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Keith J. Rainville

@keithrainville.bsky.social

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Curator of VintageNinja.net and FromPartsUnknown.net, champion of lucha libre and vintage Mexican horror, 70s 'star kid' and vintage toy collector, obsessed with barbarian action figures and somehow paying the rent marketing opera in Los Angeles...

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Lili Chin she/her @lilichin.bsky.social · 5h

What are you doing on October 18th? These are FREE to download an print. #nokings
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Protest signs - digital downloads

FREE downloadable images that you can print and use at protest events or to stick on walls. I originally hand-painted these on black foam board (see photos) but I have now redrawn these so that they a...

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Keith J. Rainville @keithrainville.bsky.social · 9h

Bought the Classified Desert Scorpion pretty much just for the giant scorpion, and he does not disappoint!

Keith J. Rainville @keithrainville.bsky.social · 1d

Name an Italian more worthy of an American holiday than Columbus.

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Captain Midnight @thefilmfair.bsky.social · 2d

New addition to the bookshelves... a revised and expanded hardback version of THESE FISTS BREAK BRICKS by Grady Hendrix & Chris Poggiali

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Keith J. Rainville @keithrainville.bsky.social · 2d

Yes but a decade previous. Especially in Britain...

Keith J. Rainville @keithrainville.bsky.social · 2d

I still collect yellow 6-wheel ATV toys to this day:

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Keith J. Rainville @keithrainville.bsky.social · 2d

If you were a young kid in the mid-70s you f'n dreamed of a 6-wheel ATV, the future the GI Joe Adventure promised us but it never arrived...

welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social @welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social · 2d

#vinatgead #1970s

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Keith J. Rainville @keithrainville.bsky.social · 3d

Still fidgeting around with the Nicholas Hammond Spidey.

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙.˚⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆ @dungeonlust.com · Oct 23

Art by • Sébastien Grenier

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Keith J. Rainville @keithrainville.bsky.social · 4d

Kaiju and demons and ghosts galore in two different versions of SATOMI HAKKENDEN, both equally effects heavy but from different decades.
vintageninja.net/monster-vs-n...

Keith J. Rainville @keithrainville.bsky.social · 4d

I can't remember the last time there were four figures in a Legends wave I wanted, but here's this one quietly sneaking up on me. Werewolf by Night and Phantom Rider are must haves, WWII Wolverine is getting kit bashed into WWII Steve Rogers, and Warbow? Sure, why not...

preternia @preternia.com · 4d

New Marvel Legends Executioner BAF wave is up for preorder on Amazon - buff.ly/TzLnpi7 #ad

Keith J. Rainville @keithrainville.bsky.social · 5d

Some nice inside-baseball info on ROTN here that you don't typically see in retro-reviews. I particularly like his line about Enter the Ninja creating the look, and Revenge speaking the language. youtu.be/clG1O-VkIsI?...

How a $700K Cannon Film Made Ninjas Mainstream!

YouTube video by Grindhouse Gospel

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Keith J. Rainville @keithrainville.bsky.social · 6d

Scored this sweet-ass t-shirt transfer from the mid-80s. So tempted to take this to a shirt shop but will more likely just frame it.

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Keith J. Rainville @keithrainville.bsky.social · 6d

or even...

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Keith J. Rainville @keithrainville.bsky.social · 6d

Drop something SKELETAL

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Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 7d

The Legend of Ninja Kamui is streaming on Tubi!

Tubi Streams The Legend of Ninja Kamui Anime

First 15 episodes stream with English subtitles

www.animenewsnetwork.com

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Doc 🏄🌊📎 @doctor-multiverse.com · 8d

Origins of the #NINJA / #SHINOBI - The HISTORY of Japan’s SECRET Assassins - YouTube

Origins of the NINJA/SHINOBI - The HISTORY of Japan’s SECRET Assassins

Let’s be honest: It’s almost impossible NOT to enjoy some good ol’ Ninja shenanigans! Whether you grew up with black and white movies from the mid 1900s, video games from the 80s, or 2000s anime, these sneaky assassins dressed in black and otherwise known as “Shinobi” were probably at least a small

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Keith J. Rainville @keithrainville.bsky.social · 9d

Refugee parts from long-forgotten toy lines make for good shelf decor. This is the Alamut Gate playlet from Prince of Persia, which while scaled for 3" figs, is passable for larger scales. Rather good paint job on it too...

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Keith J. Rainville @keithrainville.bsky.social · 9d

Think I'll post some old Halloween-centric stuff from the VintageNinja archive this month. Here's a look at STRIKE OF THE JAGUMA, in which ninja Satomi Kotaro battles demon masked hordes and their muscle/enforcer — who is either an albino mountain gorilla or a yeti.

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 10d

Speaking of writing advice, I feel like everything I've been thinking and talking about over the past few days can be boiled down to this.

Go ahead and write the weird shit. Because (waves hands around at everything) at this point, why the fuck not?

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Keith J. Rainville @keithrainville.bsky.social · 10d

I better see a Professor Gorilla shilling burritos at some point...

Keith J. Rainville @keithrainville.bsky.social · 10d

Saturday Mood

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 10d

Just found an auction for the original Averardo Ciriello cover art to Lucifera #165, with a woman punching Lucifera in a red-haired three-breasted rage.

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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 10d

Great story. Can't overstate the desperation in creative industries right now. Nearly every person I know who previously had a viable, or even lucrative, career in media/entertainment is in a financial panic, leaving longtime apartments, desperately taking any work they can find. It is really bad.

Ben Fritz @benfritz.bsky.social · 12d

The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...

L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie

Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and Los Angeles’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread.

www.wsj.com

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