Hosive

(remember last week’s playmate simpsons entry with foreshadowing? the kid robot bag in the background?)

uh-oh….kid robot, a leader in the vinyl toy movement have teamed up with matt groening to create the first wave of simpsons toys. they are blind batch…meaning you cannot tell what you get until you open it. the upside is the magic of not knowing what you get until the delicious moment of discovery. the downside, the ugly side is getting a triple or quadruple of a figure you don’t like.

the figures have different ratios in production and distribution. the side of the boxes show your chances. here are some of the harder figures to get including itchy and scratchy at 1/48 and bumblebee man and funzo(?) at the mindboggling 1/96. both have been fetching close to $100 online. many of the figures have a 1/24 ratio.

a few common characters like homer, marge, bart and lisa have a 2/24 ratio. then there are the chase figures….with a ratio of ??/??…….

ok, some ground rules so that we do not go nuts and blow the hypothetical child’s college fund…..1) its ok not to complete this collection. (so much of this is luck) 2) we only buy figures once a week when i go visit theresa at the office. 3) we share the magic with others.

so here we go….let’s see what we get…each figure is wrapped in foil….welcome to america!

sam, one of theresa’s co-workers got one of the rare ones! the monkey! ratio of ??/??

theresa got maggie! 1/24

i got one of the rare ones! devil flanders! ??/?? ……there’s a certain irony here.

steph got a….lisa! 2/24……the good kid….more irony!

angie got a….bart at 2/24! the bad kid! no comment on the irony though angie made one.

can’t wait to see what we get next week!