TV shows

Stand by for action! It’s Captain Troy Tempest from Stingray!

August 27, 2011
Captain Troy Tempest from Stingray

As promised in my last post, here’s another vintage action figure found at a flea market on my recent trip back to the UK, and like the Doctor Who collectible featured last time, this is a piece of UK television memorabilia from another cult show – Captain Troy Tempest, James Garner lookalike and the dashing [...]

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I know you are, but what am I?!… Pee-wee Herman!

May 22, 2011
Pee-wee Herman action figure

Love him or hate him, if you were alive in the 1980s you can’t have missed American comedian Paul Reubens in the guise of his alter-ego Pee-wee Herman. Star of Pee-wee’s Playhouse, an enormously successful and groundbreaking Saturday morning television show for kids in the US, worldwide audiences were first introduced to him via Tim [...]

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The Real Ghostbusters Super Fright Features: Egon Spengler

September 22, 2010
The Real Ghostbusters Super Fright Features: Egon Spengler

It’s been an another exciting week for Ghostbusters action figure collectors, and in particular, fans of the character Egon Spengler, with a new 6 inch Mattel figure closely resembling actor (and co-writer of the original movie) Harold Ramis hitting the company’s online store and selling like the proverbial hot cakes. I thought it might be [...]

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The Real Ghostbusters Super Fright Features: Winston Zeddemore

March 14, 2010
Winston Zeddemore – The Real Ghostbusters Super Fright Features

Of all The Real Ghostbusters action figures in the Super Fright Features toy series, in which the heroes of the long-running TV animated show sport wacky space suits and looks of terror, Winston Zeddemore – played by Ernie Hudson in the movie and voiced by Arsenio Hall in the cartoon – is probably the most [...]

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Who you gonna call? Ray Stantz and The Real Ghostbusters!

January 21, 2010
Ray Stantz - The Real Ghostbusters

Until the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles burst upon the action figure scene and won the hearts of flaky kids everywhere who instantly, en masse and seemingly across the entire planet, dropped what they were playing with and started nagging their parents for one of those four adolescent reptiles, Ghostbusters figures ruled the roost. The Real [...]

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The 1990 Simpsons action figures by Mattel

October 24, 2009
Bartman by Mattel

When in the spring of 1987 Matt Groening created a series of short animated sketches for The Tracey Ullman Show – The Simpsons – who could have imagined that those early incarnations of Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie and Bart would eventually become cultural icons in what is now officially the world’s longest running sitcom ever. [...]

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Star Trek Ultimate Quarter Scale Spock Figure

April 17, 2009
Star Trek Ultimate 1/4 Scale Commander Spock Action Figure

The latest release in the growing Star Trek Ultimate Quarter-Scale line from Diamond Select is the impeccably logical Mr. Spock dressed in the original television series costume and bearing an excellent likeness to actor Leonard Nimoy. Measuring 19 inches tall, this landmark Ultimate Quarter-Scale release features the Vulcan officer in a detailed Starfleet uniform complete [...]

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