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Its been a great year for DinoDrac boxes; a jar of "brokémon", fiesta coins, pokemon stickers, and tons of Utz snacks. :9 Its been tough to document each box but they were really fun. In the last few years I've been subscribed, I have some of the neatest stuff for decoration and conversation starters, filled a photo album with mini posters, two 3 inch binders with cards, newsletters and essays, and half a sticker book, and I couldn't be happier.
Silly Putty! This stuff is so much fun. Apparently it was meant to be an adhesive by its creator but since it wasn't very good at that, it eventually became marketed as a toy, and was stored in leftover plastic easter eggs, which owes to its current packaging. Have you ever played with this stuff? Its like old skool kinetic sand but bouncier and still picks up printed letters and pictures off the newspaper. There's a "slime" recipe out there that is more akin to putty than slime, but it doesn't have the same properties of the original.
A cocoa flavored DumDum sucker and a peppermint hershey's kiss make the tasties for the funpack. I need a whole bag of the kisses like RIGHT NOW.
While not edible in actuality, E.T. comes with his signature pretzel, and its really cute. I wouldn't say E.T. is the cutest alien out there (Lum's pretty hot tho), but the tiny pretzel is just too cute!!!!!
I have to say to Matt's credit, the unique packaging for the dinodrac stuff he does. They're really well put together and have good flavor text. I still have my baby Dino Drac figure by my bed, hanging out with my amiibo and too many flowers.
I may have an addiction.
Here's a big star of the pack, the McDonalds Hot Wheels car. I didn't collect a lot of cars, though my grandmother used to have some at her house when I was little. I never knew who they belonged to but they sure were fun reenacting chase scenes from movies and tv.
I was a huge fan of Wacky Races so I guess that interest comes from there, but I can't help but think Penelope Pitstop's car, the Compact Pussycat, would be pretty racy nowadays. XD
Man I miss traditional Hanna-Barbera shows. They use to have a themed spot in our local amusement park Great America, but its been converted to Snoopy and Peanuts, which is still super cute, but I miss the old wacky decorations with Muttley and Scooby.
The card box has a great selection of cards curated by Matt, and had a plethora of different cards. The Homer card is a sticker and I'm torn between sticking it in my sticker book or filing with with the rest of the cards from my DinoDrac packs. I've got two 3-inch binders full from the last couple years of funpacks and I gotta say, its real fun paging through these weirdly divergent yet oddly connected series I have over the years.
Remember Beanie Babies? Did anyone go to collage on the money they were once worth? Do I still have some sitting around in my closet? Are these questions truely relevant or am I just filling space.
Let's not answer that one and look at my fave cards from the pack that kinda make a fun story.
That got sexier than I anticipated. I should put a warning on this post. 8D
I love the pants on the Christmas tree and Dino Drac's fuzzy sweater. Its super cute. The stickers are also super cool. Someone please fund some sort of Dinosaur Dracula christmas special, even if its just like 5 minutes long and is full of old 70s/80s/90s toys. I'd kickstarter that on a $100 tier level.
I'd throw $150 if it also has throwbacks to the XE Advent Calendar gang.
I think I know what I'm asking Santa for this year. 8D
The snowman looks like he's made of Kool-Aid, and I'd hope its Purplesaurus Rex.
Red tissue for a giant pointsettia, the newsletter and a poignant essay on New Year's at grandma's. A sort of extended family christmas exchange combo'd with wild child hijinks of pot banging and noise and pillow fights. They weren't things that lasted very long, and I can feel the same. I used to celebrate the New Years with different relatives before it died down to celebrating with immediate family, and eventually evolving to celebrating with friends instead. Its like he says in the essay close out: "Nothing stays the same, even if you stand perfectly still." Truer words never spoken truer.
Still, here's to a new year coming down the pipe!
--Dio (12/31/17)
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