Author: Vault

Vault Review: Lego 10193 – Medieval Market Village

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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.

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Mr. Rant asks “Why does the gun barrel point sideways?”

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So Webstor is here, and Noisy will have his review up soon, but I wanted to comment on a disturbing trend I’ve noticed in the last few MOTUCs. One of the benefits of having friends that like similar things is that you can split the cost of shipping. It also works out for the site. If one of us gets a figure that didn’t fare too well on the factory floor, maybe it was badly painted, or maybe it somehow broke in the box, or in shipping, then we have a couple other versions of that figure to choose from for the review. It’s a pretty good arrangement, at least until everyone gets a figure with problems.

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Mister Rants asks “Where’s my LEGO Pirate Advent Calendar?”

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Over the last few years, the LEGO company has released something very cool for Christmas: a Lego Advent Calendar. Usually, the tradition is to do a “City” theme, but last year they decided to throw caution to the wind and give us the first ever “Castle” themed calendar. The awesome didn’t stop there either. By that point in production, LEGO was taking their Castle theme further than ever before. They were making it more fantasy based, somewhat reminiscent of Lord of the Rings. With the new Castle theme chock full of knights, dwarves, skeleton warriors, and trolls, this new Advent Calendar would be one of the coolest Lego had ever released.

And then, the awesome hit a snag.

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Mr. Rant asks
“Where’s the JSA?”

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As I stare at my shelf of about 100 DCUC figures and think about the ones that are confirmed for the next few waves, I try and figure out what rhyme or reason Mattel is using to decide on who they are going to make and when. Although Martian Manhunter is the glaring omission in all of our collections, he’s not one of the ones I'm talking about today.  What I don’t understand is how few JSA members, both golden age and modern, Mattel has produced so far.  Maybe things are more difficult than I understand, but what is the problem with putting one JSAer into every wave?  They’ve been doing it with the New Gods, and those are just the New Gods.  Some of the New Gods are nice to have, but Mattel is churning out some others that aren't really in high demand.  So my shelf almost has a complete Fourth World, and still lacks enough members to make any decent semblance of a JSA.
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AdventureVault at the Movies: G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra

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Yes, I know I’m a slowpoke, but last night I went and finally watched G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. When I was a kid, I watched the cartoon but I’ve never read the comic book.  I collected the toys back then also, but until the recent movie figures; the last Joe toy I bought was in the early 90’s. I don’t know everything there is to know about the brand, but I do know enough to get some of the “in jokes”.
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Mr. Rant & the cardboard Ford Explorer

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I didn’t much feel like ranting this week, that’s how you can tell I’ve been sick.  But then something happened on Tuesday that spurred me to the site for at least one brief spiel.  Hold onto your hats, this will go quick.

Jurassic Park toys.  Apparently, this line has been hanging onto the fringe of the toy world through KB Toys exclusives ever since the last movie.  I didn’t realize this until recently when the line was “revived” by Hasbro as a Toys R Us exclusive.  Seems like Hasbro, at least with this line, has really mastered the art of taking decade old molds of dinosaurs, repainting them god awful neon colors, and re-releasing them every few years.  Kudos to them, I guess…
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AdventureVault at
the Movies: Ponyo

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We here at ItsAllTrue love toys, probably to an unhealthy extent sometimes, but that’s not all we love. So, in an attempt to stretch our discussions more in lieu of the spirit of this website’s name, I’m going to step in for an ailing Mr. Rant and do a movie review today.

Over the weekend, jealousy of NoisyDvL’s DCUC 5 pack drove me, literally, to head down to Arkansas to find my own. Although I was lucky enough to find two, neither of them were worth buying since both Luthors were scarred with marks on their heads, each in a different place, but still very visible. Empty handed, I wandered the local mall, searching for some other prize to make my trip worth it. Lo and behold, I discovered their theater was showing Ponyo.

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