Video With Rish

Rish and I managed to get together the other day, so we took a trip to a desolate place. It was pretty neat. Ever been?

Brothers!

Went to visit Rish Outfield this past week, and while we were doing our usual shopping for toys we came across this. Since Rish does all his podcasts with Marshal Latham now, maybe I found my new podcast co-host. Big Ankylosaurus?

WE ARE BROTHERS!!

Venomized

Got these guys at the grocery store that I used to go to when I lived near Rish Outfield. I kept up on the Pez dispensers much better when I frequented that place, because they were always getting new ones, and they sold them for a reasonable price too. Check 'em out.

Of course, I've had a Spider-man forever, but Venom is new. I got a new Spider-man, so I could keep it next to Venom. Of course, I don't have a place to put them yet. Gotta make a spot on the Wall of Voodoo for them. Get to work, ya bum.

Headless Horsemen

Have you seen this trend?

Apparently some guy on TikTok did this to a LeBron James figure and made a video about it, and now everybody's copycatting him.

Space Jam sucks, and so does LeBron, so I don't really care, personally, though I would never steal something, especially not at these industrial levels they're taking it to. So, yeah, I condemn it and everything.

However, what's worse is that everybody has already taken all of the LeBron heads, so the shithead copycats are branching out to find something else to destroy.

 

 

 

I think the purpose of this kind of packaging is to reduce waste, but after this, I'm sure we can look forward to companies returning to more wasteful enclosed packaging again. Maybe they're all right when they say China is trying to destroy the world.

It's gotten so bad that when you find a figure with its head on it's a thing worth remarking on. Rish sent me this picture the other day just because he was so surprised to find it with its head.

Also, keep your hands off the Pixar guys. Pixar is off limits. Steal My Hero Academia and Space Jam all you want, just not Pixar.

Painting The Grayskull Gray

Messed around this morning with repainting a little Castle Grayskull that I have. It was actually just a cheap case that a mini-figure came inside of.

 

What do you think of how it turned out?

 I like Castle Grayskull, but not enough to buy a full size one and dedicate that much space on my shelf to it. So, this is the perfect compromise. And, now that it's painted, I think it looks pretty darn good.

Gotta Catch 'Em All

I've had these Happy Meal toys of Mr. Incredible and his son Dash for a very long time, but I've never been happy with them. The scale is off. Dash's head is about three times the size of his dad's head. And I didn't have any of the other members of the Parr family either.

Disney started putting out these Pixar figures recently however.

At first, I assumed they were just another line of random characters that would never give me all the characters I wanted. Instead we'd get a Mr. Incredible, a Frozone, a Syndrome, and maybe a Dash.

I was sad to see that you could get the whole crew from Monsters Inc. and from Wall-E, but not from The Incredibles. And I bought those Monsters Inc. guys. I was stoked to finally get Mike and Sully in the proper scale ratio.

I would have bought the Wall-E ones too, except I already have a set of Wall-E and Eve that are almost the same size.

I didn't even consider getting the Mr. Incredible, because I was certain they'd never get the whole family out before Mattel got distracted and moved on to some other line.

But then I saw these figures start to show up in the stores:

Dash? Jack-Jack? Most surprisingly, Elasti-girl? They were actually going to do the whole family? It really looked like that's what was going on. I needed to get these guys, but I had waited too long. Now Mr. Incredible wasn't in every single store like he had been a month ago.

Well, I set to work, getting the figures from various stores and online sites as well. I could tell I was super close when this box came in the mail.

Dash from Amazon, Mr. Incredible from Walmart, Violet from Target, and some Jack-Jacks that were packed in with the other figures.

All I need now is Elasti-girl. Weirdly, she is the one that is hard to find now. Rish tells me he has found one, though, and will have it waiting for me when I come to visit him next week.

They're a little hard to get to stand, especially Violet because she has such tiny feet, but I've managed to get them all to stand for the time being. Don't they look great?

And every few months or so, I can switch out Jack-Jack for a different version to keep it fresh. Can't wait to see Rish and get that last piece of the puzzle.

Plague Birds Back Again

Jason Sanford is publishing his first novel. It has a familiar title you might recognize if you're a fan of the Dunesteef.

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