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Made aware by the Toy Ventures Weekly a few days ago, I just went to the White Elephant Toyz website and bought two new figures from their Atomic Apemen line that are available for the first time today, I believe: the Nova-esque Aurora, and the Mego Soldier Ape-esque Mongo. (I also bought one blank body for a custom.) These will go so well with the two Atomic Apemen I already bought from them in previous years. (One is a glow-in-the-dark ape scientist, and the other is wearing a "Conquest"-evocative green jumpsuit, armed with an uzi.)
I believe the ape heads are an homage to some AHI bootlegs from the 1970s maybe? Despite having been a huge Mego PotA fan as a child in the 1970s, I don't believe I ever saw those knock-offs. ("Astro-Apes"?). The ape head sculpts are kind of 'awkward,' but I find them alternatively 'endearingly so' and 'menacingly so.' So I'm a fan.
Man, I really wanted to buy a Tura Satana figure as well. But that would've pushed my order total over $100, and that was a psychological barrier I couldn't bring myself to cross today. Next time I will finally buy one!
(Among the other new figures available tonight, I'm not sure I totally understand the Swamp Monsters in "Menudo" t-shirts of assorted colors. That feels like an inside joke I'm maybe on the outside of. But that's awesomely oddball, nonetheless! I certainly remember "Menudo on ABC" on Saturday mornings in the early 1980s!)
I have really, really liked every figure that I've ever bought from White Elephant Toyz: Super Joe and Atomic Apemen and otherwise. So I am really thrilled to be so thrilled tonight about another purchase from them.
I was worried as I went to their website that these new figures would be over $30 each (given inflation, and tariffs, and all the rest), as I have found over the last 6 months to a year that, for myself, that's my personal 'price Rubicon' where I begin to have buyer's remorse on action figures. So I was very happy that the new ape was $29.99 and the new Nova-esque female was $26.99 (plus $10 shipping, but I'll allocate that mentally mostly to the blank body).
I believe the ape heads are an homage to some AHI bootlegs from the 1970s maybe? Despite having been a huge Mego PotA fan as a child in the 1970s, I don't believe I ever saw those knock-offs. ("Astro-Apes"?). The ape head sculpts are kind of 'awkward,' but I find them alternatively 'endearingly so' and 'menacingly so.' So I'm a fan.
Man, I really wanted to buy a Tura Satana figure as well. But that would've pushed my order total over $100, and that was a psychological barrier I couldn't bring myself to cross today. Next time I will finally buy one!
(Among the other new figures available tonight, I'm not sure I totally understand the Swamp Monsters in "Menudo" t-shirts of assorted colors. That feels like an inside joke I'm maybe on the outside of. But that's awesomely oddball, nonetheless! I certainly remember "Menudo on ABC" on Saturday mornings in the early 1980s!)
I have really, really liked every figure that I've ever bought from White Elephant Toyz: Super Joe and Atomic Apemen and otherwise. So I am really thrilled to be so thrilled tonight about another purchase from them.
I was worried as I went to their website that these new figures would be over $30 each (given inflation, and tariffs, and all the rest), as I have found over the last 6 months to a year that, for myself, that's my personal 'price Rubicon' where I begin to have buyer's remorse on action figures. So I was very happy that the new ape was $29.99 and the new Nova-esque female was $26.99 (plus $10 shipping, but I'll allocate that mentally mostly to the blank body).
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