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Been working on my book case. I took the Hotwheels of the wall and attached it to the book case. I did other side as well but need more drywall jstraps.

Been working on my book case. I took the Hotwheels of the wall and attached it to the book case. I did other side as well but need more drywall jstraps.

Went to a collectibles show today and finally found my Subaru I have wanted. Still looking for the wrx rally in the iconic decals. Was 2 for $5 so threw in a Batcopter.

Bebop arrived. Now crossing fingers they do a retro release of April.

Thing is that a haslab 3 3/4 skystriker is roughly $400 and you get 6 in classified scale so just saying maybe $500 each for those lol. That alone is $3000, Then 12 dragonflies in classified scale I would assume an other $3000 just to be fair. You would be getting a 91 foot Flagg for free. $3499 actually sounds like a great deal. :P

Forgot to mention. Couple weeks ago I bought this guide.

Just the Pixel Shaker. Finding Treasure Hunts is super hard in my city since a lot of the places I go to the staff have already gone thru them before they hit the shelf.

I have been still grabbing a few Hot Wheels here and there as I see ones I like. My wall that I set up is almost full.

Foot Soldier arrived. Still waiting on Bebop and no idea why others came but not him yet. As mentioned hoping they do April O'Neil and if they do then that will be a whole 88 set in these new releases. Personally I think they make for nice display pieces and not overly expensive. When I was a kid only had the 4 turtles and Splinter so bit of an upgrade getting them all.

Splinter and Rocksteady arrived today.

I don't see them as collectibles either. I have only got three and only of favourite characters.

The 2023 classic TMNT Foot Soldier is now up on Canada Amazon for preorder. Got my preorder in :)

Picked up Playmates Classic Shredder today :). Also on Amazon Canada yesterday they listed new preorders so I preordered Bebop, Rocksteady and Splinter. They had Krang but he wasn't part of the 88 set so I didn't grab him. Now I just need a Foot Soldier which I was surprised wasn't listed since it was part of same set and hoping they release an April O'Neil in the next wave so that I have a full set of '88 in the classic Playmates series. I have not seen any of these available on store shelves up here in Canada and seems they only trickle in as online preorder items only.

Funny how in the lastest plastic toy thread I said Funko will go the way of the Beenie Baby and I was right.

I should have picked them up like years ago when I had a chance but you know me, I am more of Joe collector. I had a #1 when I was a kid but not sure what printing so this was more of a replacement buy to have one back in the collection. I remember at the point I got into turtles it was the Archie series. Only reason I had the #1 when I was younger was I did some driveway work on neighbors driveway ( we had extra gravel so put some on his drive) and he gave me that book.

Picked this up today. Maybe an 8.0. Came from a friends childhood collection. #1 5th printing. :)

So as mentioned before was disappointed that the wave 2 of classic turtles was a target exclusive USA only but seems that gamestop.ca is slowly getting some of this stuff. Its strange but happy Canada getting some love for some of these figures finally. https://www.gamestop.ca/Toys-Collectibles/Games/904646/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-shredder Got myself a preorder of Shredder :). I am hoping they release Splinter, Foot Soldier, Rock Steady, Bebop and April O'Neil. Would like to have the full 1988 wave in these new classics.

Manufactured Rare Garbage! Everyone doing it.

Moon Knight figure arrived today. Was surprised since I thought this was coming in June. New non plastic packaging unlike the first release of this figure and one of the figures I said I was shocked we where getting in retail. I haven't decided if I am going to open this one since its the first figure I have gotten without non plastic display plus I have a 2003 Moon Knight on my display.

Lol that movie Storm Shadow I see constantly at Gamestop Canada for $14.99 constantly. I am waiting for it to be $9.99 cdn then I will buy it lol.

Gamstop.ca got Serpentor in about a week ago I noticed. I have also seen Mindbender in gamestop stores up here in Canada in the last month.

