tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14304344085397516442024-02-20T13:07:36.658-08:00The Plastic Eyeball - A Toy BlogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01454650838507365691noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430434408539751644.post-70851735606433924232016-11-16T21:31:00.001-08:002016-11-17T07:36:49.578-08:00Toasted Monkey BallsOne of my goals this year was to top the paltry number of blog posts that I did last year. I only did four of them, which shouldn't be too hard to top. Of course, it's November now and I've only done one, so I guess I should get my ass in gear...<br />
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Now, I don't want to to make my first post in almost 8 months be about the same thing it was last time, but I'm a rebel. Your mom warned you about guys like me.</div>
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And to be fair, Funko's Pop vinyl figures have become my MAIN line over this past year. I'm not sure what the exact date was when I truly became hooked, but I know it was sometime in late November, so I wanted to do an anniversary post of sorts.<br />
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Technically, my first Pop ever was this Peter Pan. He came with the Blu Ray version of the movie, and he's smaller than a regular Pop figure.</div>
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For a while, that was it. My wife had her Daenerys and I had my li'l Petey. Petey's neat, but he wouldn't really be enough to hook me on anything (except for maybe pixie dust - that stuff's hardcore). It would be another figure that would finally crack open my brain and force Pops to fully invade my thoughts.<br />
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Last year I decided to finally give Breaking Bad a try, and I tore that show UP. We just ripped through it, and ex-cop/hitman/enforcer/fixer/private investigator Mike Ehrmantraut was easily my favorite character. I had more or less forgotten Pops at this point and came across Mike's figure by happy accident, and instantly I knew I'd have to buy him. I actually hummed and hawed on him for a few weeks, but it was only a matter time till I caved.<br />
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I expected to love Mike's Pop - he's Mike! But I was still impressed by how much personality there is in what could be a plain figure. Everything from his tired, surly expression to the band-aid where a bullet ripped through the tip of his ear - sure Pops are cute, but they still perfectly represent the characters they're meant to be. I knew I was going to want more. I was quickly becoming hooked on Pops like they were blue, 99% pure crystal meth (that's a Breaking Bad reference, kids. Drugs are bad.)<br />
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Another Pop that appealed to me early on was this version of Orphan Black's Rachel Duncan with a pencil in her eye. It's nasty! And it became another thing that I love about Pop vinyls: they introduce to me to new things. There's a lot of Pops that appeal to me nostalgically, or whatever I'm into at the moment, but if Rachel here never caught my eye *cough cough* then I wouldn't have given Orphan Black a try. Now I love Orphan Black! And even though I knew it was coming, seeing Rachel get the pencil to the eye was still pretty gross.<br />
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I owe Fallout to Pop vinyls as well. It's become quite common for Pops of unknown characters to appeal to me, and then I want to learn more about them, and then BOOM! New interest! I never played any Fallout games until I got a few Fallout Pops and tried Fallout 4. My mind was blown, and one obsession fed another.<br />
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Originally, I told myself I would only get Pops of characters from things I've seen (or played). But then I figured I'd miss out on discovering new things if I wasn't open to the other stuff. This next Pop doesn't fall into that category. This is the Hot Topic exclusive sparkly version of Edward Cullen from the Twilight series. Now, I will admit to seeing the first three Twilight movies. My wife loved the books, and tried to love the movies. She watches LOTS of my movies, so when she wanted to see these I went with her. She's no longer a fan, and I can see why. That being said, I have a soft spot for sparkly figures. I think it started with the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkrvuD6UKIbWOc8Ws-Z_S4dY8las-u2LZSrh_LwlD6hnGJmk-QDrK_gmsM-CJvCUFJuivQKKqGh7ACdt25d8Z0tmAZ8s12uJWx1FxVNdM2utnCS_EKVhZADlBCOUp2weh1z1xEUxVQ_aJw/s1600/IMG_5013.JPG">Mecha Baltan</a> figure I picked up in Japan. When I heard they were doing a sparkly version of Edward, I secretly admitted to myself that I needed one. I ended up getting him for myself on my birthday, and I actually like him a lot! </div>
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The sparkles don't stand out as much as I would have hoped, but I still like him enough that I'm not even <i>that</i> ashamed to admit I have him! He's been standing on my mantle since I got him in late October, and I'm still not ready to put him away.</div>
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Speaking of sparkles, look at this guy! He's got crusty sparkles, but they're still sparkles!<br />
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There's a dark side to Pop vinyls, and it's not that occasionally characters outside my range of interests (like Edward Cullen) will appeal to me. It's that some of them are *choke* bobble heads. I hate bobble heads!<br />
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No, that doesn't do it justice.<br />
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I <u style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">HATE </u>bobble heads!<br />
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And it kills me because ALL Marvel and Star Wars Pops are bobble heads. AAAARGH!!!<br />
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Even though Pops only move at the necks, it's still fun to hold them and play around with them. Bobble heads feel much less play worthy. If the head turns too much it's hard to get it back to its original angle and still have it look normal. Bobble heads don't feel like real toys to me. They're more like cheesy statues. You could probably say all Pops are cheesy statues, but the non-bobble ones still feel like tried and true toys to me. Anyway, I love Star Wars and Marvel, and there have been times where I've had to just bite the bullet and and get some bobbly Pops.<br />
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Take Kaecilius in the last two pics. At the time of this writing I still haven't seen the Doctor Strange movie that he's from, but whether I end up liking it or not (and I've heard nothing but good things), I know that I LOVE the Doctor Strange Pops. The details that Funko puts into each figure keep getting better and better, and bobble head or not, Kaecilius is probably one of my favorite Pops yet. The sparkles around the eyes are just the icing on the cake. The crusty, crusty cake.<br />
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Pop vinyls may be the main line I collect right now, but Star Wars has held that title many times over the years, and I have no shortage of figures to make me happy. I didn't need to get any Star Wars Pops, ESPECIALLY since they're also bobble heads. But what can I say? I'm weak. The more Pops I got, the more I wanted to have Star Wars represented in this collection as well. It's just too important to me. And that was a while before they added my all-time favorite Star Wars character to the line: Zuckuss! I try to get all things Zuckuss, and his Pop turned out amazingly well. Like Kaecilius, I don't even care that he's a bobble head, he's one of my favorite Pops regardless. And even better, the tubes that go from his face around to his back restrict the bobbling, so he's <i>barely</i> a bobble head!<br />
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The Star Wars Pops are also the only ones with these black stands, and they were another thing that was keeping me away from Pops. They made the Star Wars Pops seem that much more like statues. But once I realized they were removable, they became a non-issue. The fuzzy freak shown above is Bistan from Rogue One. So far, you can only get a figure of him either as a Pop or a Lego minifigure. I'm sure that'll change, but right now it's another win for Pops!<br />
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Funko is starting to play outside of their usual Pop norms with battle poses, different kinds of stands, and non-humanoid characters. This Boba Fett is from the Smuggler's Bounty collector's box subscription. Every other month you can look forward to exclusive Pops, shirts, mugs, etc. I don't get to inspect these Pops before I buy them (which is why this Boba Fett has some glop on his visor), but so far I've only gotten one that I didn't want to keep. So I guess the odds have been in my favor.<br />
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Dory from Finding Nemo is good example of a Pop that isn't the typical humanoid style. I loved Finding Nemo, but I wouldn't say Dory as a character is anything special to me. But her Pop is just so WEIRD, it's another one that appealed to me very early into my addiction. She was just really hard to find, and I had all but given up when a slight repaint came out for Finding Dory. I think most collectors were upset because the only difference from the last one was the pattern on her back going from grey to black, but it's more accurate this way so I'm happy with how it all played out.<br />
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She feels different than other Pops too. She's just a hollow chunk of plastic. I guess she's basically just a Pop head without a body. I'm glad I finally got her though!</div>
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As much as I like weird or crazy looking characters, I'll always have a soft spot for normal looking human Pops. I think the regular people just have a certain charm that sets them apart from the aliens, droids, etc. The Ferris Bueller Pop made me go and re-watch that movie and they both gave me a nice punch in the nostalgia. Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite is just funny, and Scott Pilgrim needed a figure in some form or another. Are there other, non-Pop Scott Pilgrim figures? I don't know. Anyway, this Scott Pop is from a funny part in the movie, but I would have rather had one with his sword, or at least his winter jacket. Either way, it's always nice to have more Canadians in the line!</div>
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And speaking of regular human Pops, the majority of my 'wish list' for series that I want Funko to make just happen to be 'regular humans'. Home Alone is at the absolute top of my list, and I'd also love to get Pops from Seinfeld, Frasier, Snatch, and Get Smart.</div>
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I'll wrap this up with my most recent Pop, which is firmly back in the weirdo department. Even though I have a soft spot for regular human Pops, I have a hard spot for the weirdos. That sounded dirtier than it was intended. Anyway, I just got this thing today: the Toasted Monkey Bomb from Call of Duty. Although, every time I glance at the package, I see "Toasted Monkey Balls."</div>
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Anyway, I never really got into the Call of Duty games, but I love their Pops! The first series was good (especially the non-mud splattered ones), but this second series hits it out of the park! It covers both my love of cool looking action dudes and it's got a hefty dose of weird.</div>
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And in the end, I think that's the main reason I've gotten into Pop vinyls as much as I have. As a single toy line, it just hits so many targets for me. Throughout all its various sub-series, it checks off nostalgia, current loves, stylized vinyl figures, the weird that I like, the normal that I like, obscure characters, and it gets me into new things I wouldn't have tried otherwise. It just keeps on getting bigger and better and I can't wait to see what next year brings - especially if it can top Toasted Monkey Balls!</div>
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I don't want to begin every post with something along the lines of "Boy, it's sure been a long time since I've updated the blog", but I can't help it. Because, boy, it's sure been a long time since I've updated the blog!</div>
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Anyway, I like doing spotlights on the first and last toys I get each year, so this time I'm going to cover the last of 2015 and first of 2016 at the same time. They're both from a toy line I've gotten into in a big way, even though I only really started back in November. Pop! Vinyl figures, by Funko!</div>
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Before we begin, I feel like I should say I resisted buying any Pop! figures for a long time. They're definitely cute, and I guess I held that against them. I also didn't see them as true 'toys' - more like collectables, like bobbleheads, statues, etc. I doesn't help that some Pop!s are also bobbleheads, but I'll cover that in another post. </div>
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Any friends I've made through a shared love of toys have been met online. While my friends in 'real life' may still have proper geeky interests I can get behind, I wouldn't say any of them are toy collectors. And I think this is why I ended up getting into Pop!s as much as I have. Everyone seems to like these guys! I have friends, family, co-workers, etc that have some. Heck, even my wife had a Pop! before I did! I'm the one that got it for her, but still, she wanted it! It's a toy line I get to talk about with people face to face, on a regular enough basis that there was no way I could keep resisting. So I picked one up. Then another. Then... Well, while this won't turn into a straight Pop! Vinyl blog, chances are good they'll pop up regularly from now on.</div>
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Once I gave them a try, I actually did start to see them as true toys. Plus, there are Pop!s of characters who have no other toys out there. It's a nice way to get toys of these obscure characters or fan favorites. There's really something for everyone! Anyway, let's get on to the actual spotlights here.</div>
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I was pretty confident that my last toy of 2015 should be a Pop! While it's admittedly not the most exciting one I could have chosen, James Gordon does speak to a specific moment of time in my life. I had recently watched an episode of <i>Gotham </i>('A Bitter Pill To Swallow') where Gordon and few others others are trapped at the top of a high-rise building, fending off wave after wave of mercenaries being sent to kill them. <i>Gotham</i> has been all over the map in terms of episode quality. Some are gritty with actual twists and suspense, while others are pure cheese. This episode entertained me all of the way through, so much that I wasn't ready for it to be over when it ended. Big Jim here kicked some serious ass. It was still on my mind when it came time to choose my final toy of the year, so that's how Gordon took the final spot.</div>
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Don't let the simple, stylized faces fool you; some Pop!s can make for some pretty cool looking figures. But the Pop!s of regular every-day-lookin' folk can sometimes be a little bland, and I know Gordon falls into that category. If it hadn't been for that exciting episode still fresh in my mind, I can't say he would have really been on my radar. On the other hand, he looks like the GCPD detective that he is. He's just a regular guy trying to make a difference in a city going crazy, so I guess he should be a little bland. And despite the simplistic style of Pop! Vinyls, they all typically look like who they're supposed to be, and that holds true here.<br />
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I do have a few complaints though. The main one is that the paint where the head attaches to the neck was put on a bit thick, and it obviously hadn't dried by the time figure was put together. The paint dried to Gordon's shoulder, so when you turn his head the paint stays on the shoulder and you're left with these ugly looking... spots. You can't tell there's an issue when his head is facing forwards, and the spots are hidden underneath otherwise, but I still know they're there and I'd be lying if I said it didn't irk me. </div>
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Star Trek is one of those things were my interest ebbs and flows. Sometimes I love it, but sometimes I'm indifferent. I wouldn't say I ever stop liking it, but it's not something that's always on my radar. I guess you could say I'm in an "ebb" state right now. But one thing that never changes is that Geordi La Forge is my favorite Star Trek character ever. Star Trek comes and goes, but Georgi is forever.<br />
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I think originally Geordi appealed to me simply because his VISOR looked cool. Then I learned he was basically the everyman of the crew; the occasionally awkward Mr. Nice Guy who also has a totally boss VISOR. What's not to love?<br />
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Like Jim Gordon, Geordi looks as he should. That VISOR still looks awesome, maybe even more so in giant form. My only real complaint is that his comm badge is just painted on. Geordi shares the same body as Picard, Riker, and Data, meaning they all have the painted comm badge. I don't understand how Funko apparently saved money by reusing the body four times, but opted to paint the comms on instead of sculpting them. Also, the gold part of his comm isn't as symmetrical as it should be. <br />
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I was planning on sticking to Pop!s of characters that are special to me, like Jim and Geordi here. Well, mostly Geordi. And I have definitely picked up some of those. As I've been getting more (and more!) I decided that at the very least, the Pop!s I get should be from movies or shows I've actually seen, or games I've played. At this point, I'll get any Pop! if they're cool enough. So like I said, chances are good I'll spotlight more of these things down the road.<br />
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Oh yeah! I suppose I could have made this post part of my "Give Me Vinyl" series, but it turns out I hate that title. So I guess that's done.<br />
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Anyway, it feels good to finally post something again. See you in a few months!<br />
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ANYTHING! Edition)Hooooooo man. I knew it was going to be harder to find time for the ol' blog, but SERIOUSLY? I haven't done a true post since Feb! There was that one Twitter post, but I haven't kept up with that either. Probably because Twitter's so boring. Anyway, there's a lot of things exciting me toy-wise that I'm itching to get to, but before that I want to get this batch of randoms out of the way, which I assembled out of desperation to just talk about SOMETHING.<br />
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<b>RAZHAN MOL</b><br />
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One thing that's changed since I last posted on the blog is that Target has high-tailed it out of Canada. I guess they didn't really try and they disappeared as fast as they showed up, but I always liked shopping there. I don't know what other people were looking for, but I was always able to find things that I couldn't anywhere else, like Razhan Mol here.</div>
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I have a thing for companies like <a href="http://www.papo-france.com/en/">Papo</a> and <a href="http://www.schleich-s.com/en/CA/">Schleich</a>. Those lines of unarticulated knights, monsters, and the like. I think they're usually European. You can usually find some really interesting figures with that stuff. This Terra line is from a company called Battat that seems to specialize in making similar versions of toy lines you'd see elsewhere. Not full knock-offs, but not super original either. This is their Papo/Schleich series.</div>
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Razhan Mol (the Unholy) is pretty cool for what he is. I'm used to these kinds of figures being more expensive than they look (I think they're hand painted?), but Battat's stuff isn't quite up there with the competition. If any good came out of Target closing up shop here it was being able to discount shop before they left. I couldn't bring myself to pay full price for this guy, but I got him at a slight discount. The toys were some of the last things to get marked down to blowout prices, but I didn't want to miss out on him. A slight discount is better than no discount!</div>
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Razhan Mol is easily the standout of this Terra line. They're all fairly generic, but this guy still managed to grab my attention every time I saw him. He does look like a badass, if a generic one. Still a badass! The paint here is pretty plain, but there's still some cool details, like the skull on his shield. </div>
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Razhan comes with a pretty massive sword and an less impressive hammer. I think you might be able to pull the hammer out of his hand, but that sword isn't going anywhere and it's fairly rigid, so storing him safely might be a bit of a trick. It would have been cool if you could actually use his shield, but it's not surprising that it's stuck to his back.</div>
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As far as generic, near no-name toys go, you really could do a lot worse than Razhan Mol. I know I didn't praise him as much as I could have, but I do like him. He's got his flaws (it was almost impossible to find one with good eyes; I settled for one that looked like he could be looking to the right), but he's also not without his charm and I don't regret buying him.</div>
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Oh, and all the Terra figures come with a bio, or more specifically each figure comes with the bios for everyone. I can't find the little fold-out sheet with the bios, but basically Razhan is the the big bad villain of the series, and he looks like it.</div>
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This next guy is also from Target, but he was much more of an impulse buy. Like, entirely an impulse buy. I'm just a sucker for a hammerhead shark. He ended up being pretty cool though!</div>
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I've never seen the Octonauts show, but apparently this is Captain Barnacles. He's a polar bear. There's not a whole lot more I can say about him besides WOOK AT DAT WIDDLE FACE! *Aherm*. The real draw here is his widdle vehicle, the Gup-B.</div>
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The Gup-B is a widdle shark boat with rollers on the bottom so you can roll it this way and/or that. I will say that it's noteworthy that they actually sculpted some dials/controls for Captain Barnacles (or at least his head) to use. They could have just left that area blank, and a lot of toy makers would have. It's nothing fancy, but I like it.</div>
