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This month and last have been pretty good for colleting, i have been around quite a few places and picked some really kool stuff up allong the way, A few weeks ago i called into Sheffield Toys R Us because i heard they had finally got Thundercats toys in, other countries have been getting the new Thunderfcats in for months now, but in the UK we have only jsut got them, so i wanted to go and check them out,
They are Major expensive in the Toys R Us, even as a kid i remember them beight the most expensive toy shop, anyway they had this stuff on the shelf...
Not a huge amount, but enough to see the quality of the new toys, if i am honest, i think the quality of the figures are abit lame, NOTHING compared to the amazing 2002 remake of He-Man, and the figures Matel produced, i really wanted the new Thundercats to be like these, but unfortunatly, they opted for that cartoon network stylized look that all cartoons and action figtures seem to be these days, that i remember first seeing come around when the 90s batman cartoon series blew up. none the less the figures are pretty kool, and i did grab me a small Mumm Ra figure while i was there, I also grabbed the figure of 'Twitch' from Toy Story 3, i have been looking to get this guy and chunk, simply because of how heavily they are based on He-Man and Rocklords, so i managed to pick this guy up pretty cheap while i was there.
I also found these that were pretty kool, as i kid i loved the Micromachines Z.Bots, I would have loved these guys back then!
They also had a TONE of Masterpiece Grimlocks, the figture obviously looks amazing, but i wont be buying one for £50 anytime soon...
I saw these Keepon speaker characters about 4 years ago and thought they were fasinating! its kina like a yellow blob character that danced to your MP3 player, good to know they finally stock em in the UK! gonan have to gra one at somepoint :P
Some other kool stuff, these sonic headphones were pretty sick
And i dunno who designed these prehistoric pets, but i think they look wickid!!
These new remade starwars figures are also sick, i picked up an admiral ackbar the other day, this Y wing fighter was massive and looked sick with the retro style box!
A week later i went too Bradford and Leeds on a music meeting day, but i did manage to grab these amazing rubber zombie finger puppets from a Kitch shop we found whilst walking around Leeds City!
This one looks allot like Eddie from the Iron Maiden album covers,
Now keeping on a Thundercats theme i grabbed this from a guy on facebook calle Aaron who runs the 'Action Figures Trading Community' i just got in touch with him because i needed a new set of tires for my thundertank, and he offered me this Full size stainless steel sword of omens!!
full details and video below....
Also....loving this Cyclops robot neclace my Friend Lizzy had on the other day, reminds me of Blinky from Buckey O'Hare lol
Last week DONT FLOP, The UK rap battle league i am a part of, came round to my house to film the second episode of a new Online show they are running called 'DONT FLOP DIGS' its kinda like Cribs but for UK MC's, So made sure my toy room looked good for it! its abit messier now than it was when they came becuase i have been in and ut of boxes in there, but it still looks pretty sick! and a good updated picture since i last threw one up about a year or so ago....
I grabbed these from Asda couple days ago too...dont really bother picking any of the new transformers up, but these were GEN 1 so had to grab a couple! Starscream and Bumblebee BOTSHOTS...think they captured their characters well with these!
FINALLY...I was supposed to stick this picture up AAAAAAAAAAAAGES ago, but i forgot...my producer and Best mate cal's Brother JAC had this in his room when we went to see him in manchester....wanted it SO bad, but family airlooms and all that prevented me from taking it back to the toxic figures toy room, but how kool is he!!! VINTAGE BIG MOUTHED BIG FOOT!! SO FUCKIN SICKK!!!
Chatting to ma boy @electric_raver about his starwars collection, made me wanna take a picture of that big box i recently got and briefly showed on here a few months back... well here they are all laid out! loads i need, but sick collection to be starting with..
I turned 24 yesterday.... Big houts to all the kool people that have sent me birthday cards and facebook/Twitter messages! I Got some kool presents bought for me too, including these!! I asked my mom to get me this Marvel Encyclopida, i have been wanting it for ages, so she picked me this up, its massive! Its from the DK series who make wikid encycolpida cbooks on comics, i have the Spiderman, X-men and Hulks ones, this one has EVERYONE in it though! its full of loads of cool info about the world of Marvel..
