Showing posts with label Toys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toys. Show all posts

Friday, April 20, 2012

Top 30 Hot Wheels Cars that Should be Made

A few days ago I blogged about top 10 cars that Hot Wheels Should Make. So here is 20 more cars.
  1. Dodge Ram SRT-10.
  2. Buick Roadmaster Wagon
  3. 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88
  4. 2003 Mercury Marauder
  5. 2002 Lincoln Blackwood
  6. 1971 Ford Pinto
  7. Jeep DJ-5 Dispatcher
  8. 1958 Toyota Toyopet Crown
  9. International Harvester Metro
  10. Opel GT
  11. 1990 Saturn SL
  12. Excalibur Series V
  13. Zimmer Golden Spirit
  14. Glassic Model A replica
  15. Ford Torino Station Wagon
  16. Diahatsu Hijet
  17. Cadillac Hearse
  18. Lincoln Town Car
  19. 1991 Subaru Loyale
  20. Any Saab car.
  21. Any Volvo car
  22. John Deere Gator
  23. 1938 Mack ED Pickup Truck
  24. Mazda Millenia 
  25. Scion TC
  26. Fiat 500
  27. Mercedes-Benz G500
  28. Mercedes-Benz Sprinter
  29. Subaru BRAT
  30. Subaru 360

Friday, June 24, 2011

Adeventures In Thrifting at Goodwill

  Today, My mom went to a custom framing place to see the progress on the frame for an old picture was coming along. I had no interest in the framing place so, thankfully there was a Goodwill store right next to the framing place. I only had a few minutes to look around so I can't tell you what some of the prices were.
  The moment I entered the store, I checked the toy section first. I usually check the toy section first to see if there is any old WWE figures, or Jurassic Park toys, or Batman toys and Hot Wheels cars. Alas Goodwill had neither of those. What they did had that didn't interest me at all were used Barbie dolls for $3 a piece. $3 for a beat up used Barbie is way too much. Even if I were a girl which I am not, I would never buy a used Barbie for $3. I did see plenty of stuffed animals in the toy section. I did eye up a large Stewie plush, however due to time constraints I didn't check the price.
   I then proceeded to check out the book/video selection, and happened to see a plastic storage bin with old 12" vinyl LPs and a bunch of old 7" 45s on the table. I had no interest in the old vinyls. Again I didn't even look through them and check the prices on them mostly due to the fact that there is a record store in town that sells used vinyls for $1 a piece. Then I saw a bunch of old VHS tapes. There again I didn't even bother to check the price because I don't use my VCR much anymore. I skipped over the books.
    Next I went to the T-shirt section to look for old WWE and Nine Inch Nails T-shirts. Sadly there were none. I briefly looked over the jackets and windbreakers, when an Air Products windbreaker caught my eye. I would have liked to have bought it, but I didn't check to see if it was an XL. Finally I proceeded to look at my favorite things, Hats. There wasn't many hats there but two of them in particular interested me. The two hats were probably Pepsi employee hats. One was a green Mountain Dew hat with the 1980s logo, and the other was a gray unstructured Diet Pepsi Max hat. They were $1.99 each and both appeared to be new, especially the Mountain Dew hat because it still had that cardboard crown protector thingy in it. So it came down to choosing a hat and I eventually chose the Mountain Dew hat.
    When I went to the check out, I had to wait a few minutes for the cashier to notice that I was waiting to pay for the hat. The cashier was dusting off clothing racks. When she was ringing up my item, she spent around 10 seconds trying to find the price, I showed her where the tag was on the hat and paid for the hat. On my way out, I noticed a plastic bin full of mint in package McDonald's and Burger King toys. I briefly looked at them, and Walked out saying to myself I remember that toy I used to have it. Sadly I'm 21 and No longer collect Fast food toys.

Monday, May 9, 2011

Hot Wheels Car Dealerships

  About 6 years ago, I went to a garage sale and saw a mint in package Hot Wheels Ferrari Dealership. The packaging was missing the top of the box, but it still had it's red Ferrari 348 with 5 dot wheels. I bought the playset for $4 and walked home to open it and assemble it. I put it together within 5 minutes. This then caused me to buy more Hot Wheels Ferrari cars. 
My Hot Wheels Ferrari Dealership with Maserati's
A few years later in 2008 I was in KB Toys when they were going out of business and saw the Hot Wheels Ultimate Ford Complex for I believe $20. I once decided against buying this set back in 2006, so I couldn't resist buying this one. It came with a Hot Wheels Ford factory, a Ford dealership, a car wash and some road pieces. I was mainly interested in the Ford playsets rather than the car wash.
My Hot Wheels Ford dealership.
 I later found out through Hot Wheels research that Mattel made a Chevrolet dealership when Hot Wheels had the Sto and Go line. I would Love to have a hot wheels Chevy dealership, but I don't want to pay a high price for it. I think that Hot Wheels car dealerships are cool and that Mattel should make more. I'd be deeply upset if they didn't.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

The 5 Most Ridiculous Batman and Robin Action Figures Ever

Batman is one of the most popular superheros of all time. If there would be a superhero to represent the action figure industry it would have to be Batman. Even though Batman's secret identity, Bruce Wayne is a billionaire, he still wouldn't waste his money on stupid suits for Batman. The following are the most ridiculous Batman action figures ever.
1. Inferno Extinction Batman

Now when is Batman ever a firefighter? The answer is NEVER. Why in the hell would Hasbro even make this atrocity? My theory is that they want kids to believe that Batman can be anything no matter how ludicrous it seems. I mean look at Batnan's outfit, he is clearly not wearing the proper turnout gear that firefighters are supposed to wear. To top that Batman is not wearing a fire helmet. The idiot who designed this toy probably thought Batman's cowl backed as a helmet. Well Guess what his cowl was made out of cloth or some kind of material in the New Batman Adventures. It looks like Hasbro has Dun Goof'd on this one.

                                                                                                     





2. Sky Dive Batman.                 

OK seriously when does Batman ever skydive? Never. If he would ever have to skydive from the Batplane, which is a jet by the way he would have to avoid being sucked in by a jet engine when jumping from the narrow cockpit of his jet. Or Batman may have an ejector seat in the Batplane. This Batman the Animated Series figure is another dumb idea from the good folks at Kenner. It just keeps getting stupider and stupider in every generation of Batman action figures.









3. Robin (Batman Returns)       

OK here is a major loophole. A Robin figure in the Batman Returns line? Are you kidding me because this makes no sense to me whatsoever. I mean this figure has fail written all over it because if I'm not mistaken, Robin was NOT in Batman Returns at all. So why make a figure of a character who was not in the movie at all. Once again Kenner dun goof'd.











4. Power Armor Batman          
Here was a great idea for a Terry McGinnis action figure from Batman Beyond but naturally Hasbro screws things up. This figure was the one and only Secret Identity Batman figure from Batman Beyond. Hasbro went along and gave this figure way to comical armor and weird Robin robot thingy which I don't get at all. Hasbro should have just made a Regular Street Gear Terry McGinnis figure instead of this crap. So guess what Hasbro, ya dun goof'd again.










 5. Firewall Robin                
Here's another great screw up by Hasbro in its Batman Beyond line, Its Firewall Robin. Just like the Batman Returns Robin, Firewall Robin has no place in the Batman Beyond line, because you guessed it, Robin was never in Batman Beyond. What in the hell were the designers at Hasbro Thinking with this one. I mean were they on drugs or something. Because there is no utter stupidity than adding a Robin figure to a toy line for a series that he was not in. Well Hasbro Ya Dun Goof'd Up.