Lockjaw & Psylocke

Could there be a more incongruent pairing of minimates?

Lockjaw is the giant pet dog of the Inhumans, aliens with superpowers from the moon. Lockjaw can teleport over incredible distances, and perhaps even through dimensions. He hangs out with the Inhumans and the Fantastic Four.

Psylocke is a British mutant whose mind was put into the body of a Japanese Assasin. She is one of the X-men and Captain Britain's twin Sister.

Actually this minimate is of Psylocke back when she was a British white woman, before the well known Japanese woman wearing a bathing suit period. This is back when she was moderately dressed (she got her desire to wear more scandalous outfits from parts of the Japanese woman's mind that were left over, also brainwashing) and didn't really have any fighting skills aside from the telepathy.


Lockjaw is a giant dog with a tuning fork in his forehead.

This 2-pack was a Toys R Us Exclusive. I wasn't even certain I wanted it, but I figured what the heck. Black Bolt needs a doggy.

The eBay order

Okay, this is one of those informational posts about something I'm going to do on the site.

A few weeks ago I purched a lot of Doctor Who action figures from eBay. It cost more than I probably should have spent, but it had some hard to find figures that I've been jonsing for lately. So anyway, I won. (Technically I pressed "Buy It Now.") And then I got a package in the mail.


It had come. My order of 22 Doctor Who Action Figures.


Over the next few weeks I'll be returning occassionally to figures from this box. So you've been informed.

Wolfman & Larry Talbot

Universal Monsters is a new Minimates license being released this year. The plan is to release 2 packs, each featuring a different Universal Classic Monster, every Halloween. This year the movies featured are going to be the Wolfman and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. In addition to these 4 packs, Toys R Us will be releasing a number of 2 packs using the figures from the direct market 4-packs. (And some exclusives.)

Now since the 4-packs include redundant variations of the monsters, I decided it would be cheaper to just get a couple of the Toys R Us 2-packs. This is the first one. It features the Wolfman and the Larry Talbot, the man who turns into the Wolfman.

The Universal Wolfman always had some very non-wolf features, unlike the werewolves of the CGI era which basically look like giant wolves who can walk on their hind legs. But the Wolfman was always part man, and you can see that in this sculpt. The minimate kinda looks like a rodent.

Which really isn't that scary when you think about it.

Series 4 Figure Set

So full disclosure, what I am about to explain I have pieced together from various messageboard threads. I have no idea how accurate it is. So Tesco's, which as far as I can tell is some sort of British K-mart, has these exclusive Doctor Who toy three packs of figures previously only availble single-carded. One 3-pack for each season of Doctor Who. If you order them online you don't know which ones you'll get because they're all counted as the same item, so the only way to get ones you want are by going to the store yourself. And since that's very far away, I just got one over e-bay.

But make no mistake, I specifically tried to get the Series 4 set because I couldn't give a damn about most of the figures in the other sets. Since I don't know how much Tesco was selling these for, I have no idea if I was ripped off or not, but I can tell you this, I paid less than I would have paid for these figures individually. So I pretend that I win.

First off is the Judoon Captain, also known as the Rhino guy. They were featured in Season 3 and made a quick cameo in Season 4. A very short Cameo, but that apparently was enough to mean he counts as a Series 4 figure. Either way, I like the giant strict by-the-book police officer Rhinos. They aren't evil, or even malicious, but they're not exactly peaceful aliens. Plus a distinctive design. The only thing is that the joints were all very loose. I don't know if that's limited to these box sets, or if the original single figures had the same problem.

Sontaran General Staal. I was never a big fan of the Sontarans in the old series. They were kind of dull. But I admit I liked them in the new series. General Staal in particular was a fun character to watch. A cranky, doesn't understand irony, military commander with a melodramatic voice. He never got single carded in the States. You could only get him in a Sontaran Strategem 4 pack with Donna, a Sontaran Commander, and a helmeted Sontaran soldier.

It's a nice figure. The helmet comes off so he can either depict a faceless soldier or the General. Again, the joints are pretty loose. And there's some pretty noticable gaps where the joints should meet. But I'm satisfied with the figure. In fact it's made me consider getting more Sontarans. But you know what figure I know won't have any joint issues.

Baby Adipose. This thing is adorable.

See? The thing is just one solid piece of plastic. Tiny too. Normally I'd be railing about the lack of articulation, but look how small that thing is. No way you could get a good figure that small if you included appropriate articulation. But you know what would be better than 1 baby adipose? 25 baby Adipose.
Hilariously, these 25 guys were originally packaged on a bliste card together. Well originally they packaged 5 Baby Adipose with a 10th Doctor figure. They were the figure's accessory. But I guess they proved popular enough that they wanted to release some on their own. So what did they decide to give the people? 25 Adipose. It's sort of like an adorable accessories pack.

Master & Axon

So here are the villains from the Doctor Who episode "The Claws of Axos." In it the Axons appear as Gold Skinned Gods, here to help the Earth. Unfortunately the British officials never saw the Twilight Zone or they'd know never trust aliens promising you prosperity for nothing in exchange. Because in truth the Axons really looked like this and had evil in mind. Oh, and the Master was there too because it was the SEASON OF THE MASTER. In his first season the Master appeared in every story.



I'm shocked how much articulation the Axon has. A Ball & hinge joint for the shoulders and hips. Cut joints at the feet, wrists, neck and torso. And it's one huge hunk of plastic. It's pretty awesome.




The master is good, almost great, but the one I got has a problem in the paint. Specifically that black blob on his lower lip. Fortunately, if you don't look at it too hard it just looks like part of his goatee, but no, dude isn't supposed to have any hair on his lower lip. I can't stare too long or I get irritated.

Momma

So I found this dinosaur toys in a Goodwill 50 cent bin. I couldn't stop playing with the damn thing's action feature. If you push it's head down, it spins around and alternates with a second head.

Happy-angry
Happy-angry
Happy-angry

I couldn't stop playing with it. So for 50 cents I just bought it.

Now that I've done some research I know it's the character Momma from Ice Age 3. And that it's from a McDonald's Happy meal. To tell the truth, I sort of suspected this. Except for the fact that the character is named Momma. I assumed the dinosaur was a dude. So I was wrong. Unless in the movie Momma is a dude. Seems unlikely, but I haven't seen the movie.

Spider-Man Handpuppet

So I love me some puppets. Hand puppets in particular. So when I got bored I looked for really cheap hand puppets in some of my favorite licensed characters, which is how I ended up getting this guy on e-bay for a song.

It's a nice puppet, but I've been noticing a trend with hand puppets lately. If you don't need to move the mouth, if the head is a plush piece, then it is difficult to fit your hand in the head of the puppet. The stuffing doesn't allow any room to put your fingers to manipulate the head movements. It's like trying to push your fingers through a solid pillow.

Or maybe it's because this puppet was designed for children. Maybe.