Batman 20" Swim Ring

Things I buy on late night runs to the grocery store. Hey, it was only 49 cents! I could have used it last friday when I sat on the shop stool all day routing pipe fittings. Now what to do with it?

Star Wars; Trinto Duaba and Dice Ibegon

When you are late for a bye one get one free sale for Star Wars figures, you get the ones you never planned on getting. I did want these two, but a deal had to be in play, and so there was. Its almost a buy one get two free sale when you think about two figures in one small pack

So which one is which? The back indicates that Trinto Duaba is the humanoid. He is a bounty hunter, who is a 'Stennes Shifter;' able to blend into crowds. Or blend into Star Trek Insurrection as the lead bad guys.

Dice Ibegon, my favorite of course, is a Female Florn Lamproid who likes the Rebellion, and can move small eating utensils with the Force.


They were immediately drawn to my only other Cantina background alien, guy with a mask from the movie Scream. Dice was more social than Trinto for sure.


Dice can really hold her own too. Loves the blue stuff.


I was thinking today that a bartender in the Star Wars universe almost has to have pharmacist status to work. Think of all the Aliens, and different drink combinations. That is some serious responsibility.

Imaginext Lost Creatures Stracosaurus

If I added extra wings to the house, one of them would be a Dinosaur wing. Imaginext Dinosuars by Fisher-Price are so fun and playful. I picked this one up for my Nephew who instantly became friends with it.


He was using the Dinosaurs spikes to eat raspberries off of. Very funny.


The simple movement controls make these dinosaurs come alive. Yes, the control lever is in an awkward spot, but its well hidden. When watching a kid play with it, it fits perfectly in their hands, and is easily activated.


This little dino made sure to bite everyone in the house.

See more of them here.

Toy Pie Chart

I made a Toy Pie Chart to document the violent swings of my toy line addictions. It's pretty safe to say that GI Joe, Star Wars and Transformers make up 75% of the plastic I own. The other 25% being Super Hero stuff, Lego, Micro Machines, Thundercats, He-man, etc...

I would say the last couple months have been all GI Joe, thanks to the new Movie, and remaining 25th anniversary line stuff.


I recently caved to cable tv (tired of mooching BSU games off other people) and now can finally watch Star Wars Clone Wars and Ben 10 on a regular basis. This has caused the arrow to flip down into Star Wars territory for a few weeks. That and the nice buy one get one sale I caught the other day. Expect some upcoming posts on that.

Tech Deck #156 Bob (Ross) Happy Trees!

I can't believe they made this toy! How funny and artistically weird!


His head is a little top heavy with all that plastic for hair. Maybe that's why so many figures are going to 3 3/4" nowadays.

Toy Museum 4 years and counting...

So the blog hit four years today, that's crazy. I remember how the first few months seemed like an eternity, and then the rest flew by in a couple days. As always I had big plans for the day, but then things go to strange, more on that later.

So I start to reflect today on how many toys I probably 'boughton' over the last four years, and what I could have invested in instead. I started a spreadsheet a few weeks back to try to see how much I really had. After a few pages of just main themes, I gave up. If I listed everything, it would be at least 20 pages of stuff. Yikes!

So then I start thinking, what if I did something crazy, and sold everything except for 10 toys that I truly thought were the best of the best and would never want to give away. It usually Starts with my first Optimus Prime G2 version, and then ends at toy #355 Squidicus from Beast Wars (note how I went WAY over 10). Maybe I will start a ten toys I will never sell post list, to stay grounded.

So yeah, I had this plan today to get ALL the toys together for a family portrait. Just kidding, not ALL. But I did want to do a strange battle scene with GI Joe vs Transformers. After hours of trying to get the big Transformers retransformed into robots, laying down the sod, kicking the cat off the sod, trying to restand GI joes for the 100th time, I finnally got to shoot some pictures. And yes, after all that hard work, the photos all came out horrendously craptastic. I just don't have the studio space/ best camera, any kind of lighting, and patience to pull it off today. I was debating on even showing this photo, its THAT yucktactular. But, since I wasted the afternoon playing, I better well document it. Maybe for year five I can pull it off better.



Happy 4th Anniversary Toy Museum!

GI Joe tRoC; Target Snake Eyes Arashikage Cycle is Awesome

One can only have so many Snake Eyes action figures in black, gray, or purple, so I went with the half blue camo pants version. That way I get a spiffy cycle too. It took a few trips to Target to finally get in sync with this exclusive, but it was well worth the wait.


The bike is perfect, not too big, not too small. Snake Eyes fits okay, maybe a bit uncomfortably, but only because he has his sword out ready to cut watermelons thrown at him.


The back of the cycle has some pretty strong suspension, which if you press down far enough, shoots a missile out the front. Cheers to the designer who angled the missile launcher slightly up so that it shoots really far (and pretty hard for once too).


I am getting pretty close to the end of the movie figures that I wanted. Still looking for the blue camo pants Duke. Can't decide on Zartan, Heavy Duty, or Breaker as they just didn't do it for me. Well if Zartan had a better mask then almost the same as his normal head, I would have sprung faster for him. I do like his Mummy past adventures. Not too big on the upcoming waves, as I only want figures direct from movie now. It would be fantastic to see a young Snake Eyes vs. young Storm Shadow pack.