Odds and Ends

Odds and Ends

Trying to play catch up here.  It's been a busy spring, collecting toys across various lines:

The Disney Mirrorverse mobile game is still going somehow, and so is the toyline from McFarlane.  The scale offering shave always been confusing...some in 7 in, some more in the 4-5 inch range.  I had to buy a box set with a 7 inch Goofy and 5 inch Genie (already having the smaller Goofy and the larger Genie) just to get Scrooge McDuck (smaller scale).  The steampunk look is neat, and it looks like he flat out stole the Rocketeer's jetpack for this adventure!  He scales well with the PhatMojo and Disney Toy Box ducks.

The Outlaw skeleton cowboy from Boss Fight Studios is lots of fun, but I wish he were a smaller scale to work with my Dime Novel Legends cowboys.

McFarlane's Batman and Robin movie figures all look fantastic.  This is is first go at Poison Ivy period, and I think she is the stand out sculpt.  Too bad she's the weakest part of that film overall!  

Random McDonald's merch:  old cup, Funko burger and Speedee.  Again, hate Pops, but these actually look like the real deals.  Kirwin Frost McNugget Buddies stand in the back, still beloved spoils from the holiday season past.  My army of Changeables grows!  Just a few more to go, then they can join the Autobots and Decepticons in my Transformers collection.  Best Happy Meal toys ever.

A Disney Parks exclusive Indiana Mickey I picked up cheap at Planet Comicon Kansas City.  Hard to believe we arent that far past the newest Indy movie and we're back to scrounging for old relics....sad.  Oh, hey, and I broke down and got a Toony Terror Elvira since NECA refused to do a decent scale any other way.

Masters of the Universe Origins is dying down, but the Ninja Turtles have arrived to save the day.  I like this goofy mashup best of all the Turtles collaborations, and there have been some strange ones!  Mutated Ram Man is currently my favorite sculpt.

 

Saurozoic Warriors

Saurozoic Warriors

Boss Fight Studio

Boss Fight Studio was already becoming one of my favorite toy producers with their recent Popeye line, Bucky O'Hare, and Zorro Hacks figures.  And now they've gone an done this...created an original line that should appeal to action figure collectors of the 80s and 90s.  Kids of all ages love dinosaurs, too!

Saurozoic Warriors are anthropomorphic dinos in bright, fantastical colors and proportions akin to Ninja Turtles or Toxic Crusader.  What's not to love?  Boss Fight has even gone the distance to flesh out a backstory for each character, all coming together to for one colossal conflict. 

One faction is total ceratopsian.  Triceratops is my personal favorite dinosaur, so I love that the central character/leader here is of the three-horned persuasion.  His battle-scarred eye puts him over the (cera)top!

The Brachiosaur is a close runner up.  The execution on the neck and head alone are great!  So great, that this one needed a double dip.  A Big Bad Toy Store exclusive gives us a skeletal paint job.  The new deco is built into the story, but I don't mind pretending that he's a completely different sauropod solider for army building's sake.

The "tank" of this group is the stout and wide Stegosaurus.  If the sculpt alone didnt ooze "bad attitude, they gave him a leather vest and the biggest gun of the group to solidify his bad-assery.  Its a little strange that the stego is the only humanoid dino here to retain a tail.  I guess its only of the identifying features of the stego, so hard to go without?  Or it just balances him holding the big-ass gun.

The ceratopsian guard is the army builder of the group.  Im glad they have the gas mask to help solidify them as the foot soldiers.  Also gives off the Toxic Crusader vibe I mentioned above.

While billed as a 6-inch line, these scale a bit small in comparison to other lines.  I think they are right at home with Masters of the Universe Origins, not only in scale, but in articulation and the shared techno-barbarian themes.  Maybe in an effort to resurrect the Snake Men, a time portal reach back beyond Preternia and out popped these guys?  Go ahead and connect them with a Battle Bones origin!

These do run a bit high ($30) for figures of this scale, but the fun-factor and rarity of being an original line makes them easy to support.  The waves should also be spaced out with enough time to budget for them.  Another wave is on the way, and I cant wait.  No sign of a Tyrannosaurus Rex yet...would make an awesome deluxe figure, Boss Fight.  Bring 'em on!