OK, Fine, I’ll Buy Dreadnoks: Torch

 “Destroy the foundation, and the rest comes tumblin’ down.”

MORE WRESTLING: Julia Hart

Remember what I said about Jazwares’ meshy black fabric frill machine?

ACQUIRED: “Tinmeless” Toni Storm (Ringside Exclusive)

Gonna be honest - been DYING to post this since I finished it a week ago.

IMPULSE BUY: Security Guard! (also big ladders)

“All security guards are useless. And most of them are bald.” - Simon Miller (approximate)

NOVEMBER P.O.L.: Denji and Pochito

 I have secret plans for this figure.

NOVEMBER PILE PLUS: GI Joe Classified

 

For some reason, I felt like having a handful of fascist villains get their asses kicked.

FIG PHOTO: “Death Riders”

 

And here’s the other WrestleDream pic I wanted done and out before Full Gear… today.

SEQUENCE BREAK: Rico at WrestleDream

 So, this got delayed.but I want it out in the world before Full Gear.

November P.O.L.: Deadpool Movie Colossus!

There are only a few movie series where I want ALL THE THINGS from it. One is Deadpool.

november P.O.L.: At Long Last, Deadpool

We finish off the Deadpool and Wolverine wave part of my (first) November Pile of Loot with the man himself, Deadpool. You’ve seen him from the side. You’ve seen him from the back. Now you can see him from the front!

NOVEMBER P.O.L.: Wolverine (Deadpool and Wolverine)

 Again, all the Deadpool and Wolverine line pics end up with Deadpool in them, but today we’re talking about Wolverine.

NOVEMBER POL: Deadpool and Wolverine Logan

 OK, here’s the deal. The Deadpool and Wolverine is three figures. There are three photos, one per figure. All three of them include the Deadpool figure. But this is the Logan picture.

NOVEMBER P.O.L.: Marvel Legends Phoenix

 Fun with lighting!

IMPULSE BUY: Ringside Exclusive Hook

 I’m glad I didn’t know how great this wes. I’d have paid full price months ago.

Run.

 Run.

IMPULSE BUY: Ultimate Edition Eddie Guerrero

 

And I thought I was compartmentalizing a couple days ago? Anyway.

REDEFINING NEED III: McFarlane Toys Ichicgo

 COMPARTMENTALIZAAAAAAATION!

REDEFINING NEED II: DC Multiverse Adam West Batman

 Did I need this either? Well, it’s complicated.

REDEFINING NEED: Total Anime Chainsaw Man

 

Did I need this? Well, that’s complicated.

IT HAD THE BOX! GI Joe Classified Starduster

 

I almost regretted snap-pre-ordering this.

EVEN MORE WRESTLERS: FTR

The most exciting boring team in all of wrestling!

EVEN MORE WRESTLERS: Becky Lynch

 Sometimes you gotta compromise a little to complete a sub-collection.

MORE WRESTLERS: Swerve Strickland

Some of the figures on my wrestling Wish List got down to a price point I’m comfortable with, including Swerve Strickland1

END-TERTAINMENT EARTH: Grand Admiral Thrawn!

 Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the dullest action figure in recent memory.

FOMO BUY: Robot Batman

 Rules are made to be broken.

THE LAST (FOR NOW) DID I NEED EM BOTH 2-PACK: Iron Fist and Luke Cage

 The theme continues!

PULSECON: VHS Vulture / Spider-Man 2-Pack!

Remember what I’ve been saying about two-packs I only really need one of?

PILE OF LOOT: The Spot (clearance)

 Once again I find myself in a penny/pound in-for situation.

SEPT PILE OF LOOT: Rebel Trooper / Stromtrooper 2-Pack

 I had a theme, I had a problem.

ACQUIRED: Dem Boys!

 Sorry, Dark Order…

SEPT PILE OF LOOT: Bossk!

 FIVE DOWN, ONE TO GO.

ACQUISITIONS/PHOTOS: Catchup Post!

 

Blogger appears to have fixed the fuckery that kept me from uploading photos under iPadOS 18, so let’s talk about what I couldn’t post except on Instagram, newest to oldest.

RECRETIONS: London Ladders, Pagehausen

 Had the house to myself during Labor Day week, so I set up the big photo box and set some stuff up.

IMPULSE BUY: Brian Cage

 Around All IN weekend, I was comparing the current AEW roster to my figure roster and marveling at how much roster churn competes with the time it takes to put a figure out. And remembered I didn’t have a Brian Cage.

