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Rik@slightlyonfire· 28d

Battle Beasts Diving Duckbill! Look at his little snorkel!!! What’s not little is his oddly gigantic left hand (which he’s tired of jokes about. The first such incident occurred in 1956…). Not sure why it is so enormous compared to the right but I’m sure it helps him swim. His weapon is super cool

Battle Beasts Diving Duckbill - a grey anthropomorphic duckbilled platypus wearing olive cyborg battle armour and an adorable red snorkel. He has a cool two-pronged jagged purple spear

I really like the back of this Beast, the red oxygen tank thingies are cool and there appears to be little jet thingies on the back of his calves

Diving Duckbill clashes with Ferocious Tiger, raising his enormous hand for a mighty bitchslap

Duckbill stands triumphant with his spear impaling his foe

Rik@slightlyonfire· 29d

Definitely an underrated castle. Highly recommend the Battle Station add-on, it make a great back door

Rik@slightlyonfire· 29d

Some right bargains to be had on eBay at the moment. Does £90,000 for an incomplete Centurions Doc Terror tickle your fancy? Or maybe £49,000 for a yellowed Ghostbusters Wolfman is more your speed? (Some fuckery going on with that seller)

A selection of comically overpriced action figures on eBay UK

The Jabba and Slithe axe are slightly less mental but then you get to the Wolfman and OH MY GOD

I’m sticking some stuff on tomorrow, mine will look like a right bargain in comparison

Rik@slightlyonfire· 29d

Battle Beasts Shadow Warriors / Laser Beasts Brain Mouse! I love his mouse-shaped blaster (wonder if he calls it Pinky?). His cheesy armour and crushing claw make him really stand out and he’s one of the best for showing off the element crystal gimmick of the Laser Beasts (this one is clearly water)

Battle Beasts Shadow Warriors / Laser Beasts Brain Mouse - a humanoid mouse in yellow cyborg battle armour. He has a pincher for one hand and, unusually for Battle Beasts, a tail

The crystal that shows off his element . These replaced the rubsigns of earlier beasts

Brain Mouse made a friend (Kingdom Rattrap). This angle shows of his mousey blaster

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 11

Battle Beasts Deer Stalker! This deadly deer is ready to rule the rut! He’s dripping in weapons with a honking great drill hand, some kind of laser cannon on his shoulder, hip-mounted missile launchers and a freakin’ bat’leth. Cool shades too 😎

Battle Beasts Deer Stalker - a humanoid deer in green cyborg battle armour stands ready to rumble!

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 10

The sun goes down over my lovely evening walk route both literally and figuratively. Soon this field will be newbuild houses and the hares and poppies replaced by pricks with Teslas. Almost all my local farmland has been built on in the past few years. Very sad. Goodbye view x

A fierce orange sun goes down over a scorched field. Kinda looks like the Kenner Jurassic Park packaging

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 10

Battle Beasts Triple Threat Snake! Makes King Hiss look like a commoner! Shoulder cannons, interesting anatomy and a badass axe

Battle Beasts Triple Threat Snake - a humanoid snake (or possibly three humanoid snakes) in cyborg battle armour carrying an axe. Each arm is another snake head and he (they?) has cool red shoulder blasters

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 10

The yellow one is from a bootleg inverted colours G1 Sinnertwin

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 9

Can I offer you a piece of Pez from a vintage Nermal dispenser in this trying time?

A Nermal from Garfield Pez dispenser. It’s marked 1991

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 9

Battle Beasts Leapin’ Lizard! He’s frilled to meet you!

Battle Beasts Leapin’ Lizard - an anthropomorphic frilled lizard in royal blue cyborg battle armour carrying a cool axe-like weapon. He has two interesting red orbs on his chest

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 8

Battle Beasts Blitzkrieg Bat! Presumably uses his robotic eye to help him hunt down prey at night, his wicked hook hand and axe to dispatch them, and his German accent to gloat about it afterwards. Looks like he his missiles on his crotch which is… a place to keep them alright

Battle Beasts Blitzkrieg Bat - an anthropomorphic bay in cyborg battle armour with a Borg-ish robot eye and a green hook for a hand

he’s one of the few beasts that has his rubsign somewhere other than his chest (his wing)

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 7

Battle Beasts War Weasel! The only thing cooler than this mighty mustelid's name is his look - gas mask AND gun arm! Whatever war he's going to you can bet it'll be a dirty one. I don't think you'd ever guess that he was supposed to be a weasel but he’s so cool you don't care #vintagetoytursday

Battle Beasts War Weasel - an anthropomorphic orangey weasel in greenish blue cyborg battle armour. He weirds a huge bladed weapon, wears a gas mask and has a badass-looking gun arm

War Weasel has moved inside but he’s no less deadly! Interestingly he’s one of the very few series 1-3 beasts with any kind of firearm (… or woodarm. Or waterarm)

…at an attacking Rocky Rhino and Barbarian Bear! Rocky gets a blast to the face whilst the bear gets the blade!

