#collector marketing

[talentos]

Hot Wheels & Mini GT; The amazing marketing & advertising of these miniatures

[thrifted-friends]

frog friend

[deepdreamnights]

The Reboot

We've gotten 22 new cats the kids have loved over the years. The only answer is to resurrect the first one.

I have complicated feelings about reboots. This was originally going to be a two panel photobash.

Prompt format and process under the fold.

14 dall-e 3 gens, composited and edited into comic format.

Prompts are mostly based on this format:

a comic panel, a haggard man, light stubble, in a t-shirt, carrying a sack in one hand, walks through a cemetery, it is dark and stormy, rain falling, B&W comic inks by Joe Orlando and jack davis, EC comics, 1947,

a large sack and a pile of power rangers action figures at the bottom of a shallow grave, dramatic angle, top-down view, it is dark and stormy, rain falls all around. B&W comic inks by Joe Orlando and jack davis, EC comics, 1947

a comic panel, a closeup of a man's hand digging a handful of earth from the ground, it is dark and stormy, rain falls all around. B&W comic inks by Joe Orlando and jack davis, EC comics, 1947

With various changes to the action descriptions as needed.

[igottatho]

Almost finished with today’s Farmer’s Market, and I feel like I’ve met a million people today.

One guy said “I wish you woulda had a Free I$R43L sticker I woulda grabbed it :/” and all I could think to say was “well, sorry you feel that way” but at least he’d already given me his money 👹

I spoke with a lot of youngins today who took some Free Palestine stickers so that made up for it. They received an honorary Bonk the Police Sticker as well.

If either of these are appealing to you (see what I did there) and you’re willing to donate a small fee for shipping, I’ll send some to you. I’m mainly sharing them for awareness, rather than direct donations, but I donate to Gofundme’s, UNWRA, and other charities on the regular.

(Receipts provided on request, I guess)

[who-the-fuck-is-sennalye]

officially becoming the first person to ship sirena and g3 draculaura because of how my dolls are posed

[emeraldspiral]

Thinking about all the missed opportunities there were for toys based on Invader Zim.

Like, imagine if they made like a Zim's house dollhouse/diorama type thing where you could buy separate components that all connect to each other and can be arranged any way you want to form the subterranean chambers of the base. Every chamber has some moving pieces or mechanical components for tactile stimulation and immersive play, like a button you can press to shoot air up into a tube to make it look like you launched a chicken into space, or a little tiltable pod with a joystick like the one Zim used to remotely pilot the Massive in Backseat Drivers. And you could take your little character figurines and pretend like you're Zim doing an experiment, or Dib sneaking in, or GIR making a huge mess. You could have some extra large deluxe characters like Ultra Peepi, Megaboy 3000, and Giganto Baby to recreate scenes of the base falling under attack.

[cozylittleartblog]

playing neopets again. finally used my last pet slot to make a faerie ixi, which was one of my dream pets as a kid 💜 she ended up with a big flower theme

look at my deer

[mothlagoon]

💧Find the Lagoon at @openartspaces tomorrow 10am-5pm Tavistock Square, Portobello Road

Shop | Kofi | Webtoon | Insta | TikTok | Links

[blackbackedjackal]

I am very much a bargin bin collector and just follow market prices so I know when something I find is a good deal. I could hardly ever afford anything over a few hundred dollars even saving up for a while (at the end of the day I still prefer to save money for practical expenses and emergencies), but I like to think outside the box and find more obscure but nice quality pieces or broken/damaged stuff I can restore or have restored. It's helped a ton for getting nice pieces within my budget and I feel like my collection is more "me" because it's not the big show pieces but a lot of little things that add up to to one big curated collection with a lot of extra love in it.

[thrifted-friends]

vintage bears 🧸

[shilohsylvanian]

I went into shock seeing this in the candy aisle at H Mart !! It's a bit of a travel so we don't go often, but I've never seen sylvanian things there before! This says it's chewing gum? But also minis? They look like the gachapon sets. So excited to open it and find out! There are 4 sets, they had 2 on the shelf 💕

[son1c]

like idk maybe i'm just broke and stingy but i don't think any factory produced (as in not lovingly handmade by an individual) plush should cost more than 100 dollars no matter how "collectible" it is. like. the soap shoes sonic plush regularly selling for 5 fucking grand is indicative of humanity's descent into madness

[pastelrune]

[kotowatee]

Hiiii!!! a little different post from me today!! iwanted to share some of my current fav things from my collection of thrifted toys!! ^w^ i sometimes post those on my instagram stories but i wanted to make a seperate post for them somewhere and i thought maybe here would be cool to show them!!!!!!! :333

i found a few of the g1 mlp toys in a thrift store near me, that was actually first time ive seen any of those in person!! they were in a very good condiction luckily for me because i do Not know how to restore vintage toys ;w;

ialso have two really cool nibs, a lps rooster and tmnt action figures! normally not a fan of keeping things in a box but. theyre trapped. unboxing video for one billion morbillion followers special /j

ihave a lot more thrift finds ill show more if this post wont get any hate or anything like that. Ilobe my touys

[aymerictheblue]

For that FFXIV get to know me:

1. Character Name?

3. Fave Class?

5. Fave scion?

25. Fave minion? :3c

1. Character Name:

Silas Tanejah is my main that i play on the most, but i have two active alts named Solenne Lothaire, and Tyr Hrinesi

3. Fave Class:

Warrior :3 but if i had to pick a different class I really like Sage

5. Fave Scion:

Alisaie. she is everything to me.

