Kid Robot The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror

Having a look in Forbidden Planet in London, I came across these blind box Minifigures. These were released last year and I picked up three then when I saw them in my local FP. I've always fancied a couple more but I didn't want to order them online, so when I saw them, I gladly picked up another couple.

Like I said, I already have three: Cat Marge (my least favourite), Doughnut Head Homer, and Mr Burns as Dracula (my favourite from the three).

Out of all the figures, my most wanted were Mr Burns (nailed it), Maggie as an alien (my favourite of the Simpson family), Kang or Kodos, zombie Krusty, or Groundskeeper Willie as Freddy Krueger.

Opening these guys up you find the shiny Kid Robot bag.

And my first opening gave me Zombie Krusty! With his very own partially eaten brain!

Look at him! He's such a good looking little piece! His tongue is even lolling out of his mouth which is a great little funny addition. Not a great amount of articulation on this figure - his head turns and his arms go up and down - but the paint job and great sculpt is what makes this guy worth having.

Next up I was lucky enough to open...

Kang? Kodos? Serak the Preparer?! Either way, this guy is my new favourite. Brilliantly sculpted with amazing paintwork, a brilliant accessory, and a plastic see through dome makes this a fantastically fun likeness to the aliens from The Treehouse of Horror episodes.

All together, they're a pretty great looking bunch of figures.

I'm very glad to have found a few of my most wanted, and maybe in the future I'll be lucky enough to find the others I want!

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Strange Hill High Gooey Figure

Next up in this month of Shocktober we're having a look at a new mini figure I spotted while out and about, and it comes with goo!! I'm assuming that Strange Hill High is a new show on the BBC - not only because it says BBC on the packaging... - but because one of the girls, called Becky according the package, is wearing a Blue Peter badge!

As you can see, there are three characters that you can get: Becky, Mitchell and Templeton. I thought I'd include this in Shocktober simply because it's weird... I mean come on, it has goo!

Underneath the packaging is a sculpted blue school locker with an 'SHH' crest sculpted on it. And on the back is a vortex with cracks in the locker forming.

Popping the locker open, you find your figure and a sealed bag of bright green ooze.

I got Becky!

The figure is glow in the dark, so is mostly a solid light blue, but gets small white paint apps on her mouth and Blue Peter badge, green glasses, and a messy yellow hat.

No articulation in this little toy, and really, it's not great looking... The locker's better to be honest.

As far as the goo goes it's also much better than the mini figure!

It comes as in a small sealed plastic bag, is really sticky and thick!

I quite like the locker and the goo, though the figure is pretty crappy, though I might like it more if I knew anything about the show.

If nothing else though, this is now some kind of goo coffin, which is pretty fitting for Halloween!

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Living Dead Dolls Figurines Series 2 & 3

Kicking off SHOCKTOBER (see what I did there?) I thought I'd take a look at a couple of horror blind box toys - namely the Living Dead Dolls Figurines.

The blue box is series 2 and the red box is series 3, and I picked them up for pretty cheap at Forbidden Planet. These guys are 2" horror mini figures that I've always liked the look of, and I love me some blind boxes, so I went ahead and picked up one of each.

These toys are from Mezco, and the Living Dead Dolls have been going for a good few years now.

You can see on the back who you can possibly get, with the likelihood in percentages underneath

Out of Series 2, I was hoping for the red Walpurgis or maybe the black Schitzo.

And out of Series 3 I was hoping for the 4% Ember (I'm a sucker for translucent plastic!) or Dee K.

Inside my series 2 box was a silver blind bag, with the logo on the front

And inside that shiny bag?

Grace of the Grave! I wasn't too bothered about getting her, but actually seeing her in mini fig form? She's quite a creepy little toy! It's the "over the shoulder looking back" look that does it. A nice simple sculpt and paint job, until the face. The face has several small bullet holes sculpted in, with trickles of blood running from each of them. Some nice shading on the hands too, and some almost rusty red/brown highlights on her robe. A really nice little piece.

Again, the same silver bag inside the red Series 3 box

And inside this bag?

Posey! A mini fig made entirely of translucent plastic! She even has an accessory.

A small white rose, with bloodied petals. Nice and gruesome!

This is a beautiful little figure. Nicely sculpted again (worth noting that neither of these are articulated), and some nice painted highlights, like her eyes, blood, and white detailing at the fringes of her dress. The thing that really makes Posey pop is the light white dry brushing they've given her, which gives her a nice ethereal look. I'd be tempted to pick up more these but in no real rush.

Stick around for more horror and Halloween related goodness through the month of Shocktober! Go Figure!

SH Figuarts Super Mario and Diorama Play Sets A & B

I've mentioned before my love of Mario so I was super excited to pick up these the other day from a shop! In the UK! Seriously, this kind of stuff is not usually found in these parts! These are the three sets currently available made by S.H. Figuarts from Tamashii Nations and Bandai and I was lucky enough to pick them all up from Forbidden Planet.

Here's the really nice window box packaging it comes in, front and back

Mario looks incredible, seriously, like he's been lifted straight of Super Mario 3D World.

Mario has great articulation for a little guy. You can't really move his head but that's ok, his arms move round from the shoulders and have a great joint at the elbow and his wrists swivel. No waist rotation but his hips swivel, his knees bend really far and his ankles move his feet up and down nicely. You can get him in some classic Mario poses.

Along with Mario, you get a super mushroom

Again, this little 'shroom looks as though it's been lifted straight off of the screen. Sharp paint and sculpted little eyes and white spots.

You get a question block

Solid yellow with white sculpted on question marks, and the rivets are a light brown.

And finally you get a super shiny coin with a small stand

This coin is SO SHINY! It's very cool though, and the little clear stand is a great, much needed, addition.

The first play set we'll look at is the Diorama Play Set A, which comes with a grass green base

This has three separate peg holes but has two small plugs so you can cover a couple at once, a really neat touch

It comes with a couple of pieces needed to pose Mario with, the blue piece plugs into his back and the clear stand goes from bas to back

Three blocks, two brick blocks and a question block

These also come with a clear stand so you can get your display going

You also get a beautifully sculpted and painted goomba and another coin, this time with a taller stand

Diorama Play Set B is also full of cool extras so that you can get a great looking Super Mario display on your shelf.

The big things are the two warp pipes, one tall and one short. The tall pipe is deeper whereas the short pipe is much more shallow. The great thing here is, you can switch these out so you can move the deeper section out, putting the shallow section on the longer pipe body.

Spare hands that are easily switched out

You get a koopa shell and clear pegs that can be held in the spare hands

You get a second goomba!

And you get another coin, that has two stands - one tall and one short, bringing the coin count to three!

Putting all three sets together, you get some very cool displays

Seriously, I'm in love with these sets. They're just brilliant. If you can pick up all three, I'd highly recommend it. If however you can only afford Mario, he's well worth a buy. These guys are a little pricey, but I think it's brilliant that they were all packaged and sold separately. It keeps the cost down and means you don't need the accessory packs if you don't need them. I think I'll probably take more pictures of these sets and post them up here in the future, this guy is really good fun to play with!

I really hope SH Figuarts get to do more of these sets with other characters - Luigi, Bowser, a full koopa, Toad, a Boo with a flight stand, the options with this are almost limitless!!

Good luck hunting these down, but if all else fails, there's always online.

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