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Anyway, hammerheads, right? Right. The cool thing about this set is that it comes with extra "shells" that you can snap over the regular shark boat to either make it into something else, or give it different abilities? I prefer the latter. I can see this thing transforming to meet whatever situation arises. Oh yes, I've thought of action scenes for Captain Barnacles and his Gup-B. He's got his regular shark mode for biting things, his hammerhead mode for ramming (and radar)...</div>
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He's got this flying fish mode for flying (duh)...</div>
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And he's got this tiger shark mode for cloaking/camouflage. And maybe more biting. I can imagine a scene where he's dropped out of a plane in flying fish mode, then glides until he's close enough to change to his shark mode and dives into the water. Then he stealthily moves in tiger shark mode until he changes to hammerhead mode and strikes!</div>
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You can find some interesting stuff at dollar stores, like this thing here. It looks like it's marketed towards girls, but even more it looks like it's marketed towards ME. Yeah, I know I've got an interesting batch of randoms this time.</div>
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These Shoulder Trolls came a little late to the 90's party that was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_doll">TROLLS</a>. Very late. And I know it wasn't because they were trying to get their card art <i>just right</i>. Woah, Wikipedia says Troll dolls hit their peak in the early 60's. Really? Ok. Point is, they missed the boat.</div>
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That being said, this guy looks nuts. Girls really want this guy sitting on their shoulder? Because I do.</div>
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I love his colors! Blue and orange is my personal favorite color combo. Everybody has one! This is mine.</div>
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Now, Shoulder Trolls being Shoulder Trolls, one would assume there should be a way to have them sit on your shoulder. And there is. All Shoulder Trolls come with this MAGIC COIN that helps them sit on you. With magic. Look at that thing! They took the jazzy effects from the packaging and just carried it over to the coin! </div>
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I do feel bad though. You know the Shoulder Trolls really thought they'd tapped into something special. I shouldn't even be telling you this, but the magic of Shoulder Trolls is... magnetism. Once again, science explains absolutely everything in the universe! Sorry, Shoulder Trolls. You see, there's a magnet in the MAGIC COIN and you simply place the MAGIC COIN under your shirt at the shoulder. Then, you stick the Shoulder Troll (which also has a magnet in it) to the MAGIC COIN and the troll sits on your shoulder. That's the magic of science!</div>
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I had taken a picture of me wearing the Shoulder Troll, but... I can't find it. Maybe the troll's hiding it somewhere? I wonder if that'll come back to haunt me...</div>
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Did you know there were other cars in Back To The Future besides the DeLorean? I went back and rewatched the movie, and it's true! Apparently there's even some worth remembering!</div>
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Seriously though, even if I didn't love Back To The Future, if you know me at all through reading my posts here, how could I NOT buy this? It's just an old timey car covered in <strike>shit</strike> manure. Look at it! It's gross! The manure's even got this shine to it. It looks fresh. And a little moist. </div>
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This is Biff Tannen's Ford Super De Luxe that can be seen manure-free numerous times throughout the movie, but I don't care about that. I will only buy it if there's poo.</div>
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When I originally took these pics way back when, the Daredevil series on Netflix was brand new and it blew me away. Seriously, I never really cared about the character, but I thought the show was amazing. It also made me see Daredevil in a new light and truly appreciate him.</div>
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Now, this isn't Daredevil from that show. This one is from a Spiderman line that came out some years ago. I actually bought him at Safeway, and I only got him because he reminded me of CJ, the end boss of the godawful <a href="http://www.vgmuseum.com/reviews/snes/sc/">Street Combat</a> game for the SNES. Why did I want a figure that reminded me of CJ from Street Combat? I don't know. I also wanted a car covered in manure and a troll that sits on my shoulder. I just want things, ok?</div>
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This figure definitely shows its age, but it also manages to stand its own against some of the more modern figures. This Spiderman line <i>just</i> predated Marvel Legends, I think, but you can see where things were headed. On one hand, this Daredevil looks a bit scrawny and his neck joint is weird/frustrating, but most of these joints work. There's a bunch of Marvel Legends figures that can't claim to actually have joints that work. As for the scrawniness, well, he's not very big in the Netflix show either, but it works. The face is a little old school, but aside from some minor paint issues it also works well enough. </div>
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Daredevil comes with some nunchucks that are connected by black string, so you can actually chuck 'em. He's also got a church window base for some late night skulking that's got a hole in the back so you can mount it to a wall with a nail. Or a tack.</div>
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Given that I haven't always liked the character and bought this figure for dubious reasons, I loved how the base mounts to the wall, and this Daredevil has been proudly mounted to my toy room wall for all to see for years. Then the show came out and made me like him that much more! Still, I look forward to a proper Netflix Daredevil figure.</div>
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Wooo, look at this guy. I've been reading the Walking Dead comics for years, and I've gotten into the show as well. Unfortunately it's been hard to get into the toy line by McFarlane Toys, mostly because the earlier waves were so terrible. The figures have gradually been getting better though, so I finally bit the bullet and picked up one of the zombies.</div>
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Every season the show has a few zombies that really stand out, and this guy showed up in the first episode of season 4. You take whatever humour you can from this show, and seeing a walker that has fallen through the ceiling and is dangling by his intestines is kinda funny. Creepy. But funny. He'll still try to getcha though!</div>
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His guts come sculpted in a ring shape so you can recreate his dangling scene, and the guts can be rotated to look like they're just hanging loose as well. Or you can remove the bungee parts completely so they don't get in the way. Whichever you like. The Bungee Walker is here to please you. </div>
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There's not a whole lot going on here articulation-wise, but that's not too surprising and not really a bad thing either. This guy is meant to dangle and dangle he does!</div>
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Oh, incidentally the figure's original name was "Bungee Guts Walker". I don't know why they cut the "Guts" part, but it was so much better that way!</div>
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My brother is the real anime/manga fan of the family, so I gave him this Cheetah Diggers figure for Christmas one year. I've never read a Gold Digger comic, and I don't know if he has either, but... cat girl... so it's okay. I guess he didn't care about her too much, because he ended up putting her in a box of stuff he was getting rid of. So I took her back!</div>
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She's got the basic five points of articulation that are making a comeback these days, so she can punch and kick and... dive? Sure, why not? I still no nothing about her, but she's colourful and... cat girl... that's about all you need to know, right? </div>
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I have a bad habit of buying Lego sets specifically for the minifigures they come with. That's why the blind bagged minifigures are so perfect for me, but it's expensive otherwise. Besides the Winter Village sets, there's not a whole lot I really pay attention too once the figures are built. I even have a bin of unbuilt Lego sets with all the minifigures removed. I'll get to them eventually...</div>
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But that's why I like tiny sets like this, because it's still mostly about the minifigures! </div>
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I've picked up a handful of Ninjago sets over the years, and yes, it's always been for the minifigures. I really fought the urge to buy one of the bigger sets for one of these snake skull guys, and I'm glad I did. This little Anacondrai Battle Mech came out and now there's no guilt!</div>
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This minifigure is Sleven, and while I haven't kept up with the Ninjago storylines, I can tell you he's a cool looking dude. The snake skull helmet was the real draw, but his snake tattoos and half painted face also make him pop.</div>
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Giant mechs are all well and good, but for some reason I prefer the smaller ones. I love this little gladiator-looking thing, and how Sleven kinda functions as its head. It's not the safest design, but I guess that's why he wears the helmet.</div>
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<b>CREW CHIEF PVT. SPUNKMEYER</b><br />
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Have I mentioned my love/hate relationship with Minimates? If not, just know that I love them and I hate them. I love how you can often find obscure characters that rarely get figures with Minimates, and I'm ok with the style. I hate how some of the figures fall apart too easily and quality control isn't always the best. But usually the really barebones Minimates are a safe bet.</div>
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I've only seen Aliens once and it's ok, but I had to look this guy up to see who he was.</div>
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<a href="http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Daniel_Spunkmeyer">Daniel Spunkmeyer</a></div>
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I must confess I only bought this figure because of his name. Spunkmeyer! Hahahahahahaha! Seriously? Spunkmeyer? SPUNKMEYER! It still kills me. Apologies to the Spunkmeyers of the world.</div>
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I could have chosen an armoured marine or any number of aliens, but no. I wanted my Spunkmeyer!</div>
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Silly names. Cat girls. Poo cars. This is how I buy things. Luckily Spunkmeyer is actually a nice figure. I said the barebones Minimates are best and it's because you don't have any bulky crap getting in the way and bogging the figure down. Jackets and helmets are okay, but some Minimates have extra stuff on their torsos/waists/arms/legs that just end up hurting the figures more than anything. I have a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Minimate, and I LOVE Stay Puft, but his legs are so bulky only one foot can be on the ground at a time. Spunkmeyer is perfection at its simplest. He's got a helmet and a gun and that's it. He moves well, he can stand on his own, and he's ready to be ripped apart in the back of your dropship, should you so desire.</div>
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Wrapping things up this time is George Sanderson, the big shaggy horny guy from Monsters Inc. </div>
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What? He has a horn!</div>
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I can't remember why I bought this figure, but I think it's because I thought his scene in the movie was funny? I mean, it is, but is that why I got him? I have no idea. It's been so long that now he's just <i>there</i> in my collection, but I know he wasn't gifted to me. I chose him. Hmmmm....</div>
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If you push down on George's head, his fur flies off and he screams "No! Not my fur!" to recreate the scene in the movie where the CDA (that's Child Detection Agency) jump him and shave him bald. He may scream some other lines, but his batteries are dead and I haven't gotten around to changing them.</div>
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The Plastic Eyeball is now on Twitter! Why? I don't know. I'm hoping it's an easy way to keep up the toy talk while my time to write spotlights on the blog is reduced by child rearing. That doesn't mean I'm giving up the blog; I'm simply adapting to new situations.<br />
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Visit the new Twitter page <a href="https://twitter.com/PlasticEyeball">here</a>, and we can keep on keeping on.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01454650838507365691noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430434408539751644.post-44468046702097396562015-02-12T18:05:00.001-08:002015-02-12T18:06:55.578-08:00Cheap and Skeezy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Look at that face though! Hard to complain about losing free time with that face smiling at you. Still, the blog must go on too! Or at least I'd very much like it to... I may have to change the way I do spotlights (like ditching my rule about having to cover more than one toy at a time). In this case I went back to a post I started a while ago and decided to finish it up.<br />
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Before I started finding the good stuff during last year's UK trip, I could only find some crap. It was cool crap, but still undeniably crap. At least it was crap that I haven't really seen anywhere else, and I love showing off crap like that. So come, let's all look at my crap!<br />
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The two pics sandwiching my boy Kai are from a line I found in a dollar store in Newry, Ireland (not sure if I have to specify <i>Northern</i> Ireland or not, but it was). Monsta Fizz is an odd little line that I wish I bought more of. It's one of those "magic fizz" lines where you drop a block or a ball into some water, watch it fizz, dissolve, and reveal the figure inside. The figures in this series come in pieces and can be mixed and matched with each other. The package says there are "loads" to collect, but there's no sheet that says how many figures you can get or what their names are. <br />
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One thing I like about a line of unnamed figures is making up names for the characters. I called this guy the Zombie Wizard. He's got some real creepiness to him! I think it's the way his head kind of flops to one side that gets me. It's not like his head is leaning because of his weak neck. It's his actual head that had a lean in it. That's weird!<br />
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I didn't take full package shots because they were pretty beaten up, but I had to show off the "art" on the back. This line has to be in the running for Worst Packaging Artwork Ever. It looks like the manufacturers just got their kids to do it! At first I was wondering if any of these cheesy looking characters could actually be found inside, and once I pulled this guy out of the fizz I figured it's probably a real possibility. I don't think he's represented in the "artwork", but he matches the style pretty closely. Out of the three Monsta Fizz figures I got, this is the only one that feels like a dud. He's also a dude! I haven't landed on a name yet, but it'll be something alone the lines of Swamp Dude. Hey, how about Swamp Dude? He's still lame, but at least that name is a step in the right direction.<br />
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This guy is my favorite of the three. He's easily the coolest one of them, looking like some kind of space fantasy monster. His paint's not the best, especially on the face. I don't think it's supposed to look like he has blood running down his chin, but it does. On the other hand, it totally works with the look of the character, so I'm more or less fine with it. I've named this guy Space Sphinx.<br />
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Remember when I said these guys could be mixed and matched with each other? Well buckle up, because you're in for a treat! What, you don't buckle up for treats? That's weird. Anyway, are you ready to see some sweet combos that clearly had a lot of thought put into them beforehand? Me neither!<br />
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Behold! The monster that enjoys casual strolls on the beach! Wow!<br />
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See! The man-creature who does push-ups! Wow wow!!<br />
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First up is this knight that appears to have been "borrowed" from Chap Mei. He's pretty cool for what he is, and when you see what else this pack comes with, I'd say this guy is the hero of the set.<br />
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Every hero needs his horse, and our hero comes with a medium sized steed to ride into battle (at average speeds).<br />
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Yeah, he's not wielding anything, but I'll explain that in a bit.<br />
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I say the knight borrowed from Chap Mei is the hero because of THIS guy. I saw a pack of these knights in New Zealand, but they were pretty expensive for what they were, so I didn't grab them. He works even better in this set though, because he towers over the other knight. With his strange colors, he could be some kind of iron golem, standard giant, etc.<br />
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As soon as I saw these two very different knights in the package, I instantly knew what I would have done with them as a kid. Heroic knight vs evil giant knight. That's cool! And for such a cheap price, you can't really go wrong. Well, you can go kind of wrong...<br />
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I can't get either knight to hold any of the weapons they came with. The handles are pretty thick, and their hands are made of a hard plastic with no give, so forcing the weapons could potentially break their hands. It's too bad, because that orange axe looks like it has some tech built into it. Ah well, it's not like any of my other figures can't use it! The set also comes with a flag that plugs into nothing, which is pretty standard in dollar store sets like this.<br />
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Each knight has a shield, but this time the handles are tiny, so no holding them either.<br />
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My wife found this sword in the suitcase months after we got back from our trip. I'm assuming it's from this set. Neither of the knights can hold it, so it must be one of theirs.<br />
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Lastly, this set comes with two sides of a horse paddock and some juvenile palm trees. Half a horse paddock might seem useless, but with delicious juvenile palm trees like this for your horse to eat, I wouldn't worry about it going anywhere.<br />
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The last cheap and skeazy line to show off is the actually pretty nicely titled Journey to Creation. I'm pretty sure I found these guys in Edinburgh, Scotland. It's still very much a dollar store toyline, with sloppy paint and some fragile feeling parts, but it's also pretty cool!<br />
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As far as I can tell, this looks to be a line of armored beast warriors. There's no cardback pics that show off the rest of the line, but the two guys I found are beast men, so I'm going with that. This was the only boar I found and the paint on his tusks is especially sloppy, but he was still so cool that I didn't want to pass him up! <br />
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I don't know what the so-called "Journey to Creation" is all about, but this big pig is ready for the trip. He's one armored hog, and, at least to me, he doesn't have that "dumb pig" look that a lot of pig characters have. Maybe it's the ponytail. Just makes him look smart. Anyway, these guys don't have names either, so I've been calling him Warhog.<br />
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These figures only come with one accessory each, and Warhog has decided to bring a shield over any other weapon on his journey to creation. On top of all the armor he's wearing, he's also brought a shield. Dude doesn't want to get hit. Or maybe he just fights with his fists? Or face? I can see a warthog man fighting with his face and leaving a nasty mark. I'm cool with it. Moving on!<br />
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My other beast man journeying to creation is this minotaur here. He doesn't have a cool name like Warhog. I've just been calling him Minotaur, though now that I'm looking at him, "Bull Bandit" or something like that could work. He's not quite as cool looking as Warhog, but his paint is better and it's hard not to love that big skull he's using to cover his bull bits. It looks like you could pop it off from the back, but I'm not about to try.<br />
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He also comes with the better accessory of the two: a massive battle-axe. You'd think with the lack of armor, he'd be better suited with the shield, but I guess with an axe like this, no one's gonna be getting too close to him. Watch out for archers though! Don't want... *snicker*... don't want to get it in the bull's eye!<br />
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Later during the trip, I came across this dragon in Worksop, England. The bad paint is still there, but otherwise this guy feels much more durable than the other two. He's made of a rubbery plastic, where the others are hard. Also, he can be pulled apart, though I'm not sure if there's a reason for it. Maybe the dragons are somewhat mix-and-match capable? And yes, there are other dragons! Unlike the other two, this dragon series shows the different versions you can get (though this was the only one I found). The package even gives him a name, or at least a title. This is the War Dragon. I don't know if the other dragons have unique names, but I hope so.<br />
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I don't really have a story for these Journey to Creation figures in my mind yet, but I'm starting to think that maybe these dragons are the creators that the others are journeying to. That's as far as I've gotten. Anyway, for all its shortcomings, Journey to Creation is a pretty fun line (from what I've seen), and I would easily buy more if I could find them.<br />
