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

[Yorick]

I decided to paint my Reprobubble 3D-printed Super Powers Quadrex figure.  I wanted to use the color scheme from the original character design sketch, but the color of the printed plastic (lavender blue-ish) wouldn't work with that.  I found that I dislike painting 3D printed plastic (all those layer print lines).  I should wax dip each piece and then recast the whole thing (far too much work when there are so many other projects...).  Stealth Wonder Woman included for scale.

[STORMSHADOW_80]

8 hours ago, Buzzetta said:

Yes !!!

@Brandon Shepherd

Sold a few sets recently as I knew this was on the way.   This will be my afternoon distraction while working with Apple tech support to figure out an issue. 

 

Looks like an incredible set! Thanks for all the pics.

[Yorick]

A few close up pics of the M2 van.

[miraclemet]

4 hours ago, scumdolly said:

All case fresh (C9+ or better): looks like the MASK market for those sets is about to take an unexpected dive.

Looks like i can finally add some pieces! 

Though my firefly wont be worth squat till the inventor dries back up!

[Buzzetta]

Saturday morning fixes... 

Quick easy two piece fix for the Razor Crest Escape Pod... I didn't know what to do so I asked a couple of 40 year old Lego guys to think of something. 

All it took was a 4x4 flat round plate combined with an extra micro tie fighter shield.  They did not take anything away from the Razor Crest... They just added two pieces... 

Speeder bike was also built this morning... It had to be modified from what is show on screen so it can fold up a bit in the ship to give room for cargo.  

 

[Number 6]

17 hours ago, Brandon Shepherd said:

Are they really in that nice of shape?

I also thought I read somewhere that something similar happed in the late 80s with Mego Star Trek figures that really sank the prices down.

Still, the MASK find is really neat.

That was the Parkdale Novelty find. That was is in the early-to-mid 80’s. 
 

The difference is that it was only a couple of years after Mego went out of business and shortly after people could buy brand-new carded Star Trek figures in bargain bins at discount stores. 
 

I don’t know that the sale of the Parkdale figures “sank” the collectible Trek figures market so much as it set the top price for ‘mint, factory-fresh’ pieces as that market was emerging.  
 

I think this find of case-fresh figures 40 years after they were available at retail is going to play out differently. 
 

 

[bikesnbuses]

Ive had this for a little bit but never took a picture.. 

"Picture it..Rhode Island ..1977.."  I was thrilled (As you can tell by the picture of me)to get the Wilton "Batman" cake!!  These are not my originals,but I scored these cheap off ebay a while ago..Im taking some pictures of stuff/junk in my display cabinet to share..

[bikesnbuses]

Another one of my favorite childhood toys! My mom was really good to us(After she divorced my dad..) SHe got remarried and BOMBED us out with toys at Christmas time..I cant lie..it was phenomenal.. This C3PO I actually got for FREE out of a "free" box on the side of the road!

 

[bikesnbuses]

Bend n Flex Megos !! ..And all the 8" WGSH also..but my cabinet is FULL so you cant see those..these here fall out when I open the door..LOL

 

Edited September 5, 2020 by bikesnbuses

[Brandon Shepherd]

I went to the LEGO store today! 

Edited September 5, 2020 by Brandon Shepherd

[followtheleader]

39 minutes ago, bikesnbuses said:

Bend n Flex Megos !! ..And all the 8" WGSH also..but my cabinet is FULL so you cant see those..these here fall out when I open the door..LOL

 

Keep posting brah.  I like all the weird stuff.

Patrick

[Buzzetta]

2 minutes ago, Brandon Shepherd said:

I went to the LEGO store today! 
 

 

September 16th... Here comes the spaceport you always wanted. 

Pics were leaked yesterday. 

Side note... I saw the Walrusman in another pic.  That figure must have leaked last year or something because it is pretty much the same in comparison to a bootleg Walrusman I already have from China. 

