power action insect preservation variant
MOC Mr. Miracle figure arrived today – complete with a 1980s insect guest from the manufacturing plant above Mr. Free’s left shoulder. Eat your heart out, Jurassic Park.
meanwhile…
The Super Powers Hall of Justice, complete in (beautiful) box, is mine once again. Many memories of hours of adventures with my long-gone original set in the days of yore. Second pic is its current home in The Collection. Couldn’t resist putting it alongside NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR COMICS 1940, the first time Superman, Batman, and Robin shared a cover.
realization upon the shadow's wheels
Cemented while staring into space and stuck on the current thing: that the only two Shadow toy lines (Madison's oddities in the mid-70's and Kenner's '94 movie line) ever made both feature weird vehicles lends my collection an interesting - if perplexing - cohesion (which is the best kind of cohesion, IMHO):
At least the Kenner ones are moderately less anachronistic (and "side-swiping swords" are a now requirement for my next car)…
1994 Kenner THE SHADOW line = complete.
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A collection of late-80s/early-90s commercials for the toy lines I’ve become obsessed with collecting and evidence of the weirdness and totally unsellable lines of Dick Tracy and The Shadow toys; the ads make me feel for the marketing team – but I’m so very, very glad that the toymakers made those lines. The Shadow figures are complete, the Dick Tracy line will, for awhile at least, have an asterix next to complete* as a carded (and not exorbitantly overpriced) The Blank remains elusive – but I will complete the line, one day.
Batman (ToyBiz, 1989-90)
Batman: The Dark Knight Collection (Kenner, 1990-91)
Marvel: Secret Wars (Mattel, 1984-86)
Super Powers (Kenner, 1984-86)
The Shadow (Kenner, 1994)
Dick Tracy (Playmates, 1990)
Batman: The Dark Knight Collection (1990-91)
Fond memories of this line, especially FINALLY getting a proper KeatonBats after the original ToyBiz release.
The strangeness of Kenner’s Shadow toy line never ceases to amuse (although the third from the left is a pretty solid figure).
Super Powers (1984-86)
The toy line to rule them all. Orion figure still throws me off after all these years.
The Shadow (1994)
That this line was made at all is remarkable. They remain the only Shadow action figures, so I’ll take what I can get. Figure collection: complete. Vehicle collection will be with arrival of Shiwan Khan’s motorcycle.