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My hunt for the first toy of the year started much like my hunt for 2014's last toy of the year: with disappointment. Yesterday the stores I went to were pretty picked clean. Today I went to Toys R Us and found it closed. Do places still take New Years Day off? Well, good for them I guess. Anyway, I hit up Walmart instead. It was also picked clean, though I did come across a Skylanders trap I didn't have - the Oak Eagle of life.</div>
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Look at it! It's so pretty! Here's my dilemma though. I've been calling these first and last toy of the year posts "First/Last TOY of the Year". That way if I were to get a Hot Wheel or something it would still count. But I also keep track of my first and last movies, TV shows, video games and food of the year. For fun, I suppose. Yeah, it's fun! And on that list I call it my "first/last FIGURE of the year." Technically this trap would count as a toy, but it's not a figure. In my mind it comes close to being a figure once there's a villain trapped in there, but right now it's empty. That's in my mind though. Don't you worry about my mind.</div>
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I ended up having to go to a second Walmart, and I bought this guy. HUZZAH! I mentioned in <a href="http://theplasticeyeball.blogspot.ca/2014/12/last-toy-of-year-2014.html">my last post</a> that I was hoping to get either a Pokemon or Ninja Turtle figure for my last of the year. I ended up getting a Skylander instead. Well, I was able to start the year off right by getting one of the cooler looking characters to come out of the current TMNT line: TIGER CLAW.<br />
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Right off the bat, I can tell you that Tiger Claw has kind of a lame name. That's the best they could come up with? I can't think of anything better off the top of my head, but that's besides the point. Calling a tiger man Tiger Claw is like calling a regular man... Man Hand. Man Fingernail? Not a good name. That's my only real complaint though!<br />
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First thing's first, you can already see that his eyepatch strap isn't painted all that well. That's going to have to be touched up.<br />
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At this point I've only seen the first season of the new Ninja Turtles cartoon (which is AWESOME!), so I don't know anything about Tiger Claw besides what's on his bio card and the fact that he looks supercool. But I'm already curious as to why the bio card shows him without an eyepatch, while the figure has very much an eyepatch. Very much indeed. What's up with that? I have to wait and see!<br />
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The line's starting to build up! One of my favorite things in the vintage line was the cardbacks with the huge selection of figures on 'em. I wouldn't call this a huge selection, but it's getting there. It's getting big enough that it makes me nostalgic for the old days. Also, Shredder's name is Spanish is "Destructor". How badass is that!?<br />
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When I saw the first pics of Tiger Claw online, I knew I liked him. I didn't even care who he was or what he did, I knew this was a figure I wanted. He looked right at home in the TMNT universe, but I'm all about cross-line potential and this guy's got a ton of it! Sure, he's a tiger. He won't work in absolutely EVERYTHING, but you could probably find a role for him in most of your imaginings.<br />
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I touched up that faded eyepatch strap of his. I just used a fine-point black pen, but it does the job well enough.<br />
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More questions! What happened to Tiger Claw's tail? Somehow he loses an eye and a tail? Are the reasons revealed in the show? They better be! And I'm assuming that's a rocket pack on his back. Even if it isn't, it is now.<br />
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The entire back half of Tiger Claw's eyepatch strap was left unpainted, because I guess all the focus is supposed to be on the front? While I had my pen out to touch him up, I went all out and colored the back as well. It's not perfect, but it's way better than it was. It shines a little more than the front, but at least it's all the same color now.<br />
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With a name like Tiger Claw, you already know what his weapons of choice are going to be. Yep, guns! His hands aren't really in a gun holding position, but he can hold them well enough. They could look better in those paws of his, but I've seen worse out there too. At least he doesn't have accessories with completely opened or closed hands.<br />
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There's his guns. They're both futuristic and modern looking, which is cool. I still think I prefer Tiger Claw using his claws most though. I like when I get what's advertised. <br />
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Anyway, I kinda felt like I had to settle on my last figure of 2014. I like Ka-Boom, but I had PLANS man! I feel much more satisfied with my first figure of 2015 (sorry Oak Eagle trap). I don't really believe in signs, but if I did, I'd hope this was a good sign for my year of collecting to come.<br />
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He might not be very articulated (actually, he's not articulated at all), but that doesn't matter. He's big, he's well armed, and his paint apps are tight. I've never been a stickler for articulation anyway. As a kid I mixed articulated and unarticulated figures all the time. And back to this guy being well armed, look at him! Dude's carrying around a cannon. I love that it still has the... what would you call them? Knobs? The knobby things that would help the cannon pivot in its base. It's a nice detail that I probably wouldn't notice if they weren't there.</div>
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Most fire-type Skylanders are impressive looking, but Ka-Boom deserves a place right smack dab in the middle of them.<br />
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Another thing Ka-Boom has going for him is cross-line appeal, something a lot of other Skylanders don't have. He'd be right at home in a Masters of the Universe scenario, among other things.<br />
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I'm going to wrap this up here. Ka-Boom might not have been the figure I planned on getting as my last of the year, but I'm happy with him. Hopefully tomorrow I can show off my first figure of the new year!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01454650838507365691noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430434408539751644.post-55083499133518015182014-12-18T09:59:00.001-08:002014-12-18T09:59:51.627-08:00The 6 Pack<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Now that Mutant Mania is finally out in Canada, I decided to do what I always do: Take what already exists and make my own teams. I picked up six of the blind-box style pop cans to make a team called... wait for it... The 6 Pack! I know! I'm so clever! Anyway, keep reading to see who made the team, and if I got any doubles that screwed up my plans.<br />
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I don't know why Mutant Mania figures don't already come in a 6-pack like this. Seems like it should have been obvious, what with the cans and all. Maybe I really am clever!<br />
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I'm going to say right of the bat that I bought this can before I came up with my 6-pack idea. This was actually what inspired the whole thing. I was like, "Aw! I should have bought six at once made them a team!". I figured I could just go and buy another five (like a normal person would do... more or less), but I wanted to do the 6 Pack properly and get all six at once. Well, I ended up getting one double in the six that I bought altogether, so now Thriller Gorilla gets to take his place on the team where he belongs. I'll spare you the details of the bios I'm making for each character (separate from their Mutant Mania bios), but I will say that this guy is the leader of the team. And a genius.</div>
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I like how the green rubbery spine that can be seen through the transparent black figure kinda makes it look like he's wearing green trunks. I don't know what the green in his mouth could be though. Puke? That is the puke of a gorilla genius! Moose (the company that makes these guys) should have given clear spines to the transparent figures. His arms also reach up and backwards, so it kinda makes it hard to stand him up, but it can be done.</div>
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I'm listing these guys in the same order that I pulled them from their cans, and that would also affect the way I see them in the story I'm making for them in my head. I guess that makes Rat Gnaw the second-in-command? Anyway, I like how tight the paint is on these figures, for the most part. Sadly, some of the paint is missing from the mouse trap on Rat Gnaw's left foot, so I didn't even realize that it was a trap until I looked up his bio on the <a href="http://mutantmania.com/au/meet-the-mutants/#Mutant%20Mania/Round%201/Brutal%20Beasts">Mutant Mania website</a>. It looks like it could just be a boot or something. Ah well, small complaint. I love how they made him blue-green instead of a regular rat color though. Makes him look that much more "mutant".<br />
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<b>ZOM PUNK</b></div>
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Zom Punk would normally be on the Evil Zomboids team in the regular Mutant Mania world, but since I see the 6 Pack as my own creation, he's a hero now! He's probably my favorite actual figure of the bunch. The translucent red doesn't take anything away from him either. If anything it makes him even better! It makes him look less like a zombie and more like a generally mixed-up freak. If you look at his character art on the Mutant Mania site, he's supposed to have a leg for an arm (his own leg, I'm assuming), and a goo-covered skeletal arm for a leg. His left leg looks nothing like a skeletal arm though. It's more of a monster leg that could just as easily be hairy as gooey. That's not a complaint, it only makes him more of the unique freak that he is as one of the 6 Pack heroes! <br />
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The other mohawk lover on my team is T-Wrecker, another Mutant Maniac that could have jumped right out of the 90's. He's the token "big guy" on the team, but he's got more than just muscle working for him. Know what else he's got? Boots! Naw, it's teeth. I mean, he's pointing right at them ALL THE TIME. He knows what his strengths are. His strengths are strength and teeth.<br />
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When I first popped this guy out of his can I thought I got a defect in that one of his tentacles looks broken. Turns out, he's supposed to look like that! A defective broken tentacle is no good, bit it's fine if it's the way it should be. <br />
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Every team needs its deranged guy, right? Sure. Shocktopus is my deranged guy. Look at him! What else could he be? The cook? Well, yes, I suppose he could also be the team's cook. He is the deranged guy and the cook! Maybe his stumpy tentacle was a kitchen accident?<br />
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Say, doesn't that name belong to <a href="http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Waspinator_(BW)">somebody else</a>? The 90's power of these guys just keeps on coming! With a name like Waspinator, it's hard not to be tempted to make him the deranged guy on the team. But I see him more as the pilot/driver/vehicle junkie. And since he's translucent blue, maybe has has electric powers too! Yeah! And he doesn't need keys to start any of his vehicles. Maybe his 6 Pack name can be "Hotwire". Anyway, that doesn't matter right now. What matters is that this bad bee boy is the final member of my team. And he's a wasp, not a bee. Was that racist?<br />
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<b>CLAW BREAKER</b></div>
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Claw Breaker was in one of the six cans I bought, but I already had this exact version from another pack. I suppose I could have just added the one I already had to the team, but in my mind his "doubleness" cancelled him out. I guess if I didn't have Thriller Gorilla waiting to assume his rightful place on the team, Claw Breaker would have made it. As such I see him as the main villain opposing the 6 Pack (along with his army of robots). Maybe he and Thriller Gorilla started the team together, but had different ideas on where the team should go. Either way, he almost made it, but didn't.<br />
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So there you go. I always made my own teams and worlds as a kid, rather than using the figures as their intended characters. Big lines bursting with characters like Mutant Mania are perfect for that sort of thing, and it's still as much fun to do today as it was back then. Now I just hope the line does well enough to get a second series, so I can make a rival 6-pack for my 6 Pack.<br />
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I haven't been posting as much this year, because I've been... preoccupied, you could say. Turns out I was busy creating life. Well, I was predominantly involved in the design stage. My wife did most of the assembly herself. <br />
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Anyway, this Kai, my firstborn Zachspawn. He came into this world on Dec. 11, 2014, and while he doesn't appreciate the greatness of action figures quite yet, rest assured, I'll get him there.<br />
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While I'm looking forward to most aspects of raising and teaching a human being, as a toy collector who places a lot of stock in nostalgia, I'm particularly looking forward to see what Kai's childhood will be like, what's similar to mine, what's different, and reliving my childhood again while he goes through his for the first time.<br />
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So welcome to the world Kai (or as I call it, the "big ol' playroom"). Should be fun!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01454650838507365691noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430434408539751644.post-90661821640045158872014-11-14T15:44:00.001-08:002014-11-14T16:45:01.664-08:00The Randoms: Teeth of Wisdom Edition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had my wisdom teeth removed the other day, and I figured this time I'm spending out of commission would also give me a chance to get back to the blog. I'm going to keep thing simple this time and just do another Randoms post. Some stuff will get properly spotlighted down the road, so I'll keep the details to a minimum at parts.<br />
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I actually took two figures with me to my surgery. They were hidden in my pockets the whole time, but they were there. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous going in, but there's nothing like your favorite hobby to relax you. That must be why I take figures with me when I fly too. Helps me forget what I'm nervous about and brings me back to my happy place. Anyway, I brought Cave Decay (the Trash Pack tooth) for obvious reasons. This second guy is the Galactic Jerkbag, from the Kickstarted line S.U.C.K.L.E. by Sucklord. The <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1790677689/revenge-of-suckle-mini-figures-created-by-the-supe">second series</a> is up on Kickstarter now, so I guess these guys were just on my mind. There's no other reason to bring the Galactic Jerkbag to surgery with you.</div>
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By latest gift exchange with Alexx from <a href="http://toysandtomfoolery.blogspot.ca/">Toys and Tomfoolery</a> showed up two days before my surgery, and I deliberately waited to open it so I had something to look forward to afterwards. And it didn't disappoint! <br />
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I've been itching to try out these Mutant Mania wrestlers, and they're pretty neat! They're from Moose, the same company does Trash Pack, and they appeal to me in the same way. They've actually got a real 90's feel to them, especially with the package art. Oh, and Alexx made sure to get me an eyeball guy and a hammerhead shark. He understands me.<br />
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The Mutant Mania guys utilize this naughty looking rubber "spine", that hold the three pieces of the figure together, like so:<br />
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On one hand, it's an interesting gimmick that kind of turns unarticulated figures into articulated ones. I just hope they don't dry out over time and break apart. I don't want to have to be gluing these guys back together down the road. These packs also come with an extra spine or two, for no reason I can figure out. Each figure already has one, what's the point of the extras? To change the colour? Who cares!?<br />
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This line was made for me. It's got eyeball guys, hammerhead sharks, skeletons, all the stuff I'm into. And yet, so far Friller seems to be my favorite. I've always had a thing for frilled lizards to, but I don't know if they're one of my THINGS that instantly appeal to me. I guess in this case it did. He gets bonus points for glowing in the dark. I also just love his face. He and Fangor make a nice duo too!<br />
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Just like with the Trash Pack, there's more than one version of each character. Mutant Mania gives us the standard painted versions, and the transparent or glow in the dark "double trouble" versions. I usually prefer the painted ones, but the paint can be sloppy at times, so at least with the double trouble versions you've got less to worry about there. And sometimes it suits them, like with Loco-Motive or Friller. And freaky caveman Broog is so close to the painted version it wouldn't even matter to me which one I got. And speaking of Broog, when I was reading the bios on the <a href="http://mutantmania.com/au/meet-the-mutants/#Mutant%20Mania/Round%201/Mutant%20Men">Mutant Mania website</a>, I instantly knew I'd have a Broog figure someday. There's nothing overly special about him, he's just a caveman with mammoth trunks for arms, but I knew he would be mine. Apparently I can see the future, just nothing interesting.<br />
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I love lines like this where you have a ton of different characters to collect. This series alone boasts over 120 figures to collect. So wouldn't it just be my luck that my first pack of Mutant Mania wrestlers EVER had two of the same guy in it. And not just both versions of the character. I got two of the EXACT same double trouble Bone Cracker in one pack. For something that calls itself a 4-pack, I only got three characters. On the plus side, these guys do pop apart into three pieces, so if I get more doubles down the road (which I'm sure I will), I can mix and match them into new mutant freaks. Or I'll just give him away. And at the very least, Bone Cracker is cool - and the most 90's looking character on the package.<br />
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The cans function as storage containers, and the lids double as display stands. That comes in handy, since some of these Mutant Maniacs have a hard time standing up on their own.<br />
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Body-Slam Bat would have been a favorite of mine, but the bad paint job on his left eye bugs me too much. I suppose I could always write it off as disgusting mutant goo, but I know that's not what it is. It's what it'll have to be for now, but he'll be the first one replaced (and cannibalized into someone new) if and when I get a double. Awesome name though.<br />
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Ironically for a guy named Gutless, he sure is one big pile of guts. Maybe none of them are originally his? This is another one that would work just as well, if not better, in the double trouble version.<br />
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I really did mean it when I said I preferred the painted versions, but I keep singing the praises of the double troubles instead. Maniac Mantis is yet another version I prefer as a double trouble. I may not even be using the term correctly. The packaging says to watch out for DOUBLE TROUBLE wrestlers though, so that's what I'm going with. Anyway. See? Rambling. Anyway. The painted Maniac Mantis has a black moustache that I don't really like, but on this green double trouble version it looks like it could just be some regular bug face greebles. Improvement!<br />
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I gotta hand it to Moose for going with names that are simple, yet very effective. Mutant Beard is hilarious. This is one that would look better painted, but he works well as a fiery pirate ghost here.<br />
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Mutant Mania wasn't all Alexx sent me though. We've been talking about these Hero Mashers with each other for a while now, and while he has a bunch, I didn't have any. I liked the mix-and-match idea behind them, but I had a hard time finding ones with decent paint and there were always other things I wanted to buy more. I guess he figured the best way to push me into the line was to just go out and buy me one...<br />
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It'll probably work too! Now that I have one Masher, I need more. To, you know, mash with.<br />
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Slug here comes with an extra tail, apparently from the stegosaur dinobot, Snarl, and while it's cool, it doesn't really make Slug look much different.<br />
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Now I need more Mashers, to really use this line for all it's worth. Curse you Alexx, you're such an enabler. These things ain't cheap either! It's like, "The first one is free, but after that, it's gonna cost ya". Well, I guess they're decently priced for what they are, but man, I'm going to be dropping some money on these now that I've been given my first taste.<br />
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I asked Alexx to help me with the Club Etheria subset of the Masters of the Universe Classics subscription. Shipping these things to Canada double the price of them! He was nice enough to let me get them shipped to him, and have him ship them to me. I try to find some stuff up here to send his way to make it fair... which I have to pay for anyway... which makes this not the most sensible plan I've ever come up with, but it still feels like it helps!<br />
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<b>LIGHT HOPE</b></div>
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Alexx also got me a figure I had all but forgotten about. There were these Joes that were exclusive to somewhere (Walgreens or something), that I knew I'd never find here. I wanted Storm Shadow especially, because he's totally not Storm Shadow. He's...<br />
