Continuing our series of custom Revoltech Transformers characters, here we go with Shockwave, the quiet Decepticon strategist. You don’t know who’s side he’s on…. besides his own. Despite the order that I’ve presented them in, this figure was my very first custom toy of any kind (if you don’t count disassembling and rearranging GIJoe figures…
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Snake Eyes – Rod Whigham
In searching for the artwork for the previous post, I came across one more piece that I thought I should share. This is a Snake Eyes sketch done at a convention in the mid-80’s by none other than regular (at the time) GIJoe artist extraordinaire, Rod Whigham. His pencil work from the majority of issues…
Incredible Change-Bots
In 2007, author/artist Jeffrey Brown created a pseduo-parody of the Transformers called The Incredible Change-Bots. His brand of humor and playful poking fun at all the tropes that filled the cartoons and comics of our youth make for a fascinating and entertaining read. Every G1 Transformers fan owes it to themselves to read this funny, charming…
Gone, But Not Forgotten: Part 1 – 1982
As a child of the 80’s, I recall toy stores with entire isles dedicated to singular lines like GIJoe or Transformers being common. Clearly just-in-time inventory systems were not widespread, and larger toy stores like Toys-R-Us and Children’s Palace often stocked like they were hoarders, preparing for a toypocalyse. It made finding new toys easier,…
G.I. Joe – Mega Bloks: VAMP & Stinger
After customizing over 80 tiny GIJoe and Cobra figures from Call of Duty, Halo, and other Mega Bloks licenses, I decided they needed some wheels. Kre-O’s GIJoe brick vehicles redefined the word “disappointment”, so that was a no-go. The Call of Duty construction line has a wide variety of genuinely impressive military vehicles, many of…
Transformers Backgrounds
Displaying all of your hard earned plastic acquisitions is a rewarding part of being a toy collector. And few toys make a better display than Masterpiece Transformers (and their third-party brethren). Near-perfect representations of the characters we watched on TV and played with in the living room floor many moons ago, MP TFs are complex,…
Adventures of Stan: Car Salesperson #002
In our second installment, Stan is still trying to unload an autobot to anyone with some cash… …
Revoltech Transformers – Mirage
As I explained in an earlier post, I wanted to make additional characters in a line of highly articulated, non-Transforming figures that died well before it’s time. Autobot Mirage, everyone’s favorite blue F1 car, was my second figure. Collecting is half the Battle!
G.I. Joe – Mega Bloks: Cobra – The Enemy
Continuing the spotlight on custom Mega Bloks GI Joe figures, today I’m posting the adversaries of the Joe team, the ruthless terrorist organization: Cobra. This group had it’s good and bad points while making them. The designs were simpler, and making repeats of the nameless/faceless troopers require less thought. However, it got a little monotonous…
G.I. Joe – Mega Bloks: The Joe Team
A few years ago when Hasbro announced that they were going to get into the brick business (presumably to get a share of that sweet Lego revenue), we all rejoiced that we might get some really cool small-scale Joe figures. Instead, we got “Kre-O”, a blatant ripoff of cute little Lego minifigures and grossly under-scaled…
Mixel Madness – Stop Action
My son Alex spent considerable time making a stop-motion animation “movie” summer before last. Actually, he wanted to go to stop-motion camp (yes, it exists), and I explained that we could do that better at home (you know, because the idea of melding photography and expensive software I don’t know how to use was just…
Revoltech Transformers – Sideswipe
In the mid-2000’s, Japanese toy company Kaiyodo released a series of highly articulated, non-transforming 4.5″ figures based on some G1 Transformers characters. Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus (a white Prime repaint), Megatron, Starscream, and Hotrod were the only characters released before Kaiyodo moved on to different scales, movie figures, etc., and left the G1 fans wanting…