Set #7018 Viking Ship challenges the Midgard Serpent.

Before I tag up the last Robotech Segmant, I'm posting this old review I did a while back.

Set #7018 Viking Ship challenges the Midgard Serpent.

What had become my Second Favorite Lego Set ever to build, this was more than a blast to set up. That along with it being a Viking Ship (My second favorite Lego series next to their short run of Ninja's) made it even cooler. I have two Viking sets left to get to complete the collection. The Viking fortress and the Viking Chess set which will be basically a soldier factory for my ships instead of the game board it's intended to be.

With next Friday coming and my purchase of more shelving to display my sets on, I've been slowly piecing my collection back together from the move. This Set had been in my Cellar for years before now, with time and space I went at it in the morning and had it done in a few hours. The ship is massive, the serpent is awesome and I sit here wondering why the hell didn't they have this when I was a kid, If only Lego came out with a Roman series and a coliseum set… One can dream. But here are some shots of the overall size of this thing.

What made it awesome besides the KEG shown here –

And the Vikings Ho Cage – shown here –

Was the God Damn Viking rotisserie complete with Turkey Legs for The Hungry Hokita or Sgt Blades –

The General stands here watching for ships of Ninja.

And the intimidating Dragonhead gracing the front.

I tried using the pool for some ocean affects. I think on the general it came out perty darn good. Well That's that.

Robotech Vehicles.

Now back to our regularly scheduled program. Robotech the vehicles. I will have two more robotech Posts after this, so here goes, Vehicles from robotech are sweet, Before the master collection which I will cover later, There was Matchbox, Harmony gold, and then something from a 90's cartoon series called Robotech Exo squad, which for the most part were the older 80's vehicles re issued. I had as a kid the original Invid shock trooper which fought my Tie Interceptor (with out wings) and Jetfire tranformer on a daily basis. All I have left is his arm, Paper work and a real cool Robotech Club form.




The Bioroid Armor and Invid Scouts below are purchases I did recently, Both are from the Matchbox Line, I also placed a Exo Squad Scout trooper so readers could see there is almost no difference between the both versions other than about ten years of production between both.




Now for Exo Squad, It was a great time for me to buy a few of the vehicles I needed and although I never snagged the Hover Tank Dana Drove which was pure awesomeness, I did grab a ton of armors, My favorites were the minis below, Also check the one front card and the profiles of each perspective armor for stats and story's.






Then there were the bigger six inch counter parts, With more maneuverability, I had all four of the good guys at one point, But now only have the Gladiator.



And last but not least the Zentradi Power armors. The vehicles that reeked havoc inside the SDF1 Flown By Myria Sterling. Below are two from exo squad and two from The Matchbox line, Notice the totally different colors of both sets! A great army building ploy? :)

Dusty Trails. Samurai Arrow Cutter.

The forerunner of Posed figures Dusty Trails was one of the best, Not sure why they went out of business yet McFarlane picked up where they left off. below is the One Dusty Trails figure I snagged, The Samurai. Although they had plans for more, they never got to it before going out of business. Enjoy.

McFarlane Halo.

WE Interupt the present showing of Robotech to bring you this AWESOME News.

McFarlane HALO figures are on the shelves, Thanks to Boba Cox Ninja I was given the hook up on the first wave of HALO figures at WAl-Mart I snagged the ones I want the Spartans. Check out below the package art. More to come on variants and hard to finds!!!!

Robotech Carded Part 3. Matchbox Line

Well the last three Robotech figures Carded that I have are below. The loose ones will follow this before the segment on the vehicles that I have. The Dana Sterling one I have below is the one favorite I have. Not so much that I loved the character as I do the armor, a cross between Greek and Roman design for a modern age it was my favorite, Picture those flying the Alpha Fighters, Bad ass!!!

Micronized Zentradi.

Zor. - I hated this charecter.

Dana = Awesome.

Robotech part 2. Harmony Gold figures.

A few years after Matchboxes run, Which I will cover next post. Harmony Gold re-produced most of the Robotech figure line, The following two were the only ones Not produced by matchbox even though Lynn Minmei was shown on the back of the cards, she was only released with the Zentradi variant of Miriya through Harmony Gold. So here they are carded front and back. Enjoy.


Lynn Minmei



Miriya

ROBOTECH Part 1. Irwin Matchbox figures.