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Well, technically his colours are based on the filecard art that came with the <a href="http://www.yojoe.com/action/93/tginzu.shtml">original figure from '93</a>, but to me this will actually be T'Gin-Zu and not Storm Shadow. Storm Shadow has more than enough variations, while T'Gin-Zu only had the one version, and it was a vehicle driver and is therefore harder to come by now. I think. I've never really looked, since it was a repaint of a not particularly good Ninja Force Storm Shadow figure. It helps that the stand that he comes with doesn't actually say "Storm Shadow". It doesn't actually say anything, and it has a Cobra symbol on it, but I can work around it. Thankfully there's no Cobra symbol on the figure itself, so I can use him as the heroic G.I. Joe that he SO OBVIOUSLY is!<br />
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<b>SHARK MUTANT PIRATE</b></div>
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Shark mutants are my thing, but they don't absolutely have to be hammerheads. I've seen this guy in stores a few times, but for some reason I never bought him. It was one of those things I was sure I'd get to eventually, but never did. Luckily I didn't, because Alexx went and got him for me. Phew!<br />
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Everybody knows sharks makes great pirates, and this guy proves it. Not that there needs to be any proof, because it's such a well known fact. His shark sword cool, though a little awkward. His shark tooth dagger is where it's at though. It might be a stubby little thing, but I love it! That's what she said. Anyway, this guy's from Papo, if you've ever heard of them. They're a French company that does lots of these cool unarticulated figures. Besides pirates, they do knights, cowboys, sci-fi stuff, etc. I actually have a decent collection of them, which I'm sure will end up here on the blog eventually.<br />
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<b>ZOMBIE CACKY CAKE and ZOMBIE PUS PLOP</b></div>
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More stuff from Alexx! I actually found these guys just before the package came in the mail, so I ended up getting a couple doubles. That's life for a Trash Pack collector though. This Gross Zombies series is similar to the last two Gross Ghosts waves, but I think these ones are the best yet. The dark paint washed on the faces really makes them pop, and hey, zombies are cool. <br />
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Some of this stuff was supposed to be Alexx's birthday presents to me, and this set just happened to have a cake in it. That's some classic zombie serendipity for you!<br />
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<b>ZOMBIE CRUDDY KEBAB and ZOMBIE ROTTEN ROLL</b></div>
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I know there doesn't need to be a lot of thought put into these zombie versions of regular Trashies, but it's more fun to let the imagination run and play! I see these two as "snacks" made from zombie meat, that just ended up reanimating and becoming zombies again. Zombies can't do that, you say? Clearly you didn't see the picture!<br />
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<b>ZOMBIE POOP MONSTER and ZOMBIE GAS GHOST</b></div>
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I don't have to keep using "zombie" in all of their names, but it's just funnier for me to run with it. Especially when we get to guys like Zombie Poop Monster. How great is that name? <i>Attack of the Zombie Poop Monsters </i>might not be a real movie, but it should be. I also love the idea that Zombie Gas Ghost is both a zombie and a ghost. It's one of those campy mixes like vampire werewolves, mummy swamp monsters, or invisible invisible robot blobs. You can also see what I mean about the dark wash of paint bringing out the details here. Zombie Gas Ghost looks like a real burlap sack! Filled with farts. Zombie farts.<br />
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<b>ZOMBIE BIN BROS and ZOMBIE FOUL FISH BOWL</b></div>
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Zombie Foul Fish Bowl is another one that works well in the zombie theme. I think it's the dead fish that does it for me.<br />
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The Gross Ghosts Trashies just came in semi-transparent versions of the original trash cans, but the Gross Zombies come in all new coffins! They're pretty sweet, and it's nice to have something new in what is really just a series of repaints.<br />
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<b>ZOMBIE SICK GARLIC</b></div>
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Sick Garlic in red looks like an organ of some kind. Maybe a heart, or a stomach. Either way, he's gross and I love him.<br />
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Have I mentioned Glyos at all on the blog? I've got a ton of Glyos figures, but I don't think I've really talked about them all that much. Anyway, Glyos is another line I'll get to covering eventually, but until then here's one of the supercool new Super Crayboth figures!<br />
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The Super Crayboth is a giant version of the regular li'l Crayboth. I've liked these guys since I first got into Glyos, so it's fun to have this new huge version. <br />
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The last of Alexx's gifts (or hopefully the last, I don't want to miss anything) is Bulletman, from Hasbro's G.I. Joe Kre-O series. The best Joe minds seem to be working with Kre-O, which is a shame because the regular line is pretty much in limbo again. <a href="http://gijoe.wikia.com/wiki/Bulletman">Bulletman</a> is a member of the original Aventure Team, though I had never heard of him till I attended my first G.I. Joe convention in 2004. Turns out there's a whole <a href="http://www.bulletman.org/dobhistory.html">Bulletman fan club</a>, which their own special salute and everything! Sure, I thought it was hilarious, but also kinda cool. I'm always one for cheering the underdog and the obscure. Aside from that, I'm hardly a Bullteman expert, but I knew I wanted the Kre-O version when I learned it existed.<br />
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That rope attached to his bag is supposed to simulate a flying bullet action. I'll probably get sick of it and untie it pretty quickly.<br />
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In fact, I already did!<br />
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Kre-O's not the best line when it comes to paint apps, but the character choices cover both the essentials and the freakishly obscure, like Bulletman.<br />
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Overall he's pretty neat. I might be alone on this, but it would be fun to see a regular 3¾" Bulletman figure to go with the rest of my Joes. It's not like Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow can't wait for <i>another</i> version for a while.<br />
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The little pamphlet that comes with the figure labels Bulletman as "The Human Bullet", which he is, but he also comes with a little package for himself that sets the name right. And now he can play with himself too!<br />
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Hot Wheels has started doing Star Wars themed cars, and they look more like vehicles than the Disney Racers that came out a while ago, which is kinda cool. The Disney Racers look more like wheeled heads of Star Wars characters, which still works, so there's room for both in my collection.</div>
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This is Chewbacca, but it would have been nice if they tried to put a little imagination into the names. As such, I've nicknamed it the Chewbaccar. Hey, it's not great, but I tried harder than they did.<br />
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While the Chewbaccar looks like a furry truck overall, I still like it, and it's my favorite of the ones out so far. The Tusken Raider car coming out soon will change that, but it's all good. The little Millennium Falcon and bowcaster on the back of the Chewbaccar are a nice touch.</div>
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This was actually part of my birthday present from my wife. I wasn't asking for it, but I'd never turn away a pizza related Lego set. I'd never turn away pizza, either.</div>
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Usually when it comes to Lego, I'm about the minifigures. I'll even buy an expensive set just for the minifigures that come with it. It's actually a pretty bad habit I should try to get away from. Anyway, I've never paid much attention to this little mini sets, but they're pretty cool. I still can't say that there's any more that I'm desperately after, but if I were to have one, it should be a pizza place.<br />
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Plus, mini modules like this are perfect for making kaiju scenes! Maybe not the biggest or scariest kaiju in the world, but Scratchy was the closest minifigure to me at the time.<br />
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I found this thing at Walmart in a box of random Halloween toys. Obviously, I couldn't pass on it. I don't know why the skeleton hand was given a warm fleshy colour, but it's still better than your average wind-up toy. Well, it's your average wind-up toy at the very least.</div>
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This is something I was going to include in my <a href="http://theplasticeyeball.blogspot.ca/2014/06/eyeballs-on-parade.html">Eyeballs on Parade</a> post, but forgot about. Sure, it's not a toy, but I bought it because it appealed to me in the same way. Hey, you knew this was a "Randoms" post. I can talk about whatever I want! I found these meatballs in England and brought them all the way back home just so I could put them on the blog. Because of the eyeball guy on the can. That's not weird.</div>
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Anyway, how's that for a random splattering of stuff? I said I wasn't going to get into the details, though I don't think I stuck to that. I'm still tired and in pain and drugged up, so I'm not even going to proofread this thing. I know, that's not like me at all. All I can do right now is hope that it was coherent and enjoyable, and that maybe, just maybe, you're enjoyment will help heal my face.</div>
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October 26 will go down in history as my birthday, but a year ago today it was also the day I became a true blue, card carrying Kamen Rider fan. And yes, I actually have some Kamen Rider cards.<br />
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Oh, what a fool I was! Such is youth. I think I preferred Ultraman because he fought all these awesome and weird giant monsters, while Kamen Rider was just a regular human-sized guy. But I still ended up getting some Kamen Rider stuff on the trip, just because I thought they looked cool. Visiting the Toei Studio Park helped bring me on board too, what with all the Kamen Rider costumes and props they had on display. It was hard not to get swept up in it all! So I was already starting to come to my senses.<br />
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Last year my wife had some family stuff come up and ended up taking an unplanned trip to England. Turns out my birthday fell during that time, and it was the first one she missed in like 14 or 15 years. I'm like a kid when it comes to my birthday (among other things), so I was pretty bummed out. I ended up spending the day with my brother, and we visited a comic shop that stocks Japanese stuff. At the time, I had been watching episodes of the original Kamen Rider on Youtube, but struggling to get into it. It was entertaining, but a little too quaint for me. Still, I had Kamen Rider on my mind. <br />
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I ended up getting this guy. I remember that even when I still wasn't on Team Kamen Rider in Japan, I still made a point of taking a picture of Decade and Diend at Toei Studio Park, because I just loved the way they looked. We went back to my brother's place and looked up the first Kamen Rider Decade episode (or "Masked Rider Decade" - which ever, "kamen" means "masked" in Japanese), and I was blown away by the first scenes. </div>
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I don't know if Decade's show tops a lot of fans' lists, but for me it was the perfect way to get into the Kamen Rider universe. The show features all of the newer generation Heisei riders up to that point, but some of the actors and character names had changed, making Decade's stories take place in alternate realities from what Kamen Rider fans were used to. I went into it brand new though, so I loved it. You got a taste of all these different riders, so it felt like taking care of a huge chunk of my Kamen Rider schooling at one time.</div>
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Kamen Rider Decade is a rider who has lost his memories. He doesn't know which reality he comes from, so he jumps from one dimension to another trying to find his way home. The problem is, his presence is causing these dimensions to crash in on each other, and the only way he can save them all is by defeating the main riders from each world. Decade is seen as a devil or "destroyer of worlds" by the other riders, though he's eventually able to befriend them while taking on the real bad guys in the story. I'm not really sure about the logistics behind all that, and there were some pretty big plot holes over the course of the show, but it wouldn't be a Japanese series without a bit of head scratching about the whole thing. Anyway, confusions aside, I was justing eating it all up. And while working my way through the Decade episodes, I got into Kamen Rider Gaim, and then W, OOO, and Fourze.</div>
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It didn't take me long before I realized that what I had seen as Kamen Rider's weakness was actually his strength. Sure, he usually doesn't fight giant kaiju, but the human-sized kaijin he does fight are just as weird and cool as the big guys. Due to the giant size of Ultraman and his kaiju, the best parts always come at the end of the episode. The human sidekicks try to battle the monsters on their own, and then Ultraman comes in at the end and saves the day. Kamen Rider can been seen multiple times throughout an episode, so the whole thing just feels much more action packed. That's why I switched sides, and am now a proud member of Team Kamen Rider. I just wish I got there sooner.</div>
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But enough of the rambling backstory, what about the figure that started all this? Well, this Kamen Rider Decade is part of the collector aimed S.H.Figuarts series from Bandai. These figures are loaded with articulation and sport some incredible detailing. They look like they jumped right out of the TV shows! One of the main thing that sets the Figuarts stuff apart from other toylines is the detail given to the masks eyes. The eyes of a Kamen Rider's mask are always what gets my attention first, yet sadly most other rider toys are missing the detailing. Wether it's the classic insectoid compound eyes, or some other crazy stuff, you can still have a nice rider toy without those details, but it goes a long way when it's there. It just makes the figure feel complete, for me.<br />
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Over the last year, I've come to realize that some of these S.H.Figuarts guys can be pretty hit or miss. Thankfully, I started out on the right foot with Decade. Some of these figures feel a little fragile, but Decade is nice and sturdy. His joints all work well, and they blend in nicely with the figure, where some super-articulated figures sacrifice their looks for joints. Another nice feature here is that Decade has metal feet, which adds some weight to the figure and makes him easier to stand up.<br />
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Now I have a confession to make. When it comes to posing action figures... well, I suck. I'm just not a big poser like some people are! If I take the time to do it, I can probably come up with something nice. I knew this was going to be a big post though, so I didn't really take that time.<br />
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That's why we end up with poses like this one. It still gives you a nice feel for the articulation, right? Right!? Anyway, at least Decade isn't one for a lot of flashy poses. <br />
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I was trying to go for a classic "Rider Kick" pose in this pic, but like I said, I'm not a poser. And yeah, that's my finger still visible from when I was trying to get the effect to work. Not a poser!</div>
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Besides details and articulation, S.H.Figuarts stuff gives you extra hands, accessories, and sometimes even heads to add more to your figure. I don't know what Decade was going for in the above pic.<br />
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Like I said, Decade's look appealed to me early on. I love the barcode inspired look that he and Diend have going on, and he even manages to make pink armour work. Sorry, that's <i>magenta</i> armour. Remember that. One thing I've never been a fan of is his weapon. It starts off as a holder for Decade's various cards that give him the powers of other riders.<br />
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In the show, Decade's card holder also turns into a gun, so this figure comes with one of those too. The card holder is removable from his hip, so you don't have to worry about seeing it while it's supposed to be a gun.<br />
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I think this gun mode is why I don't like the weapon. It's not very powerful looking, and it could have been used better. It would have been cool if Decade used his various rider cards to make different kinds of blasts fire from the gun, but as far as I can recall, it's just a gun.<br />
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The card holder can also turn into a sword, which is a bit cooler. In the show, the sword flips open like a big switchblade. That feature would have been fun here, but I can live without it. Either way, it's nice to get a figure with all of the necessary accessories in one package, plus the different hands needed to use them accurately. There's even a pair of card-holding hands, but again, sadly no cards.<br />
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This figure will work perfectly as your default Decade, but it's actually "Violent Emotion" Decade, as seen in <i>Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010</i>. This is Decade's "destroyer of worlds" form, and while not drastically different, makes him much more powerful. This figure comes with two heads: his normal one, seen above, and his Violent Emotion one, shown below.<br />
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In his Violent Emotion state, Decade's yellow Signal Pointer on his mask goes purple, and the eyes take on a more sinister and aggressive appearance. Supposedly his magenta colour becomes a lighter shade, but I can't see it. Even in the movie, he looks like regular Decade with a slightly different mask to me.<br />
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It's nice to be able to pull off this look if I want to, but I didn't actually like this part of Decade's story. After everything that happened in the series (like Decade befriending the other riders), I didn't really buy his sudden leap back to "destroyer of worlds" in the movie. As such, I prefer to leave the regular Decade head on the figure.<br />
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The S.H.Figuarts figures often ain't cheap, and the bikes are usually even more expensive. Decade's <i>Machine Decader</i> definitely was. In fact, I had originally assumed that I wouldn't bother with it. But no matter how much or how little they're used in the shows, a Kamen Rider needs a bike (or a car, if you're Kamen Rider Drive). I'll buy any rider figure that I think looks cool, but only my <i>special</i> riders will get a bike. <br />
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I'm not usually a vehicle guy when it comes to toys (hell, I'm not a vehicle guy in real life), but when the vehicle works as an extension of the character, I'll bite. Some riders are less tied to their bikes than others, though Decade used his often enough. The bikes can also look more or less like a part of their rider's theme, and I love how the <i>Machine Decader</i> carries over Decade's barcode look.</div>
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At this point, I only have the bikes for Decade and Fourze, but it really seems like the bikes are much less hit or miss than the figures. The <i>Decader</i> feels so sturdy I could probably throw it across the room without really worrying about damaging it. I would never do that, but I feel like I could.<br />
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Decade's logo appears on either side of the bike, and it's a nice crisp image.<br />
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CITIZEN: I'd like to report a masked vigilante on a motorcycle!<br />
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COP: Can you describe the vehicle?<br />
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CITIZEN: Yeah, it was all white and pink. Actually, white and magenta. And it looked like the guy riding it.<br />
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COP: Looked like the guy on the bike... And did you get a good look at the licence plate?<br />
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CITIZEN: Yeah, uh, it was a picture of his face. Well, his mask.<br />
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I bet they'd still find him. Dude kinda stands out.<br />
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The <i>Machine Decader</i> features a fully functional kickstand, but it also comes with a transparent base so you can display it looking like it's actually moving. You wouldn't want the kickstand down for that. That'd be ridiculous. It also comes with a set of hands for Decade to use while riding it and a second throttle (which, to me, looks exactly like the first one that comes packaged on the bike). Sometimes the head-scratching confusion from the shows carries over to the toys.<br />
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I'm sure I've said it before, but I love shopping for toys when I'm travelling. You can usually find any of the BIG lines everywhere, but it's the smaller, more obscure things that excite me most. Those random little toy lines that you just can't find at home. Extra points if I've never heard of them before!</div>
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I found these Deadstone Valley figures at a Toys R Us in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were right in through the door! I barely made it in there and I already found something new! At first I didn't really know what they were or what they did, but they had one thing that instantly appealed to me: humorous gravestones. I've always loved stuff like that (the gravestones outside Haunted Mansion are one of my favourite parts of Disney World). They weren't overly expensive (relatively speaking for the UK), so I grabbed a few. Had I known I wouldn't see them again, I would have grabbed more...</div>
