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A.k.a. Bryan Lambert. Former/current blogger of youaredumb.net and oldnerd.net . Political commentary, light shitposting, professional wrestling, toy photography.

All typos due to a mix of low vision and hubris.
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GOT: Sci-Fi!

I’ve let a few fatal fluffies fly myself.

He’s cool. I wish he were a little crazier, but he’s cool. The cat loves the not-pictured energy ball.

This also works as #JoeVember2025 Day 18, “Crossover”

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In a greyish-blue corridor of the Delta space station from the Real American Hero cartoon, Sci-Fi (GI Joe Classified) has fallen to the ground, scooting backwards away from the Xenomorph (NECA Alien Romulus), firing his blue laser gun (isn’t that Cobra’s del?) at the alien. In the lower left corner, the note from the Pyramid of Darkness episode reads: THESE ADORABLE CREATURES ARE CALLED •FATAL FLUFFIES• IM SURE YOU WILL ENJOY THIER AMAZING "SPLIT" PERSONALITIES Sincerly yours
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Earliest one yet.

RNG Vault #4/787 is from 3/20/22, 10 days after I got the photo box I chose in order to start. One of my early ideas was “Dream Match”, your typical mashemup in a digital wrestling ring.

The second dream match? Orange Cassidy vs. The Hulk!

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The Hulk (Marvel Legends Age of Ultron) stands in a wrestling ring in a dark arena, having his right leg gently kicked by Orange Cassidy (Jazwares Unrivaled 2) who of course has his hands in his pockets and his sunglasses on.
November 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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GOT CHEAP: Goku!

Right after I decided that if I was gonna get a Goku I was gonna get this Goku, Best Buy put him on sale and sent me a $10 coupon. So I ain’t mad at a $20 Figuarts.

Didn’t come with effects but I managed. Somehow.

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On a green field, Goku (SH Figuarts Daima Son Goku) fires off a sort of Kamehameha wave made up of a long line of Street Fighter effects pieces - various orange, yellow, and blue energy effects stretching at an angle into the background. He’s alos surrounded by Blanka’s electricity effects stretching.
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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THE PENULTIMATE CAN.

My brother got me five cases of this for Christmas in… 2018, I think? After it had been discontinued but before it all vanished from online.

I’ve been stretching them out ever since, partly to savor them and partly to keep my pancreas from exploding.

One left after this.
A can of Pepsi 1893 original recipe cola - a tall, skinny black can.
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Why yes, I -do- in fact have at least four pictures of a giant wrestling turkey to post on Thanksgiving.

Did you even need to ask?

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Sami Zayn (WWE Ultimate) delivering a Heluva Kick in the front corner of a wrestling ring to The Gobbledygooker (also somehow WWE Ultimate) Sammy Guevara (AEW Ringside Exclusive) stands on top of a ladder, about to deliver a devastating aerial move on The Gobbledygooker, who lies prone at the base of the ladder. The short-lived AEW faction The Hounds Of Hell (Julia Hart, Brody King, Buddy Matthews) walk, backlit, through a dark tunnel, all leading dogs. They’re accompanied by their secret fourth member, The Gobbledygooker, also leading a dog. Mercedes Mone (Jazwares AEW standard version) does the CO Dance with Luke Cage (Marvel Legends 2-Pack) and The Gobbledygooker in an AEW ring.
November 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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This is how much Kimchi loves bing on the cati, FYI.

(The catio buts up against the house via the bathroom window - she demands out, experiences weather, then comes back in when she’s had enough (these days like two minutes tops).
Pawprints in a snow-covered catio shelf, showing evidence of a brief walk and a brief hunched loaf.
November 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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2025 was a special year for “me”, as “I” slipped in and got away with all three elements needed to power the MASS Device (MASS Device not even sold separately).

Here, “I? get the first element from Breaker, who’s busy being boring. RNG Vault 664/784, 7/21/25.

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As Breaker stands near a console in the MASS device room in the background, blowing a bubble and wearing boring green fatigues, an X-Wing pilot with a goatee and the longest hair Selfie Series would allow runs off with a canister filled with a gold element.
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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ALIEN
VERSUS
PREDATOR
Kimchi, a small yellow and orange cat, knocks her nemesis, a NECA Alien figure on a stand, off of a tray table with a collapsed photo box on it. Her paw is raised post-push and the alien is right at the border between tipping and falling.
November 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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BTS. A folding screen, my Big Folding Table, room lighting plus my LED panel. This is the main reason I did four pics - this setup could only be up for a couple hours - had to make the most of it.

