OLDNERD: 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.

Saturday, December 14, 2024

SPIDER-VERSE PART 4: “The Band*”

*Or most of it anyway.

SPIDER-VERSE PART 3: “Spider Society HQ” (SM2099)

Technically, this is about Miguel and LYLA, who’s a Gwen accessory, but who’s counting?

SPIDER-VERSE PART 2: “Right. It’s A Leap Of Faith” (Spider-Man)

I do wonder if I could have managed the stretched fabric.

SPIDER-VERSE PART 1: “You’re Like Me” (Spider-Pine)

I bought another wave.

FIGURE PHOTOS: Action Thrawn!

Individual versions of the pics and description in the full post. Already dreading how to best put these on IG and Bluesky.

SALE BUY: G.I. Joe Classified Nightcreeper and Jinx

A couple of big buts from the Classified line.

THE SAD TRIO PART 3: Blue Marvel

Blue Marvel is a figure that always caught my eye when he was on the pegs.

THE SAD TRIO PART 2: America Chavez

The second part of the Target order that was mostly about two hands I’ve since lost.

THE SAD TRIO, PART ONE: Wonder Man!

The next three figures tell a sad, sad tale.

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.