Friday, January 15, 2010

Boys Will Be Boys!

Over the holidays, no fewer than THREE people messed with my boys -- Tai-chan (my eight-year-old son), Brigitte, and my Peacekeeper friend Crazy Dave. They manipulated, articulated, posed, dressed (you can't see it, but I got Tai-chan a Frogman -- he's in there somewhere) and equipped, and this is currently the tableau on my shelf.

If you look, the Blade Runner guy on the far left is saying "Like, what the fuck? Where's Harrison Ford when I need him?", the Japanese corporal (I did that!) is pointing a gun at the head of the Nazi Oberleutnant, who's (as usual) doing the Sieg Heil (again, me), and the other guys are all in various states of bewilderment at their predicament (the American sailor is desperately looking through his binoculars to get rescued off this shelf by an allied submarine).

Well, they're about to be joined by an Australian jungle fighter and an ACTION SOLDIER! (As opposed to a lazy soldier!) I wonder how they're all going to like that!

(PS. Tai-chan, in his inimitable Japanese fashion, had the Japanese guy with his sword half-out of his scabbard to begin with, which looked great, but I decided it would look better if he were about to kill the Nazi with a shot to the temple. Justice! Then maybe Rutger Hauer will kill the Japanese guy in the next installment!)

DON'T I HAVE FUN????? The kicker is, everyone except me did the detailed work (Brigitte has a love/hate relationship with them). I loves 'em! They my boys! Click to enlarge!

4 comments:

  1. Very cool! I misread "allied" as "alien" and I think I may have a point, aliens may be underrepresented here?

    Just kidding! It's too cool for that! : )

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  2. My friend Crazy Dave came over last night and I showed him what I'd done and he laughed and laughed.

    When Tai-chan gets a bit older he's going to have a blast playing with these guys. And I'm going to have a blast collecting them! (They don't cost that much and I'm not serious about it, as you can tell).

    But soon I'm going to have myself a private army! And maybe I'll GET an alien!

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  3. Get Tom Hanks in there to restore order!

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  4. No, he's too busy with his new pet project: Saving Private Castaway: The Sequel.

    I'll just do as you suggested and make a ChefNick doll! HE'LL restore order, because he speaks Action Figure and I don't!

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