The Great Dilemma

So I have this dilemma...Very soon I will find myself with the entire loose vintage playmates turtles toy line. Every single figure from 88 -97. The problem is...There are a number of figures in my collection that are NOT loose...and are in fact, MIB. Now, these are some of the more expensive figures. All my Turtleflage figures for instance, are boxed. Effectively thousands of dollars of figures in box.

Whys is this a problem you ask? Well...I feel the collection will display better if it is all out of the box. I am going to put this stuff behind glass, grouped by year, and a mix of Loose and boxed just wouldn't look as cool as the entire collection loose.

The shame is, that while I am never going to sell this collection, I did pay TOP dollar for some of the rarer boxed figures, because I could never find one loose.

So help me decide guys...Unbox everything and sacrifice hundreds of dollars of "worth"? Or keep what I have in the box, in the box?

Mickey Anikin and Darth Maul Donald

I picked these up at Disneyland over this last week. THey are pretty much the best thing ever.
They had 4 new "Big Figs" based on the first 3 Star Wars episodes. Minnie Amadala (Not a very fun pose, kinda detracted from piece) and Goofy Jar-Jar (but it's Effing Jar Jar!) were the two I passed on. But check out how awesome these two are! All four statues are limited edition of 600 each and numbered.

TMNT figs in the pictures are for scale.

Go Buy My Stuff!

I have a ton of stuff on ebay this week! Check it out!

Mail-Order Bigfoot Figure:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=180290678868&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=008

Optoma EP739 DLP Projector w/ Mount And 100in Screen!:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=180290705130&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=008

Lot of 16 Nintendo DS Games! Final Fantasy III + More!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=180290708086&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=008

Lot of 29 TMNT Ninja Turtle Comic Books! Archie, Vol 1:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=180290713110&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=008

Lot of 9 PSP Games! God of War, Daxter, and more!:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=180290692595&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=008

Thanks!

Have You Seen This Prototype? Wanna Buy It?

My very good friend Scott Hensey is the original sculptor for a large number of vintage turtle figures. Right now he has up for auction on ebay, a resin cast prototype of the Creature from the Black Lagoon Leonardo! You should goto ebay and buy it. This is being sold BY Scott himself, and he will provide a letter of authenticity with the figure.

You know all those cool protos I post about? Yeah, it's Scott's work. You deserve it to yourself to have a piece like this in your collection.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180290088445

Mystery!

Tonight I have secured the most exciting acquisitions in my Ninja Turtles toy collection to date. What have I come across that would get me so excited you ask? Well, as I don't have them in my hot little hands as of yet, I don't want to let the cat out of the bag until I do. Suffice to say, I am EXTREMELY excited, and eager to tell all of you.

Delicious Badassery

My Co-Worker just sent me this, it made me smile after my previous post had me kidney punching smurfs:

Yes. That is a cake. Thanks Brown!

It Only Takes One.

This is nothing but a simple rant post. Over at The Fifth Turtle Blog (A blog that I love and respect, ran by Murphy, who I also love and respect) there is a commenter named Armaggon. He is, for all intensive purposes, a complete waste of space. He is the kind of person who would have you swallowing killer bees as a better alternative to speaking with him.

The guy is an instigator. He gets his rocks off by going into public forums and being crudely negative for the sake of being crudely negative. Some of the ridiculous nonsense that spews out of his mouth is astounding. He he basically the love child of Andrew Dice Clay and George W. Bush.

Now, after his many months of countless un-constructive nonsense posts on the 5th Turtle, Murphy has had enough:

"I admit it: I'm suffering serious "blog fatigue" when it comes to this TMNT site. The primary reason is due to the moronic comments by Armaggon and the replies that they in turn engender, as well as the rampant bitching that often takes place in the comments section. At this point I'm on the fence about shutting this down, or at the very least of killing the comments option all together. Time will tell. Be well. "

You get what you wanted now you little shit? You are the DIRECT cause of the possible downfall of one of the best TMNT community resources out there. Fuck you. No seriously, fuck you. Maybe if you brought ANYTHING constructive or interesting to a single conversation you've been part of, it would be different. But that has never happened.

Here is an idea. Start your own blog where you can rant about whatever the hell is up your ass and people can choose to read it or not. Or better yet...next time you have the urge to post, instead of posting, go play a nice rousing game of Hide-And-Go-Fuck-Yourself.