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Toylanta 2018!!
Toylanta was this weekend—it’s a big annual toy convention held in Atlanta over a weekend. It started as a hub for GI Joe collectors but expanded to include vintage toys across the board. I have friends that attend, friends who are vendors, and friends who attend with me, so it was an all-around fab time Saturday! Here are some highlights:
Piles of Joes!
Otherwise nekkid Joe in spiffy Christmas sweater.
I saw three yeti-like monsters which I would have loved to have benn able to buy and have together as a little rock group. Here is the Wampa, and Mugato.
Plus a GI Joe yeti!!
A large grouping of Star Wars and other dolls that looks like a terrific class photo setup.
Took this pic for my brother, as we played with his Smash-Up Derby set when we were kids.
Monster models!
This is something I want dearly–vintage Jurassic Park CARNOTAURUS! My friend Melanie and her husband Dutch have a booth with Jurassic Park figures. Alas, this is, as always, out of my price range.
The guy whose wife was selling these terrific mini kaijus was a horrible salesman; he couldn’t tell me the price of ANYTHING after his wife left to go get lunch or something.
I love the face sculpt on this Godzilla.
My pal Fooksie went with me, and he got a version of his favorite childhood Halloween costume– a Collegeville Casper!
I really liked this JAWS Quint figure.
This stuffed Godzilla was pretty sweet, too.
Halloween Countdown 2017: The Bounty at Dollar Tree!
I shoulda written about this sooner; now things are picked over and if you like what you see here you might not be able to get them.
We have several Dollar Tree stores in our area; generally I haven’t been too thrilled with their holiday offerings; it always seems like everything looks too “kiddie” themed or just as if it were made by the lowest-paid designers, which of course is how they keep things cheap. But this year I was really pleasantly shocked at the designs of some of Dollar Tree’s Halloween Wares, from glowing gloves to decorated treat boxes!
Halloween Countdown 2017: The One-Eyed Halloween Beast!
Here is the One-Eyed Halloween Beast for this year, and what a beauty. She is made from a giant yellow pompom, one bloodshot wiggle eye, a felt set of eyelashes I had lying around, a hair bow, and I cut up a Publix shopping bag with my pinking shears for her limbs. It’s a little tradition I started a couple of years ago, and as I expected, I’ve run out of room for my growing family of creations.
I have christened her Beauxdacious.
