Ciri

The last treasure I found on my Ross run the other day was this:

This two-pack was only $9. A while back, I found Geralt and Dandelion figures at Ross, and the only one left that I wanted was Ciri. I would have paid $9 for her alone, but instead, I was getting her ostensibly for $4.50. I was stoked.

These are two very good looking figures from McFarlane Toys. I like the way both of them look. Now the question is what do I do with them. Here's the figures I already have:

One, which Witcher do I want to display? Do I use the new one or the older one? Or, do I keep them both, and put Geralt and Ciri in a different spot. I think it might be pretty difficult to squash Geralt, Dandelion, and Ciri into that space, but maybe I could. Or, I could trade the space out with another spot, switching something that has too much room down to this one and putting the Witcher figures up where the roomy spot is. I don't know. I'll have to think about it.

The figures came with a goofy little stand that, I believe, is supposed to be the dismembered corpse of a monster the Witcher has slain.

It's nice and all, but I don't think I'll use it. If nothing else, it takes up too much space. It also came with these goofy trading card things.

McFarlane toys come with trading cards a lot. I guess Todd must have been a big fan of trading cards as a kid or something, so he gets a kick out of producing them himself. They're really nice, high quality cards. They're thick as can be. But what do I do with them? The ones I got in my Batman and Wonder Woman toys in the past I've just used as bookmarks, except that I do most of my reading via audiobooks now, so even that isn't really useful. I hate to just throw them out, though. I guess I could put them into the copies of the Witcher books that I have and when somebody reads them, they'll have a cool themed bookmark to use.

On the back of the cards, they have this ridiculousness printed on them.

Pretty rad to have my certificate of authenticity. Now these things will be truly valuable. Apparently there was only 9,900 of them made. Even that was too much, because they wound up at Ross. I think that has a lot to do with the show's waning popularity. It started out on a high, but I heard no end of complaints about its direction as it veered further and further from the source material to the point that Henry Cavill, the show's star, didn't want anything to do with it anymore and quit. He was a fan of the books, I guess.

I am also a fan of the books. As with Game of Thrones figures, which I have several of, I collect these figures with the idea of them being action figures for the books more than action figures of a TV series. Maybe I should make a space right next to my Witcher books to put these toys up. That would be fitting. I just hope that one day before I die, somebody makes action figures of something I created. Unlikely, but a guy can dream, can't he?