As a special exception I couldn't resist featuring a brand new action figure for Christmas this year. I'm a huge Gremlins fan – it's my favourite Christmas movie – and this NECA Santa Gizmo figure is a wonderful addition to any Gremlins collection! Released as a Toys ‘R’ Us Exclusive this 7 inch special edition Gizmo figure is a perfect movie-likeness to how Gizmo appeared in the original Joe Dante Gremlins movie released in 1984. LJN Toys created a wonderful vintage figure at the time, but … [Read more...]
Johnny Apollo Astronaut – the Movable Spaceman by Marx!
It's an amazing thought, yet when toy making giants Louis Marx & Co. first launched the Johnny Apollo action figure in 1968, man had yet to land on the moon! Astronauts, of course, were all the rage, with the Soviet Union and the US neck and neck in the Space Race, with our Johnny here named in honour of the US Apollo program which would succeed in putting the first humans on Earth's Moon the following year in 1969. Molded in heavy, highly detailed, white poly-plastic, Johnny Apollo was … [Read more...]
Camo-Armor Turtleflage Venus – The Vanishin’ Vixen!
When Michael Bay, producer of the forthcoming Ninja Turtles movie, announced earlier this year that in the revamp Donatello would now be a female turtle named Donatella, Internet forums were quickly filled with angry comments from die-hard fans...until people noticed the date and realised that this news had been nothing but an April Fools' Day hoax! But what is it about girl turtles that seems to upset folks so much!? As it happens, “Donatella” if she had ever happened, would not have been … [Read more...]
The Real Ghostbusters Screaming Heroes: Winston Zeddemore
Looking back over this last year of blogging, I noticed that I started the year with a vintage Ghostbusters figure, meaning that nearly a year has passed since I last blogged about one of my favourite lines from the 1980s – The Real Ghostbusters by the legendary Kenner. Let's set that right straight away with a closer look at this fun 5-inch Winston Zeddmore figure from the Screaming Heroes subset. A hugely popular action figure line that dominated the market until they were knocked off the top … [Read more...]
Juggernaut with Power Punch – the Unstoppable X-Men Villain!
The brainchild of legendary comic book writer Stan Lee, and artist Jack Kirby, Juggernaut aka Cain Marko first appeared during the Silver Age of Comic Books in X-Men #12 published in 1965. When Toy Biz issued this 5-inch Juggernaut action figure as part of the Evil Mutant subset of characters in the first series of its hugely popular Uncanny X-Men line decades later in 1991, the villain was riding a surge of new notoriety thanks to the 1990s X-Men animated television show. Indeed, he got his own … [Read more...]
Nikto – Skiff Guard from ‘Return of the Jedi’
One of the things that has made Kenner's ground breaking 3 ¾ inch Star Wars action figures so popular with fans of both the original movie trilogy and also vintage action figure collectors today is the company's unstinting attention to detail even with the most minor of characters in the Star Wars universe, some with the merest blink-and-you'll-miss-it split second of screen time! Nikto here, who was first released just in time for Christmas 1983 as part of the Sears Exclusive Jabba the Hutt … [Read more...]
Ivanhoe: The World’s Greatest Super Knights by Mego
Whilst legendary toy makers Mego are probably most famous for their 1970s 8-inch line of comic book characters the World's Greatest Super Heroes, some of their most highly collectible figures today are a very different range of swashbuckling literary and historic heroes – The World's Greatest Super Knights! Ivanhoe here, was released alongside the Black Knight, King Arthur, and his knights Sir Galahad and Sir Launcelot, in what was a spectacularly detailed series of beautifully made action … [Read more...]
Trouble and Stryfe! The Uncanny X-Men villain from Toy Biz X-Force line
Marvel super villain Stryfe, leader of the Mutant Liberation Front and sworn enemy of team X-Force, first appeared in 1990 in issue #85 of X-Men spin-off comic The New Mutants. In the final issue #100 readers were in for a huge surprise when he removed his helmet and revealed himself to be none other than his own enemy the mutant Cable! Confused yet?! As Toy Biz explained on the back of the packaging for this 1992 Stryfe action figure: Stryfe is the mysterious evil mutant who could be … [Read more...]
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