Hi everybody. Or at least hi to everyone who has stuck around, because it’s been really quiet here for a long time. Why? Well, mostly because work and my personal situation kept me very busy and I just didn’t have the time or energy to update this blog. But now things have calmed down a bit and I’ve been stuck at home more, thanks to the corona virus, so I decided to write something again. I hope you’ll like it 🙂
Next to collecting comic books, I also collect action figures and Lego. Mostly Star Wars stuff, but also characters and vehicles from other franchises. And besides displaying them, I also like to make funny pictures with them. Or at least I try to be funny. So today I’m going to show you some of the pictures I made. I haven’t included some of the older ones, because not all of them were very funny and the quality wasn’t great either. The ones down here are the ones I like best and I personally think they’re getting funnier as I go along. So please keep scrolling down, because the best ones are at the bottom.
Here’s an old one. Lucy replaced Emmet with Admiral Ackbar. The admiral may be handsome by Mon Calamari standards, but this sure wasn’t good for poor Emmet’s self esteem.
And here’s another oldie. Everyone has stepped on a Lego brick barefoot at some point in their life and we all know that it hurts like h***
I actually did a couple of these, based on Gandalf telling the Balrog that he couldn’t pass, but I thought this was the funniest one.
This one is pretty corny, but I could just hear K2-SO saying it to Sam 🙂
This idea came up after watching Clerks, where they had a discussion about all the innocent workers that died when the Death Star was blown up. Luckily it wasn’t Mario and Luigi.
At the hight of the Pokémon Go craze, I was also watching The Walking Dead. And that’s how I got this idea.
This “rocket” came with a set from another brick brand and somehow this was the first thing that came to my mind….
These little Lego trolls were a gift from a friend and reminded me of Yoda with their big ears and green skin. And there’s Wonder Woman again!
I had a lot of Masters of the Universe figures as a kid, but I never had Snout Spout. But When I got this Mega Construx He-Man figure, my Fabuland Elephant was the first one I thought of.
Like Snout Spout, I also never had a Mekaneck figure. So when I finally got this little figurine, I had to do a joke with him and my Mega Construx He-Man.
Every Christmas I have action figures visiting my nativity scene. This one’s an awkward meeting between the son of Odin and the son of God.
In the Netherlands we have a coconut filled chocolate bar called Bounty. So this one was a pretty corny joke featuring one of my favorite Star Wars characters.
Like most Star Wars fans, I also love Indiana Jones movies. That’s why I got this Indy figure a while ago and after that the joke was easily made, with my vintage Falcon in the background.
This one is so politically incorrect, that I didn’t post it on Instagram. Star Was has made huge steps in featuring more strong female characters in their movies and shows and Leia in her “slave girl” outfit just sets everything back 40 years. And to make things worse, it’s her own brother that is holding the “leash”.
The vintage Kenner Chewbacca was one of my favorite figures as a kid. So when I finally got hold of one again and held him next to my modern Chewie, this joke came to mind.
At the start of the corona crisis, people couldn’t go to the barber or hairdresser. Ans that’s how I came up with this one. This is also the first time that I printed a background and used Tonka figures and vehicles to complete the picture. They combine really well with vintage Star Wars figures.
I love those old Tonka and Galoob vans, but next to the Millennium Falcon they really don’t look like much.
Here I used a background of a forest and put two Ewoks in the picture, to create the impression that this was the forest moon of Endor. The rescue workers are Fisher Price Adventure People and the ambulance and gurney are from Playmobil.
Drunken times at the Mos Eisley cantina. Of course we never saw Bossk at the cantina in the movies, but somehow I thought he’d fit right in. Here I used Tonka, Fisher Price and Playmobil figures and vehicles again.
Of course I had to do one with Han and Chewie as well. I love how the drunken astronaut is going home on his bicycle.
I found all my old Playmobil toys in the attic and loved these droids. I had forgotten how much the GE5P droids look like R2D2, but in contrast to Artoo they do have arms….
This idea came up after watching the Solo movie again. What if Han hadn’t won the Falcon? I guess they’d go out and buy a van. I think Han and Chewie look great in the Fisher Price van and the background turned out pretty good as well.
This is one of my personal favorites. I can just see Vader taking his kids on vacation in that van, with Luke and Leia bothering him all the way there. And Kit Fisto helping out a lady in her bathing suit with her canoe is a nice touch in the background.
I still have my R.O.B. from back in the day and it I love it, but it really is the most useless accessory ever.
This is basically the same joke I did before with Chewbacca. Of course I’m poking fun at the overly muscular Power of the Force 2 figures and I made things worse by putting those two ladies next to POTF2 Luke.
As soon as I got my second Wampa, this was one of the first jokes that came to mind. That microphone stand and bass guitar are actually from a figure of Motorhead’s Lemmy. By the way, the whole crowd is made up of female Star Wars characters and some Fisher Price and Tonka women.
I had this old wrestling ring lying around and remembered how I used to have my Masters of the Universe figures wrestle in it. And my vintage Wampa would be one of the wrestlers as well. That’s how I came up with this one. Of course Luke doesn’t like Wampa’s after his experience on Hoth. There’s some familiar faces in the crowd as well, including the A-Team’s B.A.
This Hangrees Chew-Kaka was a Christmas gift from my sister and nephew last year and comes with his own toilet bowl. I filled the bowl up with chocolate pudding and even spilled some on the floor next to it. And the guys from Robot Chicken often joke about Dengar having toilet paper wrapped around his head, so that’s how this joke came up.
I used to hide this Super7 Mr. Spock ReAction figure among my vintage Kenner Star Wars figures, just to see if anyone would notice him. Eventually I turned that into a joke as well. And let’s be honest, that Chief Chirpa figure looks pretty creepy.
I never payed attention to it as a kid, but in the original trilogy Leia was practically the only woman and Lando practically the only African-American. Looking back at that as an adult, it’s actually pretty sily. Luckily Star Wars characters have become more diverse through the years, but I still used Tonka and Fisher Price figures to make fun of this fact.
It’s not just the Mandalorian’s creed, it’s also where they’re going. And apparently Mandalorians also use GPS on their iPhones.
This one’s so corny, but I got a lot of cool reactions to it. I just painted a Mando face on a mango. Of course the Lego Razor Crest is not in scale with the figures, but I won it on Instagram and thought it would make a nice background piece.
And here’s the last one I did. I was glad to see Carl Weathers as Greef Carga in the Mandolorian and when I saw this Apollo Creed figure on Super7’s website, I ordered it just to make this joke. And of course it’s a cool figure anyway.
Like I said, I made a lot more, but some are not as good and are just outdated. I hope you’ll like these and I will be making new ones all the time, so you can expect another one of these posts in the future.
cheers, Ralph
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