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Dream a Little Dream
Feb. 26th, 2012 11:07 amI had that song in my head when I woke up. I figure it is because I saw Muppets 3-D recently.
I did have a lot of strange dreams last night. I don’t remember much about them other than they were strange and connected. I do remember waking up once and thinking “well that wasn’t very logical” before falling back to sleep. My mind can be a very strange place to visit.
The Oscars are being handed out this evening and Peter will be live blogging it from his website www.peterdavid.net. It will be fun.
Today is paper and laundry. I plan to get some ATCs and a couple of Paper dolls which have been at the half way point for a while finished today. Then I plan to ship them out tomorrow.
There is talk again about getting rid of Saturday delivery for the post to keep the postal service solvent. I feel sorry for all the postal workers and their families because this will be a loss of income for them. Personally it is not going to change much for me.
The Art World puzzles me sometimes. Art is worth what people are willing to play for it. And what is considered valuable can change like the weather. There is an article today about the possible fraudulent art work that have been sold in the art world that were considered genuine for a while until there was evidence in pigments used that this could not have been created at the time.
Recently Skylander figures have become the new flip object on E-bay. They are found in various stores and get sold for absurd prices on E-Bay. Now here is the interesting thing. There were exclusives for various stores that could be gotten easily before Christmas but it has hard to find the game. After Christmas the game was easy to find but the exclusive figures impossible and that’s where the speculator’s market on Skylanders was born. People were flipping the toys and making up to 10 times what the figure cost them. Now here is the interesting thing, those exclusives were limited exclusives of about three months. You can now get them at Toy R Us or Best Buy or Game Stop in a three pack or as individual figures. This has put a serious kink in the speculator market. So now they are moving on to the figures that are not released yet and some gold and silver painted figures that I think someone at Activision put in to add that collectability market. All I want the figures for is to play a really nifty game that I can play with my daughter rather than against her.
Also Mattel, naughty naughty. You are selling Monster High create a Monster dolls which are really cool and allows the child to “design” their own version of a Monster. However the Add-On packs come without a torso which means you have to have more than one of the Create a Monster start kits if the child wants more than one doll to play with at the time. That’s bad enough, but it is not obvious unless you read through the WHOLE packaging and check very carefully in the box, that the torso is not included and the way you have the dress makes it look as if there is a body in there. I noticed on the second run of the packaging we do now have at the bottom, “for use with start sets does not make a complete monster” but are little girls who pick it up going to see that and understand? Are the parents?
I am going to work on toys this week for LunaCon. Pictures Tuesday for Crafty Tuesday.
I am grateful that we can play Skylanders with a variety of characters.
I did have a lot of strange dreams last night. I don’t remember much about them other than they were strange and connected. I do remember waking up once and thinking “well that wasn’t very logical” before falling back to sleep. My mind can be a very strange place to visit.
The Oscars are being handed out this evening and Peter will be live blogging it from his website www.peterdavid.net. It will be fun.
Today is paper and laundry. I plan to get some ATCs and a couple of Paper dolls which have been at the half way point for a while finished today. Then I plan to ship them out tomorrow.
There is talk again about getting rid of Saturday delivery for the post to keep the postal service solvent. I feel sorry for all the postal workers and their families because this will be a loss of income for them. Personally it is not going to change much for me.
The Art World puzzles me sometimes. Art is worth what people are willing to play for it. And what is considered valuable can change like the weather. There is an article today about the possible fraudulent art work that have been sold in the art world that were considered genuine for a while until there was evidence in pigments used that this could not have been created at the time.
Recently Skylander figures have become the new flip object on E-bay. They are found in various stores and get sold for absurd prices on E-Bay. Now here is the interesting thing. There were exclusives for various stores that could be gotten easily before Christmas but it has hard to find the game. After Christmas the game was easy to find but the exclusive figures impossible and that’s where the speculator’s market on Skylanders was born. People were flipping the toys and making up to 10 times what the figure cost them. Now here is the interesting thing, those exclusives were limited exclusives of about three months. You can now get them at Toy R Us or Best Buy or Game Stop in a three pack or as individual figures. This has put a serious kink in the speculator market. So now they are moving on to the figures that are not released yet and some gold and silver painted figures that I think someone at Activision put in to add that collectability market. All I want the figures for is to play a really nifty game that I can play with my daughter rather than against her.
Also Mattel, naughty naughty. You are selling Monster High create a Monster dolls which are really cool and allows the child to “design” their own version of a Monster. However the Add-On packs come without a torso which means you have to have more than one of the Create a Monster start kits if the child wants more than one doll to play with at the time. That’s bad enough, but it is not obvious unless you read through the WHOLE packaging and check very carefully in the box, that the torso is not included and the way you have the dress makes it look as if there is a body in there. I noticed on the second run of the packaging we do now have at the bottom, “for use with start sets does not make a complete monster” but are little girls who pick it up going to see that and understand? Are the parents?
I am going to work on toys this week for LunaCon. Pictures Tuesday for Crafty Tuesday.
I am grateful that we can play Skylanders with a variety of characters.
