Zica Toys just announced retro Six Million Dollar Man 3 3/4" action figures! Assortment #1 will feature Colonel Steve Austin and Bionic Bigfoot! Looks just how amazing these will be, wow!!!
And here the original Kenner prototype from the 1970s!
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Lego Minifigures series 10 + Retro Six Million Dollar Man
And the last Lego Minifigures series 10 we got was the Bumblebee girl. This is yet another animal type figure. Sadly we are still missing the Chicjen Suit minifigure from the last series.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Lego Minifigures series 10 + Lego Star Wars Ewok Village
We also got the very nice and rather Sad Clown. We love the look of this one. At first I though he was more of a mime then a clown.
Revealed yesterday is the highly rumoured Lego Star Wars Ewok Village (#10236)! The set consists of 1,990 pieces and will set you back $249.99 US / $299.99 CA and will be on sale date is set for September 2013. It features 16 minifigures and looks simply beautiful!
This recreation of the Ewoks’ forest dwelling is packed with cool functions, including the tree-trunk hideout, secret Lightsaber stash, spider web, net traps, slide, catapults and an elevating throne. Use the rammer function to take out the Scout Trooper’s speeder − just like in the movie! Realistic details include rope walkways, vine and leaf elements, kitchen, food storage area, bedroom and a planning room.
• Includes R2-D2™ and 16 minifigures: Luke Skywalker™, Princess Leia™, Han Solo™, Chewbacca™, C-3PO™, 2 Rebel soldiers, 5 Ewoks™, 2 Scout™ Troopers™ and 2 Stormtroopers™
• Features tree-trunk hideout and secret Lightsaber stash, spider web and net traps, slide, catapults, elevating throne, speeder rammer function, kitchen, food storage area, bedroom and a planning room. Speeder also included.
• Weapons include a Lightsaber, 3 blaster pistols, 2 blasters, 2 blaster rifles, 2 spears, bow and a crossbow and also includes 2 staffs
• Collect hard-to-find Endor Princess Leia, C-3PO, Luke, Han Solo and Wicket Ewok minifigures
• Measures over 1″ (35cm) high, 21″ (55cm) wide and 13″ (35cm) deep
Monday, June 3, 2013
Lego Minifigures series 10
Finally, the Lego Minifigures series 10 arrived here. Isaac wanted us to find a Mr.Gold, which is near to impossible. But we did managed to find three of the four we wanted.
Here's the first one, and our most wanted... Medusa!
This is probably now one of our favourite Lego minifigure. She looks creepy great!
Here's the first one, and our most wanted... Medusa!
This is probably now one of our favourite Lego minifigure. She looks creepy great!
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Flea Market Hunting : Inhumanoids
One collection I never had any action figure as a kid was Inhumanoids! This ultra cool figures from the Evil that lies within were first released by Hasbro in 1986.
This is my very FIRST Inhumanoids action figure and I certainly hope not the last. I present you Herc Armstrong. Ok he is not the most exciting figure of the collection but its a first.
What I really is all of the bad guys, especially Meltar, Tendril and D Compose.
This is my very FIRST Inhumanoids action figure and I certainly hope not the last. I present you Herc Armstrong. Ok he is not the most exciting figure of the collection but its a first.
What I really is all of the bad guys, especially Meltar, Tendril and D Compose.
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Flea Market Hunting : Masters of the Universe
Yes! Yes! Yes!!! We scored a Masters of the Universe figure. This is Grizzlor, one hairy bad guy who happens to be "friend" with Hordak. Awesome figure which I always wanted as a kid. And now I proudly own him!!
Friday, May 31, 2013
Flea Market Hunting : The Spectacular Spider-Man Animated Series
Next was another action figure from The Spectacular Spider-Man Animated Series, this time Green Goblin. Standing at 6 inch tall, this is another cool new look for a famous character. Sadly it was missing all of his accessories but we're still happy.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Flea Market Hunting : The Spectacular Spider-Man Animated Series
Another beautiful day, time to go to the flea market! We found some cool things during this trip. First of all was this wicked cool Electro from The Spectacular Spider-Man Animated Series.
