So much to look at on each page, and so much blood! Which page is your favorite? I actually noticed there is a ghost that looks exactly like the ghost on the cover of Ghosts & Ghouls.
Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Mortal Mansion
Saturday night bedtime story for the kids. Found this awesome pop-up book for cheap at Savers. I was going to post this to Instagram, but the app keeps crashing on my phone. Maybe it's for the best.
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Must See Movies 2019 and Beyond
3/25 Update: My wife is a big fan of the Studio Ghobli films, so we will watch Howell’s Moving Castle in theaters to celebrate the 15 year anniversary of this great anime film. I love you honey, find me in the future!
I normally wait until DVD, or even a Netflix release, but I will definitely these these in theater (dollar theater perhaps);
I normally wait until DVD, or even a Netflix release, but I will definitely these these in theater (dollar theater perhaps);
- Sonic the Hedgehog - Starring Jim Carey as Dr. Ivo Robotnik, and Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic! I saw The Mario Bros. movie in theaters 26 years ago, so I definitely need to see Sonic!
- Ghostbusters 3 - I am so hyped for this! I was really disappointed that the new Ghostbusters cartoon never panned out.
- Super Mario Bros.: The Movie - Again, I saw the Mario Bros. movie in the 90's and loved it. How bad could this be? Written by Shigeru Miyamoto
- Avengers: Endgame
- Captain Marvel
- Toy Story 4
- Dark Phoenix
- Star Wars: Episode IX - Maybe Disney will surprise me?
- Shazam
- Hellboy - I saw the first two films in theater. This one looks great!
- Zombieland 2 - Hopefully Bill Murray comes back as a zombie.
Monday, December 3, 2018
Wolverine, Hulk, and the Wendigo
I spotted this sweet ornament at the DI this summer. It is a legit mini comic book!
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Creepmas 2017 Day 12: Krampus in The Corner
I didn't die, I survived Creepmas. I just got really busy, but who's gonna know? I can schedule this to post on 12/12. Anyways, I wanted to share a fun little Kickstarter project that I found: Krampus in The Corner. A parody of the annoying Elf on The Shelf, complete with a cute little Krampus and a children's style picture book. The creators give fair warning, the book is a little to scary and violent for children.
I'm glad this Kickstarter reached its goal. I was sad to see Warpo Toy's "Don't Cuddle The Krampus" project fall short a few years ago. Krampus in The Corner is available now to keep tabs on all the naughty children.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Creepmas 2017 Day 6: Charlie Brown Bone Shaker
Hot Wheels came out with a great Peanuts series and, of course, my favorite vehicle is the Charlie Brown Boneshaker!
Friday, October 13, 2017
October Friday the 13th, 2017
Jack 'o Monkey?
Dollar Tree!
Whoa, check out those graphics!
Great seasonal sweaters!
Thursday, February 9, 2017
12 Playsets
One for each month of the year. I will focus on and obsess over these playsets every month accordingly:
January - Lego Space Systems 453 & 454, Landing Plates & Crater Plates. Best. Modular. Set. Ever.
January - Lego Space Systems 453 & 454, Landing Plates & Crater Plates. Best. Modular. Set. Ever.
February - Mighty Max Dragon Island - Just add a blue sheet for water. (Red sheet for lava with the Skull Mountain playset)
March - Robin Hood Sherwood Forest playset - Like the Ewok Village, just better.
April - TMNT Technodrome - Pairs perfectly with Mini Mutants for epic scale!
May - The Family Play Castle - Sadly no commercial for this awesome set. I used to play with this set at my aunt's during the annual Easter get together. I love that trap door!
June - Tim Mee Battle Mountain - Again, no commercial, how sad. A perfect multipurpose playset!
July - Construx 6110 Colossal Set - Very yes!
August - Imaginext Bat Cave - It may be the best bat cave so far!
September - Micro Machines Space Galaxy Command - How does this not have a commercial!?
October - Weeble's Haunted House - This one was a new discovery for me. Found a thrashed set for super cheap! Love that shaky camera work at the end.
November - Filmation's Ghostbusters Ghost Command - Maybe one day I can own one?
December - PeeWee's Playhouse
Did I miss one?
Sunday, January 22, 2017
Round Robin Challenge: Obsession
"THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE IS OBSESSION!
WHAT IS YOUR COLLECTING OBSESSION?"
This is my fist post/response to the Round Robin Challenge. It was hard to nail down exactly what my collecting obsession is, but after some soul searching I finally figured it out: I AM OBSESSED WITH CREATING WORLDS! This obsession with creating worlds explains why I love building toys (LEGO, Construx), micro toys (Mighty Max, Micro Machines, Trend Masters), hobby toys (model trains, Christmas & Halloween villages, etc.), table top gaming (D&D, War Hammer, Brik Wars), and good old play sets!
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| Custom minifigures I created. Space is my favorite LEGO theme. |
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| Basil The Bat Lord, Fright Knights Castle sub-theme |
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| Salt Lake City Comic Con 2015, UtahLUG display |
My earliest toy memory was when I was 4 or 5 years old, building the Blacktron Message Intercept Base (Set 6987-1). I still have bits and pieces from that set, and I hope to one day rebuild it. I have always loved the customizable nature of the LEGO brick. You really can create anything! I really miss the modular Classic Space base plates and I wish I had stocked up. Even considering just custom minifigures, there are millions of possible combinations of head, torso, legs, weapons, hats, etc., it is mind boggling! You really can build your own little world out of LEGO, though it can become very expensive. This is why I enjoy others' amazing creations, like Jang Bricks on YouTube, and the Construx Custom Designs Gallery.
