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Post by kayevcee on May 20, 2013 11:56:23 GMT
The only one I own is the Lego Clone Wars Z-95 Headhunter. I like it. Mostly because it's from TIE Fighter (the PC flight sim).
-Nick
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 20, 2013 12:30:18 GMT
The only one I own is the Lego Clone Wars Z-95 Headhunter. I like it. Mostly because it's from TIE Fighter (the PC flight sim). -Nick Clone Wars isn't Prequel Trilogy..... though you can make a decent arguement for including some. Gonna do Lego: Clone Wars another week |
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Post by The Doctor on May 20, 2013 12:42:37 GMT
I did used to have a pile of SA Clone Troopers but had to get into them as the habit was developing into a problem!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 21, 2013 7:37:16 GMT
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Post by Benn on May 21, 2013 8:46:49 GMT
I had only two of these so...
1. Obi-Wan Kenobis Jedi Starfighter (AOTC)
2. Sith Speeder set (AOTC) Had a wee Yoda in it, which was the main reason I bought it. I have since lost Yoda.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 27, 2013 10:56:59 GMT
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Post by kayevcee on May 27, 2013 11:38:42 GMT
Tricky. 1) 10188 Death Star. So many features. So many figures. So much money  2) 10198 Tantive IV blockade runner. More of a model than a toy- not many action features, but lots to do. 3) 6211 Imperial Star Destroyer. Big enough to be imposing while still being "whooshable", to quote the Kaptain. You can pick it up and stomp around the living room with it humming the Imperial March. Loads of features and a really cool look. 4) 6208 B-wing. So cool. Comes with a docking gantry and has all sorts of features. 5) 6212 X-wing. The best iteration of the X-wing. Pretty similar to the newest version, but the droid socket is the right way round  It also comes with loads of important characters. -Nick |
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 27, 2013 12:04:11 GMT
Very At a later date this one will be back again split by films over 3 separate weeks. I'm going to give it some thought and vote purely on sets I own but don't let that hinder anyone else. |
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Post by kayevcee on May 27, 2013 12:37:21 GMT
Just realised I forgot about the AT-AT. This is indeed a challenging week.
I'd probably have added the Jawa Sandcrawler too, but I've never been able to find one for a sane price.
-Nick
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 27, 2013 12:54:01 GMT
That's two consecutive top 5's (last Friday's TF one and todays SW Lego) that's made me promise to revisit.
BTW if anyone has suggestions for this feature please PM them to me.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 3, 2013 7:13:20 GMT
Something a little different for the next few weeks....
Week 18: The 5 best toys you NEVER had
Any toy ranges. The 5 toys you *really* wanted and never owned.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 3, 2013 8:08:10 GMT
This one's a little more difficult than I imagined it would be.....
mainly cos I've spent most of my adult life buying up toys I wanted as a child. I've owned all the Headmasters. I have a MOTU Battle Ram, Micronauts Microtron & Battlecruiser, SW A Wing & Shuttle, GI Joe Hiss and very soon will own a Tommahawk.
Gonna need some thought.
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Post by Benn on Jun 3, 2013 18:04:17 GMT
Very tricksy indeed... I guess...
1. FFVII Play Arts Red XIII and Cait Sith (this is is becoming something of an obsession now)
2. Fortress Maximus (standard for everyone who's never owned one, I believe)
3. TF Animated Hot Shot (I know, streching things a little here...)
I am really struggling! Seems I'm not as coveteous as I thought I was!
4. Revoltech Evangelion Unit-06 Kaworu Nagisa
5. I guess, the only Targetmaster I've not ever owned: Crosshairs
That was a pain. I guess I don't really covet specific things these days, I just impulse buy.