We had never seen this one before. Cool figure, weird new look for the character and it features a lightning blast on one of his arm. New and seal this one goes for $90 online... we got him for $2.
We had never seen this one before. Cool figure, weird new look for the character and it features a lightning blast on one of his arm. New and seal this one goes for $90 online... we got him for $2.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Boys having fun...
It is now a tradition for Isaac and I that the day a new Marvel film comes out at the cinema we take the day off and go. Iron Man 3 was the next one... one that we really really wanted to see!
Here's my personal review on Iron Man 3:
Following last year mega hit THE AVENGERS, the Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2 began last weekend with IRON MAN 3. Robert Downey Jr. returns as Tony Stark, the billionaire playboy, industrialist and ingenious engineer who happens to be Iron Man.
After the events of New York, Stark is not the same anymore. He can't seem to get his life back and soon everything around him goes down… including his own self.
Like the first IRON MAN film, this sequel is based on the Extremist comics. In the first film, the story arc incorporates an updated origin for Iron Man. Tony Stark is a weapons designer whose weapons are being used against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan prior to the first Gulf War. During an inspection tour, one of Stark's own bombs detonates, sending a piece of shrapnel into his chest, nearly killing him. He is then captured by Afghan terrorists. As with the original origin story, Tony creates the armor with Dr. Ho Yinsen (who quickly appears AGAIN in IRON MAN 3) and escapes the terrorists.
The Mandarin is referenced in the 2008 live action IRON MAN movie via the name of the terrorist group called "The Ten Rings", who holds Tony Stark captive in the beginning of the film. Raza, the leader of the Ten Rings, has a single red ring that he rubs with his other hand. He also makes a reference to Genghis Khan when speaking to Stark and Yinsen.
Also in IRON MAN 2, a Ten Rings operative goes to Russia to assist Ivan Vanko in his vendetta against Tony Stark. When he is arrested in Monaco after his first confrontation with Stark, The Ten Rings and Justin Hammer break Vanko out of prison.
In IRON MAN 2, a small plot arc of the Extremis story involves Tony trying to find a solution to the palladium poisoning from his Iron Man arc reactor, eventually coming to creating a new element for a pacemaker resembling Extremis armor.
Extremis is a military nanotechnology serum, an attempt to recreate the Super-Soldier Serum, which interfaces with the brain's 'repair center' and directs the body to rebuild itself from scratch as if it were all wound tissue to be replaced. The design for the new body is programmable prior to injection and can involve superhuman abilities, giving it an (untested) military application.
Spoilers...
Back to IRON MAN 3. Iron Man's famous nemesis The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) is introduced. For fans of the comics this was the moment we were waiting for… and what a disappointment it turned out to be.
Here's the Mandarin's implication in the comic book storyline. The Mandarin somehow infiltrates the U.S. government via his role as CEO of Prometheus, a corporation specializing in bio-engineered weaponry (changed to A.I.M in the film). He appears to be using Extremis creator Aldrich Killian and Tony Stark's former love interest Maya Hansen (Guy Pearce and Rebecca Hall respectively in the film) to produce an army of Extremis enhanced soldiers as well as financing and arming terrorists around the globe. The Mandarin also appears to plan unleashing the Extremis virus in aerosol form on the public, expecting the 97.5% fatality ratio to cause a mass catastrophe of deaths.
In the IRON MAN 3 film, things aren't exactly the same, which is fine with me but what really make it frustrating here was the treatment given to the Mandarin. In the film the Mandarin is turned into the media-saturated, perception-is-reality 21st Century bad guy. The Mandarin doesn't really exist. He is a decoy. An illusion. Most might not remember but we got the exact same insulting treatment in BATMAN BEGIN when Ra's Al-Ghul (Ken Watanabe) is not the character we are presented.
As for Mandarin, whats wrong with the Ten Rings and their magical power?! What's wrong with him use magical elements? What's wrong with him being Asian? NOTHING. Yet they fucked up it badly.
