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The coloring books are awesome! It's great that you found one man. I would love to see it. I wish you had a scanner
My parents are moving to a better house and neighborhood, so I had to get the rest of my stuff out of the house. And as I was going throw all the things I found a coloring/ activity MOTU book from 85. Dude its sweet. I wish I had a scanner to put this baby on here for you guys to see. The front cover is Battle Armor He-man on Strydor fighting BA Skeletor in the Rotton.
Oh well whatever never mind.
The coloring books are awesome! It's great that you found one man. I would love to see it. I wish you had a scanner
Is it also a sticker book?
I have that book too. Both the front and the back are the same.
It's a great book...
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Could you scan some pages from the book? If it is not too much trouble of course.Originally Posted by MossMan710179
My parent have a scanner but like I said there in the middle of moving, so it may be a while till I can do it. And even so I have no clue what to do.
Oh well whatever never mind.
So have you marked this book up - some mad coloring jobs or is it mint?
I always used my MOTU coloring/activity books until they were destroyed.
The best were the paint with water books - I actually thought I was doing something productive.
In Midwinter, the heat from the oven baking my Shrinky Dinks is all I need!
Some pics are colored in. I'm gonna go to CVS and get some crayons and color the rest in. It's already damaged might as well do the whole book now.
Oh well whatever never mind.
It would be cool to scan and post coloring book pages and people here can save them and color them ont he computer. Be kinda neat. I SORTA did that some time ago. My Photoshop was down, so instead of coloring, I just gave them funny captions.
"I won Dungeons and Dragons! And it was advanced!!" -Pierce Hawthorne-
Those are from the book i'm talking about. Cool!
Oh well whatever never mind.
I do not have a scanner but this is the best I could do.Originally Posted by Mike Bock
And for a larger view go here ...
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ROFLMAO!!Originally Posted by sonofblaine
That's freakin' awesome! I have a few coloring books, and my girlfriend scanned a few of the pages a while back so she could color them.Originally Posted by MossMan710179
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Thanks, the cover is really cool!
Make sure you get a set with a silver crayon so you can color in Battle Armor He-Man properly.Originally Posted by SpaceGhost
No gray (grey - for our british friends) on that - that would be lame and dishonorable.
In Midwinter, the heat from the oven baking my Shrinky Dinks is all I need!
The List of Masters of the Universe Golden Coloring & Activity Books on He-Man.org
I'm surprised no one has posted the book yet that I have and that I am about to add to the section once I can get it to work. It's telling me my pictures are too big. Any of you can upload it if you want, but here it is:
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I love seeing these, I have some somewhere, just in the attic somewhere hidden.....
Here is the original thread
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If anyone would be so amazing as to upload scanned images from She-Ra coloring books, I'd be in heaven. Used to have one when I was a child - I think it might have had Castaspella on it, but I don't entirely remember. I only know that it was pretty Filmation-accurate in terms of how the characters were depicted.
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Yea, I think I have a couple of those old books, next time I head to my mom's place I'll try to find em
I'll scan all the pages when I get the chance to. Most of mine is colored in. My favorite page is the one with Fisto and Jitsu fighting.
I wish the coloring books had been given titles, just for fun, in case someone wanted to refer to a particular one when talking about them or listing them.
I wonder if all the Masters of the Universe Golden coloring books can be re-released together as one big coloring book. Is the original art work all still stored somewhere and able to be reproduced?
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ExclusivePaula Deen's goose has been cooked at the Food Network. Officials tell TMZ they are not renewing her contract, which expires at the end of this month.
Paula apparently was done in for her comments during a deposition in a civil lawsuit, in which she freely admitted to using the N-word in the past.
Deen issued an apology this morning that bordered on ridiculous -- it was heavily edited and frankly insincere.
She issued a second apology shortly before the Food Network said it would not renew her contract.

