Sep 162020
 

Hello! Have you been patiently waiting for the new mash-up to hit? Well it’s Wednesday so the time is here!

When I did the original set of 80’s toys mash-ups that focused on the heroes, it was fairly easy to find reference pics. Plenty of fan art to choose from. Much less so for some of the villains. Golden Girl isn’t the most popular toy line, so finding some quality pictures of Dragon Queen wasn’t easy. I somehow managed and here’s Sass as Dragon Queen.

That’s all for this week. What toy line are you hoping to see next Wednesday?

Sep 092020
 

Hello there reader! Thank you for dropping by! If you came by to see a new mash-up, you’re in luck! That’s what this is! Let’s get to it shall we?

Crystar is one of the coolest action figures everywhere. And then there’s his sworn enemy, his brother Moltar. He was a normal man once, but with a name like Moltar, I think his future was sealed.

Here’s Barnaby as Moltar. The figure was one-tone red, but I thought I’d try to make him look more like living lava. What do you think?

That’s all for this week. Come back next Wednesday to see a new toy line revisited!

Sep 022020
 

Welcome back!

We’re starting with Visionaries and here’s Zoë as Virulina. Virulina isn’t a main villain. I don’t even believe she actually got a toy, so I’m bending the rules on the very first shot. I’m starting quiet. 🙂

That’s all for this week. Which toy line will we see next Wednesday? You’ll have to come back to see!

Dec 092015
 

Ahoy mateys! It isn’t talk like a pirate day it’s mash-up day and I kept the best for the last (for this theme)! Let’s get to it!

Captain Power was a technological jump in toys. The action figures were pretty standard for the time, though I really liked the vac-metal armor the heroes wore. No, what was special about the toys were the vehicles and playset accessories. They were interactive and reacted to signals transmitted during the television show (live action instead of the traditional animated fare). The Power-On Platform would activate with lights and sounds at the same time that Captain Power armored up in the show and the jets could “fire” at the television targets to score points and get shot. If you took too many hits, the ship would eject its pilot and the game would be over. The story was a bleak post-apocalyptic affair where Captain Power and his soldiers of the future were resistance fighters trying to take down Lord Dread and his army of machines in the wake of the Metal Wars where man fought machines – and machines won. I believe I had all the first wave figures from the series. I also had the Power-Up Platform which was cool in theory but didn’t really do anything except have a flashing light and a neat sound effect. The jet fighters were out of my price range so I didn’t get those at the time. A friend ended up giving me his Phantom Stryker years later. The show was long gone so I don’t believe I ever really got to try the game. The show aired really early in the morning so I never did get to see all the episodes. I have the DVD set but I’ve yet to watch it all the way through.

Here’s Big Oonch as Captain Power. The line work is pretty standard, but what I feel really sets this piece apart is the colouring. I’m REALLY happy with the way he turned out. Don’t forget you can click on the picture to enlarge it.

Captain-Power

That’s all for this week. Next week is the start of a new theme that promises to be a little simpler style-wise but promises to show my artistic roots. See you next Wednesday for the reveal!

Dec 022015
 

I was about to post this week’s mash-up last Wednesday when I remembered that the hint I’d given the week before was for the ThunderCats mash-up. So this week’s post was done a week in advance!

The Visionaries was the name of Rick Martel’s team for the 1990 Survivor Series, it featured…no wait, that’s the wrong write-up. Visionaries was a toy line from Hasbro that featured action figures with hologram stickers that represented magical totems that burst forth from the characters’ armor/staffs/vehicles. It was a toy line that I got surprisingly deep into with several figures and TWO! vehicles (unusual for me given how much more expensive vehicles tend to be). I loved the design of the Lancer Cycle. They were similarly articulated to G.I.Joe figures but in a slightly larger scale.  I enjoyed playing out wrestling matches with them because I could really get them into some nice lock-up poses. I couldn’t have really told you much about the story behind the toys at the time but it featured the heroic Spectral Knights fighting against the Darkling Lords on the faraway world of Prysmos where technology had failed and humanity had to rely on the power of magic.

Here’s Cyran dressed up in Ectar’s armor. Ectar was the Light Cycle’s driver, which is why I remember him the most even though Leoric was the leader of the Spectral Knights. Ectar’s totem was a fox, so Todrick gets to make a cameo as Ectar’s ‘hologram’. As always, click on the picture to enlarge it.

Visionaries

That’s all for this week. Next week, is the final post of the series and it promises to be a powerful installment. See you next Wednesday for the reveal.