Tuesday, June 14, 2011

PAPO Toys Les Mutants.....!

Papo Les Mutants

This post is a double plug. One for the french company PAPO Toys which have been making incredibly realistic animal and dinosaur toys for children for fifteen years. The other plug is for your neighborhood retail toy store. Not necessarily the designer toy store, but more likely your kid's toy store. Because it was here shopping with my kids that I found this PAPO Les Mutant Cyber Gorilla. I probably would have never discovered it had I not walked into a physical toy store and just looked around. Browsing real toy stores is so underated. Everything is online web sales. Which is great, but only when you know exactly what you're looking for. Give it a try, you never know what you will discover.

These Les Mutants figures from PAPO are part of a small series of only seven figures. I bought the three best ones, but might have to track down the dragon guy. These are the type of toys I loved as a wee lad because not only are they incredibly detailed in both sculpt and paint application, they come with weapons that not only fit into the hands, but extras that store on their back or belt. This allows you to switch up weapons in different hands. I love this. If you look at the PAPO catalog online, you can see the animals and dinosaurs are incredibly detailed, but for some reason the Knights are a bit second class. Not sure why this is. But luckily Les Mutants are just as, if not more detailed than your best MacFarlane action figures. They stand 3-4" tall and are slightly remeniscent of Four Horsemen figures, but better IMO.

Papo Les Mutants

Papo Les Mutants

Papo Les Mutants

Papo Les Mutants

Papo Les Mutants

Papo Les Mutants

Papo Les Mutants

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