As of tomorrow, it's officially October which means it's time for the Halloween Countdown 2011! As I mentioned before, this blog will be taken over by 21 days of ghost toys, followed by 10 days of monsters toys! Each day a new toy pic will be posted for your spine-tingling enjoyment!
The blog will be on autopilot, pretty much, but I'll still be around replying to comments and whatnot.
Also, this will give me some time to post more stuff on my other blogs: Hey! Look at My Art! and Hey! Look at My Books! The latter of which has all of 4 readers, it seems, but I strongly urge you all to check it out, as I'll be posting all kinds of stuff about geeky books, comics, trading cards and any other form of nerdy paper ephemera that I think fits. I mean, there's already a complete scan of a classic Mr. T children's book, and I'll be posting entire scans of the Dukes of Hazzard punch-out book very soon, so you all can print out and make your very own General Lee and Cooter's garage!
In other news; I've been trying to think of what I could do for December, theme-wise, to make the toy blog feel more festive. Any ideas?
Also, I'm seriously contemplating devoting the entire month of November to vintage Kenner Star Wars figures. Would that bore the hell out of everyone? Let me know. And I have a toy show to go to in October, so I'll have to squeeze in a report on that at some point. I don't know.
Anyhoodle, with that, I take my leave as the auto-post thingy takes over the blog tomorrow. The Great Pumpkin is coming! Happy Halloween!
Oh, and here's your toy moment of zen...
Well, obviously, you need to do a 25-day long series for December in which a group of most unlikely characters (culled from your toy collection) must team up to save Christmas from a group of unlikely villains (also from your collection)!
ReplyDeleteOr you could go for more focused heroes... "The Dukes of Hazzard Save Christmas"... "Batman Saves Christmas"....
But really, wouldn't it be cooler to do a story featuring characters from all kinds of different toy lines? Call it "Christmas on Infinite Earths"!
Bring on the vintage Star Wars figures, that would be awesome.
ReplyDeleteI just picked up the last figure I needed to complete my own vintage collection so I'm super into it right now!
I like Jon K's idea...also if you have any toys that you got as a kid on past christmas' and would like to share your story...that would be cool too!I think November Star Wars theme would be cool seeing as how Star Wars has so much in common with Thanks.....ugh actually Thanks Giving and Star Wars have absolutely nothing in common...but it would still be cool!Maybe you could throw in some Star Wars vehicles as well!
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to the Halloween theme and the Vintage Star Wars deal in November is a fantastic ideal. As for December how about doing pictures of your toys like they are performing on some live holiday special like the old shows with Bing Crosby and such. Imagine Thundarr playing piano and singing Little Drummer Boy with Mego Captain America!
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to see what you have coming up. Enjoy your break.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm... You guys are giving me some great ideas! This December is going to be awesome. :)
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