NINJA MUTANTS

Round this time final yr, I noticed somebody promoting a carded Ninja Psylocke on market. I hemmed and hawed and determined to cross on it although it was low cost and funky. My Toy Biz assortment is fairly tiny and I wasn’t planning to broaden it. 

I additionally hadn’t actually provide you with a great way to show MOC figures, and so they normally get misplaced at the back of a cupboard or sit in a field. I not too long ago used some leftover peg board to make a peg wall for the carded stuff I do have, it seems like a mini toy retailer from the 90s. I knew Psylocke would look cool on there so I went to market, because the determine had been on there all yr.

Since then I had come throughout a good lot of the early Marvel Legends, and I’ve offered ML to a neighborhood dude a number of occasions so I hit him up. We chatted a bit and commerce obtained introduced up, and you understand me, I might WAY reasonably commerce. Seems he purchased the Ninja Psylocke and had two Ghost Rider figures! I’ve been making an attempt to get into these Ghost Rider figures for manner too lengthy however they by no means pop up in my space. 

I’m like many different 80s infants, in my love for all issues ninja. Initially I used to be simply going to write down about ninjas on this weblog however I got here throughout Classic Ninja and spent a few month diving into the archives, and now I hope you’ll do the identical 

Psylocke as a Ninja simply is sensible, particularly with the delicate items cloak. The remainder of the figures on this sub-series ehh not a lot. I do know Wolverine has historical past in Japan however he’s so large and stout right here perhaps a sumo would have labored higher. 

I’ve included the cross-sell from one other Toy Biz sequence to indicate how they had been marketed, and a tease for an upcoming submit! 

It is attention-grabbing to notice, Toy Biz was fairly constant on including feminine figures into “boy” toylines, I can not consider one other toyline particularly geared in the direction of boys within the 1990’s that had so many feminine characters. I do know it is likely to be laborious to reconcile with this, however within the 80’s and 90’s boys simply weren’t enjoying with woman figures, as a result of our mother and father simply did not need us to. I needed to battle to get April O’Neal, by no means obtained a She-Ra as a result of rooted hair equalled doll, and if I knew there was a Jem and the Holograms line I might have wished that too! A world with out feminine characters simply does not actually work and I’m glad mother and father now can see that and never be so ‘blue and pink’ minded. 

There’s one dream 80s toyline that might have solely males, and that’s John Carpenter’s The Factor, which clearly would by no means have occurred, even when the film wasn’t an enormous field workplace stinker. That hasn’t stopped customizers although, I extremely recommend monitoring down The Factor Toy Industrial on Youtube, they did a tremendous job and it makes you want it was actual. Oh heck, I’ll simply hyperlink it right here, life is simply getting really easy for us is not it?

What do you concentrate on the Toy Biz Marvel toys? I really feel like speaking about them rather a lot recently, so I hope you want them.