Today, it is time to show off a couple of new autographs in my collection featuring performers that were in MSTed movies.
The post's title gives a slight hint as to who the first auto is of. While Toni Basil is far better known for her 80s hit "Mickey", she's known to MSTies for her appearance in Village of the Giants (episode 523) as "Red". She's not the only one from this movie to have certified autographs out there - ones of Beau Bridges and Ron Howard are also out there, with the latter being very much out of my price range. The movie itself was probably one of the better ones to be featured on the show. The second autograph fast forwards to season 8, and one of the movies that was part of the long streak of black & white films to start off the Sci-Fi run - Terror from the Year 5000. Salome Jens' role in the movie, as the titular Terror, was actually her first credited film role. It's somewhat interesting to see her autographed card here playing the contrasting character name of 'Ancient Humanoid'. She'd return to the Star Trek universe in Deep Space Nine, as a Shapeshifter, appearing in 15 episodes. While autographs exist of that character as well, I opted for this one due to the contrast of this and her future character.Friday 31 May 2024
Wednesday 29 May 2024
Three-Down Megapost
More goodies from my COMC to-be-posted box, and a pile of goodies from the CFL portion of the box.
I'm going chronologically through these. There's nothing older than this 2018 entry for this post. While I'd rather have a little more team colour in these swatches, it's still a nice little addition to the Ti-Cats PC. Simoni retired earlier this year, but he's certainly going to be returning to the city when it is time for his bust to join the Hall of Fame in a few years.
One and done from the lost season of 2020 as well. I'm not too sure as to why, but it might be this season that I have the most cards from. Here's Simoni again!And even worse, the cardboard debut for University of Waterloo gets hosed up by putting the wrong team logo on the card and, even worse, the wrong player's image on the card. That's actually an image of the far paler Matthew Arbuckle on the card. At least the green swatch would indicate that this was an Edmonton Elks jersey used. He didn't appear on any set in 2023, so I'm hoping he finally gets a correct card in 2024.
Monday 27 May 2024
Raptors Megapost
Just a whole pile of Raptors cards today, from a bunch of sources. Some from COMC, some from group breaks, some from the recent TMV mailer. I'm leading this off with the COMC arrivals.
If there is one player that could signify the late, unlamented 23-24 season in Toronto, it would be Jontay Porter. Just a colossal mess. I realized that even before he got booted from the league he wouldn't get a Raptors card. So I added this. And despite his idiocy, he still counts towards the binders. I was convinced that Brown's time with the team would be short, figuring he'd be quickly traded along once the tank was on. He stayed around, and finished the season with the team. He's already appeared on Raptors card, and you'll see one later on in this post. But, as with Porter - this still counts.Random Bosh!Saturday 25 May 2024
2024 Adventures in Repacks - Part 15 - Feeling Valued
A couple more from the ol' Dollarama!
2 more of these!Here's the contents of the first one! I've never busted that particular Swedish product before! I'm already enjoying this!Among the base cards, only Tommy Sjodin was familiar to me. I remembered him from his time with the Stars in the junk wax era. But the insert really stands out on that foil-y Henrik Sedin entry from a Hands of Gold insert set. And Henrik would win the big gold medal in 2006 at the Torino Olympics.Oooo. Premium! Even if they're extremely cheap over on COMC thanks to e-packs, it is still nice for a Canvas to show up - complete with the Popeye cameo! That Fantilli will fatten up the next mailer to Too Many Verlanders.The nineties easily provided the dullest content of the repacks, even with Kolzig making an appearance.Major WOO-HOO out of the 2010s pack - with a 2/14 appearance. And it is a need! And it is a Tim Hortons food issue card! Again, WOO-HOO! It is always nicer to personally pull a new entry to the collection, no matter if it is a hobby box or repack.
This will be the content making the attempt.
Friday 24 May 2024
Just When I Thought I Was Out
and I thought I was done with TMV mailers, another shows up. And I'll work my way through it in stages as usual. Today, 2/14s!
This portion of the set was almost entirely football, but there were still a few that switched that up. Such as this single addition to the basketball portion of the collection.Yermin was practically one and done in terms of baseball card releases, but what a year it was. If it weren't for Gabriel Moreno or Nolan Schanuel, I'd expect him to be the one to take over the top spot in the baseball portion eventually, based on how many cards were issued of him, and how inexpensive they would eventually become.Baseball takes a bow here with a super addition to the collection. This has to be my first 1/1 autograph in the collection. Right? I'd check, but now realize that I probably should have the spreadsheet stored on something beyond my desktop. And maybe keep a second copy on the laptop I use 98 percent of the time for posting here.Thursday 23 May 2024
2024 Adventures in Repacks - Part 14 - Forgotten But Not Gone
This is something I'd done a while back to clear it off when I came across a long, LONG back-logged repack I'd purchase. This, and a couple more were ones I picked up when Target Canada was a thing, and I'd never posted the contents thereof. I still have at least one more baseball one, and a basketball one that I still haven't gotten to.
But at least there's one that I can clear out.
This was one of those envelopes that contained 4 packs and a hit.
This design hasn't aged well. Way too much border, made worse with the Topps logo dipping into the frame. But at least the Jays make an appearance. Upper Deck gave me exactly what I expected from it - a couple interesting photos (Jones & Burrell), and, thanks to the size of the checklist, a couple guys I had absolutely no memory of at all (Bruney & Snyder).Pre-Frankie Montas!