Edited September 5, 2020 by Buzzetta

[Brandon Shepherd]

6 minutes ago, Buzzetta said:

September 16th... Here comes the spaceport you always wanted. 

Pics were leaked yesterday. 

Side note... I saw the Walrusman in another pic.  That figure must have leaked last year or something because it is pretty much the same in comparison to a bootleg Walrusman I already have from China. 

I’ll be back for that one fo sho!

[Buzzetta]

Next... I asked the guys to get me a Speeder Bike.

The speeder bike uses two rods with arms at the end like the ones on the Falcon... (I have a lot of spare parts laying around since I had bought out some generic lots over the years.). This enabled me... them to connect the front mandibles but still swivel in for storage. The rods then slide up and the bike folds up a bit to make it more compact for storage.  A cart attaches to the bike using the port from 1970's and 80's early space.  I love that this stuff has always been compatible with what came before it.   The Crane Train itself is a HTF set that I bought on eBay when you could easily get sets like that. 

The Bike, the wagon, and two crates of tools are easily stored on board.  Not pictured is a spare generic astromech I had laying around and an ugnaught has been fitted into the main cockpit with a nanny assassin droid.  I am sure that Lego will eventually make their own... but for now this will suffice.  Oh, and I added a fire extinguisher.  All the big ships usually had them. 

 

[Buzzetta]

1 minute ago, Brandon Shepherd said:

I’ll be back for that one fo sho!

Wait and see what type of promo they offer.  I have not bought anything since double points unless I found it on deep discount on Amazon or wanted the promo.  That means the last time I ordered anything directly from Lego was when they did double points and I ordered the Razor Crest back in April/March?

October or November is usually a good month but they might make ordering Mos Eisely interesting with a certain promo. 

[Yorick]

@Buzzetta GREAT pics!  Love those original lego guys building your new sets!

... Now put some word balloons in there! 

[Buzzetta]

2 minutes ago, Yorick said:

@Buzzetta GREAT pics!  Love those original lego guys building your new sets!

... Now put some word balloons in there! 

As I have the boards open and watching Heritage and eBay I am trying to put together a Kodak Scanza for my grandfather's old slides... 

I don't know what the hell I am doing. 

Now you want me to put word balloons in pictures... 

Let's all be lucky I can do important things like make memes using imagflip. 

Edited September 6, 2020 by Buzzetta

[Yorick]

1 minute ago, Buzzetta said:

As I have the boards open and watching Heritage and eBay I am trying to put together a Kodak Scanza for my grandfather's old slides... 

I don't know what the hell I am doing. 

 

I have a Canon flatbed that was made for film/negatives.  Too bad it won't function with Windows 10.  Sometimes I hate technology.

[Buzzetta]

Just now, Yorick said:

I have a Canon flatbed that was made for film/negatives.  Too bad it won't function with Windows 10.  Sometimes I hate technology.

I thought there would be software or something or that it would pick it up with my mac... nope... 

 

I have to look at everything on the view screen and save it to a SD Card.

I am also trying to figure out which is the best way to put the slides in the trays using the right trays and feeders... I spent what I did on this because supposedly the higher price meant ease in use. 

This is my Christmas present to everyone for socially distant Christmas... I have about 6,000 slides to go through from WWII to the late 60's possibly 70's.

[Yorick]

6 minutes ago, Buzzetta said:

I thought there would be software or something or that it would pick it up with my mac... nope... 

 

I have to look at everything on the view screen and save it to a SD Card.

I am also trying to figure out which is the best way to put the slides in the trays using the right trays and feeders... I spent what I did on this because supposedly the higher price meant ease in use. 

This is my Christmas present to everyone for socially distant Christmas... I have about 6,000 slides to go through from WWII to the late 60's possibly 70's.

I'm surprised you can't just connect that to your computer with the USB cable and save files directly to the computer.  If I had 6000 slides, I'd hate to do them on that Scanza... one... at.... a.... time....