2 MINUTE TOY BREAK !

One of the cool parts about action figure collecting Is that If you start to to get bored with..say.. Captain America action figures ..then you can always pick up a Captain America  Hot Wheels car.That way you still have all the greatness of the character only In car form!It's not everyday that I get to open a Hot Wheels car.In fact,I never buy Hot Wheels,anything.But sometimes,something comes along that gets In your face and screams "COOL!" and you just can't pass It up.Hence this Hot Wheels Captain America craze that's taken over me these last couple of days.This wasn't even about collecting the entire set or  trying to get started on collecting Hot Wheels or anything.This was all about scratching the nostalgia itch.And  It happens every time a new Captain America flick comes out .I love Captain America merchandise and I still get the warm fuzzies when I see all the department store props and the helium filled balloons with the shield logo.It's all just ...

This was all I was able scoop up out of  that die-cast stew that Is the  Hot Wheels discount bin.There were two other customers ,or should I say kids,sorting through It and I just felt like an old fart next to them ,probably grabbing the ones they wanted ,so I stopped searching prematurely just to be able to get out of  Wal Mart with at least a little bit of dignity.I'm glad I found the 80's Sir Ominous because It was the only other one that I really wanted,although I would have liked to complete the set.

I'm no Star Wars  buff but I had a few of the toys growing up.This was an early 80's pic of myself at a cousins house hanging onto a vintage X-Wing fighter with what looks to be an Adventure People  Alpha Interceptor Astronaut In the cockpit.I didn't need no stinkin' Luke  = P Looking through some of my old pics i stumbled across this one and thought It'd be apropos  to post It  today.So,happy 4th everyone!I'm off to my little ones softball game! 

Just found the mother load at my local Martial Law,I mean Wal Mart !I was really hoping to find the rest of the Marvel Pop Culture stuff on clearance but instead I came across this... Dang,I should have picked up the rest.Oh well.Actually the only one I'm really interested In besides the two below and the one 1970 Mustang I bought a while back Is his 1990 tribute car.There was one In the clearance bin but It was pretty beat up.I'm itching to get back to Wal-Mart now.