Super Collector Newsletter Discussion Thread

[Dan2Dan]

First, I don't know Steve personally. But I have enormous empathy (from personal experience) for anyone with a child in the hospital. Excruciating. Good vibes! Fingers crossed! Everything! That's so tough.

Hard to transition from that.

Nonetheless, seeing the new White Elephant Toys 'El Amuleto de Sangre' figure pair confirms that their tastes eerily parallel mine. When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of Washington, DC, to San Diego, CA, and there, pre-cable TV and pre-internet, I discovered all these awesome low-budget genre films featuring Mexican wrestlers. The most famous one in America is 'The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy,' but there are so many more that I discovered on TV broadcast from Tijuana 40+ years ago. This new figure set reminds me so much of those films. If I have any quibble or hesitation about buying (beyond wondering about the price, before the official release in a few days), it's that I don't have any nostalgia attachment to that mummy sculpt. But I love that dark, blood-red color!

The 'El Hombre Lobo' custom is also totally awesome!

As someone who also really likes the White Elephant Toyz' Atomic Apemen, I completely loved those photos, especially the one where Space Ghost and his teen companions are caged: completely awesome!

[Werewolf]

Sorry to hear that. Best wishes to Steve and his family.

[Sonneveld]

Hope Steve and his family are doing the best they can.

[Sonneveld]

I like the "Elephant in the Room" addition.

[PNGwynne]

Is the newsletter on hiatus this week?

[MRP]

Is the newsletter on hiatus this week?

I got it in my inbox Friday afternoon.

-M

[PNGwynne]

I got it in my inbox Friday afternoon.

-M

Hmmm. I did not. Checked spam, etc.

And even If I did, I haven't been able to open and read it for years. I have to check here.

[apes3978]

Is the newsletter on hiatus this week?

I was wondering that too, but I see MRP said it showed up in his email...

Like you, I read the newsletter on here since my email has gone wonky on me-No fault of the newsletter though.

[MRP]

It was a digest this week-here's the link that my email took me to:

https://mailchi.mp/87ef38868a7a/toy-ventures-weekly-70s-comics-doc-gi-joe?e=d39434df55

Hope it works for you

-M

[Jmass]

Thanks for sharing that MRP. What a neat newsletter this week! Loved it!

[TrekStar]

Pretty darn cool newsletter this week, I absolutely love those Bonanza customs, it looks like the heads for Ben and Hoss came from the American character set, putting those on the bodies must have been difficult, fantastic job.

[PNGwynne]

Thanks for sharing that MRP. What a neat newsletter this week! Loved it!

Absolutely. Thank you!

[Dan2Dan]

Great Weekly! Thank you again!

Several favorites this week, but first among equals is the very last image of the Canadian superhero customs. I believe I recognized, flying in the background, Northguard? I'm American, so I'm not entirely sure how I got the first few B&W issues of that comic book 40 years ago as a teenager in southern California. But I did. I loved that hero concept then and still do. And that custom figure even has his power armband. So great! Is Northguard still a known/prominent hero character, or is he today as obscure as I think he is? Either way: absolutely great to see.

I also really enjoyed the video by Bruno unboxing all those White Elephant Toyz Atomic Apemen. Jealous! I have watched and enjoyed many of Bruno's other YouTube videos over the years.

(Perhaps not) coincidentally, just a few days ago, YouTube recommended to me that same video of Stan Lee and Roy Thomas discussing the comic adaptation of the Human Fly circa 1976. I still have all those comic books! What's odd is, I remember buying the comic books, but I don't think I ever saw the real Human Fly on TV as a kid.

That Terence Stamp-as-Zod in movie costume custom was/is so great! RIP....

[palitoy]

Thanks to Steve, the newsletter is here

It's quite a fun one.

[Dan2Dan]

Another fantastic Weekly: thank you all again!

Though I write that through pain, having now seen that Armando (Mantalban) head sculp for a Topps x Mego figure that was never produced. "The Pain! The Pain!"

(An Aldo and a Virgil would've been great as well, and I definitely would've bought those figures and welcomed more "Battle For" figures. But my personal preference from "Battle" would've been for a McDonald and a Kolp. A Zaius figure could be a Virgil, and a Cornelius/Galen could stand in for Caesar, and with MacDonald and Kolp, we would have the exploring party entering the Forbidden Zone, only to be confronted by evil maniac Kolp.)

Also notable/surprising to me in that advertisement for Johnny's Toys that the GI Joe Adventure Team Sky Hawk was $10, while a talking AT commander was only $6...