Weekend Toy Haul

Not often I have one of these, but I had pretty good luck this weekend and found some cool things.

First up I found myself near a Toys R Us that we do not often find ourselves near, this one is located in the big city, anyway on the pegs were about 20 Captain Colds and one lone Flash figure. The thing is his card was destroyed, the bubble was being held on by two pieces of scotch tape on one side, what was left of the original heat seal on the other and the top of the bubble was open to the world. I figured he was either A) a return from a child's birthday party, it was opened and then decided upon it was lame and returned or B) someone really wanted to see what it was all about and ripped it open in the store. Either way since Flash doesn't have any accessories and the rest of him seemed in tack, I bought him. That is how bad it is around here folks, you buy them when you see them, no matter the cindition. Now I will admit I was going to open him anyway and I did feel a little cheated, but at least I found one in the wild... The Action League set was from a trip to Wally World, I was in a Flash sort of mood and wanted to round out the Flash collection a bit.



This next set of toys is from a trip (or two) to the local Grocery Store, well let me back up. The Lego TIE Fighter was from the same trip to Wally World as the Flash Action League. It looked like it was meant to be an Easter thing like Target does, they had the X-Wing (which I already had) and the TIE. These were all tucked away in the very back of the Lego aisle. I had to have a small Lego TIE. Okay now, the two figures were from the grocery store trips, I picked up the Stormtrooper because I have this sickness that compels me to pick up two of certain figures, like Stormtroopers, Jawas, etc. Sort of a mini army builder I guess. I just had to have two of these to put next to one of all those Darth Vaders I have laying around. R5-D4, might live on the card I haven't decide, I sort of dig those Star Wars cards. Now, I'm a little ashamed here as I had already picked up the Luke from this set earlier in the week and I also picked up another "big head" Han Solo, I don't know why besides I wanted another one of these Han Solos for something. I couldn't help myself. STAR WARS!



This last one is from the Toys R Us trip as the Mego-Like Flash, which I should call the "Mr. Miracle Flash" as he was trying to escape that plastic tomb all those Captain Colds put him in (for the record I passed on Captain Cold this round). Anyhoo, check this out, they make a freaking Red Porsche 914! I found out that there was a red one and a mustard yellow one a week or so back. I told myself that Toys R Us is the only place I will ever see the red one and if I am near one I was going to check and they had one on the peg. Again the package is in not so hot shape, but I plan on opening it up anyway. I just wanted to shoot a package pic for all my die cast readers. The mustard yellow one comes in one of those multi packs. I have a plan for that one since I am only interested in the 914, that will be revealed later. It's not illegal, I am not going to swap out a car. Gesh people, my nephew loves die cast cars so he will get all the extras, see now you made me spoil the surprise...



I think that about covers it, plus I think I have pretty much used up my toy karma for the next month... plus maybe my budget : ) I do have some Spockcation pictures to post this week, an awesome box of toys Jboypacman sent last week I need to post (sorry Jboy I'm getting to it) and wasn't there something else? Oh yeah the Cantina Crawl! I still need to shoot my entry! Have you shot your's yet? Oh, and welcome to the new followers... er I mean eclectomaniacs! I woke up Sunday morning and had 67! Sweet!

They make them in Orange flavor now!

While I was out with my wife this past weekend we stopped by the local Wally World, it's close and has just set out all their plants, so while she was looking over the nursery I went to the toy aisles. I picked up a Clone Wars figure I had been meaning to get (Not everyone's cup of tea) and passed down the die cast aisle where I was hit with this amazing little guy.

I have said it time and time again, if there is a Porsche 914 on the shelves and it's a different color from what I already have it will follow me home. That's just what this one did. I took a lot of flack on the ride home for buying another one of these cars, but I did point out it had three very important things going for it.

1) It was a Porsche 914
2) It was orange... a no brainer in my book.
3) It was inexpensive!



Some things I noticed on this version is it still has the silver interior, fairly accurate I might ad (not the silver, but the details), it also had a new deco, the "Porsche" decals above the rocker panels. Plus, I don't know if this was the case with all of them because I have only seen the one, but the signal lights are all missing their paint deco, front and back. I figured if it was like that on all of the orange models because of the new deco on the sides, maybe cutting into cost. I will have to check if I see another one.



Even with the signal deco missing I think this is a great little find and I for one am glad they are getting some mileage out of this car. I would welcome some more colors... hint we need a white one, a black one and a silver one : )

A little 914 action

I owed a better shot of this Matchbox 914 Porsche to one of my readers. It had a bit of it's rear showing in another post. It is really just the second issue of the brighter Green 914 Porsche seen here. I always said I wouldn't pass up a 914 on the shelf, this one being a different color found it's way into the shopping basket late one day back in 2010. I will note I only picked up one of the Darker Green ones.

Man I love those little 914 Porsche cars!

February 1st, 1:51 PM CT - no toys purchased.

Matchbox 2010 - Porsche 914

I normally do not troll the Hotwheels or Matchbox aisle unless something like Batman, Star Trek or that damn elusive Ghostbusters Ecto-1 happens to be there.

But when I saw this featured in a post on Big Boss Toys, I knew that I would own one, is not a couple. That just happens to be the case.

I have always loved the look of the 914, released in 1970 through 1975, 914's were an effort by Volkswagon and Porsche to make an affordable Sports car. Which is funny now because besides the Porsche 356, it's one of the most expensive as far as buying parts for.



How do I know? I used to have an awesome little 1972 Porsche 914. We called her "the Mistress". My wife laughed when I picked these up cause I said, you know if I only collected 914 toys I would only have four or five in my collection to date. That wouldn't count a real 914-6 though, I would love to own one of these.

reads "VW Porsche 914, 71" dated 2009, though it's part of the 2010 collection

I'm wondering if my dad will check this post out, and if he'll recognize the signal lights, though the ones on the back would be wrong if you are going for a European look for this car. Also I'm a little rusty but I do not think the 71 had the driving lights in the bumper, of course it's been a while and that might have been the year they came out. Besides the paint color this could pass as little model of mine. Even the seats inside are what a 914's actually look like, though this one has the optional center console around the shifter.

You can't see it very well in the pictures, but it even has the little 914 badge on the rear end, it's just missing the "PORSCHE" letters on the engine bonnet.



This reminds me of all the fun times my father and I had working on the ole' 914. I regret ever having to sell her. I hope she's still going out there. Though I miss my 914, I enjoy the air conditioning in my Jeep, but if I ever went down the road of fixing up another old Porsche the 914 and 356 are at the top of my list.