I got the Surfer balanced on that Mezco stand ONCE. The rest of the time he had to be on the table.
A small living room - spaceships hang from the ceiling over a TV and entertainment center on the left. A brown wooden folding table takes up the bulk of the shot, with a folding screen along the back and wrapping around the right side. On the table is a Silver Surfer figure balanced precariously on a MAFEX flight stand and a very large Bulbasaur.
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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GOT: Silver Surfer!

Exposition in the replies

This Surferå is perfect for me. Just the right amount of shiny, pinless, six hands, better than average articulation for ML.

He heralds BULBACTUS. Surfer and Bulbactus shot at the same time every time. Actual scale.

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The Silver Surfer (Marvel Legends) flies toward Earth, seen from a rear 3/4 view, trailing cosmic energy alongside BULBACTUS (giant plush amusement park prise Bulbasaur). The Earth is doomed. Silver Surfer, fliging in front of Bulbactus, draws closer to the Earth (bottom third of the screen), just cresting the horizon, shot from a high angle. The Silver Surfer and Bulbactus enter the Earth’s atmosphere. The Earth takes up most of the screen, Bulbactus and Surfer descend towards it at an angle from the left side. The Silver Surfer hovers in the foreground over New York City, standing solemnly on his board, hand raised, palm out. Behind him, Bulbasaur looms over the city, casting his shadow on the buildings and parks below.
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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RNG Vault 060/784, from way back on 1/16/23, is another in the Power Rangers episode sequence I did - fighting Putties in the park, featuring the Black Ranger.

I basically shot six fights and made six pics with some in the bg and one in the fg.

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In an Angel Grove park, the Black Ranger strikes a Putty in the chest with his Power Axe in mid0air. Behind him, the other Rangers engage in their own Putty fights. All fusing Power Rangers Lightning Collection figures.
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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I don’t want this #VintageToyTuesday picture to make you horny, baby. But it might. You’ve been warned.

More 9” dolls from the “roughly the turn of the millennium don’t make me look it up” collection, this time from Austin Powers, definitely bought at either TRU or Suncoast.
9” Austin Powers dolls (l-r): Dr. Evil in his gray jumpsuit, Dr. Evil in his shiny silver jumpsuit with an identically dressed Mini Me at his feet, Austin Powers in his classic blue suit.
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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GOT: Comic morbius!

I’ll show YOU how to vampire, kid-friendly impostor!

Didn’t need this but the two-pack with Six Arm Spidey was better and cheaper than the single, so now I have a gummy-joint, old-body comic style Morbius. Plasma-sucking hands is funnier.

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In ana nimated New York park at night, Morbius (Marvel Legends comic version) sneakes up behind Morbius (Spider-Man: TAS version, grabbing him by the shoulder and arm near a tree as he goes to bite Animated Morbius on the neck.
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Light posting schedule today on account of having been murdered by Pyramid Head.
An intersection in the Minneapolis west metro, startlingly and abnormally foggy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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The dumbest possible shit at the cheapest possible price is as much a part of my collecting as the coolest possible shit at whatever price I’m willing to pay is.

RNG Vault 474/780, from 12/10/24, is the Gobbledygooker / Egg 2-pack I got for like fifteen bucks.

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The Gobbledygooker, a wrestling turkey from the early 90’s, emerges from his giant egg on a table with the Survivor Series logo and a bunch of question marks on the frontt of it. The contents of the egg were a mystery, yuo see. Nobody was happy with what came out of it at the time but history has proven… something.
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Introduce yourself with four spacehips.

(Honestly this almost was the TIE Interceptor 4 times but I thought better of it.)
TIE Interceptor from Star Wars. Starfury from Babylon 5. The Satellite of Love from MST3K. The Cylon Raider from Battlestar Galactica, the proper old on where people weren’t sad and drunk 24/7.
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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GOT: Six Arm Spidey!

Lucked out twice with this. Got the two-pack cheap after wishlisting the single one thinking it was the newer one, but this is the newer one.

Also the old woman in red ended up looking like “what the fuck am I supposed to do here?”

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A scene from Hands Across America, an event I am old enough to remember, where a bunch of people hold hands along a road looking VERY early 90’s. A dude in white pants and a blue plaid shirt is holding hands with SixArm Spider-Man (Marvel Legends 2-Pack), who’s holding hands with Sprial (Marvel Legends retro card), who’s holding hands with Goro (Storm Collectibles Mortal Kombat XI), who’s trying to hold hands with an old woman in matching red shirt and pants who can’t reach his hand, but is holding the hand of a long line of people holding hands stretching into the background.
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The commitment to doing a pic for every fig I get can be tough because I don’t buy every fig with photos in mind. Sometimes I get figs because they’re cool and get cheap.

So I paierd Black Krssanthan with some Fortnite weirdos in RNG Vault 472/779, on 12/8/24.