As for the rest IRON MAN 3 is a good film. It is another Shane Black film set during Christmas. Its well written, witty, self-referential but it is also the least superhero film of the Marvel films so far. Don't get me wrong, I love Tony Stark but I wanted to see more Iron Man.
Guy Pearce gives a great performance as a now more vicious, ruthless and suave Aldrich Killian. Aldrich Killian heads a brain-trust organization called A.I.M. (in the comics, A.I.M. create the Cosmic Cube also known as the Tesseract in the live action films) that is developing Extremis, which is something that taps into human DNA and is able to reprogram it and regenerate limbs and enhance strength and cure wounds. But it also could change the whole world, which is what Killian intends to do with it.
Sadly Don Cheadle is not giving much to do either as War Machine… oups, Iron Patriot. Dear lord, why they changed him to Iron Patriot?! Don't they know that it is Norman Osborn who becomes the Iron Patriot! And finally the less said about Gwyneth Paltrow, the better. She probably wore the Iron Man suits just as much as Downey did, a shame.
But I still liked IRON MAN 3. Isaac and I had lots of film seeing it twice back to back on opening day and we can't wait for the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2 films.
For the occasion, Isaac dressed up as Iron Isaac. Here he is in front of the cinema. We went to see the film twice the same day. First on 3D and then regular. Between representations we had some time to kill...
Ah! Monster University. Isaac can't wait for this one.
Nothing is as fun as blowing up someone with your lazer arm! And below Isaac is playing some House of the Dead video game!
Here's my personal review on Iron Man 3:
Following last year mega hit THE AVENGERS, the Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2 began last weekend with IRON MAN 3. Robert Downey Jr. returns as Tony Stark, the billionaire playboy, industrialist and ingenious engineer who happens to be Iron Man.
After the events of New York, Stark is not the same anymore. He can't seem to get his life back and soon everything around him goes down… including his own self.
Like the first IRON MAN film, this sequel is based on the Extremist comics. In the first film, the story arc incorporates an updated origin for Iron Man. Tony Stark is a weapons designer whose weapons are being used against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan prior to the first Gulf War. During an inspection tour, one of Stark's own bombs detonates, sending a piece of shrapnel into his chest, nearly killing him. He is then captured by Afghan terrorists. As with the original origin story, Tony creates the armor with Dr. Ho Yinsen (who quickly appears AGAIN in IRON MAN 3) and escapes the terrorists.
The Mandarin is referenced in the 2008 live action IRON MAN movie via the name of the terrorist group called "The Ten Rings", who holds Tony Stark captive in the beginning of the film. Raza, the leader of the Ten Rings, has a single red ring that he rubs with his other hand. He also makes a reference to Genghis Khan when speaking to Stark and Yinsen.
Also in IRON MAN 2, a Ten Rings operative goes to Russia to assist Ivan Vanko in his vendetta against Tony Stark. When he is arrested in Monaco after his first confrontation with Stark, The Ten Rings and Justin Hammer break Vanko out of prison.
In IRON MAN 2, a small plot arc of the Extremis story involves Tony trying to find a solution to the palladium poisoning from his Iron Man arc reactor, eventually coming to creating a new element for a pacemaker resembling Extremis armor.
Extremis is a military nanotechnology serum, an attempt to recreate the Super-Soldier Serum, which interfaces with the brain's 'repair center' and directs the body to rebuild itself from scratch as if it were all wound tissue to be replaced. The design for the new body is programmable prior to injection and can involve superhuman abilities, giving it an (untested) military application.
Spoilers...
Back to IRON MAN 3. Iron Man's famous nemesis The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) is introduced. For fans of the comics this was the moment we were waiting for… and what a disappointment it turned out to be.
Here's the Mandarin's implication in the comic book storyline. The Mandarin somehow infiltrates the U.S. government via his role as CEO of Prometheus, a corporation specializing in bio-engineered weaponry (changed to A.I.M in the film). He appears to be using Extremis creator Aldrich Killian and Tony Stark's former love interest Maya Hansen (Guy Pearce and Rebecca Hall respectively in the film) to produce an army of Extremis enhanced soldiers as well as financing and arming terrorists around the globe. The Mandarin also appears to plan unleashing the Extremis virus in aerosol form on the public, expecting the 97.5% fatality ratio to cause a mass catastrophe of deaths.
