Toys Don’t Cry
On the docket for today? The GrumbleToy exclusive Yamomark GID Barabaran, of course. This guy is disgusting. My wife says he’s ‘hard to look at’ in the same way that The Phantom Zone or R’lyeh is hard to look at: you think you see it, but then you realize that you don’t. And then you realize that you’ve gone crazy. Just from looking.
Anyway: Rose for a face? Check. Cute little ladybug for a bellybutton? Check. Normal, Superman-style legs with boots? Check. Crazy, disgusting, claw-tailed centipde for an arm and half-a-head? Double-check. I’m loving this guy…not only the complexity of the sculpt (which, as stated, is exceptionally complex and original) but the color application is nigh-genius. Colors typically get a bit washed out on GID blanks (IMO, of course) but the painter’s choice of colors here (Chris from GT, I’m assuming) are really complementary to the translucent quality of the vinyl, and it makes for a sublime palette of odoriferous emanations. Or something.
Bonus!! Mrs. Hateball, in an attempt to cheer me up last night, took me to Toys ‘R’ Us and let me spend ten bucks on anything I wanted. This is a surprisingly challenging thing to do, especially since my toyscretionary income is more or less boundless (not saying it’s smart). Also, too, TRU has some really really shitty toys these days…and I’m not even talking about bootleg shitty…just shitty.
I ended up finding one of the coolest things in the store, though. A die-cast cloud car from the Star Wars Titanium series. And, wouldn’t you know it…it’s made by Micro Machines. A division of Galoob. I can never grow up, because the universe won’t let me.
They did—for a meager $20—have a replica TMNT Party Wagon there, which I almost broke down and bought. BUT! They didn’t seem to have any of the vintage-style Playmates turtles to go with it, and I sort of realized that the PW is (and always has been) just a plastic box that takes up space. So I passed. My kingdom for a fullsize android-body Krang.
Bonus 2!!!: Do you love GI Joes as much as I do? Do you love bookshelves full of shit that makes it hard to pull books out? Then you need a handmade miniature arcade cabinet, friend. They are amazing, tediously constructed, and actually (sort of) affordable.
Toys are awesome.
- Hateball
September 29th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
I think we have like 2 or 3 Full-size Krang bodies in our office, 1 of the scaled down to the Turtles size version of the android body (my favorite TMNT toy) and 2 or 3 of the Krangs that come with that little robot chair with legs and arms.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:37 am
great selection of toys Hateball. I got a GID unpaint of that Yamo coming my way.
Crook, isn’t that full sized Krang front and center on your desk?
September 30th, 2009 at 8:39 am
It’s really sad how lame TRU is nowadays. I have fond memories of going there at the crack of dawn before class.
There would always be a handful of dirty Hot Wheels collectors waiting outside. The employees would let them go through the cases of Hot Wheels to get them the fuck out of the store.