A general discussion of collecting cool things, such as vintage and modern toys, comic books, ephemera.
I’m not a huge Peanuts fan, but I totally dig the style of these Snoopy posters by Laurent Durieux… Snoopy LOVE Snoopy Just Married Dark Hall Mansions recently brought us those great Tom Whalen Peanuts posters, and I am really enjoying how they are bringing some style to the Peanuts franchise. These new posters and [...]
I finally got all the playsets out of their boxes and set up. I REALLY did want to put the Eternia set together, but the track pieces are so incredibly fragile that I chickened out. I also didn’t feel comfortable putting on the Lion’s arms since it didn’t seem like they would ever come off [...]
The Travel Channel served up a special treat for us toy collectors on Sunday night. A new show called Toy Hunters aired, which follows around toy collector and dealer Jordan Hembrough on his quest to find rare and valuable toys. The show is a carbon copy of the American Pickers formula, but while Mike and [...]
Okay, I teased you with a small photo yesterday so here are some photos that show the whole shebang. The Masters of the Universe brand led the charge of great promotional art back in the 80′s. I joked yesterday on Twitter about how I would like to put that Eternia box art on the side [...]
It was a dark and stormy night, and I found myself once again sitting in the car, cold and wet, a fat wad of 20′s in my pocket, wondering why I chose this lifestyle to lead. I watched anxiously for my contact to arrive, only having the vaguest details as to who he was, and [...]
The DC Big Flea rolled into town again this weekend and it was crowded with people searching for vintage treasures, but I wonder if any of the other attendees was as happy to see this guy as I was… I remember having one of these large Rom figures as a kid. I wonder what happened [...]
Over the holiday break, I was itching to do something creative that didn’t require sitting in front of the computer. One of my passions is photography, so I thought I would build something to help me take better photos of action figures, since I do a fair bit of that for this website. I started [...]
I’m still sad about missing out on buying this poster last week. This incredible Dracula poster by Martin Ansin was available for $45 and I made it all the way through the Paypal checkout until the very last screen stalled out, until it finally showed me that the item was sold out. Sigh. So goes [...]
