Hi and welcome to the first Droidikorjaamo blog entry in English!
This time I´ll be limelighting my Moscow haul from earlier this month. Our band, Silent Scream, visited the Russian capitol for the first time late last month and naturally I was excited about finding stuff I can´t get here in Finland or maybe even some cool bootlegs while we´re there.
Ironically, the first figure I found was Colossus from the Marvel Universe line. As some of you know, Colossus was one of the X-Men and born in the Soviet Union way back in the day. I always liked him in the classic Jim Byrne X-Men comics so naturally I got him despite the slightly expensive price tag. The only other Marvel Universe figure I saw there was the AIM Trooper and not much else besides very expensive Iron Man 2 and Spider-Man figures.
And speak of the devil! I found these absolutely craptastic Iron Man bootleg figures at a kiosk inside the Leningradskaya railway station, fifteen minutes before we left back to Finland. I was originally looking forward to finding some cool Star Wars bootlegs but these were a cool find also! They cost only 450 rubles which is pretty much 11 euros. Not bad.
As you can see, the scale is somewhere between the 4" and 6" scales (Mark 2 added for comparison) but the details... Well... Just look at them.
Both unmasked Tonys look like they had the shit beat out of them and the accessories vary from rocket launchers without rockets to He-Man style swords and blades. Correct me if I´m wrong, but last time I checked Iron Man didn´t really need them.
"HOT WARRIOR! YEAH!"
The cardback is a hilarious example of doing it wrong. Gotta love those Chinese bootleggers! I have no idea what I should do with this set. Open it? Trade them for some official figures?
Last and definitely least are the two Tron: Legacy figures I found on our last day in Moscow. I guess Spinmaster really went the cheap way with these 4" figures. The Black Guard (left) is ok but Rinzler (right) broke mere minutes after I opened the package at home. The head snapped off when I tried to turn it around! I had to glue it back on so it wouldn´t look so stupid on display. Sure the light-up function is really neat but still I can´t help feeling let down by this line. Luckily they were quite cheap so I didn´t end up feeling totally ripped off.
So that was my Moscow haul, hope you enjoyed the pictures! If you´re interested in the band-related stuff from Moscow then check out the Silent Scream Helsinki page on Facebook. Yeah, the one with all the grim black & white pictures.
