Scopedog Bockmesser Custom

Just for a change of pace I'm putting up some posts about recent acquisitions from Hobby Link Japan. This guy is a Scopedog from the Votoms series made by CM's. They seem to pack a lot of detail and movement into quite small toys. They also charge lots of money and in each of these cases I was only able to justify the purchase because they were severely discounted. I got interested in Votoms because they started appearing in the Microman line.

Movie Mike

Last night I watched second TMNT movie "The Secret of the Ooze". It seems appropriate to highlight this figure which depicts him from that movie. While I complained abut the regular turtles these figures are really great. The likeness of the movie costume is deftly captured with great paint details and a more rubbery feeling plastic.

Here he is in the movie.

Here is a comparison with the regular figure.

Jake Rockwell

Possibly one of the greatest and most neglected toylines from the '80s was Centurions. I never got any back in the day probably because they were pretty expensive. They are beautiful toys, well sculpted and articulated and with a very fun gimmick of modular weapon systems. This is Jake Rockwell equipped with the Fireforce weapon system.

Here is he with the armour removed:

Hugo

Continuing on the Playmates kick I've recently been on, here is Hugo from the World of Springfield line. He was packed in the Treehouse of Horror III set along with Dream Invader Willie, Witch Marge and Donut-head Homer. Once again we see a great sculpt with nice paint apps but seriously limited articulation.

Playmates Captain Picard

Here is another Playmates Star Trek figure. Captain Picard in the variant uniform seen in the 5th season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This is a great sculpt and a very good likeness of Patrick Stewart. This guy was also acquired from eBay.

TMP Mego Spock

Here we have Spock from the Mego Star Trek: The Motion Picture line. These were nicely sculpted figures for the time but had limited articulation compared to Mego's Buck Rogers or Black Hole toylines. This example is suffering from heavy paint wear which I plan to touch up.

AA/DST Cage Spock

Here we have another version of Mr Spock as he appeared in "The Cage". This time as part of the Art Asylum/Diamond Select toy line. As is typical for the Art Asylum figures the sculpting is very good. I believe this was a Toys R Us exclusive but I got him from ebay.