Let's See Some Green!

No I'm not asking for money, but now that you brought it up I have been thinking about another little toy purge on eBay, more on that later. Anyway I had a blast with "Show Me the Droids!" I wanted to do something on the heels of that event, I actually have a couple ideas, so for March I'm thinking of the theme "Let's See Some Green!" so round up all your green aliens, superheroes, cars, trains, planes, you name it and group them together and snap a pic, that's it! same deal as before...

1) Submit one JPG image to me by Wednesday, March 16, 2011 of your green stuff.

2) Include your first name and if you have a website you want linked to, include that. Funny caption if you want.

3) Send your picture and info (see above) to eclectorama [at] studiohowell [dot] com, with "Here's some Green!" in the subject.

4) I will post all the photos on Friday, March 18, 2011, so be back here then to see what people sent in.

This isn't a contest and I don't want too much trouble put into your picture, line them up, snap a pic and send it in! Also I am not collecting email to spam you, I don't have that much time, Just for fun!

Oh and yes I know March 17th is St. Patrick's Day not Friday, but March 17th is Lulu's day that spot is already filled, I can't argue with that face.

Show Me the Droids!

It's finally here and what a fun ride it has been, well on my end. I have always loved seeing pictures of people's collections so I figured this would be a neat little project. I'm glad to have opened it up to all robots, I know it started with just an R2, but hey they are all mechanical brothers and sisters, so without a lot of jabbering about binary load lifters lets get into the pics... Show Me the Droids!

Name: Reis
Favorite: "All R2s. And that little guy is technically an R2 knockoff from Galaxy Laser Team, but I've always loved him."

Name: Matt
Favorite: "My favorite R2 from the photo is the Clone Wars action figure just because it looks the coolest."

Name: Bill
Favorite: "Kenner 4-LOM (called Zuckuss back in the day)"

Name: Colin
Favorite: "Please accept my humble offering of the only surviving droids of my childhood :)"

Name: Jeremy
Favorite: "My favorites so far are the R5-4D and the Gonk droid. I just wish the Gonk had more painted details."

Name: Jason
Favorite: "my one and only Star Wars Droid, R2-D2"

Name: Leon
Favorite: "3 of my favorites Droids from 3 different era packaging. One from Kenner another 2 from hasbro. :)"

Name: MOCK
Favorite: "My favorite is probably the red 3PO unit. A while back I tinkered with the idea of customization and painting figures. Droids were both the easiest and hardest to do. You can see a few attempts in the photo..."

Name: Christiam
Favorite: "OFC they aren’t SW related but i love’em, all of them (that’s why any of them is marked specifically)...
Greetings from Colombia !!!"

Name: Brian
Favorite: "The original Kenner R2D2 is my favorite R2 figure of all-time. He
may not be screen accurate but he was part of that magical first Star
Wars action figure commercial for the Early Bird Figure Set. At a
time when Star Wars fans only had comic books, calendars, and trading
cards, these figures were a promise of many great things to come.
This R2 has a very strong association, for me, with the earliest days
of Star Wars and wonderful memories of childhood."

Name: James
Favorite: "My favorite is
probably the Wall-E figure as it looks very accurate yet has an insane
amount of articulation, so it's an insanely fun toy to play with."

Name: Ron
Favorite: Ron didn't specify so I am going to have to say they are all his favorite, that is an awesome group of bots!

Name: Mario
Favorite: "Here's my contribution to Show me the droids! I decided to stick with astromechs only for the picture, for simplicity's sake. I think my favorite of the bunch is R2-B1 (the blue and yellow one with a grey dome in the second row). Mainly because I like the blue and yellow color scheme, even if drink carrying Artoo is the most versatile of the bunch."

Name: Dan
Favorite: "I like the Jedi Treadwell Droid"

Name: Doc Atomic
Favorite: "Takara SW collection, made up mostly of droids. They're all from Japan; some are die-cast and fire missiles, others are remote controlled, and one has bump-and-go action! Collectively, they're some of my favorite Star Wars toys ever. However, if I had to call one the tip-top favorite, it'd probably be the wind up R2-D2. It's a tough choice, but I'll go with him."

