In which there are micro pirates

I have bought a ridiculous amount of toys lately so it is about time I shared some of my new delights.

I recently came across this Micro Playmobil series. It takes Playmobil children and has them playing with micro-Playmobil figures! Each set comes in a little box with a boy and a girl and a landscape pictures inside, plus a series of tiny magnetic figures attached to a magnetic board. How utterly awesome. I literally want to buy every single one in the series! There's a farm and two castles and an adorable Noah's ark and a harbour... so cute.

What I really like most it though, isn't actually the utterly miniature Playmobil, but the children figures that you get with it. They will go so well with existing series' that I have. I bought this amazing pirate set and I already have lots of pirate figures and even some zombie pirates - but now I can have little pirate cabin boy and girl to join the crew! I am also so pleased that these sets are not sexist - both the boy and the girl are active figures, the girl is wearing trousers and not some Elizabeth Swan figure, some prize to be won. She is playing too!

 

Set when closed

The same equality is true for the knights set which I am definitely going to buy next. The boy and girl are both playing at being knights, at being active - not one boy-knight and one girl-princess. The little boy and girl knight dress up go even better with all my medieval sets because I want to make a training school in the style of the excellent Tamora Pierce books and have boys and girls training to be knights. I already have lots of figures that could fit into the Tortall world so one day I want to do a little stop motion video of one of the books using Playmobil and have Kel and Alanna and all the others.

And on a separate note I also watched Moonrise Kingdom last week. I know, I am a bit late to the game - but how awesome is that film? I love the touch of darkness, although it never got quite as dark as I thought it would be. If you haven't seen it, I really recommend it. Moonrise Kingdom is a whimsical coming of age film with stunning cinematography.

And in honour of it Andy and I made a Lego version of the narrator:

 

Hope you like it! 

In which I play with zombies again.

Todays blog is an eclectic mix of delights and some (much improved) photographs of pirates.

I have done all sorts of crafting lately including a necklace from a t shirt into a crazy scarf type thing.

I confess this wasn't my idea. I got from Scientific Culture who got it from another blog, who got it from a video. And then it turns out that there are people making these all over the internet. However I like it enough to share it.

This is how someone does it properly

I also went a little bit playmobil crazy again today.

I made a whole new display, putting away the Christmas adventure and bringout Arabian pirates! Oh yes. My sister got me a lady pirate for Christmas and so me and John played around and built up a scene based around that slight increase in pirate figures.

There is a pirate court on one side of the table and at the other end their treasury is being attacked by zombie pirates. These arn't just any zombie though. They are rather idea-stolen living undying dead pirates as in -they cannot be killed. Dum dum dum! Guarding the secret meeting to discover how to destroy the zombies. Two zombies against the lone man with a crossbow. The captain fends a zombie off whilst her men hold the ladder in place, dragging some treasure to hold it down.

The whole scene in all its glory.

I havent mentioned anything about my superhero activities lately I know. I have been experimenting with my origami powers some more in order to create a new tool for my crime fighting. More on that next time!