Non- Vinyl American toys

Damn, that's an impressive checklist! This is great, I never knew there were so many slight color variations or that there were some insanely cool unpainted and clear figures. Excuse me while I browse through every single entry on this list... (What in the world, super deformed vending machine Battle Beasts?!)

 

I pick up a lot of different stuff. Personally I think there's a ton of good toy design being done here in the US. Hasbro pretty much dominates every corner of the market. The Transformers Animated series is actually really pretty cool. The line has formally ended but I see a few here and there. I picked up the motorcycle/chopper, it's got a lot of hollow parts, but the movement and posability is sort of remarkable. The new Star Wars 'Empire Strikes Back' saga line is white hot. If I had to pick a few from wave 1 my favs are: C-390 (faceplate and panels come off to reveal really tiny detailed substructure, crazy), Dengar (who got a total facelift), IG-88 (robots carrying knives. yay), and finally Hoth Han & Leia look like they might make out over by the taun taun stable.
New GI Joe is out. Post-movie from last summer, which saw a shitstorm of new movie related figures, they are striking out with totally different redesigns. Lots of detail, dry brush paint jobs, very tight. The vehicles can easily double in the ST Extended Universe imo.
And if you slept on the new Halo figures, wake up. Seems like McFarlane is in the process of switching over to new designs for all those figures. But Oni Dare is outstanding, as are a couple of others. Finally US companies are catching up to the Japanese in terms of casting quality and detail.

 

Mexican Bootleg Lion OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

Outstanding. I would play with that Thundercat right now. He'd be dancing to Jay-Z or Lady Gaga, something like that.

I started a thread for it, but I prob should have just posted it here. Anyone buying 3W/Ashley Wood Robots? Do you like em?

 

I just can't open it, the crazy stupid packaging is too good. There's this other one I want that I think is meant to match.

 

These bootlegs are amazing. The header card does look familiar. Hmmm..

 

^ Awesome header Joel.
Is it from a upcoming nag collab or a old one ?

 

That should be a shirt!

 

Thanks! It was from the Iggy Pop release. It was the back of the header card.

 

these should be put in some sort of shadow box still in the packaging as a display

 

So about 6-7 years ago I found the guy on the right in my old closet at my moms house. This whole time I figured it was a My Pet Monster character, but now I'm not so sure. There's no tag or MPM brand on it anywhere. The MPM on the right is just the 2001 re-release I found at a thrift store about 6 years ago which I'm using for size reference. The left one is also a puppet type thing. Does anyone know what it is or have any info on it? 



(laundry room gets the best lighting in my apt at night)

 

Those thundercats bootlegs are awesome. I picked up some original thundercats today. Mum ra, vultureman and jackelman. I saw the masterpiece grimlock is at tru too. Its big. Pricey but big. Anyone going to purchase one?

 

I really wish I scored that viking Lion O guy, it wasposted 3 times or so and I always past cause of low cash. Damn I need that one. I also hate when I see a crappy bootleg on eBay and the asking price is cool but then after shipping I'd consider it too much so I pass then never see it posted again even if no one bought it.

 

Picked this guy up today for $3.

 

Had time to take some pics last night.




TMNT headshots

 

Mondo Gecko and the slug guy were two of my favorites as a snot nose!! I had and loved pretty much all the bad guys you posted up. Great to see these again

 

slash 4evar!!!!

 

Yeah the one on the left is from a second less popular line of MPM toys called "My Monster Pet". His name is Rark. There are 5 characters this size, the first 3 released are not too hard to find, with the next 2 released being much rarer.

 

^ Wow, thank you for the info! I may have to attempt to find the others now.

 

yeah i had one with just 2 fangs instead of all the teeth. he was orange

like my pet monster, they also had the velcro, breakable handcuffs

 

Gygor drops on Matty this week:

along with Chief Carnivus, who I also think is not too bad:

Both of them are MOTU characters that have never been released in figure form before now.

 

Chief Carnivus looks like a Furry's wet dream YIKES!

 

For those of you that dont know Im a action figure fiend. I am especially into GI JOE. Here are a few pics of the figures from the new JOE line , Pursuit of Cobra.

 

Those Joes are super cool!

Seriously just laughed out loud!

Speaking of anthro shit, Icon Heroes is coming out with this 6" Jackalman statue:

 

If I were to sum up the 90s in one toy, it would be this: