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.

JUNE WAS WRESTLING MONTH: Wheeler Yuta

Almost done! One more acquisition post and one more fig photo post and then I’m caught up, with time to spare before a Gamestop preorder hits my stoop. Wheeler Yuta!

JUNE WAs wRESTLING MONTH: Honoring The House

The last shipment of June was an older batch of orders/preorders from ringside, including, finally, Buddy Matthews and Brody King.

FIGURE PHOTO: “Danhausen And The Danhausens”

 So, I have four Danhausen figures. Three of these Danhausen figures have capes. To me, this added up to 60’s singing group, because, well, that’s how my brain works. And so, the work began.

MORE IMPULSE BUYS: GI Joe Classified Weirdness

 Finally got a Trubble Bubble!

SALE STUFF: wicket, Endor REbel Commando

 

Never trust an Ewok.

JUNE IMPULSE PURCHASE: NECA Gargoyles Armored Xanatos

 A funny thing happened in Target…

FIG PHOTO: “Sea Men” or “High Three!”

Had two underwater guys, wanted to see if I could pose them swimming at each other. Turns out I could!

Just a bit of fun with tridents. Are they fighting each other? Are they smacking tridents for fun? Is it a weird sex thing? I leave it to you, the consumer of art!

JUNE PILE OF LOOT FINALE: Super Action Stuff Effects

 

Since it’s the end of June, I should probably post the last thing from the June Pile of Loot, which took me a while to be able to photograph. It’s an accessory pack from Super Action Stuff that went on sale in a BigBadToyStore /daily Deal so I got it for cheap. Super Action Stuff are the people that made those arcade machines full of fun accessories I got earlier this year.

Anyway, the guns, swords, knives, and head are all from my Joe Classified accessories bag, but everything else - all the firing effects, the blood swipes, the blood splatter, the rocket, the lightning, etc. are what came with the pack.

A lot of the fire effects have holes and pegs and such but I don’t know what thye’re supposed to be sized for. Certainly nothing Classified. But that’s what blue-tac is for. Not sure I’ll ever need the ricochet effects, but again, it was on a good sale, and most of it should come in handy at some point.

As or the rest of june? Four wrestlers, five impulse non-wrestler purchases, and three things I did just for fun. I mean, I do all of this for fun, but you know. Specific ideas for photos versus “look what I just opened up” pics.

JUNE IS WRESTLING MNONTH: ROH Claudio Castagnoli

 Fun fact. After compliting a bunch of photo editing this morning, I have 13 pictures after this one to post to get caught up with my June purchases and projects. WHEEE! Anyway, Claudio!

FIG PHOTO: “we Wrestleternia!”

 Some more fun with the Masters of the Universe figures and my grotty old ring background. This is another one I’d like to redo once I set the ring up again and finish another project I’ve been procrastinating on HARD.

Anyway, w’ve got Sekeletor and Mer-Man vs. New Day and Cringer, with Adam efereeing. 

JUNE IS STILL WRESTLING MONTH: Piper / Steele 2-Pack!

Got figs 14, 15, 16, and 17 in the mail today, so Wrestling Month is… almost over? Here’s some classic flavor.

JUNE IS WRESTLING MONTH: Ring Of Honor Danhausen

 

OK, I didn’t have time to set up The Arena for this, which is a shame, , and all my old arena pics are in different software, so you’ll have to settle for this kludge.

JUNE IS WRESTLING MONTH: Defining Moments Shinsuke Nakamura

 

OK, I was on a bit of a roll.

WINDING DOWN THE JUNE POL: Silver Age Green Lantern

 

The penultimate item from my June Pile of Loot - Hal Jordan.

MORE FROM THE PILE OF LOOT: Shocker!

The sub-collection of classic Spidey villains grows…

The 2024 Grand Rewiring

 

Had to replace the OLED TV because of six or seven years worth of burn-in. Notice the before and after pics of the screens above. Which meant a GRAND REWIRING. 

JUNE IS WRESTLING MONTH: As Close As I’ll Get To A ‘Holy Grail’

A lot of toy collectors have “holy grails”, items they’ve been searching for forever and want more than life itself. I don’t really have that.

MORE PILE OF LOOT: MOTU Cartoon Collection!

 The Cartoon Colection ranks grow…

JUNE IS WRESTLING MONTH: Asuka, Charlotte, Sasha

 

June continues to be busy, and continues as I build out the collection of WWE women’s wrestlers with a couple of Ultimates and an eBay snag.