5 Awesome Things on eBay this week
Welcome to 5 Awesome Things on eBay this week!
Big Bird on Black Velvet (eBay Link) – My friends, this painting, nay this work of art tasks me to my very soul. How can I continue to call myself a gentleman of taste without this indescribable creation on my mantle? I am nothing more than a fraud, a complete charlatan. Forgive me but I’m off to my study to drink brandy and stare out the window and brood.
Captain Kremmen Viewmasters (eBay Link)– Captain Kremmen was part of the Kenny Everett Show, a pretty risque comedy series from the UK known for its “Naughty bits” and well, I never missed it when I was 12. It’s really weird to think it got kids’ merchandise, as it was loaded with double entendre and well, nipples.
Star Trek the Motion Picture Pajamas (eBay Link)– Now here is some fitting movie merchandise, Kirk wearing his space pajamas on your pajamas! Enh? Enh? Ugh, this bit goes on for another twenty minutes….
Fantastic Four Beach Towel (eBay Link)- If I had seen this as a child, I would have begged my parents it. I was Fantastic Four crazy and this very treasury edition was definitely party responsible. Just seeing it now kind of bothers me. That’s weird because it’s a freaking towel.
Bootleg V action figure from Uruguay (eBay Link)- My love of terribly made bootleg figures mixed with my love for anything relating to “V” ( I just finished watching the series for the third time) makes this thing something I really can’t stop thinking about.
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5 Awesome Things on eBay this week
Recently rewatched the V series too. Havent seen it since it’s original airdate. The one thing that stuck out to me watching it again is Diana’s delivery of her lines is almost exactly like Tim Curry in Rocky Horror.
I don’t usually look at 5 Things because it invariably makes me want to spend money on something I had no idea I desperately needed, but I couldn’t resist that Big Bird painting. Slap the Captain Kremmen merch and I couldn’t resist! I don’t even know where I saw the Kenny Everett show here in the States, but I do remember it. The reason for THAT is pretty obvious.
Big Bird on Black Velvet and that little boy smiiiiiile. He looks more like Cocoa Puffs’ Sonny.
I just bought the Star Trek pajamas. They’ll display nicely with my Empire Strikes Back pajamas.
I had that beach towel. One summer, my grandparents rented a cottage on the Georgia coast for a month, and I went down for 2 weeks. My first trip to what would become my favorite beach town. It was the summer I started buying comics on a regular basis. I still remember the books I got on that trip, and I still have them. And this was my towel. If it somehow turns out that it’s still at my parents’ house somewhere, I’ll let you know.
I can’t remember if I’ve posted this before but our local collector shop, Lobos Collectables, here in Melbourne Australia, released these.
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