Late hi from Rawlin

[rawlin]

Hi,
I kinda missed this when I first signed up some months ago so here is a little late introduction.

My real name is Claes, and the call sign comes from my lost years in World of Warcraft, nice game but easy to get stuck on.

It was a female character that I started using after a couple of years with a tauren male named Rawmeat, those blood elfs where just nicer to look at. So from the tauren Rawmeat I went to Rawlin the death knight. I havent played WoW in a long time now, think 1 and a half year at least.
I have real trouble keeping track of different loggins so I've just stayed with Rawlin.

I'm a member on a few different forums under the same name.

I collect mainly vintage Star Wars which is the larger of my collections, I focus on loose figures, I got many doubles but right now missing 5 characters to make a complete set, not counting the vehicles.

Roughly 10 years ago, plus an unknown number of years. I sold most of my broken childhood SW figures and ships and started up fresh. And I guess if economics where better I would have completed it long ago.

Apart from Star Wars I collect Golden Girl and Galaxy Fighters.
The reason for this is because I am very interested in the fact that this line is a knockoff of that line that is a knockoff of that line and this is a bootleg of the last one.

I really find it very interesting to study these knockoffs and bootlegs, and on display i try to keep them together to easily be able to compare them.

I don't really have many Golden Girl or Galaxy fighters, newly income Goddess of the Ultra Cosmos etc. But I am working on that part. With a few incoming figures it should make around 6-7 Galaxy Fighters and about 8 Golden Girl.

I do like Motu which was a big part of my childhood but not as big part as Star Wars, and I did start a short lived run of collecting MOTU, I got pretty many but then it comes down to the high rankers which cost very much and getting Laser powered He-Man and Skeletor is just up among the clouds for me.

Due to my limited amount of display space I took the ones I liked the most from Star Wars and MOTU and displayed those that fit, usually in themes like Jabba the Hut playset and some figures that belonged to RoTJ. A-Wing with pilot etc kept it simple. Among MOTU it was Scareglow of course which have always been my favorite even when I didn't know his name, then He-Man, Teela, Evil Lyn and Sorceress.

A few coincidences led to my newly found interested in the knockoffs. It started when I found out that the ugly nun of a yellow and red dino dragon was not MOTU but a pretty rare piece of Galaxy Fighters called Pegasaurus. It wasn't complete at that time, but when I found out the value it caught my eye and I started trying to find the parts, and after going through pretty much every stored box I got I managed to get it complete.
I was going to sell it and had offers but then I looked it in the eyes and it just caught my heart. I couldn't bare to part with it even though I needed the money.

This is where I still collected MOTU and where I bought She-Ra from a member at he-man.org forums, just had to have He-Mans sister on the shelf next to He-Man, I was a bit annoyed that there was no MOTU version of her, just that haired, strange looking one that didn't really fit in among the rest. The purple comb wasn't really a fav either, but I really want stuff complete so I had to take the teasing from my friends.

So about now there was one shelf with a few motu/pop on and one with galaxy fighters. That's when I found Golden Girl. I just had to get some of those Golden Girl.
They looked so much different from She-Ra while still being a She-Ra "Me too" toy-line.
Where I saw them was in an eBay lot of 3 nice looking almost complete dolls(Wild One, Dragon Queen and Golden Girl) which I won for a pretty small sum.

Then my interest grew and I found Galaxie Girl, Goddess of Wonder and Goddess of the Ultra Cosmos, and now there is no end to these very interesting pieces. I do no longer care about how stuff looks, but only what they are.

I've done pretty many nice deals here on the forum, and I like the community.

I run a little webshop and toy restoration here in Sweden and that's about it with the introduction I think.
Information about the little shop can be found in the "action-figure websites" section. I am not going to type anything about it here.

Kind Regards,
Rawlin

[bowheadwhale]

Hi Rawlin!
So, you've been in other forums as well? Me too, as a matter of fact! Unfortunately, one of them is now long gone (does not exist anymore) and since a few site transformations, I have been unable to reach another forum (because of long-time site blocking in the library's computers). Fortunately, there are still forums I can visit. And I have the same screen name name everywhere else I go too: Bowhead Whale.

One question: is Sweden's climate like Quebec's?

[rawlin]

Hi Bowheadwhale, think there are a couple of forums during the years that I no longer visit. I would say this and imperial gunnery is where I am most active. It's never fun when one that your active at goes down. Think I am a member of 15 forums at moment, mostly because it is good places to learn stuff on.

Sorry I don't know if the weather is the same, we got good and bad summers and bad winters, only good with winter is that my computer goes faster :P are you from Quebec?

Ah never mind I can see that in your post now when not using the app any longer. It should probably be similar to canada, 4 parts of the year.

[bowheadwhale]

Aug 17, 2011 11:59:33 GMT -6 rawlin said:

Hi Bowheadwhale, think there are a couple of forums during the years that I no longer visit. I would say this and imperial gunnery is where I am most active. It's never fun when one that your active at goes down. Think I am a member of 15 forums at moment, mostly because it is good places to learn stuff on.

