Merry Christmas 2019

However you celebrate and whoever you celebrate with...

Where in the world is Mr Smith?

      In fall of 1926, Ken was born. In 1943, a the age of 17, he entered the united states navy. He was serving aboard the USS Luce when she was hit and sunk off the coast of Okinawa carrying over 1/3 of her complement with her.

     Ken treaded water for 8 hours in an oil slick, to repel sharks. He carried shrapnel with him for the rest of his life.

     In December 1947, He Married Mary Esther. They raised 5 children to adulthood and me most of the way to adulthood. I will let you know if I ever get the rest of the way there.


     on 10-12-2019, Ken's Journey ended, shortly after his 93rd birthday.


I have been reading his Louis L'amour books, and haven't felt a lot like posting toys. I will try to be back to it soon tho. So where in the world has Mr Smith been? Back in the old west, with the Sacketts; In the south pacific with Ponga Jim Mayo. Riding the trails my father rode in his mind, and walking in his footsteps.

Toysday: When Dinosaurs Ruled the Shelves Part 3

    So I am surprised that this post was more than a year in the making...

     The FansProjassic Epoch, characterized by CHUG scaled Neo-G1 figures which shared transformation characteristics with the original G1 Dinobots. They Also in most cases came equipped with "Battlemaster-Style" weapons- smaller bots who would become instruments of destruction

     This series started strong, but if memory servfes they had some designer and factory changes that delayed releases- add that to the fact that multiple other companies were releasing third party dinobots, and faster...

Still, there is a lot of charm to these

My Prior posts on this

• Part One
• Part Two

And some general thoughts on Dinos and their evolution

Thoysday: Orthia

     Originally called Elita Infin1te, the final form of the Elita 1 combiner is the Five Female Autobots

• Elita 1

• Moonracer

• Novastar or Firestar

• Greenlight

• Lancer

     But where did the name come from? Orthia appears to come from Artemis Orthia, an aspect of the Greek goddess of the hunt. 

Artemis, like most Greek deities, had epithets (monikers that identified her with a specific power or role). However, the epithet of Orthia isn't found anywhere else in Greece but Sparta (and perhaps the Spartan vassal-city of Messene). So, what's up with this?

It seems that Orthia was a local goddess originally worshipped only in Sparta. Orthia was a goddess of nature and hunting, as well as fertility, childbirth, and vegetation. It is likely that worship of this uniquely Spartan deity fused with worship of the more widely celebrated Artemis, and the two melded into one: Artemis Orthia, or the Artemis with the powers and roles of Orthia. There are actually many instances of this happening throughout Greece where local deities merged with more popular ones.

Elita-Infin1te refers to any random combination that has Elita One as its torso, whereas Orthia is a combination of Elita with four very specific female Autobots) 

Toysday: Selections from the Collections.

     As expected, I still have shelves to mess with, but this time I didn't let it stop me. SO as promised...

Shelves and lights by IKEA
Photography by MY PHONE

Minecraft figs by JAZWARES

SkyLynx is Magna Inventa by MMC

Old Time Alt Modes by MMC and Others

 Optimus Prime in many modes

Dinobots by FansProject and Hasbro

And more yet to Come

Toysday: A Little off "Track"

    But trying to get some traction...

      So first off, Apologies to Big Tone, this was supposed to be Shelf pics, but the weekend didn't turn out quite that way. Hope this is a good replacement for now, and next week will be better

     This week has kind of Hounded me.

     The world has been on the Warpath

 But I have tried to keep an indomitable, Hardhead

And all this to show off Bulldog- In my estimation the most amazing thing Toyworld has done in a long time. From the amazing paint deco to the intricate nothing-wasted transformation, to the spot on likeness to the brief appearances of the character in "the Last Knight"

He's a hella fun toy 

A nice Cobblestone base

With removable Cap

Helmet

Gasmask

Alternate head

And he salutes you, my readers