Avatar action figures - Pandora creatures

James Cameron’s Avatar movie has become a worldwide success and it had been the most talked about movie to watch for the past 2 months.  Its toys however, are extremely hard to find in retail stores.  They are not sold in our departmental stores, and I doubt that they will be available at mass retail in Singapore, considering that the movie has finished screening in almost all the cinemas here. 

The Avatar movie toys are made by Mattel and it seems that detailed information and online photos or video reviews of these toys are very hard to come by on the internet.  I’ve been so used to the much easier research of Hasbro’s Transformers Revenge of the Fallen (ROTF) toys that I find researching on just a list of Avatar toys rather frustrating. 

Even YouTube has very limited good quality video reviews on the Avatar toys.  It could mean that either the Avatar toys are not popular in the US (where most of the fans and toy collectors are), or that its toy distribution is very limited, even within the US itself.  Such a pity really, as I do find the toys quite nice looking.  I’ve previously blogged about some Avatar toys video reviews.

Here is a video that shows a nice view of all the Pandora Creature toys available in the Avatar movie toyline so far, while its African-like background music is from the Avatar soundtrack (”Jake’s First Flight” by James Horner).

The Avatar Pandora Creatures featured in the above video are Jake’s Leonopteryx, Tsu-Tey (Neytiri’s fiance), Tsu-Tey’s Banshee (Glow in the Dark), Jake’s Banshee, Thanator, Jake & 2 Viper Wolves (is this what you’ll get when you mix the DNAs of the Cobra Vipers with G.I.Joe Snake Eye’s wolf!?), Eytukan (Neytiri’s dad) & Direhorse.

If you are in Singapore and you wish to add these Avatar toys to your collection, they can be found at some collectors’ toy shops, one of which is Simply Toys.  For overseas Avatar fans, you can get them online from Entertainment Earth, which ships outside the US as well.

Happy Avatar toys admiring and shopping!