SPX confirmation!

I found out today that I got my table at this year's Small Press Expo!
Therefore, here's a celebratory hedgehog.

Small Press Expo website

Iron Man and the Joker

Publicity shots have been released of Iron Man from his movie and the Joker from The Dark Knight!

Mr. Scott eBay store

The family of James Doohan, Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott from Star Trek, has an eBay store that is selling some of his memorabilia. Some of it is quite affordable. Dilithium crystals that were actually used in episodes are being sold, some at very low prices. Among other items posted are Mr. Scott autographed action figures in the $30 range.

scifiproducts

bootlegs

I've been a negligent blogger lately. Leave it to something dumb to snap me out of writer's block. I've got a lot of public high-pitched nerdy whining to do about a recent action figure purchase that was so shoddy I felt slighted by the manufacturer, but I'll get to that in an upcoming post. The whole thing got me thinking that I am perfectly capable of documenting toy news/opinions, so if that's where I am right now, sad as it might be, that's what I'll mostly do with my blog for the time being. Worst thing that could happen is somebody might hear me and offer me a job scribbling this crap down for money. So if you like toys, great. If you don't, well, I'm sure I'll post other things here as well. I'll do my complainy post later. This time, I'm sharing something I happened upon today that relieved me of $1.25. Hideous bootleg figures! I rarely see this sort of thing actually on the shelves in American stores. This set was found in an independently-owned store that sold cheap odds and ends.

These aren't licensed Spider-Man figures--they're fakes. The packaging bears the title "Hero Household". It has images from the first Batman movie (as well as the fourth one that killed the franchise for several years), some Spider-Man art, and what appear to be Power Rangers. The middle Spider-fake figure is actually decapitated in the packaging. Each figure has a little red light implanted in his chest that lights up. And each has a painted spider running up the side of his crotch. Right before finding this item, I was in a rather foul mood due to a guy bumping into me so hard he broke my sunglasses while I was winding down from a futile expedition to find a trenchcoat worthy of inclusion in my Halloween Doctor Who outfit in a Goodwill store. I went from angry to pretty happy.