Thank you Ralph McQuarrie....

I told Isaac about the passing of Ralph McQuarrie Sunday morning and he was sad... sad that the person who created all the visuals of the original Star Wars films passed away.

I told him that his art will live through films and the fans keeping them alive! I told him that he surely lived a good life, spend times with his kids and the kids of his kids.

Isaac is now the very same age that I was when Star Wars came out.  He might be only five but what an incredible little person Isaac is.

In 1975, Georger Lucas commissioned McQuarrie to illustrate several scenes from the script of the film, Star Wars. McQuarrie designed many of the film's characters, including Darth Vader, Chewbacca, R2-D2 and C-3PO and drew many concepts for the film's sets. It was McQuarrie who suggested that Vader wear breathing apparatus. McQuarrie's concept paintings, including such scenes as R2-D2 and C-3PO arriving on Tatooine, helped convince 20th Century Fox to fund Star Wars, which became a huge success upon release in 1977.

A friend at work mentioned to me that he was doing a Google image search of Ralph McQuarrie and came upon images of Isaac with Star Wars figures within the first few pages!

Godzilla!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know we've talked about them before but here's a closer look at our Godzilla collection! First on the left is our 15" Godzilla. This huge figure was originally released by Dormei in 1997. We got him during our first summer at the flea market for only $7.

Next to him is the 11" extremely detailed Bandai version! Its smaller but almost as cool! Then there is Mecha Godzilla, also from Bandai. This is a superb version of one of the Big-G biggest foes. Finally on the far right is the 12" of Gigan! Wow! Now thats a great looking monster!!!

Oh! And lets now forget King Kong!!! A great, heavy and simply too cool figure from McFarlane based on the Peter Jackson remake.

Hopefully more will join our ever growing collection including the Shogun Warrior Godzilla of the late 1970s.

Here's a quick look at some of the upcoming Godzilla figures from Bandai. Sadly there seems to be no more 12" figures...

Lego

Here is Isaac's brand new Lego sneakers!

These are actually his second pair since the previous one are "beaten" already. My little man is growing up so fast!!!

Lego Space Police

While shopping for books and magazines, Isaac noticed that the store had some Lego and most importantly one set that is now impossible to find around here. Yes, Isaac managed to find the Lego Space Police Smash 'N' Grab (#5982).

This very cool set contains 188 pieces and comes with two mini figures. We really love the design of the spaceship.

Lego Minifigures Series 6

Another Lego Mini figures we got from series 6 was the Statue of Liberty! This is one that Isaac really wanted!!

Lego Minifigures Series 6

The new Lego Minifigures Series 6 are finally available here and we got a few!

After spending way too much time touching those small mystery bags we ended up with three mini figures;  a classic Alien and two Minotaur. Isaac and I were extremely happy with our find, even with the two Minotaur since you can never have enough of those.

Lego + Lego Marvel Super Heroes

There are always Lego laying around somewhere at our place as Isaac just loves to build different vehicles, monsters, robots, spaceships or tower defence layouts.

Now this new one is actually a multi purpose engine with tons of fire power, complicated controls and laser beams. After doing it he asked me to take a picture of it, which I did without any hesitation! You should have heard him explaining it all to me... amazing!

And here's a better look at some of the highly anticipated new Lego Marvel Super Heroes sets coming out April 10th!

Ben 10

While shopping around for some stuff, we found this new Ben 10 character named Eatle. Its a very cool action figure. Its is part of the new Ben 10 series of figures. Sadly we haven't seen this Eatle yet in the animated show.

Spider-Man stickers!

While going to a friend's birthday, Isaac got a very cool case with tons of Spider-Man stickers! We love stickers!!!

Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice...

Batman's arch enemies have taken over the Hall of Justice. The Dark Knight had no choice but to call in friends to help him fight the good fight. Azrael, Aquaman, Hawkman, Blue Beetle, Flash, Superman, Wonder Woman and others joined in.

Will they save the Hall of Justice?