25. Fave Minion:

I don’t know if I can pick just one (i have like 11 pages of them) but I have been vibing with the tourmaline weapon for a while and hope they’ll add a diamond one soon. I also really love the armadillo bowler from Malikah’s well. Silly lil guy.

[preciadosbass]

18/8/24 [4 new CDS + 2 other purchases // draft from yesterday — key + significant photos at end]

woke up at half 7 and got up almost straight away. i said goodmorning to boris first thing, and he was surprisingly inside on the kitchen table today, and not outside on the driveway. i pushed through my tiredness and dressed myself in my sleeping with sirens shirt, black ripped skinny jeans, knee high converse, gray + black striped arm warmers, a studded belt, my taxidermy silver fox tail, my taxidermy scorpion necklace, my diy kellin quinn necklace + the same bracelets as yesterday plus a purple falling in reverse band bracelet. so, a copy of my previous outfit, but with a different shirt.

me and my dad left for the bootsale at 8 after id roughly straightened my hair/put on eyeliner/and said goodbye to boris. literally the first stall we walked past was hosted by three alt people selling various alt [goth, scene] plushies and skirts. i try my best to stay away from so called ‘feminine’ clothing [i say even though i wore a ‘fem’ shirt yesterday. its a shame that it’s not androgynous, but it wouldn’t even look profoundly androgynous on me anyways because i cant bind.] i was too scared to actually go up and pay for one of the scene looking plushies myself so i asked my dad to do it. it’s a bright green bunny thing with one X’d our eye. he was £2 and i think he’s really cute. [photo at end].

we walked around for about 20 minutes until i decided i wanted to go back to the alt stall and see how much this skull + crossbones shirt was. we took a short walk back and when i got there, i realised its actually a skull beanie. which is just as good, as i don’t have any alt specific hats. we asked for the price and it was literally 50p. 50.. P!!! what a bargain 🙂‍↕️ [photo at end] — me and my dad strolled around for quite a while longer, stopping of every now and then while my dad looked through boxes of vinyls. he got 6 good vinyls [according to him] that came together at £5-6. while we looked around, i randomly brought up to my dad that i cant wait until everyone goes back to school so i can rollerblade at our local skatepark. and how i’ve always wanted to learn how to skateboard.

funnily enough, the next stall we looked at had four skateboards stacked up on the grass. the guy asked if i was interested and showed me the wheels etc. he explained if you make them looser, you can turn more freely, and things like that. one was broken so he took it away and gave me the chance to decide if i wanted one/and what one i wanted if i do decide on buying one. i decided on a skateboard with cool-ly printed monsters on the back. it also looked in the best condition so that’s convenient. i got it for £2!! [photo at end]. we walked without any more luck for a some time until we came across a new cd stall. [as in, the cds were new]

i looked through what i thought were singles [they were albums, they just didn’t have cases]. while flicking through, i found two good charlotte cds, a blink 182 cd, and a the used cd hidden at the back of the box. i literally could’ve lost it over these finds. [photo at end] it was once again i coincidence something like this happened, as i was just speaking about that i thought i’d come away from the bootsale without any new cds. but i was wrong!! they were also only 50p each which is insane. i cant believe i found the used merch in the wild. after this, we went down one more row/isle and then headed home at 9:30. on the way back i did see another new cd stall, but the cds were £5 each and i didn’t see anything i recognised. i did look at a rancid cd, but decided against it.

i blasted panic! at the disco’s death of a bachelor in the car and arrived home at 9:50. i greeted boris and stayed outside with him for a little while before coming inside to get my bag + jacket to go out again. i used to go to this club, it’s the same organisation that sent me off to that expedition — and after that i never went again. but i decided i might go and see how it is if i go with my sister as there is an alt person there i’m friendly-ish with. i actually might see her tomorrow. she’s a nice person, the problem is i cant trust her and i’m not good around full on/energetic people. i don’t really know how to act or what to do with myself.

while i was waiting to leave, my dad made sure the cat was kept inside just so he’s not out when we’re out, and asked me to do something because his hands were busy. i said i dont know how [because i’ve never been taught what it was, and i thought he’d understand because obviously i’m not in school and it’s not my fault nobody’s showed me] but he started screaming at me and calling me ridiculous. the cat ended up escaping from his grip and running outside. then everyone started arguing. i just sort of stood there, waiting for it to all be over. we finally got out of the door after my mum had screamed at me over and over again. it was one of the worst arguments i’ve witnessed in ages.

