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[clevernamehere]

The Story: A little while back, the fine folks of Hasbro passed along a box of swag to pass along.  

The Question: What do we do with it?  

What followed was a civil war.  A contest for our upcoming birthday?  Photos?  Text?  Captions? A system of registration was implemented.  Dissidents were rounded up and sent to another dimension.  Evil took hold.  

Then dawned a bright age.  A contest was born.

The Contest:  Tell us why your collection rocks.  Any collection, any size, anything goes.

It's not about the size of the collection or how expensive it is, but in how great it is.  It can be a well-manicured collection of autographs, an exhaustive collection of fast food toys.  Maybe your collection is just a bunch of different versions of Spider-Man.  

This contest isn't necessarily about an inventory of what you've got.  You might have a hundred thousand books BUT what you really want to talk about is that handful of first editions you would never part with.

The Rules: Describe your collection.  The one that rocks.  You've got 1000 words, of 500 words and one picture.  Once the submission deadline passes,  all of the collections are going to be entered into a poll and you fine folks have to vote for the winner.

The poll results will be kept secret until the end.  Everyone gets TWO votes.  Most people will vote for themselves.  With two votes, you can still vote for yourself, but you also get to show some love for another great collection.

Failure to participate means you're giving up free stuff, and come on, who doesn't want free stuff?

The Prizes:

First Prize: Electronic Wolverine claw
Second Prize: 6 inch Iron Monger figure from the Iron Man Movie Line
Third Prize: Marvel Universe 3.75 inch Iron Man figure

The Deadline: Pictures and stories are due by March 20, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. Once entrants have been collected and entered into the poll, voting runs until March 27, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.

The Fine Print: Board moderators are out of the running (which means myself, Wwwyzerd, Clanure, Livedog, Really_rather_not_nice and Toxin don't get to share.)  Everyone not listed above is free to compete.

The Disclosures: Oh, and the FTC hates pay-per-blogging so we have to disclose that these prizes come from the fine folks at Hasbro.  

[clevernamehere]

Oh, and two more things, (1) you can post your entry here in this thread, and (2) you can offer comments and support to each other in this thread too.  If someone posts something awesome, feel free to let them know (but try to keep your votes to yourself!)

[really_rather_not_nice]

While I am technically not elligible to win these very, very cool toys, I am obviously the only man among a bunch of little girly men (except for MsMarvel and any other chicks on here who I guess are... dudes?) because I am the only one willing to tell the world WHY MY PEZ DISPENSOR COLLECTION ROCKS!!!

Why My Pez Dispensor Collection Rocks
By Really Rather Not Nice

My collection of PEZ dispensors could totally kick your collection's ass. Why? Because it rocks, that's why. PEZ dispensors are a literally unending world of recognizable figures from movies, cartoons, video games, sports, and comic books, among other forms of media. It's a veritable cornucopia of pop-culture as Muppets, Peanuts, Super Heroes, Star Wars Bounty hunters, dinosaurs, Holiday Figures, and pop Icons.

My collection includes Boba Fett. Yes. Soak that in dear readers,... Boba... effing... Fett.
Who else is inlcuded? Iron Man? Hell yes. Fred Flintstone? Damn Straight. Spongebob Squarepants? Does he live in a pineapple under the sea? Yizzle-to-my-shizzle. Inspector Clousseau? Oui. HE'S one of the few that will never come out of their original packaging... because he ROCKS!!!

But RRNN, you say, these are some of the features to be found in almost any other respectable PEZ dispensor collection... what really sets yours apart?

How about no less than SEVEN different Halloween PEZ, some of which GLOW IN THE DARK!!!! Eyey-meltingly cool!!! How about two special-edition crystal Holiday PEZ (Santa and Frosty)? Are you shocked and awed? No? How about a stuffed puppy PEZ? Or a NASCAR set of car and Tractor trailor? How about my complete set of special edition PEZ mint dispensors featuring the paintings of Norman Rockwell? Hmmm? Well? Are you experiencing hysterical blindenss yet? No? How about the PLAIN BLUE PEZ dipensor that has no adornments other than the FRIKKIN PEZ LOGO!!! How about a Purple Heart PEZ dispensor with the word "Prince" on it? Take a minute to soak that in, bitches. It's a PURPLE HEART THAT SAYS "PRINCE". There is no amount of irony that can explain this. You can start breathing again now.

