Showing posts with label weird toys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weird toys. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Sonic Drive-In Madballs "Monster Squirters" Fast Food Premium Unboxing and Review


At the end of 2019 Sonic Restaurants released a series of Madballs as fast food premiums for their kids meals. Included are versions of Dust Brain, Screaming Meemie, Occulus Orbus, and an exclusive called Cherry Limeaid. Madballs are probably my second favorite toy to collect (behind Masters of the Universe) so I had to get them all. 

They're pretty cool as Madballs go, slightly smaller than the retail toys. The cool thing is they are new sculpts based on the original design, and look to be more detailed. The exclusive character Cherry Limeaid is based on Sonic's signature drink apparently, while it's always great to get more Madball characters it would've been nice to get more than one.

Overall I usually don't really collect fast food kids toy premiums like this, but for Madballs I'll make an exception. I got this whole set pretty cheap on Ebay so this isn't worth a lot of money (yet) but I can see Cherry Limeaid going up in value. 

Monday, June 1, 2020

MOTU Knock-Offs Galaxy Heroes & Troll Force Unboxing and Review


Hello everyone. So the Masters of the Universe were a very successful toyline back in the day. You can't have a toyline that makes a lot of money without getting a lot of imitators. One of the most extensive of the MOTU knock offs was a line called "Galaxy Warriors." The thing about Galaxy Warriors was that the parts (arms, legs, heads, weapons, etc) were continuously recasted and reused in other knock off lines. So the two toys we're looking at today are knock-offs of Galaxy Warriors, called "Galaxy Heroes" and "Troll Warriors." Hence, they are knock-offs of a knock-off. Dontcha love this stuff? 

Anyway, we're looking at "Triton" from the Galaxy Heroes line, and "The Green Yuk" and "Black Ninja" from the Troll Warriors line. 

Enjoy!

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Masters of the Universe Classics Slush Head Unboxing and Review


Hello everyone. So as anyone who reads my blogs or watches my videos should know by now, I am a massively huge super gigantic fan of Masters of the Universe. As a kid I had almost all of them, including several of the rare ones - The Sorceress, Scare Glow, the Eternia Towers, the works. So it came to great surprise to me to find Mattel released updated versions of the original toys. The cool thing about MOTU Classics is that the line also included characters from She-Ra Princess of Power, as well as the New Adventures of He-Man, which is where Slush Head is from.

So anyway, I got into this line a little late in the game, which means I now get to buy all of these at super inflated collectors prices. So I've made it a point to not go crazy buying every single one of these, instead focusing only on key characters that I really want. 

Which brings us to Slush Head. I was already getting a bit too old for toys when New Adventures came out (or so I thought...) I do remember the show and I thought it was pretty good, but by this point I  was already in middle school and wasn't playing with toys anymore, so I'm looking at these characters with unbiased eyes. The figure itself looks good and has great detail. We lose articulation at the head and waist, but all the other standard points are there. One thing I'm disappointed with is the metal tentacles, which are not bendable and attach in a flimsy way. It would have been much better to have these be of the rubber "bendie" type with a wire inside. 

Overall I'm pretty satisfied with this figure, it looks great on the shelf and fits in with the other classics figures well. Expect to see more of these reviews as I build up a large collection of these.

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Thundercats Savage World Series 2 Unboxing and Review Funko

Hello everyone. For this video we're taking a look at Series #2 of the Thundercats Savage World figures, featuring Tygra, Monkian, Jackalman, and Cheetara (which is the one everyone wanted.) Included are some comparisons with the series 1 figures. I'm happy to say they turned out really well, and look great on the shelf next to my MOTU toys.

For those who have been keeping up, we've gotten the following in the line, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Thundercats Series #1 and #2, Horror Figures, as well as the tangentially related Son of Zorn and DC comics "Primal Age" lines. There was also supposed to be a Conan the Barbarian line which looks to be cancelled, which probably happened when Marvel bought back the Conan rights. 

Sadly this looks like the end of the "Savage World" line for the time being, there doesn't look to be anything new happening for the rest of 2020, which is really sad considering there's at least another 30 or so Thundercats characters alone they could do (not to mention the other franchises.) Here's hoping that the line gets resurrected next year, I would love to see more of these one day.

Sunday, February 2, 2020

Accoutrements Bendy Monsters - Bendy Figure Review


Hi everyone. Today I'm reviewing some weird old bendy toys from a company called Accoutrements, which is either the same thing as or in business with Archie McPhee. (Archie McPhee is a company that puts out those weird horse masks that were popular a few years ago, along with the usual novelty gags like rubber chickens, whoopie cushions, bacon flavored mints, and so on.) Anyway this is a set that I completed a little while ago, and while this kind of thing isn't really worth much they are pretty hard to find. I've always loved strange vintage toys like this.

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

"Terror Toad" TMNT knock-off toy review


So I don't usually go for these types of knock-off toys, but they can be interesting sometimes. I'll pick them up if I see them. This particular one is famous in collector circles for having very little resemblance to the thing that it's knocking off.

Saturday, December 17, 2016

Unknown Vintage Monster Toys


I've always loved stuff like this. A set of strange plastic monster toys I recently acquired. They're a few inches long, and look like those little prizes you'd get out of quarter machines at the supermarket, or maybe party favors.  Each one has a "clip" type backing. They look like they could be intended to be put into your shirt pocket, or perhaps used as bookmarks? Anybody know anything about them?

vintage plastic monsters

vintage plastic monsters

vintage plastic monsters

vintage plastic monsters