Amy's Birthday Breakfast at Linda's

This past Sunday was Amy's Birthday. Elizabeth is giving everyone the finger while Amy smiles. Amy invited people out to Linda's for breakfast. It was pleasant going out with the "gang" for breakfast. Linda's is not a bad place to go for breakfast.

Concert at the Blue Moon

Amy called me up on Friday night reminding me of her show at the Blue Moon on Saturday night. After a bus ride and a little walking, I found the Blue Moon. The show was pretty good. The bands that played are listed on the blue moon website. I tried to take some pictures but they did not come out very well. I will post some so that you can get a feel for the show. Shawn's mom (drum player) also shot some video of all three bands. I don't know if those get posted or not. I know that they would be pretty big files.

It was nice to be able to get out of the apartment. Even if I could not enjoy the show as I usually do with me jumping around and stuff.

Cobra Commander Mini-Statue

Last week on www.entertainmentearth.com, during their summer blow out sale, I found the Cobra Commander mini-statue. It was marked down to about a third of original price. I just had to get it. I wanted the Destro mini bust but it sold out before I really made up my mind about ordering the stuff.
I wish I had taken pictures from the time I picked it up in the front hall or before I opened the box. I forgot I had the camera until after I opened the box. Hopefully, the pictures upload okay. This is the first time I tried to upload pictures at the same time I wrote the blog.

A shot of all 4 cars

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Originally uploaded by Pocketdoom.

You should see all the people that were taking photos of this with their camera phones.

Fry's Electronic Store Renton, WA

I went to Fry's last Saturday. As I was leaving, all these people were staring at this group of cars right outside. I continued out to my car when I realized why these people were staring. Somehow someone made their car go up the curb, up a tree, over a Jeep Wrangler, and land on the next car. And still managed to hit a third car. Lots of pictures in public on Flickr under Pocketdoom. I will try to post some here if I figure out how to do it.

I went out shopping last night. I went to the Southcenter Toys R Us and Target. Target no longer has any GI Joes on the shelves. I am not very happy about that. I thought they would at least have space in preparation for the Sigma 6 figures.

I did see a nice selection of Joes at Toys R Us. They had some figures that I have not picked up yet. Being that I am in a cash flow problem right now, I did not pick any Joes up. I did finally find that Fire and Ice Smoke Dragon that I have been wanting.

I also found some of the new Toy Biz Marvel toys. They had some stuff I hadn't seen before like the Make a Figure stuff, the Ghost Rider SuperHero showdown figure, and these Transformers Marvel style. Very interesting stuff but nothing I picked up.

And that was what I did on Sunday night.

I am starting up this blog to capture moments in my collecting life. To put notes about what I find and am looking for in regards to my 3 3/4" GI Joe collection.

I have a pretty extensive collection dating back to when the toys first started coming out in 1982/1983. I was 7 years old. I just turned 30 on July 31. My toy collection is a big part of me.

The biggest change in my collection is the selling of the Defiant Space Shuttle Complex and the Mobile Command Center. I was very happy when the MCC came back out but I was not able to buy one at the time it was on the shelves. Other than the selling of those, I still have all of my collection.

My newest purchase was the buying of the Cobra Imperial Procession.