These are cherished sets from my childhood, long since lost (with one exception). I have several pieces mixed into a couple of LEGO bins containing a fair number of pieces from these sets. One day I want to try piecing them back together as best I can.
10. 6615 Eagle Stunt Flyer
9. 6835 Saucer Scout
8. 6915 Warp Wing Fighter
7. 6087 Witch's Magic Manor
6. 6279 Skull Island
5. 6048 Majisto's Magical Workshop
4. 6769 Fort Legorado
2. 6973 Deep Freeze Defender (now own complete and built several years ago!)
Nintendo VHS gamer guide video Unreleased Sonic Movie 2019 action figures Starroid Raiders Giant sized Frogaccuda @lastresorttoys My Pet Monster Warpo’s Krampus prototype Inhumanoids big 3 LEGO Blacktron base Mr. Bumpy + Squishington Gizmo Furby
Over the years I have been collecting plug-in plastic and plaster Jack o' Lanterns. There is just something very satisfying seeing a window full of these spooky guys! I paid $1 each for these! All found at the DI. Let's have a look see.
M&Ms Red Mascot, East Corp Toys Co, 2001
Blow-mold with no markings. Who knows when this was made? It's very flat. I can send more pictures if you need to ID this Jack.
Trendmaster, 1993
Jakks Pacific Inc, 2003
Square Teeth, The Paper Magic Group, 1998
4-in-a-row, Trendmaster, 1995
Sharp TeethThe Paper Magic Group, 1998
Stack o' Jacks, Gemmy Industries Corp, no date stamp
Was this a light-up blow-mold? Does anyone have info on this one?
Do you have some of these at home? Which ones are your favorite?
I acquired these awesome bobble heads from the designer himself! Check out his Instagram account @andraculoid. He currently designs and re-produces some wicked awesome masks, busts, and props from horror films.
They're back again this year! Not sure how many years they have done the Square Pumpkin, but we're talking 35+ years now! I really wish they would run a new local commercial. TV is all but dead these days. Arctic Circle has ditched the "Square Pumpkin" title it seems, and now just offers a spooky Halloween themed kids meal box. It's not as cool as in years past, but I'll take it. The food is the same, the only difference is the box, and the annual Halloween "flashlights". Gotta keep them safe for Tricks and Treats!
This boy is also obsessed with cheese burgers right now!
Milen got the Franky, and Ava got the Eyeball. The flashlights don't change much from year to year, but they are a fun little tradition. One year they had robot flashlights, which was stranger than aliens for Halloween. Like I said, I'll take it. (They're better than the flashlights featured in the above commercial . I wish I knew when that commercial aired. I wanna say late 90's, early 2000's?) McDonald's is lame now and doesn't offer Halloween Happy Meals, and BK is totally out to lunch when it comes to their kid's meals. The Burger King Kid's Club is dead.
Milen got creative with the lights and used them to light up the ghost shelf
Anyways, I got my usual Pumpkin Pie shake. This time I added chocolate, which made it kind of taste like pumpkin chocolate chip cookie ice cream. And for some reason they topped it off with a Nilla Waffer.
Any other Utahns out there? What do you think of the Square Pumpkin meals? If you're not from Utah, do you have any local eateries that offer Halloween themed kids meals? If you do know of any other fast food joints with halloween offerings this year then please let me know! and show me pictures!
If you live in Utah and love Halloween, then you need to check out Ream's! For the past few years I have found some awesome stuff. Incredible selection for a grocery store, and super cheap! If you are not familiar with Ream's, it is a local grocery store chain here in the beehive state. There is a scotish mascot, and the stores are pretty run down. I still have fond memories roller balding to reams to see what tapes and video games they had for rent.
Between two Ream's location, checkout what I found this year. It's like stepping into a time machine!
Look at this! You ever see a full page of Halloween in the newspaper mailer, for a grocery store!? Beautiful.
I had to have one of each of the purple, green, white, and & orange ghosts. Just 99 cents each!
Sadly, I only found the orange and purple (with eyes) windups.
I have fallen prey to the ease and laziness of Instagram this year. #miniween2018 follows the prompts of #drawlloween each year, put together by @minifiguremilitia. The idea is to take a picture for the 31 days of Halloween, based on the prompts. So far I have taken 18 pictures for #miniween2018. Feel free to join in on the fun if you are on Instagram. I hope to return to the ol' blog soon to post about some recent Halloween thrift finds, so stay tuned, IF YOU DARE! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Follow all my Halloweeny junk on Instagram #halloweenathon2018. Miniween 2018
I can't believe all the awesome Halloween goods Super 7 is offering this year! If I wasn't pinching my pennies, I would definitely buy some stuff! Super 7 made Halloween "Super Buckets", Halloween Universal Monsters and Misfits jointed paper cutouts, a Halloween themed Misfits figure, Halloween masks, Hell Boy figures, a Great Garloo figure, Universal Monsters figures, a Nosferatu figure, & Mummy Boy mascot pins!
