Monday, November 02, 2009

With a little help from my Friends

I hadn’t been to A Timeless Journey in Stamford for a couple of weeks (been busy, ya’ kno’?), so I stopped in this Saturday and well, in addition to scoring a couple of new comics that I hadn’t yet acquired, my good buddy (and owner) Paul Salerno, handed me a bag of to-be-assembled Spidey toys from his gum machine.

Turns out these were the three missing toys that I’ve been missing from his Marvel character Gum Machine.

First up, is the ever-mysterious “Backwards bending Spidey”



Not quite sure what that pose signifies, or what he could possibly doing (voguing, perhaps?) Then we have the very cool and always-menacing Doc Ock.



and, now, for the long-awaited, never-before-seen, eight figure:



Yep, the third character in the series, was yet another Spidey.

All together now...



Thanks Paul, you’re the bestest!

2 comments:

Reggie White Jr. said...

I love that old-school Doc Ock!

rjsodaro said...

Yep, these figures are pretty cool. Can’t wait to see what the third set looks like (due out in Dec.)

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