05/14/05
01. LJN S.D. Jones action figure
The S.D. stands for "special delivery." Take a look at this guy. I'll leave it up to you to decide what kind of delivery he's about to make and why it's so special. Mr. Jones is from the fondly-remembered and often chewed-upon LJN WWF wrestling line from the 80's (read about it here.) Picked up for two dollars (wtf?) at the Jefferson Highway Flea Market in New Orleans, or some suburb thereof. Decorating secret: a black man wearing blue panties spruces up any home.
Special Bonus!! Gorilla foot!
02. Bee-themed Transformers clone
I've been waiting five long years to have a reason to use the phrase "bee-themed". I wouldn't normally call something like this a Transformers clone, but that robot logo on the bee's crotch is suspiciously similar to the Autobot logo. Still, I think it's a good-looking figure. If you're into that sort of thing. Beebot was fifty cents at that toy shop in the Jefferson Highway Flea Market. You know the one.
03. Random robot
Same toy shop, same flea market, same price. This guy just looks cool. Anybody know what line he's from?
Special Bonus!! If you look close enough, you can see my camera and I reflected in ?bot's golden V.
04. Power Lords Adam Power action figure
Same/same/same. The creepiest thing about this guy is that he has two thumbs on each hand and a white guy's face on the back of his blue face. I'm serious. This one is apparently from the Power Lords line (I just liked the way it looked) from 1983. Interesting article about it here.
05. Roboforce S.O.T.A. action figure
Picked up S.O.T.A. (on the right) for 50 cents at the same place. I used to have one or two of these Roboforce figures as a wee lad. It was a great line of toys, which you can read more about here. Sadly, I cannot include Maxx Steele (on the left) in this thrift find. I found him at a comic book/nostalgic-old-80's-toys-that-saps-like-me-pay-too-much-money-for store later on in the day. Maxx Steele is such a pimp, though... can you really blame me for shelling out three bucks for him? You can hide things in his flip-open chest cavity, people.
...dangerous things.
By the way, S.O.T.A. stands for "state of the art." "The art" was being a blue, penis-shaped badass.
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