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 7

It’s a shame his (still very cool) Toy Story That Time Forgot upgrade wasn’t more Dino Rider-y. Interesting that they both add mechanical upgrades to the arms (the TSTTF version is substantially beefier though)

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 7

“I love you Doctor Zaius!”

BotBots Calamity Keys and Battle Beasts Ossified Orangutan take in the rapturous applause for their performance

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 6

Stop the Planet of the Apes - I want to get off! 🎶 Doctor Zaius, Doctor Zaius! Doctor Zaius, Doctor Zaius! Doctor Zaius, Doctor Zaius! Oooooooo, Doctor Zaius! 🎶

Battle Beasts Ossified Orangutan is hailed by some of his fellow primate Beasts - Gargantuan Gorilla (both red and orange versions), Tarsier Tyrant and Manic Mandril

The magnificent monkey himself looking resplendent in his cyborg battle armour

A back view showing off some interesting detailing

Can I play the piano anymore?

Of course you can

Well, I couldn't before!

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 6

Battle Beasts Ossified Orangutan! One of the Borg-iest beasts with a cool cyborg claw arm. GREAT name! Love the spear too

Battle Beasts Ossified Orangutan - an orangutan in turquoise cyborg battle armour with a big purple spear. The left arm is replaced with a three-clawed robotic arm

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 5

Coelophysis Swarm! I’ve built up enough Coelophysis to recreate the Kenner Collector’s card scene. Dream come true! I’m tempted to try to do all of the cards (already done Dimetrodon) though some might be trickier than others. We shall see…

Coelophysis Swarm - the Kenner Jurassic Park trading card that shows a swarm of Coelophysis speeding past a fallen tree as what looks like Malcolm and Muldoon watch on…

… and here’s my attempt to recreate the card with real toys! What do you think?

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 5

Jurassic Park Coelophysis! This excellent set has 2 features that Kenner would sadly not repeat - being a 2-pack of smaller dinosaurs (GREAT idea, crazy they never did it again) & bendy wire constrictor bodies that gave them great posability (their paint rubbing off easily might’ve killed that idea)

Kenner Jurassic Park Coelophysis - two small carnivorous Triassic Dinosaurs perch on fallen trees in the jungle of Isla Nublar. One is standing, one is crouching. Though both have purple snouts and white undersides one is grey on top and the other a pea-soupy green. This is odd considering they are clones - maybe they are from different batches or maybe life has found a way… 🚹🚺

They grey “standing” Coelophysis stands atop a log

The green “crouching” Coelophysis gets ready to pounce on an unsuspecting Buff Kenner Denis Nedry…

The green Coelophysis closes its jaws around Nedry’s neck as the grey one runs off with a torn-off arm. The green one shows off the main gimmick of the pair - bendy “constrictor” bodies. Basically the are bend’ems with wires inside their rubber body/neck/tails that allows them a fantastic degree of articulation (their paint did idea is to wrap them around human victims). Great idea though their paint really does adhere well to their soft rubber bodies though the resulting paint wear can be kinda handwaved as markings

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 4

Battle Beasts Shadow Warriors / Laser Beasts Shool! A wicked-looking centipede with a cool blaster. Love how his arms look like OG centipedes. As ever with the Laser Beasts I wonder what his Hasbro name might be (“Shool” is is the Takara name, no Hasbro name has ever surfaced). Centurion Centipede?

Battle Beasts Shadow Warriors / Laser Beasts Shool - a vaguely humanoid orange & grey cyborg centipede with a marble in his tummy and an inspection blaster. He’s AWESOME

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 3

Tempo Talking Stories Robo Machine Featuring Challenge of the Gobots book & cassette packs! Similar in format to the Transformers Ladybird books/tapes. The art/stories aren’t as good though they use largely the same voice cast (Peter Marinker et al) with the addition of an excellent lady as Crasher

Four carded Tempo Talking Stories Robo Machine Featuring Challenge of the Gobots book & cassette packs in a row. Al but the first have yellowed bubble over the cassette which is annoying

A closer look at two of the cards “Champions of Lixil” and “Collision Course Comet” (which as a very toy-based Crasher on the front cover)

