OLDNERD: December 2024

Monday, December 30, 2024

My Favorite Toy Pics of 2024: The Top Three

OK, let’s wrap this puppy up. I have mumblemumble new toys I need to be taking pictures of so that they can not make the 2025 list most likely. I think the big thing that makes these my top three is the extent to which they turned out the way I wanted them to. Which is always my goal.

My Favorite Toys Of 2024: The Top Three

OK, we’re at the end! These three are special for various reasons. I like all my toys to one degree or another, or I wouldn’t have them, but these are the ones that had the most significance in 2024.

My Fifteen Favorite Toy Pics of 2024: #6-#4

Also gonna do the end of year countdown thing for my fifteen favorite pictures I made with toys in this year.. It’s a mix of my favorite ideas, what I think is my best execution, and skill milestones.Three per day. Should just about take me to 2025. The Penultimate Trio!

My Fifteen Favorite Toys of 2024: #6-#4

Gonna do that thing everyone does in the last week of the year and do a countdown of my fifteen favorite additions to the toy collection this year. This is a random mix of objective quality, love of the character, general emotional resonance, and collecting milestones. I’m also going to do my 15 favorite toy pics of the year. Three per day. Should just about take me to 2025. The penultimate trio!

My Fifteen Favorite Toy PIcs Of 2024: #9-#7

My Fifteen Favorite Toys of 2024: #9-#7

My Fifteen Favorite Toy Pics of 2024: #12-#10

My Fifteen Favorite Toys of 2024: #12-#10

My Fifteen Favorite Toy Pics of 2024: #15-#13

My Fifteen Favorite Toys of 2024: #15-#13

FIG PHOTO: “Seasons Greetings, Programs! (Mark 2)”

Two years ago, I had an idea.

IMPULSE SALE BUY: IG-12 and Grogu!

ROBOT FIGHT!

DECEMBER PILE: Cammy

The last fig from the December Pile of Loot is also the last fig in Street Fighter Wave 3. Cammy!

DECEMBER PILE: Dee Jay and Guile!

The other big thing along with the Spider-Verse in the Decembee3r Pile of Loot was new Jada Toys Street Fighter figures. I love this line so much that I got at least one figure I can’t use in my Special Future Street Fighter Project, Dee Jay. And one that WILL work for the project, Guile.

CLEARANCE DELUXE: Black Krssanthan (“Let The Wookie Win”.

Hasbro and I frequently disagree on what counts as either “Deluxe” or “Worth thirty five bucks”.

MORE WRESTLING: TNT Champ Sammy Guevara

One more wrestler! Well, technically, four more, because three arrived today, but shh. Those don;t count. I haven’t opened them yet.

CLEARANCE GRAB: TIE Pilot

Its a holiday tradition.

MORE WRESTLERS: Ultimate Edition Sami Zayn

Ah, playing Price Chicken at Ringside Collectibles.

DUMBEST* PURCHASE EVER: The Gobbledygooker!

Mattel calling this an Ultimate Series figure is… a stretch.

SPIDER-VERSE PART 5: “Prowler” (Miles G.)

And we close out the wave and the pics with ProwlerMiles.

The other completely new figure in the wave is Miles G. Morales, the Prowler of Earth-42.

Another excellent figure, with a great head sculpt, great look overall, masked and unmadked heads, backpack, and open clawed gloves to swap with one fist and one grip. Definitely the other standout figure in the line. I mean, they’re all good, but most of them are “improvements on already released figures to bring them up to the bare minimum standard they should have had from the start”, whereas Miles G. and Pavitr are what these figures should all have been like from the start.

The pic has a ton of work and layers put into it, mostly around getting the Stilt-Man Wave Miles “tied” to the punching bag from the movie, and then a bunch of passes to do the lighting. I do wish the hand wasn’t covering the chest logo - I would have liked to give that some glow like in the movie - but them’s the breaks.