Cooey's Toy Box

Whether you've been naughty or nice, one wish I would like for you and yours is to have a peaceful and joyous Christmas! Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all! And here's a sneak peek of one of my new toys:) Can you guess what it is?

Maybe you've seen TS118's huge dioramas during toy conventions in the past...                       ...wait til you getta load of the next one:) Calling all toy photographers! Drop by the Legazpi Car Park, Makati on Saturday, December 11, 2010 from 7am to 12 noon and take part in our super-sized DMD featuring a heckuva lot of 1:18 toys in a desert-themed diorama! Look for Glen Antonio aka Flash.

TS118, the Philippines' only local online 1:18 community, will be participating in the 5th Christmas Toy Fair at the Megatrade Hall 1, SM Megamall, Ortigas on Dec 17-19, 2010. On December 19, members will be bringing old toys and books for donation to the Bantay Bata 163 Foundation. Should you want to contribute and join in the Toy Drive, just drop by on Sunday with your donations and look for any TS118 soldier with this shirt on: The grunt will be more than happy to help you with your donations. See ya!

William Ianotti, codenamed Pathfinder, learned the finer points of military reconnaissance early. With a vet as a father, he learned how to rough it out in the wild swamps of Florida as a child, enabling him to breeze through much of the Army jungle training during his adolescence. A natural when it comes to jungle survival, Pathfinder is one of the Joe Team's finest jungle assault specialists and Recon operators. Pathfinder was first released as part of the 17th series in 2001 and later rereleased as part of the twentieth series in 2004. He was packaged with the Toys R Us exclusive VAMP (Multi-Purpose Attack Vehicle) with Twin Battle Gun. My figure is a custom using part from other joes from the Valor vs Venom line.

Here's the 2003 version of Robert "Grunt" Graves from the Valor Vs. Venom line. He was originally packaged with the Battle Blitz vehicle and came in two different colors. Another different colored version is also available in a carded two-pack with Destro. The figure was bought loose secondhand and accessories from other sets were added.  

1 action figure. 2 photographers. Here's the second set taken by myself. Enjoy and please feel free to drop me a line. Let me know whatcha think:)

Photography by Rolly Magpayo. Enjoy! Whatcha think?

Part of my birthday haul. Thanks, everyone! Mwahahahahahaha!

Micro racing at the parents' over the weekend! Sandie, Gani, Tatin, Mark, tito Boy and Tibong burn rubber on the newly inaugurated Elias Joaquin Circuit. Aforenamed Joaquin spent the afternoon though watching cartoons:) Click the pictures for bigger versions.