The second two - “The Weeds of Calcheron” and “The Wagner Sirens” - with noting at the point the card cover features and orange Thruster and Leader-1 is blue like his variant toy

The back of the cards featuring Cop-Tur and Smallfoot in robot mode (using their animation models), the sake blue Leader-1 from the front cover and a fetching yellow Zod

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 3

More from my lil library! This lot is mostly annuals (and mostly Transformers at that) with some fun activity books and the all-important Transformers Universe trade paperback (THE sacred text)

A selection of 80s (and one 90s) books and annuals. Mostly Transformers though also a few Thundercats, Visionaries and Masters of the Universe

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 2

Tempo Thundercats Gift Box! 4 fabulous adventure story books! 4 stories with music *and* sound effects on a long play cassette! Entertainment for home *OR* in the car! Was this better than the iPads kids today have? Absolutely fucking not! But they were entertaining enough & we cherished them

Tempo Thundercats Gift Box - a thin plastic giftbox with Lion-O, Slithe, Cheetara and Snarf on the cover and a big yellow diamond promising “4 fabulous adventure storybooks

The back cover. It features cross-sells and promises “excellent quality cassettes” and a “string storage case”

The interior of the case with the cassette on one side and the hook on the other

The four books “Exodus” and “The Mutants’ Alliance” (self-explanatory adaptations of the first two episodes) “Quest for the Magic Crystal” (adaptation of “The Time Capsule”) and “The Evil Chaser” (“Mandora The Evil Chaser”). Weirdly the last two books change from landscape format to portrait

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 2

Some more good reading! A nice selection of 1980s toy property tie-in books. Stickers, puzzles, albums etc. It’s easy to forget how boring childhood could be sometimes and these definitely helped pass the time

A selection of 1980s (and one 1990s) toy tie-in books & sticker albums from such brands as Transformers, Masters of the Universe, Bravestarr, Gobots, The Real Ghostbusters and Visionaries

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 1

Kinder “Transformers” train! This one hails from the 1990s though is oddly more primitive than the 80s ones with a simple transformation & the face & body detailing provided by stickers. The whole thing is *very* reminiscent of the Gobot Loco to the point it feels like a knock-off of him

Kinder Surprise“Transformers” train bot - a black robot with grey arms and golden face/body detailing (which is very flat by virtue of being stickers)

The train guy can move the arms at the shoulders and take steps which isn’t actually bad articulation for a kit this size

To of the train showing off the “v-27” decal

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jul 1

Tempo Talking Stories Thundercats Exodus book & recording set! Read the book! Listen to the stories! For entertainment at home *and* in the car! As a kid I got a kick out of this release using the actual voice actors from the cartoon as it made it feel a bit more special than standard story tapes

Tempo Talking Stories Thundercats Exodus book and recording set sealed on the card. The colourful card boasts that this is entertainment for at home *and* in the car!

The back of the card provides background on the Thundercats, nice art and cross-sells

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jun 30

I’m reminded what a pretty set the Transformers Ladybird books make. This is the full set including the very rare frieze (there are lots of very slight cover/price variations for completely insane completists). Hard to emphasise how foundational these book & their readalong tapes were for UK kids

The full set of loose Transformers Ladybird books along with a (vaguely) in-continuity action frieze

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jun 30

Just had a close encounter with a ring ouzel behind my greenhouse. I’d have been less surprised if it has been an alien. Last time I checked I wasn’t on a mountain or moorland. Wasn’t remotely bothered by me, two feet away at one point. Magical! @rspb.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jun 30

I was in Loughborough today & popped into see my pal Andy at his shop Winged Ape (sells all sorts of retro toys, clothes, records & antiques). Shop is looking rather lush in its bigger & brighter new home with a great selection of toys (some STONKING Transformers & Gobots). Go-real-a bargain in! 🦍🪽

A shot of the new home of Winged Ape which shows the toys and some of the clothing racks

Toy shelves with figures, cars, dolls, records and books

Some lovely Pretenders, various monsters and a STUNNING Gobots Monsterous

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jun 30

The scared texts! Didn’t buy anything as I’ve got them all a dozen times over but it was nice to see them in a charity shop as it’s been a while (used to be that EVERY charity shop would have at least one 80s character Ladybird book)

A selection of 80s character Ladybird books - He-Man, She-Ra and Transformers

Rik@slightlyonfire· Jun 29

2/2 were gorgeous toys & very well made. They were also similar to Ulysses 31 in that they did much better business in continental Europe. Oh and now the Inspector Gadget theme tune is stuck in your head, isn’t it? You’re welcome.