Super Collector Newsletter Discussion Thread

[TrekStar]

Another fun newsletter, hoping Brian feels better soon.

[EMCE Hammer]

Better out than in!

[Werewolf]

Thank you for your hard work.

[PNGwynne]

The wit and eye-candy are much appreciated.

I couldn't fully appreciate the KO Batman because I was ogling Jaime & her mission-purse.

Nice customs from James, and others.

[MRP]

Got this week's newsletter in my inbox when I got home from FCBD. Was super excited t see the Grenadier Denizens of the Swap link. So excited to watch that vi on YT. That was the first set of D&D minis I ever got and one of the few D&D things I ever found at Toys R Us-which I rarely got to go to. They didn't have one in the area of Maine I lived in when I started playing D&D in '81, but the summer of '82 we moved back to CT and my godmother took me to the Toys R Us there for my birthday and that Denizens set is what I found and picked out. Lots of nostalgia for it. The giant snake mini in it was massive.

Lots of great custos this week as well.

-M

[EMCE Hammer]

Sorry a little late this week - life

[Werewolf]

Never expected to see a SCTV custom. Nice.

[Dan2Dan]

Alas, what could have been: the Planet of the Apes Mutant Leader with a removable mask! That would have been fantastic. (The Super7 ReAction version works pretty well, too, at a smaller scale.)

I really liked both Mutant Leader figures, masked and unmasked, as they were eventually released. But if I had to choose between them, the unmasked, Topps version is, for me, way superior. But it was also so much rarer, and is now more expensive on the secondary market. So I only have one, while I was able, ultimately, to get several of the masked version. They just don't stand up so well on their own, in my experience....

[palitoy]

Sh'boom it's here!~

https://mailchi.mp/9d5a434c304e/happy-friday-your-toy-ventures-weekly-news-has-arrived

Super validating week, for years I told people Mego had done a great job on their DC cards only to have them rejected by WB. I was publicly called a liar about this but I was actually asked to make the new cards and passed because the style guide was so restrictive that it wasn't artistic in any way.

[Figure8]

Wow, thank you for sharing that original card art. And thank you VERY MUCH again, DC ... Still beats me how they could opt for those bland cards and after seeing this it seems even more crazy.

[Dan2Dan]

Corgi Liberator: jealous!

I'm an American kid who was 'introduced' to Blake's 7 one Saturday night when I was in high school in mid-1980s. My girlfriend had just left, and I was flipping TV channels about 10 PM on a Saturday night, and there it was on our local PBS station: the very first episode of Blake's 7. Never heard about it before but instantly loved it.

I moved to London for work about 15 years later, and, over the few years I was there, the old Tottenham Court Road location of Forbidden Planet ultimately sold the VHS tapes (2 episodes per tape) for 5 GBP each. This was about 2002-3. I bought all of them. But then, when I was transferred to Hong Kong for work fairly abruptly, I left them in LDN. My wife sold the entire collection online in LDN for, if I remember correctly, 20 pounds.

But I still have my copy of the Blake's 7 RPG and Blake's 7 Technical Manual that I bought at that same time from the Horizon fan club. Those two are 'pry out of my cold dead hands' level for me.

[Dan2Dan]

To Steve specifically (whom I've never met), regarding the intro to this weekly newsletter, about your new home.

Man, I've been there, and I applaud you and can tell you it will be worth it in the long term.

I bought my first (and only) house in my 30s. Total fixer-upper in the best neighborhood I could possibly afford at the time. That's what the 'conventional wisdom' always says is the best thing to do.

But then, about three weeks after my big purchase, I received a letter from the homeowner's insurance company telling me that I had to replace the old wood tile roof within three months, or they would drop me. (My house is in a very severe fire zone in southern CA, like all homes in coastal southern CA.) But I had no money left. And this was just the first of many, many unpleasant surprises like this in those early years. My awesome father-in-law was a builder, and he helped me do as many (easy) home improvement projects myself as I could. But that first-time home buy went from pride to endless stressor within minutes, and stayed that way for years , candidly. But now, over 20 years later, it was the best big investment I ever made. Light at the end of the tunnel!

[Frenchy99]

Love the Mego original cards, looking forward to get more info or picture of them.

For Steve, Renovation is a pain but such a reward. I bought a complete fixer upper 15 years ago and redid the entire house myself. Best decision I ever made but it took years of work and lots of money.

Best of luck on the house and health of your family.