Slowly but surely, more toys coming online. For this latest update, catch the following:

Ray Guns: Lots and lots of awesome space guns. A Mazinga ray gun, Flash Gordon (the movie) gun, and some other cool ones. Totally worth looking at.

TH3 Project: Added a Thur gun and a page on the ZX series of guns. Related to above, sure, but TH3 baby.

Micronauts: A Grandstand Toys knock off Deltarian Fighter. Have to see it to believe it.

Enjoy! More to come.

Ideal Cap Gun

Been watching vintage Electric Company with my 6 year old. I still love Easy Reader. Also just finished watching the American version of Life on Mars. What a spectacular show!

Watching that awesome 70′s-ness turned my thoughts to toys and BEM. So a few updates.

Check out the new Ray Guns category. Lots more coming there.

Also check out the crazy cool Deltarian Fighter in the Micronauts section. If you are a micro fan, so worth checking out.

Added a box shot of the Palitoy Action Man Rom the Space Knight version.

Cleaning house. Check out my ebay auctions for a bunch of great toys. WWII War Heroes, Mego Knights, Fighting Furies, Action Jackson, Pulsar and more.

War Heroes

Started a fledgling Microman section. I won’t try to replicate the awesome work done by other sites cataloging this massive toy line, but you will find nice photos from my collection. If you’re not familiar with this line of awesome Japanese toys, take a look at my first posting – The Microman Speed Jumper.

Like WWII? Check out the War Heroes. A line of Mego like action heroes from the Big One. Both carded and loose photos.

Traditional super heroes more your bag, baby? Come fly with Superman. Lex, Jor El, and General Zod all grace the BEM.

And for the die cast fan in you, don’t miss the Zee Toys Firebirds.

Added scans from the catalog.

Jay J. Arms and his Goodies

Okay, I said I’d soon put up Jay J. Arms, aka JJ Arms pages. It only took me FIVE WHOLE MONTHS!

I work on glacial speed settings. But hey, I was trying to finish my novel, write some comics, and do a bunch of other crap to avoid actually doing things I’m supposed to do. Any way, here you go. JJ. Enjoy.

Eventually I’ll get around to posting the stuff I have on his super cool 70′s van!

I promise.

Real soon now…

Click here for all the Arms goodness!

In the next few days I’ll finish up with TH3 Project pages and start adding a page or two on handless detective J.J. Arms. I had this one as a kid and loved it. Made me want to lose my hands…

I have added an area where you can just talk about toys, leave me feedback, or whatever. It is non toy specific, and is really just a comments page. so not a lot of functionality. I’ll try to find a real forum tool for WordPress and add that to the site so we can have a better time chatting if it gets used a lot.

Comic book artist and film maker Matt Haley and I have a mutual acquaintance who just happens to have created two of the toys featured on BEM. We had been chatting about doing an homage to the toys and getting said creator to tell their story and finally got off our butts to approach said creator. 

Good news is he agreed! So at some unidentified point in the future we will be getting the unabridged editions of the creations of two of my favorite toys. 

Can you guess which toys and how they’re connected? First person to do so will get some lame prize from me.