Hosive

i already have a column about comic books but i also wanted one exclusively on collecting(mostly toys). so i thought of the collector…the supervillian identity of the comic book guy on the simpsons….this is a nerdy homage to him, collecting and indirectly to matt groening.

i read somewhere that its part of human nature to collect. so a question to ask, that is strangely revealing, is what is it that we collect?……handbags, music, stamps, coins, shoes, clothes, memories, gadgets, junk, plastic bags to reuse, rocks…

i like these well made toys…..

here’s a quick look at the second wave of toynami’s current futurama line. if you have not been to a toy store lately, you might be surprised that the days of $5 figures are gone. gone are also the days where toys are made primarily for kids. these figures are for adults. quality materials. premiere sculpting, design and art….. wasted on kiddies who’s figures wind up with missing heads and limbs.

what’s cool about the zapp brannigan figure is that it also comes with president nixon’s head in case…a bonus figure in its own right. this reminds me of the latest(terrible)x-files movie that deals with the apparently real science of severed heads still being able to live without a body. if you do some googling, you’ll find some really freaky science non-fiction research. here’s a creepy sample video from youtube if you dare(sorry, facebook…you’ll have to go to the agapeshack site to see it). futurama is more science than fiction!

this is the second of three waves…as previously stated, each figure coming with a piece of the devil robot figure….one more wave to go and we go robot building!