In search of Spike...

[fajrdrako]

Enchanted by the Buffy episode "School Hard", I was looking at the Buffy action figures they had at the Silver Snail. They had a number of them. Buffy, Darla, Willow, and, yes, a Spike, but he had his game face on and I didn't like it. And they had the "prom" version of Angel and Buffy, so sweet, like Barbie and Ken.

And the Giles figure with horns. Horns? What's with that? No, don't tell me! Bad enough I'm being spoiled for what's coming up on Buffy by looking at toys.

So I looked online. There are so many Buffy action figures. There's the Angel series 5 action figure, the Just Rewards Spike (I think this is the one I saw in the Silver Snail), the Fool For Love Spike, the Grave Spike, the Beneath You Spike (I suspect that isn't the kind of innuendo it sounds like), the Super Posable SPike (which just means he has knobby elbows), and the so charmingly named 12" Spike.

And you may have guessed the truth: what I really want is an action figure of Captain John Hart. Complete with handcuffs and sword.

All those Spike figures, and only one model of Captain Jack Harkness? What's with that? Okay, you can get him with or without the RAF hat. Faugh. I don't want the RAF hat, and I'm happy with the beautiful Jack I already have, perched in my bathroom with Myfanway and Ten. But I also want Jack in the sexy greatcoat.

And the "Utopia" set gives us two Professor Yanas but no Jack. I object.

I also want an action figure of the Ninth Doctor. I know they exist - that they have existed - because I saw Christopher Eccleston showing one on an interview show, and I've seen them online. Yes, I know, it's just a matter of getting my act together and ordering one. Yes. But I fear the slippery slope of action-figure collecting, because there are so many out there, and some so beautiful....

I don't collect action figures. Really, I don't. If I say that often enough I might convince myself.

And... oh dear, oh dear... I have just discovered that I can buy (or I could, if I had any money) an actual Doctor Who fob watch, suitable for turning me into an Earth-type human. Mind you, I am an Earth-type human, so that might be... a redundant fuction. But I could tell time with it, right? And it has all those cool Gallifreyan circles.

Don't let me even look at the full size TARDIS they're selling. I have nowhere to put it, and it isn't fully functional. (Of course, the Doctor's TARDIS isn't fully functional either... I could learn to tinker with the controls...?)

I could settle for the TARDIS cookie jar.

Comments

[jkluge.livejournal.com]

Oh, just give up. You *love* action figures/dolls of your favorite characters (as so many of us do). *g*

Here's a guy who does some excellent repaints. The most successful are those done on Robert Tonner Doll Co. dolls that were already sculpted as the characters/actors in question, but on which the paint jobs were not-so-hot.
http://noeling.deviantart.com/gallery/

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oh, just give up. You *love* action figures/dolls of your favorite characters (as so many of us do). *g*

Whimper. I can't deny it. No one would believe me if I tried. I can't help it!

That's a beautiful site; thanks for the link.

[jkluge.livejournal.com]

You're welcome, you fellow doll-lover, you! *g*

Tonner Co. recently did some Harry Potter dolls that are really nice. I'm not a huge HP fan (like the movies just fine, other young adult fantasy authors (like Diana Wynne Jones) have interested me more than Rowling, so I haven't read HP yet), but these dollies are terrific. They just came out with a Severus Snape. (I think you can Google Tonner Doll Co to get there.)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I saw some really lovely Harry Potter dolls that josepq got. They had gorgeous accessories.

But I'm not much of a Harry Potter fan either: I too think Diana Wynne Jones writes much better. I read all the Harry Potter novels, and didn't fail to enjoy them - mostly - they're great page-turners, but the stories don't stick with me.

But Snape? He's the best thing about the Rowling books and movies. By far.