Round Robin Challenge : Post a Pic Of Your Most Eccentric Action Figure!

     A Challenge from Toy Break and

     The problem here is how do I with a mind that might be accurately described a a bubble or two off of plumb define eccentric? definitions vary, to say the least. I asked my roommate and she pinpointed the Bo'marr Monk from my Star Wars Collection, because he's a brain controlling a robot spider, and I can see the point in that. He's weird, a little lovecraftian in nature.

     I thought of Generations Swerve, with his weird history as an exclusive Promo for Chevy dealers for people taking a test drive in an Aveo and his relationship to no known transformers continuity

     I could go with my Stikfas, that are great toys but don't go with anything else I own. These innovative toys from Singapore are a favorite but they don't have any fiction to attach to them, leaving them faceless and without identity

     But despite all those worthy contenders, I think I am gonna have to go with this...thing.

     Dunno where I got it, Dunno what company it comes from... it's sort of like a Godzilla KO, but I have had it since childhood, It has Translucent plastic eyes, almost like it;s intended to light-pipe, a hollow body like it is intended as part of another thing. I have tried it as a sort of hand-puppet, or shined a flashlight into it, with no satisfying results on either. Some days I want to know where this came from, and what else was intended, and some days I just want him to stay the two-point articulation mystery that he is.

Other Eccentric toys

• Toy Break Gives us Kermit the Frog and the Raiders of the Lost Gonzo
• 20 Years Before 2000 Has a fugitoid with a backstory and no one-armed mutant

Round Robin Challenge-Curating

     To paraphrase the tagline from Stallone's Cobra, which is apparently about neither the terrorist organization fighting G.I.Joe or keeping your insurance after separating from employment

     "Toys are a Disease. Meet the Curator"

     Are toys my disease? Some days they are the thing that drives me mad, some days they are all that gives my mind ease.

     For my level of nostalgia, I display surprisingly little vintage stuff. I guess I like the Neo-G1 look too much. I love to see the new innovations, so sometimes I have to fight with myself to decide which version or versions of character represent his or her essence best. My biggest challenge is taking anything down, anything at all. Shelf space is always short for this reason, and making the display too cluttered is a constant risk.

     For my display, it's Autobot heavy, with a small shelf of Decepticons, it's also Neo-G1 heavy, with both classics and masterpieces, with a small shelf of Prime and a movie Optimus Shelf. I even have a shelf of transformers that don't fit on any other shelf. Things come in from my storage, things go back to storage, new things come in and older things go to the storage.They get taken down, transformed, loved, reposed...

     And dusted. Oh yes. This Apartment creates dust like Michael Bay creates​ explosions and fanboy wails. So I turn to my friend the cheap paint brush for a dust solution.It is gentle, but will get into areas of heavy detail with ease. Alexis, just for you, I dusted one of my Jin Chan Toads

My Fellow Curators

• Toy Break is all about the connections to childhood
• Alexis Universe Keeps shifting them around to make greater and greater sense

Round Robin Challenge-Curating

How do you Curate your collection? I will let you count the ways

Round Robin Challenge: Two Great Tastes That Are Great together

I'm a bit under the weather right now, having hurt my back SLEEPING. Being at less than top me always makes me long for Comfort foods to make me feel better.

     When I think of Sick -food, I tend to go back to my moms Cream-of-chicken over rice. This was a hot, starchy combo that never failed to soothe, just a can of Campbell's Cream-of-Chicken over a bowl of minute-rice. 

     I've become a little more heath-conscious though, and some of what I mentioned above could be healthier, with more actual food value. So my own preparation takes a slightly different form. Steamed Jasmine Rice takes the place of minute rice(which has all the nutrition of recycled cardboard) It's still Campbell's soup, but the amount of actual chicken in that soup is minimal. so I throw a can of chicken breast chunks in there to boost that. One of the values of this is is doesn't take much prep and will feed me for a couple of days. It's filling, and comforting all at once. Tango will get a kernel or so of rice and take it to my knee to eat. 

     Sam swears by Sunny Delight when she is sick, and I have picked that up too. I like to mix it, though, about 1/2 to 2/3 sunny D with a shot of Squirt to give it a little bite. 

     Lately I have gotten fond of Greek Yogurt over cereal, too. Another easy prep for a meal, although it doesn't stick to your ribs the way the soup and rice above do.

     I love the aesthetic of the Beast wars with Planet X's WFC figures. 

Triple-Dog dared

• Ian over at Beyond My Geeky Life

Fellow bloggers

• Beyond My Geeky Life Gave us the Thundercats/MOTU crossover we never knew we wanted

A Box from The Toy Box

       My friend and fellow blogger over at the Toy Box sent out a a box of goodies as part of the last Round Robin challenge. It was not a small box. It was of significant size. I and my bestest buddy Tango undertook the task of unboxing and photographing everything this morning

     What a selection inside! the first thing I pulled out was a beautiful set of binoculars, packaged up in their box, These are going to make birdwatching great!

     The next thing I found was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Tango took some interest in Raphael. 

This is the original style of artwork, from the Eastman and Laird comics, when it was
more of a satire. The turtles in their first incarnation were mutated by the same
substance that gave Daredevil his powers and took his sight 

The Shredder- with Grate power comes Grate responsibility. Cheesy joke?

I love the color effect. comics inked in 3 dimensions

Adam of Eternia popped out next

Followed by Ram Man

I can't look at these old filmation characters now without thinking of
"Son of Zorn"

Of course, speaking of TMNT Comics, here is a large helping of Archie Digests. I have been watching "Riverdale" on the CW and I Don't remember Archie being much like that..;.this will be back to roots I suspect. 

     I know little of Five Nights at Freddys, but this appears to be "Foxy" and "the Puppet" according to my researches

For the Culinary Portion of the box...Pocky and Star Wars themed cookware!

the Artoo measuring cups and spoons...clever as hell!

Probably not the Space Cowboy(that would be Terra Man) but he might be the Gangster of Love

She's likely going up next to my Bomshells Wonder Woman and Groot

And it's always good to finish with some Lego- I am no master Builder- I used the instructions

and Tango helped- mostly by staying on my shoulder and not stealing any pieces. 

Lego never fails to impress me with it's innovation.