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[TinyPink]

Got a nice lot off eBay, I'll have a few extras when done and will add them to my trade/buy/sell list later on

 

Congrats on that grab!  Wow, I'd love some of those.  

[steverotters]

Great to see that the print finally made it to Behemoth!  This was sent May 21st!!!!

Edited by steverotters, 12 June 2015 - 06:29 PM.

[retroworldkorea]

Stocking up for my shop. Treated my self to some Tank Knights Fortress keshi. (anime that was co-developed by studios in Japan and Korea). 

Big mix of stuff here haha. Gonna take me a while to get these all up. 

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[108KickBack]

I got this wicked Star Wars Lego haul from a Garage Sale Yesterday for 40 Canadian.My fav sets out of the bunch are Jabbas palace and slave 1.

 

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[Draznar]

So so so so sooooooo jelly of that Slave 1.

[Poyplemcmuffins]

Im jelly of all of that for 40 bucks!! What a steal!

[TinyPink]

I got this wicked Star Wars Lego haul from a Garage Sale Yesterday for 40 Canadian.My fav sets out of the bunch are Jabbas palace and slave 1.

 

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Not a fan of Lego, but that's a hell of a price!

 

I'd have all those on Ebay in a hot minute.

[Ridureyu]

I haven't listed this month's MOTUC stuff, mostly because I have not begun photographing Squeeeeze yet.  I need to get him ready by next week, though...

 

More Pathfinder stuff from the new set:

 

An Andrazku demon, which hates women, but usually has to work for a succubus or a marilith or something like that:

 

 

A Deinonychius, whose feathers make me happy:

 

 

A Terror Bird, which is the best name ever:

 

 

A Chupacabra, which is distinctly lizardlike and resembles the Castlevania Chupacabras a little bit:

 

 

And finally, a Dire Bat:

[ironmask]

I need a Terror Bird.

https://en.wikipedia.../Phorusrhacidae

[Draznar]

I need a Terror Bird.

https://en.wikipedia.../Phorusrhacidae

 

We all need a Terror Bird.

[ironmask]

We all need a Terror Bird.

Their beaks were basically vicegrips with blades on them. MURDERBEAK

[Jesse]

We all need a Terror Bird.

Hell i need like seven terror birds!
That thing is spectacuglorious!

Edited by HolierThanThou, 17 June 2015 - 10:47 AM.

[Draznar]

Their beaks were basically vicegrips with blades on them. MURDERBEAK

 

New figure idea?

I THINK SO.

[iwao]

Got a minty Muckman & Joe Eyeball for a little over $16 shipped.

 

 

New friends for Toxie

[TinyPink]

Got a minty Muckman & Joe Eyeball for a little over $16 shipped.

 

 

New friends for Toxie

 

Great one, man.  A real shining star in the original Playmates line.  I always liked that Toxie, as well.  I have his little glow buddy around here, somewhere.

[Ridureyu]

I stocked up on some stuff to review.

 

First up, a few Plants Vs. Zombie figures - the Digger Zombie and Potato Mine!

 

And then NECA's big rubber Baby Otachi:

 

This happened within ten seconds after I brought it home:

 

 

And finally, see this?

And this?

Two cool figures, right?

WRONG!  It's NECA's newest retro game figure, based on this screenshot from the Sega Genesis Alien 3:

Now, that is awesome.

[TinyPink]

Love the rubber baby thing.  Neat monster, what's it from?

 

 

[Ridureyu]

Pacific Rim.

[Flashbax]

Just got a huge lot of BBs in!

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[TinyPink]

Just got a huge lot of BBs in!

 

So cool!  

[Ridureyu]

Here are a few more Pathfinder minis from the newest set!

 

Sasquatch, who needs no introduction.  This picture really isn't blurry enough.

 

 

The Baykok, from Ojibwe and Algonquin mythology (it also appears in The Song of Hiawatha), is a skeletal fiend that preys upon warriors, killing them with bone arrows or a vicious club.

 

 

The Nuglub Gremlin - a tiny, hairy, three-eyed little murderer.  One of his special abilities in the RPG is kneecapping his opponents.

 

 

And here is a Pickled Punk, which is a zombified deformed fetus in a jar, and WTF PATHFINDER? HOLY CRAP THAT'S MESSED UP.

 

 

The Veiled Master, which is a type of Aboleth -boleths are ancient, fishlike cosmic monstrosities older than any known races or even the gods themselves.  They are nearly immortal, and their memories transfer through generations, making their longevity quite eternal.

 

 

And finally, the Bone Golem, which is about twenty-eight levels of awesome.

 

 

Just for kicks, here it is next to a repainted OMFG Multiskull. Note that it really isn't all that much bigger than Multiskull or a MUSCLE.  It is the largest of these figures by a pretty wide margin,too.