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Post by Bogatan on Jun 3, 2013 19:14:00 GMT
Episodes 1-3 Lego Erm I dont have many but 1. 7261 Turbo Tank certainly impressive. And light up Mace Windu. But honestly it feels a little lacking in some way. Maybe because it has wheels instead of legs. 2. 8018 AAT picked up a small bag of lego for a pound or two a few years ago and turned out to an AAT, theres something very pleasant about it. 3. 7163 I scooped about 75% of one of these out of a box of toys. I'm still missing much of the wings and top cockpit section, though I think I'm finally close to getting enough parts to make something that looks right. Just loads of fun features on it. I think thats about where I run out of sets. I've had a few other small set or very incomplete bits and pieces. But nothing that stands out. |
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Post by Bogatan on Jun 3, 2013 19:57:23 GMT
Episode 4-6 Lego Ah more to work with here though I think I'll mostly be repeating other people choices. 1. 6208 B Wing - Not a ship that interested me before but in lego form with the launch pad, it is excellent. 2. 6212 X wing - Got this and the Bwing in a box of lego for less than £10. Sadly it was missing Chewbacca. After I got the old Xwing and while this one is the better I have to give credit to the original, being that fraction smaller makes it a better toy to play with whooshing around the room. But yeah 62112 is the better overall. 3. 6211 Star Destroyer - manages the trick of being a great playset and a great spaceship toy. 4. errrrrrrrrrrr..... The ATAT looks great 5. I still haven't opened Jabbas palace yet, but I'm going to let a friends kids help build it next week. Only had it 5 months or so, so I'm looking forward to it. |
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Post by legios on Jun 4, 2013 21:01:34 GMT
Running a ways behind with these, so it is time to catch up a bit:-
Lego Star Wars:
Based mostly on seeing other folks stuff...
1) 6211 Imperial Star Destroyer - I've loved Star Destroyers since the day I saw Empire in theatres. This is a great rendition of it. Small enough to fit into a collection, fun to play about with - and you can march it about and pass it over your head with a deep rumbling noise
2) 6212 X-Wing. An Incom X-Wing Starfighter, an iconic thing to most of a generation. Fun to play wit, comes with characters you've heard of. Does the classic "lock s-foils in attack position thing"
3)9495 Y-Wing. It is a Y-Wing, my favourite fighter from the first three Star Wars films. This one belongs to poor doomed Gold Leader, which just adds to the joy of it
4) 75003 A Wing. A-Wing's are my joint second favourite rebel starfighter to fly in video-games, I love the simple clean lines of the design and this absolutely captures it. The A-Wing kit is also not only a fun build, but also great fun to woosh about the room (and I feel no shame in saying that). The fact that it comes with a very concerned looking pilot is just icing on the cake. Also, ACKBAR!
5) 7879 Hoth Echo Base - I love ESB, the first Star Wars film I saw in theatres, and as a result I love the Battle of Hoth. This is also a good fun playset, with things for mini-figures to do, racks of gear... all the sorts of things a playset should be.
Bubbling under: 10188 Death Star (pipped to the slot by the Hoth Base because of slightly more affordability)9496 Desert Skiff - the Sarlacc Mouth is great fun and it feels like it does a lot of good stuff for the price point. 7152 Tie Fighter and Y-Wing - everyones favourite disposable fighter and a Tie Fighter for it battle against :-)
Best toys I never had:-
Hmm, I'm going to have a think and do an all-time list of toys I wanted by have never owned from both childhood and adulthood. Unless folk object and then I can split it out into two lists...
Karl
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Post by kayevcee on Jun 5, 2013 11:13:33 GMT
Ooh, this is an interesting one. Fortress Maximus would be at the top, but I did own one for a few months prior to Toy-fu 2011. Otherwise... 1) Robo Force Fortress of Steele - base playset. If the Command Patroller and small vehicles that I had were anything to go by, it must be pretty special. 2) Robo Force Vulgar - the only figure I never owned. Never saw him in Poundstretchers (the only shop that stocked Robo Force that I know of). He has a drill for a face and a "mace blaster", a mace that shoots lasers. What more could you want? 3) Manta Force MANTA base ship - My friend had it. So many features and mini-vehicles. Really impressive. 4) MASK Rhino - same friend had it. The first wave MASK toys were the best. He had Thunderhawk as well that I loved the look of, but it didn't transform enough to engage me. 5) Ghostbusters Ecto-1 with Ecto-2 - I had three Ghostbusters- never saw a Ray when I had the money. My grandparents' neighbours' youngest son had the car. It blew my mind. These are just the first 5 that came to mind. There are various Rock Lords I don't (yet) own and I'd like to get a Gobots Command Center with all the accessories- the one I have now is missing a lot of bits. I hope to get a Lego Jawa Sandcrawler at some point- either the previous one or a new large one. I'd like to own a Black Zarak but I'd be too scared of GPS to transform, touch or look at it. There are quite a few MOTU Classic figures I'd like to have. Maybe I should be happy with what I've got, which is already far more than I can ever fully appreciate. -Nick |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 5, 2013 15:12:32 GMT
Ooh, this is an interesting one. The next couple of weeks are in a similar vein and don't relate to specific toylines. Next week's especially may solicit some tales of childhood woe |
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Post by legios on Jun 6, 2013 20:54:09 GMT
The Best toys I never had, the All-Stars life-time lineup. As usual, these are not in strict countdown, more a gaggle of things that have been forced into line-astern formation :-
1) Zoids Madthunder - it is a huge dinosaur,with an electric-motor walking action, that is basically the land Dreadnaught of Planet Zi. It may be an older kit, but they have never surpassed it in my view for sheer presence on the shelf (It has a real power to draw the eyes of a Zoids-fan) . It also has great supporting fiction in the Battle Story - got to love a design that is intended to go toe-to-toe with Deathsaurers.
