#play sets

[toytopia]

[jimclassicstoycollection]

Masters of the Universe

Castle Grayskull

by Mattel (2021)

This was a rare find!

Two days before the Baltimore TFcon back in 2021 (probably October 20th?) I was visiting a friend in Virginia amd while shopping at Target I found this! Thanks to the Target app, I got it for 25% off and paid about $64! I couldn’t resist, so I picked it up.

After opening up the box there was a few things which needed assembling, and some stickers to apply, but it wasn’t bad at all...and I hate applying stickers.

Sorceress:

The Sorceress is all dressed in white here, I believe referencing the old mini comics.

Her figure does look good. Poses well, stand well; I dig the clear wing-cape on her back.

Castle accessories:

Castle Grayskull comes with a number accessories, such as a weapons rack along with some weapons.

The wood texture on the rack looks good, and the weapons are all just unpainted light gray.

The training stand spins nice, and the giant fist can even hold certain weapons.

A second weapons rack with a falcon motif (which I believe is new to the Castle Grayskull set) is a nice addition, and I suppose could be used for our heroes tools to be stored.

Training before the battle.

Castle Grayskull:

Now onto the main event; Castle Grayskull.

Once everything was assembled and stickers applied, Castle Grayskull is a fun play set. It’s always been one of my favorites.

The plastic feels different from my original one.

The sculpting is so good. You have this stone stronghold with a foreboding skull with blackened eye sockets, and animal-like teeth around the ‘jaw’ bridge. which is activated by plunging a sword (He-Man’s sword) into the locking mechanism.

I prefer the new clips over the original tabs; I think these seem to be holding better.

By the Power of Grayskull! I command the jaw bridge, OPEN!

The locking mechanism on the new Grayskull is actually pretty cool.

You place the sword into the key hole, and it opens up the jaw bridge.

The is spring activated, so the lock resets after the sword has been pulled back out.

The original Grayskull playset just had a plastic slider, but it had to be manually reset.

By the power of Grayskull!

I HAVE THE POWER!

The interior of Castle Grayskull is mostly similar to the old play set, however some of the interior pieces are now sculpted plastic instead of cardboard.

The computer station, no longer a flimsy cardboard backing, is now full sculpted along with a sticker for the view screen.

Ironically the Sorceress doesn’t sit too well in her own thrown because of the winged cape.

Any of the other characters sit much better.

The ladder is sturdier than the original one, and you can have your hero or villain climbing up to man his station or be as a look out.

The fall of Grayskull!

Skeletor having a war meeting with his new ally.

Heck, if you have a Cylons you can do a cross over where they take over Grayskull. Cylons are not robots you want to mess with.

This is such a cool playset, and I wish I had more time to talk about it more.

[closetofstufff]

I am so excited that I bought this for half off! I can wait to open it.

[keirahknightley]

Crimson Peak (2015) 🎬 Guillermo del Toro

+ IMDb trivia

[naehilisms]

something something three high guardsmen and a mentally unwell emo kid walk into an abandoned energon depot

inspired by this and this

[fineapple20]

Portraits

Retouched this set from last year, because it was haunting me laying there 80% finished

[thefrsers]

#BOBBY NASH THIS WAS SO HOT OF YOU

[anna-scribbles]

emma dupain cheng on the brain😽🎀

more:

[eurodynamic]

Dragon Age: Origins (2009) Dragon Age II (2011) Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014) Dragon Age: The Veilguard (2024)

[honestlyitsjustsam]

favourite moments of bg3 -> (5/?)

[lovelyreviews1]

Picasso Tiles

Picasso Tiles is perfect to help kids with motor skill functions and other functions. They have all kinds of things to help your littles learn. 

They have building blocks magnet tile play sets, race car sets, magnetic bricks (that kind of looks like legos but are not), Marble run tiles, puzzles,engineering and construction, and magnetic cubes, stem robot toys and so much more.

 I highly suggest these for those that have autism like my son who enjoys block building and magnets. This can help them because they have different tiles that have different textures and can be a sensor for them. 

There is all kinds of building toys to choose from and things like music and a drawing board that can potentially help them learn their abc in the long run. I wish I found this company whenever I was teaching my kids theirs because this would have come in handy. This is also perfect for those who are home schooling because they have so much.

[toytopia]

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael Afton knows the FNAF Mimic’s secret..

[absoluteminimum]

My cards! Color tinted, in-game, and also the base version without the tint.

The theme for each is: Hearts = medics, Clubs = Ops/intelligence, Diamonds = Justice/law, Spades = science. The suits are mostly arbitrary, I assigned the sets to suits after I picked the characters for each set.

[jimclassicstoycollection]

World of Nintendo

Bowser’s Castle (open and loose)

by Jakks Pacific

This was a fun find at my local thrift store.

This is for the smaller Jaxx Pacific Mario figures.

It’s incomplete, but I’ve got some plans for this things. What I’d like to do is set up some Hot Wheels tracks and turn Bowser’s Castle into a Mario Kart stage.

As of the time of this post I haven’t done anything with it, but I am working on other artistic projects.

[lizzybeeee]

When you spend 20 years attempting to bring down the child slavery, murdering, human trafficking exploitation ring that stole your childhood, murdered your friends, and killed countless innocents only to have them rebrand as 'Noble Freedom Fighters™' off-screen.