Well, maybe
not Indiana Jones himself, but two of the rarer figures from last year's movie-spawned toy line, in 3.75-inch scale!
I give to you, Colonel Vogel and the Grail Knight! Both these characters come from my favouritest Indy movie of all-time, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It's a pity that the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull turned out to be quite the dud, but the great thing is that a year down the road, the toys are going for clearance!
For all you Singaporean readers out there (or not ;P), I found these Inidana Jones figures going for S$1 (US$0.70) a pop at Carrefour Suntec City toy clearance about 6 weeks back. And boy did I grab
a few a bunch a whole butt-load of 'em! By the time the sale ended, all they had left were Mutt Williams figures. Yup, Shia got, and still gets no love. :P
Finding the Grail Knight and Colonel Vogel has got to probabaly be the BEST toy hunting experience ever. For one, I got these rare guys for next to nothing (especially the Grail Knight, who sems to be chase/rare/short-packed in every toy form) and two, Colonel Vogel's body and accessories have been reused for a Marvel Universe character--you guesed it: SDCC Red Skull!
So the plan was to get Vogel and Red Skull and do a head switch whenever the evil Nazi villain felt like a change of costume. After all, there's gotta be at least 4 different versions of Captain America out there, so why shouldn't ol' Skull face have his own variant too?
So how do these year-old Hasbro 3.75" figures comepare to the new Marvel Universe and GI Joe Rise of Cobra figs? Find out after the jump!
And what a bunch of stuff I got. I know I've written plenty over the last 3 days, so I'll keep this review of Day 3 short on words and long on pictures; pictures of the swag I snagged for cheap!
I give to you, Colonel Vogel and the Grail Knight! Both these characters come from my favouritest Indy movie of all-time, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It's a pity that the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull turned out to be quite the dud, but the great thing is that a year down the road, the toys are going for clearance!
Finding the Grail Knight and Colonel Vogel has got to probabaly be the BEST toy hunting experience ever. For one, I got these rare guys for next to nothing (especially the Grail Knight, who sems to be chase/rare/short-packed in every toy form) and two, Colonel Vogel's body and accessories have been reused for a Marvel Universe character--you guesed it: SDCC Red Skull!
So the plan was to get Vogel and Red Skull and do a head switch whenever the evil Nazi villain felt like a change of costume. After all, there's gotta be at least 4 different versions of Captain America out there, so why shouldn't ol' Skull face have his own variant too?
