Lego Star Wars

Last month I managed to find the very cool Star Wars Tie Fighter Interceptor Lego set (#6202). It came with a Tie fighter pilot. Well I now got my son a Lego Darth Maul along with two IG-88 figures. We love the Lego toys and the Star Wars collection is simply amazing!

Here's our collection so far... more to come in the next days!

Lego

A couple of months ago I subscribed my son to the free Lego Club magazine. Well it finally arrived and let me just say that my son was so proud of receiving mail he went almost crazy! While the mag is mainly a way for Lego to advertise their new products it is still extremely cool.

Created in Denmark in 1949 by Ole Kirk Christiansen, the Lego Group have released probably trillions of these little colorful interlocking plastic bricks that have helped building the imagination of kids and adults around the world.

Today a huge Lego subculture exist and is worship around the world. In the coming days we'll be posting all of the amazing Lego sets we recently got.

Star Wars McDonald's

Through the years McDonald's have released some cool Star Wars toys with their Happy Meal. Last February, a Clone Wars collection was out. It features some characters and spaceships. From these we got an Anakin and Yoda (missing from the picture, sorry).

In the summer of 2008, another Clone Wars Happy Meals collection was released. It features bobblehead type figure on the top of their respective spaceship. In total 18 were released. Here's the few we got.

 

Star Wars Kentucky Fried Chicken

While not as cool as the Burger King collection, around 1999 with the release of The Phantom Menace, the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain released some Star Wars based figures, spaceships, globes and cube.

I am not sure just how many items were released but we probably own most of them. One Jar Jar Binks is missing from the images.

Star Wars Burger King

These are the last batch from the very cool Star Wars Burger King collection released a few years ago. Here are all of the spaceships. Apart from that sea creature from The Phantom Menace, all of them actually can roll on the floor once pushed back. In the next days We'll look into the Star Wars toys we own that were released by Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonald's.

100th post! Vintage Star Wars

This is our 100th posts! Thank you to everyone who have been reading our blog! Its been a great ride so far and it is far from over!

For only two bucks we recently won on Ebay the very cool Return of the Jedi Tie Interceptor. This spaceship is big and looks very nice. The dagger-shaped wings can be taken off (exploded) by pressing buttons on each sides. Released in 1984 by Kenner this goes for around extremely high on Ebay.

Star Wars Burger King

Here's the monsters/creatures from the Burger King collection. The Jawa's eyes illuminate when you press his stomach. I've got to admit that I never though a Wampa could be that cute. Jabba is also a nice figure from the collection.

Star Wars Burger King

Here's the heroes from that cool Burger King collection. They all look very nice and nicely sculpted. Han Solo actually comes in a carbonite freezer that break itself open when you activate it. Yoda is a personal favorite of mine and he jumps three times backward.

Star Wars Burger King

Back in 2005, the Burger King restaurants released a very cool Star Wars Kids Meal collection. Thirty one toys spanning all six Star Wars movies were released. Now I've never been a fan of Burger King but someone I know was. After going through the pain and madness of eating Burger King to own them all he sold them to me!

These were the very first introduction to my son to the Star Wars universe. I gave it to him and explained what they were... but he hadn't even celebrated his first birthday. Now at three and a half years old, he is a Jedi (or Sith depending of the day) master who appreciate George Lucas' imaginative universe just like his father did and does even today. Through the coming days we'll take a look at that unique collection.

Here's my son taking a picture with the bad guys. Some of them moves, shoots water or have a diaporama in them with images from all six movies. Darth Vader actually opens in two and you can put Anakin in it, extremely cool!

Imaginext Batman

Fisher Price's Imaginext collection was one of the very first action figures my son got into. Remiscent of the Adventure People from when I was a kid, the Imaginext are well made figures, accessories and playsets.

About a year ago, they released some Batman based Imaginext. My son got Batman and the batmobile for his last birthday. Unfortunately the rest of the collection is extremely hard to find around here but Toys R Us finally received some new ones.

I got my son the Joke and Penguin Villain van. Both figures are well sculpted. The van fires a missile and the front and backdoor actually opens. Its very cool plus it was 30% off that day!