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The rarest of all 80s Transformers: Pepsi Optimus Prime. Surprisingly durable corporate synergy. He even got a later reissue. 

Not a photoshop, this really happened.

Also, there was a Pepsi Barbie: 

And one of the Computer Warriors was a toy hidden inside a pepsi can. 

on the collector's market, Mint In-Box Generation 1 Transformers Toys are expensive enough to make you question your life choices. Seriously.

Regular Optimus Prime, will ALL of the the accessories is worth $200-300, and that is without the original packaging for the toy. The original packaging quadruples the value for collectors.

Alex Toth: Hot Wheels “Monte Carlo” original art (1960s)

It kind of really confuses me when Barbie commercials have little girls dressing them up and brushing their hair Like no Barbie is not about fashion. Barbie is about collecting as many dolls as you can get your grubby 7 year old hands on and dominating the living room with your expansive empire of plastic women. Barbie is about creating intricate social structures and spicy inter-family conflicts between town house residents. Barbie is about formulating complex back stories for tortured Ken dolls with emotional scars. It’s about creating near-sadistic dramatic plot twists that split up marriages and cause that one Barbie you really dislike to be ceremoniously tossed down the stairs in order to be offed by the jealous ex-wife of Ken #4.

Yes, but how do you make it into a marketable commercial that won’t freak parents and caregivers out?

I’ve always had the impression that advertisers don’t really understand how girls play with their toys.

When I played with Barbies I had this thing called “The Dead Pit” which was a purple bratz laundry hamper. So whenever a Barbie got killed off she would go in there. And what I would do was I would carry her to the dead pit while singing the dead pit song. The dead pit song was just saying “The dead pit” over and over again in different tones. Anyway, once I finally reached the pit I would announce “(name) has died.” And drop her in. I would wait a few moments. Then, I would violently shake the hamper while shrieking, pretending to be the tortured souls of dead barbies of the underworld. I thought it was hilarious.

I feel like I should be horrified but I was actually way worse as a child

I wasn’t supposed to have barbies (my mother found them personally offensive) but someone got me two for my birthday one year, so then I ended up with a whole pile of them with various skintones and hair colours, with jobs and doing actiony things like horseriding to counter the possible influence 90s fashionista barbie and purfume barbie (both white and blonde) could have on me. equestrian barbie was the unstoppable dictator because she had ball jointed limbs which made her superior to the other barbies who couldn’t bend their knees. both kens were her husbands and would form a human throne to carry her about because her horse was too important to be used as a form of transport. 

some of the barbies attempted to stage a coup to overthrow her in the name of social equality but they were betrayed and the ringleaders were placed into the kettle and publicly boiled alive while all the toy citizens of my bedroom were forced to watch in case they got ideas.

offbrand mermaid barbie was a spy who was supposed to be infiltrating the remaining resistance but was actually feeding them information about equestrian barbies weaknesses (her right arm joint was coming loose. soon she would be vulnerable) eventually i was given a second horse which meant equestrian barbie could ride in a carriage, so i spent a week constructing a functioning carriage out of chopsticks and cardboard drink holders, which was given as a tithe to equestrian barbie. there was a large parade in the living room for the carriages debut, however the resistance agent who had infiltrated the build team had rigged it with an explosive and so publicly assassinated equestrian barbie, ending her brutal reigeme.

the new government ruthlessly hunted down equestrian barbies loyalists and tortured them for information by tying them up by their feet under the hot tap until my mum found me doing that and my barbies were replaced with leggos and mechano, which i used to build houses and cars for lizards i caught in the back yard.

hollow what /every/ fuck

listen friend that is only what i did to my *barbies* other notable entertainments include “finding owl pellets and reassembling the mice to make new friends”, “settling with duct taping a wooden spoon to my forhead to become a unicorn because my mother said no to knives” and “funerals for lizards, attended by all my plush toys in full mourning garb”

I no longer feel bad about my barbies being slaves to my My Little Ponies.

I just wanna add that some of my earliest Barbie memories included Evil Queen Dictator Mego Wonder Woman doll giving decrees from her balcony (which was actually a baby doll high chair, which was given to me by a relative who didn’t realize I never played with baby dolls) while the oppressed Barbies plotted revolution.  There were also high-speed chases wherein I pretended the dolls were inside Hot Wheels.

Eventually, the Barbie world shifted to telepaths on other planets and I made space ships for them from cardboard boxes and lots of tape.  The MLP were just one kind of alien.  Many of my favorite dolls ended up stained by the Mom’s-unwanted-makeup “wounds” they received in a huge fight…

(There were also, at some point, sequins used as pasties.)

