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Ryan Maxwell
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I've got a sandwich bag full of them, JB. I'd be happy to pick out some normal humans and send them your way if you'd like.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 08 January 2021 at 10:31am | IP Logged | 2
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Much appreciated, Ryan. Maybe three of the least "Village People" you have?Thanks again.
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Ryan Maxwell
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You got it, I'll put them in the mail tomorrow. I think I still have your address somewhere.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 08 January 2021 at 10:52am | IP Logged | 4
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Maybe you could send them to Jim Warden.
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Ryan Maxwell
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I found the box you used to ship Guardian to me, good to go. Soccer moms, not bikers or pirates. And I have plenty of the newer 'flesh' toned heads and hands to send, instead of yellow, so they match.
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John Byrne
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Package received!Thanks, Ryan. You get the Jim Warden Award for Excellence in packing!! ;)
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John Byrne
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Ryan Maxwell
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I've had to get past Jim's tape work a time or three before, so I'll take that as a compliment!
And that arrived FAST! Good thing it didn't have votes inside.
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John Byrne
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Speed in Mailing. . . Pretty sure I've told this story before. When I was living in Calgary I was mailing in my pages to Marvel, usually thru the main Post Office downtown, not far from my apartment. It would take about 10 or 12 (nerve racking!) days for the packages to reach NYC. Then one day I discovered a tiny post office tucked away on one floor of the Hudson's Bay, a big department store about as far from my apartment as the PO. As a test I mailed a package from there. Reached NYC in four days!
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John Byrne
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Poking around, I found a large STAR WARS star destroyer from Lego (4000+ parts) and came within an inch or two of ordering one--until I found a YouTube video of the assembly! That way lies madness!!(Something I found annoying about the FRIENDS model was how much time and effort was spent clicking together bricks that were part of the supporting structure, and unseen when the model was finished. Seemed like about HALF the parts in that star destroyer fell into that category!)
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James Woodcock
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When my son was 2 someone bought him some Lego Mixles. He
didn't make them until he was about 3 and this seemed to
open up a whole new world for him. He loved them and
built them in no time at all, relatively speaking when
compared to the time we thought it would take.
He loved it so much, we went hunting down all the packs -
after he zoomed through those, we started on proper
builds. He now has an obscene number of Lego kits. The
Death Star has been one we have looked at for the past
five or six years, but the original version was retired
and the second release added about £100 to the price.
He has, however, been building many of the other big Star
wars Lego since he was about 6
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Bill Mimbu
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With the SHIN ULTRAMAN movie coming out this year (in Japan), looks like Bandai has already started up the "Moi-chen-dai-zing! Moi-chen-dai-zing!" promo machine...
Shin Ultraman action figure from Bandai / Tamashi Nations
I know that the iconic chest-mounted Color Timer was something added to the original design as a budgetary reason to keep Ultraman's screen time per episode to around 3 minutes...
But the absence of it on the SHIN version just looks kinda odd to my eyes, after all these years.
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