2)Yamato 1/60th scale YF-19 "Alpha One": One of the principle mecha from "Macross Plus", I think it has one of the all-time best fighter modes in transformable mecha design. Yamato's first attempt at a -19 was not that impressive, but they finally did it justice with the 1/60th. Just in time for late-thirtieshood to shrink my disposable income. Then they went through bankruptcy and swore off the Macross-license, leaving it unlikely I'd find one for less than the "We could almost buy our own ship for that" secondary market prices. (But then, never believed I would own a YF-21/VF-22, so who knows)
3) Starbird Intruder - One from the past now. I had the Starbird Avenger when I was a nipper (it was my first real introduction to "wooshability" - how well something can be zoomed around a house whilst one makes engine noises. Still a factor in my testing battery when it comes to toys of flying things to this day), and I wanted this for two reasons. One, was that it was supposed to be the antagonist ship, and I wanted something that looked like it could go toe-to-toe with the Avenger. The second reason was I just loved the look of it. The wing assembly attached to the classic Starbird command section looks great, and the colour choice just made it feel like it was the ship of some evil band of space raiders. (No, not Space Raiders, I mean Raiders... in space
4) GI Joe: Skystriker. When I was younger money was not plentiful in my family and son I had to consider carefully which toy-line to pursue, because I wasn't going to be able to wangle stuff from more than one for any given Birthday or Christmas. Most times I chose to ask for Transformers stuff, but the day I found out that the Skystriker had an actual toy (being aware of it only from the comic at that point) made the calculation more difficult. In the end I opted not to ask for the Skystriker. But she is a thing of beauty - even as a youngster I was struck by how much it looked like an F-14, and also by the fact that it looked like a really large toy. I suspect that my Transformers were probably glad that young Karl didn't get a 'Striker. Skywarp would have probably become very tired of being continually shot down by a mere human aircraft.
5)Rom the Spaceknight - I first encountered Rom in a piece of artwork for an Action Man competition that was in a B&W UK comic. All I knew about Rom was that he flew about in space, teamed up with the Space Action Man Team (my favourite Action Man theme) and was fighting a Space Monster armed with something called a Neutraliser. What was a Neutralizer? Clearly some sort of terrible energy weapon that fired some sort of really cool crackling, glowy, Kirbyesque energy field (I didn't know Kirbyesque was an actual thing, but I knew it when I saw it). That wasn't much to go on, but it was enough. I wanted Rom the Spaceknight. Sadly by the time the next present season came around - because Rom was expensive enough that it had to come from a present event - there were no Roms to be found, and my parents were skeptical that it had ever existed. Over time the burning urge to own Rom has faded somewhat, and I am probably now more attached to Rom's appearances in Marvel comics than I am the actual toy. But he makes the All-Stars list because there are few things I have wanted to own as much as I wanted to own a Rom at the time.
Bubbling under: Several of the Matchbox Adventure 2000 figures, the Space 1999 Cargo Eagle. The Kenner Tie Fighter and X-Wing and a host of other things tagging along behind.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 6, 2013 21:47:54 GMT
I have a Skystriker in London. If you make it that way at Christmas I'll show you it.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jun 7, 2013 20:44:39 GMT
Wow, this is tough, top 5 I never owned. Ok here goes. I reserve the right to amend the list.
Complete Menasor (now own)
G1 Shockwave
Cobra Terrordome
Complete Abominus (now own)
G1 Soundwave (now own)
Much heart-ache over these toys. My Dad searched the country high and low for Soundwave in 1985, to no avail. Way before the internet of course. Not all bad though. I had, and still have, the cardboard Death Star, and the 12 inch Boba Fett figure released in the 80s, can't remember who by. The Millenium Falcon was awesome one Christmas. As was Megatron, Ultra Magnus, and a certain Autobot Police car when my brother returned from an unpleasant trip to the dentist (Mum got him Wheeljack and me Prowl). Pooed my pants when I saw him for the first time. Great days.
