Om-nom-nom Pictures

Sorry for the delay in posting, long story, but my laptop basically stopped working. I managed to get a new one, it was a great sale but it's a Chromebook, so it has a completely alien Chrome operating system. So alien, the keyboard doesn't even have a "delete" key on it. And the file system is not very intuitive to navigate. The screen is like, a lot smaller, but hey, let's post some pictures on it! And um, thanks for checking back.

You know how on Sesame Street, Cookie Monster doesn't really "Eat" the cookies, he just crumbles them up and they fall to pieces? It "looks" like he's eating them, but in reality, they are making such a mess! Now... you can do that, too! OM-NOM NOM NOM!

Stopped in front of this house with a doll house on the porch. It's double-house! 

I don't know why I passed on the chase version of Zoro. It's a small spoiler, when they first show Zoro, he has three swords, and the other guy Luffy is curious... where does the third sword even go?! 

DAH-DAH! Dah DAH-DAH! I can't look at these three figures without the music playing in my head. You know the tune! It's called Duel of the Fates, if you need to look it up.

Awww! Adorable Disney Princess blind box figures. I might have been tempted to get a couple, except they were $18. Each! That's a lot for a figure you're not even sure which one you're getting.

That card has a price sticker of $485! There's some more over a hundred in there, too. At what point does a trading card become like, a real piece of art? You would be okay paying that much for a piece of art, and a card is kind of similar.

How many trophies do you need? Everybody gets a gold trophy!

You have to zoom-in to see this one, but the Lego set tags on the shelf says "Buffalo" instead of "Wednesday," and "Bright" instead of "Wicked." Those are code-names they put in the Target computer to avoid spoilers, and they forgot to change it before they printed the pricetags for the shelves! D'oh!

Gears was one of the original Transformers. He was one of the small, simple ones. Here's a modern much-bigger one. So it's partly cool they gave him an upgrade, but also takes away some of the charm the little one had.

Samurai Skeletor works a little better than Teela with um... turtle shells or whatever. Eh, they can't all be winners. It's cool they are trying, with all the cross-overs.

Sometimes it's neat to see the Star Wars merchandise from stuff you see in the shows, just to put a label on it. Apparently Shin Hati was flying a Fiend Fighter. I don't remember them naming the ships in the show.

How awesome does Winnie the Pooh look? Like a zen honey master wizard. Not worried about those bees at all. Nothing is bothering him!

I caught the Toys-For-Tots crew filling up a truck outside a Target last Xmas, and it just seemed very... sketchy. Even with those people in uniforms, it felt like they were filling up the truck, quick!

The Magic: The Gathering tins from the set with cute animal cards. It always bothers me why don't these tins... hold the cards properly? Like, they are too big to hold a stack of cards, they all kind of wash-around inside. Can't they measure?

I guess at some point we all give up caring about rip-offs? These are obviously based off of Nintendo designs. Is it your fault for not knowing your are buying a rip-off at some point?

There's a show called Robot Chicken which does Claymation-style-animated comedy bits based off of old action figures. They have a recurring character from Strawberry Shortcake based off of this one using the name Bitch Pudding. I can't see this figure without laughing. Blam.  

Coca-Cola is so close to having people associate polar bears with Coke. That bear in the hoodie is adorable.

One does not simply write a caption for a picture. Remember that scene from Lord of the Rings? One does not simply walk into Mordor? As Boromir super-casually leans forward on his throne and does the little hand gesture? People substitute the end of the statement, it's called a meme!

Yowza! But also kind of neat, if you really hate touching these germ-filled screens. Download an app! It's like magic! Is anybody running the app from their seat snickering at confused people trying to use it?

Blind-box Warhammer miniatures? These were still like, $8 each. I think. They were not as cheap as you think they'd be. But... keep in mind you are paying for the art sculpting and game play mechanics, not the tiny amount of unpainted plastic. You don't buy a puzzle to be complete. You buy these figures because you CAN paint them.

They made the Evil-Lyn figure to purposefully-match the cartoon version, yellow skin and all. And right next to it was the updated super-detailed version. Did we all get the pun that her name is Evelyn?

Whoa. So "meta." The Squid Games show treated the contestants like children, and now the merchandise is treating YOU like children!

Oh, yikes. This is kinda funny for the Walmart employee to do for Halloween, but I feel so bad for anybody actually working at a Walmart right now. Dead-end job much?

Is it wrong that I laughed at "Alpha Dog Training" and saw the shy little puppy in the middle? That's the opposite thing that comes to mind when you hear "Alpha Dog."

Does anybody even know Andy Capp was a comic strip? It seems like that was popular soooo long ago. Yet the bag snacks continue to thrive. At this point, fans of the fries get curious and look up the comic. Most merchandise works the other way.

More adorable mascots. I don't know what flavors these are, but maybe... not seafood? Probably not. But my friend can't take the chance.

Of course, there's also flavors that um... I'm not sure how to say "gross" without sounding insulting. I'm sure plenty of people want prawn-flavored crackers.

I like the neat anime mascots on the Asian supermarket foods. Cute.

Neat! I don't know how to do this for-real, but I've done the computer game mah-jongg so I recognize the markings on the tiles.

At the Asian grocery store, and there's a little gift shop in the front of it. I saw this cool dragon statue and thought it would be neat to see if I could translate the text from it. Um... those aren't on my keyboard, how would I do that?

Am I supposed to know what a Redfin is? This sign doesn't say anything at all except Redfin for sale. I guess if I don't know what it is, they don't want to sell it to me. Plenty of others know, and they'll happily sell it to them.

Who's the person doing merchandise tie-ins for McDonald's? Somebody there is a fan of the game Genshin Impact. How do I know? Because there's almost no merchandise for this game, yet McDonald's did a complicated promo for it, where you had to link the McDonald's app to the game's app and order online and after a lot of complications, you get in-game goodies. And real-world goodies, too, if you count the meal. I only started playing the game after this promo ended, but I had a friend who did not want the food, yet wanted the game goodies. So he used his app, in a different state, and ordered the food for us in the McDonald's we went to. So we got some food, and they got the free exclusive glider wings. They called us right -after- we ate lunch, so we took the extra combo home and had it for diner. Whew, what a complicated story. They put game pics on the apple pie boxes!

During Xmas shopping season, Ollie's had both of these figures on super-sale. I know that sometimes you can pop the heads off and swap them, so I finally thought I'd give it a shot. I've seen a few old black & white movies with Peter Cushing, and thought I'd use the other guy's generic suit to make, I don't know, a Van Helsing from an old Dracula movie? In most of those old movies they wear generic suits like this.

(And... it looks like it messed up the finished picture of the two heads swapped. Sorry, new computer problems. I'll have to see if I can figure that out later, I might just have to take a new picture)