Mike’s Painted Miniatures. What a great idea.
This guy has gone and done something I never even considered…he’s primed and pro-painted M.U.S.C.L.Es and they look fantastic!
Just a little of his work…click the link to see ’em all.
Loving Little Pink Weirdos
Just paid a visit to Emerald City Comics in Pinellas Park, Florida. As always, had a great time immersing myself in this year’s pop culture moment, and enjoyed browsing through their thousands of action figures, games, and comics. My haul this year included this retro stuff of which I am the target audience:
Yep. Those are Alien M.U.S.C.L.E Things from Super7. (As I couldn’t find the Dark Crystal action figures I was looking for, these had to do.) I was really happy to find that some other Gex X geek thought, back in 1985, that it would be great to have M.U.S.C.L.E Things that weren’t just weird Japanese characters that we had no context for, even if that was a main part of their appeal.
Understand that I had the entire collection of M.U.S.C.L.E Things when I was a kid–I even had the poster from the mail-in offer so I could keep track of my collection. When I finally liquidated my childhood back when my parents sold their house, the whole collection fetched a pretty penny on eBay. I only saved my favorite one (pic from musclefigures.com)
Not sure why I love #178 so much, but there he is. He just seems so alien and inscrutable. He’s perched over my desk at work, and perhaps I take a little inspiration from him for my teaching style.
Thanks to the obsessive work of people like Nathan’s Muscle Blog! this little corner of collecting madness will never die.
So I picked those Alien Retro figures up, and then started poking around online as one does on Summer vacation, and lo and behold, I discovered this great site. What a cool combination of the inexplicable and the well-organized! I’d love to spend a few hours browsing this guy’s collection…
Gotta get back to work in a week. These pink critters will certainly be front and center on my desk!
Mythic Battles Pantheon: A Tasty Greek Myths Boardgame Now On Kickstarter!
Check this one out, if just for the wicked awesome Greek Myths minis alone…go ahead, take my money.
Mythic Battles: Pantheon Kickstarter
I made my pledge today. I can’t wait to see how it turns out.
A Spot of Inspiration…
Here’s a wicked cool monster design blog. You’ll lose hours browsing these cool images!
Fantasy Toy Soldiers…who knew?
If you’re an aging Gen-X geek with a few hours to kill, head on over to Fantasy Toy Soldiers right now and indulge in one man’s obsessive quest to document off-brand (and often wacky) toys along the lines of plastic army men or dinosaurs. I can’t count how many of these things (or ones like them) I lost at the beach, in the back yard, or under the bed…
I love this blog! I came to it after finding some ebay sales on old Arco The Other World figures, which I had as a kid…I especially liked the phoenix with antennae and the two-headed dragon. Check out the zany box art!
Enough digging around on FTS will turn up all kinds of craziness. I love how this set (also from Arco, it seems) rips off classic D&D lead sculpts from Grenadier, Heritage, AND Ral Partha, all in one go!
I wish I could get my hands on some of these things, given my latest obsession with all things plastic. I’ve been painting the recently canceled Handful of Heroes figures again, and have approximately 1,000,000 Reaper Bones minis awaiting paint…
In the meantime, check out Fantasy Toy Soldiers.
Zero Charisma: The Educational Value of D&D
20 Vocabulary Words I Learned by Playing Dungeons & Dragons
- benign
- brigand
- cantrip
- carrion
- charisma
- dais
- deity
- dexterity
- encumbrance
- entrails
- ethereal
- geas
- gelatinous
- lycanthrope
- malevolent
- ochre
- offal
- portcullis
- status (as opposed to state)
- tier
Please…add yours below.
