Little Combattler V robot

Combattler V, GT-08, Bandai, Japan, 2013

When Maetel meets Harlock

Harlock, Banpresto, China, 1999

Maetel, Banpresto, China, 1999

The amazing Amazon...

Wonder Woman, Gulliver, Brazil, 1978

Wonder Woman, Justice League,
China, 2003

Happiness is a warm puppy !

Peanuts rubber figurines, Bully, China, 2010

Schroeder and Snoopy, Mc Donald's, China, 2015

Oh bats !

Batman, DC Collectibles, China, 2015

O.C.P. Detroit - Murphy, are you there ?

Robocop helmet, Orion Pictures Corporation, China, 1993

I am Groot !

Dancing Groot, Funko, China, 2017

Went to see GOTG2 yesterday with 2 friends. Welcome to geekdom and to the most improbable superheroes ever !

These are not the figurines you are looking for...

Les Héros, IDEAL-Galoob, China, 1997

Micro Machines were very popular in the 1990's. No wonder that Star Wars got the treatment also...
A big number of playesets and spaceships were issued, as well as some packs with figurines...

Here the Belgian (French/German/Dutch) version of the heroes.

Others in that serie included :

• Imperial Commando
• Rebel Soldiers
• Sandpeople
• Imperial Soldiers
• Jawas
• Ewoks
• Imperial officers
• Rebel pilots
• "Ice" soldiers (Hoth rebel troops)
• Imperial pilots

Beach racing

Race Car, ?, Portugal ?, 1960's

Not everyone could go to Porto to see the Grand Prix... But little kids could easy reproduce a circuit here on the beaches of Estoril or Ericeira...

Holly radio control Batman !

RC Batmobile, AZRAK-HAMWAY, Hong Kong, 1979

Getting ready to go and scare the cat ! 

New additions to the RockeTank collection !

You press on the dome and air sends missile away !

Great simple design and these colors !

RockeTank, Sewell Products USA, 1950's

A couple of Astro's... by Chevrolet

GM did a number of interesting prototypes The 1967 Chevrolet Astro was definitely one of these. Read more about it here. Corgi toys made a very nice representation in 1/43rd scale, but the Chinese Yatming had these smaller nodels in 1/80th scale in their assortment.

Chevrolet Astro, Yatming, China, 1970's

One man... huh... one Alien show.!

Alf singing, Bully, 1988, Germany

Big Smurf ?

Just came back from Belgium... The land of Tintin of course... and of these little creatures !

Big ? Bigger !!!

Smurf, Expectpromo, China, 2011

Puppets with an attitude !

Captain Scarlet action figures, Vivid Imagination, China, 1993

Wookie face... or how I look / feel in the morning...

Chewbacca mask, unknown, 1980's ?

Facial hair problems ? Gilette !

Behold ! I will conquer the galaxy with this...

Hey... wait a second... This is not a blaster... This is just a thingy that shoots... balls... yep... no darts... no laser beams or jolts of electricity or ... just baby blue balls... Guess Greedo used one of these in the Cantina scene... oh yes, he did shoot first... just with the wrong gun ! The rest is history...

Automatic Safety Gun, Japan, 1960's ?

... and now we all have cellphones ...

But when we were kids, this was all the technology we needed... really !

Chatter Telephone, Fisher Price, USA, 1970's

Funko's ReAction action figurines...

Boy, I wish they had these when I was a kid. Figurines of the greatest movies from the 80ies... all in retro packaging !

Alien, Funko, China, 2016

Kane (with chestbuster), Funko, China

T-800 Endoskeleton, Funko; China

T-1000, Funko, China

Planet Robot - mean green machine !

Planet Robot, Ha-Ha toy (KO Copy), China, 2000's

 Oh yes ! Another Robby the Robot lookalike !

Big Bad Bat... mobile

Batmobile 2000 (1/18th), Corgi Toys, China, 2006

Batman's favorite vehicle has evolved through the ages. This version is from the modern comics. Spinning reactor and awesome wings....

El gato cosmíco !

Doreamon(s), Kinder Figurine, China, 2004 (?)

Oh Nobita, what did you do this time ? It is nice to have a gentle alien taking care of things, no ? Classic Japanese !

Candygram !

Big Guy Robot, Bandai, China, 1999

Read here about Big Guy and Rusty the boy robot...

Little plastic Bioman robot...

Bio-Robo, Bioman, ?, China, 2000's

Seems he had a swim in hot lava !

BB-8

BB-8 windup with sound effects, Disney Store, China, 2016

This little guy may not have the fame of the R2 unit (yet) - but it sure hold its part in the first Disney Star Wars movie... I'm sure we'll see more of him next December...