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

[SpineTic]

Not plastic or crack but cool none the less. For all the poker players. Other Marvel characters available.

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[F For Fake]

On 4/13/2024 at 2:52 AM, OtherEric said:

 

This looks like a magic trick I had as a kid, the basic idea is it has what looks like a moving blade that you can pull out the top, you put something in the larger hole, and you push it down.  The blade appears in the lower hole but has passed through whatever was in the bigger hole.

I say "blade", it was a piece of semi-tough plastic.  It might cut a soft french fry in the lower hole on a good day; it couldn't break skin.

I love it! This is the sort of thing I'd have had no idea about, and now I get the identification AND a good story! Can't beat it, thanks!

[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 Tuesday at 11:58 AM 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 Tuesday at 01:05 PM by comicwiz

[Chip Cataldo]

I miss my Super Powers collection. Blah.

[Parabellum]

1:6 scale Marion Cobretti