Robotech has always been one of my favorite cartoons, Not as much as Starblazers but close. So it was no wonder in the 80's when Matchbox created a figure line did I jump on board. The next week I will dedicate the blogg posts to my Robotech Collection. I do not have every piece and to view all of the Robotech collectibles check out http://www.robotechmuseum.com/

These posts will focus on the pieces I have for my current collection although I will part with most of it, I do plan on keeping a few parts I really like, such as the Shadow Fighter from the Master Collections. I wouldn't mind one day having all the alphas from that series but if not no biggy, I've had allot more to My Robotechs such as the Gaiken Cyclones and Alpha, and tons of odds and ends, but Robotech was such a small part of my collection that it never was that big of a thing for me to let go of pieces and parts.

Today we focus on the Two carded figures I have from the Matchbox Irwin collection. These are a Canadian version of the American figures and come complete with French and English Translations of the cards. The Lunk is the second to rarest figure to find Carded. The first being the Black Suited Myria Sterling. She was the one figure who had a total of Four versions made in production. The red suited, Zentradi Micro Zentradi Biggen and the Black suited.

below find images of my Carded Scott and Lunk figures. Both front and back for your viewing pleasure.

Lunk - Irwin/Matchbox.




Scott Bernard Irwin/Matchbox

Lego Indians.

A series of legos that was short but sweet, I only got a few of these sets, and in weeding my herd of toys they went the way of the dinosaur, yet deserve a spot immortalized on my Toy Blogg. One of the few historic lego series (if only Lego made a Rome series – Something I hinted to them and got a generic response back to in e-mail form) Below are some of the coolest little lego sets made for a series that saw very few hard core collectors.

The first is Lego Set #6709 Tribal Chief was a Christmas gift years back. A Lone Chief needed friend so I had a buddy in Australia hook me up with the following sets below.

Enjoy.

#6709 tribal Chief.

#6718 Raindance ridge.

#2845 Indian Chief.

#2846 Indian Kayak.

The Indian Family.

21rst Century Toys Ultimate Soldier 1:18 and 1:32 line.

21rst Century Toys Ultimate Soldier 1:18 line.

When I first saw this line in a TRU in Burlington Vermont I went crazy, a WWII line dedicated to the GI Joe Scale 3 ¾ scale. I bought every German and American figure, Fighter and land vehicle they had out. Then one day a year later, a friend in need needed money, So I sold the entire collection. Save for one craft, The F4U Corsair, (wrongly labeled as a F4Y) I also had a massive amount of 1:32 scale figures and tanks and later sold all of them to help pay for bills, and gave my entire collection of aircraft away to a friend. But, all of this being said, I bring to you below pictures of the F4U, this aircraft was partial to me because it was flown by my Grand Father during WWII for the Marine Corps. The last of the 21rst toy line that I have, yet not the least. Below that I’ve posted 4 pictures of the 1:32 scaled ones I no longer have yet entered into a Diorama contest years back. Enjoy.

The following was taken from the entry I had done from 2/19/2003

I got right into 32X do to one fact and that was that they were the same scale as the 1:32 plane models that my Grand pa had built for me when I was a kid. I'm carrying that tradition in building my own and found that the 32X vehicles and men are a perfect match, So began my obsession :)

This is my very first 1/32 Model ever built it is of a FW-190D-9 flown by Gerhard Michalski, the last Geschwader Kommodore of JG 4 Neukirchen/Germany, April 1945. I had to mix and match different decals from three other planes to get this ones specific markings but I believe it came out half way decent for my first go at it. I included the scout car and a LT. to give the run way some character.

This plane My Grand Pa built years ago for me. It is my favorite model to date. He did the markings of the defenseof the Reich scheme and seeing he catapulted me into modeling I only felt it right to use his model in a Dio. I have it flying over a pair of Tigers on the frozen grounds of the Russian front.

I loved The movie 'Enemy at the Gates' In the film there are two or three cut scenes at the eastern front where there are a row of tanks and in the back ground you can see the German HQ tent. I thought, Hey that would make a great Dio. I decided to get a couple dead bonsai trees and prop them in the background and using the over three feet of hellish snow mother nature has graced us with around here I made a small mound and nicely place three of my Tigers at a parking position. I added the 32X German in over coat because he's one of the only Germans that 21rst released that looks like he could some what with stand the cold of the Eastern front .

This is a model of a Messerchmitt ME 163B-a1 Komet of II/JG400 Based at Brandis. I decided to use the back ground (A partially done painting by my X Wife) as an indoor dio. I used the 32x Fallshirmjager because I thought he would look perfect for looking up at a flying rocket as it roared over head, Yes they probably didn't fly straight like this but who knows, Maybe the Komet could be soaring over this hill side for a landing. Either way I think it works.