Smokin' Pics

 I'm here with another bunch of pictures, of stuff I wanted to comment on. Hey, that's what I do.

Lazy Saturday; watching The Rifleman from 1963. I saw this CHILD smoke-up a cigar! In the episode! A small amount of research revealed this kid was 15, but the character he was playing was probably younger. What a different "time," I suppose. Both in the wild west, and, I guess, before smoking was known to be so unhealthy.

I saw this Stitch group of figures and there's an "Elvis" one. I know he did Elvis in the movie, but do they have to pay Elvis some money for that, each time they use it? Or is that okay? It literally says "Elvis Stitch."

Check out the adorable He-Man and Skeletor! Did I just call Skeletor "adorable?" Save me, He-Man!

Plenty of celebrities have done cameos underneath Stormtrooper armor. Jason Sudeikis is one of the more well-know ones as this Biker Scout who punched the bag Grogu was captured in. What a bad guy! If you are curious, in the episode he gets his arm broken and twisted, and he is flipped in the air and slammed, but technically NOT shot or anything, so he might still be around somewhere.

Someone told me there were $3 shakes at Smash Burger! Um... this was a summertime promo, so it's not going on right now. But hey, they did it once, so they might do it again, if you want to check up on that.

If it's 100% Cocoa, is it anything else? Can you just put Cocoa on the package and be done with it? Does anything else say that, like 100% Bacon or 100% Apples? No, you just buy bacon and apples.

I bought a couple of these cute figures for this game I've never played. I just wanted some random cute figures. There's not much merchandise for Star Wars: Andor, so it was cool to get Dedra Meero. Also... I saw the Battle Droid holding the binoculars. Now, keep in mind Star Wars, Episode 1 The Phantom Menace, came out in 1999, and this Battle Droid Commander OOM-9 was in that movie. It wasn't until I saw this figure that I asked... why would a droid need binoculars? Aren't the droids EYES binoculars? So funny! I just got that!

It's getting more and more common to see other not-Lego block sets for shows Lego has not done. Is this better or worse than not getting anything at all? I mean, it's not really Lego, but should that matter? Do you think Lego would ever get around to doing Spy Family sets?

Wow. The perfect merchandise for your very own Pokémon. You can shout "[name of your dog]... I CHOOSE YOU!"

I wonder if anybody took them up on this offer? You probably get a little more than a free ride.

Hahahaha. Is this Halloween or Christmas? I mean, Friday the 13th, not Halloween. Christmas might be on a Friday, but never the 13th. What was I talking about?

Who pre-buys a figure? Searching for them is half the fun. Also, this guy's name is Albert Pine. Yeah; Al Pine. Alpine. Get it? He's a mountain climber, of course. His parents were like "No pressure on deciding your career path, but we did name you "Alpine" so you might want to give this pickaxe a try."

Dang! Somebody must have DESTROYED that bathroom! Yikes! They had to put a sign on the door, it was so bad.

How many hundreds of millions of dollars did they spend on Star Wars: Acolyte? That cancelled series took place unknown hundreds-of-years before the first Star Wars movie. Yet the prop team gave this character a helmet... with the Rebel logo on it? Seriously? Nobody saw that thing and said... Wait, isn't that the Rebel symbol? On her helmet? Hundreds of years before the Rebels? In the series called Star Wars: Rebels, one of the characters invents that symbol, so it's NOT like a coincidence or anything.

Sigh, I don't want to be so negative, that Star Wars: Acolyte show had a few neat things about it, but again the prop team blows it by coming up with a starship design that is downright laughable. Duel cockpits, random wings. What IS this mess? Did they just roll dice to generate this design? They get 1 point for "trying to be unique," which it certainly is.

Awwwww Yeah. You KNOW Elsa be rollin' in that Mercedes. Bling'd out with a snowflake steering wheel. Her sister is the queen, I think they can afford it.

Yikes? The perfect blend of outrageous and hilarious. Like the cute little faces on the swords make it better somehow.

I saw the little train set people next to the car, and all of a sudden... wait, are all the Hot Wheels-sized cars in scale with the train sets? Is that why they are that size? Wow.

Another picture from a summer bike ride. We pass this odd metal cube house out in Princeton, and we notice it had a for-sale sign. Would be neat to buy the odd metal box house, you think? It looks so out-of-place in the neighborhood. 

I've taken a lot of deer pics on the bike trails. Have another. I'll once again say how much closer they are than these pictures seem to show. I wonder if I can run over there and tackle it before it bolts away?

According to the stats, there are lots of people who have completely lost track of who's-who in Star Wars. There's going to be figures of characters who you've never heard of before. The difference is that in the past, those characters were random aliens in the background of the Cantina on Tatooine, or say, Jabba's Sail Barge. But these characters... Were the main stars of their series. That guy in the bottom left is the Korean actor that was in Squid Games. Yeah, that guy was in Star Wars!

Whoa! So "Meta!" The car literally says "The Collector" right on the side of the car... That you collected!

The first series of the cute Star Wars Rivals game figures was on clearance, so I picked up a bunch of 'em. Should I read up on the rules or something? I mean, I have enough figures, I could probably play.

Maybe Snoke could do more in this game than he did in the movies. Is there a card that makes him bark orders and then get killed-off quickly?

Disney+ did a Star Wars version of the "burning fireplace loop" as you watch Sabine's Loth-Cat Murley sleep on a table, while it plays funky fresh space music beats. This technically counts as a 2 hour movie, and it might be the best new Star Wars movie they've done since Rogue One! That sounds like a joke, but it actually might be true. I'd rather watch a space cat sleep on a table for 2 hours than watch Rise of Skywalker.

Ha! Chicken Sandwich! Awesome.

Role Playing Games are great for getting detailed background information about the thing. There has been so much random Transformers lore, I wonder which one the RPG goes with. Bonus points that the starter box is called "Roll out!"

Almost all of the merchandise for the Wednesday series is about actual Wednesday character, and not even her best friend gets any stuff. So should I point out when they do acknowledge the show has more than just one character? Does anybody even know her name is Enid Sinclair? She's a werewolf, too.

Ever play Cards Against Humanity? Just seeing the card pack called Clam-o-naise makes my friend want to vomit. Which is probably the point.

This McDonald's gift card has cartoon versions of things with the lines in them that match the Happy Meal toys of the food that transformed into little robots! What a very specific thing to do. On a gift card.

How amazingly, completely, I can't find another big word which should be bigger... ridiculous. Has ANYBODY... EVER... gotten a Wendy's Frosty that was so over-filled as the one on this commercial? It's almost a small ice cream cone amount on top of that cup! Nobody does that! They simply fill it to the top of the cup and put a LID on it. A -FLAT- lid. I've never wanted to shout at my TV so much before. "NO!" "That's NOT REALISTIC!" Shame on you, Wendy's, and your "only a buck, what?!" commercial. To be fair, I didn't even TRY to order one, I knew it would enrage me if I got the flat lid. So... there's a chance they would have served it to me without a lid, over-filled. But yeah, probably not.