Toy Bender

I rarely ever point at a fellow collector and laugh, criticize, or otherwise look upon them negatively. That’s why I’m going to host a few videos here without judgment… Okay, I can’t do it. I tried for a minute there but I couldn’t get past the first draft of this post. There is no way I can be impartial in this matter and respect myself as an opinionated blogger blogician, so if I hurt any feelings I apologize ahead of time.

The following videos were made by a fellow I’ve alluded to before in my post “Collecting: When is it Too Much?“. I’m sure he’s a nice person, but the sheer size of the collection and the fact that it’s all over the internet makes it impossible to ignore without comment. If he didn’t want the world seeing his stuff and talking about it, he’d never have joined every forum in existence with the intent on posting images of his collection for everyone to see, much less putting videos of his collection on YouTube.

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I’m going to be frank. I’ve had a lot of awesome stuff on Toy Bender in the past, but I think this is the most awesome and mind blowing thing I’ve run across so far. Oh yes, your eyeballs did not deceive you. I’ve run across pics of the coolest Lego set ups in the history of Lego. It’s a massive aircraft carrier of almost unbelievable proportions. This thing is so massive that the nerd who built it is dwarfed by his mad creation:

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At the end of the 90s I ran into a huge problem. I was buried in Star Wars toys. My father had generously built a pegboard wall to hang my Star Wars figures on and it was quickly filling up. The toy collection had also expanded and exploded, engulfing the rest of the room. Not only was my childhood room packed to the gills with toys, but I’d started living on my own and I was quickly getting a secondary collection apart from the main one. Originally I had planned on buying ever single figure that I could along with all the vehicles, but as the years wore on since the rebirth of Star Wars toys I realized that the sneaky devils in Hasbro Castle were going to make Star Wars figures until Armageddon and beyond. Something had to be done to stop the madness, because Hasbro wasn’t going to help me at all.

(Here’s the not everything, semi-outdated, but what most of it looks like that’s not in storage post)

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It’s been awhile since I’ve covered anything Battlestar Galactica, but to be honest I haven’t liked a lot of the toy offerings. I’m not a big Minimates guy, and I’m not a huge fan of the highly non-posable figures due out from Diamond Select. I also feel that Battlestar Galactica as a series went completely off the rails during season three so I’m a little less than apt to report on BSG toy news. Who knows, maybe Razor will bring me back to the BSG fold. Anyway, I recently ran across an ad in Previews for these new figures that I found quite disturbing:

That Cylon in the middle looks great, but what the frak is up with Starbuck on the left?

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Back when Mel Gibson was still cool, undoubtedly the coolest film he ever did was The Road Warrior. I ran across a listing for a model of his signature Interceptor from the Mad Max films on Big Bad Toy Store that completely blew me away.

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Time marches on and once again another round of questions from around the web smacks Hasbro in the face with varying degrees of social awkwardness. I really wonder how long I can keep doing this before I piss off the entire toy collecting population on the internets… sigh someone has to do it though, and that someone is me.

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Since my last post about the G.I. Joe film was so popular, here’s a new bit of G.I. Joe movie news: G.I. Joe has a writer in Stuart Beattie.

According to IMDB, Beattie was one of the writers for the first Pirates of the Caribbean film and one of the hundred and fifty writers for the sequels, although in those he’s credited for “characters. ” If the Pirate movies had one thing that worked well it was the variety of great characters, so hopefully it’ll help when it comes to writing G.I. Joe which is composed entirely of unique characters. Beattie’s other credits include Collateral and while I have never seen that, I have seen Collateral Damage. And if it’s anything like Collateral Damage, it must totally awesome because that’s the film where Schwarzenegger didn’t use guns to kill people. Oh no, he used HIS MIND.

Anyway, remember how I said I wouldn’t freak out like a big geek? Well, this bit in Variety freaked me out… a lot:

Story is set at Brussels-based G.I.J.O.E., an acronym for the Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, and revolves around an international co-ed force of operatives who use high-tech equipment to battle Cobra, an evil org headed by a double-crossing Scottish arms dealer.

Brussels based? Wah?! I knew they were going a bit more international on this, but Brussels based? How lame is that? Was Luxembourg taken?

And the Scottish arms dealer, is that Destro? Sigh, at least they said that Cobra is in it…

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This last week saw another round of nerd questions sent to Hasbro. Again, I collected some of the best and the worst here for your reading enjoyment. Remember to click on the links to give the sites where the questions came from some loving, please.

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I’ve fallen behind on my round up of nerd questions from around the net to Hasbro and for that I must apologize. I realize that not everyone who reads this site goes around dozens of toy sites everyday to find out the newest Star Wars toy news and info so I promise to be more diligent in the future. Now, unleash the nerd hounds!

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