Detail of the Windup R2-D2 from Doc Atomic.

Name: Brian
Favorite: "These may not be the droids you are looking for, but they're some of my favorite ones. Most of these are all reproduction tin windup robots, and my favorite one is the orange-headed guy in the back, solely because he has a propeller on his head that spins around."

Name: Victor
Favorite: "...my droids collection, R2-Q2 is my favorite because he's black and it's radio controlled."

I decided to just show my R2-D2's. So here we go...
I'm Charles, these are my R2's, my favorite is being held by the large R2 in the back, it's the Tomy Remote Control R2-D2 released around 2005 (Hasbro recently released these over here in stores, but this is the Japanese one) I like this one becasue how cool is it to finally get a 3-3/4 scale figure that actually moves and beeps.

This was a blast, so much so I decided to do another, tune back in tomorrow for the announcement. Also what do you think of making "Show Me the Droids!" a reoccurring feature? Like maybe a couple new entries featured each month. Leave a comment.

Toys is my Bizinuss and Bizinuss is good!

images swipped from auctions just won!

So on March 1st what is a person to do when they came off a 28 day toy drought? Buy some freaking toys that's what! So during the day on March 1st I ordered a couple of Stormtroopers from Hasbro Toy Shop, plus a Galactic Heroes Pack I have had my eye on for quite some time and I laid down a couple of bids on those two vintage beauties up there, okay they may be a little banged up in spots, but the price was so right on both and they complete my Vintage line up of Bounty Hunters. All true to my goals for 2011 by the way.

A quote from my wife "Well, it didn't take too long for you to get back into the toy business!"

You know I just realized I bought things that, besides being Star Wars related, feed some of my little toy collecting quirks. For instance I have a habit when I decide to open a figure that I have had for a while where I will bend a corner of the card and then say "well the package it ruined, might as well open it!"

1) The duel Stormtroopers - Having two (sometimes more) of certain figures like Stormtroopers, AT-AT Drivers, etc. Also this may feed my recent addiction to having Stormtroopers of all shapes and sizes in my Stormtrooper focus collection and having one that is packaged when it comes to 3-3/4" scale, old habits are hard to break.

2) The Galactic Heroes Pack - Again having a AT-AT Driver in different styles and in case I get the small AT-AT I will have two drivers even if they do not fit.

3) The Bounty Hunters - My more recent compulsiveness of having a complete set of bounty hunters in different lines or styles. Once I get at least a couple I have to track them all down... which is going to suck because when I didn't have all the 12" POTF ones I let a 4-LOM go and am now trying to complete that set as well... ugh.

Now, I am not saying I am obsessive compulsive, this stuff doesn't bug me when it happens, I have just noticed the pattern.
Which leads me to this, does anyone else have little collecting quirks or compulsive collecting disorders? Dr. Chunky B is in.

One more thing if my family is reading this I also have a disorder of wanting expensive toys for my Birthday and Holidays, but I am too cheap to buy them myself, it hurts the precious...

This is the last day to Show Me the Droids!

Hey I am going to get all the use out of this Stormtrooper graphic I can : )

Today is the deadline, after today... well then I'm afraid your friends on the Sanctuary Moon cannot help you. So, beep boop, click click.

Show Me the Droids Extended Deadline!

That;'s right I decided to give everyone a few more days, just in case they didn't have time or forgot about this little Droid round up. So, I will extend it till this Wednesday, March 2, 2011... after that I need some time to get them all organized. If you haven't taken your pic, now's the time. Here's the skinny.

1) Submit one JPG image to me of your R2 or Droid Collection, only have one that is cool, don't have any and want to send a picture of another Robot, that's fine too.

2) Include your first name and if you have a collection shot, pick one and identify why he is your favorite of the bunch.

3) Send your picture and info (see above) to eclectorama [at] studiohowell [dot] com, with "Show me the Droids!" in the subject.

4) I will post all the photos on Friday, March 4, 2011, so be back here then to see what people sent in.

This isn't a contest and I don't want too much trouble put into your picture, line them up, snap a pic and send it in! Also I am not collecting email to spam you, I don't have that much time, Just for fun!