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January 16, 2021 at 10:23PM

Emil Blonsky. The Abomination. Lived in the Christmas Train set because he was a mostly green grinchy guy that stood out on a snowy track. This dude has only two toes per foot, despite hands with five digits.

Mostly a Hulk villain. Gamma powered spy guy.

Side note, found a few bits of terrain in the container that I did in the early 2000s, held paint and shape pretty well for being shoved in a storage closet for the better part of 20 years.

#emilblonksy #abomination #heroclix #marvelcomics #mageknight #gammaray #boardgames #wargames #Toyphotography #toytrain #christmaswiththesuperheroes #christmas #twotoed

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Playlist for inauguration

So, here’s my To Hell with the Thief playlist. Please feel free to add more!

Je Ne T’aime Plus – Manu Chao
Splendid Isolation – The Bevis Frond
Crumbling Castle – King Gizzard
I Wanna Destroy You – The Soft Boys
Superbug – King Gizzard
Piggies – The Beatles
Parasite – Nick Drake
Runnin’ Out of Fools – Aretha Franklin
Mystery Achievement – The Pretenders
Folly – Camper Van Beethoven
Easily Charmed By Fools – The Claypool Lennon Delirium
Achilles’ Last Stand – Led Zeppelin
I’m So Tired – The Beatles
Choosing to Fly – The Sadies
Dear Mr. Fantasy – Traffic
Celebration Day – Led Zeppelin
This Man He Weeps Tonight – Kinks
I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better – The Byrds
Scream Like A Baby – David Bowie
Mentira – Manu Chao
Joe Stalin’s Cadillac – Camper Van Beethoven
Release Yourself – The Bevis Frond
You and Oblivion – Robyn Hitchcock
Here Comes President Kill Again – XTC
Stop Your Sobbing – Kinks/The Pretenders
Minimum Brain Size – King Gizzard
Flying – The Beatles
Anus of Uranus – Klaatu
Glad – Traffic
Self-Immolate – King Gizzard
Maga Dog – Peter Tosh
Where You Gonna Run – Peter Tosh
Old Pervert – The Soft Boys
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun – Pink Floyd
Desaparecido – Manu Chao
Nobody’s Fault But Mine – Led Zeppelin
One Way Ticket – The Nerves
He’s A Reptile – The Soft Boys
March of the Meanies – George Martin
Never Again – The Sadies
I Can’t Explain – The Who
Goodbye to You – Scandal
Witch Hunt – Rush
Brainwashed – Kinks
The Enemy Within – Rush
Hello, Goodbye – The Beatles
Epitaph – King Crimson
Then You’re Dust – Robyn Hitchcock
Dancing In The Street – Martha and the Vandellas

Hobbit hole

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”

#bilbobaggins #frodobaggins #bagend #thefellowshipofthering #lordoftherings⁠ #inktobertolkien

#tolkieninktober #lotrfanart #tolkienart #tolkientribe #tolkienite #tolkienfan #JRRTolkien #middleearth #tolkien⁠

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January 15, 2021 at 11:23AM

Sweet little gray #shark #ninja (with white, black and red paint details, and spiffy yellow weapons) at spymonkeycreations.com tonight at 6pm PST!

Look at that sharky little mask! 4 different heads, 2 different torsos and alternate gloves and boots!

Blanks will also be available, and a small number mystery figure grab bags, too! Glad to see more #battletribes in the new year – amongst my favorite #glyos toymakers.

They look a little like #powerrangersputty to me, too.

#Toyphotography #toyninja #onelldesign #dxsharkninja #spymonkeycreations https://instagr.am/p/CKEnrtugWLA/

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January 13, 2021 at 04:50PM

Look at this little girl! I don’t generally collect transformers, but one that turns into a dinosaur skeleton, is super poseable and is on a scale with my 3.75″ stuff… well, come on.

Transformer Vertebreak appeared in my sweet stack of Christmas gifts this year after Mrs saw me adoring her on @nistuff ‘s YouTube channel (follow him for cool toys and etc. Seriously. He’s an entertaining, neato dude.)

Very neat head, tail and ankle articulation. Good for attacking that little Ben Grimm heroclix shown earlier, disturbing a glyos goliath, or acting as a statue in a tiny museum diorama.

The transformation is easy and pretty drastic. I would never have thought as a kid that you could turn a robot into a pretty realistic bone dinosaur.

The name Vertebreak is pretty horrific, the more I think about it.

I wouldn’t mind getting other fossil-bots if they are even half as good as this design.

#Toyphotography #transformers #dinosaur #skeleton #vertebreak #spinesword #warforcybertron #toyrobot #plasticdinosaur https://instagr.am/p/CKADjaRAQ7f/

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Return to White Plume Mountain

The shattered ruins of the “inverted ziggurat” below White Plume Mountain, littered with the moldering bones of creatures once bound within glass enclosures, slain by a party of adventurers many years ago  (Wayne Reynolds, Return to White Plume Mountain, TSR, 1999, after David Sutherland’s drawing of the intact room from the original 1979 AD&D module S2)

The cursed ruins of Castle Mukos — Who knows what lies within?  (it’s meenlocks, lots of meenlocks).  This is one of the locations first mentioned as a little detail on Erol Otus’ 1980 map from the original S2: White Plume Mountain, illustrated years later by Wayne Reynolds in Return to White Plume Mountain, TSR, 1999.