[trumanshower]

received today those 3 peruvian mimp, strangely found in France !

 

 

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[dixiebull]

So I know that to most muscle collectors a pic of 30 muscles is old news on here, but I was really proud of this score; 1 class A, 16 class B's, 13 class C's....all for 20 bucks! The lot came from Monroe, Michigan which only helps support the theory that most of the harder to get colors ended up in the North!

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[Ridureyu]

EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!!!  Okay, I collect figures from that obscure Japanese line, Demon's Chronicle.  Some of them can get really rare and expensive - rare in the "you just don't see them show up" way, and expensive in the "HOLY YIKES" way.  Anyway, the three a the top of that list are the "secret figures from the first three volumes.  I own Vol. I's (Naberius) thanks to a trade. I saved up for Vol. III's and had my contact in Japan look for it, and it took two months for one to pop up anywhere - not in physical stores, on-line stores... I saw one pop up on Yahoo Japan, and that was that.  And so, here is Beelzebub, the Lord of the Flies!  I also snagged Allocer, who isn't the cheapest of the group either, but lately has been popping up for a more decent price:

 

Beelzebub is derived from Ba'al-Zebub, literally meaning "Lord of Zebub" or "Lord of the Flies."  Ba'al was never a proper name, it's a title - "Lord."  Lots of gods shared it, and even some people (your landlord is your Ba'al).  Some examples in the Old Testament incluse Ba'al-Zephon (Ba'al of Zephon), Ba'al-Pelor ("Ba'al of Pelor"), or Jezebel's god, Ba'al-Sidon (Melqart, Ba'al of Sidon).  Many of the Ba'als were forms of Hadad, a fertility god, and in some cases even Zeus (Ba'al-Pelor was related to Zeus, believe it or not).  

 

As for Ba'al-Zebub, there is no location called "Zebub."  the name first appears in 2 Kings 1:2-3, when King Ahazaiah injures hiself and petitions "Ba'al-Zebub, the god of Ekron" for healing.  Now, one major difficulty in translation is that everyone has their own names for things - the Chinese scholar Kung-Fu-Zhu was known to the Greeks as Confucius, for example.  Or the Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu was renamed Cheops by the Greeks.  Hebrew did this as well, which makes identifying gods such as Moloch very difficult.  Ba'al-Zebub is actually a pun, apparently on Ba'al-Zbl ("zebul"), which means "Lord of the Manor," and is a reference to several gods.  Although "Lord of the Flies" may refer to some fly or pestilence-related cults, that is improbable, as little evidence of said religions has been found.  

 

Instead, the association tied to Ba'al-Zebub since the beginning was to point at the thing that attracts flies the most:  Dung.  Essentially, Ba'al-Zebul means "Lord of Bullshit."  The real debate is whether it meant that in 2 Kings, though I [ersonally wouldn't doubt it, because there is some sarcasm in other arts of the text (Elijah was the most sarcastic man ever born, I swear).  Historically, since 2 Kings, it was used in this way - calling pagan gods a load of horseshit - and it also became a perjorative name for Satan, as seen in the Gospels when both the Pharisees and Jesus use the name "Beelzebub" to refer to Satan.

 

As far as making it the name of a specific demon, the Testament of Solomon (a 5th Century pseudepigraphal work), which is the foundation of modern occult demon-summoning, featured Beelzebub as the first demon summoned by Solomon.  In this story, Beelzebub is the demon of the evening star, who excites peopel to lust, jealousy, and murder, and causes people to worship demons.  He is treated as second-in-command only to Satan, and this tradition has been picked up since.  In more modern occultism, Beelzebub is one of the top kings of Hell, up there with Astaroth, Asmodeus, and even Satan himself - he is often cast as the second-in-command, taking the form of a large fly.  This figure takes the artwork from the Dictionnaire Infernal (a fly with skulls on its wings), and adds a crown, sword, and trident.  

 

And as a bonus... Look, it's the Lord and Lady of the Flies!  What a nice domestic scene!

 

 

Next up is Allocer, sometimes translated as Alloces.  Allocer is a lot simpler - he's one of Solomon's Seventy-Two demons in the Ars Goetia, and is a grand Duke of Hell who oversees thirty-six legions of demons.  He appears as a knight with leonine features and a ruddy face, riding a horse with the features of a dragon.  Allocer induces people to immortality, teaches the art of the sky, and provides familiars.  This figure has some incredible detail for something the size of a MUSCLE, and it matches his Dictionnaire Infernal art exactly, even down to the weapons and chicken feet:

Edited by Ridureyu, 27 June 2015 - 09:27 AM.

[Rubberhammer]

BHT is a MONSTER!