Mrdugan

15 hours ago, guri008 said:

 

• james bond films - book (the james bond archives by taschen)

 

 

 

 

 

How do you like the Taschen book? I've been eyeing their Star Wars book for years.

Have you ever been experienced?

Would you say I have a plethora of pinatas?

Loving everyone's collections and creativity! I'm surprised to see how many card decks there are though I now realize/remember that I also have some Star Wars card decks.

@extantsrevenge I actually primarily collect 1/6 action figures, mostly Hot Toys. Would love to see more of your statue collection

@R1s1ngs0n I have several Mondo posters but they are so big and take up so much room. I honestly forget about the drops nowadays and really only buy their timed editions. Are you able to display your entire collection or do you rotate them? 

@Pbsw23  

57 minutes ago, BreakBeatDJ said:

 

@Mrdugan just to clarify.  I have many movie themed decks of cards, but for different movies (not all MCU, etc.).  Can we use the same type of item for different movies?  Say three mugs, one for a Disney movie, one for a Harry Potter movie, etc.  Or can we only use one type of item once, as in this case, one mug?

Yes, you can use the same item type for different franchises. So a card deck for Sorcerer's Stone, A New Hope, Lion King, Iron Man, and Fellowship of the Ring is acceptable but not a card deck for Sorcerers Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, and Order of the Phoenix is not. Would prefer as much variety as possible but at the same time dont want to completely restrict people especially if one specific collectible is your thing.

2 hours ago, Chief_lookout said:

@Mrdugan which Rick and Morty steel is that? We wants it, precious!

It's the reverse of the Season 3 steelbook...which evidently is now a pricey steelbook. It was super common and cheap when released. I dont know why they didnt put pickle Rick on the front as he was the highlight of that season.

Challenge 18: “Merchandi$ing! Where the Real Money from the Movie is Made”

1. Pickle Rick Christmas Tree Ornament – Rick and Morty Season 3: This is my favorite in terms of ridiculousness. It was a gift from my brother and sister-in-law who definitely know that we aren’t Christian and don’t celebrate Christmas but BIL recognized the awesomeness of the concept. Pickle Rick is displayed year-round in our household but if we did have a tree I would love to hide the pickle every year.

2. Dolemite bobblehead – Dolemite: I love Rudy Ray Moore and while I don’t think this bobblehead nailed his likeness, I love the fact that I have a Dolemite bobblehead with a spring activated arm that enables "Bone-crushing, Skull-splitting, Brain-blasting" punching action!

3. Lo-Pan POP! – Big Trouble in Little China: my main focus in collecting is actually 1/6 scale figures but I have a few POPs for accent pieces throughout my man-cave. POPs are everywhere and it seems like everyone and everything has a figure so I am pretty discerning when I buy one. Other favorite POPs include my Balrog and Sir Mix-A-Lot (his base is a butt).

4. NECA They Live Action Figures – They Live: another John Carpenter entry. The Frank figure was a Shout factory webstore exclusive that I bought with the pictured copy of They Live (themed candies or mints came with him as well). I picked up the alien 2-pack at FYE on sale and only recently bought George Nada. Something ironic about the messaging of the movie and my purchasing of these figures along with multiple copies of the movie (yes, I have the 4K steel too).

5. Death Star Cheeseboard – Star Wars: of course a Star Wars item is on my list as that franchise is what launched movie merchandising. Spaceballs called it decades ago and it’s still true, Star Wars is literally on anything and everything. I would imagine most Star Wars fans would be able to complete this challenge with Star Wars merch alone. Off the top of my head I have Star Wars themed cups, shot glasses, chopsticks, posters, books, coasters, clothes, night-light, clapper, band aids, re-usable grocery bag, pez dispenser, Christmas stocking, and of course multiple toy lines. I chose to highlight my cheeseboard as I think this one for me most highlights the depths of Star Wars merchandising. I don’t even use the thing cause the cheese gets stuck in the Death Star details!  

Hello Psychos. Thank you to @extantsrevenge for allowing me to bring to you...

Challenge 18

“Merchandi$ing! Where the Real Money from the Movie is Made”

This is your chance to show us all your stuff from the movies you love.

We want to see 5 movie-related items along with the movie the item comes from. You are free to use any release you want and whatever merchandise you want! Examples include (but are by no means limited to): toys, clothing, cups, tins, plates, books, posters, statues, and anything else someone threw down cold hard cash to obtain.

While you are allowed to use any media type there are a couple of rules about the items you may use.