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Each character comes with a headstone that gives you a funny little rhyme about the deceased. The writing is just a sticker, but I guess it makes more sense than having to sculpt an entirely unique headstone for every character. If they ever peel off though, I'll freak out.</div>
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The very first character I saw was also the first one I grabbed. I think. Old Judge Wriggs here looks like something out of a Tim Burton movie! He doesn't really look overly deceased, but he could be there soon. <br />
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Along with a headstone, each character comes with a coffin. The lids are removable and each on has a hinged bottom so you can stand the figures up. The figures are fully removable from the coffins and stand well enough on their own, so this feature works best for a creepy, "rising out of the coffin" action.<br />
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I don't know how many different coffins there are in the line, but out of the three figures I got, only one is completely unique. Still, they're all painted differently, so each character still has their "own" coffin. Each coffin also has a space at the top that I assume is to attach the headstones. They don't really fit like a glove, but they stay there firmly enough. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but I can't see any better way to mount the headstones, so that's what I'm going to keep doing.</div>
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This next figure probably isn't the one you'd peg as my favourite (I wouldn't either), but that's what she ended up being (at least out of the three that I got). First, I like her headstone rhyme the most out of the three.<br />
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Secondly, Auntie Flo looks the most <i>dead</i> of the three. Judge Wriggs looks like he could still be alive, and Lucky McGraw could get away with it too, but Auntie Flo is <i>dead</i>. I've got a bunch of skeleton and zombie figures, but I'm used to thinking of them as undead. Flo here is just <i>dead </i>dead.<br />
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She's got the closed eyes, the crossed arms, the loose skin... Yep, she's dead alright! And normal! She doesn't look like a "character", you know? She's just a dead old woman. Her more realistic look combined with her more regular coffin just gives her a higher level of creepiness than the others. I mean, the whole line has more of a creepy-factor than most toy lines, but she's probably the creepiest of the bunch!<br />
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Since Flo has the only fully unique coffin out of my three, I like this one the best too. The other two have a stone sarcophagus, but I prefer the more modern looking casket. And again, I just find it creepier.<br />
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Lastly, I grabbed the wrestler Lucky McGraw, because something about him must have appealed to me at the time. There was a French maid I should have gotten, but she had a big spike sticking out of her head and I figured "no one would bury someone with that spike still in their head". Ah, the foolishness of youth. Maybe I figured I'd see more of these guys later. Oh yeah! There's also a cowboy with a bullet wound to his crotch, but I never saw him. He would have been great.<br />
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Not that I dislike Lucky or anything. I love his big bushy beard, and the fact that he was buried in his tights is funny. He's just pretty low on creepy points. He's not the least creepy of the series (there's a crossing guard that still looks very much alive), but he's on the lower end of the scale. Besides his sunken eyes, he could easily still be one of the living.<br />
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His headstone mentions that he died of a broken jaw, and while it could be under that shaggy mane of a beard, it would have been nice to see more of the broken jaw. Maybe have his mouth gaping open at a weird angle or something. <br />
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Lucky's coffin uses the same sculpt as Judge Wriggs', but the stone is a lighter colour, and the insides are blue instead of pink. Lucky's a big guy though, so you need more than a regular ol' casket to store him.<br />
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On a side note, when I acted out stories with my figures as a kid, occasionally the need for coffins came up. No matter what the story was, I was forced to use random containers from around the house, the <a href="http://www.voltronuniverse.com/Lion/Toys/Coffins2.jpg">coffins from Voltron</a>, or even this mummy sarcophagus that I had. Well, these would have been great for stuff like that! Granted, they're not very big, but for the right size of figure, they're perfect!</div>
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Each figure comes with a cardboard plot of earth that you can "bury" your coffin in. <br />
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Really, you just cut out a hole in the plot with the perforated lines, but still! It's kind of neat! The plots aren't deep enough to fully bury the coffins in, but they're still cool enough. Again, two out of three of my figures came with the same plot, but that's less important. I'm assuming there's some other styles out there.<br />
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I do know there are some stone graves that kind of stick out of the ground like this, so in this case these coffins work better.<br />
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There! Old Judge Wriggs is buried and gone! Of course, you can dig him up whenever you want...<br />
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<i>A gal like Auntie Flo don't stay buried for long...</i></div>
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<i>Looks like Lucky McGraw is down for the count!</i></div>
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Remember when I said I'd come back to their heads popping off? Well, they're also interchangeable!<br />
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In a line like this, less isn't more. More is more! So besides the creepy fun of collecting dead people, burying them, AND swapping their heads, there's still MORE!</div>
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Each coffin has a code on the bottom that you can use on <a href="http://www.deadstonevalley.com/index_main">deadstonevalley.com</a>. Anyone who goes to the site is able to build a body from a bunch of possible parts, but if you punch in the codes you get with your figures, you can actually bury your body in the online graveyard! The more codes you have, the more choices you have, like what kind of coffin you can choose, how your body is taken to the graveyard, etc. You can even write your character's epitaph, though I assume it has to be approved before it's added to the site. I've been waiting for my headstones to finish being engraved for months now, but it doesn't look like the site is maintained anymore.</div>
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But, I took some screen grabs of the bodies I've made so far, and I'll add the poems I made under each pic.</div>
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<i>Here lies</i></div>
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<i>Mortimer Stane.</i></div>
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<i>He picked his nose</i></div>
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<i>and jabbed his</i></div>
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<i>Tom the Zombie</i></div>
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I'm not gonna lie, I'm pretty impressed with my bodies. I'd buy them!<br />
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You also get a death certificate for your body, plus a plot certificate so you can find them in the overcrowded graveyard.<br />
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And lastly, just to make sure we end on a properly creepy note, after I found these guys in Scotland, we travelled down to Whitwell, England. There's an old church there, surrounded by an old graveyard. It's so old, I couldn't even read some of the headstones! Anyway, I know I said at the start of the post that I don't spend a lot of time hanging out in graveyards, but I did spend some time in this one.<br />
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I figured I would try to get some shots of these figures in an actual graveyard, but the effect didn't really work the way I wanted. Anyway, here they are!<br />
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So I don't know what the makers of Deadstone Valley were thinking when they made this line. "You know what kids love? Dead people! And more than anything, kids will want to play with dead people." It seems like this little niche thing (I didn't see any of these outside of Scotland - and the makers are a Scottish company), but because it's really about the novelty, it works. I love the uniqueness, and I love the creepy factor. I just wish they would finish engraving my headstones already!<br />
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Oh! And I should mention that each code allows you to build and bury three bodies. That means I have six more to make. Even without new figures, if I ever get around to making them, I'll show them off here on the blog.</div>
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It's anniversary time at the Plastic Eyeball again! I can't believe another year has gone by already. I've been slacking with the posts lately, but an anniversary is as good a reason as any to get back at it.</div>
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Now, my blog is called "The Plastic Eyeball", but how many plastic eyeballs have actually been spotlighted here? NOT NEARLY ENOUGH! To mark the blog's second anniversary, I've decided to show off most (if not all) of my eyeball collection. This is gonna be pic heavy, so I'll keep the chatter to a minimum. Some of these things have been spotlighted already, and some will get the proper treatment down the road. Until then, let the Parade of Eyeballs begin!</div>
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<a name='more'></a>I had to start off with one of the original eyeball heads to appeal to me, AFC Blinky from Bucky O'Hare. He's a classic figure for me, and still one of my all-time favorite eyeball heads.<br />
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Another old classic is Optikk from the He-Man line. I don't have my original anymore, but I do have his modern update from the Masters of the Universe Classics line! I do miss the action feature of the original, but there's no denying that this is one fiiiine looking figure.</div>
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Beetlejuice isn't someone you'd expect to see in the Parade of Eyeballs, but this is Shish-Kebab Beetlejuice. He's special. Why?</div>
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Orb-It from Creepsters looks like he could be the deluxe vehicle for Eye Pus from Savage Mondo Blitzers.<br />
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My friend Alexx from <a href="http://toysandtomfoolery.blogspot.ca/">Toys and Tomfoolery</a> sent me these a while back, and I think they're pretty fun. I've seen ladybugs and animal printed racers from this series as well, but the eyeballs are what it's all about.<br />
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Next up is the Skeleton Man from Scooby Doo! I'm not really a big Scooby Doo fan (A Pup Named Scooby Doo is all I got into as a kid), but I know a cool eyeball headed toy when I see one. This one adds another thing that always appeals to me as well: skeletons! The skeleton pattern on the body glows in the dark, and I likes me some glow. I've never seen the episode these guys show up in, so I have no idea why he comes with a bucket o' clams. But they're removable! So there's that...</div>
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Alexx was kind enough to send me this glow-in-the-dark version of the Skeleton Man in our last trade. Maybe he's like the supercharged version of the regular guy? All he needs now are some glow-in-the-dark clams.</div>
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Ok, when there's something you like, you have to let as many people know as you can. That way, if they like you, they'll try to hook you up with the stuff that you like. Alexx also sent me this little gem here, and I can't believe I never got him as a kid. He's absolutely perfect. The spring loaded eye-boobs are a bit weird, but he's still perfect. His name is Eye Guy, and the name delivers what it promises. <br />
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Jagun Fighters was perfect for anyone who likes a lot of eyeballs in their toy lines. Eyeballs and pottery. <br />
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More swag from Alexx! These guys are from a line called Crashlings, which is kind of Trash Pack-esque, only with less characters to choose from and meteors instead of trash cans to store them. Each character has a few different versions to get, and I got three of this guy in one set!<br />
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OF COURSE Kinnuman/M.U.S.C.L.E. has an eyeball head guy. They set the bar high for weird way back in the 80's, and they still have some of the strangest looking characters I've seen. "Gan" is Japanese for eye, and this guy's name is Gan Satan. So I guess that makes him Eye Satan. I hope I don't go to Hell for thinking that's cool.<br />
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One of the great modern eyeball heads is Eye Brawl from Skylanders. He even manages to pull off an eyeball/Jack-o-lantern look, somehow. Mega Bloks also released a version of him, and there's even a little plush finger puppet of his head. That's how you know you've made it. I don't have a little plush finger puppet of my head.</div>
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Mega Bloks also did this Skylanders baddie: Biclops. Not only does he glow in the dark, but he took something normal like having two eyes and really made it his own.<br />
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Another modern classic eyeball head is this Dunny, by Mishka. I love the way his veins just bulge off his eyeball! And yet his chainsaw says, "don't mess with me".<br />
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Here's the background star of the blog himself, Gan-Q! Or "Eye-Q", which I just got! Anyway, I also got a smaller version of this cool kaiju when I was in Japan. He might be less detailed than his big brother, but man his eye is sweet! There's a layer of transparent plastic over the eye part, which just makes it stand out and look pretty realistic.</div>
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This is the newest member of my Gan-Q collection. He transforms into this gross little egg! Who doesn't love something that transforms into a gross little egg?</div>
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Japan gets the appeal of a nice eyeball monster. Here's another one! This is Alien Akumania.<br />
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When I was in Japan we were trying to find this fish market that my wife wanted to visit (though who can honestly say why?) when I came across this guy for the first time through a small shop window. It wasn't even a character goods shop, it was just a little hole-in-the-wall grocery store type of place. See, that's how I operate. It doesn't matter where I'm going or what I'm doing, I WILL find the eyeball heads. Over the course of the trip I would end up getting some keychains, a pen and notepad, and something else (shown at the end of this post) baring this character's likeness, but it wasn't until later on that Medama Oyaji's <i>masterpiece</i> came out...<br />
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The little plush guys and the keychains are well and good, but I wanted a real <i>action figure</i> of Medama Oyaji, ya know? Something that could be the definitive version of the character in my collection. Well, the Revoltech figure will fill that role perfectly. I'm not a fan of all the visible joints with Revoltech figures, but they're still usually pretty nice as a whole. I doubt there will be a better Medama Oyaji toy any time soon, but if there is, I'll make sure to hunt it down.<br />
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Some Morbs are more eyebally than other Morbs, but they all try.<br />
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This cyclops from Disney's Vinylmations line isn't a true eyeball head, but his eyeball is so well done that I've put him in the parade anyway. The point is that eyeball heads are my first love, but I'm happy with ANY cool eyeball toy. Or thing.</div>
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Like these guys! They're simple wind-up toys, but they're great.</div>
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These next figures are original custom guys by <a href="http://ericnilla.blogspot.ca/">Eric Nilla</a> and <a href="http://ironhauspro.blogspot.ca/">Ironhaus Productions</a>. The top figure is Eyeklops from their Universe of Violence series, while the bottom one is Dr. Eyeklops Chesterworth, from the much more sophisticated Gentlemen of Violence.<br />
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Alexx also sent me this thing. There's a fine line for what kind of cyclopses appeal to me, and which ones do nothing. It goes a long way in their favor when their eyeballs are HUGE.<br />
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Sometimes if you like to drive fast, you should probably still try to blink. This guy's going to need some Vizine.<br />
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Gotta love POGs.<br />
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Of course, the eyeball is a favorite subject for gross-out toys, bouncy balls, and candies.<br />
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These are two of my eyeball rings. Why do I have eyeball rings? Because they're eyeball rings.<br />
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I've got this eyeball whoopee cushion that I must have won from somewhere. The end is getting all dry and cracked, but it can still be blown up!</div>
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I found this eyeball mask at Target. I bought two, just to make sure at least one of them lasts. The chance to dress up like an eyeball head doesn't come up very often, but when it does, I'm ready.<br />
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Eyeballs even make for great gifts with that personal touch. My wife gave me this eyeball card for my birthday last year. Yeah, she gets me!<br />
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And Alexx's wife made me this crocheted eyeball bag. I couldn't believe this thing! It's awesome, and I was truly touched to receive it. It also makes for a pretty cool eyeball puppet.</div>
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My eyeball wallet. Well, I guess there's other stuff going on there too, but I'm in it for the eyeballs. That's practically my motto!</div>
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I got this eyeball in Las Vegas. It's one of those things that you throw at a hard surface and watch it go splat and almost completely flat, and then it pops back to it's regular round shape. The effect is hard to take pictures of (timing and all that), but I tried...</div>
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Turns out these things are actually a lot of fun. Too bad these balls don't have bodies, or would that be weird?</div>
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It would be weird, but it's also hilarious! The last Medama Oyaji toy I got in Japan was this splat thing here. Not a bad likeness of the character, but if you throw him...<br />
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WHACK!<br />
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SPLAT!<br />
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BORT!<br />
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CHECK OUT THAT ACTION SHOT!<br />
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Point is, squishing things is fun.<br />
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Lastly, it says something when the only piece I still have from my old TMNT Technodrome playset is the eyeball that goes on top. It says "I like eyeballs!" Hopefully I've been able to drive that point home with this post.<br />
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Anyway, it's been a fun two years working on this blog. Bring on year 3!<br />
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It's been a few months since my last Skylanders spotlight (in fact it's been so long, the last one was <a href="http://theplasticeyeball.blogspot.ca/2013/12/walking-in-winter-skyland.html">Christmas themed</a>). I don't want to just wait for holidays to do these posts, but until I get to a regular one, here's some Easter Skylanders!</div>
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As I said in my last spotlight, I do enjoy these holiday themed versions. If you're going to do exclusive repaints, they might as well be something fun, otherwise, why even bother? Releasing a sculpt in gold or silver paint is all well and good, but it's not really fun. Christmas is <i>fun</i>! Easter is <i>fun</i>! Halloween is also fun, but I haven't gotten there yet. Technically only one of these is a true Easter themed figure (and another is about 50%), but thanks to the special hats I've given them, they all count!</div>
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Both Trigger Happy and Fryno come on cards made-up to look like Easter Eggs (or the more PC "Spring Edition" packaging), but one is clearly more Easter themed than the other.</div>
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Like Jolly Bumble Blast, Springtime Trigger Happy is a straight up holiday themed character. Instead of his usual orangey-brown color, he now comes in pastel pinks and yellows. His giant bomb is also done-up like an Easter egg (pity the poor kid who finds that one during the egg hunt). </div>
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I thought we were going to be getting an Easter themed "Hoppity" Pop Fizz figure, but I guess that just ended up being an in-game character you could get for a Skylanders app game. I'm just happy we got something to add to the holiday themed collection, and the figure itself turned out well. The bomb works perfectly as an Easter egg, but Trigger Happy's colors remind me of ice cream more than Easter. He actually looks quite tasty. Don't eat him though.</div>
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Just like in the last Skylanders post, I used my camera to take pictures of my TV screen so I could get some in-game shots. There's probably a better way to do it, but I don't know what that is. Anyway, in the last post I talked about what a nice surprise it was that Jolly Bumble Blast came with his own exclusive hat. As I said then, giving hats to my Skylanders is one of my favorite things to do in the games. Well, Springtime Trigger Happy comes with an exclusive hat as well! This is the Springtime hat, and it's set apart from the regular "wabbit ears" because these ones are coming out of an Easter egg. You can put Trigger Happy in pretty colors and give him a cute hat, but he still looks like a psycho. Maybe it's the guns? It could just be that he actually <i>is</i> a psycho!<br />
