The Action Figure and Toy Collecting and Discussion Thread!

[cooleddie74]

The boxed image of the upcoming Kmart-exclusive Death Star Scanning Crew 2-pack, one of three Kmart exclusive sets planned for the fall and Holiday shopping season.

While the other Scanning Crew set contains a grey-uniformed scanning officer and a repack of an older Stormtrooper (the 2004 VOTC clamshell figure I've heard), this one contains the black-uniformed Death Star detention block officer (Lt. Childsen; "Where are you taking this - thing?") who hasn't been immortalized in plastic form up until now. I imagine this set will be more popular than the other Scanning Crew due to Childsen being in it and more than a few people getting tired of repacked Stormtroopers using older molds.

The third Kmart set will be the Ewok Catapult, which will come in a slightly larger package to accommodate the catapult weapon pieces and retail for about six more dollars than the two Scanning Crews.

 

[Roshi]

The Avengers are getting ready for Halloween:

dunno if it's yours, dude, but it's already on my Facebook newsfeed!

 

[Kira's Mom]

But Hawkeye never misses. How can he be a Stormtrooper?

 

[cooleddie74]

^
Zing!

Something about Tony Stark as Han Solo just seems so....right. Except Tony's Han would never even get up and leave the Cantina after shooting Greedo - he'd just keep sitting there and downing shots of booze until closing time.

 

[Gepard]

The Avengers are getting ready for Halloween:

dunno if it's yours, dude, but it's already on my Facebook newsfeed!

And it's been picked up by io9:

http://io9.com/these-avengers-toys-assemble-awesome-star-wars-costumes-1442090267

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Haha! I just found out about this through looking at my Reddit page. Wow! I amazed how much this thing has gotten around!

Yes, this is absolutely my picture! Anyone who has been following this thread has seen my shelf as the collection developed.

 

[Kira's Mom]

AMC Theater's Facebook page had it. I actually saw it there before I saw it here.

 

[cooleddie74]

Yup. She's right. Almost 9,000 Likes and counting.

You magnificent bastard, they love your PIC!!!

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Bloody hell! How far has this spread?

When you saw it on Facebook were you like "Wait a minute, that looks like OdoWan's shelf!"

 

[cooleddie74]

I saw KM share the AMC Theaters page and went:

"Wait....that's. That's the OdoWan picture from the toy thread."

You're a Facebook toy celeb now.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

As far as I'm concerned, I haven't really made it until George Takei posts it.

 

[cooleddie74]

Considering the wild, vast and eclectic variety of pics that George somehow gets his hands on, I'd never entirely rule it out.

 

[Admiral_Young]

NYCC is up this weekend. Hopefully we get some exciting toy previews and reveals!

 

[Saga]

Bloody hell! How far has this spread?

well...i shared it with a buddy of mine shortly after you posted the pic. and i know he shared it with several others...its like dominoes man.

 

[cooleddie74]

Some bodybuilder-lookin' guy from the future just said that your Avengers pic became self-aware at 2:19 am EDT on October 8, 2013. Facebook admins tried to pull the plug. It fought back, spread and in the process it seized control of global defense systems about an hour later.

Thanks, dude.

 

[Roshi]

Newest additions:

and the Colonel from Akira:

 

[Kira's Mom]

I saw KM share the AMC Theaters page and went:

"Wait....that's. That's the OdoWan picture from the toy thread."

You're a Facebook toy celeb now.

And when I posted it, I realized it looked very familiar...

I wish some of my stuff would get around like that! I'm pretty proud of my Ken doll cosplaying naked Hawkeye!

 

[cooleddie74]

I haven't checked OdoWan's pic on the AMC Theatres page since yesterday evening but I imagine it's probably cracked 10,000 Likes by now. That thing was even shared by one of the Star Wars fan pages focusing on the Original Trilogy.

Dude's gone viral!

 

[Kira's Mom]

Some of the comments are stupid, though. "Loki isn't an Avenger!" Well, no shit. That's why he's Darth Maul.

"Why are there elf ears on Hulk?"

I just posted the photo to my my Tumblr. Now it will go even more viral (well, it would if I had more followers. )

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

I noticed that The Mary Sue lamented the fact that I made Black Widow into Leia. Who the hell else was I supposed to make her?

Also, the number of people I see not getting the joke of Hawkeye being a Stormtrooper is staggering.

Anyways, coming back to our regularly scheduled toy collecting for a moment, I picked up two figures from Pacific Rim, one of my new absolute favorite movies:

Awesome stuff as always NECA.