Tag: Toys
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I Loves Me My Mini Figures
I love miniatures. Anything in a small scale is great to me. I have been fascinated be mini stuff since I was a kid. Maybe that’s why I like LEGO so much, the mini figures that come with each set. Most recently I was very excited to hear Playmates toys would be getting the license…
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Indiana Jones Lego Sets Keep On Coming
May 1st brought a slew more Indian Jones LEGO sets. We already had the The Temple Escape ($60), Race for the Stolen Treasure ($30), The Lost Tomb($20) and the Motorcycle Chase ($10). the only one of those three I still need to get is the Race for the Stolen Treasure set and I might have…
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AntWorks Illuminated Ant Farm Too Cool for Kids
As a kid I always wanted an ant farm. I never got one so maybe that is why I think the ant farms of today are really pretty sweet. Heck these ant farms are not just your average ants and dirt sandwiched between two pieces of plexi-glass, oh no! These suckers are high tech. AntWorks…
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Now My Cat Has Fleas Too
So your kitty has put up with the combs, she’s put up with the shampooings, she’s even put up with the drops. Now it’s her turn for revenge on that little pest that’s bothered her so long. Get your kitty this adorable little plush flea catnip toy and watch her go crazy. The flea catnip…
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Toys and Time Travel
The guys of Big Bang Theory buy the prop time machine from the film The Time Machine. Leonard jumps in and sets the machine to March 10, 1876 the date of the famous first phone call. They proceed to argue over the fact that they all want to go but they would not be able…
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Megabloks is Giving Me the Kreaps
 I picked these up a few weeks back for my monster toy collection [it is not all Star Trek you know]. I got the ghoul, gargoyle, and mummy, but there are six all together. The other three are a werewolf, vampire, and zombie. Of those three, I think the only other one I might get…
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My Dog Has Fleas
Okay, so I don’t have a dog, but I do have nefew and niece dogs not to mention friends with dogs too. I came across this very cute flea dog toy and I just had to get it for my favorite little white poodle fondly known has Pooper Scooper [his real name is PC aka…
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More Star Trek Handheld Games
After coming across the Coleco Star Trek game on the Handheld Games Museum I decided to poke around and see what other Star Trek games they had listed and which ones I did not know about. Here is what I found…       Milton Bradley Microvison Star Trek Phaser Strike Collins Wrath of Khan…
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Star Trek Handheld That Never Was
I just stumbled onto a Star Trek Toy I had never heard of before. While this is not a very surprising statement to many people, I pride myself in knowing quite a bit about Star Trek collectibles. After all I have been collecting the stuff for nearly twenty years now. I am far from an…
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Star Trek Goodies Gone Bad
The other day I received several boxes in the mail all containing Star Trek goodies. At first I was extremely excited and happy to be having such a geeky good day. But that feeling faded quickly. First up was a small envelope, which contained my Spock Elf mini mate. He was all perfect and minty…
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Jodie Foster Action Figure — kind of —
Diamond Select Toys has announced that they will be making a boxed set of minimates based on the film Silence of the Lambs. Come Closer, Clarice… To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman. Next in our continuing line of Movie Minimates releases comes this Minimates set based…
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Elf Spock in my House
I got a small enevelope in the mail containing the very elusive Elf Spock Minimate. This particular minimate is not available any where [except maybe evilBay] as they were a holiday giveaway from Diamond Select Toys to their retailers and folks they do business with. Once I heard about him I had to have me…