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Trigger Happy has all the regular moves and abilities that his normal version does. It's just his outside appearance that's changed, but that's okay. Remember kids: it's what's on the outside that counts.<br />
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Some of the earlier "special" Skylanders looked different as a figure, but appeared like they normally would in the game. It's nice to see the themes get carried over into the games. I don't mind getting the different versions of characters if they're released more than once (that way I can level them up in different ways), but I prefer it when they look different. At the very least, I can give them different hats.</div>
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You can see Trigger Happy's regular colors in this screen, though I assume most people know what Trigger Happy usually looks like.</div>
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Fryno is the "50% Easter" character I mentioned above. He comes packaged on the "Spring Edition" card, but the figure is just a regular Fryno. To give this fire rhino some extra Easter cred, I've outfitted him with the wabbit ears hat! Doesn't make him look any more festive, though.</div>
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His head-pounding tantrums serve a purpose though. Get him mad enough and his fists turn red with rage, which adds some extra power to his punches. And in this state, he's not content to just plow into his enemies. He goes all "Skylanders of Anarchy" and drives into them with his fiery motorcycle!</div>
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Fryno's figure is a nice one, but that's also part of the problem. He looks wild, but nice. If they do another one down the road (like maybe a Lightcore version!) I hope they give him an angry face with red eyes. The anger just suits him better.</div>
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Oh, one last thing about Fryno: As seen in the rear pic farther up in the post, my figure had this weird crusty stuff on his goggles (glue, I think?). Anyway, it bugged me, so I just colored over it with a black permanent marker. Problem solved! I'm handy.</div>
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Sonic Boom made the Easter team for two reasons: One, she throws eggs, and eggs and Easter go together. Easter eggs don't have little baby griffons inside like Sonic Boom's do, but <i>imagine if they did</i>! And two, I've given her the fancy hat, which makes her look like she's wearing her Sunday best. That's Easter-y enough for me!</div>
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The first two figures in this spotlight are both from Skylanders: SWAP Force, the third game in the series. This version of Sonic Boom is from the first game, and I find it kinda plain. The second version (that I'll get to someday) is more exciting, and she has a glow-in-the-dark version too. But this is the one that I gave the fancy hat to way back when, so this is the one that makes the Easter cut. I don't know why I find this one so plain. I think it's because she's just standing there, without much personality shining through. She's a griffon, and that's it. I like the way the clouds look on the base, but all of the Air-type Skylanders have bases like that.</div>
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In the game, Sonic Boom definitely lives up to her name. She sure booms sonically. She's not my favorite Skylander to use, but at least she's photogenic! <br />
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Besides her shriek, Sonic Boom can fly. Flying seems to increase her speed, but it's not hugely useful. She'd be much better off putting those claws to good use.<br />
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Even though she's called Sonic Boom and does boom sonically, she's known more for taking her children into battle with her. Sonic Boom's babies were cursed to hatch from their eggs, exist for a short amount of time, and then revert back into eggs. Instead of finding a way to break the curse, she has turned her babies into weapons, throwing them at her enemies and having them back her up for a while before they turn back into eggs. Say what you want about Sonic Boom's mothering skills, her little family does seem to work well together.</div>
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So that's another Skylanders spotlight in the bag! Only... <i>many more</i> to go. But there's no major holidays on the way for a while, are there? Maybe I'll actually do a randomly themed Skylanders spotlight next.</div>
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I've been pretty quiet with the blog for a while, and part of that comes from not knowing what to do for my 100th post. It is a milestone after all, and I was trying to come up with something that would feel special. In the end I decided to go for the opposite and spotlight ten figures that might not otherwise get featured. My toy collection as a whole is pretty random, and yet I still have some figures that are random even among the randoms. The stuff I pick up at conventions are usually pretty random, and even though I really do try to stick to a few certain lines, I always cave in and impulsively grab things on the fly, just because I think they're cool. And when it comes to gifts, I rarely say no to a figure I don't have.</div>
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So here are some of the more random figures from my collection of random figures.</div>
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I got this guy at the Calgary Expo, the biggest comic and entertainment convention we have in my hometown. He's from a line based on the "Maximo" video game series, which I've never played. I just thought he was cool looking. I'm a sucker for a skeleton, and I'm pretty fond of pirates too. He was in a bin of cheap figures, so impulse buys are easy when they're cheap!<br />
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Skeleton pirates are always cool, but they get extra bonus points when they come with their own skeleton parrot pal.<br />
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Now, Captain Cadaver here has some weird articulation. His arms are both articulated at the shoulders and elbows, and his right wrist can swivel as well. That's it though. I can understand why his neck doesn't move - it just couldn't. But his legs aren't articulated at all. At least he's got a wicked anchor-flail for a left hand (with a real chain!). It's a nice feature that makes up for the next point:<br />
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Captain Cadaver comes with a nice pirate scimitar that he will NEVER BE ABLE TO HOLD! This is one of those strange cases where a figure is released with an accessory, but is given no hands able to hold it. His right hand is sculpted with the fingers closed. There's still a whole there so he could hold <i>something</i>, but that handle will never ever fit in there. I suppose he could just throw the whole thing at you like some big dagger, but he shouldn't have to. The gun in his belt is also not removable. But at least he has his anchor-on-a-chain!<br />
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Overall there's some odd choices here, but Captain Cadaver's nice if you can get him cheap.<br />
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One of the most annoying things about living so close to the US is that even though we're part of the same landmass, they still get toys that never show up here! I mean, the borders are only man-made, we share the same continent! It's not like we're too far away! Anyway, there's always going to be stuff that doesn't show up here, and the "Skeleflex" line was one of them. It's probably for the best. I would have gotten too many of them, but I don't know how well they stand up overtime. I've heard stories about loose or cracked joints. Still, they sure look cool.<br />
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I first heard of these guys from my friend Alexx over at <a href="http://toysandtomfoolery.blogspot.ca/">Toys and Tomfoolery</a>. He had gotten into them, and they were being discounted super-cheap in his area, so he asked if I wanted any. Of course I had to try them out! In retrospect, I should have at least asked for two of them so I could play with mixing and matching the parts, but in the end I only asked for this guy: Centoro. I still think he's the coolest in the line though. Centaurs are all well and good, but a skeleton centaur is a whole other thing! That's twice the bones, and it makes for quite the impressive looking figure.<br />
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<i>Skeleflex</i> was a line built around construction, so the figures came in pieces and you had to assemble them yourself. All the parts could be mixed and matched, and as a byline of that, there's also a ton of articulation to be found. The jaw, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, hips, other hips, knees, other knees, and all of the hooves are articulated. Even the spine is articulated all the way down to the tail. He originally came with these weird rubber joints to be used in his arms (I guess that's where the <i>flex</i> in "Skeleflex" comes from), but they just ended up making his arms look long and limp, so I left them out. He's much better without them.<br />
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So far I only have one loose joint, and I found a crack when I went to take these pics (though it could have been there before and I just forgot about it), but he's still a pretty cool figure. I only ever came across Skeleflex on my own once, when I was visited the Jurassic Park gift shop in Orlando Universal's Islands of Adventure. They only had the small dinosaur skeletons from the line, and they were pretty expensive too. I really wanted to get some little minions for Centoro, but not at the price they were going for, and not when this much bigger guy was being sold on clearance. Oh well. Who needs minions when you got all 'dem limbs?</div>
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This is one of the more unlikely figures that I have. I've seen "Napoleon Dynamite" once, and it was okay. Would I watch it again? Sure, but I'm not going to go out of my way for it. It was funny enough for what it was, but it's a very specific kind of funny that I'd have to be in a very specific mood for. But that's not why I bought this figure. I bought this figure for a very specific reason, and before we get to that, let's look at the figure itself.<br />
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McFarlane Toys has gone through various eras over the years. There were the straight up action figures of the Todd Toys years, followed by the "stand-there-and-look-good-figures" that saw a lot of movie and sports stuff, to the present era which is, well, kind of a sad mix of the first two. This statuesque figure is clearly from that second era, where articulation still existed, but it didn't really do anything. The sculpting on the other hand was pretty amazing, with the figures looking like they jumped right out of their respective comic book/screen/field/court/rink.<br />
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Napoleon is shown here from his moment for glory near the end of the film. Moon boots and trademark "Vote for Pedro" shirt firmly in place, his sleepy-faced dance is now frozen in time for eternity.<br />
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The details are what McFarlane Toys was known for from this era, and they're really well done here. The facial likeness is dead-on, the texture in the jeans is awesome, and even his watch shows an actual date and time. It's tiny, but you can clearly make out that it's Thursday, May 28th at 2:50 (and 39 seconds). Hey, attention to detail counts! I don't absolutely need it, but I appreciate it when I get it. <br />
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Napoleon comes with a display stand that plays lines from the movie when you push the li'l black button. No one is ever going to use Napoleon here as an action hero (Oh! A challenge!) so he should at least be able to be all the "Napoleon Dynamite" that he can be. This version spouts lines like, "Gosh!", "You're such an idiot!", and "This one gang kept wanting me to join 'cause I'm pretty good with a bo staff". Maybe he CAN be an action hero! He can team up with Donatello to save the world from the combined forces of Cobra Commander, Skeletor, aaaaaaaand... Rowdy Roddy Piper. Because <i>imagination</i>.<br />
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Okay, so the very specific reason that I bought this figure is for his other accessory: the wrestler figure. This noseless wonder is a figure... of a figure! Sure, the various Toy Story lines over the years give us the same things, but those are figures of characters. This is a toy made to represent a toy that never came to life. For some reason I find that just hilarious and super cool. Silly reason to buy a figure? I'll admit to that, but if there's one thing I do well, it's silly.</div>
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Now in this case, I have no idea why I bought this figure. I really must have wanted him at the time. I honestly don't know. I'm not a Popeye fan. I don't have anything against him, I just don't really care about him. Maybe I thought the imposing size of this figure would make him a nice goon for some other action figure baddie (which it would). I just don't really know why I got him. I can actually remember being in Toys R Us and and getting him, but the reasons are lost to time.<br />
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Still, he's a nice big figure who looks exactly like he should. His action attack feature is supposed to have him squeezing his arms together like a bear hug, but it's never really worked. It doesn't hinder the playability of the figure, and the articulated fingers are a nice touch. Overall, I like him, I just don't know why I bought him. His "Bluto's Barge" ride is my favorite ride from Islands of Adventure. So there't that. Right?</div>
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I think this is another random figure I picked up at a convention. But at least in this case he's absolutely freakin' awesome. He's weird! I love weird! I have never read a single "Flaming Carrot" comic book, but I would love to. They look just insane. But even without reading the comics, how could I refuse a figure with a giant flaming carrot for a head? His light up flame no longer works (and never really did), but it's still flame-y enough. I'll say this on the blog over and over again: I'm a sucker for foodie characters, and the stranger the better. This guy is just a guy, with a big flaming carrot for a head. And duck feet.<br />
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Now if you're just a guy with a giant flaming carrot for a head, you're going to need some weapons. Even if you're not trying to be a super hero, I'm pretty sure you'd need weapons. You have a giant flaming carrot for a head. You're going to have to defend yourself at some point. In this case, he comes with a pistol that fits nicely into his hand, and a grenade (in case he really means business). And just look at his no-nonsense face. His entire being might be nonsense, but he always means business.<br />
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This isn't Krull from the classic 80's sci-fi/fantasy movie of the same name. This is Krull from the less-than-classic Tim Burton directed "Planet of the Apes". I'm not really a Planet of the Apes fan, and this is actually the only movie from that series that I've seen. I hear the new one's pretty good, but anyway. There wasn't really a whole lot that I liked about the Tim Burtan version, but I liked Krull. He was an old former soldier, and he was one of the few apes sympathetic to humans. In the end he gets monkey-pawed to death by Attar, which would have been a noble end had Attar not switched sides shortly thereafter, but hey, it's not a very good movie. That being said, I was impressed by the look of the apes, and it carries over into some nice looking figures. I don't have to like a movie to like the figures, and I'd rather have good figures from a bad movie than bad figures from a good movie.<br />
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The look of the apes from the original movies is iconic, so when you see them, you think "Planet of the Apes". The apes from this movie look much less iconic, which for me makes for much better figures. I've always been a fan of toys with a lot of crossover appeal. I would rarely use figures as their intended characters as a kid, instead using toys from various lines to make up my own stories. This line has a ton of crossover appeal, and Krull here could be used in pretty much any fantasy setting. Remember "Warriors of Virtue"? He's got a real Warriors of Virtue vibe to him. I could see him in Masters of the Universe or anything like that. He doesn't have a ton of articulation, but he has enough to fit in with other figures, he's action posed, but it doesn't hurt the figure.<br />
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Krull comes with two accessories: a scimitar that he can actually hold (I'm looking at you, Captain Cadaver!), and a cool looking staff. It would be nice if he could hold both at the same time <i>a la</i> Gandalf, but they both work well enough on their own.<br />
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So Krull is a nice looking figure in his own right. I don't think of his as a Planet of the Apes figure, but an everyman fantasy figure that you could do anything with.<br />
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I bought this figure, but it wasn't originally for me. It was a Christmas gift to my brother, who at the time looked exactly like Nick Dean from "Jimmy Neutron". Eventually, when my brother moved to another city and left some of his stuff behind, Nick ended up in my collection. I've never seen the movie, and I don't know if I've even seen a full episode of the cartoon, but I'll keep the figure because he still reminds me of my brother. I think he came with a skateboard and headphones, but I have no idea where they are.<br />
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Speaking of movies I've never seen, here's Six Shooter from "Puppet Master". I really don't know anything about Puppet Master, but I know a cool toy when I see one. I found this guy at Spencer's Gifts on clearance and figured he was a no-brainer. Sure, he's supposed to be a homicidal puppet (right?), but I would have used him as a gunslinging alien/mutant sheriff when I was a kid. As it is, I don't have a lot of use for him now, but he's just fun to hold in your hands and play around with. No snickering!<br />
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He comes with a cowboy hat, as any good (or bad) cowboy should, as well as a six-shooter for each hand. Waitaminnit... SIX Shooter comes with SIX SIX-shooters? This puppet is downright Satanic! And he could be. Like said, I haven't seen the movies. Anyway, each gun fits tightly into each hand, and his thumbs have all been sculpted to rest on the hammer of each gun, which is cool. Lastly, he's got a soft-goods bandana that you can pull over his face or remove completely (but why would you want to do that?). There's another version of Six Shooter out there with half of his face missing and robotic parts showing underneath. That's another figure I'll have to get someday.<br />
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Let me just say right now that some of my figures are a little... embarrassing. I'm fine with being a grown man who collects toys. That's no biggie. That doesn't mean there aren't some toys that are better kept secret, like this guy. But let me explain! I do have a soft spot for Happy Meal toys. Actually, it's more than a soft spot. I love 'em. I have very fond memories of getting Happy Meal toys as a kid, and I still like picking them up every now then. <br />
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Usually there's a set for boys and a set for girls, like those Hot Wheels/Barbie sets that have been coming out for years. When you order a Happy Meal, you're asked if you want a boy's toy or a girl's toy. Again, no biggie. The yes biggie only happens when you ask for a boy's toy and you get a girl's toy! That is what happened here. I think a few of these "Madame Alexander" sets have been offered over the years. I can't remember what else was being offered at the time, but what ever I was trying to get, I obviously did not. Now, there have been Happy Meal toys over the years that I didn't end up keeping, because I just wasn't into them. So help me... I like this guy!<br />
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Why do I like this guy? I don't know! Maybe it's because his hard plastic clothes and hair make him seem less like a doll and more like an action figure? Or maybe it's that he really does have a weirdness to him. He is the MAD Hatter after all. He might look like an adorable little cherub, but he's CRAZY! Seriously, it says so in his name. <br />
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He has your basic action figure articulation. Swivel joints at the neck, shoulders, and hips. He's got a soft-goods bow tie that gives him a gentle nudge into doll territory, but that's nothing compared to his eyes closing when you lay him down. Yeah, his eyes close when you lay him down. But... But being crazy must be exhausting, right?<br />
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Stare into the face of madness. Do it! Do it before he falls asleep again and you lose your chance! I might not remember why I bought Bluto, but at least I know I deliberately bought him. Ol' MH here came into my collection by complete accident, but I can't not like him! I don't love him, but I can't not like him. Maybe Bluto can be his muscle? You have a problem with the Hatter? Well you gotta answer to Bluto!<br />
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Oh, and one last thing. One of my brothers is named Alexander, and it tickles me to no end that this little guy has "Alexander" stamped on the back of his head. Wait, did I just say that something funny "tickles" me? Ugh, this figure is getting to me...</div>
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<b>ANDROID</b></div>
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This little hard-to-photograph bugger is from a series of blind-boxed "Android" phone mascots. I only got one of them, because I have an Android phone and I figured whichever one I got would be <i>my</i> Android. Well, this is my Android. I guess he's pretty cool. He's just really reflective and it makes him hard to take pictures of without the flash bouncing back at you.<br />
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He comes with his own little phone accessory, which is removable so other figures can use it too. You know, if they're the talkable type. You can also pop his head off, and his body is hollow so you can keep things inside. Like... He-Man?<br />
