Diary of an up and coming sociopath

One of the lesser-publicised nerdisms I have is that I really love action figures. It’s probably not much of a surprise, what with that Transformers obsession, but I’ve never really been able to justify the expense, having neither the money nor the storage space to get a habit going. This means I just stare longingly at the Marvel Legends figures and just dream of what might be.

The most recent set of Marvel Legends, though, was termed “The Onslaught Series” on account of how if you bought each figure in the line, you could assemble a giant-sized figure of Onslaught from pieces packaged with each one. Now, Onslaught was the big villain in X-Men and Marvel comics when I first got into them 10 years ago, and as such he occupies a special place in my fanboy heart. When I saw the figure I was psychologically destroyed and all obstacles in my way had to be eliminated in the pursuit of it.

To that end, I bought the first two figures in the wave last week, that contain the head and torso pieces. Pleased with my purchase, at lunchtime on Monday I bought the next 4 figures in the line and built the whole damn thing. It was looking a bit dodgy for a while as the assembly was surprisingly touch, until Josh suggested lubricating the joints with soap. He’s clearly done this kind of thing before, as it worked a charm and I was left with a fully articulate, excellently sculpted and horrendously geekish Onslaught figure. Onslaught’s catch phrase was “Behold my mighty hand!” and I have to admit that it is mightly, not least because it has posable joints for each figure, and because there are SIX fingers. That’s might you can’t buy in cans.

As for the figures the various pieces of Onslaught were packaged with, I’ve just flogged a couple on eBay and besides the Green Goblin one, I’ll be flogging the rest too. As much a Marvel fan as I am, I can do without a Blackheart figure.

Photos can be found on my flickr profile, which I have also updated with a single picture from the Radiohead gig. Yay.