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Black Krssanthan (Black Series Book of Boba Fett) faces off against Mancakes (Fortnite Victory Royale), Potassius Peels (Fortnite Victory Royale)and Beef Boss (Fortnite Legendary) on a flat Fortnite area with a cabin and some rocks.
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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OK. Full Gear out of the way.

GOT: Doop!

Didn’t need Maximum Deadpool, set myself a price, put a search on eBay, got him for that price. I like Doop.

What do you call a Bob 2-Pack Deadpool with an eBay Doop? MINIMUM DEADPOOL.

It made me want a Doop, baby…

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Deadpool (Marvel Legends Deadpool and Bob The Hydra Goon 2-Pack” sits on the freeway railing from the first Deadpool movie, doodling, with Doop (Marvel Legends Maximum Deadool) looking over his shoulder. See, it’s the scene where “SHoop” plays and “Shoop” rhymes with “Doop”. The Marvel Legends “Maximum Series” logo has been tweaked so it now says “MINIMUM SERIES”.
November 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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He fights with his clow.

He protects his beautiful face with his mask.

These are the things that make Vega Vega.

Also he is very sexually open.

RNG Vault #687/779, August 15 of this year, the culmination of my nearly-all-practical Street Fighter Red Tape run.

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Vega (Jada Toys) sits across the desk from “Pete”, the office guy for the Street Fighter tournament. He’s holding his mask in his right hand and gazing at the claw in his left as he expounds on his fighting style.
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Oh, it very much depends.
6” Silver Surfer, standing next to a plastic self checkout toy that is arguably a smidge too small for him. Silver Surfer, holding a fake “Lunchables”-style package that is larger than his entire torso.
November 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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RAGE TEMPORARILY ABATED.
Packaged Teeny Tines boxes acquired from Five Below: Gamer Essentials, Self Checkout, and High Tea.
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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GOT: Warbow!

All hali Warbow, lord of the Green Boys!

Big fall for translucent green shit from Hasbro, TBH.

He’s clear and green and, as previously mentioned, his weapon is super soft and gummy which is a problem. And why it’s not in the shot. Otherwise fine.

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Warbow (Marvel Legends) sits in a throne made of glowing green bones, a disc of glowing green snake shapes behind his head and a glowing green skull trailing gas in his upturned left hand. A green translucent wolf (GI Joe Classified Ghost Viper 2-pack) sits next to the throne as the Ghost Viper with his wolf head kneels, presenting a glowing green ball; Crystal Ball (GI Joe Classified) with wolf hands and a Cthulhu head prostrates himself.f, and the very top of a green snake can also be seen.
November 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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please show:

✨ the first piece you did in 2025
✨ your favourite piece of the year
✨ your most popular piece
✨ your most recent piece

Favorite was tough but I had to go with the one that’s most representative of what I think of as “my whole deal”.
Digital art featuring action figures. Outside of Snake Mountain, Evil-Lyn on a balcony of the castle shines a beam of red light on the ground below. Also on the ground below, Skeletor clings desperately to Panthor as Panthor chases the red light on the ground. Digital art featuring action figures. Ka-Zar does a big ol’ stripper dance at a club called “The Savage Land” (according to the neon sign on the back wall). A variety of pop culture* characters enjoy the show as Aunt May stuffs a handfull of dollarbucks into his loincloth. *Brak’s mom, Iceman, Teela, Julia Hart, Clea, Rita Repulsa, Aunt May, Deadpool, She Hulk, Black Widow Digital art featuring action figures. A scene from AEW backstage during the pandemic era, a red leather booth with a round table in the middle and members of the Dark Order (Evil Uno, Stu Grayson, Alex Reynolds, John Silver) sitting in the booth and Anna Jay sitting on top of the booth between Reynolds and Silver. Brodie Lee, in a red suit, angrily throws rolled up papers at them. Digital art featuring action figures. Iceman, Captain Cold, and the 60’s Mr. Freeze relax on blue pool lounge chairs in an ice cave, holding frosty drinks. Iceman is ice-blasting Captain Cold’s drink.
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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This is still top five, easy, on the Ideas I’ve Ever Had list. So much so that this is the New Skills Remake of the original I did in mid-2023.

RNG Vault 522/777, from Jan 30, probably does too much while the original did too little and maybe someday I’ll revisit.

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The climactic ark opening scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, except instead of Indiana Jones tied to a pole in the foreground with Marian (Indiana Jones Adventure Series), it’s Pac-Man (SH Figuarts), and the Nazis are all running around and screaming because they’re being attacked by swooping Pac-Man ghosts released from the ark (Indiana Jones Adventure Series ) on the altar.
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM