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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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Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 42m

Earliest one yet!

RNG Vault 13/734 is one of my earliest gotchapics for the Marvel Legends Firestar that I think I got off eBay.

This led to having two Firestars when the Amazing Friends set went on clearance and thus two Ms. Lions in my Dogs Playing Poker homage.

#toyphotography
#actionfigures

Firestar, with Ms. Lion in the crook of her left arm, stands “in” the apartment lair from Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 1h

Just so y’all know, this conversation saved my hide.

I had somehow dropped the Jada and Akuma preorders into my cart yesterday and forgot to check out, thinking I had successfully gotten the preorders in.

So when checking out with a very restrained number of perorders, I found my mistake.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 1h

We need to stop this thread before there are four new pre-orders for Chatsworth.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 1h

Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about that Poe. I need him so he and Vincent Price can have raven-offs.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, do not get me started on Longbox Heroes They’re making the Tick(s) of my dreams and when I saw the prototype of Chairface Chippendale at SDCC I almost fainted from joy.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 2h

Oh god nobody look at my cart right now. I SAID DON’T LOOK AT IT.

They’re all preorders and preorders don’t count.

There’s a werewolf Rocketeer.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 2h

Value is a deeply individual and personal judgment.

Also, those people are crazy. The closest comparison is GI Joe Classified, and despite being halfway to legally blind, even I can tell the paint jobs are so much better on Monster Force. All those paint hits cost money.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t know what you’re worried about. I’m clearly proof that you can dip in, grab one or two, and stop, being perfectly satisfied and cone.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 2h

Oh shit. I was already thinking about getting him because he’s a werewolf doctor who comes with two more Canisters of Awesome but I didn’t make that connection.

DOOMED.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, sweet baby Jesus, I didn’t realize that wave doesn’t come up in a search on Operation Monster Force.

I’m doomed.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 3h

Heya, I think him and the Crimson Sleepwalker are at the top of my “next time I lack impulse control” list.

If on ly Four Horsemen hadn’t just dropped those zombies…

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 3h

That not one single person, whenever someone makes this claim, has the stones to shout “THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE!” is a permanent stain on our society.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 3h

I pushed the elbows harder than I really shoulda to get the top half of the double to pop loose but I got away with it even though my brain was yelling at me STOP GET THE HAIR DRYIER YOU DON’T WANT TO DEAL WITH CUSTOMER SERVICE.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 6h

Oooh, some Monster Force Season 2, I presume?

If you don’t mind spoilers, who’d you get? I got my first ones yesterday (Caligari, Donner) and am super happy with them.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 8h

OK, from Hasbro’s GI Joe reveals at NYCC:

I’m still in for Lifeline - the medical accessories push it over the edge.

I’m on the fence about Big Lob and Cobra-La Royal Guard. The organic/bug aesthetics don’t sing to me but it is absolute insanity. Lob is… specific in a way I haven’t decided on.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 8h

I didn’t do a strict recreations for two reasons. First, I wanted Mariah shown from the front so I have them facing the wrong way, and second, Toni is part of the Rubber Jacket club so I had to choose between jacket and hug.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 8h

GOT: Mariah May!

“What makes you think that I’ve forgotten?” Best moment of the year and easily top ten of all time. Reinterpreted here for the first/last/only figure of Mariah May.

She’s solid! Hair’s a bit monochrome for my taste but the rest is good.

#toyphotography
#actionfigures
#wrestlesky

Mariah May stands in the middle of the ring at Daly’s Place during Collision, her title belt over her right shoulder, clearly disgusted at Toni Storm, in her red and black and a black cap, resting her head on Mariah’s bosom.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 8h

Oh, man, I love this.

Reposted by Oldnerd

JoséV @jovcaste.bsky.social · 9h

Banded together from remote galaxies, are thirteen of the most sinister villains of all time... The Legion of Doom!

#DCComics #LexLuthor #Bizarro #Brainiac #Cheetah #Giganta #Riddler #Scarecrow #Toyman #Sinestro #Grodd #BlackManta #CaptainCold #SolomonGrundy #ToyPhotography #Zine #SuperFriends

Re-enactment of the "Challenge of the Super Friends" intro, using action figures.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 9h

This is a very “just me” thing but it is hilarious to me that the MOTU Origins 200X figs are branded Cartoon Collection.

Which means there are now Cartoon Collection figs for a cartoon I give no shits about.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 9h

My attitude towards Indivisible and the No Kings protests are… complicated. Which is why I don’t talk about them much.

That said, the hissyfit about the next one makes me reevaluate my thoughts on their effectiveness.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 10h

Nobody tell Four Horsemen that if they did four figures “inspired” by the four mains from the first Gauntlet that I would snap them up in a microsecond.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 11h

It’s weird but also very au courant that the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 is the most This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things thing possible.

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 13h

It’s too long to actually use, but my spooky version username would have to be “M. Night Shyamalan’s Old Nerd”, right?

Oldnerd @youaredumb.bsky.social · 1d

On the PLAUSIBLE end of the spectrum.

RNG Vault 079/733, from Feb 3, 2023, is the THIRD in the “Danhausen Lifts A Series Of Increasingly Improbable Things”

Out of 14. And it’s Squirrel Girl.

So far these posts have hit #3, #6 (Shao Kahn), and #7 (Darth Vader).

#toyphotography
#actionfigures

Danhausen (Heels and Faces) holds Squirrel Girl (Marvel Legends) over his head while a squirrel of indeterminate size and foregrounding looks on from a nearby tree.