Showing posts with label Pop Culture League. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pop Culture League. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Pop Culture League: Future Toys

Future Collectibles

What will be the hot collectible in 2046.

The League is always open to new members! Got a blog? Write a post in response to the weekly challenge, and you’ll be included. It’s that easy!
Once you put up a post on your site add a comment below with the URL. Try to incorporate at least three of your fellow League members’ links (but more would be great!) into the article you wrote, or you can also link to them on social media.
By cross-posting like this, we will help each other out by sending new readers to each other’s sites. Have fun!
(Wondering what the heck this is all about? We’re recruiting for this loose-knit, rag tag crew! Here are the details for contributing to The League.)

The full range of Z-Bots figures, vehicles, and play sets can be quote daunting for a Z-Bots collector. There don't seem to be many Z-Bots fans.  It was a weird toy series, especially being under Galoobs Mirco Machines banner.  Luckily, I am not a completionist, and while I may be envious of those with super rare series 4 figures and hard to find play sets, I am quite happy with my collection.  Here it is!


Not even close to a complete collection, but still an impressive little army.  Gathering them all together for one group shot was no east task, and I can see I missed a few.  If you want to see some closeups of my collection check out the Z-Bots & Voids page of Toy-Disorderly .



Other future toys and collectibles:

Brother Midnight

Alexis

Dwite

Shawn

Tony




Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Pop Culture League Challenge: Red State/Blue State

Pop Culture League Challenge: Red State/Blue State

Last week, the League was all about Pop Culture Presidents, and now we’re going to make things a little easier this week, to hopefully see a few more participants. Where all those Instagrammers at??? This week’s challenge to the Pop Culture League is…

Red State/Blue State

Snap a red and/or blue themed photo.

The League is always open to new members! Got a blog? Write a post in response to the weekly challenge, and you’ll be included. It’s that easy!
Once you put up a post on your site add a comment below with the URL. Try to incorporate at least three of your fellow League members’ links (but more would be great!) into the article you wrote, or you can also link to them on social media.
By cross-posting like this, we will help each other out by sending new readers to each other’s sites. Have fun!
(Wondering what the heck this is all about? We’re recruiting for this loose-knit, rag tag crew! Here are the details for contributing to The League.)
Gonna use this opportunity to check out my favorite Topps card series, GPK.  Check out the limited edition 2016 Election cards HERE.
GPK version of "Dump"
Anyone else excited for Trump's new reality show?
Interesting twist on an old classic.  Isn't there a special jail for rich people?  I guess they can afford to bribe their way out

...

Not sure what this is referencing.  I didn't watch the debates, i don't believe in torture.


Feel da Bern!

I don't get this one either. Love that fly though!
This really demeans King Kong and Godzilla!


And the winner is....




Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Pop Culture League Challenge: Cast Your Ballot!

Last week, the League was all about Halloween, and now we’ll switch gears to another topic that seems to be on everyone’s mind. This week’s challenge to the Pop Culture League is…

Cast your Ballot!

Pop culture presidents.

The League is always open to new members! Got a blog? Write a post in response to the weekly challenge, and you’ll be included. It’s that easy!
Once you put up a post on your site add a comment below with the URL. Try to incorporate at least three of your fellow League members’ links (but more would be great!) into the article you wrote, or you can also link to them on social media.
By cross-posting like this, we will help each other out by sending new readers to each other’s sites. Have fun!
(Wondering what the heck this is all about? We’re recruiting for this loose-knit, rag tag crew! Here are the details for contributing to The League.)
Running with Action Figure Barbecue's Re-Halloween idea, I want to take this opportunity to squeeze in some more Halloween discussion.

During the current election cycle I couldn't help but think of one of the Simpson's greatest episodes, Treehouse of Horror VII: Citizen Kang.  The situation in this episode is eerily similar in to our currently reality.  There is even a Clinton involved, voice by Phil Hartman, God rest his soul.




