Hauls: Self-Isolation Stuff

Sooooooooooo the world certainly took a turn since my last post, didn't it? Hope ya'll are staying safe out there. Anyway, got some more hauls, so it's time to catalogue them!

Fangamer Banjo-Kazooie Plush Necklace

Following up on my last post, Fangamer got in more stock of their Banjo plush and as such, sent me the necklace missing from mine as promised. So nice to see it complete!

Power Rangers Lightning Collection Beast Morphers Gold Ranger (Walmart)

Another sort-of follow-up to the last post, I found Nate's Lightning figure, completing my Beast Morphers good guys so far. Looks quite nice next to his buddies and now I NEED a Steel to complement him.

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (Amazon)

Invader Zim Volume 3 Deluxe Edition (Amazon)

Pokemon DP: Battle Dimension The Complete Season (Amazon)

Sonic the Hedgehog Ticket Stub 

A little while ago, Amazon had a buy-two-get-one-free offer on games, books, and DVDs, so I had to take advantage while it lasted. 

Mario and Sonic Tokyo was on my radar, but I was apprehensive about the $60 price tag. (Especially after owning most of the previous, very similar installments already.) Luckily, a $20 discount just happened to fall around the time of said Amazon deal, so this was the perfect chance to finally pick it up. It's a lot of fun, with the highlights being the goofy Story Mode and the neat retro events.

Also decided to continue collecting the Invader Zim comics with the deluxe version of Volume 3 becoming item #2 of the deal. Highlight of this particular collection is the Virooz four-parter, especially the second part where Zim basically spends the entire time criticizing the logic of AI.

Last but not least, I claimed the Battle Dimension set as my free item, bringing my Pokemon DVD collection up-to-date and continuing to prove that any negative opinions I may have expressed about the Sinnoh arc in my past on the internet was just a lot of hoosafudge and misplaced aggression. I'm quite enjoying my time with it. (Though, Pika and Goliath still frayed my nerves a bit. Mostly Sho. Why would you write a character to speak this way for an entire episode? No wonder Team Skull don't have their gangsta linguistics in the anime. They used them all up on this one annoying filler character.)

Also saw the Sonic movie the same day I got this stuff in and now I want ALL the sequels.

TOO BAD. WALUIGI TIME (Kickstarter)

Waluigi/Daisy Bookmark (Kickstarter)

Also finally got this in a couple weeks ago from Kickstarter. If you're a Nintendo fan and have never read the adorable/gut-busting web comic, Brawl in the Family, then I suggest you remedy that quickly. This book is the latest hardcover release from its creator focusing mainly on his extremely distinctive take on Waluigi and the numerous hijinks he gets up to. It not only reprints all of Waluigi's Brawl in the Family starring roles, but also throws in a good number of brand new comics, making it a worthy addition to any BITF fan's library. It definitely looks quite nice on my shelf next to my three hardcover BITF volumes and it's always nice to see more of this silly world following its end in 2014.

NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Slash (Megalopolis City of Collectibles)

Oh man, as you can probably tell by the number of shots dedicated to the above item, this is a HUGE one for me. People who know me well are already quite aware of this, but this is the first time I'm bringing it up on the blog: I LOVE SLASH. He's my favorite TMNT character and everything about him from his black mask to his gnarly spikes to his claws I am ALL ABOUT. 

So, when NECA announced that they were not only making a collector-quality figure of him, but ALSO basing it off of his appearance from the SNES version of Turtles in Time (a game I grew up on that introduced me to Slash in the first place), I don't think I had ever experienced such intense NEED for a toy. 

It was a LONG road from his initial reveal in like 2017 to his eventual scheduling for November 2019 to my asking of him for Christmas to him getting delayed a few months to me switching around where I had him pre-ordered two separate times based on factors like pricing and stock waits to him finally getting here yesterday, but WOW, was it worth it. He's the first NECA TMNT item that I've owned and he absolutely will not be the last. Just handling him and feeling the quality of the material at hand combined with all the neat little touches like his rotatable bandana knot just impress me so much and he's easily the nicest plastic representation that Slash has ever received. I can't friggin' WAIT to get NECA's '87 cartoon versions of both Slash and Leatherhead as well as their recently-revealed Tokka, Rahzar, and Super Shredder so I can start building a collection.

