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2008 SDCC San Diego Comic Con Review

My family needed a full day to recover from 4 straight days of the San Diego Comic Con. It was a good trip despite my work needing me to do some shet even though I was on vacation. Anyway, the con was pretty good. I felt the lines were longer, more unorganized, and moved a lot slower than last year →


2008 SDCC – G.I.Joe Combat Heroes Snake Eyes and Timber

One more week until the San Diego Comic Con! I was one of those boys that collected G.I.Joes when I was a kid even though my favorite grade school teacher once called them "dolls". They are action figures! Of all the G.I.Joes my favorite was Snake Eyes. I think everyone's favorite was Snake Eyes. He was all dressed in black and →


2008 SDCC San Diego Comic Con

I've been taking my family to the San Diego Comic Con every year for the past several years. This year's comic con is only a few weeks away and we are looking forward to it. In previous years it was very easy to go to the con. When we lived in downtown San Diego we would just walk to the convention →


San Diego Comic Con Hot Wheels 1966 Batmobile George Barris

I wanted to follow up my first review with a photo of one of my son's most prized Batmobiles. This is one Batmobile my son doesn't get to play with. Not yet anyway. It's a 1/64th scale version of the 1966 Batmobile made popular by the television series of the same year. The diecast was made by Hot Wheels and sold →


Fiasco. A Debacle even.

No, I'm not referring to the Lakers being down to the hated Boston Celtics two games to 1. Yesterday, the tenant of my condo in downtown San Diego flooded the unit and caused damage to every condo unit below mine all the way down to the freakin' parking garage. Somehow, he thought the toilet would be a terrific place to discard →