In the IRON MAN 3 film, things aren't exactly the same, which is fine with me but what really make it frustrating here was the treatment given to the Mandarin. In the film the Mandarin is turned into the media-saturated, perception-is-reality 21st Century bad guy. The Mandarin doesn't really exist. He is a decoy. An illusion. Most might not remember but we got the exact same insulting treatment in BATMAN BEGIN when Ra's Al-Ghul (Ken Watanabe) is not the character we are presented.
As for Mandarin, whats wrong with the Ten Rings and their magical power?! What's wrong with him use magical elements? What's wrong with him being Asian? NOTHING. Yet they fucked up it badly.
As for the rest IRON MAN 3 is a good film. It is another Shane Black film set during Christmas. Its well written, witty, self-referential but it is also the least superhero film of the Marvel films so far. Don't get me wrong, I love Tony Stark but I wanted to see more Iron Man.
Guy Pearce gives a great performance as a now more vicious, ruthless and suave Aldrich Killian. Aldrich Killian heads a brain-trust organization called A.I.M. (in the comics, A.I.M. create the Cosmic Cube also known as the Tesseract in the live action films) that is developing Extremis, which is something that taps into human DNA and is able to reprogram it and regenerate limbs and enhance strength and cure wounds. But it also could change the whole world, which is what Killian intends to do with it.
Sadly Don Cheadle is not giving much to do either as War Machine… oups, Iron Patriot. Dear lord, why they changed him to Iron Patriot?! Don't they know that it is Norman Osborn who becomes the Iron Patriot! And finally the less said about Gwyneth Paltrow, the better. She probably wore the Iron Man suits just as much as Downey did, a shame.
But I still liked IRON MAN 3. Isaac and I had lots of film seeing it twice back to back on opening day and we can't wait for the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2 films.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Kim's Good Guys Dream Team
And here's my Good Guys Dream Team!!!!
This is a team of five, five of my favourite action figures ever! The leader of this Good Guys Dream Team is none other then Chuck Norris!! The martial artist and actor is famous for many things (including Internet's memes).
Lion-O from the Thundercats is a strong asset to this Good Guys Dream Team. He wields the legendary Sword of Omens! Dargon from the Sectaurs, Prince of the Shining Realm is one brave warrior.
Next is Dr.Fate. A character born in 1940, he is by far the wisest and smartest of the team. And finally, Red Hulk (also known as Rulk) is one of the most powerful being ever.
And there you have it my Good Guys Dream Team...
This is a team of five, five of my favourite action figures ever! The leader of this Good Guys Dream Team is none other then Chuck Norris!! The martial artist and actor is famous for many things (including Internet's memes).
Lion-O from the Thundercats is a strong asset to this Good Guys Dream Team. He wields the legendary Sword of Omens! Dargon from the Sectaurs, Prince of the Shining Realm is one brave warrior.
Next is Dr.Fate. A character born in 1940, he is by far the wisest and smartest of the team. And finally, Red Hulk (also known as Rulk) is one of the most powerful being ever.
And there you have it my Good Guys Dream Team...
Monday, May 27, 2013
Kim's Bad Guys Dream Team
And here is my Bad Guys Dream Team!
Thanos is their almighty leader. Not a big surprise here considering I've been a fan of this cosmic being since the comic days. This is by far my favourite version of the Mad Titan.
Spawn's Sansker and the Rancor are the two brutes of the group. They are big, bad and strong! One of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles coolest enemies in there, Slash. And lets not forget... Warduk. One of my all time favourite character.
Thanos is their almighty leader. Not a big surprise here considering I've been a fan of this cosmic being since the comic days. This is by far my favourite version of the Mad Titan.
Spawn's Sansker and the Rancor are the two brutes of the group. They are big, bad and strong! One of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles coolest enemies in there, Slash. And lets not forget... Warduk. One of my all time favourite character.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)