That's all I've got. Hope all of this gushing over Turtles with spikes brought you some entertainment and escape from this difficult time and I hope that the next time I get back to ya'll, we'll all be in a much better place. Until then.

March/April Hauls: Cards, Crafts, and Kaine!

Another month passes and another haul post appears! (Though, decidedly less packed than the last few.) Here's what I picked up in March/yesterday!

Skullcandy Hesh 2 Wireless Headphones (Amazon)

First off, remember those new wireless headphones I picked up in the last post that had that issue that I hoped I'd either find a solution for or learn to live with? Yeaaaaaaah, those didn't work out, so I sent 'em back to Amazon and got a new pair of the brand I'm used to. Already WAY better, with no audio stuttering whatsoever, the ability to be used via wire even if they're dead which the last ones lacked, and even a nice upgrade from my old Skullcandy pair in the form of a more easily accessed charging jack. If you're looking for wireless headphones, I honestly can't recommend these enough.

Ralph Breaks the Internet Stickers (Disney Movie Rewards)

Had a couple points left after my last DMR splurge, so decided to redeem one last Ralph item before the sequel became old news and all the rewards disappeared. I don't know where I'm gonna stick them, but if I ever feel the need to deck something out in Ralph, I'll have the means.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards (Various)

This was a really fun sort-of surprise! See, back in January, my brother-in-law asked if I'd be interested in some Yu-Gi-Oh! cards that HIS brother was looking to get rid of. I, of course, graciously accepted his offer and then quickly forgot about it. Cut to when I went up to visit my Sister's place in late March and he comes out holding two Legendary Collection boxes filled with cards and game boards. Needless to say, I felt like a kid in a candy store looking through the huge selection I was gifted, which included a ton of more recent stuff than I was expecting! I now own Orgoth the Relentless, a couple of Leon Von Schroeder's fairy tale Monsters, one of those Zexal manga Monsters with the silly names, my first Link Monsters, and enough Dinowrestler cards to build a deck! This also gave me that Yu-Gi-Oh! itch to pick up even MORE cards down the line, so thanks again, Jake!

Yoshi's Crafted World (Amazon)

Had this puppy pre-ordered since 2017, so very happy to have it in my Switch finally! Got the first two Dream Stones and it's very fun and charming so far. Music isn't the best (I'm probably in the minority of people who actually prefer Yoshi's New Island's main theme to this one, instrumentation aside), but just about every level introduces some inventive new gimmick to switch things up and format-wise it's the most unique Yoshi game in a while, which is pretty refreshing after the last couple have largely been following in Island's footsteps. The mini-bosses are also MUCH improved over Woolly World's reused ones and I'm very excited to see what else intends to halt my path when I get back into it.

Marvel Legends Scarlet Spider (Kaine) (Gamestop)

Finally, I ordered this guy from Gamestop a couple days back and got him in yesterday. Kaine is a lot like Doppelganger in that I randomly picked up his original Marvel Legends figure first before I even knew who he was. Unlike Doppelganger, though, he kinda stayed that way as just a random figure on my shelf until I watched Ultimate Spider-Man's final season and got really engrossed in his counterpart from that show. Since then, he's been one of my favorite alternate Spideys and I've even been reading through all of his comic appearances recently on Marvel Unlimited. (That's actually what inspired me to finally pick up this figure.) 

Needless to say, this figure's a VAST improvement on his old one, which had stuck joints, weird proportions, and no stingers. Now all he needs is a Marvel Legends Hummingbird to back him up! (Maybe whenever Aracely's whole demigod thing finally pays off.)

That's all I've got! Barring any unexpected pick-ups, my next haul post should coincide with my yearly OMGcon trip, so see ya'll in June!