Sorry I don't know if the weather is the same, we got good and bad summers and bad winters, only good with winter is that my computer goes faster :P are you from Quebec?

Ah never mind I can see that in your post now when not using the app any longer. It should probably be similar to canada, 4 parts of the year.

The forum where I was that no longer exists actually was "Animal Face-Off" on Discovery Channel site. "Animal Face-Off was one of their airing shows in 2004. This was my very first forum registration, where I chose my screen name Bowhead Whale; I had chosen my screen name following my favorite animal, because almost everyone there had screen names featuring their favorite animals as well: Hippojaws, Legendarycroc, Feline Fan, Cloudedleopardwarrior and Turkey King were among them.
As you figured, I got really sad when the site decided to delete the forum. We were having great fun there... :'(

[rawlin]

Aug 17, 2011 14:21:54 GMT -6 bowheadwhale said:

The forum where I was that no longer exists actually was "Animal Face-Off" on Discovery Channel site. "Animal Face-Off was one of their airing shows in 2004. This was my very first forum registration, where I chose my screen name Bowhead Whale; I had chosen my screen name following my favorite animal, because almost everyone there had screen names featuring their favorite animals as well: Hippojaws, Legendarycroc, Feline Fan, Cloudedleopardwarrior and Turkey King were among them.
As you figured, I got really sad when the site decided to delete the forum. We were having great fun there... :'(

Ah that sucks, a channel forum. The names are kinda funny I must say. I think it's kind of irresponsible from such a large channel to just shut it down. It probably don't cost them anything to just let be where it is.

[bowheadwhale]

Yes, and it was one of the best. There are a few forums where I don't go often anymore because I simply felt I had said everything I had to say about the subject (I don't know if I should mention them). One of them, particularily, disappointed me. It was (well, still is) a site about fantasy sculptures. I had registered because I thought members would invent stories about the sculptures and would talk about mythology; that would have been neat. Instead, I stumped into people would would just say "look at my newly bought dragon" or "look at my newly bought griffin". Pffffff.... I got so bored so early.
But the worst part was when I asked a silly question to the artist about a creature she invented: I asked her if it was related to the griffin. Another guy got into the discussion. And we started to really laugh, because we "pretend played" we were biologists specialised into fantasy critters biology, and we talked about classification of the fantasy critters (androsphynx and manticore being in the same zoological family, for example). We were not serious at all, yet we were slowly discovering that mythologies around the world DID have common points with each other and followed the same basic rules. So, classifying fantasy creatures was not that silly after all.
However, a "moderator" didn't see it this way. He thought we were fighting (which was not the case) and made us stop. Then, the artist started to write to me into a way I would qualify as "bulldozer-like". That was it. I sold all my sculptures I had from that artist and never wrote to her again. In the forum, I only went, after that, in the "off-topic" section. The only section where I still felt like home. Because I re-started to feel bored reading again all those "look at my newly bought dragon" and "look at my newly bought griffin". I think I haven't got there since last year...

[rawlin]

I guess they where more interested in sculpting and dragons etc then stories, still no harm in my opinion to have some fantasy. :)

[bowheadwhale]

Aug 21, 2011 8:15:16 GMT -6 rawlin said:

I guess they where more interested in sculpting and dragons etc then stories, still no harm in my opinion to have some fantasy. :)

Exactly. Making up stories about the sculptures was a lot more fun than the extra-boring "look at my newly bought griffin" or "look at my newly bought dragon". Pfffff.... :-[

[rawlin]

My ex used to make up stories about anything :P she liked doing that a lot. I'm maybe not so fund of making up stories for my toys/models, but I did go a 2 year education to become a comic artist so I guess I understand it in a way. It's pretty much the same except that I used to write stories and draw them.

[bowheadwhale]

Aug 23, 2011 15:34:55 GMT -6 rawlin said:

My ex used to make up stories about anything :P she liked doing that a lot. I'm maybe not so fund of making up stories for my toys/models, but I did go a 2 year education to become a comic artist so I guess I understand it in a way. It's pretty much the same except that I used to write stories and draw them.

I hope your ex didn't tell those stories as truths! Because that indeed is a crime. What I was talking about, is story-telling for fun; when everyone KNOWS it's just a story. :o

[rawlin]

Na, she didn't lie, it was just stories of pretty much anything she found interesting. Usually my toys :P

[bowheadwhale]

Aug 24, 2011 14:18:30 GMT -6 rawlin said:

Na, she didn't lie, it was just stories of pretty much anything she found interesting. Usually my toys :P

Well I'm releaved. Because inventing stories as a game is rather fun. We can invent many games just by inventing stories: we can play Lie Detector, The Biggest Lie, The Scariest Story, The Funniest Story, Phrase-To-Phrase Story... very amusing just to use our imagination for the sake of it.

[rawlin]

I got to admit many of them where funny and we had some laughs. But not my thing :P

[bowheadwhale]

That's OK. Everyone has different tastes.

[rawlin]

lucky it is that way and all are not the same, that would be rather boring :)