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Oh hey, Tuesday Morning had the Playmobil figure for cheap. Score.

Tigh & Captivity Six

So according to wikipedia these fellows are Colonel Tigh, a military man who was forced to kill his wife for betraying humanity to the android Cylons, and Captivity Six, a captured Cylon that Tigh would interrogate to alleviate his guilt and eventually impregnated during a mutually masochistic relationship. She miscarried and he got back together with his resurrected wife after both realized they were both Cylons with an independent agenda to save humanity.

Man that Battlestar Galactica show sounds weird. I bet it makes sense to someone who watches it all the way through, but to someone who has never seen the show... man. But the minimates are cheap and on clearance, so hey, why not buy them. And I watch Doctor Who, so who am I to judge.

Action Ranger Timmy, that's who.

Judge judge judge.

Koozebane Kermit

Hey, it's Reporter Kermit! Not the superior Sesame Street version, the somewhat inferior if only because he didn't have the oversized microphone and hat one from the Muppet Show. Still it's based on an iconic Muppet Show sketch... just not one I like... or am entirely certain I ever saw.

But it's Kermit in a trench coat! And for some reason I'm really preferring characters in this line be dressed up in something ridiculous. You may say, Kermit wearing a trenchcoat isn't that ridiculous. WRONG! I've never seen frogs in the wild wearing trenchcoats, have you? When you weren't high?

The alien base is neat and the Koozebanians  look pretty accurate, I think. They never really made an impression on me, so I can't really recall them in any detail. But for me it's all about the Muppet News Reporter on the scene: Kermit the frog. He goes to other planets to report the news! Screw Newscopter 5, this reporter goes to space.

Asian DCUC figure?

So I was reading this article at Comic Alliance about how DC Comics trend of restoring the status quo of superheroes to pre 1980s levels has lead to an unintentional lack of diversity in the superhero community, particularly the regression of making the Atom Ray Palmer instead of Ryan Choi and it got me wondering...

Has there been a toy made of an Asian character in the DC Universe Classics line?

A quick look says, no. There's one scheduled for Wave 18, but its Samurai, the Superfriends character creatd specifically for the cartoon and who was a walking stereotype. Seriously, he had wind powers but he was called Samurai. Oh wait, I forgot, he also had access to ancient Asian martial arts techniques that let him be invisible and crap like that.

So that means that in 17 waves, a number of exclusives, and the Green Lantern Classics line, that there have been 24 aliens (not counting the New Gods), 6 robots, and NO Asians. The other minorities groups aren't represented very well either, 1 hispanic character and 5 black characters.

And if you say it's only because there aren't a lot of minority characters in the DC Universe in general, let alone ones with enough exposure to make a toy of, well that's a whole other problem right there.

I mean, crap, I just want a DCUC figure of an Asian character that's not a sterotype. Is that so wrong/hard?

Dex-Starr, B'dg & Despotellis

Despotellis is supposed to be a sentient Virus. No way is he in scale with Dex-Starr & B'dg. And for that matter I don't remember him being transparent yellow in the comic. Although I only skimmed the Sinestro Corps War, so I could be wrong. Don't quote me or anything. I think Despotellis was only included in this set because they couldn't think of any other members of the Rainbow Corps that were small.

Which is kind of ridiculous because this was the wave that also included Nite-Lik, the character made up for this toy line. Seriously, just make up a new character. Like a member of the Star Sapphires that looks like a lemur, or the snake member of the Indigo Tribe.

That said, I really dig B'dg and Dex-Starr. Hell, the only reason I bought this set is that I really wanted a figure of Dex-Starr, the most adorable kitty that vomits napalm on his enemies using the force of his rage! Now that's a character you see and think, there's no way in hell that guy is getting a toy. But he did. Twice! He's the breakout star of the decade! Expect DC to oversaturate him until everyone gets sick of him and then he disappears for twenty years until that era's version of Geoff Johns brings him back and then kills him off in some weird form of nostalgia/fanboyism.

But I really like these figures. These, coupled with Star Sapphire, make me want to collect the whole of the Corps. From the entire silly spectrum of colors. So that's one of my new missions it would seem.

So far I've got:

Green Lanterns: 2
Sinestro Corps: 1
Red Lanterns: 1
Star Sapphires: 1

Buyer''s Remorse: June 5th edition

Did a run of a local K-marts & Wal-Marts and boy am I broke.

Picked up a lot of Green Lantern stuff. Found a K-Mart with a lot of Green Lantern Classics Wave 1 in. Then there was the Wal-Mart which had a Green Lantern construct helicopter that is actually 11smaller  individual constructs that combine into helicopter construct. I'm going to spend some time analyzing how the constructs look apart and then decide if I'll keep it. The thing is, yes there's a buzsaw construct, but it's a buzzsaw that has to also look like a rotor on a helicopter.

I'm also probably going to return some of the Classics stuff... or most of it. I got in kind of an excited tizzy about possibly putting together the Arkillo BAF, until I realized that it might cost cost less to just buy the complete figure on ebay. Plus it's damned near impossible to find Arkillo's right leg since its the one that comes with the hard to find on shelves Kyle Rayner.

And really, Mongul Jr? Black Lantern Abin Sur? Guy with a cape? I can easily pass on all of these. Although I do need Low/Maash to fill out my Sinestro Corps....

Please ignore the ominous elipses.

Tomar Re Halloween Costume

Oh god! Kill it! Kill it with fire!

Incidentally, I would love it if despite what we've seen in the trailers, when Tomar Re appears in the new Green Lantern movie it's just Geoffrey Rush wearing this costume.