Another day of yard sales. After last week's finds, finally, I had high hopes for yard saling and thrift stores. Nothing on the yard saling tip, I swear Bangor kids play exclusively with Imaginext, Ninja Turtles and McDonalds toys. One yard sale had a ton of 12" Star Wars figures and an incomplete 2015 TMNT Technodrome. And that was about it for toys at the 15 or so yard sales I went to, not bad, considering I figured it'd be dead this week with the fair going on.
Last week, Goodwill had all the great finds, this week it was Salvation Army, with all four of the 2002 Animated Ninja Turtles from Mirage Studios, individually bagged with their weapons! Not sure if I'm gonna sell these or keep them for myself. I found Leonardo, without his weapons, a few years ago at the Ellsworth Goodwill for $1 and had to pick him up. These are really incredible figures, so much detail, especially compared to the Turtles they've been coming out with lately. I love the Shredder from this series as well, I might have to hang onto these and even get a few more. No, bad Matt, bad, these are to sell, not to collect, you don't need more figures.
And right next to the Turtles, almost missed them on the peg hanging off the endcap, were two MOC Star Wars Last Jedi figures, $2 a piece. They retail at $13 so not bad. I grabbed both of them, Kylo Ren and Snoke, though Snoke doesn't go for much. Now, I love the new Star Wars movies, a helluva lot more than the clones and pod racing, and Anakin, ugh, but in all honesty, as cool as Kylo Ren looks with his badass mask and crazy lightsaber, he has to be Anakin Junior. Can we please get a villain who's not a whining little sissy, one who's alive for more than one movie, ahem Darth Maul?
Nothing at Goodwill this week but I swung by the Bangor Market Bazaar to check out Bobby's Northeast Collectibles. Didn't plan on buying anything but he had in some new wrestling figures, including the Mattel Elite Papa Shango. At $5, there was no way I could pass it up. Yes, I have the two pack of this figure with the Ultimate Warrior still in package, but I've been wanting him loose since the day I bought the two pack at Target. I always loved Papa Shango and after going back and watching WWF Superstars from 1992 on the Network, it's official, he is the freakin' man. How many voodoo sorcerer wrestlers lit their opponents feet on fire?
I have to say, it's nice to have someone like Bobby around here, doing something he loves. It shows. In an area filled with Imaginext, McDonalds toys and a few Turtles, superheroes and Star Wars figures, it's refreshing to go toy hunting and see Thundercats, MOTU, Street Sharks and even some Visionaries. Oh and Rambo, Chuck Norris, GI Joes and Transformers. And since he wanted to read more blogposts about toys in our area, here we go, maybe we can make Bangor a little less sucky on the toy hunting front. It's either that or I move as soon as I'm done with these last couple Acadia books.
Speaking of sucky, I stopped by Target to see if they had in the new WWE Retros, NXT figures and the new Target exclusive She-Ra line. I don't understand how a store can be so disorganized, and I've worked at both Ocean State Job Lot and Toys R Us. But, at least the two pallets of toys sitting in the aisle for the past two weeks were finally gone. And they started the new toy aisle reset. To my surprise, they sucked a little less today, they had She-Ra, just She-Ra, but still, go Princesses Of Power! But I didn't buy it. I loved the original She-Ra cartoon, and might like the new one just a little bit more, and if the figures were smaller, I'd be buying every single one of them twice, one to open and one to keep in package. But at 12", I just don't have room in the toy room for dolls, no matter how good they look. Me and my wife decided on getting Adora because I've always loved Adora, and possibly Catra for her. Oh and Scorpia if they make her, and obviously Entrapta. Oh and Sea Hawk too. Adventure! Man I hope they make these in a smaller scale. And is that really the freakin' Snakemen I'm seeing in the Season 3 trailer? Can't wait.
Then it was on home to get back to writing. Working on the fifth and final book in the Blood Type Infected series. Third of the way done already, looking at an early October release. I also started cleaning up the display case I bought last week, still not sure which figures I'm going to put in it but I'm leaning towards WWF Hasbros and the Retro line. I'd say rest in peace, but it's not necessary because I'm in denial. The Retros are not dead, they're just sleeping. And now that's what I'm gonna go do because it's late and I've had a long day. I'll catch you guys next week.
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