Flea Market Hunting : Star Wars

Its been awhile but we finally found some new used Star Wars action figure.

First of all was the original Jawa. This was released by Kenner in 1978. Its a cool figure but looks rather dull compared to the Jawas released by Hasbro in the past few years.

Also got Weequay, which appeared in Return of the Jedi as a guard to Jabba the Hutt.

Flea Market Hunting : Beetlejuice

We finally got a Beetlejuice action figure but sadly it is missing its head! We always see some around at the flea market but never with their heads... hopefully this "situation" will soon be corrected!

Flea Market Hunting : Thundercats

We got a new old school Thundercats action figure. Ok he is not the most exciting character but still... our goal is to get as many Thundercats as possible, even though some of those older figures are just plain ugly!

Jackalman was a villain released as part of the first series.

Following up the 130 TV episodes was a cool line of toys produced by LJN. The figures stood at a average of 5" tall and well represented each character from the series.

Collectors are often still searching for the toughest pieces for their collection. These would be the Cats Lair, the Monster, Jaga and Ben Gali. But the toughest and most expensive pieces are the carded gift set packages of Lion-O with Thunderwings and Mumm-Ra with Luna Lasher.

Flea Market Hunting : Aliens

Another weekend, another trip to the flea market!

As you probably know, Isaac is really onto the whole Alien stuff. We finally managed to find a new item to our collection... the Aliens Space Marine Power Loader. This is a superb toy. Standing at about 9" tall, it a great recreation of the famous mech in the film.

Aliens were finally brought back to the stores in 92' with a whole new toy line. Produced by Kenner again, the line added a twist that the Alien would partially resemble it's host. This idea may have been spawned from a early version of the script of Alien 3, the "Dog Alien". As for the Marines, Humans & Androids, they were loosely based off the characters from the Aliens movie. The line continued for 3 years until it's demise. Rumor has it the demise was based on Kenner shipping and not issuing many new figures to keep intrest. A total of 27 Marines and Aliens, and 4 vehicles were produced for the Aliens series.

Imaginext Batman

The last Imaginext Batman set we got from the Fisher Price web site was Catwoman! Look at just how cool this is! Catwoman comes with a motorcycle, whip and cat! Its one of the best looking Imaginext action figure so far! We both love it!

Also I decided to "upgrade" the blog with a new dynamic look. My personal favourite is the magazine layout, which the blog is now set to by default.

Imaginext Batman

Another set we got was the one with both Hawkman and Flash! Wow! These two are great! We've been watching the Batman The Brave and the Bold a lot lately so Isaac was familiar with both characters.

I'd say, Hawkman is one of my personal favorite Imaginext action figure!

Imaginext Batman

One new Imaginext Batman we were anticipating to get was Clayface. Now that's an awesome action figure! As you can see this is a much bigger and taller Imaginext action figure then the usual. It similar to the big alien creatures they released before.

Clayface's mouth opens so he can eat superheroes. He also comes with a removable hammer. Here is Isaac doing his best Clayface imitation!

Imaginext Batman

My son and I love Fisher Price.
My son and I love Imaginext.
My son and I love Batman.

Sadly in our part of Canada, lots of toys are released later (sometimes even a year later) due to the packaging need to be bilingual... Out of all brands, Fisher Price seem to be in no rush to follow this "policy" so we get everything way later.

I finally gave in an ordered directly from Fisher Price online. I ordered all of their Imaginext Batman collection we didn't owned yet. The next day the "ever reliable" Canadian post went on a strike that lasted about a month.... Thankfully we finally got our Imaginext Batman! And yes, I was as excited about it as Isaac.

One figure that has been impossible to find around here was Two Face! Thanks to the Internet (and Visa) we now own him. Its a cool action figure that comes with a few accessories.

Flea Market Hunting: Spawn

The last action figure we found during that trip at the flea market was a cool female character from the Spawn universe. Unfortunately we have no clue what is her name! Its a cool evil character with her wings opening wide.

Flea Market Hunting: Aliens

We found another Aliens figure loosely based on the 1986 film from James Cameroun. Released by Kenner in 1992, this is the Bull Alien which has a "power-ram" feature. Its a cool and ugly looking alien.