The Lion King Collection

Here is again a post of my humble collection of things I never threw away in honor of the big news that I just found out about today. Disney is making a sequel to The Lion King in the form of a TV-movie and show! Read more here http://tvline.com/2014/06/10/disney-junior-lion-king-sequel-series-the-lion-guard/

Isn't that neat or what? Okay, so the show is going to be aimed for younger kids (age 2-7), which sounds a little weird first, but then again who cares? The back of the VHS tape's says that the age recommendation is from 8 years and up (on the Blu-ray it's 7 years). I remember that I was only 4 or 5 years old when I saw the original movie in theaters. Besides this new show is bound to be more kid friendly because they probably already took care of all the family feuds they could think up in the movies, no more daddies thrown down the cliffs by evil uncles or murderous/suicidal mother-in-laws........ awww! ( ಠ_ಠ)

Naturally, I have the two movies. For the record, I haven't seen The Lion King 1 ½ (or 3 depending on which country you're from) because I've only heard bad things about it.

Original trio. I've had these three figures since my childhood, Sarabi was the first one I got and the Scar figure was originally my brother's. On the Simba & Nala figure there is a clearly visible seam, as a kid, I used to try to tear them apart from each other! Now in hindsight, I'm glad I never managed to do that. :D Sadly, there are some irremovable smudges on the figures and the original paint is worn out here and there.

I think I got the Pumba figure from a relative and I bought the two Simba figures (the other one is significantly more scuffed up) from a flea market together with....

....sleeping Mufasa and Simba figure, which is so adorable!

Kiara or Simba? iron on patch. Honestly, I have no recollection of how this came into my possession, but it's cute all the same.

 

Happy Meal toys Kovu x2 and Zira. Not exactly the prettiest ones around, if you squeeze the toys they make a noise that sounds more like a pig rather than a lion. I found this old French McDonald's commercial on YouTube promoting these toy's  http://youtu.be/nlskILl_7Hc

 

Smarties tube toppers. Kiara with a butterfly, a very creepy roaring Simba and a broken one which was Rafiki holding cub Kiara. The tail feathers of Zazu, which is all that remains, came from something called Nestlé Magic Chocolate Surprise egg and amazingly there is even a video about those on YouTube  http://youtu.be/vrdpvI9yx6o

Coloring book with mazes, connect the dots, find five differences and so on. Here are a few selected pages from the book, I can't really tell the difference which pages were done by my brother and which ones I colored.

Nailed it!

*Update 07.03.15
Apparently I have a few stickers as well!

*Update 28.03.15

Found a children's book, the whole story of the movie in 4 pages! And the cub is a boy!

*Update 14.04.15

Zazu has been reunited with his tail feathers! I can't believe I found it... 

Coloring Fluttershy

I got my hands on a My Little Pony coloring book and I just couldn't resist scanning a few pictures of my favorite pony out of the mane six and do a little coloring.....

 

....which then lead to this:

unofficial mlp mug

We wants it, we needs it

Even tough it still October, the stores are already bringing out their Christmas decorations and whatnot up for sale. As I was walking past an aisle where the store clerks were busy shelving all the Christmas candies and something caught my eye. A box of chocolates with the Star Wars logo and a big picture of a Stormtrooper helmet!

Yeah, I bought some n_n' I thought it was pretty neat that there is a small window on the box were you can see the two different kinds of chocobits this box contains, white chocolate for the Stormtrooper helmets and milk chocolate for the Darth Vader ones. Kinda unnecessary, but right beside the window there is a picture of the content printed on the box, I guess they had to fill the empty space with something, right? I'm kinda wondering what it was doing among the Xmas candies anyway when there is nothing that explicitly says "Christmas" on it. Because people are not allowed to buy boxes of chocolate unless it is the Holidays?

 

I was surprised the chocolate tasted pretty decent! It wasn't great but it certainly was nothing bad either. I was expecting something horrible like in some cheap Advent calendars were the so called "chocolate" tastes just plain awful. Buy a couple of these and you got yourself a makeshift calendar that will last four days past Christmas eve!
Note! This box of chocolates in now officially the first Star Wars merchandise that I've seen that has the "Disney" logo on it. Suddenly, cold chills are running down my spine. Fortunately it doesn't say "Disney's Star Wars" at least.

Other recently purchased SW merch that were on sale are "activity fun pack" i.e. a coloring pad and some stickers, a notebook, clone trooper keyring, 2 metal boxes (the Clone Wars trading card game, series 3 &4)

Finally, my unofficial Darth Maul keyring, that I ordered from one of those businesses that print your photos to mugs, canvases, books, cards or whatever you want.
I'm a pirate! Ψ(｀▽´)Ψ

Star Wars coloring book

You look just the way I feel

I really need to stop going to flea markets. Seriously, everything I've blogged so far has been about my findings at various flea markets. It wasn't supposed to be this way!

Oh well...

I found these all kinds of coloring books at a section in the market where they actually sell brand new books, paperbacks and comics. I never looked at the kid's selection too carefully but this time I did. Oh man, was I surprised!! At first glance I just saw a corner of a gray cover on the lower shelf, at second glance I saw the words "Dark side" (Pimeä puoli) and a hint of a black and red jaw.

SOLD!!! 

It has Darth friggin Maul on the cover. I didn't even need to see the rest  before I knew I wanted it. Luckily the inside was just as good as the outside. What really grinds my gears is that these SW books were at the bottom of the pile of coloring books, which probably means that they have been there the whole time. I don't even want to know how many times I have walked passed them before. That just hurts.

Back cover (left), front cover (right)

"If you only knew the power of the Dark side."

 I really want to color some of the pictures in the book. Just like back in the good old days, although nowadays I would use a computer instead of crayons and try to stay inside the lines.