Swords and Spaceships

I'm going to own one of these.

Have you ever encountered something that, until you saw it, you didn't know you needed to see and couldn't possibly go back to your old life after having seen it? This, friends, is one of those times. Super Mario Crossover Play the original Super Mario Bros. game with Mario, Mega Man, Link, Samus Aran, Simon Belmont, or the guy with blue pants from Contra. This game is crazy fun. I just wish I could find I way to use an old NES controller with my computer, so I could beat this game. I suck with the keyboard controls, but I never was a PC gamer. So, check it out. Bask in its 8-bit brillance.

I’ve kind of thrown myself full-bore into GI Joe collecting lately. I always told myself that I’d collect GI Joe if I wasn’t collecting Star Wars toys, and since I became officially bored of that, I decided to finally do what I always wanted and have those kick-ass Joes and Cobras my seven year old self always wanted. In a lot of ways, I was closer to GI Joe as a kid than anything else. Star Wars was of course there, as were Transformers, and I’ve pretty much purchased everything I wanted from those lines. However, Joe and He-Man, not so much. So here we are. I received this vintage vehicle this week, and man, is it fantastic. The HAVOC featured heavily in the second season of the cartoon as well as the movie, and it’s easy to see why- it can hold a lot of figures, it has big guns, and it features a little one-man hovercraft that can lift off the back, so it’s like getting two vehicles for the price of one. Plus, it came with Cross Country, who as far as vehicle drivers went, actually ...