The Super Powers Haul!

I have to admit, I've had a pretty damn good week for toy hauls. Between a couple of personal purchases and some killer gifts from fellow bloggers (more on those later), I've racked up a decent pile of toys in just a seven day period.

So, today we're going to take a look at one of my purchases I made from some dude on the 4chan toy boards (a site I do not recommend for the faint of heart or the easily offended; this site is sort of like the Mos Eisley Cantina of toy message boards - a wretched hive of scum and villainy). Every now and then, I spot something worthwhile (ie. cheap enough to take the risk of getting ripped off) in one of the site's BST (buy sell trade) threads, and such was the case last week when one seller was giving up five Kenner Super Powers figures for $10!

One Paypal transfer later and those babies were mine! They arrived on Tuesday and I thought it'd be fun to take a look at them. Here we go...

Above, we see what ten clams can get you on the interwebs; a sort of weird bastardization of the Justice League, in a bizzaro world where Superman wears a blue cape, Hawkman has no wings and the Riddler is a good guy.

Here is Blue Cape Superman! I believe he is actually wearing the cape originally belonging to Red Tornado, but I could be wrong. I only had a couple of Super Powers figures as a kid, since they came out when I was 12 and starting to enter that age when it was less than cool to be into toys. Now I'm all grown up (ha!) and can buy them all if I want to, and I just may do that.

Here's the one figure I would have spent $10 on alone; Wonder Woman! I've always loved this figure and think it is one of the most charming female 3 3/4" figures ever made. There's just something about this figure that truly captures the essence of WW in her purest "Superfriends" form, which is often how I remember her best.

Next up is Wingless Hawkman! Crap. Anyone got a spare set of wings for this guy? He's just not the same without them. At least he still has his mace, so if anyone gives him static about his lack of wings, they'll get a face full of iron spikes!

This is an Asian man in green underwear.

And finally, the haul consisted of one DC Comics Super Heroes Riddler! He's from the series of toys that came out later by Toy Biz in 1989. But, I've got all these heroes, so what am I going to do with one measly little Bat-villain?

I know! I'll team him up with more Bat-villains that arrived in the mail the next day from my good cyber-homeboy and fellow blogger, Derf from Derf's Domain! Here we see just a scratching of the surface of the toy-filled care package that he sent me, which I'll go into much more detail next Friday!

And what did the Joker and Penguin bring with them? Another DC Comics Super Heroes Riddler still sealed on the card! This one is going up on the display case, while the loose Riddler is about to wreak havoc on Gotham City!

I hope Blue Cape Superman and Wingless Hawkman get there in time to save the day!

Stay tuned!

Hey! Look at My Tumblr!

Because I don't waste enough time on the internet, I thought it would be a good idea to start a Tumblr page. It's basically me posting anything I find interesting on the web. And, no shocker here, most of the stuff I post is pretty geeky.

So, I wanted to officially invite all of you to start following my Tumblr, because I only have one follower and that's Bubbashelby (who also has a Tumbler page), and I need some more peeps.

It's called My Brain Goes Pew! Pew! Pew! and it looks like this...

The official web address is; http://mybraingoespewpewpew.tumblr.com/

Now back to our regularly scheduled blogging.

Hey! Look at My Tumblr!

Because I don't waste enough time on the internet, I thought it would be a good idea to start a Tumblr page. It's basically me posting anything I find interesting on the web. And, no shocker here, most of the stuff I post is pretty geeky.

So, I wanted to officially invite all of you to start following my Tumblr, because I only have one follower and that's Bubbashelby (who also has a Tumbler page), and I need some more peeps.

It's called My Brain Goes Pew! Pew! Pew! and it looks like this...

The official web address is; http://mybraingoespewpewpew.tumblr.com/

Now back to our regularly scheduled blogging.

My Star Wars Lite Brite Brutes!

Waaaaayyyy back when I was running this other geeky blog, I had started posting these little Lite Brite style drawings I was making of Star Wars characters, all done on this free app on my iPhone. I had originally planned to do as many of these as possible, but then the blog went the way of the dodo and I never did get around to making any more of them.

I had started calling them Lite Brite Brutes. Whatever.

So, I came across these again in a folder and thought, "Hey! i need to make some more of these!" And since a lot of my time for making art has gotten sucked up by making art for money (I know that this blog has been idle for a bit, but I assure you I'm drawing every day. Just nothing that I can post here until it hits stores or gets published.), I thought it may be fun to make some more of these since they only take a few minutes each.

I plan to get back to the CARZ! thing soon, too. Anyway, here are all of the Star Wars Lite Brite Brutes I've made so far! Enjoy and look forward for more to come! (Click each image to view slightly bigger.)

And coming soon... The Empire Strikes Back Lite Brite Brutes!

 

Random Toy Pics #7

YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!

So, I was digging through a few of the gazillion boxes that we moved from storage to the new house and I came across this figure that I had bought 2 years ago at the Emerald City Comic Con and never opened and I thought, "Oh snap! I'm gonna open this up and take pictures of it!"

So I did.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Gandalf the White from Middle Earth Toys!

Who the hell is Middle Earth Toys, you ask? Good question. I do remember these toys hitting retail about 2 or 3 years before the movies came out, but at that point, I had only read The Hobbit so I didn't really care about them. Soon after, I would devour all three novels in one Summer and be a true blue Tolkien fan forevermore.

As I said, I spotted this figure in a cheap-o bin at the ECCC, and despite the $9.00 price tag, I got him for $3.00.

Looking on the back of the card, these folks had some high hopes for their toy line, with their claim of "Over 40 figures planned!" Yeah, I bet there were. But it looks like they only made the first 6 or so.

Here we see the figure itself, which actually has some nice features and details, like the stitching on the hem of his cloak and the real metal chain around his neck. Not bad for a 6" figure. Oddly enough, however, he only has one elbow joint, on his right arm.

He come with a slew of accessories, and as an accessory junkie, I admit that this is what pobably sold me on him in the first place. He come with his Sorting Hat (Gryffindor!), his staff, what appears to be a money pouch, a bag of marijuana, a pipe to smoke it with and of course, Glamdring, his bad ass shiny sword complete with scabbard.

Here he is all decked out, calling Pippin a "fool of a Took!"

And I wanted to make this cool group shot of him with all of the nine Fellowship members, but since I don't have any Lord of the Rings figures (isn't that kind of weird?), I had to make do with what I had. Here we see the Fellowship; Boromir, Gandalf, Legolas and Aragorn in the back row, and in the front we see Gimli, Merry, Pippin, Frodo and Sam.

Now that's a fine group of adventurers!

Random Toy Pic #6