i was cleaning up some stuff today, and found two items that i would say are the most unusal in my collection.

a friend of mine used to work at a television station a few years ago, and grabbed two electronic press kits from her station that they used on the air. these are pretty much the tapes that they use when you are watching the news and they cut to a story. so she grabbed these two tapes for me. cool, right? well, yeah, cool... but guess what? these tapes are about 1-1/2 times the size of regular vcr tapes, height and width. so i've never watched them. they could be blank for all i know. but i guess they are cool to have, and not too many people have things like this, right?

so what's the most unusual item in your collection? doesn't have to be toy related (as you can see from my story).

i just love stories like this...

http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1056189.htm

makes me wish i had lived millions of years ago as a dinosaur. but how would i have surfed the web?  

does anyone know where i could find a list of the carded re-releases from 2003 on the 2004 cards? i checked in our own checklists, but that info isn't there (or i'm just too dumb to find it). being the completeist that i am, of course i need to get my hands on every single one of these, and i want to make sure i'm not missing out on any... i'm not including the hall of fame figures in this, because i got a list of those already...

so far i have:
anakin secret ceremony
boba fett pit of carkoon
ashla & jempa
yoda & chian
aayla secura
barriss offee
han hoth (w/ brown coat - did they release a blue coat on this card?)

any others?


another question: why did they re-use the numbers from the 2003 series and keep these figures as part of the '03 collection? i would think that if they are going to change the cards they should have changed the numbers, no?

ok, so today i was playing with some of my super articulated clone troopers - man i love these guys - and took this picture.



can you come up with a good caption? here's what i came up with so far:

(boss clone - pointing) hey you - back to work.
(slacker clone - sitting) screw you, i'm on a break... we're union, you know.

anybody??

so, with the new year just here, what are your new years resolutions? i've never been a big fan of this sort of thing, and i've never really made any resolutions before, because i always figured "if you really want to change something about your life, why wait 'till the first of the new year? start today."

and, even though i still do feel that way, i've decided to come up with a small list of resolutions... just a few things about my life that i'd like to change...

[1] be more financially responsible - who doesn't? but i seriously need to keep better track of where my money goes. it seems like i get paid on saturday, and within a few days i'm broke again, with no idea what happened to all my cash. so, i need to start keeping some sort of financial records, and see if i can figure out where i waste all of my cash. of course, with the new "tracking thread" for the star wars collectibles, looks like this one might just go right out the window  

[2] find a better job - again, who doesn't want to find a better job? i think that out of all the people i know, 95% of them hate their jobs. but me? i spent (or, actually, am still spending, since i haven't paid off my student loan yet) over $13,000 to go to school to be a java programmer. and i graduated at the top of my class, 4.0 average. and what do i do for a living? i work in a record store. a record store. what the ****? sure, from time to time i browse a few job sites on the web or look at the classifieds in the paper, but i really haven't put any effort into finding a real job. hopefully, that will all change for me, sometime soon - real soon.

[3] go back to school (again) - well, this one is still up in the air. since i did such a great job with this already (see #2 above), maybe i can go back to school again - at night - for something different, and hopefully pick a field that i can actually get a job in. and, hopefully, the financail aid people would work with my existing loan to help me out with my payments...

[4] eat better/exercise/lose weight - uhmmmm, yeah right!

[5] better manage my time - this kinda goes along with #1 - my free time kinda disappears almost as fast as my money, and i don't know what the hell i do with it all. i always have a list of "to-do" things, and none of them ever get done. why? where do i spend the 4 - 6 hours of free time i have every night after i get home from work, before i go back to sleep? what the hell am i wasting my time on?

[6] post more news on the jedidefender.com homepage - i've been slacking lately, as i've been under the weather for almost three weeks now (but i'm getting better, honest) and working like a dog during the christmas season, but now that the hectic holidays are over, i'm going to make it a point to post at least one new item on the front page at jedidefender.com every single day, even if it's just an interesting auction i find at ebay. so if anyone out there has any news, or interesting stuff, whatever - feel free to email it to me all year long, and i'll try my best to post it up there.

well, out of these six resolutions, i'm actually pretty confident that i can do #1, #2, #5, #6, and maybe #3 - but i think that #4 is just a lost cause. and yeah, the first five are "real life" resolutions and the last one's kinda silly, but i guess that only time will tell...

to everyone out there - sincere wishes for a safe and healthy, happy new year! and let us know what kind of reolutions you have for the coming year!!

 so, today i decided that since i haven't made any custom figures in a few years, that i would sit down and make one... so i picked roron corobb, ithorian jedi from the clone wars.

reference image:



my interpetation:
 








i finally figured out a good use for the lower torso/pants that came from that awful potf lando

head/forearms-hands/upper torst/feet: momaw nadon
lower torso-legs: potf lando
upper arms: saga nikto jedi
skirt: ep1 obi-wan

these are not mine, i don't know this person, and i am not advertising for these... whew!!

but there is a seller on ebay with some of the most amazing padme customs i've ever seen   ... here's one:

 padme

check out the other auctions and this person's website. the detail is amazing...

with the help of some great traders and sellers right here in this forum (you guys know who you are   ), i've been able to actually finish up my unleashed collection, at least as far as it's gone up to now.





anybody else notice how much bigger boba fett is over every other unleashed figure? i mean, his entire figure, compared to any other unleashed, is just huge. his head, his arms... way bigger than the rest, almost to the point where he looks a little out of scale to me.

the only thing that sucks is that i have them in two seperate areas, and i hate splitting up collections of stuff that should go together  

but i'm working on making some room so that they can all be displayed together soon, hopefully