We're exactly one week away from my 34th Birthday, so let's get the stuff that I picked up in June and July sorted away with before then, shall we?
Nintendo Switch 2 (Walmart)
Mario Kart World (Walmart)
amCase Nintendo Switch 2 Carrying Case (Amazon)
amFilm Nintendo Switch 2 Screen Protector 3-Pack (Amazon)
Whenever there's a new Nintendo console, I usually wait until around the holidays to pick it up. (Y'know, wait until there's a good number of games on hand and potentially some good discounts/bundles.) However, with the whole tariff situation creating an uncertain future price-wise and a certain game that I've been waiting YEARS for REALLY close to launch (here's a hint: 🦍🍌🪨👧🎤), I figured that I might as well jump on in! (It's not like I don't already have an enormous backlog of Switch games that I can play between big releases or anything.)
As far as impressions go, I really love it! The bigger size is great, it feels high-quality and sturdy, the new Joycons are a really nice improvement, and overall, it's just a faster, better, more powerful Switch, which is exactly what I wanted. I'm really excited to see what Ninty can squeeze out of this thing as its life goes on! (Especially interested in regards to Mario RPGs and Smash Bros.)
TMNT 2012 Leonardo Figure
TMNT 2012 Battle Shell Michelangelo Figure
TMNT 2012 Power Sound FX Raphael Figure
TMNT 2012 Flingers Leonardo Figure
My Dad found these guys for me while my parents were out thrifting! While I already had the first two and the latter two have features that are either missing accessories or don't really work anymore, I still really appreciate the thought. Always nice when your parents see something as absurd as a giant turtle wearing a color-coded eye mask and immediately think of you. That means that you got dealt a good hand family-wise.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (4K Combo) (Walmart)
Pokémon the Series: XYZ The Complete Season (Walmart)
Embarked on a family vacation to Florida in late June, so I, of course, bought a few things while I was there. Starting things off, I scored a couple new titles for my home media shelf at a Walmart while we were out grocery shopping. Now I can watch Keanu Reeves Shadow anywhere and anytime I want and I'll be able to marathon the entire Kalos arc of the Pokémon anime before Legends Z-A hits!
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (Blu-ray) (Walmart)
At a different Walmart, I grabbed another title: the first fully-animated (as far as entirely original animation goes, that is) theatrical Looney Tunes movie! I look forward to giving it a rewatch when I feel like a good laugh. (If you haven't checked it out yet and love the Looney Tunes, I can't recommend it enough. It's hilarious, has lovely 2D animation, and features Peter MacNicol playing a space alien. You really can't go wrong with that.)
Goomba amiibo (Target)
Koopa amiibo (Target)
Grabbed these guys at a Target. Wasn't originally planning on buying anything on that particular Target trip, as everything of interest that I COULD find was too steeply-priced to jump on, but they were like the only amiibo there (aside from a lone Incineroar) and I didn't own them, so I decided to end their shelf-warming existence. (On store shelves, that is. Now they occupy a DIFFERENT shelf.)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin (Books-A-Million)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs. Street Fighter (Books-A-Million)
Power Rangers: Drakkon New Dawn (Books-A-Million)
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V Volume 5 (Books-A-Million)
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V Volume 7 (With Go! - D/D/D Divine Zero King Rage Promo Card) (Books-A-Million)
Most of the rest of my Florida pick-ups were additions to my already-monstrous reading pile! With a video game and live-action film reportedly on the way, I figured that it was a good time to finally check out The Last Ronin. Accompanying that is a crossover comic clash between the heroes in a half-shell and world warriors, a Power Rangers mini-series focused on the world of the Coinless (that isn't collected in any of the hardcovers for some reason), and two more chunks of the Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V manga. (One even still had the promo card!)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection Volume 1 (Barnes & Noble)
Spider-Man: Octo-Girl Volume 1 (Barnes & Noble)
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V Volume 3 (With D/D/D Destiny King Zero Laplace Promo Card) (Barnes & Noble)
Lugia Model Kit (Barnes & Noble)
Wrapping up the goods from my Florida trip, we have the first collection of Eastman & Laird's original TMNT comics (despite being a huge Turtles nut, I've never actually owned or read most of them), the first volume of a new Spider-Man manga where Doc Ock's mind accidentally gets trapped in the body of a Japanese girl (it definitely sounds creepy, but the begrudging friendship that the two form while trying to return Otto to his original body is oddly adorable and there's A LOT of references to Ock's stint as a hero for Superior Spider-Man fans), yet another ARC-V volume (complete with card), and for a bit of flavor, a Lugia model kit. Because I like Lugia.