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Post by legios on Jun 7, 2013 21:16:18 GMT
I have a Skystriker in London. If you make it that way at Christmas I'll show you it. Ta muchly in advance! I'd like to have a chance to have a look at a Skystriker from an adult perspective. Karl |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 10, 2013 6:52:09 GMT
Catching up on last week... 5 Star Wars Imperial Attack Base - the most major SW Toy I've never owned. Besides It's more like the Star Wars Attacked by Imperials base. Oddly I do have the much rarer Turret & Probot playset. 4 GI Joe Rolling Thunder - HUGE Tank that transforms into a base and missile launcher! 3 GI Joe USS Flagg - No I don't know where I'd put it! 2 Lego 7905 Building Crane - one I just missed out on. Now huge numbers. WANT. 1 GI Joe Defiant - HUGE launcher playset. A Booster system that becomes a command centre. and a shuttle with room for plenty of figures inside. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 10, 2013 6:53:45 GMT
And this week....
Week 29: The 5 best toys you once owned but don't own anymore
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 10, 2013 7:49:13 GMT
I'm going to cheat a bit this week Starbird & Starbird Command Base and 134 Mobile Crane & Wagon my first Lego set 5) GI Joe/Action Force Figures - I have very few of the original GI Joe Action Force figures and mourn the loss of many of them including the (UK 1987) Snake Eyes and original White Stormshadow. 4) Dinobots - There are no Dinobots in Phil's house any more. What's worse is the person I sold them to never paid me for them! 3) Headmasters - Likewise having owned all the Headmasters at one point or another I currently only own Brace Maximus (and the superb KO Head set). The 87 HMs are some of my favourite Transformers. 2) Red Palitoy Talking Dalek On my shelf at home stands what remains of my Red Talking Dalek. An empty shell devoid of limbs, eye swivel base, mechanism, wheels and most of it's base. Yes it has the wrong skirt panels and yes the dome's not quite right. And yes I have every single one of the Product Enterprises Talking Daleks which are superb. But I loved this toy. 1) The Bear my Nan gave me - My Mum gave it away to a school fete. I am scarred for life by this action. Parents: Never give away your child's soft toys. |
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Post by Bogatan on Jun 10, 2013 17:54:20 GMT
Week 18 Toys I never owned.
Hmmmmmm this is hard, thanks to car boot sales I've had the chance to buy many of my childhood wants at one point or another. Admitted often in such poor condition I wish I hadn't.
1. Mini ape zoid chap, really name a Zoid, we had some but only a small collection. My cousin had loads, I eventually got many via Zoids 2 and other recolours but no mini ape chap yet.
2. MASK Rhino - might have briefly had part of one from a car boot sale, but never the whole toy. Closest I got was the Radio.
3. Up until a few weeks ago Fort Max would have been here. Maybe it still should be because I would love to own the specific toy sat in the window of Atcost toy shop that could be won via a colouring contest. I wish I knew what became of it.
4. er.. this one doesnt exist, but for years I was convinced that Jetfire had been released in Decepticon colours (red to Purple). I even have the memory of seeing it on the top shelf in Atcost. I know it does not exist now, but I still want it as much as I did.
5. ?
Week 19
Not many of these for me
1. My brother and I played a game of hide the police car on a beach or desert in Tunisia, we never did find it.
2. Sold a weeble type toy when I was little. Want it back.
3. Accidentally sold my Botcon Elita 1 a few weeks back, I need to get another.
4. Got a Gnaw through some trading some time after 2000 (back when it was all personal fan sites with their own trade section) and for some reason Gnaw got sold on ebay afterwards. I must not have been impressed at the time.
And thats it.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 10, 2013 18:07:21 GMT
A clone of you walks the streets of Edinburger. He looks exactly like you. The absolute spitting image.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 10, 2013 18:27:34 GMT
A clone of you walks the streets of Edinburger. He looks exactly like you. The absolute spitting image. -Ralph Me or AndyK? |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 10, 2013 18:34:13 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Jun 10, 2013 18:36:29 GMT
I have him in a box in the attic! Sadly one of the few Zoids I broke |
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It also comes with loads of important characters.