She also got me these....i spotted em other day and hinted to her i wanted them :P big ups to her for picking them up, iots 100 diffrent star wars comic covers in postcard form, i have comic books framed all over my house and really wanted the old school comic covers out of this!
Then my Dad got me this MINT IN THE BOX Handlebar from Bravestarr, was fuckin CHUFFED with this one!!!
He also got me this Buckey O'Hare 'double bubble' vehicle! i have wanted this for ages, it makes a frog croaking noise when you turn it on diffrent angles
He got me these too! (lucky this year i know!) An origional vintage He-Man clock...
And a sliding puzzle game, love this!!
Very pleased with the gifts people got me big ups again to eveyrone that sent me a message!!
As part of the music label i run with Flex Digits, 'prison planet records' I like to review games...we have JUST uploaded a Golden Axe on Sega Megadrive/Genesis playthrough...check it out!!
Check out the others on the page too! Streets of rage, Mickey Donald's world of illusions ect...
I say this all the time, but i really do enjoy updating this blog and always plan to keep doing it regularly, but music and work has kinda took over my life at the Minuit, But the stuff i put on this blog often means more to me than both of those!! art, toys, day trips and other cool stuff! anyway here is the first update of what i hope will be many for 2012...if i have one new years resolution its to not neglect my love for all things retro, buy more stuff, show it on here and possibly even start doing video reviews as-well as just photographs and writing...
First off i wanna show these, i got them from 'Pound Land' i have spoken about the stuff i get from pound land on here before, they usually just sell rubbish, but i always pop in as now and then i find something like this... They are basically Robot Dinosaurs VS Monsters...but by the look of stuff they only made 3 characters, 2 robot dinosaurs and one mutated monkey... The dinosaurs are pretty cool, the T.Rex has a chain saw, and a flame thrower looking gun for his arms and the Triceratops has a laser gun for his Horn... The monkey is my favourite though, he has a spine you can pull out, and is a full on mutated zombie, straight out of resident evil, complete with spikes and exposed brain and intestines...
Next up i found some more funky looking dinosaur mutant toys... these are classic, and seems to be an endless amount of them, I see them from time to time on Ebay and other toy blogs, and I love em, this one is my favourite...a kind of mutant cockroach armadillo.. this one also makes me laugh...a regular feature on here is dinosaurs and monkeys with mad screaming mouths... This one wont even stand up!! I had to prop it up to take the photo, and it looks like he needs to take a piss... I also grabbed these, I don't really know how new they are, but they are awesome, made by the guys who make Transformers Robot Heroes (one of my fave modern day toy lines) a collection of the original power rangers in small cartoon form, I haven't got them all yet but I want to get the zords too they look sick! here are a couple other things I picked up around Christmas, to with the stuff I had bought my sister for Christmas, i got her a tone of American sweets...to US readers these might not be much special, but you never get this kinda thing in the UK you see em in movies, but to get a hold of them is allot harder, was cool to try them out! i also grabbed the MnM machine that was kool... I know Halloween was MONTHS ago, but this was my STORM SHADOW outfit, I was popper proud of it, I bought a ninja suit and shoes, and made the sword holster, with 2 fake swords that looked real when I had finished the handles and stuff, the back sheath held them very sturdy and lasted the whole night and is still in perfect shape now, COMIC CON needs to be hit next! ha And finally, I got my mum to find me this out, for some reason (i don't know why) my Grandad (RIP) saved a couple cans of pop for YEAAARS! I don't exactly know when this can of Sprite was made, but it says 'best before September 91' on the base, how long do cans of pop usually last for on their sell by date? Anyway she found me one of them out, I think there is a Cola and a fanta one too, but she hasn't got me them yet, Anyway a few months ago me and my sister were watching videos of Crystal Pepsi on the Internet and it got me thinking about them, I am glad my mom found this out, I am a massive fan of anything retro and this old can (never opened!!) I think is really cool! Well that is the first update of 2012,keep checking back for more updates! BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
