This Week In Your Plastic Crack, Action Figures and Toy Collection 26 26

[F For Fake]

Happy surprise! I was starting the process of cleaning up all of these toys, and realized that the DK-1 "Red Sunstreaker" had the pilot inside. Score!

[Cat]

On 4/15/2024 at 10:33 AM, F For Fake said:

Happy surprise! I was starting the process of cleaning up all of these toys, and realized that the DK-1 "Red Sunstreaker" had the pilot inside. Score!

OMG what a score! Congratulations mate!!!! 

[F For Fake]

On 4/15/2024 at 2:37 AM, Cat said:

OMG what a score! Congratulations mate!!!! 

Thanks bud! I mean, these little guys are almost NEVER there, I hadn't even thought to check until I lifted the hood to clean the car. First time it's ever happened for me!

[Yorick]

On 4/15/2024 at 8:20 AM, F For Fake said:

First time it's ever happened for me!

Good for you!  I remember my first time.... 

 

[Buzzetta]

This guy made some custom Kenner SW figures.

If you know, you "know".

Bet you @comicwiz doesn't have these prototypes in his collection. 

[Chip Cataldo]

Lol. That's awesome. Amazing that no one's ever thought to do that before.

[fantastic_four]

Who were those two blobs supposed to be?

[comicwiz]

On 4/15/2024 at 9:38 PM, Buzzetta said:

This guy made some custom Kenner SW figures.

If you know, you "know".

Bet you @comicwiz doesn't have these prototypes in his collection. 

I posted this meme in that thread (IYKYK)

 

Edited April 16 by comicwiz

[comicwiz]

On 4/16/2024 at 7:24 AM, fantastic_four said:

Who were those two blobs supposed to be?

It's a 3D representation of Logray and Chief Chirpa that were blacked out on the back of the card to avoid spoilers. 

[comicwiz]

Mad props to CGA for releasing their population reports again. This is leaps and bounds better than the previous iteration, and is really slick. It can be a little clunky in terms of trying to figure out the correct criteria to improve relevance matching, and as such, I'd imagine this will increase the amount of search attempts until users figure out which are the best keywords or combinations of search fields to use. The person who gave me the heads up was locked out for suspicious activity, so I'd recommend giving at least 30 seconds between each search to avoid this, as I'm certain it's meant to eliminate bots scraping data from their site.

However, what they have done to federate the search across four different subsiadaries, which includes AFA, and especially, how they integrated the serial-look-ups with the population data is a massive improvement, and one that other graders should emulate (that includes CGC). The unknown of course with any pop reports is that you really don't know how quickly the data will populate after grading, but this is a welcome upgrade to be able to perform simple verification for graded toys under the CGA umbrella. 

Edited April 16 by comicwiz

[Chip Cataldo]

I miss my Super Powers collection. Blah.

[Parabellum]

1:6 scale Marion Cobretti

[comicwiz]

On 4/16/2024 at 9:03 AM, comicwiz said:

Mad props to CGA for releasing their population reports again. This is leaps and bounds better than the previous iteration, and is really slick. It can be a little clunky in terms of trying to figure out the correct criteria to improve relevance matching, and as such, I'd imagine this will increase the amount of search attempts until users figure out which are the best keywords or combinations of search fields to use. The person who gave me the heads up was locked out for suspicious activity, so I'd recommend giving at least 30 seconds between each search to avoid this, as I'm certain it's meant to eliminate bots scraping data from their site.

However, what they have done to federate the search across four different subsiadaries, which includes AFA, and especially, how they integrated the serial-look-ups with the population data is a massive improvement, and one that other graders should emulate (that includes CGC). The unknown of course with any pop reports is that you really don't know how quickly the data will populate after grading, but this is a welcome upgrade to be able to perform simple verification for graded toys under the CGA umbrella. 

A week later, and it's not working 

[Buzzetta]

Gentleman,  

 

In a few hours a boyhood dream is about to be realized. “Someone” is not as anxious about this as I am.  Love her all the same for humoring / indulging my enthusiasm 😂.

 

 

 

Edited April 23 by Buzzetta

[srezvan]

On 4/23/2024 at 9:13 AM, Buzzetta said:

Gentleman,  

 

In a few hours a boyhood dream is about to be realized. “Someone” is not as anxious about this as I am.  Love her all the same for humoring / indulging my enthusiasm 😂.

 

 

 

I did this with my wife 2 years ago or so. It was a great experience. 

[grendel013]

Got this badboy off of eBay the other day. Earliest toy (pre-dates "farmboy" Luke) that I remember my mom giving me as a small child. No clue what happened to my childhood toy but this one brought back all the nostalgia. 

[Dave2739]

On 4/23/2024 at 1:07 PM, grendel013 said:

Got this badboy off of eBay the other day. Earliest toy (pre-dates "farmboy" Luke) that I remember my mom giving me as a small child. No clue what happened to my childhood toy but this one brought back all the nostalgia. 

I seem to recall there also being Spidey and Hulk versions of these. They would break very easily if you tried to do any of the jumps or stunts listed on the package.

[grendel013]

On 4/23/2024 at 6:04 PM, Dave2739 said:

I seem to recall there also being Spidey and Hulk versions of these. They would break very easily if you tried to do any of the jumps or stunts listed on the package.

There is definitely a Spidey one. Had that one too and saw a couple on eBay. What I didn't realize was there was a JOKER one. That MAY be my next purchase. Not sure about the Hulk though... I know AHI made lots of other cool toys (other motorcycles, cars, parachutes) that predominantly featured Batman, Spidey and Hulk.

[Dave2739]

On 4/23/2024 at 6:26 PM, grendel013 said:

There is definitely a Spidey one. Had that one too and saw a couple on eBay. What I didn't realize was there was a JOKER one. That MAY be my next purchase. Not sure about the Hulk though... I know AHI made lots of other cool toys (other motorcycles, cars, parachutes) that predominantly featured Batman, Spidey and Hulk.

After my last post, I checked eBay and found the Spidey one and at least two versions of the Hulk one. I think you got me going down a rabbit hole! 

[Dave2739]