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thedeadlyhook) wrote2004-01-12 05:38 pm
thedeadlyhook) wrote2004-01-12 05:38 pm
What You Want, When You Want It
If you're getting the impression that I've spent nearly the entire day screwing around on updating this journal because I can't think straight enough to do much of anything else, you'd be right. But that being the case, I'm going straight for the best distractions on God's Green Earth, toys. I already have plenty of toys on and around my desk (it's practically a tourist attraction around here for office visitors) - and I can't recommend that practice highly enough, by the way, since fiddling with a good toy can cheer you up when almost nothing else will - but here are the latest ones that have drawn my eye:
First, take at look at the fabulous site for Japanese toys, Toy Box DX, and get a load of their Toy of the Year 2003 winners. Then go even further and click on the menu button that reads "Toy Porn." No, this isn't naked toys, but ones so drool inducing, it amounts to the same thing. Here's the one I really lust after - the Soul of Chogokin GX09 Minerva X. (Although the Soul of Chogokin GX06 Getter Robo is pretty hot too.) Ah, metal toys....
Next, hop on over to All About Spike, and check the link on the left that reads "New Action Figures." Yes, Sideshow Toys finally made 12-inch figures of Spike and Angel which I must have for my birthday. Like, duh, so they can fight! (BTW, if you're gonna get them anyway, please get them through this link, folks. It supports the site.) Can't get enough of looking at that picture of the Angel doll with his ill-fitting little Ken-doll style leatherette pants. Awww. (Why is it that clothes never fit quite right on male dolls? Barbie never has these problems...) Then the winner has to face my 12-inch Cutey Honey doll and her chrome sword. Heh-heh.
There is a new version of Buffy, too. I'm undecided. Her outfit is better than the old 12-inch doll (which I have). But selected Barbie clothes will fit her, so a whole new doll just for the outfit might be a bit much. Especially since that jacket reminds me of "Dead Things." Shudder.
There are more items that are just too amusing not to love - like the 18-inch Leatherface (makes chainsaw sounds on a motion sensor) or Jason (makes that Ch-ch-ch sound from the movie) dolls, or the 18-inch Stormtrooper on my co-worker's desk that says "Move along" on a motion sensor. Toys are good.
Toys I'd Like To See: A 12-inch Pinhead, from Hellraiser. If one's ever been made, I've never seen it, and it would be too funny. A 12-inch Drusilla ('cause the meta-hilarity of a doll with dolls of her own is just too mind-bending).
Top of the heap? Probably that Godzilla toy that's actually made to be worn like a costume for a G.I. Joe-style action figure inside, exactly like the stuntmen in the films wore them. Now that's impressively meta.
First, take at look at the fabulous site for Japanese toys, Toy Box DX, and get a load of their Toy of the Year 2003 winners. Then go even further and click on the menu button that reads "Toy Porn." No, this isn't naked toys, but ones so drool inducing, it amounts to the same thing. Here's the one I really lust after - the Soul of Chogokin GX09 Minerva X. (Although the Soul of Chogokin GX06 Getter Robo is pretty hot too.) Ah, metal toys....
Next, hop on over to All About Spike, and check the link on the left that reads "New Action Figures." Yes, Sideshow Toys finally made 12-inch figures of Spike and Angel which I must have for my birthday. Like, duh, so they can fight! (BTW, if you're gonna get them anyway, please get them through this link, folks. It supports the site.) Can't get enough of looking at that picture of the Angel doll with his ill-fitting little Ken-doll style leatherette pants. Awww. (Why is it that clothes never fit quite right on male dolls? Barbie never has these problems...) Then the winner has to face my 12-inch Cutey Honey doll and her chrome sword. Heh-heh.
There is a new version of Buffy, too. I'm undecided. Her outfit is better than the old 12-inch doll (which I have). But selected Barbie clothes will fit her, so a whole new doll just for the outfit might be a bit much. Especially since that jacket reminds me of "Dead Things." Shudder.
There are more items that are just too amusing not to love - like the 18-inch Leatherface (makes chainsaw sounds on a motion sensor) or Jason (makes that Ch-ch-ch sound from the movie) dolls, or the 18-inch Stormtrooper on my co-worker's desk that says "Move along" on a motion sensor. Toys are good.
Toys I'd Like To See: A 12-inch Pinhead, from Hellraiser. If one's ever been made, I've never seen it, and it would be too funny. A 12-inch Drusilla ('cause the meta-hilarity of a doll with dolls of her own is just too mind-bending).
Top of the heap? Probably that Godzilla toy that's actually made to be worn like a costume for a G.I. Joe-style action figure inside, exactly like the stuntmen in the films wore them. Now that's impressively meta.
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And what IS with Angel's pants? ._.
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No idea, but I plan to find out. ; )
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Now you're gonna have to get retro gifts. When you least expect it....