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

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The action figure I saw for Nine really sucked.

That's a shame. I didn't think it looked so good in the picture here - I was hoping it was a misleading picture.

apparently Ianto doesn't get one.

He should!

Jack and Gwen and Janet get action figures

This is why I object to action figures being made for childen and young men. They like monsters. They like ugly creatures, like the whole Todd McFarlane line of figures. But the lovely, sexy men I want in my collection? They're hard to find. Practically impossible. Faugh.

So: Janet rates. Ianto does not. Where, I ask you, is the cosmic justice in that?

How they could miss Stungun!Ianto is beyond me but they managed...


I am considering a sternly worded letter pointing out that the world needs a stun-gun Ianto action figure with a pink shirt. Hockey stick and stopwatch could be optional accessories.

[gypsylady.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, more Strongly Worded Memos! We're becoming forces to be reckoned with.

In our own minds, that is.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

We're becoming forces to be reckoned with.

In our own minds, that is.

Next thing they'll be calling us 'the Oncoming Storm' and fearing our approach.

Or something.

[gypsylady.livejournal.com]

Forgot to add, stopwatch is NOT optional with Ianto.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

stopwatch is NOT optional with Ianto.

Point. Okay: the phrase is "obligatory stopwatch". With a button on top.