Showing posts with label action league. Show all posts
Showing posts with label action league. Show all posts

3/17/16

What if Leprechauns Are Actually Green Lanterns?

That would make a fun story - a small humanoid Green Lantern visits Earth, Ireland to be exact, back in the time of the Celts. He's chased a sonic powered female humanoid alien, a battle ensues, a village is razed, the GL, before leaving with his prisoner, gives the town some gold to pay for the damages and voila! - the legends of both the Leprechauns and the Banshee are born!

Yeah I know, I've grossly oversimplified (and Americanized) the mythic Irish creatures, but it's still a better story than the Green Lantern movie.

Which is where this Krona figure comes from. Specifically, Krona is part of Mattel's now defunct Action League line. I honestly don't remember how Krona played into the movie, because like many forms of abuse I have blocked the film from memory.

He actually looks a lot like a hat-less, scarf-less Orko to me. Maybe Orko was Eternia's Green Lantern!

Oh well, enough of these silly fan-fictions. Have a great St. Patrick's Day!

3/27/15

Action League Brave and the Bold Batmobile

We awoke to go garage sale-ing the other day, only to find the sky full of foggy wet drizzle. But knowing at least one of our planned stops was an indoor rummage sale, we went anyways. Thankfully we did, because there actually were a few people having garage sales, and they were as surprised by the weather as we were - so much so, they just wanted their wet stuff gone. That's how I got this Action League Batmobile for free!

Well technically it might have cost me a nickel or so, the guy just said to take whatever we wanted for a dollar, and we ended up loading a couple bags of toys for my intern and her cousin.

When I returned home I tossed in my own Imaginext Batman to see how well he'd work in it, and he fits quite well; although now it's a one-seater instead of two! Also, I only have one or two Action League figures and they never really did anything for me. I'm not a big fan of the style their aesthetic.

But the Brave and the Bold Batmobile is one of my all time favorite Batmobile designs! This version is slightly stylized - there's an open cockpit instead of the double-bubbles as it appeared in the cartoon, plus it's a little bit stumpy. But it still looks great with an Imaginext Batman on board!

It's a little dusty and has a few scrapes and dings from being played with, but that just means I will have no problem letting my intern play with it, or me playing with it when we have adventures together! Vroom vroom!

11/21/10

Gone, gone, oh tiny man...

...rise itty bitty Etrigan!

I got this Etrigan in a set of Batman the Brave and the Bold Action League figures from a co-worker for my birthday.

As I said last week, I hadn't been collecting Action League figures before, but I now know that they are pretty cool little toys; and I do loves me some Etrigan!

It's pretty amazing that my co-worker, who only knows I like Batman, would pick out the one set I have considered jumping into the Action League genre with due solely to it's inclusion of Etrigan. Of course, she had and still has no clue who Etrigan is, so some greater force must have been at play here.

Hmmm...

Could it be....

Satan?!?!?

The set was a two-pack of figures that also included Batman in his armor from the Brave and the Bold episode this set is based on.

Dark Knight indeed!

11/15/10

Action League POW!

Today is my birthday, but since I won't see most of my family until Thanksgiving, I haven't much new swag to brag about (although I did get an epic Batman coffee mug, a JLA magnet and some superhero pins from my oldest daughter! Woot woot!)

But a stop at Big Lots today revealed some Batman: The Brave and the Bold Action League single packs, and I bought one for myself. Happy Birthday to me:

This Batman is clearly inspired by the Michael Keaton movie costume, which is irresistible to me because that's when my Batmania hit fever pitch.

Big Lots also had Batman in this same color scheme with a re-breather on his face (for underwater adventures) and a Plastic Man in Plas' normal colors. The pegs were full of a ton of each of the three, so I assume those are the only ones in the series that's hitting Big Lots but who knows.

I only grabbed this one, but will likely go back for the others soon. They are fun solid little toys and cute as all get-out. I don't know if this Bat figure in this color scheme is a new repaint or if he appeared in any set thus far (I haven't bought any of these Action League figures until now,) but he was only $2.80 so I consider it a pretty good deal for a cool little Batman!