Pre-Birthday Post of Bowziness, amiibocity, and Many Limbs

Time for another post, but this'll be a quickie! My Birthday is actually this Friday, but I've got a couple things I haven't shared with the blog yet in the meantime, so I decided to go ahead and post about it now so I can focus on strictly Birthday-related matters on Friday. Without further ado, here's more stuff!

Build-a-Bear Bowser (w/Sounds)

I've planned to pick up this guy for quite a while! When Build-a-Bear announced that one of their Super Mario collection plushes would be Bowser, I was interested, but I NEEDED it when it was revealed to be a TALKING one! There's actually a personal reason for this. 

Y'see, the guy on the right in the above photo is the larger-scale talking Bowser plush from Nintendo's old merch line from the 90's that you could order from the Power Supplies Catalog or find at Target/Sears/Babbages back in the day. I've actually had this guy since childhood and he's one of my most prized possessions. (Despite the fact that he no longer talks.) He was even in my 2000 school photo! So, needless to say, the possibility of adding an updated, modern-day talking Bowser plush that can still talk and uses his Kenny James voice clips from more recent games rather than his N64-era stock monster noises to my collection made me very, VERY giddy and I'm quite happy to finally score him. Plus, now I don't have to worry about buying more Build-A-Bear plushes! (Unless they make a Mewtwo. Or a Shadow. Or a Slash. God HELP me if they make an Armored Mewtwo.)

Marvel Legends Doppelganger (Amazon)

I've mentioned my love of Doppelganger in a previous post, so it stood to reason that I HAD to have him in Legends form. (Now I just need to figure out how to work him into my display without him knocking my other Spidey figures over with his superfluous limbs.)

Pokemon Trainer amiibo (Walmart)

King Dedede amiibo (Gamestop)

Wrapping things up with some more amiibo! Pokemon Trainer joins Charizard on my amiibo shelf, waiting for the rest of his team, while King Dedede finally rounds out the Kirby characters in my Smash collection. (Actually missed him the first time around, so I jumped on his reprint's Gamestop pre-order page when it went up.)

Told ya this'd be a quicker one! See ya Friday!

June Hauls

Got a bit behind on posting the stuff I picked up in both late May and June in general (in addition to just neglecting the blog as a whole), so let's play catch up! Starting off, a lucky amiibo restock at Amazon landed THIS pump in my hands at last:

       
                          Bowser (Wedding) amiibo

Might come in handy should I ever get around to rounding up the rest of the Kingdom Coins in Odyssey!

Early June, I ventured with my sister to our annual nerd out weekend at OMGcon. I picked up quite a lot along the way:

    OMGcon Swag

Marvel Legends Deadpool (Back in Black)

Super Mario Series 9 Blindbag Figure (Mario)

Digimon Tentomon w/ Izzy's Laptop Keychain

Super Mario Series 9 Blindbag Figure (Bowser Jr.)

Funny story about Mario and Jr.: I originally tried for the latter with a random blindbag purchase by just feeling around for spikes. Turns out, my feeling skills

are very much lacking, resulting in my like fifth Mario figure from this series. Afterwards, I found the codes for each figure online and my Sis and I searched the entire box for Bowser Jr. However, we still didn't find him. It turns out that I had misread the method by which you use the codes to determine the figure inside each bag and I didn't realize this until we were back in the hotel room. I actually went RIGHT BACK DOWN to the dealer's hall to claim my Bowz Child. This is the the life of a Bowser fan and Bowser Jr. main in Smash.

Anyway, I also got some stuff signed, courtesy of Bill Rogers! (Who you might know as the voice of Brock in the Pokemon anime from 2006 onward, the voice of Lucario in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and voice of the King of Hyrule in Breath of the Wild! Great guy! Even commented on the Pokemon shirt I was wearing!

That does it for OMGcon, but we're not quite done yet. Finishing things off, I also went to stay with my sister and her husband for a week and did a bit of shopping while there. My first stop was ToysRUs, but it was unfortunately but unsurprisingly picked clean of anything of value. I had better luck at Target, where I purchased two films I've been meaning to pick up on Blu-ray for a while:

The Lion King (Walt Disney Signature Collection)

My Little Pony: The Movie

One last thing: At the end of June, I picked this guy up on a grocery run at Walmart:

Funko Kingdom Hearts Mystery Mini Blindbox (Axel)

That wraps things up! July should be an all-around slower month in terms of me buying crap I don't need, but my Birthday is in August, so look forward to seeing some neat stuff next month. I also plan to publish my first game reviews on the blog soon, so look forward to that as well!