Miscellaneous Toy acquisitions (if no other topic exists).

[drifand]

Is a shame that the comic when black and white has a better story plot line and way more serious than what we see today.

[kovert]

Marvel Legends (Juggernaut BAF series) Rogue and Wolverine. Pleased with the tidy paint apps and tight joints.

[benny444]

A big box of 90's toys arrived today from YJA

[spiderken17]

90's marvel action figures ahoy! Grabbed these lot of figures off gumtree.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Found a Play Arts Kai Alien lurker, pre-owned and unfortunately a bit tobacco-scented, but not TOO bad and pretty cheap as a result.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Picked up what it turns out is a Figma Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb Hiro.
Never seen the series, but it was nice and cheap and cute, and it comes with what's supposed to be a 'tantrum' face but can pass for terrified, so whoever she's supposed to be she's going to join my Aliens display. Though she might also work with MMC Anarchus...

[bowspearer]

Finally got one of my grail pieces cased:

[spiderken17]

Cool, what is it?

[techx]

Cool find there bowspearer. Captain Power's show was ahead of it's time, too bad politics ruined it.

[bowspearer]

Cool, what is it?

It's a sealed Captain Power Anti-Personnel Patroller which I won on eBay last year.

Here's a few youtube vids on it.

Promo trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tXJpzfkscE

The first episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eAA9rKZc-U


A story by CNN on the controversy which killed it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0rqe1_u4Is

To quote the blurb on the Action Figure Archive:

Captain Power was an attempt to cash in on the interactive television game market, the toys, when firing at the screen, would interact during various segments of the TV program. There were a number of Captain Power episodes released on VHS tape and one was even included with a Powerjet XT-7 Deluxe Set. The Power-On Energizer included a Captain Power figure.
For the second series, the Dread Trooper and Dread Commander figures have long been rumored to have never been released, though recently a few samples of each have recently surfaced from a collector in China as well as a loose complete Dread Trooper found in an Ebay lot. This proves that these figures were manufactured however in very small numbers with a limited release.

The line was eventually taken over by Arco where the final few vehicles were released in Europe including the A.T.R Mobile Proton Cannon, Wind-Up Sauron Beam Deflector and the Mobile Sky Bike Launcher. The Resistance Ambush Pod Station, Anti-Personnel Patroller, T.R.A.C. 5000, Bio Dread Armoured Destroyer, Skybike ST-300, Blastpak 1200 and Missile Lock Indicator jet attachment were shown in the 1988 Mattel catalog and were all possibly produced in low numbers in Europe. The Blastpak 1200 and Anti-Personnel Patroller are the only ones however, that have had boxed samples surface, so the others may have been produced as well. That would make these the hardest toys to find from the line.

Here's an interesting video on where it was headed for season 2 (including rwevamping the toy interactivity): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6l_Pe1Zs3U

Cool find there bowspearer. Captain Power's show was ahead of it's time, too bad politics ruined it.

And yet it appears it's time will most likely be now. Not sure if you heard about "Phoenix Rising at all, but here's a teaser trailer for the reboot- "Phoenix Rising": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKQoLfuAjSU


Gary Goddard on the reboot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iE9EdZ4kc8


Here's a promo poster showing the new nanotech based power suits:

https://www.facebook.com/CaptainPowe...type=3&theater