Social Toy Collectors Thread

[Tone C]

They are definitely smaller being on card stock like that. I had Karza, and I want to say he was probably around 5-6" (I vaguely remember him bein around the size of the original He-Man) and Biotron was I think around a foot tall.


How was your birthday? Get anything cool?

Yea, that's about my recollection of the sizes .

Regards BD , I know a couple of the presents I'm getting Secret Wars Captain America and Lego tech Iron Man and ML Prowler . Won't know if there's anything else until Friday, doing presents and a takeaway that evening due to work commitments..

 

[Strychnine]

LEGO The Shire Set Joins Epic THE LORD OF THE RINGS Collection

A new LEGO The Lord of the Rings set is here, LEGO The Shire. This adorable set tells the story of Bilbo Baggins' eleventy-first birthday.

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@Tone C @mb23100 and other brick-heads who changed their online handles!

 

[IDGETKTFO]

Imagine grown ass men playing with toys.

 

[Tone C]

LEGO The Shire Set Joins Epic THE LORD OF THE RINGS Collection

A new LEGO The Lord of the Rings set is here, LEGO The Shire. This adorable set tells the story of Bilbo Baggins' eleventy-first birthday.

nerdist.com

@Tone C @mb23100 and other brick-heads who changed their online handles!

Yea, saw it earlier on today but it took me about 40 years to finally finish the LOTR books ( Hobbit is great though) and I've not watched any of the LOTR films so I'm not really into this Lego....

 

[mb23100]

Imagine grown ass men playing with toys.

 

[IDGETKTFO]

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My only regret is that i sold my complete Marvel Comics hologram cards when i was 14ish for $250. I had no interest in them when i started getting laid at 12, but i should have held onto them, because i don't even want to know what the complete collection is worth now.

 

[Batjester]

LEGO The Shire Set Joins Epic THE LORD OF THE RINGS Collection

A new LEGO The Lord of the Rings set is here, LEGO The Shire. This adorable set tells the story of Bilbo Baggins' eleventy-first birthday.

nerdist.com

@Tone C @mb23100 and other brick-heads who changed their online handles!

I've already been forgotten... Thanks jerk.














Not really feeling this one. Nothing in the set is really jumping out at me as a must have.

 

[Tone C]

I've already been forgotten... Thanks jerk.

Be quiet other brickhead.

 

[Batjester]

Be quiet other brickhead.

Ouch, hurtful...

 

[JBSchroeds]

I hate assembly line paining. I've got ~50 dudes I'm painting as I try and work through the pile-of-shame. They've been primed, zenthial highlighted, and base painted. Now only...14 more steps to go.
...
fuck.


Black - shoulder pads
Steel - guns and other metal bits that aren't going to be green
Red - eyes
Brown - leathers
Gold - chest aquilla
Copper - some accents on higher ranking dudes
Grey - silver bits like skulls
Dark Red - purity seals
Linen - purity seals
Oil Wash - for the steel bits
Amethyst Wash - for gold bits (sounds weird, but it looks great)
Black Wash - for silver and leather bits
Sepia Wash - purity seals
Green - cleanup any overspills

 

[The Clinch]

LEGO The Shire Set Joins Epic THE LORD OF THE RINGS Collection

A new LEGO The Lord of the Rings set is here, LEGO The Shire. This adorable set tells the story of Bilbo Baggins' eleventy-first birthday.

nerdist.com

@Tone C @mb23100 and other brick-heads who changed their online handles!

Eyeballing it a little and seeing if I can use any of it for the D&D stuff I’m mucking with.

Currently waiting on some delayed pieces from Lego so I can finish up a church of sorts for the dragonborn paladin and friends.

Spoiler

The one on the right is the direct inspiration, duplicated what Skyguy built and made a bigger circle mosaic window as well. The guy that made these wound up landing a job in Denmark at Lego as a designer.

Then it’s on to making some sorta cave for the mindflayers and a domain of sorts for the beholder.

Shit’s fun.

 

[Tone C]

So , I love the symbiote suit, already have the large box with the original cover art behind it.

This came up so I thought " getting that " .

