mystery figure #2

Here is today's mystery figure, a 3" action figure articulated at the shoulders, neck and waist, quite detailed I found in a cool toy bundle.

I showed it to alex who knew straight away it was from C.O.W.BOYS of MOO MESA,  from 1991. this cartoon ticked all the boxes of kids entertainment of the time: mutants,  radiation back story, and the wild west! Made by TMNT's Ryan Brown. It looks like it got a big push at the time with loads of merch, funny that I don't remember it at all! 
There's even halloween costumes!
It's characters are bipedal anthropomorphic cows (they only have cow's head really) but the horses have stayed normal as well bad puns names like Mayor Oscar Bulloney!
This particular figure is Cowlamity Kate Cudster (get it?), not one of the main characters, and was released in 1999 as a kids meal promotion, so it's not from the original 1991 run of figures by Hasbro which if I'm not mistaken had no girl characters!
if you want to know more there a dedicated blog here: http://wildwestcow-boysofmoomesa.blogspot.fr/

random figure bundle #1

Here is a set of totally random action figures found together ranging from 1979 to 2004 how did they meet?

The beauty of those is that they may be in "played in condition" with a bit of paint peeling and missing accessories but i love it cos can't help imagining a story; what adventures are they having? I think they've been on a quest with the reluctant good guy, the character who provides comic relief, the intense hero, the traitor, and the random one that gets killed off. Who do you think plays who?

As a huge fan of Harry Potter I was really chuffed to find a figure in this lot, it's a rarer one as well, from 2007, the more collectable ones are the magical creatures rather than the more common characters, you can find plenty of harry's on ebay, still they're not as common as one would think as they're not that old.

This harry is from Harry Potter and the order of phoenix from POPCO in his school uniform. The quality is very good I have to say (i'm one of those people that always say that toys used to be better in the 80s), it's really detailed and actually looks like the character in the movie, the jacket is made of softer plastic so you can lift it up which is a really nice touch! For some reason harry potter's leg articulation make him look very awkward, i guess it captures an adolescent super well!

Batman DC comics, 1995

Loved the batman movies especially the Tim Burton ones, I remember going to see Batman returns at the cinema and it blowing my mind away! the fact that it wasn't for kids felt amazing, a super hero taken seriously!!! being a kid  myself I also loved the animated series, I think it was one of the best cartoon of the time, it was really stylized and kept the dark elements!!! I mostly watched Japanese anime at the time but I still made time for batman.

the figurine is in good condition and it brings me back to playing at one of my best friend's who had loads of batman toys, he only  had one girl, Cat Woman from the 1993 Mcdonalds happy meal so I always played with her, I would love to have her!!!!!! arggg mcdonalds toys used to be so good!!!!!

Adventure people, fisher price 1979

This guy looks so 70s, he's got the hair cut and even platform shoes!!! He looks really funny with his chunky feet!! I guess he's an alien since his head is blue and apparently he's also a pilot. the figurine is pretty detailed and you can move his head up and down and side to side which is neat. He's got a bit of wear but looks so cool with his helmet and blue head!

the mystery toy

over the christmas period I did some toy shopping and, as you do, I bought a bunch of random figurines mostly from fast food restaurants. They're not worth much but they always bring me back to that time, I mean how cool is the anthropomorphic chicken nugget? I would love to have been in the persons head when this idea came about! genius! Also Ronald Mcdonalds' friends, who have since then vanished, love them. They're not that easy to find anymore, so I bought them even if not in the best condition! Anyway, in the bunch there was this dog on a bike, which is cool cos I love old anthropomorphic figures, i vaguely remembered him from childhood but really couldn't remember who he was, did a bit of a search on the net to no avail… until Dora was like: "it' pico from chocapic!!!" how could I have forgotten!!! He was part of a collection of promotional figures to put on your pen and be the coolest kid in school called pico's adventures. this one came from a promotional comic book called Pico's adventure in America from 1995, i guess this id why he's on a bike. check out the whole collection here: "http://www.mokarex.fr/nestlechocapic_uk.html"

Pico became the mascot for nestles chocapic entering the long tradition of cereal animal anthropomorphic mascots (which between you and me i wasn't a fan of, much preferred chocopops) in the early 90s replacing a windmill, which was probably a good choice what a better way of selling stuff to kids than using man's best friend with the added bonus of having human features! Being a product of his time Pico wears jeans and trainers cos he's "cool" sort of i don't remember thinking i loved him back in the 90s but some must do cos he's still used to advertise the cereals. The figurine in itself is not bad quality for being a freebe although the whole thing is the same colour with roughly painted black wheels and yellow t-shirt. Are you a fan of Pico or do you much prefer Tony the Tiger?