Harry Potter And The Cheap Knock Off

Well, the new Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, is coming out July 15th so I thought I would post the Harry Potter knock off action figure. It’s not a new action figure and was most likely made for one of the previous movie releases. Anything dollar store is usually behind the times. The name is somewhat unimaginative, Little Wizard, it’s a descriptive term. Why not Herry Putter or Horry Patter? I guess they were trying to avoid making it too obvious of a connection. I mean aside from the hair, the resemblance is uncanny, take a look. He reminds me of the puppet Conky from the Trailer Park Boys. It was made in the likeness of the character Bubbles. This Harry Potter knock off comes with a couple accessories that fit into fists. The fists have holes in them, much like if you were holding a bat, and the two accessories fit right into them. The first accessory is a crooked wand thing most likely used for magic and the other is a broomstick that is probably there for the Quidditch game in the Harry Potter books. The magic wand might not even be a magic wand at all. It could be a cane used by older wizards that’s usually made out of a crooked wooden tree branch. I’m sure kids can use their imagination and decide between the two. The Harry Potter bootleg is an action figure because the arms can move forward and backward like normal arms. He doesn’t have a chest light like the Fighter Robots, City Nimrods or the Batman action figure, but that would be a little odd. Batman and the Robots I can see having that light, but not the Nimrods. Even the knock off Optimus Prime has a chest light. Check out the animated picture of Little Wizard worthy of a dollar or discount...

Fighter Robots

I haven’t posted a dollar store action figure in quite some time so I figure it’s about time for another one. These are the Fighter Robots and I picked them up at one of the Buck or Two stores. I can’t remember if they were a buck or two(har har). The Fighter Robots come in two sizes, big and mini. The big Fighter Robots are packed individually so you’re going to have to get another one so it won’t feel lonely. The mini ones come in packs of two, but they are half the size of the big ones. Big Fighter RobotsSo, I got two of the big Fighter Robots, the only colors the Buck or Two had available were black and grey. There may be other colors available. They really remind me of Vikings, don’t know why. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Arghhhhhhhhh Both the arms and legs are posable on the Fighter Robots, although it’s not what you might expect. They don’t move straight forward, the robot arms are curved like those body builder guys whose biceps are too big who can’t put their whole arm against their bodies. The arms are posable, but you can’t get a good downward chopping action.The legs work a little better than the arms, they pivot the right way, but pivot on an angle making anything other than standing up straight difficult. I barely kept it standing up to take the picture. Big Fighter Robots have the City Nimrod chest light button An advertised feature of the big Fighter Robots is that it lights up. It has a tiny LED light in the chest that lights up by pressing a button on the lower back, the same as the City Nimrods. The light works just as well as long as the battery isn’t dead. Unfortunately, if the battery is dead and you really want that chest light action, you’re going to have to open the action figure. There’s not battery compartment, the action figure is the battery compartment. Big Fighter Robots Fight The big Fighter Robots come with a big axe and a big shield. The hands have the tiny holes in them to hold the axe and shield. They can hold the axe in two ways(see above), the black fighter holding it one way and the grey fighter holding it the other. Mini Fighter Robots These guys were in the same packThe mini Fighter Robots come in a pack of two, but they are roughly half the size of the large ones. These guys...

