Retro toys, nostalgia, video games and other old crap
That title sounds like it deserves to be said by an excitable man doing a voice-over on a commercial break during Saturday morning cartoons. Anyway, last year I was overjoyed to open a tub of MOTU M.U.S.C.L.E figures, so I decided to buy the second wave of them. I should mention that I …
It's been a while since I last wrote anything on here. But with it being a new year, I shall endeavor to post somewhat regularly. But we'll see how that goes. Anyway, back in 2017 I reviewed an unofficial Street Fighter II micro playset which featured Guile and Chun-Li, and was based on Guile's …
It's no secret that I harbor a lot of love for spooky colourful toys from the '90s, especially Monster in my Pocket, Boglins and Pocket Shockers, but there are apparently toylines from that era that completely past me by, probably because I quickly succumbed to a heavy Pokemon addiction in 1998. I had never heard …
Continue reading Thingz That Go Bump in the Night! Wacky ’90s Spooky Minifigures!
Do you know what would be completely shitty? if you were having a lovely day out in the Arklay Mountains on the outskirts of Raccoon city and you ended up getting chewed on by a wandering zombie, which would probably result in you contracting the T-Virus, guaranteeing a slow and painful death as well as …
Continue reading Capcom Energy Drinks! Resident Evil T-Virus Antidote!
I never really had any experience with Mega Bloks until they released a whole bunch of Halo sets a few years back to tie into the Halo Wars game. Being a bit of a Halo fanboy, I spent an absolute fortune on the line until I got sick of the lack of space that all …
Continue reading Mega Bloks Plasma Kreaps! Vampire Castle Night Stalker!
I've decided not to do a Halloween countdown this year. Every year I spend a whole lot of time writing about spooky stuff for the thirteen days leading up to Halloween, and it actually makes me end up missing out on doing Halloween things. Binging on the Nightmare on Elmstreet series, eating copious amounts of …
I was a Street Fighter II loyalist as a kid. No other arcade fighting game could possibly interest me until one day I watched a kid playing a game in an arcade that was called Mortal Kombat. It looked much gorier than Street Fighter II and it seemed to play a lot faster as well, …
Continue reading Funko Savage World Mortal Kombat MOTU Style Figures! Scorpion and Sub-Zero!
I've mentioned before of my love of Final Fantasy and have already covered some of the toys from FF VII but today I thought I'd take a look at some figures that are a little bit different. It's the 'Square Minimum Collection'! The idea of this line is that they would …
Continue reading The ‘Square Minimum Collection’! Strange, Blockish Final Fantasy Action Figures!
Some of you might remember that I covered weird flavoured sticks of rock ages ago. My Auntie sent me more which have been kicking about for a while, so I thought I ought to finally get around to abusing my taste buds and giving 'em a go. And there was quite a selection to try! …
Continue reading Odd Food! More Weird and Disgusting Flavoured Sticks of Candy Rock!
Whenever I see a cassette tape, I am instantly transported back to my childhood. To me, cassette tapes will always be more synonymous with the many happy hours sat playing computer games instead of listening to music. I grew up a little too late for me to feel the warm, glowing blanket of nostalgia that …
