Monday, September 22, 2025

Transformers Rewatch Beast Wars Season 1C

Fallen Comrades
Ooh. A pod is falling! New character time! Nice that with the limited cast, an arrival is really an event.
Gasp. A white tiger in the area, Foreshadowing maybe?

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Returning to Inside the Mind of a Toy Addict Part 4 - When One Sale Closes Another One Opens


Action Figure Sale History repeated itself, when we stopped to shop on the way home one evening. On the clearance table at the front of the same type of store I found the vastly reduced pit fighting Wookie in, was the deluxe, oversized, brand new (2024) Paz Visla (the heavily armed Mandalorian) figure with a huge discount putting it at WELL below my acceptable price for normal figures. It was not an impulse buy. I know full well about action figures leading to other action figures. Therefore, I went home and did a bunch of research on the site where the Mandalorian figure was in Beskar clad limbo. There I learned multiple other Mandalorians were also neglected by the purchasing public.

I stopped in on the way to work early the next morning…
AND THE ENTIRE CLEARANCE TABLE WAS GONE!!!
 
There was much swearing.
(Under my breath as I was in public and do have some class.)

 
I tried to look moderately sane approaching someone who worked there. They pointed me to the clearance aisle in the back of the joint, and the care that location takes with regard to merchandise in that classification was clear when I found Paz Vizla lying face down in some strewn about gardening supplies.

Monday, September 15, 2025

Transformers Rewatch Beast Wars Season 1B

The Web
Question- Are beast forms organic, and that’s what protects them from unstable Energon? With the old CGI it is hard to tell.

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Returning to Inside the Mind of a Toy Addict Part 3 - It Is a Group Effort

This crystal clear problem was once again enabled by the loves of my life. I mentioned I had been stalking the price of a Marvel Legends box set of a new Black Suit Spidey and a collection of his foes (2022) for several reasons
A) The version of "Symbiote Spider-Man" I have from my earliest days of collecting isn’t an official Marvel Legend.
B) I always liked the villain Human Fly, for some reason.
C) Silvermane featured prominently in the Zeb Wells run on Amazing that no one but me liked.
D) Molten Man was shiny. (Yes, this is a valid reason, haven't you been paying attention?)
E) Honestly, I have no idea who Razorback is, but a giant figure of a dude with a wild boar on his head fits my idiom.
F) As should be crystal clear by now, I still have a problem.

Monday, September 8, 2025

Transformers Rewatch Beast Wars Season 1A

BEAST WARS  Introduction
Ten years after the Generation One Transformers cartoon ended. Hasbro brought the franchise back in a modified, or as someone who is hilarious might say, "a transformed" way.

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Returning to Inside the Mind of a Toy Addict Part 2- Space Is a Premium

Ironically, Christmas itself tends to be one of the rarest times for collection expansion. This is because of the evil action figure black market people and New Jersey’s action figure armpit status. The figures often sell out instantly, or have skyrocketing prices, or are only available through certain shifting outlets, or can occasionally be found through lucky “Thrill Of The Hunt” style auctions.
All of these combine to mean telling anyone about a figure I’m looking for is almost always pointless unless they buy it “RIGHT NOW!!!”

As should be crystal clear by now, I still have a problem, which is also a burden.
 

The holidays are, however, a time for remembering collections, due to the Christmas village. Even Anabelle’s Squinkies from the dark past got a starring role.
 

Monday, September 1, 2025

Transformers Rewatch Original Season 4B

“Prepare to merge.” And now he’s arguing with his own head. Dude, this is messed up.
One of the green guys sounds like Bumblebee’s old voice. That is going to get distracting.