MOONEYES!

I am especially excited about this toy. I found it during a recent Mighty Mugg hunt. (A successful one, resulting in 2 new Transformers MMs!)

John and I picked through the selection of Hot Wheels, a typical activity, and I was delighted and surprised to come across this MOON modified little guy...

This car is one with solid Hot Wheels pedigree...a modified version of the regular repeater, Sooo Fast. But that is not what makes it so good, it is the MOON modified goodness.

I love MOONEYES! When I was a kid, my dad used to rebuild old cars, resulting in lots of car shows, drive-ins, and weekend swap meets that I would go to and we would pick through piles of old parts, customized car stuff and decals. As a kid, decals were an easy way for me to participate, resulting in a souped-up sticker collection that I wish I still had. Anyway, MOONEYES always make me think of peeking under the hood of flame-covered hot rods and curvy, sexy muscle cars with Del Shannon and the Beach Boys going in the background. (If you've got a problem with the Beach Boys, I can live with it...if you knock Del Shannon, it's on like Donkey Kong.)

So, of course I bought this car to revel in my lost youth. I now am crossing my fingers and holding my breath that I will someday find a Hot Wheel covered in a Hookers Headers decal. -sigh-

Pink Panther from the Burger King

On a particularly crappy day, John and I had lunch at a Burger King. To justify this action to myself, I ordered a kid's meal in the hopes that the child-sized portions would make up for my dietary indiscretion.

I didn't realize, at first, that this would provide me with some toy blog material. But, alas! I ended up with this:

Not the world's greatest toy, but an interesting one. It is the Pink Panther PDA! When you pop up the pink panther screen stickers fly out of the back. I was delighted by this sticker-dispensing action. Otherwise, I think it is pretty lame. I would have been happier with the Karate Chop Pink Panther, which I saw a little kid playing with.

I was amazed, though, that little kids know enough about PDA's to play with this appropriately. And the implication is that they might actually covet such a device. I can't imagine being 8 and longing for a PDA (or actually having one!). But I guess there must be some Alex P. Keatons out there who are soooooo happy about this toy.

Capsules in space...cyberspace, that is.

Here are some great capsule toy links, and a promise that I will get out there and buy some new things to blog about!!

Plastic Bamboo: Sunday Snapshot: Gashapon - an awesome image of capsule machines in Japan. (Thanks to John for this link)

Capsuled Secrets - A fanlisting for capsule toy addicts. My membership is pending.

Pyschedelic Life - A blog post about a capsule toy capsule toy. (Doesn't make sense? Read the post!)

Here are some Super Mario Soundrops, which I absolutely want!