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I liked "Men in Black" back in the day, but my appreciation of it has definitely waned over the years. It's no "Ghostbusters". I remember being unimpressed with the figures back when the movie came out, and to be fair, they're unimpressive figures. But just like with Napoleon Dynamite earlier in the post, sometimes there's just something about a figure that I love too much to ignore. So sit tight, we'll get there.<br />
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I like figures with lots of articulation, but I'm just as good with figures that have basic or even no articulation. What bugs me is when a figure has articulation that just doesn't make any sense. Take Jay here for example. First of all, his arms are sculpted in an awkward, bent post. He looks okay holding his gun, but they're weird on their own (never mind that... thing that he's holding in his hand, to... stab you with? That's not to erase your memories, that's just to stab you). He's got a swivel waist, which is fine, and two swivel joints at the hip. Great. But then he's only got one articulated knee? Why? To make it look like he's running? I can use <i>imagination</i> to make him run. Give him both knees or no knees, not just one. It's not like he can kneel or anything. This is an awkward figure. At least as far as sculpting goes, it still manages to look like Will Smith. It's not a dead-on likeness, but if I didn't know Will Smith played Jay in the movie, I'd still think the figure looked like him if I was asked.<br />
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Jay comes with a weird shovel-barrled blowtorch thing. It's not bad as far as accessories go, just weird. Now, I say "I love weird" all the time, but this isn't that kind of weird. This is just "weird" weird, that's just kinda there. But it's not bad. Adding to the awkwardness of the figure is that Jay is painted to look like one side of him is illuminated by fire, and this is "Flame-Blastin'" Jay, so that makes sense. But there's no effect, not even a red missile, to make it look like he's using the flamethrower right at this moment. Maybe it's the light from the flame he just ignited? Meh, it's awkward.<br />
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BUT this figure has a saving grace. I bought Napoleon Dynamite for the wrestler, and I bought Flame-Blastin' Jay for the display stand. Jay's package mentions that he's "Flame-Blastin' Jay VS Scorched Alien", but where is the Scorched Alien? All I see is what looks like a friend human skeleton baked onto the street.<br />
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BAM! SCORCHED ALIEN!<br />
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If you flip up the charred corpse, there's an alien hidden underneath! I love when a display stand doubles as an extra figure, and that's exactly what we have here. Not only is it a creepy looking alien with sharp teeth and multiple fat squirming tongues, but it's a creepy looking alien with sharp teeth and multiple fat squirming tongues THAT DISGUISES ITSELF AS A CHARRED HUMAN CORPSE!!!! <br />
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Wow. I din't expect to use Craig Ferguson in a toy blog, but here we are. <br />
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As you can see, some things just excite me in all the right ways.<br />
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Awkward figure. Awesome stand. I'll take it!<br />
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So anyway, there you have it. 100 posts! It's a big deal, woo hoo! Now we can all get back to normal and get on with our lives. Also, I have enough random figures to do more posts like this, so this could become a thing.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01454650838507365691noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430434408539751644.post-39534720324463422602014-03-20T20:15:00.000-07:002014-03-20T20:17:33.859-07:00Trash Talk<a href="http://toysandtomfoolery.blogspot.ca/">Alexx</a> and I have finally got another post up over at <a href="http://eyebotlaunch.blogspot.ca/2014/03/trash-talk.html">Go! Launch All Eyebot!</a> You should check it out. It's 90's-tastic and shows what could have been for a certain long gone toy line.<br />
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My friend Brandon (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsnQY4Gpi8Hgdc7_ShWir3A">HollidayRespawn</a>) led me to this competition being held by Bioware. It's called '<a href="http://blog.bioware.com/2014/02/25/take-your-place-in-the-inquisition/">Take Your Place in the Inquisition</a>', and the winner will provide a voice in the Dragon Age Inquisition game. <br />
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Oh yeah, that's Brandon voicing the Inquisitor in my audition. A big thanks goes out to him for helping me out (and of course, I returned the favor in his own audition).</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01454650838507365691noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430434408539751644.post-13450988690476173842014-02-20T22:28:00.002-08:002014-02-20T22:32:29.137-08:00My Mixels Bring All the Boys to the YardDamn right, they're better than yours! Well, actually, they're mass produced, so they're exactly the same as yours.<br />
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The first time I came across Lego's Mixels online, I thought they were neat. Nothing all that fancy, but cool enough that I knew I would probably try one or two out. THEN I saw pics of the next two series and knew there was a good chance I could end up getting hooked on these things. So when the first series finally came out in stores… I bought them all.<br />
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I like a nice collection of freaks, and I like when they don't break the bank either. These guys run about $6 CAN, which ain't too shabby. I had assumed they'd be around the size of the smaller Bionicles from a while back (what were they called? Matoran, I think.). There's a range of heights between the Mixels, and while the taller ones are Matoran sized, the average and shorter ones are, well, shorter.</div>
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Apparently there's a Mixels cartoon on the Cartoon Network, but I've never seen it. Maybe it's coming soon? Anyway, each Mixels character comes sealed in a simple plastic baggy, with a picture of their animated counterpart up in the corner. I've seen a few of the cartoon shorts on the Mixels website, and they're pretty random and crazy. I think I prefer the looks of the toys though. The cartoons are cute, but the toys just look <i>nuts</i>.</div>
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Who better to start with than my favorite of the bunch? There's a few characters with giant cycloptic eyeballs that you'd assume would be more my style, but there's just something about Shuff that jumps out at me the most. He's described as a walking wrecking ball, and from what I learned on the website, the Mixels love to build things. I don't know where having a walking wrecking ball would come in handy, but he certainly looks the part. Maybe he demolishes things and they use the parts to make other stuff.<br />
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His design is pretty simple. Well, I guess they all are, but Shuff's is <i>extra</i> simple. He looks like a bug-eyed boulder with a chunk of crystallized rock on his head. All of the characters have random, asymmetrical parts (not the best line if you have OCD), and he's got a basic amount of articulation. He can move enough to go about his chunky little business anyway.<br />
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Oh yeah, I should mention that each series is made up of three tribes of three. Each tribe revolves around a certain theme or element, and Shuff here is one of the rocky Cragsters.<br />
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Next up is a member of the Electroids tribe: Zaptor! He also has a look that appealed to me early on. He's like a walking, talking electrical tower. He's tall, he's lanky, and he's got a face like a piranha. Zaptor has a hinge on his head so you can move his zapper up and down, for whatever reason. And of course his main feature is the two-toned electric bolts piece on the top of his head. His design is one of the weirder ones, and I love it! Apparently Zaptor is an adrenaline junky, but you'd never know from looking at him. He looks more like the tall, awkward type. You know the type.<br />
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Rounding out the tribes for series 1 are the fiery Infernites. Zorch is the fastest member of his tribe, but I guess having flaming jets on your back will do that to you. It would have been funnier if they were just slightly lower down, though. I love the use of handlebars to make his eyebrows! Turn them one way and he looks angry, and the other to look… innocent I guess. You can also move them back and forth for other expressions. <br />
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Seismo is a shy and quiet Cragster. Too bad his giant feet cause earthquakes wherever he goes. So he's the shy, quiet, earthquakey type. You know the type. He doesn't look very shy, though! He looks more like a grump. I guess you can't judge a Mixel by his cover. Seismo is the one I figure I should like the most since he's practically an eyeball head, but there's just something about him that doesn't quite "wow" me as much as it could. He is a little plain, I guess. I still like him, but there could have been a little more to him.<br />
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Now Volectro is a Mixel that has grown on me. I liked his look the first time I saw him, but he's also a lot of fun in-hand. Besides the crazy hair, he's got something that none of the other Mixels have: elbows. Well, Krader has one, but Volectro has TWO! Wow! <br />
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Volectro has been shocked a few too many times and now he emits loads of static electricity. This static draws all sorts of strange things into his hair, so who knows what's hiding in there!<br />
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Vulk is dim-witted, but strong. He can use his burning fingers to melt tunnels through rock or fight off Nixels. Wait, what are Nixels? Patience, the answer to that question is coming up! Anyway, Vulk wasn't originally a character I was overly interested in, but he's pretty cool in-hand. You can move each of his fingers individually, and he's one of the shortest Mixels in this series. With his squat little body, he's almost like the apple to Zaptor's banana.<br />
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Wait, that wasn't supposed to sound weird…<br />
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This is a Nixel. Where the Mixels love building and creating new things, the Nixels love to take things apart. Because of this, Mixels and Nixels don't really get along. I knew there were Nixels coming in the later waves, but none of the pictures I could find for series 1 had anything to do with them (and the packages don't advertise them either). Well, imagine my surprise when I went to build Vulk and I found the little Nixel face in the bag! They're simple little things, but they're a nice bonus character to add to your collection. They also look like delightfully evil tiny monsters. They might be dwarfed by the Mixels, but I can't see anyone having a problem with these guys getting smacked around.</div>
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Teslo is the lookout for the Electroids, and he's also afraid of heights. I don't know how useful a lookout that's afraid of heights is, but he's probably only looking out for Nixels. With their size, Teslo probably spends most of his time standing on the ground, looking down.<br />
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Teslo's most prominent feature is his tail, which shares the same bolts piece that adorns Zaptor's head. It's a pretty cool feature, but it does tend to pop off a little too easily for my liking. I suppose he should also get some marks for looking the most like his cartoon counterpart, not that that matters much to me. And now that I think of it, my boy Shuff looks even more like his cartoon, so I guess that's out.<br />
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Teslo also comes with a Nixel, though this one is my least favorite so far. I just don't like the way his feet sit. Either they're always pointing at random angles, or they sit side by side and look less like feet and more like a skirt or something. Still, Nixels travel in large packs, so more Nixel toys are better than less.<br />
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Even though Shuff is my favorite Mixel from series 1, if you were only going to get one of them, I would recommend Krader. He's just fun to play with! The top half of his body is connected to a disk in the middle, so you can spin him around and around, letting that giant fist of his fly. His eyes can also rotate pretty easily, giving him a "googly eyed" appearance. I guess he hasn't gotten used to spinning around all the time.<br />
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Krader can smash through rock and dig traps to catch Nixels. And as luck would have it, he also comes with a Nixel.<br />
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Remember <a href="http://www.mariowiki.com/Ninji">Ninji</a> from the Mario Bros. games? This Nixel (and the one that comes with Vulk) reminds me of them. That just proves how evil they are! They probably take apart all of the Mixels' hard work, all while jumping up and down on the spot (while some run back and forth, jumping up and down).<br />
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Finishing up series 1 is Flain, who is described as the leader (though it doesn't say if he's the leader of his tribe or all Mixels) as well as the smartest. The only problem is that if he thinks too hard, his brain has been known to… burst into flames.<br />
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I don't know why, but Flain is my least favorite Mixel so far. He looks the least like his animated version, but there's something more than that. Maybe it's that it feels like he's being pushed to be the most popular? He seems to get singled out in pictures and advertisements more than the others. He's not terrible, just not great. I do like his big ol' flaming head, and the flame pieces look like they could be made of gummy candy. You can't go wrong with gummy. Except that these aren't actually gummy, so you could go very wrong.<br />
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So to sum it all up, Mixels are pretty cool! I'd recommend trying out at least one, but this is one of those lines where the toys are each built up by having the other ones around. One Mixel is fun, but a group of them is better! You can also combine the three members of each tribe into a bigger "MAX" creature, which I haven't gotten around to building yet. Actually, I might even buy another set to make the MAX forms, so I can leave the regular Mixels as they are. Lego's pretty smart that way. Sure, you can take the Mixels apart and combine them however you like, but you could also buy more so you can have all the different combinations at once!</div>
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If you want to check out the Mixels website, click <a href="http://www.lego.com/en-us/mixels">here</a>.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01454650838507365691noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430434408539751644.post-11687458838547801702014-01-25T20:13:00.002-08:002014-01-25T20:31:21.946-08:00SkylerI'd like to take a moment from the toy talk to pay special tribute to a member of my family that we lost today. We got our dog Skyler as a puppy, and from the moment she puked gopher guts on my lap, I knew she was one of us.<br />
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<i>Don't let these pics fool you, Skyler and Toby loved each other.</i></div>
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Not only was Skyler a part of our family, she was a good friend too, and she will be deeply missed.<br />
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A friend of mine started his own YouTube channel a while back, and it's not too shabby! </div>
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He told me was going to do a playthrough of XCOM: Enemy Within, and he asked if I wanted my name used for one of his soldiers. Uh, yeah I did! He knows I'm a huge Kamen Rider fan, so he tried to give my character a "Kamen Rider-esque" design. I decided to commemorate my soldier with a special Plastic Eyeball comic (with apologies to Hiroshi Fujioka).</div>
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Okay, so the comic probably spoils how my character fares during the playthrough, but if you want to see <i>why</i> he fares the way he fares (as well as the rest of HollidayRespawn's stuff) just click <a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsnQY4Gpi8Hgdc7_ShWir3A">this link</a>.<br />
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As for XCOM Rider, I have a feeling he'll be back some day... Nah, he looks pretty dead.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01454650838507365691noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430434408539751644.post-21460734924775394122014-01-22T08:42:00.000-08:002014-01-22T08:42:05.527-08:00Blockheads<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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In case I haven't driven the point home yet, I'm a sucker for blind-bagged toys. I mean, I hate getting doubles, but the excitement that not knowing who you're going to get is pretty fun. And as far as doubles go, that's less of an issue with series because it's made up entirely of troop builders! I tend to be more about the individuals than the troopers though, so I'll probably just mix and match parts and make my own characters.<br />
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I've skimmed through the Tenkai Knights <a href="http://www.tenkaiknights.com/">website</a> and I've read the basic rundowns of each character, but in my skimmings I haven't seen anything that talks about the Kindoh. I have a feeling they're bad guys, but I can't say for sure. What I do know is that I always cheer for the heroes more than the villains, and both the bags I randomly pulled have given me... the villains. Maybe.<br />
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For those new to Tenkai, the line features transforming Lego-type blocks that can "shape-shift" into troopers, creatures, and weapons. Each figure comes with gear and accessories to fully set them up for battle. Or creativity! These building lines always push for creativity, right? I'm gonna go with battle, though.<br />
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The first figure I ever pulled has mangled armor! Right up there in the corner... something... happened there. I tend to focus on things like that, but just like this armor, I'm not too bent out of shape over it (see what I did there?). Armor gets dinged up, so that's how I see this.<br />
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Anyway, the figures themselves come out of the package in block form. Since I've only really looked at character bios so far, I don't know how the shape-shifting blocks come into play with the whole Tenkai story, but it's already working on my imagination. I can see these characters as techno-organic beings, and they can shape-shift to build and rebuild everything around them. Need buildings? The builders will shape-shift into the pieces you need, even forming the buildings themselves with their bodies, playing their parts until something else is needed elsewhere. Their cities would constantly be changing because the pieces go to where they're needed at the time. I know they can combine into space ships and tanks and stuff. Sounds crazy? I know! It's great.<br />
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This is the Kindoh Quadrax. When this line was recommended to me, I thought the troopers were interesting, but the creatures really caught my attention. They were just that much weirder, and weird is key for me.<br />
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The Quadrax appears to be some kind of sabre-toothed... thing. It's a different creature than the Hos and Sho from the regular packs, so it's nice to see that the blind-packs didn't just give us repaints. <br />
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I think the Quadrax is a fine addition to the creature collection, I just wish it had some feet. The Sho comes with feet, so I know the parts exist. It just feel like that fanged face needs some clawed feet to complete the look. And now that I'm really staring at the face, are those even sabre-teeth? It looks like those sabres are part of his cheeks, not his mouth. He still has some obvious fangs, but if those aren't sabre-teeth than he needs the claws even more! That's the nice thing with this line though. If you want to add things like that, you should be able to. You just need the right pieces.<br />
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The humanoid half of my purchase is the Kindoh Trooper. Like I said, I don't know if the Kindoh are supposed to be villains (the website only mentions the evil "Corrupted", as far as I can tell), but he sure looks like a villain.<br />
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Did you know Darth Maul went on to become a Kindoh Trooper? Neither did I, but there he is. Seriously though, I do like the look of this figure. Often times a figure will look better either with their armor on or off, but this guy looks good either way. The trooper bodies are all identical, sculpt-wise, but the added color details and armor make for endless possibilities for characters down the road, and it doesn't feel monotonous at all.<br />
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The shape-shifting is pretty easy, which is great for me since I suck at transforming toys. I found it initially hard to open the blocks up that first time, but once you get it going everything moves much easier.<br />
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This trooper comes with a helmet to protect his blockhead, and a spear. Actually, when I first saw his weapon, I thought it was a torch and that's still how my brain tends to think about it. I guess it could be like a speartorch or something, where the blade is also on fire. I can work with that!<br />
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The Kindoh Trooper serves his troop building purpose well, but he could just as easily work as an individual character. He just has that "I am me" look about him. Stick him on his Quadrax to mow down the Tenkai Troopers and let him be all the "me" he can be. Or all the "him" he can be. You get what I'm saying.<br />
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So while I just found these guys the other day, I bought my first Tenkai stuff back before Christmas. They're just sitting down in the toy room, still sealed in their boxes. I'm loving these blind-bagged guys, so it's getting me excited to dig into my other sets and see what they do for my imagination. I just want to take the time to photograph the whole building process and spotlight them in the way they need to be shown. I also want to get some of the Tenkai Troopers from this blind-bagged series and make my characters for them. That yellow and blue one... he calls to me...<br />
