{"id":786,"date":"2004-12-16T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/786"},"modified":"2004-12-16T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-16T13:11:00","slug":"buffy-fans-this-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/786","title":{"rendered":"BUFFY FANS! THIS IS IT!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin and I worked pretty late at the store last night, because a new shipment of toys came in and Wednesdays are web update day for silversnail.com. And what should I discover in the new toy shipment but Palisades’ new toy lineBuffy Season 1 miniature poseable figures<\/a>. They are AWESOME. Absolutely and without a doubt what every hardcore Buffy fan has been looking for. <\/p>\n

BUY THESE ROCKIN’ BUFFY TOYS!!!<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

Why? 1) Cheap. 2) Poseable and playable. 3) Interchangeable parts and multiple facial expressions. 4) Virtually indestructible. 5) Marvelous props from the show. 7) Uncanny resemblance to the cast; far better versimilitude than any of the dolls, action figures or busts. In short, wicked cool toys.<\/p>\n

I bought all six regular figures: Giles, Buffy, Willow, Xander, Darla and The Master, as well as a variant of Darla in the schoolgirl outfit in order to support the toyline so that they will eventually (hopefully) make a series 2 with Angel, Spike, Drusilla, Cordelia, Oz and either Kendra or Jenny Calendar. As I’ve opened and played with them they are only getting more fun. They’re on the right scale for Lego, so I think I’ll spend some time this Christmas building a Sunnydale high library playset to put them in, and maybe a mausoleum and the Master’s buried church later. <\/p>\n

I’ve taken photos of my cubicle and of the variations on the Buffy toys that I’ve made so far… Buffy’s hairdo and slaying weapons attached to the Master’s skeleton to make her battle evil post-death; Giles dressed up in a green tunic with a blonde bob and quarterstaffs, looking like Little John; the Master reincarnated as a disembodied head on a skateboard; Evil Willow, fanged up and ready to go with a pair of guns and chopsticks in her hair; Android Buffy with a robotic slaying arm; Xander with a shocked expression because he’s in a dress and has boobs. <\/p>\n

This, to me, is the ultimate test of a toy. How far can it stretch to accomodate and stimulate your imagination? When all the body parts are removable, articulated and interchangeable, the possibilities are plentiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Justin and I worked pretty late at the store last night, because a new shipment of toys came in and Wednesdays are web update day for silversnail.com. And what should I discover in the new toy shipment but Palisades’ new toy lineBuffy Season 1 miniature poseable figures. They are AWESOME. Absolutely and without a doubt […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}