My brother and I were huge fans of Galoob's Micro Machines and I still have a large collection of Z-Bots. This inevitably led to my love of Bluebird's Mighty Max series and all the other micro toys that flooded the market in the 90's. I loved that my parents could afford to buy me playsets, because they were so much cheaper in micro form.
I also recall with fondness our family trips to the Intermountain Train Expo. I really want to visit again this year with my Dad and bring my kids along too. It was so cool seeing all the work and detail that went into those model trains and the surrounding landscape!
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| Z-Bots Combots line, Tomahawk in custom desert scene. I simply used an old tan sheet as sand. Army men buckets are perfect for little accessories, like the barbwire fencing. |
I recently started building a Halloween a few years ago when Tombstone Corners hit Dollar Tree stores. Ever since I visited Gardener Village in the fall as a kid and saw the Halloween villages there, I have wanted to create my own village.
Check out my latest Tombstone Corners post, with links to every post HERE.
Check out my latest Tombstone Corners post, with links to every post HERE.
I have never played D&D or War Hammer, but I appreciate and marvel at the creativity of the games! I love the imagination and creativity that goes into a D&D game; and dedicated War Hammer players have created some incredible terrain and structures from everyday household rubbish!
And lastly, playsets and toy dioramas have always interested me. I did get some traditional playsets as a kid, like the Swamp Thing Swamp Trap playest (1990), and one of the Bat Cave playsets (I can't even remember which one to be honest, and a few others of note. I will be making a top 10 playset list of my personal favorites that I owned or really want). However, I always ended up creating playsets myself using cardboard or whatever else I could find. I recently created a playset from a cardboard apple box, Frogacuda's lair/toy room basement/sewer or something. The great outdoors is another quick and easy playset of sorts. Retroblasting puts it best with their video "Greatest Playsets you didn't 'buy'":
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| Frogacuda & Froggy Jr. in their toy room. Micro toys are perfect toys for bigger toys. |
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| Old Sheets are perfect for a quick and easy landscape. |
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| Another part I love about dioramas is crossing toy lines. Here we have Imaginext, The Real Ghostbusters, and Playmobil. The more the merrier! |
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| I enjoy building in many different mediums. My 2015 ginger bread contest entry at work, Eversweet National Forest. I won first prize for Most Creative. That is real maple syrup in the candy lake. |
What is your obsession, collecting related or otherwise? tell me in the comments below!
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Pop Culture League Challenge: Here Comes Halloween! - 2016 Halloween Toys in Review
Pop Culture League Challenge: Here comes Halloween!
Last week, the League was all about fears and frights, and we’re going to wrap up the Halloween theme this week with one last topic. This week’s challenge to the Pop Culture League is…
Here comes Halloween!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year.
The League is always open to new members! Got a blog? Write a post in response to the weekly challenge, and you’ll be included. It’s that easy!
Once you put up a post on your site add a comment below with the URL. Try to incorporate at least three of your fellow League members’ links (but more would be great!) into the article you wrote, or you can also link to them on social media.
By cross-posting like this, we will help each other out by sending new readers to each other’s sites. Have fun!
(Wondering what the heck this is all about? We’re recruiting for this loose-knit, rag tag crew! Here are the details for contributing to The League.)
This will likely be my last post for a while. I wanted to post every day in October, but alas, I'm too dag gum busy! To wrap up the final Pop Cultue League challenge for Halloween I thought I would share my thought on 2016's Halloween toy must haves.
LEGO Series 16
There were 3 must have's from LEGO Series 16, and I finally found the ones I was looking for:
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| Cyborg Woman, Devil Boy, and Vamp Boy |
Imaginext Series 7
Fisher Price Imaginext really knocked it out of the park again! I really want almost all of these, but two of them are way too good to pass up for sure, Pumpkin Ghost, and A FREAKING GHOSTBUSTER!!!!
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| Check out that PKE Reader! |
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| Awesome Proton Pack! |
Playmobil Mystery Fi?ures series 10
THE STILT GHOST!!! Halloween 2016's unofficial mascot! Just look at him!
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| Stilt Ghost |
Isn't he glorious!? The only really Halloweeny figures, unless you count the cool wizard and the new robot, which was included in my submission for Day 24 of the #Miniween2016 challenge on Instagram.
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| Mechanical Monstrosity |
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| When I first tried to put this guy together his arm shot off and I couldn't find it for weeks! |
Hot Wheels 2016 Halloween Cars
Normally Mattel's Hot Wheels releases 5 special Kroger/Fred Meyer exclusive Halloween versions of their vehicles, and sometimes Target also has their own exclusives. This year we saw 8 new Halloween cars! Check them out!
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| Bone Shaker, this one has seen may Halloween versions. I like the spectral wheels |
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| Audacious |
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| Deora II, my favorite this year! |
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| 16 Angels |
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| Ryura LX |
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| Dieselboy |
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| Blvd. Bruiser & Vandetta |
McDonald's The Great Pumpkin
That pretty much covers the 2016 Halloween toy high lights. Did I miss something good? What toys did you pick up?
Halloween cometh for these Pop Culture League members as well:
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