davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2025

[davidd]

Hey!  You did a flash effect!  Pew pew pew!!
Light sabers next?! 

My "pew pew" effect is not nearly as convincing as your light saber glow!

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27 May - A Doll A Day 2025:

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Polly Carter ex-plores a long-abandoned former lair of

the diabolical super-villain Doctor Diablos.

And on that thrilling note, I shall be Away From Keyboard for a week or so, with a projected return date around the beginning of June.

[Alliecat]

I thought your pew pew looked pretty good!

Another adventure? Hope your AFK is for a fun reason. Safe travels!
(You gotta get a phone with which to do field dispatches!)

[davidd]

Hope your AFK is for a fun reason. 

Yes, entertaining reasons!

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28 May - A Doll A Day 2025:

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Long Weekend for Mister Bear

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Mister Bear had a fun but exhausting few days entertaining a party of holiday travelers which included three children of prime teddy-cuddling age.

Mister Bear is a circa 2002 Dan Dee "100th Anniversary" teddy bear who was rescued from a dumpster about eight years ago and who now serves as a camp cabin host.

[davidd]

29 May - A Doll A Day 2025:

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Northern Entrance to Yellowstone National Park, Gardiner, Montana

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Northern Entrance to Yellowstone National Park, Roosevelt Arch, Gardiner, Montana

[Alliecat]

What a cute vintage-looking setting for Mr Bear. My dining room set has the same marble-y looking wood as that chair! I remember you rescuing him -- glad to see he's getting some love!

Yay for travels! I would love to see that part of the country.
(Not for a while now though!! )

[davidd]

What a cute vintage-looking setting for Mr Bear.  My dining room set has the same marble-y looking wood as that chair! 

The miniature rocking chair belonged to my grandmother, whose parents received it as a gift for her three months after she was born in 1912. The finish on the chair is a painted finish, sometimes called "stipple," intended to resemble oak. It was a common finish in the early 1900s. By the 1980s the painted faux-oak finish had fallen out of favor, and many "antiques dealers" were stripping off the painted finish to reveal the plain wood beneath. This little chair has survived in remarkably good condition considering how many children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren it has endured.

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30 May - A Doll A Day 2025:

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Among the Geyesers at Yellowstone Park - Sawmill Geyser

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Spasmodic Geyser

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After twenty years of travels, Pinky Street dollies still manage to fall down as if on cue.

[davidd]

31 May - A Doll A Day 2025:

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Among the Geysers at Yellowstone Park - Upper Geyser Basin

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Old Faithful as an eruption cycle winds down

[davidd]

1 June - A Doll A Day 2025:

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Hotel Room, Gardiner, Montana

[davidd]

2 June - A Doll A Day 2025:

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"Longest Main Street in America" - Island Park, Idaho

[Alliecat]

Cool pictures! That would be neat to see.
So how long is the Longest Main Street?
Yes, I could google. I'm just kinda exhausted these days
Are you back, or still on the road?

That chair is quite a treasure! Thanks for the extra information about the finish; not something I'd have ever thought to look up.

[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.

[davidd]

4 June - A Doll A Day 2025:

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ROW ROW ROW

"Dude! What's with the spoon?"

The Hasbro 1/6-scale First Order stormtroopers rehearse for next year's Kissamee Kapers talent show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2yA6op1rf4

[Alliecat]

Sounds like the longest main street would be an interesting drive. Can you imagine bureacurats nowadays approving zoning for a "town" shaped like that!
You might enjoy Anthony Sejourne (can't make the accents on the e's here) on Flickr, with his daily photos of Stormy Stormtrooper. I really like his photography -- some of them are so very simple and yet with great composition, and always amusing.
I guess the guy with the spoon is up Death Star Canyon without a paddle?... or.... something