Bangor Game Stop

Not much to report today. Upon finishing my Christmas romantic comedy novel yesterday and and the second edition of The Acadia You Haven't Seen Vol. 1 today, I ran into Game Stop tonight after grocery shopping. They somehow had a Funko Savage World Sub-Zero from the Mortal Kombat series. And on clearance at that! I've been there multiple times and there hasn't been a Sub-Zero since the summer, I know, I've been looking. Not complaining, I got the figure I was hoping for when I went in. Sort of, to be honest I was hoping for Thundercats series 2 that they show on the back of the series 1 figures but I knew they wouldn't be out yet, after all, series 1 just hit the shelves. What can I say, I'm excited for them. I want that Cheetara and Jackalman. I wasn't a huge fan of either in the original but after the 2010 remake, wow, they became some of my all time favorites.

They did a really good job with these figures, well, the design, not the execution, apparently they break quite easily, even in package. I've seen more than one with their arms detached still in the blister bubble. Luckily I don't plan on playing with them and if I did, arms are usually easy enough to pop back on. Being a lifelong fan of Masters Of The Universe, it's great to see other characters enter the vintage MOTU world, stylistically speaking. It would have been nice to have these as a kid so I could pit Skeletor against Mumm-Ra and Sub-Zero in a triple threat match for the ages.

I've never been too big into video games, I pretty much quit after Super Nintendo, but I did love Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. I had the games, the cheat code books, the action figures, I even have movie magazines about the films. So even though I haven't played a Mortal Kombat since Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on SNES, these characters still hold a special place in my heart. Along with WWF's bone crunching Jakks superstars, the Mortal Kombat figures in the GI Joe scale were the last figures I collected before outgrowing toys. In my childhood that is. I started collecting again six years later when the MOTU 200x figures came out and haven't stopped since.