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Post by rihia2k on Apr 27, 2022 1:12:49 GMT -6
Aw, man. 47, that's way too young. Old schooler rock and ruler, he was a already massive asset to this site when I was just first logging in. RIP Meatybat.
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Post by rihia2k on Sept 12, 2021 8:01:35 GMT -6
It is difficult enough to find something I need, let alone paying a fortune for each one. It does make me wonder about how many of the collectors that have stashed their collections years ago would now be willing to part with portions of them now that the prices are as high as they are if they knew the current prices. I also wonder about how many who parted with them 5 - 10 years ago are lamenting the potential losses they sustained by not holding onto them and settled for less because they wanted out quickly. There's a lot of crazy price stuff happening with vintage games in regard to value increases. I've been reading accounts of collectors being approached by fellow collectors "requesting" they increase the asking price for video games they're selling. So as to bring the general acceptable value up. To some ludicrous amounts usually. I say 'requesting', but 'pressuring' would be the word. Nice to see ya back Ghouldrool, your contribution to online Chap Mei knowledge is still referenced far and wide.
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Post by rihia2k on Aug 6, 2021 4:18:51 GMT -6
This ongoing trend with no one having signed on in the last 5 days (but me) has to be a record. I have liked this post in the 'like post' feature. Is that, is that ... sort of like contributing?
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Post by rihia2k on May 2, 2021 1:18:12 GMT -6
Hello , I'm new here and my name is Guglielmo from Italy. Been collecting statue/AF a long time, so it's kind of hard to list out everything I'm into but I'll put forward a few of my absolute series: Zelda,Batman,Metal Gear Solid,Bayonetta,Kick Ass. Happy to be here! ^^ Welcome, G. Really great way to introduce yourself. Cool collection, some unique/different stuff too.
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Post by rihia2k on Apr 21, 2021 4:25:15 GMT -6
I guess you use ketchup/mustard/mayo/tartar sauce in packets? Drink water/beer warm? Happy Birthday by the way. If you ask for three packets of ketchup at the drive thru they give you one hundred and three. I'm pretty well stocked. Rainwater always comes through cold this time of year. Haven't had a beer in over 2 years. Thanks for the birthday wishes. I can't express enough how good it is to have a '1' after the '4'. Kills the stigma of the big 40.
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Post by rihia2k on Apr 19, 2021 6:16:23 GMT -6
They need to separate the "quote" and "edit" buttons so that I hit the right one all the time. So, you keep your groceries on the porch during the winter? Work right across the road from a supermarket and there's one on the ride home. I grab the portions I need at the time. It is massive in it's decadence, I know, and probably a waste of packaging, but so far I've only had to throw a bit of milk and some frozen peas I didn't finish (shrug)
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Post by rihia2k on Apr 14, 2021 0:09:13 GMT -6
I logged in cause someone robbed my fridge, was looking for that link... It's a long story, but I currently have no fridge in my home. Literally - without a refrigerator at present. They really came to the worst possible website to sell those locks, didn't they? We (I) have plenty of tie for long stories, so please begin... How do you get by without at least ice cold water? Did you just reply IN my post, figure collector? (I assume that was you) Ahh, get outta my head! - But, yeah we're heading into winter here, so no biggy.
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Post by rihia2k on Apr 13, 2021 7:44:26 GMT -6
I logged in cause someone robbed my fridge, was looking for that link... It's a long story, but I currently have no fridge in my home. Literally - without a refrigerator at present. They really came to the worst possible website to sell those locks, didn't they? We (I) have plenty of tie for long stories, so please begin... How do you get by without at least ice cold water?
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Post by rihia2k on Mar 9, 2021 2:15:41 GMT -6
This can't be an effective marketing plan.... Just imagine clocking out after a 40hr week of this, staring at your own burgled refrigerator in disgust, because you couldn't even garner enough sales by randomly posting on toy forums to afford your own refrigerator lock. There's... gotta be other work out there.
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Post by rihia2k on Sept 26, 2020 5:59:14 GMT -6
Now I have been here 15 years. Yeah! Yeah!
