Return of the New Week

It's a new week and another Halloween season has passed. Time to adjust back to non-spooky season life and prepare for the Christmas season. Which according to the Mrs starts now. We had a fun Halloween Weekend including a Saturday night drive looking at lights. Sunday, the big day, was spent setting up for trick or treaters and watching Halloween specials. Then trick or treating and watching Halloween specials. Well, sad as I am to see it end, it's the nature of things. Fortunately I like Christmas too.

Friday the Mrs picked up Kingdom Shadow Panther, Waspinator, and Tracks for me. Not sure when I'll get to covering them. I've got a busy few days coming up but there's a very big backlog of toys of content to get to. That and the 'whatever I think of' nature of things here. No rhythm or reason, Zone Base is a place of personal insanity. Speaking of, thanks everyone for continuing to support the site. It means so much to me. Don't forget to share with your friends!

Speeder Bikes: A Star Wars Story

The Return of the Jedi Speeder Bike is badass. If any part in the movie sold toys in the entire Star Wars saga, it's the Speeder Bike scenes. Part of me wishes they got their own movie. The part that likes badass things. Of course Kenner was quick to introduce the toy as obviously every kid would want one. The toy was a pretty well done replica of the vehicle as seen on the movie.

Even with the limitations the classic 5 points of articulation imposed on it's design, the toy still looked the part. Newer toys of course have been more accurate, but I'm talking about the original. The spring loaded explosion was a great way to have a dramatic death of your own creation. Not even going to lie, I had Luke crash one into the Emperor. Much more satisfying than throwing him down a randomly placed hole in the Death Star... why was that there? Nobody thought to put a fence over it or anything?