Toys had a different meaning for me when I was a kid. Sure I had He-Man and GI Joes and Super Powers figures, but I didn’t collect them. They were just toys I enjoyed playing with that parents and grandparents bought me. Sometimes I knew who the character was, sometimes I didn’t. It didn’t really matter. I would make up my own names or stories. The one toy line that had the most freedom in creativity was LEGO though. Not only could you name and decide what characters were good or bad, but you could build them anything that your imagination and amount of Legos allowed. This is the toy line I remember playing with most.
First in our five-part series featuring the ninth wave of DC Universe Classics, this review covers Green Arrow and Black Canary.
Of the various e-mails we receive about the site features, the Most Requested Figure column seems to get the most attention. Some people e-mail in their support for our request (and some denounce them). Some folks send in requests they'd like to see or ways to go about getting more support for their particular want. This week though, we received a unique e-mail. One reader asked about the futility of the column and why we do it. It really made us think.
For the most part, we don't see this column as futile. A Martian Manhunter DC Classic is certain. Mattel skipping out on JLU Toyman would be a bonehead move. Hasbro will eventually do a 25th Covergirl. Mezco *could* make more comic Hellboy. We do think about the likelihood when we plan these articles and we usually cast aside the ones we think would be futile. But why not do a futile one? So, contrary to what our reader may have intended, we're going to feature one of those futile requests: Xevoz.
I love Kobra Khan. He's probably my favorite evil character. Why's that important? Well, him and Webstor used to hang out together. A lot. In the cartoons. In the mini-comic. Heck, I think they were in She-Ra together too. The one place they weren't together? Well, my house. Yeah, I never had everyone's favorite arachnid evil master. I just didn't like the toy back then. I remember being at Sears and passing it up more than once. There's a handful of toys like that: the G.I. Joe Swampmasher, Metroplex, Astrotrain. Toys, for some reason or another, that my child mind passed on.
