#cannot stress how fucking overpriced the Star Troopers figures are

[silverspleen]

HEY SO apparently I never posted (or forgot I posted?) my Lanard Xenomorph collection here. But had something fun happen two weekends ago sO.

The green warrior and bronze runner were gifts from @sonohtigris​ and @abarateal​ respectively. I’ve had the giant purple queen for a while after I immediately fell in love with it on a Walmart run. Lanard sells toys exclusively through Walmart, which means they’re always fairly cheap but become an absolute bitch to find once they go out of stores. Their Jurassic Clash and Star Troopers original lines are moderately pricey on ebay for Walmart toys. I picked the white drone up from ebay myself! (along with a nice Dante from Dante’s Inferno (2010) Xbox 360 action figure)

These are the 6in 1:12 scale ones, they also have a smaller 1:18 range (think like... old GI Joes/small Star Wars figures) that comes with guys and vehicles. I don’t have any but I do know that there’s a MUSTARD YELLOW XENOMORPH which fills me with deep, deep delight.

I love them, honestly more that any of the realistic xenomorph action figures I’ve seen. The sculpt is good, there’s so much texture and a few nice differences between the figures (the hands, head, and forearms of the drone and warrior are different). And god bless but the colors are so so much fun. Since they’re proper toys they’re beefier and sturdier than smaller figures and I don’t feel nervous posing them. Just good toys tbh.

Anyway, two weeks ago I needed to kill time during my work trip so I swung by Walmart to buy a new bathing suit and you will not believe who I found!

It wasn’t even seven dollars... IT WAS FOUR.

Absolutely bought it. I had waffled on which drone to get from ebay and settled for the white, but god damn do I love the.... idk what to call this. Neon red? Neon red drone. Atrocious. 10/10

That means I own the full second set! First set has realistically colored facehuggers (with the white drone), second set has GITD (glow in the dark). The first set warrior is blue. Boring. Don’t need it. And the runner is like... A slightly uglier metallic, the bronze is superior.

Anyway. Really happy about that.

I just need to pull the trigger on some old 2018 Jurassic Clash dino rider toys and I’ll basically be set for my Lanard collection, unless I want to bite on a Star Troopers set because the bugs are really cool.

#long post #toy collecting #The Dragoon Diaries #xenomorph #aliens #toys #action figure #cannot stress how fucking overpriced the Star Troopers figures are #my Jurassic Clash figrues are all NIB #but these babies got UNBOXED IMMEDIATELY #I want to two bigger Clash figures I don't own #but they're bigger so.... storage space :/