Optimus Prime Transformer

First there was the Marvel Spiderman knock off City Nimrod, next was the knock off of DC’s Batman action figure and now, the knock off version of Hasbro’s Transformer Optimus Prime. You’ll note the picture of just the head of the knock off Optimus on the left there. No I didn’t take it apart in that sense. Removing the head is all part of the design of this Dollarama toy. Before we talk about the removing head design, here are the two next to each other for comparison. You can see the differences, but you should also see the similarities. The head is close, the limbs are similar and the front is just about the same. The weapons included with the Dollarama version are copies of the weapons the real Optimus Prime has, even the axe. The axe included is for the rarely seen energy, or energon, axe Optimus uses. The axe replaces Optimus’ fist in the cartoon, but this knock off has it fitting right into the weapon holding hole on the fist, and that’s ok, but it also brings me to my next point. This is the first of the dollar store action figures I have reviewed that can actually hold the weapons and accessories included with them, so you can see how this is a big deal. Cheap toy or not, if it is supposed to have a weapon fit in the hand, make the weapon able fit in the hand please. Well, since this is a transforming action figure, let’s see how you go about transforming this robot into a truck. Transforming the Dollar Store Optimus Prime into a Truck Steps Step 1 Steps: Take off the head Take off the arms Twist the legs 180 degrees Bend the feet down and the legs back 90 degrees Look at the removed head and arms and wonder what you will do with them Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 I am still trying to figure out why you are supposed to remove anything from something that is supposed to be a transformer, except for the weapons. Removing the head and arms in order to make it look like the truck instead of rearranging them makes it only half of a transformer, the other half being a rip apart stress toy. Here is what it would look like if you only “transformed” it. I’d hate to see this thing drive by, or worse yet, trailing me on the highway. Oh, and some other minor points...

11 Inch Army Soldier Accessory Set

Well, it looks like the 11 inch army guy is going to get a makeover. I found an equipment pack for 11 inch army soldiers at a new dollar store I went to. I have not seen any other 11, 11.5 or 12 inch army figures at any of the dollar stores I have been to since the first one I picked up, so you can probably imagine my surprise when I actually found an accessory set for one. They didn’t give him anything good in the original package so they make you have to spend another buck on better gear and equipment. Here’s the rundown of the old and new equipment. Photo Equipment List Old Gear Includes: Crappy Looking Camouflage Jump Suit Cloth Hat Cloth Belt Two Unmatching boots New Gear Include: Better Looking Camouflage Jump Suit Plastic Helmet Plastic Belt Two Matching Boots Machine Gun Aside from the machine gun, which is new, everything else is just an upgraded version of what he already had. Well, I suppose getting a gun from not having a gun could be an upgrade. Have a look at the new look compared to the old. Looking a bit more credible now, he’s done away with his old gear and wears the new gear. Still looks too happy...

Super Hero Batman Action Figure

Another cheap action figure I found at one of the dollar stores is the Super Hero Batman action figure. He has a different costume design, no cape and gold dust designs on his black suit. He also comes with a gigantic bow and arrow with 2 suction cup dart arrows. The bow is colored the same way as the suit. That’s typical of Batman though, marking his toys with his own logos and symbols. The Package Batman should get on his Bat Computer and look up a few copyright laws, Spiderman’s spider sense must be tingling at this point and Superman has a new vulnerability. Like the cheap Spiderman action figure City Nimrods, the Batman action figure package has several characters on it. Spiderman, Superman and even a Power Ranger are included on the package along with the less prominent Batman photo from Batman and Robin. Oh and why is Robin on the right side of Batman’s chest? It doesn’t even matter that Batman is DC, Spiderman is Marvel and Power Rangers are, well, neither DC or Marvel. Both the Spiderman and Batman on the package pictures have a flash on their chest. That’s the light both the City Nimrod and this Batman have as an additional unmentioned feature. Batman I can see having a light like that on his suit with all the gadgets he has, but Spiderman? I think a little lightning bug got into the mix of genetically altered spiders. It would suck to have to press your lower back to get it to work since that is where the button to turn it on is located. The Batman Action Figure This Batman action figure was most likely made at the same place as the City Nimrods. They both have the same right and left hand pose(that can’t hold what they came with) and come with weapons that really don’t make sense for the characters they are supposed to be. They both have a working chest light however, the Super Hero Batman action figure has a giant hole in the back of his head. Why? I don’t know. Batman is a little short compared to B-Rod and R-Rod. The Bow and Arrow The bow itself is the same black and gold as Batman’s costume. The trouble is, this bow is way too big for the action figure to hold in either hand and it feels about the same weight as the figure to. This is just like the Nimrods who could not hold their weapons very...