Tupa's Treasures

When I was in Astoria this past summer I picked up this candy at the local comic book store. If you hold them between your teeth you can make a loud whistling sound! Very cool, but they do dissolve rather quickly; which the owner told me was a blessing if you give these to kids. But it gets better:

The little box at the bottom comes with a toy! Not a great one but still a nice suprise!

Incidentally a couple months later while at an Asian supermarket in Houston Texas I found the same candy but with an additional 2 flavors. Very cool.

Oh, I forgot, the candy is really good.

Back a few weeks when we went to Trader’s Village in Houston I picked this up for a quarter. It opens up and and has space to hold something and on the top it has a handle. It is about 14″ long, pretty big haul for a quarter!
I have no idea where this came form or what it is associated with…any ideas?

I forgot to post some of the Goonie swag we picked up from out trip to Astoria in June.

We didn’t actually do the Truffle Shuffle run/walk; by the time we finally got to buy a T-shirt this one was all that was left. But it’s a nice shirt so that’s cool. And the coin is a commemorative doubloom. Very nice! Now all I need is a bag of marbles and an inhaler and I’m off to search for treasure!!

When I was in Oregon I picked these up at a store called Fred Meyer, kinda like a cross between Kroger and WalMart.
You put these in water and they fizz until they dissolve and reveal little toys. I thought they went in the bath and my daughter was looking forward to putting them in her bath but once I read the directions a little closer it did not say anything about putting them in the water with you. So instead we put them in a bowl and watched them fizz. Not as exciting but fun anyway.

And after the bubbles receeded, this is what we got:

The pirate’s head comes off, so you can interchange them with other figures. Pretty neat, but the skeleton is the best, his head and arms move! Very cool!

And then at Trader’s Village I fouond these two! $1 each!!
The first is a rubber monster from “The Sword and the Sorcerer” (1983) and the second is some spinning top-thingys from Marvel’s Secret Wars (1984?). I was completely shocked when I saw them, I haven’t found any toys still in the package from the 80’s in forever. All of that stuff has been picked up by collectors by now. The crazy thing is that they have several of each of these!

These two were by far the best finds I’ve discovered at Trader’s Village. My brother found a MASK lamborghini for 25cents! It’s pretty fun to go and just look at stuff and see what you can find. I’m still searching for a great flea market in south Texas…

We went to Trader’s Village in Houston last weekend and these are my finds. Trader’s Village is like a giant flea market. But when we were there most of the stalls and booths were empty so the pickings were slim.

All the toys in the pic were 50cents and the wind-up bullrider is Goofy from the Goofy movie and  it came from a Burger King Kids Meal and was actually still in the package. The black & white toy is a lego vehicle from a happy meal, not sure where Gonzo came from but he was the best find and then Krang from TMNT.

I also saw a Fievel stuffed animal and some vintage CareBear plushes

These little guys also come from the quarter machine at my grocery store and like the below post, were only there for about 2-3 weeks. All the cool stuff never seems to stay very long and then they switch it out for something else.

These are my favorites! Such a fun and adorable cartoon too!

My grocery store had these awesome guys in the quarter machines for 2 weeks. They come in three or more pieces, such cool little puzzle toys.

So after that last Lazer Tag post, VicSage inspired me to try and find the book on ebay to see what exactly was in the Player’s Handbook. Well I didn’t find it on Ebay but I did find the above novel. For $1.75, I had to get it.

It just came in the mail and I had to share.

First thing, it’s a choose your own adventure type book! I had no idea, it wasn’t mentioned in the Ebay description so I was more than pleasantly suprised! Plus it has illustrations in it! Yes! It’s a fun story with Lazer Tag championships, political intrigue and repressed peoples.

Here are some of the team member’s names:

Zip Logan
Jason Kare
Maru Asaki
Blaze Dekker
Sarra Lasong
and
Comach Walkingstick

And, here is the back cover:

In the high-tech world of 3010, the sport of Lazer Tag is sweeping the universe! On every planet, in every far-flung galaxy, space-age master marksmen compete for the right to represent their sector of the universe in the game that moves with the speed of light! Small wonder, then, that some fall victims to greed and corruption along the way…
Enter a new dimension of infrared technology and flashing LED lights, a world of high adventure and even higher stakes, a world with but one ultimate prize: the Intergalactic Championship!

The last of the ads from GiJoe#60.

And this is a movie I have wanted to see for quite a while. I love me some Josh Brolin.

It’s in my Netflix queue, may have to bump it up to #1…