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Captain Jack Sparrow – My First Barbie

Unlike today, my generation only knew two genders. Boy or girl. And if you were a boy, the rules were simple. Toy guns. Cars. He-Man. Robots. GI Joe. That was the list. Full stop. Pink and Barbie was for girls. Everyone knew that. Fast forward to 2011. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides hitContinue reading “Captain Jack Sparrow – My First Barbie”

Six SEALs — Remembering the Navy Sillies

1990. Navy SEALs hit the cinemas. Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn, a team of elite operators taking on the bad guys. For a group of young blokes with airsoft guns and way too much energy, that film was everything. We had a team of five. And every single time we played, we were the SEALs orContinue reading “Six SEALs — Remembering the Navy Sillies”

May The Fourth be with you— The Figure I Could Never Leave Behind

May the 4th. Star Wars Day. A day for everyone who ever looked up at a galaxy far far away and never quite looked away. That includes me. I was seven years old the first time I saw Star Wars. Not in a cinema. At home, with the family, after school. My older brother —Continue reading “May The Fourth be with you— The Figure I Could Never Leave Behind”

This Is SPARTA — Finding Leonidas in Geelong

March 9, 2007. The roar of an angry king shouting “This is SPARTA” rocked cinemas everywhere. Zack Snyder’s 300 had arrived — on IMAX and conventional screens — and nothing was quite the same after that. Every boy all of a sudden wanted to be a warrior. That included me. There was always something aboutContinue reading “This Is SPARTA — Finding Leonidas in Geelong”

Dieter — The Wehrmacht Soldier I Found for $45

In my early days of discovering 1:6 scale figures, I had a routine. Suburb to suburb. Toy stores, thrift shops, op shops, swap meets, boot sales. If there was a chance a figure was sitting on a shelf somewhere waiting to be found, I was going to find it. On one of those hunting tripsContinue reading “Dieter — The Wehrmacht Soldier I Found for $45”

You! Yes, You! — Finding Gunnery Sergeant Hartman at a Car Boot Sale

There are Saturdays where you get up, drive to a car boot sale and come home with a bag of nothing in particular. And then there are Saturdays where you get up, drive to a car boot sale in Mount Waverley, and come home with Gunnery Sergeant Hartman screaming insults at you from a box.Continue reading “You! Yes, You! — Finding Gunnery Sergeant Hartman at a Car Boot Sale”

Roscoe Brooks — More than just a green army man

After Tony Montana came Roscoe Brooks. My second 1/6 scale figure. And the one that sent me down an entirely different rabbit hole. So after scoring that Tony Montana piece, i could not stop researching about this line of figures that was all new to me. Facebook was pretty new back then so the groupsContinue reading “Roscoe Brooks — More than just a green army man”

The Relapse — Tony Montana and the Figure That Started It All Over Again

I thought I was done. When I left Belfast and moved to Melbourne, I made a decision. The collection had to go. Classic Star Wars figures, GI Joe, all of it. Sold. I told myself it was the right thing to do. A fresh start. A new chapter. I was a grown man moving toContinue reading “The Relapse — Tony Montana and the Figure That Started It All Over Again”