GI Joe HAVOC Cartoon; Day 3

The HAVOC hates it when this happens...

I want to make sweet sweet love to ROSS stores, with their discounted discontinued GI Joe vehicles, Avatar horses, and sexy bowling shoes!

Wow! Thanks HISS TANK for the heads up! I was going to EBay the Ghost HAWK, and now I don't have too. The Arctic H.I.S.S is perfect for Arctic Destro. The Cobra Stinger is just plain awesome.

Then there is Jake Sully's Direhorse. I needed a mount for Jake Sully's Avatar. Now I am officially an Avatar nerd. I wanted the horse as the two must be the weirdest horse rider combo ever made (...Well maybe Bravestarr and Thirty Thirty tie for that).


And of course these spiffy shoes, on a good deal. Thus making shoes a new feature on the blog.

Finding the Best General Grievous, part 8

The cape version of General Grievous is out! The packaging though is so nice and retro, I can't make myself open it yet.


He looks about the same as the latest updated release, just with a cape. Like Malibu Stacy with a new hat, I fell sucker to it.


I would say this release though, has a better paint job. I think I will get another one of these to open. Then we can see if they added holes in his feet for display, and how the cape blows in the wind. From the box view, and with added cape, this is the best general action figure General Grievous to date.

Me Grimlock want Ride Optimus!

I keep getting awesome opportunities at Transformers Animated toy deals. For 12.97 I had no choice. It was that or 8o bucks for Masterpiece Grimlock, but that just seemed ridiculous at the time (but not so much now).


From some angles Dino mode looks great, from others not so great. His tail is a bit stumpy, and his robot head is easily visible from below Dino head. His hips, give a great deal of motion and possible poses. He has a snapping jaw action thats spiffy, and a bit reminiscent of TMNT Mousers.


Robot mode is pretty good. A little trouble with his arms and elbows are evident but his overall proportions are balanced. His Dino feet turn to Robot hands, which make for lots of movement. Not so much for the useless Dino front feet that just fold up inside. He is easy to transform too, which is nice for once.


He comes with a ferocious fire sword that flips up more fire pieces when rotating his hand. The Sword is one of the better looking weapons I have seen in awhile. I would say he is a good toy, not great, but better then so-so.

Of course, Grimlock likes fun rides on Optimus!

Thats Five Years today!

Can you believe it, my blog The Toy Museum dot blogspot dot com is now exactly five years old today! How crazy is that! It feels about twenty in some cases. Trying to come up with your own content at least ten times a month is quite a challenge, not to mention hard on the wallet when you have nothing to post. About 827 posts have been made in the last five years, and I could only guess the amount of photos are about 2500.

I was going to do a rocking toy give away contest, but I realized a large reader base was out of country. Low on international shipping funds, I decided to forgo for the moment. It was a great contest involving robot capsules with numbers inside an Optimus Prime Trailer, but instead, lets do what they do on TV when they want to save money... Flashback episodes!

These are five of my favorites;

#1. The image of Han surprising C3P-O is one of my all time legendary shots.
Busted!

#2. The Talosian-Keeper surprise still keeps me up at night.
Talosian Keeper surprise

#3. Bart attacking Micro Machine City is a classic. Be on the lookout for a lost YouTube destruction video of this event.
Kitten Attacks Micro Machine City

#4. This was an accident! I swear! I am so sorry!
Accidentally Killing the Rescue Rangers

#5. Cobra Viper Week sums up the silliness that seems to go on here these last five years.
Cobra Viper Week!

So thanks for stopping by now and again, and again. If this blog goes to ten years, please, somebody shoot me.

McDonald's Batman; The Brave and the Bold Batmobile

Batman sure likes to incorporate a lot of escape pods to his vehicles. Gothem city must hit him up will lots of littering fees.

Recondo's Jacked back

I took off Recondo's Jacket to get a better look at his back. It doesn't look good. Its as if he is off center slightly.


Who is the resident GI Joe Chiropractor. Wasn't Dr. Mindbender an Orthodontist? Maybe he would have someone to refer Recondo.


I assume this was done on purpose? It does give him a certain swagger in some poses. Maybe all that time in the Jungle, and that heavy solar panel pack, is bad for the back?


On a different note, the hand sculpts of this new line are great, they hold weapons solidly and in many cases the right direction.