6/30/10

Everybody's talking about...

Fried spuds, fired SCUDs, boggin' muds, flash floods, Wonder Woman's new duds.

And now so am I.



Do I hate it? Why would I? Am I up in arms about it? Should I be? Will Diana of Themyscira be back in her iconic duds soon? Of course! I didn't just start reading comics YESTERDAY!!! I know how these things go.

What I do like about this look is that 1) it gets the general public talking and thinking about Wonder Woman. That is a good thing no matter what. 2) This is clearly an attempt to modernize the costume and character with what I imagine is the goal to set Wonder Woman on a path to a live action movie. Get people thinking about Wonder Woman in our modern world and in the flesh, so to speak. That too is a very good thing.

Will she look like this if/when she hits live action? Probably not. Would her iconic look work in a more serious film or live action TV series? Probably not.

Does Wonder Woman deserve to have her own live action movie?

Damn right she does.

So whether you like this look or not, remember Superman's mullet and Batman's lack of shorts on the outside of his tights and know this too shall pass; and the meantime let's let Wonder Woman enjoy the chatter. She deserves it.

All I am saying, is give pants a chance.

6/22/10

The wrongest thing you will ever see today



Via Stay on Target

All you need is glove

My good friend Brian (of Under the Giant Penny fame) just sent me some repro gloves so I could dress up my dolly in style!

Nanananananananana Bat Mittens!

"If I knew you were coming, I'd have baked a cake!"

Thanks so much to Brian for playing dress up with me and helping me complete my dolly!

The awesomest thing ever that you will see today



Found via Misce-Looney-ous

6/15/10

Is there a place where women dress like this in real life?


Because if there is I want to go there now and stay there forever.

I'm not even familiar with this character, but it says HERE:

"AME-COMI HEROINE: SERIES: DUELA DENT AS THE JOKER PVC FIGURE

Sculpted by Jonathan Matthews

Steam & Sass!

Clockwork cute and dressed to impress, Duela Dent is steampunk chic, strutting her stuff, backpack brimming with Joker toxin, and carrying a killer cane as she joins the popular Ame-Comi series!

Gears and steam, lace and goggles, the booted and brass-buckled beauty Duela Dent is a corseted cutie, decked out in futuristic Victorian vixen attire. The rumored daughter of The Joker is one deadly doll!

Packaged in a 4-color window box with J-hook, this non-articulated PVC statue stands approximately 9.25" high and includes a display base.

$ 70.00 US | On Sale February 9, 2011"

So there you go.

6/1/10

Oh, hell...Dolly!

If there's anything I love more than toys it's making fun of people who play with dollies. Not girls of course, they are expected to enjoy the finer points of pant-removal as an integral play component and creative outlet. (Remember that next time your gal removes your pants.)

No, I'm talking about "guys" who play with and collect doll sized GI Joes, Action Man, Mego dollies and the like.

You see, back before Star Wars redefined "action figure" by giving us all what we truly needed in order to grow up into healthy functional adults (namely, non-removable pants,) companies like Mego were giving boys ample opportunities to play with a naked (and castrated) Batman, Captain America, Iron Man, Bionic Man, Captain Kirk...you name him, if he was a pop cultural icon in the sixties and seventies he was probably pantless at the bottom of some hapless boy's toybox.

Jump ahead to 2010. Not only are these over-glorified Barbie dolls an important component of the nostalgia that guys only a few years older than me enjoy, but they have also become legends unto themselves; with huge collector movements both online and off, recent retro throwbacks in the form of Mattel's "Retro Action DC Superheroes" and Ghostbusters lines, and even reproduction parts available online.

Not to mention all the blog posts my blogger pals throw out on a near daily basis.

Yup, boy-dollies are a big deal.

So for all the ribbing I've given guys like Brian, Charles and countless others...

...this one is for you!

Do not adjust your monitors folks, this is in fact my first Mego dolly!

I will hug him and squeeze him and call him "Dickie."

I just picked up this Robin Mego figure last week. He dates back to at least 1977, and I got him for $5!

If there's anything better than a dolly with removable pants, it's a cheap dolly with removable pants!

The same could be said for a girlfriend, now that I think of it.

He's a little dirty, has frayed ends on his cape and his symbol is a bit worn, but Robin is otherwise in great shape for his age! He's surprisingly near complete - only missing his "oven mitt" gloves, which as I mentioned before, can be purchased online in repro form (or could probably also be tracked down on eBay etc. too.) One pixie boot does have a small chew mark, but I suppose that can also be easily and cheaply rectified if I were so inclined.

So how did my life take a complete 180 degree turn and I come into possession of my first ever Mego dolly?

I have my brother-in-law to thank. He had done some handywork for a thrift store dealer who had Robin mixed in with some of her most recent acquisitions. He took a picture of Mr. Grayson with his phone and showed it to me last time I saw him - about two weeks after he snapped the photo!

Of course I immediately said "I must have that Robin dolly! Let's go now!" and off we went.

Fortunately for me the lady still had him, and while she was asking $10 for him, I only had $5 cash and of course I bartered for him, and she was glad to pass him on to me for the fiver!

Now Robin is mine - my first ever official Mego dolly! I think he'll look great next to Batman when Mattel releases their new Retro Action Batman dolly soon.

I'm ruined.

Oh, and in case you are wondering; no, I have not removed his pants.

Yet.

Side note: Toyriffic posts will be sporadic at best for the next month or so. But rest assured, I am not going anywhere and Toyriffic will be back to full strength soon! Thanks to everyone of you who reads and comments and laughs at my stupid jokes. I'd still be doing this without you, but I'd be getting a hell of a lot less out of it if you weren't here.

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