Next weekend is the Time Tunnel Toy Show in San Jose. Great place to pick up stuff. Let me know if you’ll be there, would love to say hello!

Continuing in the vein of posts unrelated to toys: Comic Monsters did an interview with me to promote the release of the Resident Evil comic series I’m writing.

Comic Monsters

Fear not, I went to the toy show this past weekend and picked up a Star Wars Electronic Laser Battle Game that I will post about soon.

Ok, I realize my two most recent posts are not toy related. But I don’t care. In the course of a week, I have realized two long time goals.

1. Owning a Corvette Stingray. (see previous post)

2. Write a comic book.

But not just any comic! A comic based on one of my favorite game franchises, Resident Evil, for the largest English language comics publisher in the world, DC Comics via their Wildstorm imprint.

I am having a good month.

I will get back to toys next week after the San Jose toy show.

This was a very cool find that I had never seen before. A Buck Rogers belt with some walkie talkies, a wrist watch,
and other accessories. Not to mention a big Twikki figure. Not 100% sure what he does.

Pair this up with the helmet accessory and you’re ready to take on Princess Ardalla!

As a kid, I loved playsets. Dinosaur ones. Western ones. Exploding bridges. Playsets were just super cool.

Military playsets were always my facorites though. I didn’t have this one but I am sure I would have loved it if I had. The set has 145 action filled parts and a cool looking set to act out all sorts of battles.

The dealer selling this particular toy only wanted $20 for it, and it was I’m awesome shape, but it was MASSIVE! So even at $20 they couldn’t sell it.

Still cool though.

This was a new find for me. I am a big fan of Zeroids generally, and have several, but have never encountered an Alien Zeroid.

The Alien is unique among Zeroids. First, it explodes! Not literally of course, but in the manner of all wonderful 60s and 70s exploding toys – it falls apart. The head and several of the parts pop off when it reaches the end of a path that is programed into it.

Second, you can prorgram it! Sort of. When assembling it from the parts that will eventually blow off, you place a gear inside that determines the Zeroid’s course.

And lastly, the thing is a cyborg alien. All the other Zeroids are just straight up robots.

A very cool toy, and one of the nearest Zeroids I’ve seen.

I have a shot of this on the Battlestar Galactica page, but I ran across an unopened one in excellent condition. I have always wanted one of these but they’re damn big. This one was also damn expensive. They wanted $200 for it.

It is based on a plane launching toy and sends small vipers into the air via a rubber band powered launch pad. I have found the toy before, but the vipers are usually pretty “battle damaged” from a few too many flights. A very cool toy!

For the toy loving executive who has everything, today I bring you a deskset to inspire envy around the board room -a Batman desk set.

Included is a Joker stapler, a Batman pencil sharpener, and a Batman calendar/card holder.

I am currently working out of my garage or I would have bought it to impress my office mates.

This was another cool toy I found at the toy show in San Jose. I’ve seen the visible man before, but this was the first time I had seen the woman.

Last weekend I went to this twice annual toy show in San Jose. It used to be the Humdinger toy show I think.

I missed out on buying a boxed 18″ alien for $250 while I went to get cash. I was hugely disappointed. But I saw some cool stuff.

Here is a Buck Rogers toy I had never seen before that is kind of cool.

More to come.