Below: Seven of the most interesting TMNT items currently on eBay. I can afford nearly none of them.

TMNT Sewer Hockey!
Asking Price: $224.99

Table hockey is fun under any guise, but when your team includes the likes of Casey Jones and Genghis Frog, you’re compelled to never stop playing, fully aware that things can only go downhill from the moment you stop.

Subterranean Sewer Hockey’s high price owes as much to its rarity as its awesomeness. Since the game was shelved far, far away from the “normal” TMNT toys, the only kids who really noticed it were those who pored over their Sears Wish Books with extreme scrutiny.

Neat note: Despite being produced by Remco, the various player figurines were very obviously based on Playmates’ toy collection, down to every last detail. Which means that Rat King is still covered in albino rats even while playing hockey. I’m naming him the MVP based on that alone. Read More…

Get set for another edition of Five Random Action Figures!

Admission: I’m trying to hurry through these so I can get to the next milestone edition, which is when I’ll allow myself to splurge on toys that aren’t already hiding in my office bins. Can’t wait to finally buy that old Serpentor figure with the Sparkle Crest toothpaste cape. I’ll only have to do this fourteen more times. Faaaaack.

Bonecrusher
Congo (1995)

My love for All Things Congo is already on record, and it’s thanks largely to the movie’s villains: A horde of snarling, battle-damaged grey gorillas. (Well, “villains” may be too strong a word. They were just doing what grey gorillas did.)

Due to Kenner’s penchant for making longshot bets about which movies would capture the hearts of children, Congo miraculously scored an action figure line, featuring such wish list toppers as Peter Elliot and Kahega. Really, if anyone bought Congo toys, it was for the line’s three grey gorillas.

I already showed you Mangler on a previous edition of Five Random Action Figures, who joined Blastface — another steak-faced simian — on the front line. When all else failed, the apes called in Bonecrusher, a “deluxe” figure that came with giant occult accessories plus a smaller monkey to boss around!

Really digging that battle staff. If you’ve never seen Congo, I’ll go ahead and confirm that none of the grey gorillas were seen using weapons, let alone meticulously carved weapons which presumably had the power to raise the dead when paired with the right assemblage of spooky vowel sounds. Read More…

Last week was an endless storm of nonsense that kept me almost totally away from Dino Drac, so it feels good to be back! It’d feel even better if I didn’t spend the last six hours trying to fix my computer. It’s still not quite there, so I’ll make this quick…

Hooray, The Purple Stuff Podcast returns with its 23rd episode! This week, me and Jay from The Sexy Armpit celebrate Batman… but specifically Batman 1989. The one with Bob the Goon.

That movie was a major, major event for us both, and on the heels of Batman v Superman, it seemed like the right time to pore over our many memories of the movie, the toys, the cereal, and even that time Joker appeared at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

This one clocks in at around 75 minutes, thereby guaranteeing that you’ll be completely sick of bats by the time you finish listening to it. Check it out by clicking that giant ugly play button, down below!

…or you can directly download this week’s show by right-clicking here.

Reminder: The Purple Stuff Podcast can also be found on iTunes, Stitcher and Podbean.

Thanks as always for listening! The last two shows were some of our biggest… can Batman keep up the momentum? Read More…