I received a package from Activision today. Inside there were four Skylanders Wave 3 figures and a couple of additional figures in the box. I was pretty excited because Wave 3 has a character that I’ve been waiting for since I first saw him, Ka-Boom. Ka-Boom is a cool looking character. He looks like a giant barbarian/viking who ripped a cannon of of its mount and now carries it around as his Traptanium weapon.
The box also contained Blastermind, a Magic Trapmaster, the one element that had not been released (barring the light and dark elements). There were also two core characters, a Fire Element named Trail Blazer and a Magic Element called Cobra Cadabra. I am looking forward to getting a chance to play with these guys. I wasn’t able to today before work. But I did make this video.
Christmas 1984 was one of my best ever. I was ten years old and Transformers had just come out. My grandmother dragged my grandfather into every mall and Bradlees up and down the eastern seaboard to buy me and my sisters some great toys. I was a very lucky kid and I loved playing with those toys. I stayed up all Christmas Eve putting on stickers and transforming every one of my new robots over and over til I could do them all in my sleep. But even though those were some of my most favorite toys ever there are still some things that we have today that I wish were around when I was a carefree 10 year old who had much more time to play with them.
