Toys!

Thanks to the arrival of the Christmas season in the retail universe, I've been running into more and more neat toys. While I'm not a consumer of random toys, I do collect the ones from Marvel comics. Even this category is so broad that I limit it to only Superhero Squad, Marvel Universe, and Mighty Muggs--and within those, only X-Men related figures. So what new X-Figs do we have today? The new line of Marvel Universe figures (H.A.M.M.E.R. Wave 1/MU Wave 6) collects Vision, (another) Spider Man, (another) Wolverine (mask-less in Jim Lee uniform), Jean Grey (Jim Lee uniform), Sunfire (Giant-Size uniform), and Warpath (X-Force uniform). I first saw them at Wal-Mart, but this news site has them for your viewing pleasure. I really want the Sunfire and Warpath figures, but we're saving up for our trip to Germany in December. There's the whole why factor that keeps me rethinking buying toys, but they sure are nice to look at. An $8 price tag makes buying them worse than groceries. Perhaps I'll just stick to superhero squad in the future, but who knows?

Speaking of such, I recently got the 2-pack with (Jim Lee) Bishop and (Jim Lee mask-less) Wolverine.



I can justify them more because the figures are cheaper and I could actually foresee letting a kid play with them. It's interesting that they're making so many figures with the Jim Lee (late 1980s, early 1990s) costumes. Perhaps Marvel and Hasbro are hoping to corner people like me who latched onto the X-Men during that time, but who knows? If I had a podcast about this kind of thing, I'd try to get a representative on there to interview about their decisions.

Either way, I know one thing for certain. The chances of me getting more Jubilee toys will be drastically increased when she comes back to the X-Men in Nation X #2 (Jan. 2010)!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I loved her short-lived miniseries, and her time in the New Warriors demonstrated her leadership abilities. Hopefully she'll join the lineup of one of the main X titles, but I think the best fit for her would be in X-Men Legacy. If the Carey plans to follow Rogue helping mutants, Jubes would totally work well with her experience both as a leader and an ex-mutant support volunteer (Generation M #2).

Oh and one more thing about toys and such, I heard that Jan. 2010 will mark the arrival of Lego Harry Potter (years 1-4) to the Lego video game series, which I have enjoyed greatly.