Poe Ghostal’s Points of Acquisition or, Not Another Webstore

June 30, 2010 | Poe

That’s right, Poe’s selling out. Well, I will sell out if everything in my store is sold.

Yes, I’ve opened up a webstore, Poe Ghostal’s Points of Acquisition. Right now the only product there is an extra MOTUC Faker I have on hand, but I’ll probably also be throwing up random stuff from my collection from time to time: loose figures, perhaps some bags of accessories, Marvel Legends display stands, that sort of thing.

However, the reason I created the store in the first place was for a specific product which will be revealed very soon. Here’s a hint: it’s an exclusive!

My thanks to MechaShiva, as always, for the excellent art.

Predators packaged pics are several ugly mother&*%#ers

June 29, 2010 | Poe

Dreadcentral.com has put up packaged images of NECA’s Predators figures. The packaging looks great–much more innovative than the usual–and I can’t wait for that Classic Predator. Still not sure about the articulation, though. I hope it’s better than the McFarlane version (it has to be, right?).

Head to Dread Central for a larger version of the pic.

Review > Spud Lightyear and Woody’s Tater Round Up

June 28, 2010 | PrfktTear

How does a grown-up come to collect Mr. Potato Head? I blame TV. It all started with an episode of The Pretender titled “Bomb Squad,” a.k.a. “Potato Head Blues.” Jarod, the protagonist becomes a member of a bomb squad to catch a serial bomber. One of his co-workers has a Mr. Potato Head on his desk and Jarod promises him a ton of extra parts if he helps him out. Needless to say, this little cameo helped reignite a passion that borderlines an obsession with an old childhood favorite.

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Contest > Tweets from Snake Mountain (Win a MOTUC Keldor!)

June 25, 2010 | Poe

A few weeks ago, Brian Adams of Cool and Collected decided to find out what all the fuss was about by attempting to order a MOTUC Keldor off Mattycollector.com. He succeeded, and he wrote up his experiences in a post on his blog:

I understand how difficult it can be to run a web site (but I can only imagine what it’s like to run a successful one). The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that Mattycollector may be intentionally making this process difficult to build up the hype machine and make their items appear more scarce and collectible than they might otherwise be. Or maybe they really do just have a lousy processing setup.

Much like securing 50-yard line tickets to the big game, there is an inherent competitiveness going on here, where part of the fun is the bragging rights you get if you actually manage to reach the final checkout page with all your items.

Brian successfully got himself a Keldor and Peter Venkman, but failed to get a She-Ra. The good news (for you) is that Brian doesn’t want the Keldor, and has offered it to the winner of a contest run right here on PGPoA. (more…)