Category: heroclix

My Year in Hobbies 2019: June!

June 2019:

On the same day I had a few of these finds, at the same flea market, I got a Wii in decent shape, finally. Not bad for one flea market! Unfortunately, I really haven’t used it much. Wii games require space, and our living room isn’t set up for it yet. Happily accepting recommendations of sleeper Wii and GameCube games (yes, I know about Mario Kart/Smash Bros. etc., so tell me about the stuff I don’t know about) to get me moving on this.

A large group of Mego-scale action figures, too many to list in a polite image caption, are pictured.
A large group of Mego-scale action figures, too many to list in a polite image caption, are pictured.

Barring a Mego-scale skeleton that I’d get later in the year, I got the last of the Mego-scale figures that I got for the year in June, too. First, I got The Creeper (yep, right in front; I waited 40 years for that figure to exist…). Then, I added Uhura, Freddy Krueger, Bruce Lee, The Invisible Man, and Count Orlok from Nosferatu to this party…

Mego Glow In The Dark Frankenstein action figure in original packaging. Action figure of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein's Monster (a white skinned humanoid with black hair, in a black suit and grey shirt) in shackles, in bubble on red card with painted Frankenstein image.
Mego Glow In The Dark Frankenstein action figure in original packaging. Action figure of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’s Monster (a white skinned humanoid with black hair, in a black suit and grey shirt) in shackles, in bubble on red card with painted Frankenstein image.

…and decided to keep glow-in-the-dark Frank on his packaging, because I had regular Frank at the party already, and because the packaging for this is great.

A red bin filled with hundreds of Heroclix super-hero game figurines.
A red bin filled with hundreds of Heroclix super-hero game figurines.

Does anyone need any Heroclix? No, really, I’m serious. Get ahold of me if you’re interested.

A close-up picture of a decaying Jerry Mahoney ventriloquist dummy's head. White skin, orange hair, brown eyes and eyebrows, red lips, white dots for teeth, red bowtie with white polka dots, brown jacket collar. Paint visibly chipped throughout the face, especially on the jaw.
A close-up picture of a decaying Jerry Mahoney ventriloquist dummy’s head. White skin, orange hair, brown eyes and eyebrows, red lips, white dots for teeth, red bowtie with white polka dots, brown jacket collar. Paint visibly chipped throughout the face, especially on the jaw.

Another Jerry Mahoney turned up at the flea market, this one far more cursed than the last.

Picture of seven 1952 Topps baseball cards, all featuring men with white skin and brown hair in baseball uniforms, on a black table. Top row: Bobby Hogue (Yankees), Ferris Fain (Athletics), Solly Hemus (Cardinals), Paul LaPalme (Pirates), pictured as painted portraits against various backgrounds. Bottom row: Johnny Wyrostek (Reds) swinging a baseball bat, 3/4 full body shot), Hank Edwards (Reds), and Eddie Kazak (Cardinals), the last two being portrait shots against various backgrounds.
Picture of seven 1952 Topps baseball cards, all featuring men with white skin and brown hair in baseball uniforms, on a black table. Top row: Bobby Hogue (Yankees), Ferris Fain (Athletics), Solly Hemus (Cardinals), Paul LaPalme (Pirates), pictured as painted portraits against various backgrounds. Bottom row: Johnny Wyrostek (Reds) swinging a baseball bat, 3/4 full body shot), Hank Edwards (Reds), and Eddie Kazak (Cardinals), the last two being portrait shots against various backgrounds.

These turned up the same day, though, so I can’t complain.

Television seasons binge-watched in June 2019 (1): Jessica Jones Season 3 (liked it better than season 2, but the series is…complicated…the whole way through)

First-run movies watched in June 2019 (1): Deadwood: The Movie (LOVED it. Really nice and finally a proper send-off to the series, if it is indeed a send-off.)