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<i>Guess why I love the logo for this hostel. Just guess!</i></div>
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<i>I promise you my glasses aren't pulled down like that in a desperate attempt to look cool. They just happened to look that way in the pic. Unless I do look cool. Then it's deliberate.</i></div>
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I've never been to England, but my wife had to go late last year (I had to stay and watch the dogs). The situation that took her there wasn't a happy one, so I gave her a little Character Options Doctor Who figure to take with her so it would feel like I was there. She took him to an old church near where she was saying and snapped some pics for me. So even when I'm not lucky enough to travel, my figures still are.</div>
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There. This pic-heavy adventure that broke the internet is done for now. Hopefully it won't be long before there are more travels though, and I can post Part 4 - and beyond!</div>
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Alright, the journey continues!<br />
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I haven't been all over the US yet, but I've been to Florida and Vegas a few times. They're less about the dio-shots and more about just shopping seeing all the cool stuff there. That also means my pics are usually just nightstand shots.</div>
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<i>Diamondhead, with a rock from Diamonhead as his head.</i> </div>
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<i>I brought the first two Torpedo figures with me, since his character comes from Hawaii. I bought the set with the orange version in Aiea, Hawaii, which turned out to be the specific part of Hawaii that Torpedo comes from. How cool is that? Pretty cool. Hang loose.</i></div>
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Out of all the places I've been to so far, Japan is easily my favorite. I'm proud of where I come from, but I feel like as a country, Japan just gets me. The way I think, the things I like, all of it just feels like it gels with Japan. I got to spend a month there back in 2010, and if everything lines up they way I want them to, I'm going to go back this year.</div>
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These first three figures are the ones I brought with me to Japan. I got a lot more while I was there, but the first two of these were each brought for a specific reason. Japon, from the Homies line, was an obvious choice (he's small and easy to carry around, and his name is Spanish for "Japan", so... duh.). That Glyos figure is a part-swapped custom made by myself as a tribute to Bushido from G.I. Joe. At the time his parts were cheap and easy to find, so if I lost him it wouldn't have been a big deal. Lastly, the Bluespawn Ambusher from Dungeons & Dragons was a last minute grab before we left for the trip. I usually grab "just one more" figure as we're headed out the door, and in this case it was him. He's small, he's a monster, and I figured he'd fit right in. All three are now displayed in the same bookcase where I keep all of the other stuff I got in Japan.</div>
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<i>Does anyone know who this guy is? He was a blind-bagged guy (or maybe he came in a fizzy ball) from a series that I believe represents real historical Japanese people. I just have no idea who he is.</i></div>
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<i>Here's <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFo9T0qtJqbfmQ-0wuTJBiRaA-WW2_0R-mIl7ibF5j8czx3OiBm1ElrMrdoukSzhQa_uKzO9XVoTC1Cqwa4KNxcA1wLceH5ccJwSutAE4CR2Zf910VkIYGFrm8wIsf1Pdsz94w2m5kKVK9/s1394/IMG_4959.JPG">Jamila</a> at Tokyo Tower. The kaiju look much larger next to it in the movies...</i></div>
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<i>And here's Duffy. At the time, you could only get this "Mickey Mouse bear" in Japan. He's everywhere now, though.</i></div>
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Ok, here's the thing. I like to travel. It'll come up a lot on the blog here, whether I'm posting pics from my most recent trip or reminiscing about the old ones (like right now!). One thing I always have to do is bring some figures with me. It doesn't matter if it's a day trip, camping, whatever, I need to have some figures with me. I always have some figures set up on the nightstand here at home, so I always do it when I travel too. Plus, you never know what kind of cool diorama shots you could snap while you're travelling, so you gotta be prepared.<br />
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Here are some of the toys I've taken with me on my various travels. The first group of pics might make it seem like I only travel with Glyos figures, but I'll bring anything with me. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Oh, and um... EDIT: Apparently my first draft was so big I broke the internet, so I'll just split this post into three. So this part 1 now.</span><br />
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Just because I live here doesn't mean I won't come across some cool dio-shots, so I gotta be prepared here too.</div>
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These first pics were taken just a short walk from my house. That only kinda counts as travelling, but kinda travelling is still travelling. You can make dio-shots out of just about anything, and you don't always have to go far. I just like to go far.</div>
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One of the nice things about living in Alberta is that there are lots of places a short drive away that make for some prime figure photo taking. I can see the Rocky Mountains from my house! Sometimes it's nice to just head out there for the day, get down on the ground, and take some pics.</div>
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I'm a sucker for marbles. I looking at 'em, and I like taking pics of 'em.<br />
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Anyway, if desert shots are your thing, you can head out to the badlands by Drumheller and crawl around on the rocks there.<br />
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If you drive through the Rocky Mountains, you'll get to BC on the other side. Camping is great on Vancouver Island, and the terrain changes yet again.<br />
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<i>When I was a kid I had a series of adventures I played out featuring me, my friends, and my brothers as the heroes. This figure in the picture above is from a line called Freedom Fighters (or something like that). I used him as my brother Marcel. I still think of him that way.</i></div>
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<i>I hate things that grow on things, and I hate barnacles. This pic might speak to some of those issues.</i></div>
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I got married in BC, so some of the figures I brought on this trip were wedding themed. That Hot Wheels car was the first toy I bought after I was married (just because I'm a married man now doesn't mean I'm going to stop buying toys!). When we were planning the wedding I joked with my (soon to be) wife that I wanted to walk down the aisle to "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAs7Wxvc1_o">Augie's Great Municipal Band</a>", the end celebration music from Star Wars: Episode 1. She never did go for the idea, but I showed her! I walked down the aisle with that micro Boss Nass figure in my pocket. Take that, love of my life!<br />
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I have a lot of family in Toronto, and I usually stay with my nana when I go there. Going to her house is like going back in time! It's never really changed for as long as I can remember. As such, I like to bring figures there that remind me of specific events from my childhood. The naked mole rat in the above picture isn't nostalgic in any way, though. I saw naked mole rats for the first time at the Toronto Zoo on that trip, so I had to get the figure.</div>
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Ok, so to keep the internet working, let's stay close to home for now. We'll continue on in another post.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01454650838507365691noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430434408539751644.post-34978986505008735912014-01-11T18:03:00.000-08:002014-01-11T18:07:45.496-08:00AMAMOTM - December<i>Late until the very end! It's the usual excuses this time. December was too busy for me to get this done on time, blah blah blah. Doesn't matter. Let's get on with the final instalment of Army Men and Monsters of the Month!</i><br />
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<i>Last time, we left things off with the <b>Pilot</b> at the mercy of the <b>Mega Monster Master</b>. Let's pick things up right there.</i><br />
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"Well, you're right" the Pilot says, "I have come a long way. But I haven't come alone."<br />
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"Alright <b>Nurse</b>, take out that <b>Eye Goo</b>!" The Pilot orders.<br />
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In the skies high above <b>Mega Monster Island</b>, the <b>Sniper</b> aids his teammates on the ground by offering a cover of blaster fire.<br />
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Elsewhere on the island, the <b>Blaster</b> has left his damaged <b>Mega Mech</b> behind and has set out to regroup with his other teammates. Amidst the battles raging around the island, this lone soldier has gone unnoticed, when a sound from behind stops him in his tracks.<br />
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The Blaster turns, activates his <b>Mega weapon</b>, and waits for whatever is following him.<br />
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From behind the trees emerges <b>Rook</b> in his monster form!<br />
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"Dude! I almost blasted you!" the Blaster exclaims as he deactivates his Mega weapon. "A war's not really the best time to sneak up on your allies, ya know?"<br />
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"Then I guess I'm lucky you blast with restraint" Rook replies. "Why are you out here all by yourself? Where's the rest of your squad"?<br />
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"My mech was damaged by one of the <b>Shadow Brothers</b>. I managed to take him out, but the Medic ordered me to regroup with the others. You were leading the other squad. Where are they?"<br />
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In the Mega Monster Master's lair at the heart of the island, the Nurse uses the Pilot's mech to attack the stunned Master. The Pilot activates his <b>Mega cutters</b> and engages the Master's second-in-command, the <b>Bloody Watcher</b>.<br />
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From within their lab, <b>Podmus</b>, <b>Nocero</b>, and the <b>Clonefish</b> listen to the skirmishes outside.<br />
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In another moment, the two <b>Mega Monster Fighters</b> have entered the lab. The Master's monster makers are trapped before the blasters of the heroes.<br />
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"Our commander has been taken by an Eye Goo. Where is he?!" the Medic shouts at the captured monsters.<br />
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"*<i>blurb</i>* Your leader has been given an audience with the Mega Monster Master *<i>blurb*</i>. He's probably already *<i>blub</i>* dead!" The Clonefish says as he smiles a defiant toothy grin.<br />
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"Woah." The Blaster says as he examines the body. "What could flatten a human being like this?"<br />
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Before them stands a Mega Monster larger than anything ever encountered. Giant muscles bulge all over it's massive body. It's rock hard skin sparkles like diamonds. Huge jagged spines line it's back, and it's razor sharp teeth shine like gold.<br />
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"Dude, we're screwed!" The Blaster says as he prepares for his final stand.<br />
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The beast of beasts steps towards the two monster fighters and emits a roar unlike anything the planet has ever heard.<br />
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...And the ground trembles as the creature topples at the feet of the stunned heroes.<br />
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"Well, that one makes an even fifty for me". The Sniper says as he lands his mech on the beast's corpse. He leaves his mech standing there as he exits it.<br />
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"How many did you get?"<br />
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"I... I don't even have the words..." the Blaster stutters.<br />
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"How did you..." Rook starts.<br />
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"What? Oh, <i>him</i>?" the Sniper looks back at the giant monster, "Yeah, he's pretty big. A headshot's still a headshot though."<br />
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"Where are the others?" the Sniper asks.<br />
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"They went underground, after the Mega Monster Master." the Blaster says.<br />
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"Alright. Rook, I saw your squad back at the beach. Let's regroup with them and wait for the others to contact us". The Sniper starts to head off into the jungle on foot.<br />
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"Hey, you're just going to leave your mech here?" Rook asks.<br />
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"Why are you leaving your mech here?"<br />
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"To complete the mission." the Sniper says.<br />
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The Pilot's mech as been damaged by the Master and the legs no longer function. The Nurse exits the mech and activates her <b>Mega knife</b>.<br />
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At the beach where the Mega Monster Fighters first arrived, Rook's team waits. One of them sees something in the distance.<br />
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"Beyond this door is the lair of our glorious Master. Open it, and you'll find your leader." Podmus says.<br />
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"I don't think so" the Medic replies, "There could be anything behind that door. You open it."<br />
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"Your commander killed our Master's Eye Goo, trapping them both at the heart of the island. Eye Goo teleportation is the only way to reach the island's heart, but our Master still lives. Your plans have failed. I just thought you should know this before you died. Shadow Brothers, kill them!"<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">"Oooh, </span>this is lovely!" Nocero exclaims, "Is this a dying breath defiance? We monster makers in the lab never get to hear any of these! Tell me, what do you have to say before you die?"<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">"....</span>*<i>cough</i>* Talk is cheap" the Grenadier chokes, "that's why I use grenades..."<br />
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Making his way across the floor, he climbs onto the Grenadier's mech and checks the status of the MNB. Then he attempts to contact the others on the beach.<br />
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"Come in. If there are any survivors out there, come in."<br />
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"Sniper here, we hear you Medic."<br />
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"Sniper. The Grenadier is dead. Our mechs are compromised and the Pilot and Nurse are trapped at the heart of the island. We can't escape..."<br />
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"...Roger that... Has the Pilot given the command?"<br />
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"I... I don't think so. He could have been killed as well..."<br />
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"Sniper..." the Medic says, "you have to get the others off the island... It's too..."<br />
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"Medic, you're breaking up" the Sniper says, "Are you there? Is there another way to activate the detonation sequence? Medic!"<br />
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"What's this? Heroics till the end? Admirable, but it's too late to save her, I assure you." the Bloody Watcher taunts.<br />
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"Too late? Maybe you should take a <i>closer look</i> at the situation!" the Pilot replies.<br />
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"Fool! Did you really believe you could come to my island, my <i>home</i>, and defeat me!?" the Master cries.<br />
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"No amount of allies, no amount of weapons, <i>nothing</i> you could ever do would be good enough to stop me!"<br />
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"I am the creator of the new age of this world! The future bends to my will! Who are <i>you</i>? A small man in a metal suit. You sought to defy a god and you have <i>failed</i>!"<br />
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The Master stops at the faintest of sounds. He listens. They're coming from the man under his foot. <i>Laughter?</i><br />
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"What is this? What is so amusing to you!?"<br />
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"...*<i>choke*</i>... It's just this whole situation... reminds me of this old joke. It's...*<i>cough</i>* it's a little after your time... but I think you'll like it..."<br />
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"What are you blubbering about!?"<br />
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"... Trust me, it's hilarious... A dragon goes into a bar, and he says, '<b>Leader Mech</b>, initiate sequence 131231. Password:<b> FIREWORKS</b>.'"<br />
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"What? After everything that's happened, everything we've overcome together, you're leaving?" Rook asks, shocked.<br />
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"My ancestors once wondered the land, tied to no single place but serving the many. Many of them died fighting the enemy we just defeated. I intend to honor them by carrying on the journey they were forced to abandon." <br />
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"Well, now what" <b>Chopper</b> asks. "What do Mega Monster Fighters do when there are no more Mega Monsters".<br />
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"Come in! Anyone! We are under attack! A <b>Lamprey Hopper</b> is wiping us out!"<br />
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"Mega Monsters HQ. We hear you soldier, hold tight!".<br />
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"Reports are confirmed sir, we have monsters."<br />
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And that's it! AMAMOTM is in the bag! Sure, things didn't always show up on time, but I finished it! It's done. I doubt I'll ever do something like this again either. It was fun, but it got to the point where I felt like I couldn't do the blog posts I wanted to because I had to finish the next instalment of AMAMOTM. </div>
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Still, that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy myself, and hopefully you enjoyed yourselves too. What started as a random story I was doing just for the sake of doing it became something I actually put a lot of effort into (even if it doesn't show). Now I'm looking forward to going back to my regular ol' toy spotlights.</div>
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Before I fully close up shop on AMAMOTM though, I want to look at two figures: With army men toys, you never know what you're going to come across. They've been around for years and I'm sure they'll be around for years to come. And out of all the different kinds of lost toys you come across on the ground, little green army men are probably found. Like this guy.</div>
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I found this army man in a parking lot near Walmart, and he's obviously been run over. A bunch of times. I knew when I saw him that I'd have to pick him up and use him as some kind of Mega Monster's victim. He had to wait till the last instalment, but I got him in there. The other army man next to him shows what he's supposed to look like.</div>
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Then there's this guy. Lots of army men toys can be found with production flaws. Some are missing parts, others just don't look very detailed. This guy has this... thing on his head. But for some reason, I can't bring myself to cut it off. It's just so weird. I figured I would use it as part of some strange storyline, but it never happened. He still made it into AMAMOTM as a guy in the crowd at the memorial near the end, even if you only see his arm. But he's in there! He's towards the back.</div>
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Alright. This is by now probably the longest blog post I've ever done. What else is left to say besides thanks for coming along for the ride that is AMAMOTM!</div>
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Everything else up till now:</div>
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<a href="http://theplasticeyeball.blogspot.ca/2013/01/amamotm-january_28.html">AMAMOTM - January</a></div>
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<a href="http://theplasticeyeball.blogspot.ca/2013/01/amamotm-january_28.html">AMAMOTM - February</a></div>
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<a href="http://theplasticeyeball.blogspot.ca/2013/03/amamotm-march.html">AMAMOTM - March</a></div>
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<a href="http://theplasticeyeball.blogspot.ca/2013/04/amamotm-april.html">AMAMOTM - April</a></div>
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<a href="http://theplasticeyeball.blogspot.ca/2013/05/amamotm-may.html">AMAMOTM - May</a></div>
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<a href="http://theplasticeyeball.blogspot.ca/2013/07/amamotm-june.html">AMAMOTM - June</a></div>
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<a href="http://theplasticeyeball.blogspot.ca/2013/07/amamotm-july.html">AMAMOTM - July</a></div>
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<a href="http://theplasticeyeball.blogspot.ca/2013/08/amamotm-august.html">AMAMOTM - August</a></div>
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<a href="http://theplasticeyeball.blogspot.ca/2013/10/amamotm-september.html">AMAMOTM - September</a></div>
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<a href="http://theplasticeyeball.blogspot.ca/2013/11/amamotm-october.html">AMAMOTM - October</a></div>
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<a href="http://theplasticeyeball.blogspot.ca/2013/12/amamotm-november.html">AMAMOTM - November</a></div>
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