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Its that time again, when after hibernating after the Advent Calendar, Dio attempts to update with things besides Halloween or Christmas.
Hey, its a hard job, I dunno how we do it.
So I decided to try to stay on the horse of the awesome FunPacks I get from Dinosaur Dracula. Don't mind the man behind the curtain and don't mind the date.
This one has a lot of neato things packed in, so i was excited. My dad wonders what the hell all these boxes are for, and soon I hope to have some little scrapbooklets to be made from the awesome, flat kipple I get (like one book for all the trading cards, another for the mini posters, etc). I also decided to make sure I use the tissue paper that comes packed in, because we all know how much I have a hard-on for paper flowers. My house is a veritable tinderbox florist shop.
First and foremost: CUTE ANIMAL POSTERS. I don't have a ton of room for posters (Fanime drains me dry on posters when it comes to the artist alley @_@), but for cute animals, I'll have to make space. One was unwrapped and were the puppies (OMG I LOVE PUPPIES), while the one in the small bag was the baby....cheetah? Tiger? Bobcat? I should know animals, but I don't and who cares because its super fluffy and roundy and adorable.
There's a reason my instagram is full of nothing but cute fluffy animals. I prefer them over people and HAVE YOU SEEN THE PYGMY HEDGEHOGS ON THERE??? They're the only non fuzzy thing I want to own as a pet.
We-hellll lookie here: an intact set of the Batman movie franchise's mini cars (er, vehicles, I see you Batwing). These are the good kind, with die-cast metal, and are so super tiny and cute you could make rings out of them. No joke, i'm semi-considering opening this to make jewlery with them. I'd be the coolest teacher with a Batwing necklace and Joker Van/Batmobile rings the size of Liberace rings.
That's my brother George.
Yes, I'm old. Deal with it. 8D
Y'all remember Ertl? They used to do all sorts of die-cast toys and cars. I remember them being pretty big with the kids, boys especially, when I was in elementary school. I prolly have a few still in boxes. Kinda makes me wanna check, but I got work in 30 and this kotatsu is soooo warm.
I'm eating those sour punch straws as I type and that Purplesaurus Rex is gonna be my dinner tonight. :9 Well, with maybe a pizza or something completely unhealthy. That's what I like about these Funpacks, the snackie things. They've saved me on many a day when I've got my Godzilla-eat-everything-in-sight moods.
Over here to the left are the trading cards I've gotten in this pack. the only one I opened was the Power Rangers one because I needed inspiration for the art challenge this month (more on that later). On the subject of Bone, I've always wanted to read it, and just never have. I'm burnt out on comics these days, pretty much only re-reading old manga like Sailor Moon (hey, 25th anniversary, baby!) or Ah! My Goddess. Why? Because magical girls and busty goddesses should be the answer to everything.
Wait. Muppets on Ice? Holy shit. 8D
Yeeeeee. :3 Another Dino Drac sticker (sticker sucker, that's me), the mini poster--lookin' good DD, being a Ninja Turtle is super cool--and Muppet Babies scratch n' sniff stickers.
Yes, they still work. Barely. But they smelt of mint and I call that a victory. Scratch n' sniff stickers are a mixed bag; sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't, even after a few weeks. They're a bit before my time in terms of popularity--by the time I got into them with friends in elementary school, they were a relic of our parents' collective memories--but I never turned them down when sticker trading. My old sticker books don't have the subtle artificial banana or bubblegum scent anymore but they're fun to look at (though to be honest, most of mine were full of those holographic ones because I am a magpie and I like shiny).
The specimen in the pack this time was a McDonald's Fiesta Coin, which commemorated apparently 3 new sauce flavors for their chicken mcnuggets: a salsa flavored one, a mesquite bbq, and a green chili (I assume chili verde), and got a coin and maybe a cardboard holder to hold the coins. 9 piece nuggets would net one coin, and 20 would net 2. Mine is from Ecuador and I wonder: are they legal currency? I used to collect coins from other countries and I never had many Latin America coins, so this is probably going into the collection. Its so nice and shiny! More--well, slightly more info on this limited promotion--can be found here.
Here are the newsletter and the story article included, and one thing i like the most are the little article stories. This one (in pink) describes the BEFORETIMES of the ancient web when it came to Toy Trading and newsgroups. Remember those? I doubt it, if you're much younger than I and I'm only a little younger than Matt. I got into internet use rather late, so middle of my high school years, and by then, eBay was starting to get into the swing. That's when that retro toy thing took off, with prices being assigned by the whim of a seller, when back then, trading groups would literally send each other toys and collections for other peoples' toys and collections. Its a dead era, with even Etsy getting into the vintage swing, and as Matt closes in the article: "If you ever get into something on the ground floor...milk it for all its worth!" You never know when a bygone time will...by..go...ok that got away from me....
The art challenge this month was to create a superhero using bits and inspiration from objects in the funpack. As stated above, I'm a magical girl fan, and have been for nearly all my life. Favorite heroines? Its never been Powergirl or that scrub Wonder Woman. Nope, I grew up on a healthy--and I stress, while sometimes comically misguided, they were much more healthy and similar figures now--dose of Sailor Moon, Rainbow Bright (who is admittedly slightly outside the conventional MG template but counts in other ways), Belldandy (more of the conventional Magical Girl friend trend like Video Girl AI), later on CardCaptor Sakura, and even Sally the Witch and Cutie Honey (the proto-Magical Girls). Need a hero? Choose the girl who does it out of love and justice, I say.
My girl is sporting some visual ideas from Power Rangers, Batman, outfit ideas from the Muppets stickers (her dress's basic details and the candy wand), and even Purplesaurus Rex in the tail and the PR colored puppy sidekick. Why? Because its a magical animal, that's why. I want a purplesaurus colored puppy. The big challenge was remembering that the paper is colored, so i had to pop the whites with white pencil, and realize colors would blend, turning her blue eyes green, and her hot pink dress orange (which i ended up coloring with another pink pencil, though it still came out more red than pink). I cribbed her hair from the gormless expressioned girl on the animal poster packaging, and overall, I rather like it. Might keep her around for something. I got no name for her atm. XD Naming is hard!
So we'll see you back next month with February's funpack! See you next month!
--Dio (1/31/17)
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