I loved the crazy cartoon the Toxic Crusaders as a kid and had all the the action figures . When I saw Super7 remade the toys I had to pick up a Toxie for myself to capture some photos of.

This summer I had a couple of photoshoots on the Washington coast (3 hours away from Seattle where I live), and on one of the photo assignments I forgot some of my camera gear. So I had to drive back down to the coast to pickup the gear and on the way I stopped at The Satsop Nuclear Power Plant site to capture some photos of Toxie and make a silly little post called “Toxie Goes Home.”

My main goal was to create a little animation of Toxie waving in front of one of the nuclear reactors (you can see that at the bottom of this post). Due to the clouds and sun it was not as easy as I thought it would be, but I managed to pull it off. I also thought these were once active nuclear reactors, but it turns out it was never operational. So my whole concept of Toxie goes home to the nuclear plant he was born at didn’t really track. Regardless, it was a fun place to check out and capture some toy pics at. It’s amazing the random things I have learned through toy photography adventures.

Toxic Avengers – The New Movie

The Toxic Avenger also was a film from the 80s and today (Aug 29th) a remake of the film was released featuring Peter Dinklage as Toxie. I am excited to see the movie this weekend and I love what they are doing with their marketing.

The movie is being distributed by Cineverse and instead of spending their marketing budget on traditional marketing they took $5 million from the movies marketing budget and are wiping out medical debt for families that earn four times less than the federal poverty level. The studio is partnered with Undo Medical Debt. Also, for every $1 million the movie makes at the box office Cineverse will wipe out another million dollars in debt.

I love the creativity of these cartoons, the movies, the storytelling, and what Cineverse is doing. More stuff like this, please! 

About The Satsop Nuclear Reactors

I have been driving by these nuclear reactors for years when I go surfing in Westport Washington and always wondered what it was all about. Having to make this extra trip to the coast with extra time finally gave me a chance to check it out. Turns out these reactors were never in production and when I did show up there was a bunch of people flying drones around them and hanging out. It’s now a business park and in all honesty is kinda cool.

Several factors led to the project’s cancellation:

  • Budget Overruns: Initial estimates swelled from about $4.1 billion to over $24 billion
  • Public Pushback & Voter Action: In 1981, Washington passed Initiative 394, requiring voter approval for bond-financed public energy projects—derailing funding for WPPSS’s reactor plans,
  • Shift in Nuclear Sentiment: After the 1979 Three Mile Island incident, public support for nuclear power declined sharply.
  • Financial Fallout: WPPSS defaulted on billions in municipal bonds, one of largest such financial disasters in U.S. history.

Construction effectively stopped by early 1982, though some sources note work halted in 1983, leaving the site roughly 75% complete with iconic cooling towers still standing.

So, not only did I get to capture some photos of Toxie with a nuclear reactor, I also learned about the backstory of these massive reactors in the skyline.