and me, my mum, and my sister walked across the driveway to the car. on the way there, i said ‘everyone is ridiculous’ [which i shouldn’t have said, just in the moment everyone was having a go at me and i was already terrified to go back to somewhere that’s given me so much trauma. everyone has been screaming for ages.] then my mum lost it. she said we couldn’t go anymore and she made boris run away. i sobbed for around two hours because i was scared he’d gone across the road and into the woods. i was also beside myself because i knew that it’s my fault he got so scared. i shouldn’t have been so ignorant and said that knowing everyone’s mad. i just didn’t expect my mum to go as crazy as she did and shove me inside and into the kitchen counters/go to hurt me even more.

i told her she scared the cat and he’s gone missing but she grabbed me and shouted ‘i don’t care. i really don’t care anymore, ___.’ i stood behind the front door, looking through the window part to see if he’d come out and then stood on the doorstep to see if he’d come to me. then my mum slammed the door and locked me out. no matter what i did, he wouldn’t come out. my dad saw this and let me in, but he [my dad] was still acting weird. my dad said i should go somewhere else in house, because he could not be coming out because he can see me through the door and thinks i’m going to try and get him inside again.

i did and came back outside when i heard the news that he’d come back onto the driveway/was calm. i sat outside with him, still crying — and my dad saw me through the door. he tried speaking to me about what happened but it ended up being a disagreement. he came back inside and i stayed cuddling boris. i apologised for everything that happened, even though he cant really understand what i say to him. he does understand ‘your my bestfriend’ and ‘i love you so so so so much’ though, because he knows i’m going to give him treats afterwards. i was with him for as long as i could until my parents changed their minds about keeping me from the rest of my family and not meeting up for the barbecue arranged.

but obviously i was already upset about it because i couldn’t go to something that id already had in my head that’s going to happen/prevented my sister from going because i said something stupid/i was again, being isolated from the rest of my family. i said i don’t know what i want to do but we ended up going. which is secretly what i wanted because i wanted to be cheered up by someone. we left at exactly 3 and i listened to the used + mcr’s ’under pressure’ cover on the way there. when we arrived, i didn’t speak to anyone and just had some crackers because one of my cousin’s girlfriend was there and i’m intimidated by her. i don’t like how she acts considering she hasn’t been ‘in the family’ for long at all. although it’s bad for me to judge her as i don’t know her, she just does act really iffy.

her son is okay though, he’s slightly less shy than me, and is usually just there, if that makes sense. while i people watched/listened, my sister was using her nunchucks to hit a tennis ball that she was calling people up to throw for her. she ended up whacking the ball into the bush separating my aunts house and her neighbour’s garden. the same cousin i just mentioned got out a ladder and tried finding it. while they [him, my sister, and my dad] did, they came across a cat inside the bush. it must’ve been the neighbours and was just sitting inside, looking through these bar things. [photo at end] it was really sweet looking but must’ve been scared of strangers because it went to scratch me when i gave it my hand to sniff.

or maybe it didn’t like the smell of crackers. i watched it for a while because i was missing boris. another one of my cousin’s fiancé’s mums is really wealthy and just buys random stuff for my cousin/his fiancé. [i know it’s rude to call someone wealthy or something but everyone else does, because she is, and admits it — and i don’t necessarily mean it in a bad way.] anyway, back to what i was saying. because of this, my cousin just gets gifted things and a few of the things in question are still round my aunts house from before he moved out. one of these things is a large swing-seat thing. i had a go of it and ended up sleeping for 2+ hours lolll. it was really so comfy. after waking up, i tried speaking to my dad [it didn’t really work, we’re both bad socialisers.] i once again, people watched until 8:20 when we left for home. i said my goodbyes to everyone and got into the car to listen to frank iero.

when home, i was with boris on and off [while sorting through my weekly recap draft] until 11:40 when i copied one of my journals into this youth website thingy. basically, while i was doing my hair earlier, my sister mentioned that she does this thing run by the council and gets payed at least £20 for answering questions/doing activities listed. id never heard about this before and my mum also brought up something about a diary being one of the requirements so i asked if i could do it aswell. i’m running out of money even though compared to my sister i’m very mature with it, so at 12 i did that and submitted my journal, it was from wednesday this week. i also kinda just did it for fun because the youth council thing, whatever it was, wanted an idea of what teenagers do in a day.

then at 12:30, i asked my parents questions about boris. for once my mum didn’t get in an argument with me [this sounds rude, i just don’t know how to word it.] and i finished just 10-15 minutes later which is revolutionary for me. i forced myself to be quick because i knew my mum would get mad over my panic, but i was stressed over them [the questions] not making sure boris would be okay in the morning. i came downstairs, did a bit of my journal, and had naps on and off until 1:40. i didn’t intend to even have a nap, but i knew i’d fall asleep while saying goodnight to boris/without saying goodnight to him otherwise.

i brought out my plushie and cds to show him, and forgot to take my skull beanie/didn’t carry my skateboard out into the kitchen because i wouldn’t have been able to signal with my hands that i love him if i did. i finished at 2:40 and got into bed at around the same time. before i slept, boris came into my room again and explored the underneath of my bed. i went to sleep at 3.

🗝️ — boris/my cat, questions [about boris]/i ask my parents questions about my cat to verify he’s okay + will be okay in the morning. its a compulsive thing and i’m hopefully going to be tested for OCD in the future.

have a good day/night O_o