02-16-2025, 09:27 AM
15 February - A Doll A Day 2025:
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My nine-year old self compelled me to buy this... uhhh... 1/12-scale (six inch tall) Moe from the Three Stooges action figure. Back in the day, my elementary school friends and I went through a period during which we were obsessed with afternoon reruns of the "Hogan's Heroes" TV series set during the Second World War. No, we weren't political ideologues as kids; we were just boys who were intrigued by Jeeps and tanks and machine-guns and fighter planes and battleships and pretty much anything and everything having to do with WWII. If anyone had managed to acquire something like this he would have been the envy of us all.
We had GI Joe back then, but we certainly didn't have access to a... errr... Charlie Chaplin action figure like this! Of course, we had Aurora monster model kits, the Aurora Monster Scenes, and Aurora Prehistoric Scenes, and we had all manner of plastic model kits of battleships (like Bismarck and Tirpitz and Prinz Eugen) and panzer tanks and the gloriously kitschy "Rommel's Rod" from Monogram – loads of awesomeness, but no realistic toy figures of... ahem... noted British thespian Sir Alec Guinness (before Star Wars).
The Aurora Monster Scenes didn't last long in the stores, and my mom refused to buy me any. I suspect she would have refused to buy me a detailed... Groucho Marx figure like this one, too. Years later, I have acquired a 1/12-scale Vampirella action figure, almost entirely because it reminded me of standing in the toy aisle at the local shopping mart reading every single word on the Monster Scenes boxes over and over again. Now I have another 1/12-scale (about 6 inches tall) figure to add to my collection, a "crossover" piece that will tie together two of my childhood obsessions, WWII and monsters.
I gotta go find for my Vampi fig and see how they look together. This figure is no Doctor Deadly, but it's definitely weird enough to pal around with some creatures of the night.
3R (DiD) TG80001 1/12-scale WWII military action figure
15 February - A Doll A Day 2025
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Six Inch Schicklgruber
My nine-year old self compelled me to buy this... uhhh... 1/12-scale (six inch tall) Moe from the Three Stooges action figure. Back in the day, my elementary school friends and I went through a period during which we were obsessed with afternoon reruns of the "Hogan's Heroes" TV series set during the Second World War. No, we weren't political ideologues as kids; we were just boys who were intrigued by Jeeps and tanks and machine-guns and fighter planes and battleships and pretty much anything and everything having to do with WWII. If anyone had managed to acquire something like this he would have been the envy of us all.
We had GI Joe back then, but we certainly didn't have access to a... errr... Charlie Chaplin action figure like this! Of course, we had Aurora monster model kits, the Aurora Monster Scenes, and Aurora Prehistoric Scenes, and we had all manner of plastic model kits of battleships (like Bismarck and Tirpitz and Prinz Eugen) and panzer tanks and the gloriously kitschy "Rommel's Rod" from Monogram – loads of awesomeness, but no realistic toy figures of... ahem... noted British thespian Sir Alec Guinness (before Star Wars).
The Aurora Monster Scenes didn't last long in the stores, and my mom refused to buy me any. I suspect she would have refused to buy me a detailed... Groucho Marx figure like this one, too. Years later, I have acquired a 1/12-scale Vampirella action figure, almost entirely because it reminded me of standing in the toy aisle at the local shopping mart reading every single word on the Monster Scenes boxes over and over again. Now I have another 1/12-scale (about 6 inches tall) figure to add to my collection, a "crossover" piece that will tie together two of my childhood obsessions, WWII and monsters.
I gotta go find for my Vampi fig and see how they look together. This figure is no Doctor Deadly, but it's definitely weird enough to pal around with some creatures of the night.
3R (DiD) TG80001 1/12-scale WWII military action figure
15 February - A Doll A Day 2025
They're not dolls, they're action figures!