I can see the contents of my wallet sinking like a Lead Zeppelin

No, this is not a post about music, in that case it would have said "Led Zeppelin", nor is a post about Lord of the Rings, in that case it would have also said "Led Zeppelin" or "Leonard Nimoy and Bilbo Baggins"... Oh the endless nightmares that video caused...

But no, I'm just using the expression because it has the key word "Lead" in it, and I know is not a very obvious reference to the topic, but I couldn't think of anything better... Oh, oh... wait... I got one... "It's an eagle, it's moss... It's EAGLEMOSS". Man, that's not only really lame, but if I write down that title why would I put the link to the Leonard Nimoy's video? I need it to look innocent, but the real reason is to rise awareness, you all read the signs... Hobbits unite? This is real, people! It's happening right under our noses, we'll be replaced by halflings and they'll follow Nimoy. Did you see J.J. Abrahams? He kinda looks like a Hobbit...


"GO BACK TO THE SHIRE, JJ"

Where was I?

...

Oh yeah, Lead and Eaglemoss. Recently I started collecting these kick ass lead figurines from Eaglemoss. They are cast in lead and hand painted, very detailed and wicked awesome.



They are made in the UK and come with a magazine with the title Super Hero Collection, and although the magazine is just an excuse to get the figurines it is very well done with a whole background history of each character, essential reading material and a list and bio of friends and foes. Good thing to have on a bus, for example.


"Flash in a posse a little too serious to be Wally West. Hawkman looks amazing, very dynamic, powerful and massive. Booster Gold, the one that actually dragged me to this line. Martian Manhunter has a very cold facial expression that goes great with Booster and Beetle's. Blue Beetle, also dynamic, very goofy looking, like he should".

I know there's a similar Marvel series, but being a DC Freak I'll keep getting these. There's a lot, almost 50 already released, and they are not cheap in Argentina, so I started with the Justice League, then I'll go for Batman villains, then we'll see.


"Batman with some great details on the cape and a very cool posse, plus he was on the first issue and Superman only made it to the second! Ha! Good thing for Batman fans. Captain Marvel, very big smile as always, very nice sculpt too. The Creeper looks incredibly pissed about something, the best dynamic posse of them all. And finally Guy Gardner, naughty grin and everything, I would have preferred the OTHER haircut, but hey, nothing is perfect".

There are also special statues, bigger than the usual figurine: Bane, Killer Croc, Gorilla Grodd, Darkseid, Solomon Grundy, Doomsday, the Anti-Monitor and a very cool Bat-Cycle. This things are really heavy, I think that if you buy an Anti-Monitor you need to declare it as a possible weapon.


"I mean, you could kill a guy with that thing (or a Multiverse, your choice)".

I still have a long way to go until have all the figurines I want, but this was the start of a beautiful (terrible for my paycheck) friendship.

One more thing: If you are intrigued by the size of these guys, here's a comparison pic:

14 guys - 1 girl ratio... MOTUC is just like a Comic Con

When I was a kid, Teela from Masters of the Universe wasn't a damsel in distress, she could kick some serious ass, but at the end of the day she always lost the battles because, in my room, the bad guys ruled Eternia. Take that Filmation! Your moral messages at the end of each episode changed nothing! NOTHING! (although I learned is bad to cause forest fires, and that is a good thing).

Tomorrow I'm finally getting Scareglow and the He-Man reissue, and I realized I never did a post about last month's figures Teela and Zodak.


"After the Horde killed Orko, Teela was sad, Zodak tried to look cool, but he was laughing inside. That floating asshole was too damn annoying"

When I let my sister play with my MOTU figures she always wanted Teela, Zoar, Fisto and Kobra Kahn. Nope, that didn't made sense to me either, but if I didn't let her have them she would tell my mom. Anyway, my adventure stories could go on without the freaky sex/bestiality parties that those four were involved in.

Allow me to elaborate a thought now, does having sex with like, I don't know, Buzz-Off counts as bestiality? How about Stratos? He's a flying ape man. Are you aroused and/or shocked by this? Good, let's move on.



The Teela figure from the MOTU Classics line is very well done, the sculpt from the 4H is amazing as always, the extra head a great bonus (I'm not going to display her with it but still counts), and I chose the sword, there are too many staff users in the MOTUC line and besides, the staff only works with the Goddess head anyway. The sword is incredibly detailed, looks like a really heavy weapon and fits perfectly with the character. With all of this said, Teela is the first MOTUC I got that had a QC issue, her neck peg is a little bended and that's why she always looks down with that sad puppy expression.


"Teela: Dad? I... I can't feel my neck...
Duncan: Oh My God! Medic!!"

I've read in several blogs that this was a common issue with Teela, and from the front is not very noticeable so I'm not that pissed at Mattel. I just hope Evil-Lyn is better.

Zodak is not a very classic character at all, he was the revamped version of Zodac in the 200X series. They needed to change the skin color of a character, and they chose Zodac, the intergalactic neutral warrior that nobody really cared about. The role of Zodak in the new series was very important (in season 2) and the character was portrayed with some depth and a couple of twists.