First one turned up from Amazon, bottom of box crush damaged and popping open .

Another got delivered today and I sent the old one back. Opened the box up , bloody top of the box is ripped up somewhat. Enough that I don't want it in that condition.

Annoyingly, both Amazon boxes are fine , it's the items that have been damaged. Bit naughty to send out damaged goods.

 

[Tone C]

I hate assembly line paining. I've got ~50 dudes I'm painting as I try and work through the pile-of-shame. They've been primed, zenthial highlighted, and base painted. Now only...14 more steps to go.
...
fuck.
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Black - shoulder pads
Steel - guns and other metal bits that aren't going to be green
Red - eyes
Brown - leathers
Gold - chest aquilla
Copper - some accents on higher ranking dudes
Grey - silver bits like skulls
Dark Red - purity seals
Linen - purity seals
Oil Wash - for the steel bits
Amethyst Wash - for gold bits (sounds weird, but it looks great)
Black Wash - for silver and leather bits
Sepia Wash - purity seals
Green - cleanup any overspills

On seeing this it makes me realise how far we've come . When I tried ( failed) painting miniatures they were lead based ( be quiet Batjester , I had enough issues even before handling the lead) and you had to wing it a lot of the time really. There weren't any online resources in the 80s , you might get some advice from a specialist if you had a shop nearby but most miniatures were bought out of a Mom n Pop toy shop and they had no idea about painting them .

Nowadays most towns have someone available to help people learn to play and paint their miniatures .

The catalogue was an A4 sized magazine, printed on plain crappy paper and the print was just black on the paper.

Warhammer was a thing but much, much smaller than it is now .

 

[JBSchroeds]

On seeing this it makes me realise how far we've come . When I tried ( failed) painting miniatures they were lead based ( be quiet Batjester , I had enough issues even before handling the lead) and you had to wing it a lot of the time really. There weren't any online resources in the 80s , you might get some advice from a specialist if you had a shop nearby but most miniatures were bought out of a Mom n Pop toy shop and they had no idea about painting them .

Nowadays most towns have someone available to help people learn to play and paint their miniatures .

The catalogue was an A4 sized magazine, printed on plain crappy paper and the print was just black on the paper.

Warhammer was a thing but much, much smaller than it is now .

Even just 15-20 years (about when I started) has had some major shifts. YouTube is such a massive resource. Reviews and tutorials every aspect of the hobby: tools, glues, paints, washes, brushes, basing materials, and on and on. If you've got a question, there's a legion of pasty assed nerds ready with a 20 minute tutorial.

And the quality of the models has only gotten better, like the Imperial Knight Castigator kit I assembled over the holidays (...on the Pile waiting for its turn for painting). It's got such great fitment and posing that it makes even the 2018 Knight kit look quaint.

 

[Strychnine]

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[Tone C]

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That's gggrereeeeeaaattttttt !!!!

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

goddammit hasbro, another robot robosen i want to/don't want to buy

 

[GSP_37]

Pre-ordered black suit Fixit body Gamerverse Kingpin. Possibly first Marvel bad guy I bought more than one version of. Cartoon fat, MCU skinny, Gamerverse thick bruiser.

Saw Jada Street Fighter in stores for first time ever: Walmart. Ryu, Fei Long, Chun Li who has great face paint apps. Seems Jada hired some good designers.

Also at Walmart, saw $30+ Hasbro Transformers looking like Gen 1 but enlarged and with much better articulation on Gen 1 art cardback. I'm guessing $25 online if it's $30+ in store. They had Bumblebee VW and maybe red and blue pick up truck guy. Might need to research what characters were released like this.

 

[GSP_37]

goddammit hasbro, another robot robosen i want to/don't want to buy

Someone's gotta support the economy.

 

[Tone C]

Saw Jada Street Fighter in stores for first time ever: Walmart. Ryu, Fei Long, Chun Li who has great face paint apps. Seems Jada hired some good designers.

They do but if only they could sort out the fabrication and stuff. They released those figures and a couple of others . They should have released Blanka, Cammy and 4 others around December....grrr