Rip a gut for the blister split as vintage gets a dust off when the shelves rankle loose for the Marvel action figures from Toy Biz.

Mighty Marvel superheroes and villains shake in their costume-matching boots as their kind disappear crossing over with blue swimmers and grapes.

Action figures from the twentieth century are on the block at $15 a piece. Of those that wake up when nobody is watching them, the count includes:

Fantastic Four Marvel Action Hour (1994), Iron Man (1994), The Avengers: United They Stand (1999)

Spider-Man: From the animated series (1995),
Spider-Man: Electro-Spark (1997)

X-Men and Spider-Man Projectors (1994), Marvel Superheroes (1994), Marvel Hall of Fame/She Force (1996), Marvel Universe (1996)

Uncanny X-Men: The Evil Mutants (1994), Uncanny X-Men: The Original Mutant Superheroes (1994), X-Men: Phoenix Saga (1994)

X-Men Classics: From the animated series (1995), X-Men X-Force (1996)

Fun times to be had for sure with many a reason to divest funds into the old articulates.

Melting pot - Test the stamina of the old versus new when frying them up good in batter, magnifying glasses or the simple microwave oven.

Battle-ready missiles - Old stuff is good stuff that don't break as easy or as quick as the new fangles. To some degree/extent that is and the wear of the tear.

Time travel stop motion - What better actors for the stop motion featurettes when the new visions of action figure tussel through with the likes of Kang and Apocalypse? Molten llamas?

 

Through the jungle mines of the trash and local tip, you cannot believe in some of the things people will throw away. Rat-infested couches, mould friendly fridges, rotting barrels of flesh... the list just keeps on going. And there are some less than desirable items as well.

All this junk, there the for taking, delousing and disinfecting for another round of life through the mill.

Take a leg for example. Fleshy or slightly robotic. One no longer attached to the torso of some unfortunate person or cyborg. There are things you can do with an extra leg:

Cruise control - Riding a long stretch of freeway or desolate desert road? Take a break from the strenuous exercise of putting your foot down and let that extra hoof take care of matters.

Press the flesh - A leg that abandoned might have some heft to it. So if the opportunity is there, pull a few curls.

Scaring the crows - What's scarier than a scarecrow in the backyard? How about a scarecrow in the backyard with only one leg? Sure they might not have legs to start with in the first place, but that doesn't mean legless can't mean less one leg.

The Natural - Figure out the reference.

 

Making the easy argument against actually breaking the blister packs of the action figures are the Marvel Legends series from ToyBiz. Boggling counts of articulation, they have freaky bulbous joints that look like they've all been struck down with something nasty.

What could possibly be right about being able to crank the arms and legs all the way into positions favoured by contortionists? Fun, like actually having the action figures and dolls out of their box. Where they can breathe. And suffocation isn't fun, no matter how many eyeballs pop out in the process.

With respect to recently taken photos:
War Machine is being yanked off and out of the frame of the photo. More than likely the blast coming out of his left hand is his. If not, that's something strange right there.

Professor X is wearing the Cerebro hat. Not a particularly great fashion statement. Incredibly useful for tracking down mutants all over and across the world though. All the way in the background is Nightcrawler, trying to sneak a peek at the camera.

By the Hoary Hangnails of Hogarth! When did Doctor Strange and Deathlok get so chummy? That's right, the one time surgeon is giving a piggy back to the cyborg super-soldier. At least Deathlok doesn't sweat too much. Hopefully.

 

 

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