X-Concepts-Nano Speed

Remember Micro-Machines?I sure as hell do and that’s exactly what these little fockers reminded me of when I saw them hanging on the pegs of our local Dollar Tree store. I’m not sure how much Micro-Machines went for back in the day but I remember them being packaged three or four cars at a time. I’m assuming they were anywhere from 5 to 7 bucks per pack seeing as how they were made by Galoob.So naturally I thought that a buck a piece for each Nano Speed two pack was well worth the purchase.After digging up some info on these online, It seems that there is also a racing track as well as a few other Nano Speed vehicle sets. I love the little detail on these guys! The word METRO and route number on the city bus (Hopper) and the kill decals on the military Tank (Bravo) and Humvee (Wadibash)!Little things like individually named vehicles and details make these a very collectible item. In fact, at a buck a piece, you could pick up a boxed set of the two packs for 5 bucks! When I went back for these, the others were sold out but luckily the two main sets I was interested in were laying in a pile of other miscellaneous toys so I got lucky. The way they work is simple. Just pull back and watch em’  go. Oh and BTW-They’re fast! Very fast! We’re talkin’Nano Speed 😉 Enjoy the pics!

 

Each vehicle is individually named     

Trash Talker

Hopper

Wadibash

 

Bravo

Nano Speed!

 

Blog Fodder!

A couple figs to blog about in the following weeks, so stay tuned 😉

Comic Quickie!

I’m generally not big into comics these days but while shopping at Dollar Tree (yes..the store were everything’s a dollar-No,not where they sell the exclusive line of G.I. Joe figures,that would be Dollar General)) for my daughters school snacks,i ran across these comic two packs put out by a company called Cards One.Each pack includes two vintage (not reprints) Marvel,DC,Image etc. comic books and this particular  two pack caught my eye.What caught my eye right away was the cover of  the first pack,which boasted a who’s who of Marvel heroes and immediately reminded me of the Secret Wars series.Upon closer inspection it turned out to be issue number 3 of the Infinity Gauntlet series.I’ve since unwrapped this baby and given it a quick read and absolutely loved it.Now I want the rest of them.I’ll do a quick write up on this awesome issue once I wrap up my ToyBiz figure countdown.