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V Volume 4 (With White Aura Bihamut Promo Card) (Books-A-Million)
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V Volume 6 (With Timelord Progenitor Vorpgate Promo Card) (Books-A-Million)
Got a free $10 gift card for signing up for Books-A-Million's Millionaire's Club while in Florida, so I decided to use it to score one of the last two ARC-V volumes that I needed to finish the series. Plus, since you get free shipping on all orders in said Millionaire's Club, I decided to go ahead and order the other one, completing the set. (Both had their promo cards, too!) Now the only Yu-Gi-Oh! spin-off manga that I don't own in its entirety is ZEXAL. (And that's not because I'm avoiding it or anything. I actually enjoy that manga more than ARC-V's. It's just really hard to work eight whole volumes of a manga into your future purchases, especially when you can't find them in the wild to slowly accumulate through impulse buys.)
Transformers: Age of the Primes Voyager Class Sky-Byte (Amazon)
Jakks Pacific Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Shadow Figure (Amazon)
Who's the baddest shark around? Who's the smartest shark in town? Sky-Byte! THAT'S HIM! Yep, I don't usually buy many Transformers, but when an animation-accurate version of my dude Sky-Byte was revealed for the Age of the Primes line, he was a MUST BUY. He turned out beautifully, too. Both modes look like they popped right out of RID 2001, you can arm him with fin blades or "SHARK MISSILES!!", and he has a great amount of articulation and movement. (Even in shark mode!) Definitely a vast improvement on the Thrilling 30 version, which I enjoyed at the time, but is just kind of bulky and awkward now. He's a fine addition to my little shelf of Beast Era Transformers goodness.
As for Shadow, he was the only figure that I wanted from the Sonic 3 line, but prices for him online very quickly soared into absurdity before I could actually order him. Luckily, though, he came back in stock on Amazon during Prime Day for a discounted price of like thirteen bucks, so I couldn't pass up this chance. He's a rad figure with great articulation and detail, and I'm very happy to finally be able to represent this version of the Edgy Hedgie on my shelf.
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster (Switch) (Best Buy)
I've never actually played Final Fantasy X or X-2, but I've heard pretty good things about them over the years. So, when Best Buy had the HD Collection on Switch down to ELEVEN BUCKS, I couldn't pass it up. I'm looking forward to finally experiencing a traditional turn-based Final Fantasy!
Jakks Pacific Sonic the Hedgehog Comic Collection Metal Virus Sonic (with Zombot Froggy) Figure (Walmart)
Lastly, I wasn't planning on buying this figure (as I'm not huge on Sonic variants), but Walmart had it in stock for retail, and in the Jakks Sonic collecting community, you have to jump on all those rare chances when they pop up. (Here's hoping that I'll get just as lucky with the upcoming Tangle figure.) It's a neat little three-dimensional representation of Sonic at his lowest point in the IDW Comics' Metal Virus arc, with some really nice silver paint apps and a rare fatigued expression on his face. Also Zombot Froggy as a bonus! (Funny that they made him before regular Froggy.) Here's hoping that this and Tangle are just the tip of the iceberg for Jakks' Comic Collection!
That's all she wrote for June and July 2025! I'll see you guys later for my 34th Birthday haul!
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