So, who will you vote for? KANG or KODOS?

Count the ballots of other Pop Culture League Members below:



Saturday, October 29, 2016

Pop Culture League Challenge: Here Comes Halloween! - 2016 Halloween Toys in Review




Pop Culture League Challenge: Here comes Halloween!


Last week, the League was all about fears and frights, and we’re going to wrap up the Halloween theme this week with one last topic. This week’s challenge to the Pop Culture League is…

Here comes Halloween!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

The League is always open to new members! Got a blog? Write a post in response to the weekly challenge, and you’ll be included. It’s that easy!
Once you put up a post on your site add a comment below with the URL. Try to incorporate at least three of your fellow League members’ links (but more would be great!) into the article you wrote, or you can also link to them on social media.
By cross-posting like this, we will help each other out by sending new readers to each other’s sites. Have fun!
(Wondering what the heck this is all about? We’re recruiting for this loose-knit, rag tag crew! Here are the details for contributing to The League.)
This will likely be my last post for a while.  I wanted to post every day in October, but alas, I'm too dag gum busy!  To wrap up the final Pop Cultue League challenge for Halloween I thought I would share my thought on 2016's Halloween toy must haves.
LEGO Series 16
There were 3 must have's from LEGO Series 16, and I finally found the ones I was looking for:
Cyborg Woman, Devil Boy, and Vamp Boy


Imaginext Series 7
Fisher Price Imaginext really knocked it out of the park again! I really want almost all of these, but two of them are way too good to pass up for sure, Pumpkin Ghost, and A FREAKING GHOSTBUSTER!!!!
Check out that PKE Reader!



Awesome Proton Pack!

Playmobil Mystery Fi?ures series 10

THE STILT GHOST!!!  Halloween 2016's unofficial mascot!  Just look at him!

Stilt Ghost

Isn't he glorious!?  The only really Halloweeny figures, unless you count the cool wizard and the new robot, which was included in my submission for Day 24 of the #Miniween2016 challenge on Instagram.

Mechanical Monstrosity
When I first tried to put this guy together his arm shot off and I couldn't find it for weeks!


Hot Wheels 2016 Halloween Cars

Normally Mattel's Hot Wheels releases 5 special Kroger/Fred Meyer exclusive Halloween versions of their vehicles, and sometimes Target also has their own exclusives.  This year we saw 8 new Halloween cars!  Check them out!

Bone Shaker, this one has seen may Halloween versions.  I like the spectral wheels

Audacious

Deora II, my favorite this year!

16 Angels

Ryura LX

Dieselboy

Blvd. Bruiser & Vandetta

McDonald's The Great Pumpkin

             



             

That pretty much covers the 2016 Halloween toy high lights.  Did I miss something good? What toys did you pick up?

Halloween cometh for these Pop Culture League members as well:




Monday, October 17, 2016

Pop Culture League Challenge: Are you scared?

Last week, the League was all about Zombies, and we’re going to continue with the Halloween theme this week with a topic suggested by Calvin’s Canadian Cave of Cool. This week’s challenge to the Pop Culture League is…  

Are you scared?

What frightens you the most?
What frightens me the most?  This thing...


This ghost still haunts my nightmares.  The story is a bit silly, but still quite disturbing.  For some reason this image, of all the frightening images from the Scary Stories series, has been cemented into my psyche.  Stephen Gammell is a genius, a dark dark genius.

Does anyone else remember these books?  What images or stories messed you up?  Tell me in the comments below!

What scares other League member?  Find out below:



Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Pop Culture League: ZOMBIES!!!

Pop Culture League Challenge: Zombies













Last week, the League had some great responses with some monstrous articles, so let’s keep with the Halloween theme this week (and maybe for the rest of the month!). This week’s challenge to the Pop Culture League is…

Zombies

The dead have arisen!
When I think of zombies, this is what comes to mind...
CEREAL!



MUSIC!


