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Oddly enough, Hasbro thinks that smelly puzzles is a good idea, and has signed on with Yankee Candle to market them. Here’s a blurb from the press release… “The assortment will feature puzzles that release “subtle, pleasant scents” of proprietary Yankee Candle fragrances such as MacIntosh Apple, Clean Cotton and MidSummer’s Night while being assembled, Hasbro says.” I’m not sure that I’d want the distraction of irritated eyes from the fragrance while I’m trying to put a puzzle together, but I guess it’s “to each his own”, right? (and no, I’m not making a judgment on Yankee Candle’s fragrances, I’m just sensitive to smelly stuff) If this is the kind of product that you’d like to learn more about, you can read the entire release here… Or is it the other way around? I’ve been meaning to post about the limited edition bottles that Jones Soda have been producing in partnership with Dark Horse Comics for quite some time now, but just haven’t gotten around to it until now. Which stinks because one of the two sets they did (The Goon) are now sold out. The set that is still around is based on the comic series Emily the Strange. The 6-pack contains a variety of different sodas, each with its own Emily the Strange label…
Included are two different versions of Pure Cane Cola, two different versions of Cream Soda, and two different versions of Strawberry Lime. As I write this, there are 233 6-packs left which really isn’t that much. The Jones Soda site says the following: Designers, including Jean-Paul Gaultier, Valentino, and Marc Jacobs, have paid tribute to her, but she doesn’t care! Emily wants you to be yourself, think for yourself, and DO IT YOURSELF. There’s nothing more boring to her than copying everyone else. Emily is the link to the Stranger in us all. When asked what she thought about her delicious new soda pops from Jones, the leader in creative DIY labels, Emily rolled her eyes and coolly responded, “Whatever.” If you’re curious what the labels looked like for the Goon, you can see them here… I just caught a new post over on WeirdoToys featuring a collaboration toy between Disney and Takara. I usually just pop over there once in a while to be amused by the ridiculous toys he finds, but this one grabbed me. It’s an Optimus Prime meets Mickey Mouse mash-up that would look great on any geek’s shelf.
Very cool, in my opinion, but a little outside my price range right now. (poo!) It was apparently released a few months ago, but I hadn’t seen or heard of it. Looking at eBay, I see that they are definitely available for purchase still
There’s a full color version as well, but I’m personally loving the black & white version. Here’s hoping they are still available once I start working again! You can see a lot more great images over at WeirdoToys as well… I love looking through the latest designs from Threadless and sometimes I’ll post one that really hits me. This particular round had two that I have to post. The first is simply because I love the concept and the art. Cute little play on words and you have “Dandy Lions” by Kristen Howdeshell…
The other is a design that a comicbook geek like myself just can’t ignore. The old saying goes “crime doesn’t pay”, but as this design reminds us, fighting crime “literally” doesn’t pay. Check out “Fighting Crime Doesn’t Pay” by Stef McFeters…
If you want to see more, just check out the whole selection… From what I’ve been able to tell from listening to the “comic geeks” at the local comic shop, you either really like the Legion of Super Heroes, or you couldn’t care less. Crazy super-powered kids from the future saving the galaxy and messing with Superman’s time line. My 13 year old daughter happens to be in the “really likes” category, in fact she’s obsessed with them. She’s been gobbling up every back-issue she can get her mitts on and can talk Legion history with the older guys (the majority of Legion fans would be men in the 40’s and 50’s). She’s known about the 4 exclusive JLU-style Legion figures (Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad and Brainiac 5) coming out on MattyCollector.com for some time now and has been reminding me often that I’ll need to be online on May 15th to order them as soon as they go on sale.
What cracked me up this morning (May 15th) is that I woke up to a house filled with reminder notes that she has placed about before heading off to school. On my night stand, on the refrigerator, by the coffee pot, on my computer desk… Pretty much anywhere she knew I’d be today.
So yeah, like a good geek dad I’ll be waiting for the figures to go on sale today so I can order them for her. For those interested, here’s the description given… “From the far reaches of the 31st century come four brand-new JLU action figures to complete your collection! We welcome the arrival of Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad and Braniac 5 by offering them as four individually carded figures shipped together in one slip case—the first time you can get ‘em this way at MattyCollector.com!” Not sure how fast they’ll go, so if you want them, better go get them! “Where Can I buy Black Jack Gum?” – That is a question I’ve asked many times. I love the stuff myself and I haven’t found it in a physical store in over 6 years. So like everyone else who can’t find something locally, I’ve taken my ongoing hunt to the Internet.
My first purchase of Black Jack gum online was through eBay That’s when I discovered the Old Time Candy Company. I found them while searching on Google and discovered that while they didn’t have Black Jack in stock all the time, they did have some right then. I was happy… I’ve posted this now because I just got a newsletter from the in the past few days that announced the arrival of a brand new batch of Black Jack gun in their inventory. The crazy part about my obsession with Black Jack gum is that I’m neither a regular gum chewer (other than Black Jack) nor am I a fan of licorice. But there is something about chewing Black Jack gum that does it for me. Go figure… As is obvious by the date of the last post, I’ve been a bit lax with the updates. Shortly before getting laid-off I got some new toys from Tenacious Toys (great folks by the way) and still haven’t gotten around to posting about them or even OPENING them for that matter. I got Bulletto, the latest in the Moofia line as well as the first series of Doktor A’s Mechtorians minis. They look great in their packaging and I know they will look even better on my shelf once I have a new office to place them in.
But the thing that got me to at least post something today was my getting an e-mail alert from eBay regarding a search watch I have set up. There is currently a Mega GIR auction on eBay, and unlike most of the ones I tend to see, this one doesn’t have an insane starting bid.
I’ll be honest, under normal circumstances I would not be talking about this auction because I’d be hoping to snag it myself. But since I’m not in a situation to be spending money on toys right now, I figured you all might like the chance to land one. These were produced but never officially released before Palisades Toys went out of business. These were bought up in bulk with all of there other stock (old and new) and have been slowly finding there way to light. If you land it, send some pictures once you open it! Since I’ve been a little distracted looking for a new job, this may very well be old news by now, so I apologize if that’s so. I stumbled by this video from YouTube this morning showing the new “Mars” feature in Google Earth 5.0 and wanted to make sure to post about it. I haven’t upgraded yet, but by the looks of it I’ll be playing with the Mars feature quite a bit. Give the video a look-see and let me know what you think about this. I hope this is a hit and look forward to Google adding more features like this in the future. Update: OK, I’m a dork. This was new about a month and a half ago. It’s still cool though. Hope they add the moon next!
So as I eluded to, the pictures were taken and I’ve now just today added them to the Rolitoland / Rolitoboy gallery along with the Safari series and a few miscellaneous pieces. Enjoy! So last week I was reading some e-mails and noticed a message in my Gmail interface about new themes they have to offer. I glanced through the list and immediately locked in on the one containing the word “ninja”! Yeah I’m a sucker for ninjas… But anyway, I’ve really been enjoying the theme and haven’t even looked though the others. Here are the images used in the main page header and footer…
And here are some various images I’ve noticed so far in the footer when reading an e-mail. They keep rotating every day or so, so I’m assuming there will be more as time goes on…
Also here are couple other miscellaneous images used in the interface… You just have to love this theme, I mean how could you not? |
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