Cooey's Toy Box

I haven't driven a car in eight years (long story for another time) but I still dig these four wheeled beauties. Some of Sandie's treats -- mostly Shelby's and a Corvette. She knows I really like these car designs so she knows what to pick-up for me whenever she goes shopping. I know she has a box of these stashed away for Christmas... I'm just pretending I don't know they exist... yet. The other car is a Q-Steer Nissan Fairlady Z, a remote-controlled micro racer from Takara Tomy. It was given to me by my brother-in-law. Here are pix of our races: The 1st Narra Grand Prix The race track inauguration The 2nd Narra Grand Prix

I admit. I'm a plastic junkie... Crackin' them open soon!

A friend gave me this well-preserved Real American Hero Sci-Fi figure. This figure is the second version of the character Sci-Fi released in 1991. Sci-Fi's the G.I. Joe team's directed energy expert -- that's LASER RIFLE TROOPER to you. Here's his filecard at YoJoe.com. Sci-Fi: The code name used by U.S. Army Sergeant Seymour P. Fine. Born in Geraldine, Montana, Sci-Fi was fascinated by electronics and became involved in the Army's most advanced weapons once he enlisted, including laser rifles. He later returned to school to get his masters degree in electronic engineering. His senior thesis -- a sophisticated security system that incorporated the remote targeting sensor from a laser weapon -- was so impressive that it was adopted by NASA. Sci-Fi eventually joined the G.I. Joe team where he used the Army's latest laser rifle. Sci-Fi joined the team shortly after the new Pit III headquarters was established in Utah. He participated in several miss

A fellow collector left a pleasant surprise at my office the other day. He had been fixing up his collection and found a bunch of his old 80's ARAH ( A Real American Hero) G.I. Joes and gave them to me since he had seen some of the ARAH figures I had restored. A big thanks KIKO! Among the pile of parts, weapons and accessories were three complete figures with loose joints and really dinged up paint jobs. These will be the first one's I'll be restoring. First up is Wetsuit (118-HAF-1986-WETSUIT-01), with flashlight, airtank and underater sled. He is missing his rebreather tubes and flippers, of which I know I have some extra paits lying around. His joints are very, very loose and he can't stand up unassisted. Pretty much like me on bad days :( The 1984 Series 3 Firefly (118-HAF-1984-FIREFLY-01) is also mostly ok even though he is missing his thumbs. That was a common problem with the plastic of these figures then. His backpack is complete a