Its raining GI Joes (and other toys)

Well I went to Toys R Us today with Kenny and it is a good thing he was with me because as I am looking at the GI Joes and complaining about how they don't ever get any new ones he spies further down the aisle not even with the Joe stuff the new TRU exclusive three pack Land Sea and Air set. This set comes with first here we have Deep Six who is the best looking of all the scuba guys I have and my favorite from this set.
Then we have Backblast which is just like a redo of Grand Slam with blonde hair and desert gear Long Range's weapons but still cool.
Lastly we have Barrel Roll which is like a redo of sky attack Duke but with a cool new head. This is a great jey pack figure!
And to top off my TRU visit I found the last BSG titanium ship I need which is a modern Cylon Raider and even cooler it is the Scar Raider! If you don't know what that means then shame on you because you should be watching this show!

25th anniversary wave 2

Well Warlmart today on top of having some new Cars toys to pick up for Xander they had teh GI Joe 25th anniversary wave 2 so I picked up this Beachhead which was one of my favorites as a kid.
and then I had to get this Serpentor becaue he was one of those figures as a kid that I wanted oh so bad but could never get. I also was going to purcahse Lady Jaye but the two I found today had bent cards which is crappy because a lot of the walmart 25th figures have had bent cards so hopefully I can find a LJ soon.

Real American Heroes

Well my frustration continues that I still haven't found Lockdown despite new waves coming out of GI Joes. But don't get me wrong I was excited to find the new wave of Combat Squad Joes. This first figure is somewhat of a mystery to me because I got a Recondo figure two months ago with a crocodile (you remember the picture from constantly checking my toy blog right?.........) as part of the Adventure team well this figure is names Recondo but he has a completely different face and head so it must be a different chracter so I bought it. On closer inspection though the head is actually Tunnel Rat's head with different color hair! Anyways the figure is still cool because of the cool camo gear.
This was the one from this wave that I was excited about. It is Lt Torpedo who is as close as they have come so far to SEAL one of my favorite vintage joes. This is just a repainted Sea Ops Duke but he is still way awesome. The third figure in this wave was Sgt Boulder but he looked to much like Heavy Duty so I didn't buy him (but knowing me I probably will eventually). Anyways YO JOE!

FREE TOYS (and another that wasn't free)

So I get home from work today and there is a manilla envelope for me from Diamond Select Toys (the distributor for minimates) and inside what do I find but FREE minimates! I got a modern Cylon (I beleive this was a promo mate sent out before the actual realease of these mates, and the other is the HUNT MATE! This year at SDCC there was a contest where contestants entered and they were given this minimate that they had to scavanger hunt throughout the convention and take pictures of this little guy doing a bunch of stuff. Then at the end you turned in your pictures and your hunt mate and the winnder of that contest gets all of the minimates for the next year for free!!!! Ayways most people were mad because they had to turn in their hunt mates but now I got one and other people have been getting them (I have read on my minimate forum) as well. It also came with a letter thanking me for being a DST customer and gave me a coupon code good till the end of the year to use on their website for 10% off. COOL STUFF!
Well I was Orem Walmart today and lo and behold I found a Toxic Zartan which I was going to buy oh so long ago when I thought it was coming out but I never found one and so I broke down and bought the 15$ other Zartan figure. This here figure though is released with the one other elusive figure I have been searching for and that is Lockdown but they did not have that one today just this one and I just broke down and bought it because I think it is a cool one and it has water squirting capabilities. These are the best GI Joe figures ever I love em!

Complimentarity

Well the second wave of Hasbro Marvel Legends didn't really have any figures that I just had to have but if I was going to buy any of them it would be this Thor figure because he is really cool looking. But there was never a reason to buy him until two things happened, first I got my Avengers minimates which gave me an inkling for Thors and then I got that Loki Marvel Legends on clearance and to compliment that bad guy I figured I should get this figure. You can also see in the frame behind Thor the new sheet of Marvel stamps from USPS that I got a little while ago. I wish they would make a roll of just the Iron Man stamps that would be awesome (accept I don't send much stamped mail).

Mara's adorable smile

This is a picture of me, Xander and Mara playing video games at the cabin this last weekend. I took my PS1 down to leave there for gaming fun and this pic is here because Mara's smile is so sweet.