Flea Market haul #22

Finally a few free days from work! Finally time to go to the flea market again ;)

I was super lucky to find G1 Ponies in great shape for a great price!

My little Pony - g1 from left to right : Newborn Twin Ponies - Jabber & Jebber/Tickles & Giggles
                                                        Watercolor Sea Baby Pony - Sealight
                                                        Twinkle Eyed Pony - Tic Tac Toe
                                                         Princess Brush 'n Grow Pony - Glittering Gem

A classic Barbie fake, another fake wih blue hair and a Petra doll from the 80s. They were lots of another interessting dolls...but I already regret buying these 3 since I already own so many.

Vintage Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figure by playmates: The Rat King.

Flea market haul #19

Yeah, another flea market haul =D

I tried to be strong, but I still bought a few things.

 The Neverending Story board game!!! Friends of my family owned this and we played it alot. The game as such is pretty basic, but the board and manual have nice illustrations. It's also written like a fantasy book. It's a blast to play when you are a kid and still have lots of imagination. The same guy also had the Chip & Dale NES game. First I only wanted to pick up the board game, because he asked quite much for the NES game, but then made me a deal and I couldn't resist :P
Then I stumpled upon a TMNT figure from the CG movie. Yay, I always wanted one of the newer figures and only 1€ Yay!
Then I found more TMNT figures! Panda guy and two of those than can transform into Turtles. Both are broken, but they still work well enough as normal figures and I finally have a Raphael =D

Leonardo looks so miserable. Haha!

Flea market haul #15

Went to the flea market last week, too but didn't make a post because I just picked up a Harry Potter book.

Today I found way too much. Some day you find no Barbies at all and on days like today there are tons of it. I saw a Hulla Hair Barbie who still had nice hair, but 5€ was to much for me since I don't really collect.
Saw lots of My scene Barbies, too. I somehow really like them and started to like them even more after I saw some really awesome OOAKs and repaints of them online. Now I have three Westleys at home and none of the other girls. I wanted to pick up one of the others, but they have always some kind of damage (spots on the legs, sun damage, cut hair) so Westley is still alone.

Also DVDs still sealed for very cheap. Street Fighter Movie! Such a guilty pleasure of mine! I could have picked up so much more movies. Then I find this little vintage Strawberry Shortcake figure and picked up the little owl and bottle, too so that the guy could make a proper price.

 At the last seller I saw this little box and spotted a Goliath figure !!!!! Oh how I love Gargoyles :D I saw that there were a few TMNT figures in there, too and the lady said I can have the whole box for 5€ :P

Mutatin Rocksteady is really nice. I just really wonder who hat strange guy is who looks like Peter Pan on steroids. He has no mark on him. Hmmm...

- Star Wars - Han Solo. Kenner 1996. "Kenner Deluxe Han Solo"
- Jurassic Park, 1993, Human Action Figures series 1 : Robert Muldoon & Tim Murphy
- Jurassic Park The Lost World 1997 Jurassic Park Dino-snare dirt bike (without figure)
- Jurassic Park The Lost World Glider Pacl with Ian Malcolm
- Gargoyles - Stone Armor Goliath 1st series 1995 (without the stone armor :P Well at least I think it's him)
- The Mask - Jim Carey, yellow suit, head changes
- TMNT - Basic Figures - Slash (arm broken off) 1990
- TMNT - Mutatin' Rocksteady 1992
- TMNT - Auto Mutations - Night Ninja Leo 1993
- Independance Day - Trendmasters 1996
- TMNT -  Basic Figures Robotic Bebop 1993
- Terminator 2 - Secret Weapon Terminator, Kenner 1992

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Comics - Reboot - Vol. 1 'Change is constant'

TMNT feels quite 'in' atm... I don't know if this is just me or if it is really that case. The last few months I got so hooked on TMNT even though I wasn't the hugest fan back in the day. I mean, I watched the show on TV and liked it and I saw the movies and liked them, but I never had any figures or other merchandise. IDW started last year a new Comic series, retelling the story from the beginning with many changes, but it really shows that the people working on it love the source material. I'm really open to changes, but of course there will always be things, that I prefer in the original version as well as stuff that I prefer in other adaptions.

