Happy Easter from Action Figure Adventures

I'd like to wish everyone a great Easter. Hopefully the Easter Bunny left you something good.

Chewbacca - Vintage Star Wars

Chewbacca, everyone's favorite Wookie is one of the most classic of vintage Star Wars figures. This furry hunk of brown plastic was in every toy chest in the late 70's and early 80's. Like the Stormtrooper, Chewie only features four points of articulation. He doesn't have a joint at his neck. Besides a little paint on his bandier, his eyes, nose, and mouth are his only other paint apps.

Chewie came with his Bowcaster weapon which is pretty accurate to how it looked in the film.... minus the actual bow part. The Bowcaster is one of the few Star Wars weapons cast with an extra "tab" to help the figure hang on to their weapon.

I'm still a little disappointed they never made the rest of Chewbacca's family from the Star Wars Holiday Special. They would have really added a lot of extra play value to the Galaxy Far, Far Away.

Oo-Lar & Huntara - MOTUC

Matty Collector's figures for the month of March were Oo-Lar and Huntara. The MOTUC figures are perhaps not instantly recognizable to the masses, but to die-hard fans these are awesome characters to add to our collections.

 Oo-Lar is basically He-Man from the original mini-comic before he's given his power harness and weapons. This is the back story for the character before he was retconned by the Filmation cartoon into being Prince Adam/He-Man. He's basically He-Man wearing just a loin cloth with a new meaner head sculpt. He does come with some nice accessories, but not the ones he's pictured with above.

Huntara is a galactic bounty hunter who Hordak hires to go after She-Ra. Huntara isn't exactly a bad guys, even though she goes after the Princess of Power.

It took a long time but we finally have heads for both He-Man and Skeletor that match the way the looked in the original mini-comics. I think that's pretty cool. Check out my video review below for more details on the figures including what accessories they came with.

Stinkor - Vintage Masters of the Universe

Stinkor is a classic example of how Mattel reused parts in the vintage Masters of the Universe line. This may be considered cheap by some, but it resulted in some great figures back in the 80's that didn't feel too recycled to us kids. Stinkor is a large humanoid skunk. He is a repaint of Merman's head on Skeletor's body. With the great black and white paint scheme the parts are almost unrecognizable unless compared directly together.

Stinkor came with a orange set of armor that is identical (except in color) to Mechaneck. He also came with a shield that was reused from Castle Grayskull. The real thing that set Stinkor apart from other Masters figures, was that a chemical was mixed with his plastic at the factory that makes him actually stink!

Action Figure Adventures Recap Videos

I've been creating Action Figure Adventures Recap videos out of old photos from this blog. One of my favorite things about blogging about my toy collection is that I can always look back on stuff and enjoy photos I taken of my collection. I have a lot of stuff on display, but not everything. I started compiling videos of some of my favorite photos of toys. They are just randomly selected, but purposely spread out so you don't see to many characters from the same line in a row. There are even some bonus images in here that were part of stop motion videos or taken way before this blog started. If you like random images of toys check them out. More to come in the future.

Gikogiler - Ultraman Monster

Gikogiler is a gray monster from the Ultraman TV series. He looks like a combination of cobblestone and a bat. He has a rounded bumpy texture on his torso and legs.  Gikogiler also features yellow eyes. The figure is a hollow toy like many of these imported Bandai figures. He has articulation at his shoulders, hips, and neck.

As a kid I loved all the kaiju monsters... when American's just called them monsters. My best friend growing up got me into them and actually a majority of the kaiju monsters in my toy collection where presents from him. Every summer when he'd go on vacation I'm watch his pet frogs (Sandy & Lilly). They were little frogs that live in water. Grow-A-Frog if anyone remembers the brand. Anyway to thank me for feeding and changing the water while he was gone he'd usually bring me back a Monster.

World's Finest - Huntress & Power Girl

I recently picked up the World's Finest 2-Pack featuring Huntress & Power Girl. As usual the are highly detailed figures with nice paint jobs. Unfortunately many of these sets features quality control issues involving breakage at the joints. I know to make sexy and skinny female sculpts in causes joints to be very small on female figures, but other toy manufacturers seem to make it work. Check out the pictures below for a nice view and then watch the video for my review.

         Huntress in Black & Purple       Power Girl in White and Red

 The Huntress comes armed with her crossbow... vigilante or zombie hunter?

 Power Girl doesn't need weapons... she's got it where it counts  ;)

Yak Face - Vintage Star Wars

Yak Face is often considered to be the rarest vintage Star Wars action figure. This is because he's the only vintage figure to not be released in the USA. One of the many crazy aliens created for Jabba's Palace, Yak Face only gets a few seconds of screen time in Return of the Jedi. He's an extremely tall figure for a 3 3/4" line. Yak Face has a tan head with a furry brown collar over a pale yellow shirt. He sports blue pants and sleeves. His outfit is finished off with some furry boots.

 Yak Face was the last figure I acquired to complete my Vintage Collection. Around the same time I bought one my Sister bought be a Yak Face as a thank you present for all the work I had done on her and my brother-in-law's house. So I finished my collection and then got a second Yak Face as a gift. He's such a weird and cool figure I've just hung on to both.

Prickle: A Real American Hedgehog

This is a quick photoshop I did a while back. I was at my friend Paul's house and we were sorting through a collection of GIJoe toys he had bought at a yard sale. He had his hedgehog Prickle on the table and we snapped a picture of him climbing over the Polar Battle Bear.

Snakebite - Super Naturals

Super Naturals was one of the cool 80's toy lines to us holograms as a gimick. The only figure I had as a kid from this line was Snakebite. I don't remember what I traded for him, but I got him off a friend as a kid. He's a tall humanoid knight character decked out in snake armor. He came with a removable helmet, chest plate, shield, and a glow-in-the-dark staff (not pictured). You can see the awesome snake hologram inside his shield.

You can remove his extra armor to show off his torso hologram which looks like a snake-man chest and face. Kind of like when they mutate Cobra Commander in the GI Joe movie. As a kid I used him as a bad-ass warrior for King Hsss with my He-Man toys or as a giant "monster" that Serpentor would awaken to attack the GI Joe team.

I had a hard time getting a good shot of his chest hologram. You can see some of his scales here. Snakebite has four points of articulation, but really nice sculpted details over his entire body.