Flea market findings 7

Bought during a longer time period and not in one go and from separate places.

Poor G1 My Little Pony named Sand Digger cost me only 0,50€. I don't think this one is salvageable, I've heard those pen marks are very hard to remove and this one has them all over.

Spirited Away No-Face/Kaonashi phone charm with one of the "Heads".  I think I'm remembering I paid 2€ for this. Aside from the movies, this is the first Studio Ghibli merchandise that I own.

These Mega Pokémon figures are still sold in stores, so someone got tired of it really quickly. I was lucky to find this Mega Absol for only 2€, while if I bought it new from a store it would cost about 12€.

Score! It is so rare to find any Dragon Ball Z figures for sale, so that's why I have to feel extra happy whenever I find such rarity. Vegeta, Trunks, Goku and Gohan all came in the same plastic bag with a 10€ price tag slapped on it. It bothers me a little how Gohan isn't quite the right scale compared to the rest of them. He should only reach up to Goku's shoulders and not stand as tall as him.

These ceramic dogs cost 0,80€ each and if I ever find the time again, I'll use them for my Ginga custom project.

This 1997 Kenner AT-AT pilot has been through tough times and cost me only 0,50€.

The small plastic bag Eevee, Buneary, Piplup and a Nendoroid I do not recognize all came in, cost only 0,50€! Fifty cents! This has to be the cheapest Nendoroid ever! Maybe it's one of them good bootlegs, I dunno. Probably missing a lot of additional parts as well. Who are you, pink nurse?

The odd bunch containing Grievous, super deformed Kenobi and a Lil' Chewbacca. I bought them separately and can't remember what I paid for each one.

Operetta, Gigi and Clawdeen cost together 3€, that's one euro for each doll! That's crazy cheap considering they have most of their clothes and no missing limbs. Although Gigi's hair looks and feels very dirty... I'm not complaining!

These mini horses are super tiny and cute! And I can't remember what they cost me. I'm thinking of repainting the two on the right.

 Yet another Chap Mei Dilophosaurus for the collection <3

 Can't say the paint job is that accurate on the foxes, but the pup and parent are cute nonetheless.

Bootleg Pokémons. Aside from Absol and Darkrai, I don't think the sculpting is that bad, mostly is just the paint job. Fennekin, Braixen and Sandshrew look pretty good! Poor Eevee has a slightly deformed head, otherwise it looks pretty okay too. Something went terribly wrong with Darkrai, I can't stop laughing! XD

Diggin' up Dinos

Checking out two different types of excavation kits!

This one cost 2 € I think, and for that price you will get a laughably small and ugly lil' dino figure. The whole thing looks very uninspired. For something as cheap as this, the sculpt is acceptable, but the paint job is dull as hell. But hey, it's for kids! They don't care!

These ones have a skeleton to dig out, goodie! The price was somewhere between 3-4€ per egg, I can't remember the exact number. These kits are far more your money's worth than the previous one.  There are surprisingly many parts of the skeleton fitted inside and it will actually take you some time to dig them all out. I had the parts soaking in water for a while to get the last bits of clay/plaster out that was stuck between tiny spaces. 

I do have something to nitpick about. There were no instructions how to put these together and their species are not named anywhere. I recognize the one on the top is a T-Rex, but the one below? I don't know.... Giganotosaurus? Carcharodontosaurus? Something else?
It irks me that the bottom one's bones are in two different colors. Either one would have been fine, but mixed? Nope. (I like the lighter color better than the brown).  And why didn't this one get a stand like the T-Rex did!?

In retrospect: Christmas Calendars 2016

Moomin

Star Wars

Schleich Dinosaurs

Flea market findings 6

Photo dump warning! Originally I was going to make this into two separate posts, but apparently I'm feeling really lazy this month so here's everything all at once! Just to be clear, all of this stuff wasn't bought at one place, but rather from different vendors at various locations over a long time frame (about 3 months). It would be nice to find a flea market where they would only sell toys, with flea market prices and not with "specialty" store price tags. There is a limit how much I'm willing to pay for a used toy even though I might not always seem like it.