IMPULSE BUY: Full Gear MJF/Moxley Two Pack (feat. The Crowd)

 

OK, i sort of spent $20 on a robe.

I’d seen this Full Gear-themed 2-pack of Robed MJF and Jon Moxley in Target for a couple of weeks, not really knowing the price, seeing $19.99 shelf tags around it, but thinking they couldn’t possibly be selling a two-pack of normally $19.99 figures for twenty bucks, right? Well, they were. And I didn’t have MJF’s robe, and I didn’t have Jon Moxley due to relative apathy, so…

The MJF also has a more beardy, more smirky head, which is nice. The Mox is fine, although facial and head-hair wise he hasn’t looked like this for a while. But he does have the BCC sweatshirt, which I can technically use on two other figures as long as I don’t show the back where it’s Mox-specific. So, yeah, for twenty bucks, I got, in order of preference, an MJF robe, an MJF head, a BCC sweatshirt, a Mox figure, an MJF figure, and two more microphones. Not a bad deal.

This also features my first attempt at using the Arena (photo box with real scale ring) and The Crowd to form a single picture, and while I’m still working out some details and techniques, I ain’t mad at how it turned out.

PROJECTS: “The Crowd” Part 1”

I’ve been working on this, on and off, for over three months.

The Crowd: a stadium crowd built out of Normie Squad action figures. Barricades, figures shot in folding chairs in groups of five, all painstakingly assembled into a 16000 pixel by 12000 pixel Affinity Photo document.

It was going to be bigger. My original plan was closer to 30K by 15K pixels, featured two sets of stairs, and… it broke. I had so many layers and so much going on that my document screamed for help. Probably spent the better part of a month trying to solve or avoid the problem before settling on scaling back.

What you see above is a shrunken version, but the idea is I can take chunks of it as need be and have hi-res sections of it at my disposal for whatever I need. And as you’ll see now, it works good. Too good.

It works so good I want more. I want to figure out how to do the other parts of a wrestling crowd - mainly the sides and he people facing the ring on the hard cam side. Which means digging all the Normies out from the bins they got re-relegated to after the first shots were done in June. That’s gonnna take a while.

 
 

CLEARANCE: Basic-Ass Sonic

Nothing fancy, in every possible way.

MOAR STREET FIGHTING: Dhalsim, M. Bison

If you know why I had Dhalsim fighting Kingo, we could probably be friends.

MORE PILE OF LOOT: Mirage Splinter

 

Only a couple more characters needed in my mixed cartoon/Mirage Turtles collection.

IMPULSE BUY: Black Series Tusken Raider

 

This dude REALLY hates Luke.

ACQUISITIONS: Evil-Lyn and Two-Bad

Some more fun with Masters of the Universe Cartoon Collection, as the Pile of Loot with my Evil-Lyn pre-order arrived the same day as the Mattel Creations SDCC Two-Bad.

RECREATION: “Particularly Harrowing Memory”

At this point, I’m doing enough moment / scene re-creations that they should be their own separate thing.

AT LONG LAST PRE-ORDER: Scarlet Spider!

 OK, we’re doing these a little out of order, technically, but since Hasbro just dropped a whole new wave of Adcross The Spider-Verse figures for pre-order, and I grabbed three of them and may be in for one or two more down the road, and now I don’t have to be tempted by the $90 Bandai Pavitr Prabhakar, let’s go with the Technically Not An Across The Spider-Verse Marvel Legend of Scarlet Spider!

PREORDER ACQUIRED: More Batman ‘66!

Who better to give Robin… “the talk”?

All Art Is Political

When Hulk Hogan spoke at the Republican National Convention, I knew I needed to buy me an Iron Sheik.

WE’RE BACK, BABY! Black Series Hoth Trooper

 

Sometimes, you need a break from hobby. 

FIG PHOTO: “Bro time!”

OK! This is the last thing I have ready to go for the time being. Nothing new coming in the door for a bit, and it’s gonna be about a week before I’m in a position to start any new pics. I do have a project in progress, but it’s stupd complicated and stupid fussy and is producing something to be used in other pics down the line. So let’s go out on a deeply ridiculous note.

JUNE WAS WRESTLING MONTH FINALE: TIGHTEST TITS IN THE GAME

 

Been a long road. Seventeen wrestling figures acquired during June. Technically a five week period starting the last week of May, but that was just one guy and it’s June enough. And we end with the final release, the figure that kept my four-figure preorder waiting until mid-June, the best smile in the biz, the tightest tits in the game, “All Ego” Ethan Page.