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BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE Featurette

Loot Crate Review: May 2015

Click below to see if Loot Crate delivers the goods with May 2015's Unite-themed box. Review by Matt Cummings After a series of very good Loot Crate boxes including March and April , May 2015's submission does more than its best to UNITE them with its awesomeness. The result is yet another great cornucopia of goodness for a very affordable price of $20. The monthly geek subscription box service is among dozens of entries vying for your hard-earned dollars, with Loot promising a nice return on that monthly subscription. Its hand-picked, cool geeky collection wrapped around a theme faces a lot of competition, but let's see why I think May undeniably delivers the goods. Loot's nondescript sex toy packaging makes my elderly neighbors nervous. A quick scissoring of the tape underneath and it's clear May is going to rock. Is that Green Ranger?! Upon cracking the case, we find The Power Rangers representing in a terrific t-shirt. This is consiste

Marvel Collector Corps Review: May 2015

Marvel's opening round is a knockout. Review by Matt Cummings Subscription boxes are all the rage: with more arriving each day, it wasn't going to be long before powerhouse Marvel would get into the game. Their concept - titled Marvel Collector Corps - delivers a completely exclusive box of nerdy comic goodness every other month. At $25 a box plus $6.95 shipping, it might seem a bit overpriced. But from our observations, the contents were well-worth it. The Promise The initial offer was enough to peak our interest: promising a value of $50, the box would keep the "fluff" to a minimum (a nice choice of words considering that some boxes are a bit heavy with them), but also offer one of four similar-themed t-shirts (no choice but that worked out OK as you'll see) and an exclusive Funko figure. But the deal goes deeper: subscribe to a year and you join The Founders, which means you get an 8" exclusive figure on your one-year anniversary.