10-Doh! 10-Doh! 10-Doh!

It made a certain amount sense to put these Squid Kids Ink 10-Doh! figures on top of the Mario Brothers ? And brick blocks that I affixed to the wall with double-sided mounting tape to make shelves. The blocks are actually really tiny banks that make Mario noises when you put coins in em.

They're all pretty awesome, but I like the ones that mimic real NES cart art the most. Zombey Kong and Momma Brain (as in from Metroid) are fantastic.

 

 

 

 

Sket One Ketchup Dunny

I ran across this Dunny from 2010 a long while ago, but every time a new series debuts, I will invariably want several in the set. Usually the common, cheaper ones, but more often than not, also the rarer (read: more expensive on eBay) kind if not the chase figures. So when I started getting into these, I was enamored by more than just this set at the time, thus my forgetting that this oddball beauty existed.

The problem with these when I was originally looking for one, was that people were selling them in sets. There was a mustard one,a relish one, a mayo one, and this one. I forget which is the chase figure, but they'd sell all four for crazygonuts amounts of money like $150. I didn't want mayo, I wanted ketchup. Finally, the other day I was doing a search for the new Dunny Evolution set, and for some reason an auction for this one popped up, and for way less than I'd seen it before.

Aside from being the coolest, my favorite, and the most mysterious condiment, ketchup (that is, the modern one) has been produced and perfected mainly in my hometown, Pittsburgh, by Heinz. That, and I've always loved the Heinz logo/ketchup label.

 

 

SDCC Street Fighter x KidRobot Mecha Zangief Figure

 

Kidrobot x Street Fighter: World Warriors, Fight!

Kidrobot produced a line of Street Fighter 2 3 inch figures last year around June, and a month or so ago this year they had mercy on those of us who are (semi) completionists. The chase figures were of course the 4 boss characters from SF2, and I did buy an original Sagat for about $30 last year when these came out. However, Balrog seemed to be elusive, because I didn't see many auctions for him, but his price hovered around $30, too. Vega usually went for like $45, and Bison was the rarest, being 1/80, and taking $300 or so early on. So naturally, not being insane, I didn't even think of getting Bison. The mercy I speak of is that not only did Kidrobot un-blindbox the 4 chases, but they sold em with another "challenger" (ie - surplus figures from the first batch) behind a cleverly rebranded blind box. The only catch is that all 4 bosses are now in their 2P duds. So if you don't mind that, they can be had for roughly $18 per 2-pack. I got mine on Amazon because, well, I have an Amazon store card, lol.

This makes my World Warrior collection almost complete! At least until series 2 comes out. Still need Chun Li, holding out till I find one super cheap on eBay. I really don't plan on getting the 1P versions of Bison, Vega and Balrog, because the money I'd spend on them are resources that could be spent elsewhere. I might, however, consider grabbing a green Guile to make a complete set of 1P colors of all 8 non-boss types. (Which I did for Blanka, because the blue one didn't look quite right with the rest)