I just stole all my brother’s ninja turtle weapons and had battles.

My siblings and I use to play greek god and goddessess with all of our toys…. from barbies and kens….to the toys from small soldiers….we would also add in our own gods besides the canon ones lol.

@starshiptiamat Does any of this remind you of our shenanigans?

I remember slicing the leg of one of my sister’s Barbie dolls all the way to the thigh and peeling it open. I have no idea why I did that. I also tore off my He-Man doll’s head and melted it a little in the oven. He probably had it coming. 😈

I used to be obsessed with temperature changes. We had one of those gas fireplaces with a light switch, and a LOT of GI Joes got melted on the altar of death. The ones that were not melted on the altar occasionally ended up in drinking water glasses, frozen in the refrigerator.

the Marvel Heroclix: Supernova Booster Pack packaging artwork was created by Olivier Coipel.

MMS281 - Avengers Age of Ultron : Captain America

Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron will begin hitting the theatres worldwide in just a few months! Fans are already pumped for this epic sequel and eager to see the Earth’s mightiest heroes come together again to defend the world from the menacing Ultron! Today we are excited to continue the Avengers: Age of Ultron series and officially present the new 1/6th scale Captain America Collectible Figure! The movie-accurate Captain America Collectible Figure is specially crafted based on the image of Chris Evans as Captain America/Steve Rogers in Avengers: Age of Ultron, featuring a newly painted helmeted head sculpt, a newly painted Steve Rogers head sculpt, finely tailored Captain America suit, magnetic metal Captain America shield with retractable handles, and a specially designed figure stand. Pre-order this famed super-soldier to expand your Avengers: Age of Ultron collection!

The 1/6th scale Captain America Collectible Figure specially features: - Authentic and detailed likeness of Chris Evans as Captain America in Avengers: Age of Ultron - Newly painted helmeted head sculpt - Newly painted unhelmeted head sculpt - Movie-accurate facial expression with detailed wrinkles and skin texture - Body with over 30 points of articulations - Approximately 31 cm tall - Magnets embedded in figure’s forearms and back for holding shield - Eight (8) pieces of interchangeable gloved palms including: - One (1) pair of relaxed palms - One (1) pair of fists - One (1) pair of shield holding palms with magnets - One (1) shield throwing right palm - One (1) shield catching left palm - Each piece of head sculpt is specially hand-painted Costume: - One (1) blue embossed patterned uniform with star emblem and red and white patterns - One (1) pair of blue embossed patterned pants with pouches, knee pads, and red trims - One (1) brown leather-like back shield holder and body strap - One (1) brown leather-like belt with pouches - One (1) pair of black and brown boots Weapon: - One (1) magnetic metal circular red and blue Captain America shield with retractable handles Accessories: - One (1) 1/6th scale Captain America helmet - Specially-designed figure stand with Captain America nameplate and the movie logo

Artists: Head Sculpted by Yulli & Yong Kyum, Kim Head Painted by JC. Hong Head Art Directed by JC. Hong Release date: Q2 – Q3, 2015

**salutes** 🇺🇸

Wow is that ever cool.

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MEGO MANIA!

Heroes World Comic Book Advertisement

Mego’s Super Hero Dolls

Circa 1980

My Dad drew and lettered this ad for the Heroes World store way back when #thekubertschool

Secret Wars — Mike Zeck

And you can tell its from “Secret Wars” because there’s like 2 or 3 sentences in the entire series that DO NOT end with exclamation points!

Seriously, the entire series is like that! Every sentence… Ends… With… Exaggerated… Punctuation!! Must… Read… Something… Other… Than… Secret Wars!

"Secret Wars" was an event comic book that was designed to sell toys and other merchandise, and to grow the Marvel brand in general. Basically, every hero or villain with the ability to sell was whisked away to a planet created by the Beyonder, called "Battle World" or something. The book was Jim Shooter’s baby, and people like to use Secret Wars as an example of his writing on the whole.

In retrospect, Shooter’s writing was never literary or high-minded. It’s not bad, it’s just decidedly aimed at a younger audience. So, I don’t recommend Secret Wars unless you meet an 11 year old from the ’80s. That being said, I liked Shooter’s Legion of Superheroes arc with Francis Manapul. Anyways, Secret Wars.

The book sold pretty well, and then came the toys. Along came Secret Wars II, and Marvel’s action figures were off and running. The comic book itself is a lot like this panel. Seriously: this exact panel over and over and over again. Mike Zeck’s production rate slowed down quite a bit during and after the series. Subsequently, he mostly has done cover artwork and the occasional special issue or so.