TOY STORY INSPIRED ALIENS

Toy Story was one of my son's favorite movies growing up so I have to love these Amigurumi Toy Story inspired Aliens by Homemade Obessions.   She even has instructions on her website that she designed to make your own if you crochet, which are free here, but she does indicate that they are for personal use only and not to be sold.
Photo:  Homemade Obessions

X-Rayed Toys

rayos x rosa, originally uploaded by Scan Toys.


If you are a parent of a tinkering tot or teen, you already know what the insides and parts of many toys are because you have ended up helping them try to put it back together (and even if you do it is never quite the same again).

Flickr user ScanToys has forgone the actual destruction...erh...tinkering and made a set of photos that show toys from airport security screener's sort of view with an artistic touch.

Above are a dinosaur and what looks to be the electronic controller for it, a key and  some dolls.

Below are some toy vehicles.

rayos x aut simetria, originally uploaded by Scan Toys.

And here is an X-Ray picture of Barbie getting X-Rated with Ken (censored, of course).

Censored rayos x barbie  originally uploaded by Scan Toys

To see the non-censored picture and the other 21 pictures in the set click over to Scan Toys. 

WATERWORLD TRIMARAN

This was a toy made by Kenner in 1995 as one of two vehicles that corresponds with one of the most expensive box office bombs in history "Waterworld" (although it was really not that bad of movie, but not epic like "Pirates of the Caribbean") and is still new in an never opened box..

My son got this at a toy collector's "going back to school" garage sale for $10.  The collector said that there were not a lot of them made and he had a hard time finding it when it came out and purchased it in Indianapolis at a convention for $80 after the film came out.  I checked EBAY  there are a few listed, the lowest starting at $29.95 and Action toys is currently selling one. for $95.00 and my son is thinking about selling it to make a profit, but my theory is that toys are for playing with, or at least displaying and we now thinking of cracking open the box and maybe displaying it (but I won't be surprised if I find it in the bathtub someday if he decides to keep it). 

What would you do?