other hand, needed protection from wayward sticks and branches. Their helmets were visored to shield from the suns rays and an eye shield reminiscent of a motorbike rider. I just thought they were the coolest thing ever and eventually lead to the purchase of my second favourite toy ever, a Biker Scout blaster, also from Kenner. The blaster was black in colour and had a grey scope attached to the side. The scope itself had a red plastic insert which had a crosshair embossed on it. Looking through the scope, I could all but see a rebel soldier, bearing down upon me. Wearing my Dads motorcycle goggles and gardening gloves I’d squeeze that bright orange trigger the blaster would let out a battery operated “PEW!”. The battle for Endor had begun.

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Transport yourself back to the summer of 1990.  I was a pasty and pudgy 11 year old (go ahead and do the math to figure out my current geezer quotient) and I had a glaring hole in my life.  I did not own a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

My family was supportive, but $200 at that time was a Herculean, and seemingly unbeatable, obstacle in order to get my hands on that amazing piece of hardware that was seemingly designed to be used in movie practical effects as a stand-in for a Cold War Russian factory.

Luckily, my local cub scout group was working on a fundraiser where you could earn rewards for selling many items of unquestionably high quality.  One of the upper tier rewards was the fabled “NES Action Set”.  Inside this mythical box, you were bestowed an NES, two controllers, a Zapper and a magic cartridge with TWO games on it (Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt).

It took an entire summer, and pretty much every moment of free time, but I earned that NES and became a still pudgy, but somewhat tanned, 11 year old.  I have never valued or enjoyed a singular video game console as much as that early NES.  It also led our group of friends developing a novel non-violent method of settling large disputes.  Combining the time-consuming aspects of a filibuster with the obsessiveness of fantasy sports, these arguments were settled by simulating an entire baseball season (including entering in real player names for your team, often spawning creativity since you only had 6 letters per player) in Baseball Stars.  Whoever won the season, earned the right to win the argument.  This method probably worked mainly by virtue of the fact that you rarely could stay angry enough, or even remember why, after weeks of playing Baseball Stars.  Baseball Stars also taught gender equality with female players and an all-female team.

I still have that original NES and still plug it in time to time to enjoy some Baseball Stars and Dr. Mario with my wife and daughter.  Pretty awesome!

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It was 1966…I was 12 years old and we were visiting my aunt and uncle’s house and showing off my brand new baby brother. My cousin, Lana, was a couple of years older than me, and while the parents talked and brought each other up to date, I gravitated over to the corner of the room where she was playing with some sort of cards…
As I got closer, I saw she was sorting some trading cards…but they didn’t look like the baseball cards I had been collecting for several years. These had Batman and Robin and other characters! Being a huge Batman fan, I was instantly intrigued…
She was sorting out her duplicates from collection…both Batman cards and some Casper cards she had collected. The Casper cards were from 1960, but she hadn’t put together many of those, and had duplicates of most of them. The Batman cards she had stacks of, and she showed me how she sorted them and put them in numerical order…

We looked at them and worked with them for at least two hours…making stacks and writing down which ones were missing.

We had a great time with them, and when we were done, Lana grabbed a stack of her duplicate Casper cards and a stack of her duplicate Batman cards and gave them to me for helping her. I was in seventh heaven…and to this day she is still one of my favorite cousins.
That started it for me with non-sports trading cards. Decades later, and hundreds of additional sets, boxes and packages of non-sports cards…I still have those original cards. My Batman set is complete a couple of times over now…but I still haven’t finished that Casper set…
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This is what we imagine Pokemon would look like in our every day lives. Not quite as extreme as the anime makes it out to be. And yes, one of the boys did paint a squirrel yellow, hopefully we don't have PETA on our backs for this one.

 Which toy made your childhood awesome?? Here, Justin Williams, Editor of Otakus and Geeks

As a big fan of WWF- now WWE – growing up I played WWF RAW the most in the 16 bit era days. This game was an improvement of the previous game Royal Rumble. It’s one of the first games to have wrestlers like Big Daddy Cool Diesel and 1,2,3 Kid and more. It even offered more modes like Bedlam, Survivor Series and the Endurance match. My favorite wrestler to use was Bret Hart. Even though everyone basically had the same moves like suplex, body slam, Irish whips etc, the finishing moves were all different and nothing can beat Bret Hart’s Sharpshooter.  The graphics were good for it’s time and it managed to have a 6-man Royal Rumble which was pretty fun.

Overall this was a very addictive game growing up and any retro fan should have it in their collection.

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Here are some of the photos of the event (others have also been posted on the Curicon Facebook account). If you couldn’t make it or found out too late, don’t fear! We will be holding another similar event hopefully soon in the new year.

Photo credit: Mike Robins

That’s Rich on the left – the super excited one!

Proof that good things come in small (And loud. And funny.) packages, Rich Cassidy is one of those responsible for the awesomeness that is Aggressive Comix. A nerd from an early age, he reminisces about the green figure with the wicked fashion sense that made him the nerd we love today

Power Rangers were definitely everyone’s first taste of ‘Pokemon Syndrome’ in that we had to catch ‘em all.

Power Ranger figures were probably one of the most difficult sets of toys to get as a kid. They were so popular that, they even decided to make a motion picture based on it. (See Turboman).

If your parents were badass enough, they some how managed to get you not just the entire set, but they got you the Green Ranger. Now the Green Ranger came with not only a removable “gold plated” shield (aka, a spray-painted piece of plastic with gold-like paint and add a gloss finish… close enough) BUT it also came with the Dragon Zord!

The Dragon Zord was one of best of the entire collection. Even though the Green Ranger started off bad it didn’t matter. He was still by far one of the BEST figures in the ENTIRE set! I remember playing with that toy for hours and hours on end. ALMOST as much as I played with my foot cruiser! (Who remembers that toy?! F*cking Hot-Rod that Shredder from TMNT drove). Either way, nothing beats old school toys. My basement is filled with ‘em, so many at this point that I actually opened a box yesterday and I’m shocked I even owned some of the toys I have in my collection.

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You may not have heard of them yet but rest assured you will. Matt & Rick Klimenko, of Find Your Collectables,  are the talent behind some of the most amazing costume designs we have ever seen. Covering a (really) wide gamut of cosplays such as Iron Man, Venom and Carnage, along with the aforementioned characters above, these Sydney-based designers are set to raise the bar for designers everywhere.

The most fascinating aspect of their story is that they are completely self-taught. Working from their workshop in Sydney’s Vaucluse, Matt, and his brother Rick, spend their days designing and creating custom costumes for avid cosplayers attending conventions

The Curicon team was lucky enough to bump into them at Supanova Brisbane where they were showcasing some of the amazing costumes they design. Check out our gallery of pictures below and be amazed!

Photos credit: Mike Robins

They can, and will, design almost anything. All you need to do is give them the idea. If you’d like to see some more of their awesome work, check them out on Facebook or email them here for further details