My First Funko Pop!

So, it was just a matter of time before I started collecting Funko Pop! figures, now that I spend all day surrounded by them. There are several current releases that I plan on getting and some retired ones that I hope to track down, but I'm trying to ease into this collection, because from what I've gathered from my fellow designers, it can get out of hand very quickly. So I'm trying to only choose pieces that I really, really want. And my first one is absolutely one of those.

Behold the button-eyed adorableness of the Funko Pop! Boo Berry...

This guy is now retired, but one of my co-workers had a spare, loose one on his shelf that he didn't want and passed along to me. I couldn't be more jazzed. What a way to kick off my Pop! collection!

Now to hunt down Count Chocula and Franken Berry.

I hope you guys don't mind, but you can expect many more Funko related posts in the future. :)

Vintage Monster Cereal Pencil Toppers!

Good grief. I went to that toy show over a month ago and I'm still not done blogging about all the stuff I got there.

Today's show-and-tell items are these beautiful vintage(?) General Mills Monster Cereals pencil toppers...

I've always loved the Monster Cereals (Count Chucula, Frankenberry and Boo Berry), and by that I mean the actual cereals themselves and the product mascots connected to them, as evidenced HERE.

I spotted these at a booth for a whopping $3 and snapped them up right away. After doing a little research (ie. trolling eBay) it turns out that these pencil toppers aren't exactly rare, and depending on the source, may or may not be vintage. I've seen a couple of mentions of them being from as early as 1972 and some saying that these came out in the late '90s. Maybe both are true.

I've never noticed the big Z on Frankenberry's chest. Anyone know what that's about?

Anyway, not exactly an epic score or anything. But I was pretty please to scoop these up. Especially the Count Chocula, who was always my favorite, as you can see here in this pic of me from a few Halloweens ago...

Now I'm off to go have some cereal.