Rule 1: The item must have been purchased either by yourself or someone else as a gift. Extras as featured in Challenge 3 are not allowed.

Rule 2: Soundtracks, while awesome, are not allowed as they were the focus of Challenge 9 “Don’t Stop the Music”

Rule 3: you may only use 1 item-type per movie or franchise. As an example, please don’t submit 5 MCU-related Pops and 5 MCU movies or 5 Star Wars statues and 5 Star Wars movies. We want to see variety either in the merchandise or the movie or preferably both.

As a bonus – please tell us why you selected these 5 pieces of merchandise.

Yes, thank you @swish

overall, I like it.

im not sure if Luke’s lightsaber concept works for me.

A Krayt dragon skeleton with 3PO and R2 walking tatooine on the other side of the sand crawler could work. I like the sand crawler and don’t want to lose that.

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Feeling like crap today, wife has been sick and her Covid test turned positive today. Pretty sure I have it too. This will both of ours first Covid illness, pretty good streak we had. I didn’t think I had the energy to do this today but these dynamic duos popped into my head and had to post them.

Frodo & Sam - AFIAC pretty much the strongest bond between two friends in any movie…or book. Return of the King is the culmination of their friendship though my favorite is probably Fellowship.

Han Solo & Chewie - the ultimate ride-or-die homie, Chewbaca. R2 and Luke and R2 and Anakin are close. Solo is displayed as that’s when they met in the movies. I liked this movie and was down for more Han & Chewie buddy smuggler spin offs.

Indiana Jones & Short Round - pretty much the embodiment of Chewie in a little kid. Best part is when Indy is beating up Khalima and SR is beating up the prince in the same shot (chef’s kiss).

Bill & Ted - could anyone less excellent have been more triumphant? I don’t think so.

Jake & Elwood Blues - It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of smokes, it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it!

30 minutes ago, BreakBeatDJ said:

 

Impressive.  TOC?

Thank you. No, don’t have TOC. There’s definitely a couple I’m missing between TOC, the horizontal steelbook from Germany, I think an FYE, and others. I honestly never intended to have a collection but it just manifested organically and as it’s a top 5 movie for me so I never sold any old versions. 

The collection grows

Number 371 and 173

TDKR finally came in. Trilogy complete!

Great challenge, I just started pulling movies so here are my top 10. 
 

Top 5 (in no order)

Star Wars - if I had to choose just one, I guess I would go with A New Hope

Lord of the Rings - again, if I had to choose, I’ll go with Fellowship

Jaws

Akira

The Thing

6-10

Alien

Interstellar

They Live

Kung Fu Hustle

Endgame

If I could get any movie in steelbook/premium it would be the unaltered version of A New Hope from UHD Club but I would settle for any official release of the original versions of the OT instead of the insufferable b.s. altered versions that are available.

6 hours ago, extantsrevenge said:

 

 

@Mrdugan for Challenge 1 you also should post 2 more Lenti of the type you prefer. 

The DL from BluFans are probably my favs. Still waiting for TDKR to show up.

Challenge 15 - Christmas Challenge

My parents are over and we just watched Glass Onion which we had been saving for this occasion. Highly recommend it. I enjoyed it more than Knives Out. Cast is superb. That was the only movie we had on our hit list for movies to watch, kind of disappointed at the theatre offerings this year.
 

Since I couldn’t read instructions I will repost challenge 2 and 15

Challenge 2 - Premiums

All of these are some of my favorites movies which adds to their specialness (I didn’t include my favorite movies like The Thing, Jaws, and Star Wars as I have featured them enough in other challenges).

Manta Labs - Ex Machina: this is probably my favorite full slip, absolutely gorgeous. 

CineMuseum - Goonies: another awesome full slip, love the artwork. CM reminds me of Mondo in a way.

NovaMedia - Pulp Fiction: great lenticular and steel, this copy I bought directly from NM back when one could do that and not have to wake up early for the drop and pray that you can beat everyone else.

UHD Club - Kung Fu Hustle: love the packaging, obviously. The only other UHD Club I own is Jaws. I try to limit those purchases to my favorite movies.

Arrow - Robocop: another direct from supplier purchase, this bad boy was lost in the mail for months before I finally got him. I was so happy that this package finally showed up!

