Hosive

i already have a column about comic books but i also wanted one exclusively on collecting(mostly toys). so i thought of the collector…the supervillian identity of the comic book guy on the simpsons….this is a nerdy homage to him, collecting and indirectly to matt groening.

i read somewhere that its part of human nature to collect. so a question to ask, that is strangely revealing, is what is it that we collect?……handbags, music, stamps, coins, shoes, clothes, memories, gadgets, junk, plastic bags to reuse, rocks…

currently i’m into the new toynami futurama toy line…….

here we are with wave 3 of the futurama figures! i also got these in dallas, same as the first wave…..i almost cheaped out and waited until i got home to pick them up because i misremembered the prices being lower at home. but turns out these figures flew off the shelves especially the bender one.

neglecting economics, i went for romance envisioning that it would be cool if i got most of these figures from texas…making collecting part of my texas years. so i went ahead and got them. if i did not, i would have had to go ebaying and paying a whole lot more. these were also the last ones on the shelves at the branch of dallas chain(lone star comics)…..i figured they had more in the stock room but the sales dude told me that these were it. i haven’t seen a bender in a store since.

and getting the third set means that we go robot building!

each of the figures….3 waves, 2 figures in each wave, 6 figures total….has one part or set of parts to the devil robot….for those of you weaker brothers, i take off the horns so its just evil robot or chinese new year robot. here i am assembling the robot in front of the figures….note the extra richard nixon severed head figure i talked about in the last entry.

and voila! the bonus figure with all the parts! i’m such a sucker for stuff like this.

in the background, we see a few things that theresa collects….including the ugly dolls and pom glasses.

the pom glasses come from the pomegranate juices….the glasses that come with the drinks are high quality and seem to be a waste to chuck so we use them as glasses. we call them lady glasses as opposed to the mason jars we use as man cups. maybe i’ll do an entry on them one day.

as for the ugly dolls, we’ve only bought 2 or 3 ugly dolls in our collection. in fact, out of all the ones in the window there, we only bought 1! when people find out that we like stuff, they graciously gift stuff for us. thanks, hamburger patty! also big shout out to julia! between to the two of them came the rest of them from party favors and vendor giveaways! in the fall, there will be an uglydoll convention in the city where there will be limited edition dolls, art and general ugly fun. i secretly long to get one of these dolls for my niece jaqueline and have it be here favorite toy…but i bet it winds up in a pile with other forgotten toys.

finally, another three waves of futurama figures have just been announced! with another bonus figure if you get all of them! looking forward to more collecting madness!

but next time, we’ll take a look at the variant figures!