Hurricane Report, the Day After, part 2
Ok, so I had to clean off my desk (per earlier report). So when I came into work, my desk was this naked wasteland of formica and bare walls. I had a lot to do, so it's only been the last couple hours that I've been able to break all my toys out of the drawers and start working with them. I'm taking my time, because I work all day tomorrow and should have lots of time to decorate
The superheroes are all out. I manated to almost create a scene. Toybiz usually puts some sort of stand in with their action figures (except for most of the X-Men Movie line, of which I believe only Storm comes with a stand). So I made a little building. It actually works pretty well, with Venom and Punisher on balconies and Daredevil on a ledge in front of a stained glass window. the Scarlet Spider is preparing to swing from next to DD into the space over my monitor. The "movie" Spider-Man is swinging from a lamp post below all this.
The problems are these:
Storm's stand can't a) be hung like almost all the others, and b) doesn't even remotely urban. More like arctic waste.
The Impulse figure still looks like crap. I guess that's what I get for paying $1 for an 6 inch figure (I almost bought a Superman/Batman 6" set the other day, but I went with two toybiz figures instead: Punisher and Gambit).
The "classic" spidey stand doesn't fit in. It looks like a wall, but while everything else is gray/dark, this stand is red (so is the Scarlet Spider, but it looks like the "spotlight" spidey uses in the comics, so it could just be a red light shining on it). This stand has a nice arrangement of Spidey going head-to-head with Carnage though, with Mary Jane as the prize standing on the ledge in front of a billboard (she has a stupid grin, but that can't be changed.
Gambit's stand looks NOTHING like the rest of them. It's the wreckage of a Sentinal, which he stands on flinging his cards. I decided I wanted to hang as many as possible, but it doesn't fit in hanging, thouch if you can think of a way the back of a wrist from a giant robot could become embedded in a wall, fingers down, I'd love to hear it.
The Masked Platypus sits on my monitor, ready to take on Godzilla, who sits next to it. They look peevish, so I may arrange some sort of combat in the future.
Above all this, the ninja duel rages. Ok, right now the "raging ninja duel" is Donatello and a single Foot Clan ninja, but that may change. (THe foot soldier is going to lose fast, I've opted for variety, so he has a single sword and a single throwing star, where as, since DOnatello has a beld, he's got two bo staves, a sword, and an axe (the latter two fit on the ends of the bo staves, if so desired, and with the axe I do) as well as two throwing stars. I should probably buy a Shredder to make this a challenge.
The problem is where to put all the other figures.
As implied above, I was thinking of a ninja battle royale on the wall of my cube. I've got Stormshadow and Snake Eyes, as well as a handfull of Jedi (and one sith) to make this look good, but that leave Jango Fett, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and a clone trooper with nothing to do. ALso that stupid blue guy from the Senate (what's up with him? He came in a set of four with Chewie, Mace, and Quigon). Plus these guys are all 3.5 inches, which makes them dwarves compared to the 5" Foot. (what's up with the non-standard sized for TMNT figures?). Plus, that leaves My X-Men figures no where to chill (esp. with storm in the scene above).
I also have a few other things: Simpsons stack dolls (from Moscow! 7 pieces), 3" tall yoda and R2-D2 from Taco Bell, a Z-bot, a Darkwing Duck flashlight, a couple model cars, a Battle Toad, a mini Princess Leia (fits inside the R2, don't know why), a few Pez, and a few puzzles (like a Rubiks' Cube). Any ideas where to stick 'em all?