Nowadays, there are quite a few video games that feature witches as playable characters in games (Bayonetta being the most recent that springs to mind) but back when I was a kid, witches were almost always just there to fill the role as a villain, or a side character at best. But then I discovered …
I really wanted to cover a spider action figure for the Halloween Countdown as spiders are one thing that genuinely terrifying to me, and my life is currently devoid of anything new that I truly find revolting but want to pose and feed other action figures to. I was tempted to find a Shelob figure …
There was a time in the '90s where I would wander around carboot sales and find amazing toys from the previous decade that I just could not identify, as in I had no prior knowledge on what toyline some things were from, but I still knew when I was holding something impressive in my …
It's that time of year again! That glorious but finite occasion where confectionery in stores become suddenly horror themed, costume parties are aplenty and we garb our homes in cobwebs, plastic spiders and other seasonably fiendish items. Or if like me you live in the UK, you'll probably treat Halloween as a minor inconvenience or …
I've been on a bit of a Final Fantasy kick of late. It started when I got the PS4 a few months ago and blitzed through Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy X HD. After finishing X, I went and bought Final Fantasy XII, but before I could install it they went and released Final Fantasy …
Continue reading Final Fantasy VII Extra Knights Action Figures, from Bandai, 1997!
It's been an age since my last odd food post, but after receiving a parcel from my Auntie labeled 'blog fodder', a comeback was well overdue. The parcel contained two things, this being the first: I like chocolate, including dark chocolate, but I can't say I had ever experienced the taste of …
Continue reading Odd Food! Tabasco Chocolate and Chilli Bacon Jam!
It's been over a year since I wrote about the German Super Mario Bros. figures that came free with Mars Chocolate bars in 1994, and at the end of that post I said that I would probably take a look at more Nintendo promotional toys in the near future. Well, I think …
Continue reading Cereal Box Freebies! French Donkey Kong figures from Kellogg’s Choco Pops, 1997!
Pokémon was a huge part of my childhood in the '90s. What wasn't to love about cute little monsters that turned into less cute monsters, all the crap to collect and the fact you could eat Pikachu shaped spaghetti shapes? When I reached high school in 2001, it was definitely a lot less cool to …
Continue reading Pokémon ‘Combat’ Graveler and Nidorino Action Figures from 2000!
I haven't posted in a while, mainly because I am now in possession of a Playstation 4 and have been distracted by HD versions of games I have played twelve million times before on the original Playstation and Playstation 2. Nevertheless I have managed to tear myself away from Kingdom Hearts to play with …
It's been a damn long time coming. But here is my first, very amateur review video, which is a look at a '90s Doctor Who Dalek playset! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26uMjdQP5oY&feature=youtu.be Dunno whether I'm properly going to go down the YouTube route, but I thought I ought to probably test the waters. Anyway, thanks …
Continue reading Video review! 1997 Bluebird Toys Doctor Who ‘Dalek’ micro playset!
The Forgotten Starship 