After that I was much more thrilled about ZodaK than ZodaC in the MOTUC line, plus, he comes with wicked glow in the dark tattoos like he's in a Joel Schumacher film, about to be whooped by Chris O'Donnell... Now that I think of it that way, is not cool at all...

Zodak is a nice and simple figure, it has almost no new tooling but still looks very nice in a display. I think it was OK that this was a bonus figure, since some fans might have felt cheated if he was the figure of the month. Still, a great addition.

Plus I want to thank Mattel, 'cause they gave me the possibility of re-enacting with toys one of my favorite scenes from Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult:



Thanks Mattel!

Silly Toys: Form of an eagle, squeal like a pig!

My plastic Plastic Man

So, I haven't been uploading lots of material... Hell, is January the 10th and I didn't even posted any of my X-mas Haul... But right now I'll start to compensate, I have a lot of new figures to share with you and lots of Silly Toys ideas too.

OK, let's start with one of my X-mas gifts to me: DCD Alex Ross' Justice Plastic Man... Man, that's a lot to remember. You may also call him Plas, or also the best version of Plastic Man ever made (until DCUC has a shot at it, probably as an exclusive in the next SDCC, but those are just rumors and I, as usual, digress).


"I know I'm made of rubber, but bare feet? What if I step on gum? Eww..."

Plastic Man is one of my favorite characters of all time, and I'm not even sure why, I guess that the combination of a very cool power, a very weird costume and a very goofy personality is appealing. Maybe is the fact that he wears goggles that are also made of malleable plastic (perhaps they are his eyes, I don't know). I wasn't especially fond of the cartoon series either, I liked it, but not as much as others, the supporting characters always struck me as dumb.


"From left to right: Dumb Blonde, Dumb Hawaiian with bad luck and bad taste, Plastic Man, obviously gay and puzzled tailor"

I also loved the fact that he used to disguise as every day objects but they always were red, black and yellow and nobody noticed. Apparently every villain he ever faced was colorblind. The point is he's a classic, and this version of him does him justice (excuse the pun). I love to see how he's getting lots of love from the Batman: Brave and the Bold cartoon, that means he'll hang around in the toy world for some time. I also own, and like too, the original 1999 DCD version, I could have pass on this one if I only had the goggles of that one...


"We have blue eyes? Really??? Also, Why are you so happy... And short?"

Who am I kidding? I wasn't going to pass on this one, the only reason I didn't get it earlier is because getting him complete in Argentina is incredibly difficult. This figure came with three amazing interchangeable limbs/accessories: An alternate set of legs made into a spring, and two long arms, one of them with a huge hand. They are a lot of incomplete figures out there: No legs, no spring, no regular arms, no long arms... It took me at least a year to find a MOC one to open (hate me MOCers, see if I care).

And now, as a way of saying sorry for the long silence Freak Studios opens a new section called SEPARATED AT BIRTH. This week:



Until next time, another taste of why Plas is not just Plastic Man, he's The Man:



And since I am generous, here's the song about Plastic Man in the album Songs and stories about the Justice League of America (from 1968 , or 1975, I don't really know and the Internet can't answer):

Plastic Man Song

See you, and remember "Plastic Man, he's in great shape for the shape he's in", just poetry!

Silly Toys: Leverage

We are the future

I finally got wave 7 of Toynami's Futurama series. A very anticipated wave that completed the Planet Express crew with Professor Farnsworth, Hermes and Nibbler.



But for all the good things this wave has (we get to complete the team, we get Nibbler as a bonus figure/accessory and so on), also the sculpt fails for the first time on the series with Hermes. I mean, he's not THAT bad, but he's not exactly right either, perhaps that's why we got some more obscure characters like Calculon or Nudar in earlier waves, perhaps Toynami's creative team wasn't as happy with these two...


"Who are you calling four eyes?"

The professor's sculpt was way better than Hermes and he's not only well represented like and old guy with a hunch with a fairly nice sculpt... Like his character usually does in the series, he fucking defies physics. I really don't know how the guys at Toynami did it, but the figure is completely tilted forward, but yet he doesn't fall. Amazing! This is a very good thing, because the lack of articulation would have made it impossible to change if he was unable to stand on his own.


"Check this out! It totally looks like he's surfing"

Finally we get to Nibbler, the paint is not very precise, but he's a very small character and you have to look really close to notice. Still, he can stand very well on his own and this time the sculpt is spot on.


"I'm the best figure on the wave, and I'm not even a figure!"

The little dark matter shitting alien is the last to complete the team and I thought he would be the last to complete the series. But no, I was wrong, earlier this year I said what I wanted for the next waves, well, half of my wave 8 dream came true and we'll be getting Mom. We also get the pieces of another BAF (Roberto the stabbin' robot) and although I would have liked Hedonism-bot better, Roberto is still an incredibly sweet character to get. Since the other BAFs were divided in three waves and this we'll be divided in two, this still be the end of the line for this series. We'll just have to wait and see.

The last thing I'm not happy about is that we get another Bender variant for wave 8. Bender chef... C'mon, is that the best you could come up with? You could have added just a little goatee and we would have had Flexo...



At least he's a new character...

Silly Toys: Army of dorkness