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Post by rihia2k on Aug 22, 2020 5:20:15 GMT -6
$120 is $1 per pound of human meat it can safely support. Is it even ceramic? Could be vac-formed plastic. It could just be made of Alka-Seltzer for all we know. All good things to know before we go shopping for dook chutes. I’m eyeing one of those fancy tactical Japanese models that warms the seat and adds butter so you don’t stick to it. Mein gott! Now that my eyes have cleared of tears following the concept of an Alka Seltzer toilet, it's actually a sweet deal for that quantity of bi-carb soda. How many petitions do I sign to get one installed in Bill Maher's house? -- Speaking of Japanese Super Robot toilets, my daughter's Uncle on the other side returned from a decade in Japan and simply had to have one installed when he returned to NZ. I have only glimpsed it when it was newly delivered to his home and I suspect it was sizing me up with invisible lasers. Even were I staying at his home for any lengthy period of time, I'd probably make up some dumb excuse to go to the library for ten minutes instead of using it. Nobody outside his immediate family have touched it as far as I know. Think it hits ya with Insecticon cerebro-shells if you're not a registered user.
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Post by rihia2k on Aug 22, 2020 3:49:10 GMT -6
I haven’t priced toilets lately. Is $120 a good price? Thing looks a little narrow. Might make a cool candy dish to leave on the porch for Halloween. Sadly, I have priced toilets lately. Even comparing our currency exchange that's definitely not a bad deal. I suppose you get what you pay for, but honestly with one function, mostly dependant on your plumbing installation, what's the worst case scenario. Have to be pretty unlucky to find a toilet so bad at it's task that it actually transfers the waste back in to your body. "I'll price this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad toilet. Not like going down to the pond and using shrubbery and treetrunks... ... $120.00 for me, by myself. For that you get the seat, the cistern, the whole damn thing."
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Post by rihia2k on Aug 20, 2020 4:31:52 GMT -6
This is how we 'Masters of the Universe Origins' thread in 2020. Its really all gone down the toi... I can't say it, I can't say it.
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Post by rihia2k on Aug 17, 2020 5:04:53 GMT -6
Same for as long as I remember. If I ever see action figures in the wild it’s either like a tote of random beat up modern cheapo kids’ toys buried in Happy Meal toys or they’ll be like some butthorn with a flea market stall full of carded POTF2 figures for $30 a pop. I have scoured the tri-state area and DC for vintage stuff and there’s very few spots worth checking out. Even a loser mummy man like Dengar is nowhere to be found in the Goodwill :< Beat up LJN wrestling figures was the last thing I saw that even resembled anything that I would collect and that was probably 15 years ago. We have waned going to these type sales in the last 5 years since there is never anything reasonably priced if it is worth bringing home (unrelated to toys). It is like any worthwhile item is covered in gold when found in terms of price. Hey! You guys are killing my fantasy version of America. The one where there's a lemonade stand and vintage action figure yard sale at every third house in suburbia. Sheesh, soon you'll probably try and tell me the Empire State Building isn't made of ice cream and if you try real hard you can eat your way to the top, where there's a chocolate sauce fountain waiting at the 102nd floor. And you sure ain't convincin' me there's no cherry on the lightning rod. I done my geography!
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Post by rihia2k on Aug 17, 2020 2:50:45 GMT -6
rihia2k do you feel strongly about He-Mans or something? N.. No!? Eww. You are. You... you probably wanna marry him or something. You're so immature! (runs away, sobs into ROTJ pillowcase because I don't own a He-man one)
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Post by rihia2k on Aug 14, 2020 23:14:58 GMT -6
Or did you mean "charity store" specifically?