I was really happy when I spotted this Sakura Miku Hatsune, but I was very disappointed to learn later that this is actually a bootleg! It doesn't stink like a cheap knock off, the paint job is really good and the plastic isn't soft and all bendy like bootlegs usually are. For what it's worth, it's the finest looking bootleg I've ever seen!  Shame on me, I was fooled....

I'm suspicious that I may have been fooled twice :D I found this Jolteon plush at a flea market that was full of bootlegs of many kinds (Lego, Minecraft, MLP).  There were also similar looking Eevee,Vaporeon and a Flareon plush there, but this Jolteon stood out because this was the only one with that Pokémon Center tag with appropriate copyright belongs to Nintendo, the Pokémon Company etc. text. The other eeveelutions only had a very basic tag that only reads "made in China". I find it very unlikely that a genuine plush would have ended up amongst all the bootlegs.

Free Elsa! I don't really care for Frozen, this was just me acting out a childhood dream! Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to bust open anything that slightly even resembled a snow globe, to get my hands on that small figurine that is held captive by a translucent sphere! Finally I did it! When cracking it open, it occurred to me that I probably should have used some protective gloves when that foul smelling liquid was dripping down my hand and causing a very distant feeling of a burning sensation.

SSJ Goku, a very disturbing looking Luke and Lil' Anakin Skywalker. I'm always on a lookout for anything Dragon Ball Z (and Star Wars) related stuff, but I'd say 98% of the time you're looking for DBZ items, the search is futile. When you do actually find something, it's either a manga volume or a video game. Whenever I find a figure, I'll always feel extra happy!

Horses,horses, horses......because I love 'em! I have from before a smaller version of the striped one, a bigger version of the spotted one (in different color), I want to repaint the black one and the Carousel horse is just something I've never come across before! Such beautiful and unique thing among all the boring and regular horse toys!

Completed my Lion King Pez collection with these three! The toys need a clean up, you can see they have been well played with! Now I need to update my Lion King collection post too with all these new additions!

Dino time! ;D

The Land Before Time's Chomper! I didn't even know such toys even excited!

Safari LTD. tiny Dilophosaurus, Raptor and Spinosaurus.

Brachiosaurus(?) by unknown and T.Rex. with JP logo on it's thigh.

Jurassic Park 3 Velociraptor and 1998 Godzilla baby.

Chap Mei's Dimetrodon and Raptor. Dammit, I'm loving these colors. *_*

Crystal T-Rex

I was visiting the first time the  Science Center Heureka's small shop in Helsinki and there I saw these beautiful crystal 3D puzzles for sale. I walked out of the shop without buying anything, but I decided that next time I was visiting Helsinki that I would come back and pick one up. Some time later I did it! I had to decide between getting the T-Rex or a human skull. It's pretty self explanatory which one I ended up buying. I didn't really like the color choices for the skull, either black or clear.  The king of the dinosaurs won in the end because of the more vibrant color and the dynamic pose it had.

After I opened the package, I found this two sided paper describing many other puzzle models available. THERE'S A DARTH VADER!! OMG!! But of course, there was none in the shop's limited selection. Dangit.

"It would be very interesting, challenging to one's mind if it is fixed randomly"
If not downright impossible! I had a hard time putting this together, even with the instructions! As I started putting this Rex together, I was wearing cotton gloves, because I didn't want to have fingerprints all over it.  Bad idea! The puzzle pieces were more slippery than a wet bar of soap in my hands. So the gloves had to come off.

Through steps 4-44 there is nothing holding the pieces together, you just have to carefully balance it like I'm holding it in the picture. BTW, it was not a very good idea trying to take pictures in the midst of building it. I was focusing on the camera, and didn't really pay attention to my other arm which was holding the puzzle upright, I tilted my hand a little bit too much and all the pieces come crashing down! I had to rebuild it once or twice, just for wanting to take a picture. Thank goodness for the plastic screw on step  45! I could finally put my headless T-Rex down!

The last piece...

It is a little disappointing that the arms, legs and tail are so see through. They stand out a bit too much from the rest of the body. Otherwise it's awesome! I like the sculpt and pose, even though the pose might not be scientifically accurate, being too upright and the tail dragging the ground. My pictures are lying about the color too. Seeing it live, it's far more orange-y or almost like bronze in color. (Depends on the genius in charge of the lightening,  I guess.)