Big Bad Riding Hood

 More pictures from just whatever. You might not notice it, but this would normally be the time of the year right after the New York Toy Fair, and I would be posting hundreds of pictures of exciting things that we saw there. Except the Covid stuff cancelled that. Not quite sure why I felt I had to mention that, but enjoy other random nonsense instead. There's... some toy pictures here.

I picked up these Fortnite figures on clearance. I liked the theme of Red Riding Hood and Big Bad Wolf. It's odd to say that I'm not a huge fan of the -actual game Fortnite- but they do have cool character designs and my friend says these figures remind him of 1980's G.I. Joes. The package did not adequately advertise the building pieces here, it was jam-packed full of plastic wooden panels!

Earlier around Xmas, we picked up a few packs of Fornite trading cards. We were lucky enough to get one that showed how this duel wound up, and the result is shockingly "dark". Not only did the Red Riding Hood character named Fable win, but... wears the wolf's head as a hat?!! Yikes! What sharp teeth she has!

Since I mentioned it, I thought I'd take a picture of a few more Fortnite trading cards. So you can enjoy the wacky characters. That guy has a snow globe for a head!

I didn't expect to take another picture of this, but while watching The Masked Dancer we were messing around with the plastic wooden panels and built this enormous structure. Over on the right there is another Fortnite character named Calamity that we had picked up a long time ago.

Kind of neat to see Star Trek ship model kits in a Walmart. My friend wanted me to write about how the latest season of Discovery destroyed Star Trek so horribly that it cannot be un-done, but I'd rather just say... at least the ship looks cool.

Saw a Star Wars figure for the mysterious "Armorer" who would craft the pieces of The Mandalorian's armor. It looks like you can take her helmet off? Is this a spoiler alert? She never took her helmet off on the show.

Leaving for work in the morning and we see these cute bunny tracks on the door mat. I think that's bunny tracks, right? You can see where they hop around the corner.

Parked, eating lunch, and glance over to see this. Whoa that is some coincidental initials for modern culture, even though they are missing a T and a Q. What kind of mechanical things do they service?

Got home to see the bunny tracks oddly frozen into the door mat. How does this work? The snow around it was melted, but how are the tracks preserved? Glad we got a picture in the morning, to have evidence of this anomaly.

Awww yeah! Shamrock Shake season has begun! We didn't get one with our lunch that day but planned on getting one on the weekend. It was nice seeing the Shamrock Shake, but let's not forget that there's a happy Pikachu up there, too!

Let's get a picture of Aunt Jemima before she goes away. Sometimes it seems like people are over-reacting to things and other times it seems like... why did this take so long?

How long until they come for you, Dig'em? To be fair, my friend says that even as a kid, it was obvious that the Honey Smacks mascot, with his urban clothing and his 70's slang-ish name Dig'em, was a little bit... not a cool thing to do. Sure he's a frog, but c'mon... the sideways hat? We all know what's going on here.

Another night of snowing here in New Jersey. This time there was a neat effect with a fluffy underneath-snow and a crispy layer of icy sheet on top. The way it was crunching reminded me of some kind of ice cream covered in chocolate.

The window had a solid sheet of ice floating around on it. We tried to peel the whole thing off at once, but the water suction was not letting go. We wound up breaking it into a few pieces and crashing it into itself with a satisfying crinkle effect. Hey, if we are cleaning off the car, might as well have some fun with it.

Interesting lightsaber handle designs. I'm not sure about that Stormtrooper one, I have a bad feeling about it, like maybe it would never be able to hit anything.

Saw this in the Valentine's Day clearance section, this thing is the GOAT! By GOAT I mean, like an animal Goat. Not "Greatest Of All Time". How can something be greatest of ALL TIME when all of time has not happened yet? I know, it's just fun to say something is the GOAT. No need to be a nerd about it.

Late at night, we thought we heard a noise outside, and when we peeked out the window, the perfectly un-disturbed snow let us know for certain that it was nothing. So... that's a neat thing about snow being all outside.

While I was looking out the window, it occurred to me that it was BRIGHT outside. Not sure if this picture illustrates that enough. Can you tell I'm bored enough to take pictures like this?

Here's the display of Pokemon cards in the McDonald's Happy Meals. That Pikachu's skills are Meal Time and Gnaw. He's adorable! Give him some apple slices.

Shamrock Shake! I realize McDonald's has seasonal foods like this and the McRibs, and every time I get pictures to share. Is this some kind of McTrickery making me help advertise for them? Who cares, this shake is awesome and you need to know about it! Also, notice the chains around the tables during Covid times.

That car has a hot tub for the seat! For that guy who just can't seem to get out of the hot tub, but needs to go somewhere. Maybe a drive thru to get a Shamrock Shake?

Classic toy company decision to make Prince Adam's shirt color a bright red instead of the super pink that it was in the cartoon. Because boys wouldn't like pink? If anybody is "man enough to wear pink" it would be He-Man.

These are not re-releases of original Transformers figures, but rather modern Transformers figures re-released in retro packaging. That's not confusing or manipulative at all. These are Headmaster figures so the vehicles all have little pilots that transform into the heads of the robots. The heads are swap-able between the different figures, it's fun to point out that this is sort of like giant robot fashion as the heads "wear" different body outfits.

Lady Gaga... Oreos? What a very bizarre thing to see. It was so strange that after we got this picture and walked away, we felt compelled to go back and get some. It was just too weird.

This photo doesn't show how "pink" the cookie part is, and even the picture on the package looks tan-ish. But those cookies are pink. The solid green "stuff" looked exactly like Play-Doh. And the mental image of eating Play-Doh was interfering with the perception of the flavor. Which was very on-brand for what we imagine a Lady Gaga Oreos experience would be. Unique.

The corn outside has been lasting for several weeks during these snowy days, but we still got a few more that we found at a local hardware store. Not really note-worthy but we saw they put an expiration date on the package and thought, aww that's nice of them to think about the squirrels eating bad corn and all.