This happened:
Right about midweek I stumbled upon a large clearance sale at one of the malls on one my toy routes and what did they have? S$1 Indiana Jones 3.75"figures!
Now having not got into the line previously, I now couldn't resist, especially when I saw the assortment on Indies they had: 2 versions from Raiders of the Lost Ark, a Last Crusade Indy, 2 Kingdom of the Crystal Skull versions, a Russian soldier, and a couple of Cemetery Warriors. I grabbed all of those.
The I moved along to the Indy Adventure Heroes range which was also going for, yup you guessed it, a dollar a pop. Bought the 6 2-packs that I didn't have, then I moved on to check out some of the older toy ranges like DCSH, which was going for S$5 (Mongul, Darkseid, Bizarro, Kal-El and 1 Supergirl). I already had all of those so I was basically just browsing to see if they might have a rare clearance Supes or something. No luck there.
Then out of the corner of my eye I spot the sales guy restocking the Indy 3.75" action figures after I had picked them clean. And what did I find? Goodies like the Grail Knight, Young Indy, and Colonel Vogel, all for a dollar each! I was so pumped, that I returned the next day to find some of the stuff already picked through. I did still manage to find a Colonel Dovchenko and 2 more Russian soldiers to take my tally to 3 of those. 3 more Cemetery Warriors later, I found I had 5 total after the previous day's hunting. Talk about a dirt cheap army builders! I'm happy with 3 of each, so the extra goes into the "Hunting Buddy Goodwill Basket," (or HBGB for short) so Bro, you got some love comin' your way, Rangerlord. ;)
I also managed to find movie Hulk figures going for S$5, so I picked up this guy:
Well this is yet another line I steered clear of, considering the articulation of the figures wasn't too great and I really didn't like the overall look of the hulk figures. But I can now thank GI Joe Rise of the Cobra for making want this guy.No, not Hulk, but rather the Hulkbuster!
After all the Joe goodness from the movie toy line I gave this little fella a better look and recognized now that the Hulkbuster was made from some Joe parts and was nicely articulated. More random guys for mass action shots. And I get a bonus mega kicking Hulk to boot. Yo Joe!
Just check out how Joe Hulkbuster's he's eating big Hulk foot in the package!And that's not all.
After the road bump of a clearance sale was done with, I made it up to the toy shop I was originally headed for and what did I find?
Some Marvel Universe Series 2 goodness:
Now I have read about this series somewhere online, but I think I didn't see any photos.
So to find them in a brick and mortar store was somewhat refreshing. Jean Grey is especially gorgeous looking. She could very well be the prettiest 3.75" Marvel Universe figure for a long time to come. These I got for the Rangerlord as well. Hopefully I get the chance to see Jean Grey on the shelves again!
So a good week all in all and I really hope to get back to posting more often, hopefully once in 3 days at least.