Doesn't help that the toy companies are part of the problem as well. Pretty much everything is an an exclusive in which they are ticking off customers. Back in the 90's with comics and cards they where called manufactured rares and over time they didn't hold their value. Why I will never pay a premium for an exclusive and only if I get it at regular price will I buy it. I am actually at the point where I have lost a lot of enjoyment of even collecting toys. I pretty much stopped buying comics and just go to trades for my enjoyment now because of all the variants and garbage out there. I can list so many things that has just annoyed me to no end in the last couple years with these companies let alone how Canada has been pretty much left out for collecting even with the exclusives. Here is some examples. 1. Classified Storm Shadow comes out and then not that shortly after they release the one that actually is what the fans want but they make it a Walmart USA exclusive only. 2. I enjoyed getting the first wave of the retro classic turtles from Playmates but what do they do with the second wave they make it a Target USA exclusive only. So yeah I got the 4 turtles and I was like if they do a next wave with shredder, splinter and a foot soldier I would get them. Yeah that was a pipe dream in which I am not paying 3 times the price to try and get them and won't be able to get them. Now I do try and stay positive and think it might be possible the 2nd wave of turtles will come to Canada but my email with playmates they said no and it won't be available other than Target. Also note playmates just didn't make one figure an exclusive they made the whole wave an exclusive which is just in my mind not right. 3. Super 7 and talking about the retro carded figures has to be the biggest rip off ever. I have no clue how they are staying in business since I see them as a one off buy in my mind to collectors. I only bought the Storm Shadow but at their prices and the fact that majority don't come with that much gear they are garbage. I see those in bins in the future for $5 each if not less. I have been to multiple stores on my hunts weekly and just monitoring their movement and its always the same stock on the shelf and hardly move. 4. Funko Pops. This is one that if someone wants just a display piece that different they are a cheap buy for the most part. In my opinion they are better than buying the super 7's. In the future though I see them going the way of the beenie baby. 5. Hot Wheels. I was enjoying it for a bit but in all seriousness that community is one of the most toxic communities I have ever joined and I left all facebook groups because the amount of arguing and just people going at each other. Doesn't help that all the walmart and dollarama employees are opening the boxes and taking all the super treasures out or which I even saw a guy get reported for he was charging people to look at unopen boxes and then doing it to multiple people on the same boxes. Now I mentioned some of this stuff awhile back. Lot of this new stuff is just for display. They don't really have play value since they fall over, have no vehicles really to speak off and really just the quality has gone down hill. I bought some figures from different manufacturers and I just shake my head as to why the paint aps are horrible, why articulation is so horrible for some figures when we know they have the ability to do it and just the lack of accessories with them. They also regurgitate garbage figures. Example and forget the year but the Marvel select Moon Knight that came with the statue of Konshu in which this figure I have no idea what they where thinking but the legs on this figure are horrible. One is longer than the other and just looks deformed. But yet they releases it again this year still deformed looking and with a wall. Ohhh a wall as an accessory with a deformed legged figure lol. Garbage. I personally think a bunch of resellers are going to get stuck with stuff and I just laugh. You actually see people getting stuck with hot wheels because they go hit every store in a city, take all the mainlines and supers, then try and sell them at 5 times what they are on the shelf and actually starting to see the community tell them to go f off but that just leads to what I mentioned in my hotwheels section that the community has gone to hell. You see it happening in other areas as well like computer video cards where all the resellers got stuck with video cards and started whining and it happened with the ps5 as well. But again I will state that the toy companies are part of this issue because they are the ones inducing this issue by continually making manufactured rares in which of course the resellers come in to make their buck and then overall in my opinion just ruins the hobby. Forget exactly where I heard this but it was a youtube video but 25% of sales for toys was to adult collectors but yet all these toys companies are ticking off a lot of people. Also, no idea if anyone has been noticing but there's been multiple toy stores that have collapse lately and I think this is because people are getting turned off and just giving up. Now as for these resellers/scalpers just don't buy from them. I think people need to have more patience. I can show some examples how my patience payed off this year. 1. Prototype Boba Fett. This was released previously and at toy shows and online I was seeing prices of $75 cdn and up and at one point I was like hmm and almost pulled the trigger. This was the black edition that had the blue vertical line on it. But what do you know on amazon they re released it and I got it on preorder at regular price. I ended up going to an other toy show and the guy I was talking to about the one with the blue line said hey I have it here and if i wanted and I told him nah I got one for reg price off amazon preorder and he was like wtf and telling me I was full of it and I showed him my order and he was pissed lol. 2. Marvel Legends Moon Knight. Again people where asking a lot higher prices on this one in which it came in a windowed package and not 100% sure but think was an exclusive. I forget so much going on but I was sitting there and like the Boba Fett was just doing my daily searches for new stuff and it came up on Gamestop.ca as a preorder but this one comes in the new non plastic solid box packaging. My patience again payed off. Its a trend I actually have been noticing for Canada and hoping that its a sign of good things to come and maybe toy companies are listening or those 2 just could have been a fluke because. Canada has really been left out of the loop as of late especially by Hasbro! Only thing even possibly on my radar is a Classified v.2 Storm Shadow. One last final comment and no idea if any of you guys see this but in some instances and it seems to be happening more and more you can actually buy the original vintage or an older version that is better quality for close to the same price. example the Serpentor and air chariot. You can get a loose vintage original complete for cheaper than buying the classified. I see it with a lot of joe stuff. I also noted that when I was researching the wave 2 TMNT classics in which you can buy some of them loose and complete for the same price these resellers are selling the new ones. Welp that my rant for today lol.

Ninja Spawn. I was looking at a few spawns such as the Mortal Kombat one and such but this one was on my list and was on sale so went with this spawn for my team. Now to wait to get a Panthro from ThunderCats but I am not paying the prices of Super 7. Also got my preorder for next year for a Moon Knight figure.