2 MINUTE TOY BREAK !

The final pieces of my Starting Lineup display arrived today!Everything else I add to this collection will be just fillers and extras.I still have my sights on certain players but for the most part  , Im done with SLU's.Baseball,anyway 

I thought this would make for a pretty cool post,especially with X-Mas just a couple days away.This Kenner pamphlet slid out of my Starting Lineup Award Winners box upon opening.This brought me back like you wouldn't believe!One of my favorite childhood pastimes was looking through toy guides ,marking off figures I needed to complete collections. We recently picked up a new printer with scanner so I figured why not give It a test run.The pics aren't as detailed and crisp as I would have liked them to be ,but that's something I'll have to work on as I go.Trial and error ,I guess.If anyone's got any scanning tips,all are welcomed :)

I'm almost where I want to be with my Kenner Starting Lineup collection.The Award Winners set knocks off alot of players that I would have had a hard time picking up individually ,mainly Bonds and Bob Welch.Another thing this set does is tie in the 80s and 90s ,allowing me to segue my collection to add a few early 90s players that I enjoyed watching during those particular years. The 90 Canseco figure will be replacing the 88 figure in my Oakland Athletics team display.The 1990's Bo Jackson and Cecil Fielder figures will be displayed next to the Award Winners ,where I will be adding a few more 90s players to tie everything in.The top of my shelving unit will be reserved for Mets figures.Aside from a few key 1988 figure needs ,im pretty content with my collection so far. I'm waiting on a Greg Maddux figure that's going to be displayed on the National League side of the Award Winners piece,along with a Kevin Mitchell.In front I'll be placing a fielding Cal R...

I'm getting closer to completing my ,i guess you could call it frankenset,of Oakland A's Starting Lineup figures.I was going to stop at the 88 releases ,but that was only 3 figures deep,so I've decided to piece my team together with other A's figures released from 1989 thru 1991. Steinbach was kind of the exception here as this figure here Is from the 96 run.It was way cheaper than his 89 fig and I needed a  Steinbach,so there's that. There Isn't much to tell this figure apart from the others that I have on display other than the lettering on the back of his jersey.The letters are green with a yellow outline, modeled after the 96 unis but you can't tell that unless you turn the figure around.So In my mind,this Is 1980's Steinbach .The smallest "Bash Brother" Steinbach. The 1987 Donruss Rated Rookies Steinbach. It's a cool figure but I couldn't help but chuckle at the softball he's about to chuck down to second base.Also ...

I better take a good look at this now cuz it aint staying like this much longer.Ive come to the realization that Im gonna need a whole new shelving unit in order to properly display my contemporary action figure collection ,Marvel Universe included.This chaotic scene took a hot minute to put together and this isnt even the whole colle tion.I decided to go with classic styled figures for this display ,leaving all the movie versions of them out.Too bad its all coming right back down.It was fun putting it together though.

Just getting started on this.Looking through my stashed Marvel Universe figures,it seems some of them have gotten a little bent out shape ,literally ,so Ive gotta do something  and putting them on display seems like the logical thing to do.I just have such limited space.I could cram them all on top of the Helicarrier but that would look odd If not done right.I gotta think of something fast!

Its hard to beleive that I can love this big pain in  the butt so much!