Hosive

ok…this is it. we did get a krusty. so yay! but we also got sideshow bob….a repeat from last week. methinks the show is over…for now. that’s enough repeats.

the reality is that these figures were bought weeks ago….and a lot of my entries are not written in real time but actually sometimes weeks or months after things happen. i don’t really like to be so up to the minute that people(predators)can track us.

after we got these two, we went on to to buy 4 more boxes…all repeats. so we just stopped. it was too painful. it became no fun and a little bit of a drag. we didn’t even discuss it. we just stopped. we may buy more but we will take a break.

so while there will be an episode of android dungeon and baseball card shop next week, it will be of something other than simpsons. it will be of a collection where we know what we’ll get before we open it…and before we buy it. see you next week.

week 8 brings more beauty and depravity.

another apu…aboo!….but a brand new spanking sideshow bob…ayay!

so we are reaching the end, methinks. there is a definite thrill when we get a new figure but too many doubles takes the fun out of it especially concerning the money factor. unless we get a few rarities soon, it just does not look like we’ll finish the collection.

these are the kind of weeks that are dangerous….after a few weeks of doubles and learning our lesson…our friend regina comes into town and buys a few simpsons blind boxes for us as a thank you for letting her stay with us…and this is the result:

a bart and a chief wiggum….we have actually done quite well up to this point with not getting too many of the more common figures; meaning the family: bart, lisa, marge, homer(maggie is not a common figure). in fact, this is our first bart! and only after getting a bunch of more rare figures.

the chief wiggum is ubercool with his hat that snaps on his head. and he feels substantial.

so getting 2 new figures lights the hope that we can do this ala obama.

dangerous.

a quick thanksgiving day version so you can get back to more important things today like being with friends and family and counting blessings…

fail! there is a line on the horizon and i don’t like what i see. more doubles!  we got another marge and another lisa. i don’t know how much longer we will try these blindboxes. oh well…..but they are still darn cute! trying to make the most of it by collecting a set of the family at home and a set at theresa’s office.

but get back to the real world! enjoy this day(though my heart is heavy because of mumbai)

happy thanksgiving, everyone!

Posted under android dungeon/card shop, kid robot

this week is about the good and the lucky….and the bad and the ugly. blind box is sweet and delightful at the start because nearly every box is a winner.

but we knew this day would come. we bought our usual 3 this week and got our first double, fat tony. our boy, justin was visiting us….as a thank you gift, he also got us a few blind box simpsons…we got another new figure but we also got our second double and a third…in the same batch.

so first, the good….we’re still lucky picking up apu, homer and marge between the two batches. it is still cool and magical when we get one we don’t have! and these things are so darn cute!

but now the bad and the ugly. and when its ugly…its really ugly. and really bad. here are our figures in the foreground and their duplicates…getting the two smithers in the same batch was ominous. and this is likely the shape of things to come…imagine collecting baseball cards on steroids. you’re bound to get multiples but this seems to hurt more.

how long will we try to complete the collection? how many doubles, triples or ?? will we waste money on? will we find someone to trade with? will we resort to ebay?

or will we get lucky?

looks like the party’s over! kid robot seems to be sold out of the simpsons blind box…

but on a tip from lisa(from last week’s post), i found a store that still sold them…and if you get a double or one you don’t want from them, you can trade it for ones on display.  when i got there, they only had 4 boxes left. i was only going to get three….one for me, one for theresa and one for my sister but i picked up the last one just because. my sister and mom were pretty enamored by the concept of blind box toys.

theresa got a really rare one……itchy…..only 1/48!

and we gave away another monkey! another rare one! ??/??…to my sister. she said we could have it but its ok….we play by the rules. maybe we’ll trade her for it if we wind up never getting it again. how often can you get a rare one? we’re looking for lightning in a bottle three times.

finally, we got barney and fat tony in the last two. yay! blind box this early is fun! everything is new!

i did find out from kid robot that they will get more stock next week….so check back next week in our collection chase.

more blind box fun! check last week’s post if you are totally lost…..but press on if you want to see what we got this week!

we got three figures this week, two for us and one for fellow simpson lover, lisa……both lisa and i got the same exact figure: hippie homer! yippie homer!

theresa snagged lisa with her sax! 4 down! 20 to go in the collection! stop by in a week to see what we get next!

(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!