I say the legendary Boba Fett, for there can be no doubt that some vintage action figures acquire a kind of cult status and become must-haves in a collection. Boba Fett - everybody's favourite bounty hunter and man of few words – has always seemed to fit that role perfectly! He is hardly a rare figure and was available from his first appearance as a The Empire Strikes Back movie tie-in, right up to, and including, the Droids animation line, but he is just so perfect in his detailed moulding and … [Read more...]
Mobile Suit Gundam RX-78-2
It's always fun hunting down vintage action figures on market stalls or in thrift shops, but this snap-together Gundam model kit proved more of a challenge than most. I spotted the limbless and headless torso first, in a box of mostly broken toys and it took a lot of painstaking rummaging around before I managed to gather and assemble all his parts! With hands and feet and even shoulder pads detached, I was incredibly satisfied to have at least found all his body parts, if not all his … [Read more...]
He has the power! Battle Armor He-Man
Love him or hate him, there's no doubting that the star of last week's post – Arnold Schwarzenegger in the guise of Terminator – is a tough act to follow. Unless, of course, you sport a set of muscles that would put even the one-time Mr. Universe to shame! Who better to follow Arnie than that blonde barbarian with the bob from Masters of the Universe, the Most Powerful Man In The Universe himself ...He-Man! The year was 1984 and Mattel needed a way to spice up He-Man. No longer satisfied with … [Read more...]
Hasta la vista, baby! Hidden Power Terminator
Way before he became the 38th Governor of California and acquired the scary power to actually terminate people in real life, Arnold Schwarzenegger was a humble body-builder turned Hollywood actor, who made some great action movies like Terminator and had the kind of jaw-line, body sculpt and dramatic delivery that made him already seem like a 1:1 scale talking action figure! In recent years, NECA has issued some awesome T2 action figures for the adult collectibles market, but the 5½-inch … [Read more...]
Harry Potter and the Mattel Mini Collection Figures!
The countdown to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is well under way with Part 1 of the film about to hit cinema screens across the globe in just over a week's time! Harry is all grown up now in this grand finale, so I thought it might be fun to take a look back at an action figure when Harry was younger, and quite literally, in the case of this figure, much smaller! Small, but nevertheless, perfectly formed with an excellent movie-likeness of Daniel Radcliffe and six points of … [Read more...]
Do I hear hissing? It must be Tung Lashor!
You've really got to hand it to Mattel, the creators of He-Man aka Masters of the Universe action figures, in their ability to come up with some of the greatest character names of any toy line ever! There was Moss Man (who was covered with moss – what else?!), the onomatopoeic names Buzz-Off and King Hiss, and of course, those wonderful made up words – Grizzlor, Skeletor and Roboto. This particular 5-inch MOTU action figure from Series 5 in 1986 is called Tung Lashor, probably one of the best of … [Read more...]
The Phantom of the Opera – Mini Monsters by Remco
So here it is folks! The final post in our Halloween series for 2010 and one of my favourite horror film action figures and another Universal Monster movie classic - The Phantom of the Opera as played by Lon Chaney. Issued as part of the Mini Monsters line by Remco in 1980, this 3 ¾ inch action figure may be small, but it has one of the single best movie likenesses of all time. It features one of the earliest of the Universal Monsters – so early, in fact, that the 1925 version of The Phantom of … [Read more...]
Creature from the Black Lagoon by Burger King
Regular readers to this blog may recall that as a vegetarian and somebody who hasn't stepped inside a McDonald's for a couple of decades, I'm not usually a collector of fast food toys...unless, of course, I happen across one at a flea market, as I did with this Creature from the Black Lagoon recently. As a Universal Monsters film fan I couldn't resist this action figure, which was issued by Burger King in 1997 alongside equally accurate movie-likenesses of Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolf Man … [Read more...]
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