CARTOONS!




VIDEO GAMES!











Check out these other fresh zombie posts by other fellow League members:



The Toy Box - Zzzzzzzzombiessss

Toy Break - RE1!

Alexis - Is terified of zombies

Mr. Smith- Zombie favorites!

20 B4 2000 - That infamous Tarman! 

AFB - Triple League topic combo with a look at Monster High!!! 


Brian - The League Captain himself takes a look at MacFarlane toys

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Pop Culture League Challenge: "Here There Be Monsters"

There was an amazing variety of top ten lists put together last week by the League. Let’s keep it up with this week’s challenge to the Pop Culture League… 

Here there be Monsters

‘Tis the Halloween season!
I missed out on last week's top 10 challenge, so here's my top 10 list
Mason's Current Top 11 Monster Toys

Plushies in the back: Generic little green canine I have nicknamed Comet and made the official mascot of my Instagram  account @spacemason.
He eats robots as food.  To his right is the one eyed duck.  For the life of me I can't remember his name.  He is the plush version of a toy that is actually from a line of capsule toys, probably A&A brand. I knew the toy line at one point, can anyone help me out?

Front Row Minifigures: Custom made LEGO Cthulu. Jawbreaker from the BurgerKing Z-Bots toy line, and Zar-Zar from Crazy Bones, perfect little army builidng figures!  Zar-Zar was available in several colors, which I am trying to hunt down currently.

In The Middle: Mystery vampiric golf ball squeaky toy!  I still have yet to ID this weirdo.  Rib from Pirates of the Galaxseas acting as spider jockey on a generic spider toy, MADE IN CHINA.  And everyones favorite slimy ghost, the vintage classic Slimer!  Behinf them we have Frogacuda from the Other World line, and the Playmobil new comer, The Stilt Ghost!!!

So there you have it, my top 11 monster toys in my collection.  Always looking to add Jawbreakers and Zar-Zars to the army, and IDs on the vampire golf ball and the one-eyed duck.

What are your favorite monster toys???  Check out more monstrous posts from other League members below! 

Brother Midnight - Monsters and Sundries
Alexis' Universe - Spooky!
Mr. Smith - What is a monster?
20 Years Before - Jason Voorhees lives here
The Nerd Nook - McD's!
G.I. Jigsaw - The Painted Dead
The Toy Box - Batman!
Marc Allie - The Big G
Haxbee - He's Back!

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Pop Culture League Challenge: First Quarter

First Quarter

What’s your earliest arcade or video game memory?
It's back baby! Some of you may remember the League of Extraordinary Bloggers weekly challenges created by Brian of CoolandCollected.Com  Now those blogging challenges are back with a fresh coat of paint and rebranded as The Pop Culture League!
Now on with the show.  I was born in '83, so I came into this world just in time to be molded into a Nintendo fan boy.  You may remember I have actually already posted about my earliest video game memory when someone with Man Crates randomly contacted me and basically wanted free advertsing from me on their Retro Crate, a crate that I had never heard of before, but whatever, check it out HERE.
You can read about my earliest video game memory above, Super Mario Brothers, still the best!
 Which leads me to this...

Don't ask me why it's so hard to find a good quality clip of this.  Probably copy right infingement or something stupid.  If I actually watched any of the Olympics I would have loved this.  Long live Mario!

Since I have already shared my thoughts on Mario before, I thought I would touch on the next video game I encountered that wasn't part of the NES library.  No, I'm not talking arcades, though I would later learn to appreciate such classics as Mario Brothers, Dig-Dug, Donkey Kong, Pac Man, among others.  My next experience with video games was in the classroom.  I'm talking Oregon Trail ya'll!


Man, dysentery claimed many a soul!  Once my brother was bit by a rattler.  Basically most of what I remember of this game was diverse ways to die in the wilderness. Fun and educational!  I wish this game would finally get the reboot it deserves!  Oh, wait...