Minimates, Trek and Wars

So I found this great Galactic Heroes set (my collecting of these is winding down a little as I will only be getting certain 2 packs here and there now) that I could not pass up we have Slave Leia with a pike and drink servin' R2 from ROTJ. Can't pass up a Slave Leia!
I got a butt load of minimates today so lets start with the set that came out in November but I waited to have it shipped till my other sets came into stock to save on shipping. This is ST wave 5 that has Gul Dukat the Cardassian and then Captain Sisko (he's the bald one with the goatee) and then the variant for the wave that is Commander Sisko.

Here we have Ilia and Commander Decker from ST the Motion Picture.

Then we have "The Trouble with Tribbles" Kirk (who doesnt come with any tribbles!!!?) and Yeoman Rand who is a great looking minimates. There aren't any upcoming waves of ST announced so hopefully they continue the series there are so many more characters that are needed especially from TNG (They have cancelled upcoming BSG minimates though which pisses me off something royal so here's hoping they don't axe ST too).
Since I got more of wave 24 I can now display this alternate version of Venom which is Eddie Brock with his crazy face and he even has a camera!

Then here is the rest of wave 24 that I didn't pick up at TRU a few weeks ago you have Back in Black Spider-Man, Kraven and the Variant Tarantula (which I think is a lame variant especially since his mask doesn't go on his head very well at all, Kraven is much better looking and a cooler character).
Now we have the incredible wave 23 and we will start off with the plainest of them all Cloak and Dagger.

Next we have Gamora (who should actually be holding the sword) and then Nova is is my top ten of best looking minimates yet!
Then last but most certainly not least is Spymaster and then Mark I and II of War Machine. The right side is the Mark I and under the helmet is Tony Stark. The variant is hte Mark II and it is Jim Rhodes. After getting so many IM minimates it is great to be able to add WM to the mix and he looks amazing too. Man I love love love love minimates and so today was a great great great great day!

I don't know what to call this post.

Here we have the Mighty Muggs of Cobra Commander because like I said I wasx pretty sure I would get it. The only thing I don't like about this is that his cape makes it very difficult to stand him up so it actually isn't attached to him in this picture.

Target reset their toys today (but only actually restocked about a third of their stuff) and that included the GI Joes so now I have all the ones I want of the single carded figures. Here we have Sgt Airborne.
Here we have the mine detector Tripwire. Now I am just looking for the Water Mocassin boat and I will have evertyhing I want of what has been announced wahoo!

End of the year, need some toys? Never fear Jedi Master Tolman is here!

What a way to close out the year! So Target got this exclusive Republic Fighter Tank set that I didn't have enough money to buy when it came out so I resigned myself to not getting it especially since I haven't seen it in the store for over a month but I got some Christmas cash and I happened across this one single set in the store earlier this week and so I snagged it up. Now all I need is the attack shuttle set and hopefully I will be good on legos for a while.

Currently I am waiting for my pre-order of Marvel Minimates waves 23 and 24 to come into stock at BBTS.com so that they will be sent to me. However TRU got all of wave 24 on their shelves (minus the variant) but the TRU in Orem never got them so since we were up in SL today we went to a TRU up there and voila they had two of the sets from wave 24. I bought them since there are alternate ways of showing some of the mates in this wave but also because it never hurts to have some extras to trade on my forum and since I bought these and will be getting a whole set of this wave soon I will have extras. Here we have Cosmis Spiderman and Transformation Venom (who has a great Eddie Brock head which you will see when I get my whoel wave).

Then here we have Classic Spiderman and Shocker. This is getting me so impatient to get my order from BBTS which also includes ST wave 5. They should be in stock by the latest the end of next week so I am eagerly waiting to get the rest of wave 24 and wave 23 too.
Then I was excited to see wave 1 of GI Joe Mighty Muggs at TRU and I had to have Xander help me choose between this Snake Eyes and a Cobra Commander and well obviously Snake Eyes won. His sword is awesome! I am sure I will get CC sometime soon so until next year. . . . .

Obsessed? Why yes I am!

Well it is Christmas day and I had to get my post done so that I can actually start reading some of the stuff I got and getting the toys up on display. Here is something my wife got me (along with the lightsaber from a few posts back) This is a SW trivia book that randomly selects one of the 2500 questions in the book, you turn there and select the answer A-D on the little button pad and it tells you if you are right or wrong. (obviously I am right most of the time) I can't get me enough SW and hence. . . . .
here we have the brand new Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia which is 3 volumes, over 1200 pages of SW goodness. It is heavier than a cinder block and ha amazing illustrations in it and it just kicks the previous encyclopedias butt. Not to mention the main author on this baby is in a picture with me at the bottom of this here blog!!! This was from my Mother-in-law and it is just down right amazing. I wish I knew I would have enough time to read this within a reasonable amount of time but given its length and my upcoming lack of time to do anything it may just take me a while to get through this one.

My mother-in-law also got me the two Masters of the Universe Classics figures that came out this month. They are the first in the line and they are amazing looking. Here we have He-Man and
here we have Beast Man. The only compaint I have with these figures is that the packages don't have hangars to put them up on the wall. I can't wait till next month when we get Skeletor!
Then here we have one from my brother in law JD. He got me this Santa Jack from NBC (as well as the DVD Shaun the Sheep off the Baa!) The way they are now making these NBC figures is much higher quality than the others I have and they look and feel awesome.

This is another from my mother-in-law. I always gets the SW Hallmark ornaments for Christmas but never post them here because they aren't really toys they are just collectibles . . . . .I guess that is the same but I had to post this one because it is the Reliant from ST II and it is simply one of the best looking ornaments ever! I love it. Well I also got a significant amount of cash which will serve to publish more posts here soon enough (new lego sets here I come) and I got some other non toy related books and other things too. I love that I am part of a family that has no problem buying me toys for Christmas despite my age. Breanne is the best at understanding my "hobby" or obsession and I love her to death for it. Xander made off with quite the haul this year with a whole bunch of lego sets that he has endless fun with, such an imagination he has. Mara was the prize winner this year with a Barbie house, a play kitchen and just hoards of other things. Well Merry Christmas all of my readers. . . . . . . . . if there are any!

Keep out bright light!

My good friend Eric was cleaning out some old stuff and came across this Gizmo toy a friend gave him a long time ago and of course he thought of me. I am a big Gremlins fan and had quite the collection of Gremlins figures as a kid sothis was a great present he gave me. The best is that it is from Japan so the English translation of some stuff on the box is funny like on the back it says "Can you say the three firm promise" (????) Keep out bright light, keep away from water and never never feed after midnight. The best is the t-shirt that Gizmo is wearing that says no more water! Thanks Eric
Here we have a classic GI Joe that is Blowtorch. I loved this figure as a kid and was way excited to find him on the shelf this morning despite the fact that I missed an enitre wave. I haven't seen any of wave 12 and I still haven't found Airborne from wave 11 oh well this was the figure out of all those waves that I was looking forward to the most. Only two more days till Christmas, wow time flies!

Secret Christmas Invasion

So a store based in the UK called Limited Edition sponsored a giveaway on my forum minimatemultiverse.com and I entered and won. The minimates were a secret until they started showing up at other members and they started posting what they got. Everyone has received a different one so far. They are all known minimate bodies with a Skrull decal and a Santa hat so they are all Secret Invasion Christmas miniamtes. I got Nightwing who is one of my favorites of the DC mates. This is a great custom free minimate and it is very unique, the reasons I love that forum just keep piling up!
Here we have the Mighty Mugg of Plo Koon which is a character that I have really started to like as you can tell from the last post so I couldn't pass up this great Mugg.