Frugal Fridays: My Precious Lord of The Rings Finds

Got some great Lord of The Rings books to add to the collection.

The first one was a gift from my Dad. He got it for just $2! The Tolkien Illustrated Encyclopedia is great. It includes history,  characters, creatures, and places of interest. It's fun to flip through the creatures section and freshening up on my mythical beast knowledge. I don't think you can know too much about Ents.

I love the art work.

Not how I imagined Azog.

Eagles to the rescue!

Beorn is HUGE! When I first read the Hobbit I imagined him being normal bear size. Pretty rad though!

I was excited to see this illustrated The Hobbit, also 2 bucks at the DI. The illustrations are great and there are in all! I'm totally gonna read this to Ava when she's a little older. 

That's all for this week kids. Tune in next week for Mason's October Blogathon! On October 1st it's Slime Time! Thanks for watching!

Frugal Friday: Odd Playskool toy, Madball copycat and more!

Bilbo Baggins

Bilbo goes all Tarzan

I found this weird Bilbo Tarzan toy for 50 cents. He's Zindar, one of many cavemen from Playskool's 1987 Definitely Dinosaurs toy line. I had no idea Playskool made something like this. Strange, but cool!

Meet "Bubba"

Madball looking water toy. Bubba here squirts water out of the gap in his teeth. $1 for Bubba.

Ha-ha! Have at you!

Foot Clan soldier based on one of the original TMNT movies. He's kinda goofy looking. I really like him and he was only 50 cents!

Mommy?

I found a new friend for Blobby. It's none other than Muck Man from the vintage TMNT line! Now I just need to find some Retromutagen Ooze. How did I not have this ooze as a kid? You pour the ooze into the opening in his head and the ooze flows out his mouth and gut! AWESOME! I need to make a video of that! 

I'm so confused here

Did I do this right? He looks...off.

I seem to find a lot of Transformers toys at the DI and I think I know why. They're cool and all, but MY GOSH, they're worse than Rubik's Cubes! They have like a million moving parts! I can never get them to transform fully. Now, my friend Landon, he's crazy about Transformers. He can also solve a Rubik's Cube in under a minute. Coincidence? Bonecrusher and Mudflap here were just 50 cents a pop. 

Lastly, I finally found a decent mug. Here we have the SR-71 Blackbird, the X-men's personal jet. Pretty cool and just 50 cents.