What A Slacker!

Picking Up Halloween Stuff

Add comment July 26th, 2008

I stopped by Michael’s today to pick up some stuff for my yet unannounced project and I saw they have most of their Halloween stuff out already. Loads of new haunted houses from Lemax. These are similar to The Dept. 56 houses just not as good or as expensive. We have been collecting these for several years now. The haunted village gets set up on years we don’t have our big Halloween blow out.

Nothing really thrills me this year, which is good as I can use the money for something else. I did pick up a Crypt for my mini cemetery and a set of light up tombstones. Normally, I stay away from the figures but this year they had a Zombie dog chasing a Zombie cat that I just had to get.

Now that the light up stones are out of the package I am not too sure about them. I will wait a see what B has to say. If I get approval I will keep them if not back they go. If I can find pictures of last years display I will post them here.

Star Wars Toys Hit Shelves Today

Add comment July 26th, 2008

The new Star Wars figures hit stores today the wave includes figures from past movies as well as the upcoming Clone Wars CGI animated feature.

About half of the Clone Wars figures had a first day of release sticker on the front, which will have collectors running around trying to find them.

There are also two more droids to build; I guess the other druid factory venture worked out well for Hasbro. It looked like it takes 4 or 5 figures to build each droid.

The Clone Wars figures look pretty good. In fact I think they look better than the on screen characters. (I am not a fan of the cgi look of the new film. To me it looks like they took all the video game film clips and stuck them together to make the film. Don’t get me wrong I will still be going to the theater to see this new Star Wars flick.)