Tupa's Treasures

This week’s League topic is:

What is something you absolutely hate or love or just don’t get, or maybe it’s something you have never even seen or read. What is your deepest, darkest geek confession?

I had to think a bit on this and here are my answers:

First, the bad: Things I don’t get, don’t like or are not interested in:

Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson, Robert Dinero, The Avengers, Marvel/DC Comics, Almost all Reality TV, the Oscars(and all awards shows), and Celebrity fashion, perfume and children’s books

Now the good: Things I really, really like:

The latest Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears and My Little Pony  incarnations as well as iCarly and SpongeBob, the Smurfs (the comics are fantastic), Harry Potter and the TinkerBell movies

So there it is, my geek confessions.

For more geek confessions check out these fellow League members:

Memories of Toymorrow speaks of gaming…
Surfing Pizza mentions gaming as well, specifically Mario…
Flashlights Are Something to Eat likes the New Monkees!

I started a tradition last year of making a piece of art for the kids birthdays.
Ariana’s birthday last year was Indiana Jones soI made her a picture of herself and some Indiana Jones characters.

This year she turned 6 and had a My Little Pony party so I made this for her:

So I had this great idea: I would find an old Presto Magix transfer set and show my 5 year old daughter the lost art of pencil transfers. I used to love these when I was kid but at some point in time they disappeared. So I went on Ebay and searched through all the 80s Presto Magix. There was quite a great selection but also pretty pricey. I finally found a Return of the Jedi Ewok village set for $4.50 with free shipping: Perfect!

When it arrived in the mail I explained to my daughter how it worked and we opened it up. It felt pretty cool opening up a Star Wars product 30 years after it was made and as I took the plastic wrap off I could swear I was back in 1984. 
I showed my daughter how you have to rub the pencil on the back and the picture sticks the paper background.

So I tired one but it didn’t work. Hmm…Then I tried another, same thing.

Well, apparently the 30 year old transfers were too old and had lost their sticking power-bummer. Hard to show your daughter the magic of rub-on transfers when they don’t work.

 I was so excited to use these transfers; oh well, I gave it a shot.

This weeks League challenge from CoolandCollected is:

What pop culture heroes or stories would make for the ultimate crossover–think along the lines of Han Solo meeting up with Firefly’s Mal on a smuggling run.

After some thought I came up with three crossovers I would like to see or would have liked to have seen. I tried to keep it simple and stick with TV/movies, if I threw in books and comics and cartoons this list would never end. So here goes:

1- Colt Seavers, Howie and Jody from The Fall Guy TV series pairing up with The A-Team for one awesome 2-part season finale. I really, really like both of these shows and it seems like a no-brainer to have the Fall Guy cast appearing on an episode of The A-Team. If this had happened back in the day it would have been so rad!!

2- The cast of Tales of the Gold Monkey and the Frank Buck from Bring ‘em Back Alive. I found out about these two shows within the past couple years and they both are among my top favorite  TV shows. They both take place right before WWII so having the characters from one show appear on the other not only makes sense but it totally rocks! If you haven’t seen either of these shows I can’t recommend them enough.

3- And my third pick is Sam and Dean from Supernatural fighting the undead with Rick from The Mummy. The Winchester brothers are freakin’ cool and Rick is a great action hero so if you could have the brothers go back in time to the 1920s and fight mummies with Rick and his family, that would be the greatest! Or even if it turns out Rick is their Great-Great-Grandfather or something. I thought about putting the bros with the Ghostbusters, which would be real fun but I think I’d rather see them with Rick.

So there are the top three that came to mind. The more and more I think about it the bigger the list gets. It’s really fun to think about which of your favorite characters would be fun to see with each other. Some Honorable mentions:

Magnum P.I. and the A-Team
The Highwayman and Mad Max
Buck Rogers with Battlestar Galactica(either series)

Check out some of the other great responses from League members:

SideShow Cinema has a great idea and I’m suprised they haven’t made this into a comicbook yet…

Memories of Toymorrow has quite a fun list of characters!

Branded in the 80s has some thrillers that fit perfectly together!

I have been out of rotation for a bit and missed some great League assigments but I’m back with this weeks:

Besides the Batmobile, what is the sweetest ride cruising the streets of pop culture?

This one is pretty tough, there are so many awesome “rides” to pick from so I cheated and picked a few:

Of course the General Lee is a fave as well as any number of great Muscle cars that have been used in the movies and TV but here are a few different ones:

The car from Condorman! Not only is awesome but if I remember correctly it’s a boat too. I’d even wear the Condorman costume!

Bandit’s car! Oh man, this is one sweet ride! I live in a really small town and a couple years ago someone down the road had one of these for sale-man did I want to buy it…

And who wouldn’t want a speeder bike? Still one of my favorite parts of Return of the Jedi. These would be sooooo much fun to ride on. They’d also be sooooo dangerous so I’d even settle for the toy version, I would have loved to have had one of those as a kid, heck I still would!

Well I could do this all day so I’ll stop right here. That last one was a bit of a cheat but I had to include it.

Check out these other great answers from some of my League pals:

 Shawn at Branded in the 80s has some great, great picks! (I won’t spoil it!)

Haxbee has a great choice (hint: green) and some awesome photos

This is one of my favorite cartoons! So much fun and the voice work is great!

My artist/writer friend Craig Pirrall who lives in Japan just sent me this unexpected goodie box:

Two fun books and a wonderful assormtent of Japanese capsule toys! One of the books is a graphic novel called Astro City and I just finished reading it; real fun, lighthearted superhero stories.  These capsule toys will fit in very nicely with my collection, if I can keep my kids from taking them The purple robot came unassembled and in about 15 parts. The orange robot actually shoots out a metal ball-bearing and you can take the shield off his arm and use it for a target to shoot at. The Star Wars one is really cute as is the little puppy and stuffed figure. My daughter has her eye on the puppy one..

By now you probably all know that I am a huge Star Wars fan. So I decided to make a poster, but I made it in the style of the original trilogy toy card backs.  I had so much fun with this poster, especially trying to come up with different body styles and poses for each of the 24 characters depicted. The barcode and Proof of Purchase is actually scanned from an original card back.
This poster is just for Star Wars: A New Hope, if I make enough money to cover the printing costs I would like to make a poster for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi…and maybe the prequels too.
Each poster is 13″x19″ printed on 100lb gloss book and comes shipped in a mailing tube.

Get yours for only $7 + $3 S/H!!

Finally made some art of one of my favorite movies: