davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2025

[davidd]

So how long is the Longest Main Street?

The "Longest Main Street" measures, according to online sources, which I quote: "a jaw-dropping 33 miles long."

I think there were maybe two filling stations along the entire length. The "town" of Island Park is said to be about 500 feet wide and 33 miles long.

https://allaboutamerica.com/idaho/the-lo...rough.html

I see that Canada claims to have "the longest Main Street in the world!"

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserRevi...tario.html

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: dispatch the PTFCo Away Team at once to conduct a photo-reconnaissance mission

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3 June - A Doll A Day 2025:

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Hasbro Star Wars First Order Trooper "Action" Figure

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I'm playin' out of my depth, here, with this Star Warz stuff. The Serious Collectors™ post pix of their awesome and impressive top-level acquisitions, but my latest purchase is this lame toy-ish thing.

The figure is pre-owned, which is shorthand for missing the weapon. Apparently this figure was originally marketed, I don't know when, with a blaster pistol as the only accessory. Good luck finding one complete with its blaster. Sometimes the blasters show up separately on eBay for more than the figures bring. Of course, the figures bring less than ten bucks (shipped!) so we're not exactly talkin' about the fat stacks level of collecting.

What's sad is that Hasbro marketed these things at all. I mean, this 11.5 inch figure has less articulation than most 3.75 inch figures. It's on par with the original 1970s Kenner figures, with one-direction joints at the shoulders and hips. Hasbro invented G.I. Joe, you know, the first fully articulated action figure. The "jointed doll" that spawned the entire "action figure" genre. Yet today, the uncaring profit-driven marketing behemoth that it is, Hasbro churns out stiff-limbed junk like this.

With its lack of action, this poor Star Warz dude doesn't even qualify as an action figure. It's a doll.

Oh well, for what it's worth, which ain't much, here it is: the beginnings of my Star Wars stormtrooper doll army.

Feel free to begin quaking in terror. Or laughter. Whichever.