While I was watching the Netflix documentary, Making Fun: The Story of Funko, I discovered that Funko is releasing several horror themed cereals in Summer 2018! (Not yet released at the time this post was written)
Funko is working on the following themed cereals, to include a mini-Pop figures in each box, for just $7.99!
Freddy Funko
Elvira, Mistress of The Dark
Freddy Krueger
Cuphead
Beetlejuice
Batman
Pennywise
Captain Caveman
Friday The 13th
Gremlins
Cthulu
Harley Quin
Skeletor
Mumm-Ra
and MORE!
Becker said "When you add milk to the Freddy Kruger cereal, it looks blood red. With the Beetlejuice cereal, when you add milk it looks like slime."
Did you buy some Funko cereal, or do you plan to? What do you think? Did you open the box, or leave it sealed?
I recently found this cute little PPP (Peter Piper Pizza) mascot to add to the food mascot plush collection. He was 50 cents at the DI, score!
When I was a kid we didn't visit the Sandy City PPP very often, so it was always a special occasion. A while back PPP closed all stores in Utah, and I thought they were done, but they do still have locations in other states, and even in Mexico.
I didn't even know PPP had a dino mascot. I used to own a Little Caesar mascot as a kid. I would love to complete the pizza trinity with Little Caesar and The Noid. Or better yet, some Rock-a-Fire Explosion plushies! I wouldn't pass up Chuck-E-Cheese plush toys either...
Anyhoo, PPP was my earliest memories of playing Mario Brothers on an original arcade machine. When I couldn't go to PPP, I would challenge my brother to play the 2-player battle mode on SMB3 (Super Mario Brothers 3). I played that game to death!
The moral of the story is pizza places were awesome back in the 80s and 90s, and they are pretty lack luster now. That may be my nostalgia talking, but I think pizza places are a lot less fun now. We still have a local Jungle Jim's. That place is falling apart now, and the rides and games are pretty lame.
When I searched for commercials online I found a bunch of weird YouTube videos about Caillou and family misbehaving at PPP... The internet is a strange place.
During my research (Google searches) I found out that PPP bought out the other PPP (Pistol Pete's Pizza). Check out this awesome commercial! I really wish I could have tried it before it disappeared. (Pete's also featured the Rock-A-Fire Explosion. I thought the show was exclusively at Showbiz Pizza. The More You Know!)
Anyone remember Discovery Zone? It was a sad day when the Sandy Mall location closed.
Construction of the DI Treasures Nerd Cave has begun, in the only room on the apartment available, the unfinished basement storage room. At least the kids can't get in and destroy (although they have broken off the child lock before. I'm sure it's only a matter of time until that happens again).
BARF!
Real life, it can be ugly.
Robo Rally, safe from the children.
It is a work in progress, still mostly a cluttered storage room, but things are starting to fall into place. I scored a free TV with 2 AV inputs, so I have hooked up my N64 and PS2 slim for games and as a DVD/CD player. I need more extension cords and a couch and or comfy chair. A couch would be a challenge squeezing through the narrow entry way to the basement.
We'll see how far I can come in another month.
Do you have a Nerd Cave? What is it like? Where can I see pictures? Have you been relegated to the basement?
Last summer we had to move out of the house we were renting and moved into a condo/townhome rental. We were quite sad to lose the huge, fenced in back yard, and I lost my finished attic Nerd Cave.
Fortunately our new place has a nice spacious unfinished room in the basement. The bad news is all my geeky stuff is stored in boxes in that dingy, dark basement. This year I want to organize, purge, and tidy up the remains of my nerd cave. I will draw inspiration from other nerd caves and will be saving hardcore to buy a home. We likely won't be able to afford a new home until 2019, but the goal is finally insight and things are looking up.
So, I will feature a different nerd cave on the blog each month to analyze and glean insight from. I have one picked out for January 2018, so stay tuned (http://lunacityarcade.com/).
Do you have a nerd cave or a man/woman cave? Or are you in the same boat, with everything is just stored away in boxes?
The Toys That Made Us is an episodic documentary series on Netflix about some of the legendary toys from our past. If you are a toy fan, I highly recommend it!
Episode 1 - Star Wars: This episode was fantastic, and I learned a few things I didn't know about the original Star Wars toy line history. Definitely my favorite episode, even though I am not a big Star Wars toy collector, I do love Star Wars.
Episode 2 - Barbie: This episode was very interesting, even though I am not a Barbie fan. WARNING: some of the subject matter in this episode is not appropriate for children.
Episode 3 - He-Man: Pretty good episode. Fair warning, a few F-bombs are dropped here.
Episode 4 - G.I. Joe: Can't go wrong with G.I. Joe, I enjoyed this episode
There will be 8 episodes in all. As of now, only the first 4 episodes are available.
Have you seen the series yet? What did you think? Do you have a favorite episode? What toys made you?
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.
Exclusive to Hot Topic, I happened to come across this Krampus Pop! I still do not own a single Pop, I probably never will, but if someone gifted me a Krampus Pop I wouldn't complain.
Note: Upon further research, just the flocked Krampus is exclusive to Hot Topic. Of course, this is Funko we are talking about, there are 10+ versions of this new Krampus Pop)
