Friday Five 9/11: Links You Need to Know About
It's time for Five Links You Need to Know About. During the week, we see all sorts of cool or exciting things and we share those links here with our readers every Friday...
Category: Toys
Truetorial:
A Wave of Doubt (DCUC12)
Toy collecting can be a strange endeavor for me. Sometimes I love it and sometimes I hate it. I imagine there are a variety of factors involved. There’s the joy of finding the latest stuff, usually after a fair amount of frustration caused by not finding it up to that point. There’s the satisfaction of placing an entire collection together tempered by adding up the cost of everything still to come in the next few weeks. Particularly, though, how I feel towards any line seems to come and go in waves.
Mr. Rant asks
“Where’s the JSA?”
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. Happy Labor Day
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G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra
Shockblast & Night Creeper
JoeWeek is wrapping up her at ItsAllTrue.Net. We're skipping our usual Saturday figure request for this week so we can get caught up on Joe reviews. We were going to have the Crimson Neo-Viper and Doctor today, but our local Wal-Mart brought a nice treat today, the "Offscreen" ROC 2pk of Shockblast and Night Creeper! See, even when you're trying to get caught up, you still have to buy new stuff. It never ends.
G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra General
Hawk & Paris Pursuit Baroness
JoeWeek hits Friday! We're going to forego our usual Friday Five for this week so we can get caught up on Joe reviews. Today, we're opening up the General Hawk with Jetpack and the Paris Pursuit Baroness...
ItsAllTrueReview: G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra Crimson Hydra
Buying Joes isn't just about picking up a lot of individual figures, it's about vehicles and playsets too. While some of my fondest memories of playing with Joes are vehicle-based, I'd been avoiding buying any ROC vehicles. There are a couple of reasons for this. One, my adult sensibilities kick in and remind me that space is at a commodity. And two, almost all of my Joe purchases are guided by a bit of nostalgia. One or the other of those has kept me from making vehicle purchases so far. The ROC Night Raven, though awesome, has nowhere to go right now. The Ice Dagger, though awesome, is no Snow Cat. Finally, though, one of the vehicles was able to convince me to overlook space and nostalgia concerns: the Crimson Hydra.