Blazing awesome

New minimates YEAH! So they made a new wave called the best of which has new versions of a bunch of characters that we already have a ton of so I didn't really care about this wave but I had to have this new version of Iron Man! I love this color version. I don't really care about the Thing that came with him even though I like the bulked up version of him.

The newest wave 43 is based on an older comic story line here you have a really cool looking Daredevil with a great new weapon. Then you also have Sin Eater acharacter that I am unfamiliar with.

Here you have a detective who tried to help Spiderman, Jean de Wolff and then a Spider Man.

The army builder for the wave is a Shield Agent who has two hairpieces so you can actually have two different agents which is really cool. Then you have J. Jonah Jameson who looks incredible. The variant for the set is the loser for the set Aunt May who looks very mannish.

Here we have an action figure like version of Voltron! This is called Blazing Sword Voltron as he comes with the sword that looks like when Voltron takes his sword out. This is a non-transformable but very poseable version of Voltron. He also came with a base that plays the theme song. Very very cool.

Different can still be good

Some Star Wars lego sets I have purchased just so that I could get the Jedi minifigures that came with it. Well Ki Adi Mundi came with a Geonosian starfighter that I absolutely didn't want so I just purchased him by himself from ebay to add to my Jedi minifigure collection.

There is a new TF cartoon on (there have been a ton over the last decade) called Transformers Prime and they have just started to release toys for this series. The first wave thankfully includes my favorite of them all Soundwave. You can see the robot form doesn't really look like a traditional Soundwave but he is still cool. He even comes with a wierd little Laserbeak.

I think the vehicle form is really cool though as it is a military spy drone which goes along perfectly with what Soundwave does.

The best MOTUC shipment yet!

So this month had a shipment of 3 new MOTUC figures and they are all great. Usually when they send a bunch in one month some of them are not so good. This month we get the subscription exclusive Shadow Weaver who is Hordak's evil mistress of dark magic. Very cool and you can read the bio below.

Then you got one of my most anticipate figures in the entire MOTU universe the SORCERESS!!!!! This is one of the best looking figures in my entire collection! Read bio below.

The Sorceress was supposed to be in January and got delayed so here we have February's actual figure FISTO. This is just a simple great looking figure. Read the bio below.

With the subscription like the last two years we got a map this year which is of Preternia which also has info below.

So to keep up with the popularity of Squinkies we have Star War Fighter Pods that are pretty much just squinkies with a different name. The litte guys look really cool but the gimmick of the pods themselves is pretty dumb. I got this set to get the Yoda, Vader, Fett, and Aayla Secura.

Up close.

Vintage and not so vintage

So there is an antiques consignment store off the freeway between work and home so I stopped there this week and picked up some random vintage items from one of the booths at the store. This here is a She-Ra Frosta figure that I don't think the person knew was She-Ra because it was only 3 bucks.

The same booth had this great condition Man-E-Faces

And an incredible condition Leech (suction feature works great!)

This is a version of Soundwave called Sonicron. I bought it on clearance at BBTS.com the robot form looks like a really cool updated Soundwave (although the joints are real loose and it is hard to stand him up)

He transforms into something more modern than a boombox though as you can see here he is a minirecorder. His snap features don't work so well so overall he is really cool looking but the transform feature is very subpar.

Avengers movie toys came out this week and I couldn't resist this mini mugg of the Iron Man Mark VII.

Here is another vintage figure I got at the antiques place. It is a plastic Gremlin that I had as a kid!

Then you have a not so vintage Gremlin figure I got at FYE for a discount because the store in Orem is closing. This is the Flasher Gremlin! Can't wait for wave two because it has Electric Gremlin and Rambo Gizmo!!!!

Mummies and minimates

So they finally released the smaller versions of Bandai's Thundercats classics. I didn't buy the smaller Lion-o because I have the larger SDCC version but I did buy this Mumm-Ra (only to find out there is a larger version of him) :( But this figure still looks great!

Here we have the latest in the minimates with vehicles here we have Michael Knight with KITT! This car looks amazing and you can totally see the Hoff in this minimate!

This is a MVC3 set that I bought because it has a new Marvel figure never made before in Dromammu. It also comes with Trish from Darkstalkers that I am only keeping because she had a really cool sword.

I bought this loose with my recent purchase beccause of DST's new Femme Fatales set this was the one I though looked cool it is Darkchylde.

This is the Age of X set which I bought mostly because it has a Gambit in it but I also like the look of the Magneto. It also has a Rogue and a Cyclops.

Delays

So January's figure was supposed to be the Sorceress but delays with Mattel made them bump this set up so be the only thing we got in January. I guess if I didn't get the one girl figure I wanted then replacing one with three made it ok. Here we have the Star Sisters from She-Ra. We have Jewelstar with her bird Glorybird, then we have Starla and Tallstar. Mara adores these figures and was so impatient for me to open them up so she could play with them. Next month will be awesome because we will get the Sorceress, Shadow Weaver and Fisto! So stay tuned!

Well these next two are actually December 2011's subscription figures but they were delayed and only arrived this week. Here we have Demo-Man who you can read the bio about below but he was merged with Keldor to form Skeletor and this figure is based on original concept art for Skeletor.

Here we have Battleground Evil-Lyn who has an alternate head you can see here without the fan-hat. This figure is based more on the 200x character and thus I like her better than the other one (but I still love the other one too). Read the bio below.

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