Week 1 - lenti challenge

My favorite lenticular is Vinegar Syndromes April Fools Invisible Maniac slipcover. This was sold as a pre-order for 1 week around April first and the picture was just an empty hand with no real info on what it actually would be. VS was silent about this from April until November when they finally announced what it is. The lenti transitions from the full clothed picture seen on the slip to a nude pic. Lenti is hidden behind the full slip as I couldn’t get a non-nude shot! I’m not really a fan of nudity on covers honestly but I love this cover (maybe it being a drawing helps as opposed to a pic of a naked chick). Anyways, if you follow the boards and VS you know about all the drama this slip caused and I’m glad I took the $6 leap of faith back in April.

Despite this lenti being a transition, I actually prefer the 3D, single pic lentis. BluFans Dark Knight Trilogy are all you need as evidence as to why!

Challenge 2 - Premiums

All of these are some of my favorites movies which adds to their specialness (I didn’t include my favorite movies like The Thing, Jaws, and Star Wars as I have featured them enough in other challenges).

Manta Labs - Ex Machina: this is probably my favorite full slip, absolutely gorgeous. 

CineMuseum - Goonies: another awesome full slip, love the artwork. CM reminds me of Mondo in a way.

NovaMedia - Pulp Fiction: great lenticular and steel, this copy I bought directly from NM back when one could do that and not have to wake up early for the drop and pray that you can beat everyone else.

UHD Club - Kung Fu Hustle: love the packaging, obviously. The only other UHD Club I own is Jaws. I try to limit those purchases to my favorite movies.

Arrow - Robocop: another direct from supplier purchase, this bad boy was lost in the mail for months before I finally got him. I was so happy that this package finally showed up!

Challenge 15 - Christmas Challenge

My parents are over and we just watched Glass Onion which we had been saving for this occasion. Highly recommend it. I enjoyed it more than Knives Out. Cast is superb. That was the only movie we had on our hit list for movies to watch, kind of disappointed at the theatre offerings this year.

Heres wishing all you Psychos a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year!

8 hours ago, ShadowWarrior said:

 

 

 

 

 

Favorite pet is DOGS!

 

The Duke Boys

Bo & Luke ❤️

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I dont think I've seen that Weet Isle of Dogs, that's an awesome addition.

Bo and Luke look pretty chill but them being black labs has me curious if this photo is deceiving, lol.

4 minutes ago, Reagh said:

Nice and spoiled. I love it. What are they’re names? 

The one on the left is JB aka James Brown and the one on the right is Logan aka Old Man Logan. JB was named “Jeb” when we adopted him and I couldn’t think of anything except “Jeb Bush”. He wasn’t responding to it anyways and when I said “JB” he perked up, so we went with that. A lot of people think Logan looks like Splinter, and he does, but I didn’t like that either. He does look like an old man with his white fur so I thought Old Man Logan! He has Wolverine’s personality too, guy goes crazy when he sees other dogs and wants to fight them no matter how big they are. Logan didn’t have a name when we adopted him, just a random street dog.

challenge 14: animals

1 - Bat

2 - shark

3 - bird (Arrow LE)

4 - monkey (Arrow LE, steelbook with slipcase)

5 - cat (Arrow LE)

My favorite animal is the dog of course. These are my two little rescues. Excluding pets I suppose my favorite animals are octopuses. 

No cartoons?!? I was a little worried I wouldn’t be able to complete this challenge, but I have a couple physical releases of series’s. My favorites are probably Breaking Bad, Star Trek The Next Generation, Seinfeld but I don’t have those. I’m patiently waiting for Breaking Bad 4K!

So that brings us to some series’s that I do have. Looking at these I think they all have a lot in common - amazing series, ahead of their time, all cut short. Chapelle’s show, Upright Citizens Brigade, and The State are all sketch comedies that are so hilarious and irreverent. UCB season 3 is on dvd but it’s rare and expensive. Rome was completely ahead of its time and in many ways the predecessor of GOT. HBO cut it short and threw together that second season. It really did a great job of incorporating historical events. Firefly and Legion are each series I would like to see more of. I actually preordered Legion Season 2 at San Diego Comic Con and it came with a free Mondo poster, a legit high quality, numbered poster! They never released season 2 so I ended up just getting a free poster, lol.

For series I want on physical release - I’m a huge Star Wars fan so Mando, Book or Boba, ObiWan, Andor. I’m assuming that they will never make it to disc. Another series that I would like on disc and hope ends in a satisfying way, not ending up in my above list of shows that deserved more episodes is Apples Severance. Awesome show.

I think I arbitrarily put a score of 3-1 for this matchup when I signed up but I switched it to USA 3, Netherlands 1 yesterday as I didnt want to bet against USA.