Spend much time on BEM and it becomes pretty obvious I have an Alien fixation. This was a really good year at SDCC for both the Ridley Scott Alien and the James Cameron Aliens incarnations. Not shown is a Super7 prototype for a Kenner style Alien based on the Cameron movie.
Category Archives: Toys
Batman at SDCC
Mattel Battlestar Galactica SDCC exhibit
Clash of the Titans Kraken
I’ve always loved the work of Ray Harryhausen. The skeleton sword fight in Jason and the Argonauts had me rivited, but the first Harryhausen film I ever saw, and my favorite one, was the last one he made, Clash of the Titans. And the best monster in a film with so many great ones was the Kraken.
Clash of the Titans toys are insanely expensive, and none more so than the appropriately monstrously large Kraken toy. I think it is arguably one of the best monster toys ever made. I don’t have a good photo of the toy, but a friend of provides these pictures a sealed box – which he bought for $750.
ERTL Die Cast Super Heroes
I love die cast figures and very few companies do it better than ERTL, from their Star Trek ships to these very cool Super Heroes.
LocBlocs Laser Tank
As a kid, I spent more time playing with Legos than any other toy and especially loved the space kits. After my family moved abroad it was much easier to get Tente and LocBlocks, so I ended up with a pretty mixed set of building bricks. I still vividly remember getting this exact set and building it for the first time.