Fun Wes fact: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is (probably) my all-time favorite television show. Granted, the first season wasn't all that great, and the sixth and seventh seasons were utterly dreadful, but the intervening years provided us with some of the greatest and most smartly written television viewing ever. It also provided us with delectable hotness in the forms of the lovely Willow Rosenberg and, in earlier seasons, the titular Slayer herself. Sarah Michelle Gellar went on some kind of ridiculous hunger strike during the show's later years (I like to think she was protesting the awful scripts), but she was an appropriately healthy lass during Buffy's high school days. Given that I was in high school at the same time, this led to me producing a number of sexy Buffy doodles on the backs of the tests that I invariably finished well before the allotted time expired.

I mention this because, while SMG was never as busty as Buffy appears in these Power Slayer bootlegs, this is probably a fairly close representation of how I saw the actress and character in my mind. Oh, Buffy. Buffy, Buffy, Buffy. I had almost as many dreams about hanging out with the Sunnydale gang during my teenage years as I did about inhabiting the halls of Bayside High as an elementary and middle schooler... but I'll spare you the sweaty details. (And don't go thinking anything dirty concerning that "sweaty" reference -- slaying vampires is just fairly strenuous activity.).

But while my love of Buffy and these figures' mammoth mammaries are definitely part of the reason that I remember these bootlegs so vividly, there's something else that made them a permanent fixture in my memory banks: the paint job on one of them. No, not because the figure's cleavage window is so wide that there should totally be painted nipples, but because the figure's pink hair and costume are totally in line with those of (one of the many incarnations of) Cutie Honey! And since Cutie Honey is also one of my favorite characters ever, a bootleg line that combines Buffy and Cutie Honey together is the kind of thing I'd never have expected to find outside of my ultra-exciting vampire-dusting dreams. Seriously, it's like strawberry ice cream and sushi rolled into one impossibly delicious dessert-meal concoction.

You can check out more images of The Power Slayer line over at The Undiscovered Playthings, but be warned -- nothing else you see in life will ever compare to their amazing hotness. Slayer Flash!

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