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Showing posts with label kinkeshi. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Ghostface [Tiny Mights/Ghostface]

I've been eyeing Tiny Mights for a while now. Their Scooby Doo and Batman sets never arrived at my Walmart stores like I had been seeing online and that was pretty disappointing. Earlier this year when their horror offerings were made known, I started salivating. Fortunately a recent trip to Spirit Halloween resulted in finding a box of their Ghostface series by the check out. Let's take a look at the pack I got. Tiny Mights like to pack their keshi in capsules that match the series. I say that regretting I didn't snap a picture of the Ghostface capsule mine came in, but you should check it out (not an affiliated link). It's great. There's 3 mini figures included and they're a great size. There's a multitude of sculpts and colors in opaque and translucent varieties to collect.

In my pack I got a a translucent yellow holding a scythe, a pink Dead By Daylight version in the classic Kinnikuman pose, and a solid black running with a machete. These look amazing and I'm having a hard time picking a favorite. The machete and scythe ones conjure mental images of Halloween costumes equipped with whatever weaponry Walmart had available. I've never played Dead by Daylight... but I love this version. Ghostface started out as a generic Halloween costume long before Scream came around, so seeing all these colors and variations brings back fond memories of the various versions and colors the masks used be in. I definitely need to pick up more of these.

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Sasquatch [Mountain Town Toys]

I got this little Sasquatch keshi at Toylanta from Mountain Town Toys. When deciding to do this 'smoll toys' week I figured it'd be just the thing. Mountain Town Toys is a cool shop a few hours north of me that not just sells toys, but makes their own. This isn't the first keshi I've gotten from them. In 2022 they gave me a Sasquatch one they made from recycled coffee cups (they also have a coffee shop).

They're from North Georgia, in the mountains. Sasquatch is often sighted there. I do wish the idea to write about this little guy would have came to me sooner. I cropped the picture of him out of a convention haul pic (thus the less than spectacular pic). It's a good little sculpt full of character. That's one of the great things about these independent toys, just full of character.

Thursday, April 7, 2022

Millions of Warriors

 

I've been looking for a new keshi line to really get behind. It's been a while since I've had one I could really follow easily enough to have fun with. That's where Million Warriors comes in. Recently my wife discovered them and introduced them to me. I was instantly hooked. They're currently exclusive to Walmart and fairly cheap, around 5$ for a blind pack of ten. There's also 20 packs available, which I haven't seen yet and don't know the price, though I'm sure are probably inexpensive. These little guys are great.

So far the line is separated into 3 tribes that the figures fall into thematically. Astrals, Ancients, and Heroes. While the names of the tribes give some semblance of a theme, they're all over the place with little weird freaks. The figures come in various forms of availability, from common to extremely rare. As of this writing I have 30 from 3 different 10 packs and have yet to get doubles and have a few harder to get ones (according to the guide). They're made from a few different plastic molds in a few different silhouettes with the characters printed on them. This obviously helps keep the costs down and allows for a wide arrange of figures to be made and I imagine quickly. 

The art style is great, reminiscent of non-sport trading cards I'd often get as a kid. The characters range from weird looking warriors to crazy mutant freaks. I love them. Opening the two packs I got this weekend with the wife was so fun and exhilarating. I was literally bubbling over with excitement with each one. They come packed blind in little paper packets in a ticket style row. The 10 packs I had held them in a package shaped like crossed swords. The 20 packs are boxes that look like shields. There is a game that can be played with them using catapults that come with the 20 packs and numbers printed on each characters back. 

You've might have noticed that I'm a fan. I am and a rather fast one at that. I really cannot express just how excited I was over these guys for a good day or so. I was practically exploding. I'm still practically exploding. I exploded. They are just the thing I've been wanting and done just right for this sort of thing. A proper keshi line needs to be fun and collectible. Having easy availability and low prices is a part of that. I can easily grab a pack while at Walmart, or add it to my weekly grocery order. At 5$ a pack of 10, they're so cheap that I don't even think about it.

They're very cool and the characters make me want more. At under 1" each, so even if I get a million Million Warriors, they can be stored pretty easily. I don't know if the 3 tribes are all there will be, but so far I'm happy as is. Million Warriors is the keshi line I needed and I'm sure other keshi fans needed as well. Spin Masters makes some good toys and this is another solid line from them. I hope it's a success and they make more than a million of them.