ToyBoss/Toybox – The toy photo galleries have been redone and now share a bit of code with the pixel art galleries. Not sure how much you’ll notice on your side of the screen, but hopefully this makes the page load more quickly. It also lets me add a lot of photos that I left out to keep the page’s file size down. Some of the galleries now have different urls, but the old ones should still work, too.
– Double Dragon: Syndicate Collectibles: First I got Jimmy Lee and took some new photos of both brothers and some faked enemies. Then I got Willy, the game’s final boss and a beast of an action figure, and took a group pic of all three regular figures. Keeping my fingers crossed that this line continues, especially for Abobo and Linda.
– Street Fighter: New heroes group shot including my new Jada Toys Blanka. I’m SLOWLY catching up in this line.
– Masters of the Universe: New gallery with three new Masterverse pics.
– Marvel Legends: A big group shot of characters who were in the Marvel side of the legendary Mego World’s Greatest Super-Heroes toy line up (except Conan).
– DC Comics: added Justice League “original seven” pic and updated heroes pic, including new additions McF Martian Manhunter and Captain Marvel/Shazam.
– Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: updated heroes lineup pic with NECA comic Casey Jones (gray shirt), archive pic of the Pizza Club boxes stacked up.
– Wrestling: added an old “everybody I have” photo from March 16th, 2024. Sadly, I didn’t have a figure of Stone Cold then.
The site anniversary is on the 19th of July, but I don’t know what I’ll be able to finish for it because I’ll be working on commissions for a while. I already have a few finished sprites to add and linework already drawn for more, so it definitely won’t be an empty update.
The brand new Warp Point website brings a new school approach to the old school concept of video game website webrings. It groups together the latest updates from a wide, growing variety of video game fansites, and I’m proud to say that the ScrollBoss site was invited to be a part of it, too. With the internet being cluttered with more and more meaningless slop, it’s a great way to find new game sites or be notified that a favorite site recently updated. Their 88 x 31 pixel button (so glad to see that format making a comeback) is now part of this site’s sidebar quick links, and I’ll be adding it to more places soon, so you (and I) and go there and see what the other sites are up to. Really, that’s how it was when I started in the 00s and I’m grateful that someone has brought that back again!
Beatdown City Survivors, the horror-flavored sequel to Treachery in Beatdown City, has been available for a while, and you can get the scoop on the official site!
Once again shouting out the Pizza Kidd pixel art beat ’em up Kickstarter, fighting its way to the finish line, so please help out if you can!
Kimimi made a post about getting Escalator Action (not a typo, not a photo manipulation) and I’ve been waiting for that review ever since. That wait is over, so check it out on Kimimi’s blog!
