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I found Bluestar Astrodite to be a great thing and something from the Ironic Punishment division of toy making. I love glow toys, I love The Outer Space Men , and a few orders in 2023 proved to be too much of a good thing. She sat in a box in my photo room for a few years despite being every bit as good as her peers. The $15 figure was marked down to $10 - unusual, as many figures go up in price…
I bought a lot of figures I was missing a couple of years ago and have been slowly opening them. I assume it's unlikely we'll get many more of these guys, so Bluestar Cyclops is something to be savored... and also taken for granted. There are just so many of them that it was hard to really take them all in, even though they're amazing little things on their own. The entire Bluestar series is 19…
The Outer Space Men is one of my favorite batches of toy designs ever, and I've still got tons of unreviewed figures. Granted, most of them are glow green , glow blue, or plain white ... which is why I've been dragging my feet. I've got some really nice fully painted ones, and can't complain about a single one of them as a stand-alone thing. If they were doing new fully-colored figures, I'd be…
Over at Onell.store , there's a new figure! The Relgothan Astro Kraken Conversion Set includes what appears to be most of an Astro-Nautilus from the waist up. It has a head, arms, and a torso - sadly, no legs. Click here to see if any are left .
With the line's 50th anniversary having come and gone, we didn't get a heck of a lot of exciting new surprises and that's kind of a shame. Since then, there was a very expensive vinyl figure, some glock parts, and a series NFTs, but I'm toy people and Bluestar Orbitron is more my speed. I missed out on the original toys by virtue of my parents not meeting and getting it on faster, and these…
It's kind of funny, but it's possible that Cosmic Radiation Jack Asteroid sat unreviewed in my house for close to five years - I picked up a lot of these guys to open and enjoy, but also to review, and the reviews frequently take precedence. Who needs to be written and shot quickly? That's who gets opened - so I just grabbed Jack since he's been one of many glow or white OSM who needed to finally…
After the program of giant-siz e The Outer Space Men vinyl figures at pretty fair prices seems to have ended, we now have the reveal of the 50 piece 2024 ZOLLMEN X OSM ASTRO NAUTILUS BULLMARK SOFUBI figure. It's a 12-inch figure styled to look like the Bullmark releases, which is good. It's limited to 50, which isn't great. It's $400, so I won't be buying one - on my browser it's a white price on…
As one of the second year prototypes from the 1960s, most people didn't get any flavor of the figure that would become Bluestar Gamma-X until about 10 years ago. He's neat! Peak midcentury design with nifty b-movie antennae, clamp-on armor, and a couple of blasters make for a notable figure. You can get him in green , a painted version, or a white version - but the blue one is pretty spectacular.…
Having launched at a surprisingly fair (if not cheap) $15, Bluestar Maximilian Gravity is kind of a fascinating figure. (The Cosmic Radiation Zero Gravity [FOTD #2,310] was $25!) As of my writing this there have been four versions of this mold - or rather, this head - and three of them glow in the dark. It's a little silly, but I'll allow it. The first ones were called "Zero Gravity" and now…
I swore off completism until a 40% off sale hit the same week I got a little something extra in a paycheck. I'm not made of stone. The Bluestar Colossus Rex normally goes for $30, which was too much for me to pounce on in early 2022. But $18? With the rest of the line, also mostly 40% off? I can do that. At this point I recognize that what I'm paying for is a big wall of glowing blue plastic more…
I slowed my roll reviewing the glowing The Other Space Men figures because we got a lot in short order. Too many, you might say, since she's still available for retail price and that retail price was on the higher side of things. Cosmic Radiation Terra Firma shares parts with Luna Eclipse - and functionality, there really wasn't a good reason to do both - bringing you what may well be the epitome…
What could be more American than buying a bunch of stuff over July 4 weekend? If you're a Glyos fan, you've got two pretty decent sales this weekend to exploit. At Rocom Toys , you can get 20% off an order of $50 or more when you pick up Mighty Maniax Glyos figures. They said it on Instagram , it must be true. Also, The Outer Space Men have what may be the best coupon in years - 40% off most items…
Better late than never. The 2022 ASTRODITE BLUESTAR was posted to the Outer Space Men Shop on June 8, 2023. She's a surprisingly cheap $15. (If they lowered the prices on the other figures to $15, I think I'd order 'em all and complete my set - I only have the first four so far.) She looks good, order her here .
