For Doc Thomas, it’s all about winning. Not winning in the traditional sense, like coming first in a race or plowing through the Tour De France in a monster truck, but winning in the sense that you’re doing what you love, and freakin’ loving doing it. Toy collectors know that when you’re finally buying that most beloved, most waited for, most coveted toy, you are winning. When you’re opening that action figure up and changing accessories, posing it, switching interchangable parts, you’re absolutely winning. And when you’re putting your toys on display, or preposing them in battle, you just can’t stop winning. (more…)
Odds ‘n Ends > Moon Beast Edition
- Congratulations to the winner of the “Win a Keldor – Part II” contest–Mountain-man!
- There’s a new poll to the left, asking which of the MOTUC “real names” is your, well, least favorite.
- Someone asked about the “super-limited” part of the initial Dread Axe run–that’s solely because I wasn’t sure, and am still not sure, how well they’ll sell. But SMC and I will continue to produce axes so long as there’s demand.
- On a non-toy-related note, some folks are playing through all the Zelda games for charity. Check it out–and make a donation–at Zeldathon.com
- On another non-toy-related note, my good friend Kate Racculia‘s first novel, This Must Be the Place, is out now! Buy it on Amazon.
- Poest Office: Earl Luckes sent in pics of his homemade Skeletor costume. He’s looking for comments and suggestions, so check out these pics: pic 1 pic 2 pic 3
“Are you ready, Mr. Dawes?”
Poe’s Lego Minifigure Diary #1: The Nurse
The Lego Minifigures are starting to show up in stores–and predictably vanishing shortly thereafter. Given my absolute hatred of having to drive around chasing down hard-to-find toys (see: my quitting of DCUC and my insouciance regarding MOTUC shipping costs), I decided to just pre-order a 10-pack of the minifigures via Entertainment Earth.
But while I wait for that to arrive, I did find some packs at Newbury Comics. Now, these are supposed to be $2 at retail, but Newbury always has to rip you off so they hiked it to $4. There were three packs left. Not having the barcode list with me (whose accuracy seems to be hit-and-miss), I felt each pack and quickly realized that, despite what you may have heard, feeling the pack is completely worthless for identifying the figure unless you happen to be some sort of tactile savant. In the end, I just grabbed one, overpaid and left.
The sad result can be seen to the right. Yes, I got the nurse. As I explained to DMG, I am not upset because the figure is a woman. I would have been just as upset with a male nurse. I am upset because it is a NURSE.
Don’t get me wrong; nurses fill a vital role in our health care system and are often under-appreciated. My sister-in-law is about to become a nurse, and that’s awesome. But when this line contains zombies, clowns, robots and luchadores, a nurse is just a bit disappointing.
Still, she looks pretty neat. She comes with two needles (yikes!) and what appears to be the EKG of someone named Dawes. The spike in the center no doubt occurred when Mr. Dawes saw his nurse double-fisting needles.
Blind Boxed Lego Minifigs: Code cracked?
OK…before I go any further, I want to point out that it’s entirely against my own self-interest to post this. So please, try to remember this the next time I post anything about, I don’t know, Tytus. (more…)
Pic of the Day
Pic of the Day
LEGO Minifigures defeat my willpower effortlessly
There’s no way–just no way–I’m going to be capable of resisting these blind-boxed Lego minifigures. Between the zombie, the robot, the astronaut and the luchador…it was over before it began. I got a taste for blind-boxed fun with Dr. Mrs. Ghostal’s recent obsession with the Kidrobot Futurama stuff, and now this.
I’m sure at least some of you feel the same way, so we might as well set up the special trading thread right now. These will hit in June. Anyone know which ones will be super-rare? I’d like to know which ones I’ll never see. I’m betting it’s the robot.
Paul’s Peg > Get Your Sexy … ah hem… Twilek Lego Minifigs
Female Twileks are the Swedish bikini models of the Star Wars universe. In fact, I really can’t think of an alien race that’s as alien, yet sexy as the Twileks (don’t you dare point to them new fangeled blue Avatars you sicko). If you’ve been hankering for a harem of Twileks for your Lego Luke Skywalker or a cadre of Sith Twilek assassins your wish has come true. There are custom parts that you can order from AreaLightCustoms.com. Heads are five bucks and torsos are four bucks. Now if that seems pricey, you haven’t had to buy many Legos or tried to acquire rare minifigs lately. They’re worth their weight in gold studs.
Thanks to: Brothers Brick
Paul’s Peg > The Friggen Big Frigate
Oh those crazy Lego builders are at it again, this time coming up with a Nebulon-B frigate from Star Wars with a length that measures four feet and six inches.
That’s a pretty amazing accomplishment, if you can actually count this as an accomplishment worthy of praise as opposed to curing cancer or saving a baby from a burning building. I do love that there are even little X-Wings and a Millennium Falcon attached to the frigate.
By the way, I do think I just broke the record for the number or times the word “frigate” has appeared in a post on PoeGhostal.com.