How dissapointing :(

To cheer myself up last night, I stopped by the Toy Isle at my local 24-hour WalMart to see if they had anything that would make me happy. Normally this would be a new Marvel Legends action figure, but this time they had just opened a new case of DC SUPERHEROES action figures!

I have been reading about these new figures for a few months now and anxiously waiting for their arrival. These figures have been hailed as "The DC answer to Marvel's amazing 'Marvel Legends' line of figures"! What great news!

See, the Marvel Legends figures started coming out a few years ago. They are ultra-detailed, extremely poseable figures of just aobut every and any Marvel Comics Character you could ever want to have a toy of. Double-bend knees and elbows, jointed feet and fingers, a complicated hinge-and-joint connection for the shoulders that make virtually ANY pose possible... Marvel Legends are quite possibly the greatest action figures ever made! So to have a DC Comics companion for these figures is just making me cream my little comic-geek shorts! Now I can have Batman face-off against The Punisher and get him in a headlock!

So I bought the Batman figure for $9. A little more expensive than the Marvel Legends figures, but I'm willing to pay the extra $2 right now. Besides, the figure LOOKS great! I decided to wait and open it at work than right then and there.

So now here I am at work and I've opened the package. Here are my findings:

PROS:
• Same scale as Marvel Legends!
  
• Excellent detail and paint job!
  
• 19 points of articulation!
  
• Over all, infinitely more poseable than any other Batman figure I've ever had with the exception of Mego-type figures!

CONS:
• About ten points of articulatiuon less than the average Marvel Legends figure.
  
• No double-joint elbows or knees means arms and legs only bend at 90-degree angles.
  
• Hands frozen in rediculously unusable positions of "Open With Fingers Spread" and "Poised To Hold A Bat-A-Rang".
  
• Head frozen in uncomfortable slouched position and can only look from side to side.
  
• Unidentifiable accessories include "Thingee with Two Handles" and "Cat-Eye Mask".
  
• For $9 I want more than just 3 points of 45-degree articulation on the legs!

The Friday 5 on Thursday!

1) 10 years ago what did you think you would be doing now? Ten years ago I seriously thought that I would be running "The Escape From Reality II" by now, wheeling and dealing in comic books and vintage collectables on a daily basis. Adn of course I KNEW that I would be completely and utterly alone. No girlfriend, just my Comic Book Store to keep me happy.

2) Where do you think you will be in 5 years from now? Running "The Escape From Reality II" with Brittany as my one employee, and a special back room/upstairs apartment for khristle and Molly and me to call home. Hey, I can dream can't I?

3) Do you live life one day at a time or look to the future. Always looking towards the future, because I discovered long ago that no matter how terrible today might look, yesterday looks a lot better. And tomorrow when things are worse, today will look like "The Good Old Days". So my one big goal in life is to make every tomorrow be the best yesterday I ever had!

4) Do you wish you could go back in time and undo something in your life? Nope! No regrets! And if you're in a situation where you have to choose, it's always better to regret something you HAVE done than to regret something you haven't done. And by the way, if you see your Mom? Be sure to tell her SATAN SATAN SATAN!!!

5) If you could send a message back in time and give a younger version of yourself some advice, what would it be? Forget about being a "Gentleman" and nail Christy, Sarah, Liz, Kat and Tina as fast and as often as you possibly can. They're all there on a limited-time-only basis and will be dumping you or losing interest FAST!

WARNING! Too-Cute Video Ahead!

FINEST FILM OF A CAT AND A CHICKEN EVAR!!!

I'm watching this at work with no sound right now and it's just too adorable for words! Yes, it's work safe... like a Disney film waiting to happen!