But by far, the crown jewel of my collection are the two keychains. One... is a mini PEZ dispensor that looks like an elephant... this one is less exciting than the other which is... the Angriest, foulest, most satanic monkey this frightened planet has ever belched forth from its volcanic loins.

And this, dear, dear Rumor Buster readers, is why my PEZ collection kicks gravel in all your other collections faces and totally ROOOOOCKS!!!

Oh, and I had my daughter help take a picture of my collection, ans she's not really dead.

Oh... and if this has gone over 500 words... well that's too bad, because I don't get to win that sweet-ass Wolverine Claw. BUT YOU ALL DO!!! So post your damn collections already!!!

[JesseVader08]

Awesome writeup!  And even better picture! 

You may have inspired me to actually get off my ass and do a submission...

[TheTooN]

Good effort mate ! I had no idea they made so many of these thing's, made me hungry as well

[really_rather_not_nice]

And I actually forgot to mention that there are an odd number of Klikz in there as well, which are sort of like PEZ dispensors, but dispense Smarties instead. Those are where any Nintendo-related characters came from, the Wii remote, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, Popeye and Olive Oyl, and the Fantastic Four. (They're all down in the leg region in the second picture.)

[JesseVader08]

They dispense SMARTIES??? Oh my freakin' gawd, that's awesome.

[really_rather_not_nice]

They really are. I was kind of snobby about not buying them at first, because I was a PEZ purist, but then I saw that was the only way I was getting the F4 characters, and I caved. It was cool though, because I liked the Popeye and Nintendo ones, and then it was also the only way to get Transformer characters. What's weird is they did some movie-themed Iron Man ones, but it seems like PEZ has the market cornered on Iron Man candy dispensors now... It's weird that Marvel has their properties split between the two in any case.

I'm... probably... overanalysing this.

[wwwyzerd]

I'm... probably... overanalysing this.

Coming this summer.  The sequel to the blockbuster hit "I...may...have overexplained that a bit."  Look for it at a Rumor Buster near you!

[Agent Spectre]

I love how this thread has become a discussion about PEZ. The UK produces some awesome dispensers that never see the light of day over here in the states. Actually, the UK gets ALL sorts of neat stuff that America just doesn't care about enough to produce. *sighs*
That is an awesome collection though, and even more awesome write up.


I'd submit an entry.. but your asking me to pick just ONE collection. That, my friend, is called heartbreak.

[clevernamehere]

RRNN: Awesome entry... now I need to get one going too! 

PS everyone: free toys.  Free equals awesome. How much free stuff do you get on a normal day?

[TheTooN]

TooN's Classic Marvel Figurine Collection.

These have been discussed elsewhere on the forums but for anyone who is not familiar, here is a brief synopsis.

Unique lead sculpture's of Marvel's finest, hand painted and supplied in a protective box , Each issue comes complete with full colour magazine containing tons of great info on each character. A regular release once a fortnight + Special's and Mega special's as scheduling allow's.

The collection is currently at issue 118 which mean's it's been running for over 4 year's now and has recently been given another extension to 180 ! How many other lines have run for so long and already have the next 2 years mapped out or have the sheer diversity shown here.

I spent a couple of hour's this morning removing each figure, dusting/cleaning and cursing my lack of enclosed glass cabinet's so hopefully they look presentable.
This is a regular part of maintenance and on the plus side I 'only' broke Scorpion's hand and Adam Warlock's staff during this latest clean ! I have become quite an expert with super glue since starting this collection and put my regular 'glue headache' and 'sticky fingers' down to dedication

As you know my comic knowledge is a wee bit 80's based so after the first few sets of 10 figures to a plinth 'with a theme' my well kinda ran dry hence the 'Misc plinths' To any of you with a better idea of who should go with who on which plinth please give me some better suggestions.

My son and I enjoy all the other stuff we collect 'together' but these baby's are all mine !

[TheTooN]

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[really_rather_not_nice]

Man, those are some sexy-ass displays, and even sexier-assier figures.

That collection doth rock.