Saturday, January 10, 2015


So my friend bought a UFC ring toy, and this is what he thought about it:  
   I bought the UFC Basic Octagon Playset today. It was a little trickier to put together than I thought it would be (had it backwards at first; last time I disregard the instructions because “How hard can it be?”) but once assembled it looked great—like a real UFC Octagon shrunk to miniature size and placed in the middle of my living room. The package says it’s as “Real As It Gets” and they aren’t lying.

    So anyways, once it was together I decided to take it for a spin. I plopped my Michelangelo and Leonardo TMNT action figures into the middle of the ring and put them through their paces, UFC style. (Actually I disregarded every established rule; Mikey had his nunchuks, Leo had a pizza-tosser, and it did not end well.)

It was more fun than playing with action figures ought to be for someone my age. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that I’m thinking of investing in Randy Couture and Stone Cold Steve Austin action figures… so I can host a rematch of their Expendables fight in my backyard, for myself and any friends who decide to show up. (Oh, and before someone tries to get clever and say that Stone Cold isn’t an MMA fighter, I’ll point out that this is just pretend, so it’s okay. In fact, in some ways this sort of thing makes a playset better than a real UFC match—I think they could get away with changing the packaging to read “Better Than Real Life!”)
    So that rematch  will likely happen at some point. But first? Robocop VS Goku from Dragon Ball Z! To my knowledge, it’ll be the first time Robocop’s been involved in a professional fighting competition since his appearance at WCW Capital Combat on May 19, 1990.
    It’s going to be one to remember!