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Post by rihia2k on Aug 14, 2020 23:13:59 GMT -6
All that above and my take is "He has an altar?". It must be different where I live. i have never found anything at a charity store. Ever. It is all clothes and dishes, used small appliance and books. Ahem, er... did I say "altar"? I meant work desk. Work desk, yeah, thats it. Just a nice... normal work desk. Youve never found a toy at a thrift store 😕
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Post by rihia2k on Aug 14, 2020 7:01:04 GMT -6
The items were probably going straight to eBay to see if they can make a bundle. If not they will probably try to return the items. This thread; yeah basically that's why I bought a crummy DC Robin kid's toy off the shelf the other week, more or less literally, to play with. And I don't have to care about it, or chase it, or idolize it, put it on my altar, and my kid can play rough with it. And yeah, it was so "just a toy". It was easy. I didn't have to trample anyone or punch a forty year old man in the Doritos to get to it. I mean, I'm straight crazy about MOTU vintage. Whereas I observe modern MOTU with keen interest, but very little desire to acquire. Like the pay off wouldn't deserve the effort ... or something. I just wasn't one of those who could ever, I dunno, feel good about splashing out on a $299 green resin block because it's an 'official' Grayskull super-exclusive lump-of-green-crap-block and fool myself into thinking that it carries any of the same magic as when I received my first He-Man and Skeletor together as a kid on my birthday (that was so insanely lit). Even if I look at my shelves now, in addition to childhood recollections, I can remember where I found my vintage toys as an adult, there's little anecdotes and nostalgic moments, mostly in regards to finding them in the wild (but also online with interesting sellers). Modern toys it's generally, "I threw money at that in a store or online" and that's the whole story. Every time. That is just me, I ain't criticizing another soul. I just know there are so many goodies out there siren singing that it would take nothing for me to become Ahab or Quint, simultaneously hating and respecting Masters of the Universe cos it just won't die. (and it took my leg & ate my platoon) That rant said - this line looks great, I would like Skel & He from it, just won't dragon-chase 'em is all. -- Er, what was my point again? Should I further it? - Probably not. Guess I could just wander into a store, go buy Lego Voltron tomorrow. That would be nice. (Italian Chef's kiss) But the buzz I get from finding a 1980 Dengar for 20c in The Red Cross thrift shop the other day is possibly as good. Dengar just looks like such a dopey figure out of context, especially when he's lying on a mountain of woolen mittens which resemble no human hand ever as knitted by the, almost completely blind, old woman behind the counter. With whom I have a haggling argument because I only have a dollar coin and she doesn't want to charge me that much, initially refusing to give me the figure unless I take it for free. Which makes zero altruistic sense because she's working for a charity store. So I incorporate an Xbox game I don't want into the transaction. And all is well. Transaction experiences I won't get at a commercial toy store which stocks Lego Voltron.
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Post by rihia2k on Aug 6, 2020 17:18:24 GMT -6
What we're they askin' for them in store?
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Post by rihia2k on Aug 5, 2020 17:06:19 GMT -6
Gawds. Deciding on a One: 12 for me is like committing to a tattoo or something. I'm only interested in picking up one for examination and appreciation's sake. No way I'll collect the line in any form. Diabolik & Conan top of the list. Somehow I can let DD go. I love the character but it feels like Death Dealer was born to remain intangible/unobtainable as the Frazetta paintings he began as. Besides, I have that worthless 1 gram paperweight that Monstarz released... surely the Mezco couldn't beat that.
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Post by rihia2k on Jun 24, 2020 8:16:59 GMT -6
Thanks boysssss! rihia2k that almost puts my karma right for the flaming bag of dog dookie I left on the steps of the Make-A-Wish Foundation! Enjoy your new kidneys kids! Ironically, your karma was already great. Do you know how many kids out there would wish for, and be denied, a parcel of burning poo? Instead they get a visit from hung-over Uncle Spider-man doing it for criminal community service.
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Post by rihia2k on Jun 23, 2020 4:23:05 GMT -6
Dammit! Late again, Thor Laserpunch did I miss the fah-works?! I realized Pac-man is our middle brother, so any hand me downs you receive have already been worn by him. I also forgot what you like? You like children's kidneys, right? Good, I invested in some while I was grabbin' coffee cos I been flat out flat out, brah. Haha, your being born has resulted in altruism without your consent. To get the full effect off this you need to slip away from the party unnoticed and stare into the wind listening to Vienna by Ultravox jokes figurecollector will carry the notes in Vienna and the duet parts in MSTRKRFT for you. It was our agreement. Happy Birthday, muchacho. Edit to add: I did take that vid on what was the 22nd in the US, just didn't upload it til 23rd. You're gonna have to learn to forgive me one day, TL. Stop guilt tripping me like this. You do this every year!
