Royal Enfield 500 Motorcycle

That’s a hot figure if I ever did see one eh?

Takara, the original manufacturer in Japan, decided a couple years back to reissue a bunch of the more popular Transformers with the same materials and set ups they had back in the day. So they're all die-cast metal and very handsomely created.

I've always loved the Transformer toys growing up, but I couldn't ever really afford many of them (I think I had one little one), as they were SO expensive. And getting the originals these days is insanely expensive (they're major collectors items now), so I've been purchasing these imports. They're on the pricey side as well, and I probably ruined all collector value for them by pulling them out of their boxes, but who cares. They look fucking cool in my cabinets:

Both cabinets in the spare room.

2nd shelf with some of my faves, Optimus Prime, Megatron, and others

3rd shelf down, with various smaller figures

Bottom shelf, with the big one actually consisting of 5 smaller Transformers that connect to make one huge one.

Of course, here are some of the newer additions in the other cabinet:

I found this cool, urban vinyl bomb figure at A.Okay Official by Chicago Comics. It's a rad shop, and they have all kinds of great imaginative figures there

Marvel Zombies figures! GRRRR!!!

Here’s the hi res pic

So yah, I’m sick. I feel crappy…my throat’s sore, my sinuses are a mess and I have this fatigue setting in that makes it all even worse.

What does one do while they’re sick? Well, one goes internet window shopping, of course. I found this statue series I just now fell in love with: The Dark Phoenix Saga (Click here for high res version:

It appears these came out about two years ago…but the set has some of my favorite characters, mainly Nightcrawler and Colossus. Hmmm..Colossus…I think I might know what my Halloween costume next year might be

At any rate, I really do dig these but they’re very expensive, so I guess I’m gonna just have to go for the cheaper stuff, mainly the Super Hero Squad figures. I’ve found most of the ones I want, but still am missing Nightcrawler/Juggernaut and Beast/Iceman. I’ll probably eventually get the Fantastic Four ones as well, though I’m not as big a fan of that team. Anyway, these are so cute…with the smiling faces and big feet and hands. I’ve got a bunch of them now and the next wave comes in November with Storm, and Logan with a Motorcycle. These are the coolest little figures to come around in a very long time

Here’s some pix of the results:

I have a bunch of Takara manufactured transformers from Japan that I’m probably going to pull out of their boxes and put on display in the 2nd glass case that I haven’t built yet. Those with some of my urban vinyl and my Super Hero Squad Marvel Action figures and it’ll look really fun

Yes, yes, I know I’m a HUGE nerd. This has long been acknowledged, analyzed, and categorized. At least I’m a cute nerd.