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[Mike Scott]

Came today. He's a big sucker! Not the tallest Creature plushie, but he's all head.

[horrorhunter]

I preordered mine from Frazetta Girls and it arrived yesterday. Great figure and packaging! I grabbed these pics from eBay because Frazetta Girls doesn't show a picture of the packaging (which is collector-friendly and beautiful). Their other four figures are sold out and prices on the dreaded secondary market can be ugly. I'm just glad I have their Conan, Vampirella, and Teegra figures. Who knows how screwed up the cost and availability of the next ones will be with the current "T" situation.

https://www.frazettagirls.com/products/conan-the-barbarian-1-12-scale-action-figure

Looks like the Conan figure is already sold out on the Frazetta Girls website, so now all of their 1/12 scale figures are sold out. Also, after Frazetta Girls changed their website you can't link to their photos.

20-25 years ago I would not have thought it would be so expensive to buy good figures now. The Sideshow figures were new then and were a great deal at TRU and other retail outlets. Kaybee and Toy Liquidators were constantly discounting product and blowing it out at bargain prices. I bought the X-Plus Harryhausen figures and Sideshow Pozers for next to nothing at Toy Liquidators. Now you have to preorder everything at steep prices and hope the seller doesn't cancel to scalp them on eBay. If you wait you end up getting royally gouged at secondary market prices. Bleak. Hard to believe so many toys have become so unaffordable to so many people. Freakin' toys!

I'll greatly limit any future acquisitions and just appreciate what I have (which is probably too many anyway).

[Lazarus]

Picked up the Universal Monsters Fun in the Tub set at Target.  They had the not-quite play dough set with the molds but I didn't get that.  I've also been made aware there are stickers to be had, so I will have to locate those.

I also managed to find the Five Below Dracula shirt.  Half the time I have a hard time finding them in XL but this year I got lucky and found a freshly stocked shelf.  Got myself the Killer Klowns shirt also.

[Mcfly22]

Found some new Bates Motel stuff at Spirit

[horrorhunter]

Vacuform Wall Hanger from Target:



This thing shipped in only a large plastic bag?! Luckily it didn't get destroyed by UPS in shipping.

[Lazarus]

Got my Tiny Nightmares Creature today.  First try!  Found out after the fact they're coded.  There's a code printed near the barcode.  Creatures ends with an 'F'.  Not sure about Bride.

Happy hunting!

[Lazarus]

Found some new Bates Motel stuff at Spirit

I need these so badly.  I bought a mug at Universal but the print sucked.

[darkmonkeygod]

Got my Tiny Nightmares Creature today.  First try!  Found out after the fact they're coded.  There's a code printed near the barcode.  Creatures ends with an 'F'.  Not sure about Bride.

I believe the Bride is an "E".

[Mike Scott]

Got my Tiny Nightmares Creature today.  First try!  Found out after the fact they're coded.

[Golddragon71]

New Arrival today!
NECA's Phantom of the Opera as the Red Death
Untitled by Michael Kramer, on Flickr
Here he is with the rest of the gang at the Laemmle Arms Apartments
Untitled by Michael Kramer, on Flickr

[Mike Scott]

Here he is with the rest of the gang at the Laemmle Arms Apartments

Impressive! 

[Lunkenstein]

Wow! What a great collection.

[horrorhunter]

Grabbed a 5' Pumpkin Skeleton at Target.

[horrorhunter]

Picked up a couple more blow molds at Target.

[zombiehorror]

Stopped at a Target after work and found/bought NECA Van Helsing and Carfax Abbey Dracula; still hunting for a color Creature. I'm not collecting the NECA b/w but made an exception for the Dracula since it is slightly different and you can easily switch out the b/w heads/hands for the color ones.

In other "recent" news; my daughter bought me NECA's Hammer Dracula and Bride of Frankenstein w/chair for Christmas. I received the Dracula figure but was told by my daughter that the other figure was listed out of stock and would ship later. My wife and I both bugged my daughter for months about what was going on with the figure, she would just say she hadn't heard anything. Finally about a month ago I asked if she had been charged for the figure which she said she had. So I got the order info and original tracking info for the Hammer Dracula, e-mailed NECA about the situation. Low and behold within a week they shipped out the Bride of Frankenstein figure, no follow up, no questions. Thank you NECA for picking up my daughter's slack.