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Post by rihia2k on Jun 7, 2020 5:48:30 GMT -6
rihia2k apparently Super 7 is releasing Conan movie figs in fall and this one coming out soon... Not a bad time to be into Conan.
Ooh, I saw that one too. Tickles a fancy cos I'm right into that visualisation of Conan which Barry Windsor Smith gave to comics. Good time to be into Conan. Bad time to be my wallet.
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Post by rihia2k on Jun 1, 2020 3:51:58 GMT -6
I salute you for holding out on phone tech so long. Also, reality bids you a fond farewell.
Ah, I'm joking, used right, its just another tool. Though I've never seen anyone curl up on the couch and stare at a sabresaw or cordless drill for hours on end.
Also you may need protective equipment for the first month in case you walk into a duck pond or streetlight whilst googling on the go.
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Post by rihia2k on May 16, 2020 5:24:21 GMT -6
Well, I felt some fever for getting a Punisher One:12 once upona time, 'specially since I missed a stupidly cheap one. But somehow lived this long without touching that flame. After watching Blood and Black Lace, I was reading about Italian film and remembered that a Diabolik One:12 exists. Ooh hoo hoo boy, thassa some tentazione right there! Been watching one from a local seller for months, it's been available and sitting on the same price, still didn't bite. But then Mezcos all like, "come, come deeper into my cave, little rihia" www.mezcotoyz.com/one-12-collective-conan-the-barbarianCreating a Mezco One:12 Conan at me is such a low blow. Still it's not out until September, who knows what my life holds in the interim? But safe bet I won't be shouting anybody to a coffee between now and then, so's I have the pocket change ready if I crumble. Also I realize what this means. It means I'm a basic bitch. Premium adult collectables with intricate full body outfits, masks, goggles or backpacks, armour or light up features. And which one interests me? The one with no shirt and a pointy stick. Anyway, join me next time on the Action Figure Archive for more stories about toys I don't own or toys I don't have yet.
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Post by rihia2k on May 8, 2020 5:44:54 GMT -6
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Post by rihia2k on Apr 6, 2020 3:37:21 GMT -6
Ashens attempted to make replacement faces to solve this crisis, it didn't go terribly well Maybe not but pretty clever. Getting the perfectly shaped face mold and material thickness to work properly may be a slight hindrance tho. 'S a cool video. There isn't enuff mucking around with Infacables going on in the world. Now's the bit where I weigh in like an armchair adventurer who hasn't done half as much as Ashen, but I've thought about it. *Looking inside my Brainor, there's a rubber band around the base of the latex head. For creating a tighter vacuum? *Would be good to get inside an Infaceable which still has latex. That way you have a template to go on. *Ashen's latex sculpt really was amazing but I don't believe Infaceables 'human' form had any sculpt to the face, it was like lego-smooth with a paintjob, that being the whole gimmick of 'transforming' to a sculpt via suction. *Finally, Ashen's 'Suave Pierre' vacuum-action was incredible. I'd even go as far as to say that was as good as it got originally and we've let our romantic memory give Galoob higher credit than they ever deserved. Anyway, I'll shut up and stop being Mister-Opinion-Without-Practical-Application guy.
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Post by rihia2k on Apr 4, 2020 6:42:55 GMT -6
Did you get rid of a part of your collection while not actively collecting? Unfortunately. I had a pretty sizable blackstar collection that I sold about 3/4 of. Had an almost complete, sealed infaceables collection that I sold mainly because those figures just weren't made to last. Watching my Infaceable's gradual latex degradation is my real hobby. It acts as a grim reminder of mortality. Collecting action-figures is just a side venture.
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Post by rihia2k on Apr 1, 2020 22:34:11 GMT -6
MOTU. Preach. Welcome back, Hammer.
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Post by rihia2k on Mar 17, 2020 4:04:22 GMT -6
I really would not doubt it if someone told me that was actually you driving that vehicle in that shark outfit. Well, top-half of a shark outfit anyway. Gets pretty hot in that van once the doors and windows are all sealed shut ... for, um, safety purposes.
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