At first I got the first two issues and then decided to buy the first tradepaperback when it came out. It collects the first 4 issues, so I didn't read anything from issue 5 and later.

The story deals with how the Turtles and Splinter got mutated and introduces April, Casey Jones and a new enemy, a street cat that got mutated as well. Here April is a scientist like in the original comics, but is younger and works with the not yet mutated Turtles and Splinter. She even gets to name them. So the four boys are not from a pet shop, but held in the labaratory and Splinter is already experimented on. He is not mutated, but has enhanced brain power (or whatever you call it) to explain why is so clever and knows so much to teach the Turtles later.
Another change is that Raphael got seperated from his brothers. I kinda like this idea as it explains his loner status in the group. Like in the original he is also the one who meets Casey Jones. Like April he is younger and has (in contrast to the original) a dark backstory. Now....Casey Jones is my favourite character and I'm not sure if I like this version or not. Here my thoughts on it :

This will be a bit spoilery.

In the IDW series Casey has a father who drinks and beats him, because he can't get over the death of his wife (Caseys mom). I'm a sucker for tragic and dark backstories, but this sounds so very, very clicheed and gets presented so fast and without feeling. Just BAMM dead mother and father who drinks on the first few pages that he is introduced. I know such things exist and it can work in a story, but that needs a bit time and development or anything.
For example it's just told trhough Casey that his father drinks because he can't deal with his wifes death, but it is never showed. There is no sense of sympathy or of his suffering. He acts and is presented just like the 'cannonfodder' thugs that normally appear. Without the dialog I would have thought he is just some guy who likes to fight and would have never guessed that he is supposed to be Caseys father, or that he is supppossed to be a drunk.
It just seems like a uninspired sob-story that way and doesn't make Casey a deeper character nor does it really explains Caseys behaviour. Casey generally appears just like a normal guy , just a clever kid and not more jaded than any other one of that age. The hockey mask and vigilante stuff doesn't really fit him.
You know who he totally reminded me of? Cyclops from X-Men Evolution! Really! Read the first issue of the comics where he is introduced to the X-Men. He has the same way of smiling.
Normally I don't have such harsh words...it isn't even meant in a harsh way. That were only the first few issues and not really time for development yet. Generally I think there is potential to this new version of Casey and I'm gratefull that he has so much 'screentime'.
For now I'm just missing the crazyness. In the original comic he didn't have a backstory, the creaters didn't want any because they thought such dark backstories where so overused. Casey is just some guy who watches to much TV and is kinda crazy, but means well. Like April puts it, he is just like a kid inside. I think that makes him such a fun character.

rant. end.

Flea market haul #14

Today was the big flea market I kept ranting on the whole last month. The wheater was great and we went quite early before it got too crowded. I went all out on buying. Sadly only one G1 Pony and a handful of G3s. Not not single G4. Videogames were wuite rare too....wellt at least older ones. Only 4 SNES games and a few controllers. What I could have bought tons of were Barbies, Barbies, Barbies, but I picked up only 3 that I liked.

- A whole bunch of Nintendo plushies :) I only wanted to pick up the Yoshi, but they sold it so cheap that I took all of them and paid them a bit more than they wanted (I'm like that...) - SNES games : 'Donkey Kong Country' and 'Zombies ate my Neighbours' Two very good games I used to play when I was younegr at friends place. Glad to finally own them myself :) - 3 Barbies I haven't looked up yet - 4 G3 Ponies - G1 Baby Pony Snookums - Polly Pocket (incomplete) - Two Teenage Mutant NInja Turtles sets Polly Pocket style (only one has some figures...those thigns are awesome) - 3 TMNT figures : Casey Jones, Fugitoid and Usagi Yojimbo !! Byebye money!