I love glow figures, but too much of a good thing is possible. Cosmic Radiation Astrodite stayed in her baggie since I got her in 2018! White Star is still bagged, but I opened Astrodite Infinity Edition [FOTD #2,025] immediately. She's good! But the allure of repaints diminishes as time goes on - especially when it's a repaint of a figure you have to look like another figure you have. I'd love to…
You never know how time will change your favorites! This was the last of the four "Galactic Holiday" figures I opened from the 2022 series. Galactic Holiday Darkoneth of the Voidrillion Command Cthulhu Nautilus is a redeco of the somehow still incredibly striking Outer Space Men Cthulhu Nautilus Action Figure [FOTD #2,015] from 2018. The metallic skin, gorgeous clear blue eyes, striking metallic…
I like this Galactic Holiday Voidrillia of the Voidrillion Command Luna Eclipse because her colors don't match any other human action figures I have in my toybox. She stands out. This 3 3/4-inch scale repaint of a resculpt turned out well, but according to Matt Doughty has some design connections to Queen Kirallius [FOTD #2,186] , the figure from early 2020 that you regret missing. As a repaint of…
If you're a fan of the 2010-present The Outer Space Men action figures (with Glyos), it might be time to give them a good look. Mine have mostly been content to sit on a shelf for a few years, and I'd pull out some of the painted or glowing ones to shoot photos - but it turns out, they were quietly molting when I wasn't looking. If you look at packaged Mystron Infinity Edition figures on eBay, if…
I have plenty of The Outer Space Men figures. I really didn't need this Galactic Holiday Cobaltus of the Voidrillion Command Colossus Rex but, also, I did. These guys are a lot of fun to mess with thanks to their accessories and how they scale with a lot of my favorite childhood figures... plus they look like they could have and indeed should have been in the background of 1970s space comic books.…
I feel kind of silly that I still get really excited for new The Outer Space Men figures. If I'm getting a new head or an all-new paint job, it's difficult for me to be cynical. When the quartet that includes Galactic Holiday Voidrillion Command Orbitron dropped in December I went from "Well I skipped wave 2 and beyond for Bluestar" to "Get my wallet" in about 4 seconds. They're weird magical…
The Outer Space Men pulled another rabbit out of their hat with Jack Asteroid and Maximilian Gravity (Zero Gravity) Bluestar blue glow-in-the-dark action figures at $15 each. There are, of course many others. I've dropped off buying the Bluestars at $25-$30 but I'd buy everything I'd missed so far at $15 a pop. The four I do have glow for hours when charged by the sun, to the point where it's…
Update 12/23/22: individual figures are also up for grabs. Colossus Rex is $30. The others are $25. I honestly thought we'd never see Galactic Holiday figures again! Just now, The Outer Space Men Shop posted THE VOIDRILLION COMMAND 2022 GALACTIC HOLIDAY EDITION set for $100. $25/figure isn't bad for these guys. In it, you get new flavors of Orbitron, Colossus Rex, Luna Eclipse, and Cthulhu…
When toy lines slow down, and display space dries up, things stay in a box for a while. I've had Cosmic Radiation Ohpromatem since some point in 2018 - but didn't open it until about three weeks ago, in part because I was holding back on a bunch of White Star and Cosmic Radiation figures to talk about when we got new molds or new painted figures. Turns out, that didn't happen - other than Bluestar…
It seems like a good time for The Outer Space Men to put on costumes for Halloween! While there's not much news going on in The Outer Space Men line these days, there's still plenty to like - old figures can be had for varying levels of "not bad" on eBay if you're lucky, and they're still one of the more fun lines to play around with if you have more toys. I started picking up some of Hasbro's…
Your local Walmart is loaded with dirt-cheap USB LED light strips. On Saturday, I picked up the LEDeez Black Light LED Light Strip for under $6. I hooked it up to a power bank and waltzed around with it to see how it did - it's good! It's not as bright as a good UV Light Flashlight, but it certainly gets the job done. Here it is near some 2010-2012 The Outer Space Men Alpha, Beta, and Holiday…
Gary from Team Outer Space Men sent us a note that the 3-pack of Cyclops, Gemini, and Orbitron are coming! And are sadly getting a price increase. The 3 big beefy blue glow guys will set you back $90, but there's a lot of glowing plastic in there. You can find more pictures on their Instagram here .