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There is not a single thing about me that is worksafe.


Artist/artisan, writer, musician, gamer, action figure appreciator. Colossal geek, in other words.


I also constantly seem to be arranging action figures like the picture above.
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The past... really long time, I've been refurnishing and moving back into my renovated apartment. (No more leaks, yay!) Just yesterday I finished unpacking, and the entire "art room" desperately needs to be arranged, but my priorities were clear: toys. As an apology for not being able to work on the Cockasaurus lately, have some blurry awful quick shots of the toy shelves, left and right. I tell you there's still room for more!

But while I'm trying to get things in order so I can get back to work and keep my fingers crossed for an Artists Alley spot at Anime Boston 2011, I decided it was high time I put my thoughts about the 2002 Toybiz Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time toys to digital paper. I call it How Toybiz and Nintendo Pissed Me Off. Like all good things, it was written at 2:00 AM under the influence of neck pain, alcohol for the neck pain, and Twix because some idiot left the Halloween candy out. Enjoy.






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Is that Serpentera or a Transformer on the left side of the top Transformer shelf?

I was also mostly disappointed by the OoT line (although I wish I had picked up a Samus released around that general time-frame), despite actually regretting not picking up the entire thing. I only ended up buying a single-card Link (lackluster) and Ganon with Horse (which was kinda sweet) but the limited articulation on both was a massive sore-spot. The characters could do all of these awesome things in the game but the figures could barely do anything.

I'm guessing the Zelda on the shelf was from that earlier line you showed?
@ Scarecroodle - It's actually Transmetals II Cryotek, a recolor of Transmetals II Megatron. How could I resist a second transforming dragon? (And now of course I've had to look up Serpentera and I wish I hadn't because wow.)

I will really be forever annoyed with Toysite's line never seeing release. Granted, looking back I can see that their articulation would have been quite limited too, but... they scared the hell out of me far less. I understand (too much) that it takes money to get a nice figure, but the Toybiz line reeks of "not paid to pay attention". ...But then my concerns are so noted, I'm sure. Ahem.

Are these what you're referring to? (And I just happened to catch all three of them at a horrible angle with bad light, great. Ganondorf doesn't usually look that goofy, I swear.) Yup, all three from the BD&A line. Now if they just... moved more.
Yeah, that was the one. Didn't remember them doing an adult Zelda in the OoT line so figured that had to be the older one you showed. It's weird that Nintendo really hasn't capitalized on their non-Mario franchises with lots of merch, given it kinda fits better than most of the Mario stuff anyway =x
Not gonna lie, as I looked through these pics I was thrown completely off guard by your collection of MLP.

I use to have a TON of them... HOW I MISS THOSE DAYS.
Ha ha, forgot to come back this weekend and check on comments. Ahem.

@ Scarecroodle - I've wondered if they're a little gun shy after all of the crap merchandise that they seemed to drunkenly okay over the years... but that's sort of their own fault for not giving a damn about the quality of the products they were signing off on, so... yeah, I'm not sure what the deal is here. They do seem to be slowly approaching Samus figures again, so that's good. I'd just like a few other long-running series to get better toy lines. Not that I need another Square-Enix to be horribly devoted to...

@ PlasticFantastic - I've been dared to get a single picture of the entire pony collection. It's going to scare the hell out of everyone. Action figures are "my thing", but before I had action figures... I had an army of ponies fighting for dominance in a bloody war. Families were torn apart, orphans were scattered everywhere, and once in a while a surprise invasion of dinosaurs would wipe out both side. ...I was a special child.

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