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Evernote's security team has detected a coordinated attempt to gain access to secured areas of their systems. So as to be safe, rather than sorry, they have forced all users to reset their passwords before proceeding to use the service.
Then I noticed a post on Facebook from Evernote, which I received because I had Liked them, noting the system-wide password reset and linking to the blog entry on their site to which I liked just above. Other people also found the mechanism the company used confusing.
The blog notes that the attackers were able to access Evernote user information, which includes usernames, email addresses associated with Evernote accounts and encrypted passwords. They were not able to access payment information nor any user content. The passwords are salted and hashed; if that was done properly, they should be of no use to the attackers.
Evernote will also be releasing updates to their apps very soon to address the attack.


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Now that America's most infamous couple, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, are betrothed, details about their sure-to-be epic nuptials are trickling out.
For starters, the 33-year-old "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star revealed that she plans to take her fiancé's name after the "I dos."
"It will be Kim Kardashian West," she told E! News of her plan to mimic little sister Khloé Kardashian Odom, who moved her famous last name to the middle. This certainly bodes well for KimYe's union as the reality star declined to take her last husband Kris Humphries' name for fear it would affect her brand. No word on whether the rapper's self-proclaimed "Yeezus" moniker will also be incorporated.
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On a slightly larger scale, West recently told Power 106's Big Boy he has an aerial plan for the big day. "Two words," he said. "Fighter jets." The "Black Skinhead" rapper also revealed that he hopes to wed the mother of his 4-month-old daughter, North, "next summer."
The 36-year-old rapper made the radio rounds Tuesday, stopping by Ryan Seacrest's KIIS- FM radio show as well, and divulged that he had a few pre-proposal jitters for his over-the-top question popping — including a last-minute ring switch.
"The ring was four hours old from when I put it on her finger," he told Seacrest. "I had to pick it up in L.A. [before]. I was working on it for awhile. I was was working on it with four different jewelers. I just put it in my bag."
[RELATED: Kim and Kanye Appear More In Love Than Ever At First Post-Engagement Event]
Kardashian also spilled on her utter surprise at West's 15-carat Lorraine Schwartz diamond ring proposal at AT&T Park in San Francisco.
"My eyes were closed and then I got up and I still the whole time I didn't think it was a proposal. I thought it was dinner on the baseball field and we had a nice orchestra. I still didn't get it … when he got on his knee, I kind of figured out what was going on."
We're certainly looking forward to the "It's a bird! It's a plane! It's KimYe!" affair.


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Although it may not get the attention given other illegal substances found on the streets, prescription drug abuse has been labeled an epidemic by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The agency states prescription painkillers were involved in 14,800 overdose deaths nationally in 2008, which was more than those caused by cocaine and heroin combined. In Washington County, more than 50 deaths were attributed to drug-related overdose in 2011.
To tackle this problem locally, folks from the medical field, law enforcement, drug rehabilitation, education and local government held a prescription drug abuse summit Thursday at Canon-McMillan High School. Among the panel's local officials were District Attorney Gene Vittone, First Assistant District Attorney Michael Lucas, Washington County Coroner Tim Warco and Canonsburg Mayor Dave Rhome.
"The prescription drug usage in this country had become an astronomical problem for us," said Dr. Yesh Navalgund, a physician with the Pittsburgh-area DNA Advanced Pain Treatment Center.
According to Navalgund, drug overdose death rates have tripled nationally since 1990. In Pennsylvania, this rate is 15 per 100,000, and for every one death, there are 825 nonmedical users abusing prescription drugs, he said.
"When a disease is spreading like wildfire like this, we have to do something about it," Navalgund said.
While the public may associate the drug trade with dark alleys and sketchy neighborhoods, Navalgund said more than 80 percent of painkiller abusers get the substances from doctors.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Kaufman gave an example of a doctor-turned-drug-dealer as he detailed the cause of Peters Township doctor Oliver Herndon, who was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison in September for prescribing thousands of pain pills to patients who didn't need them.
He said the Stanford-educated physician transformed his successful practice into a hub of drug distribution for reasons that amounted to "nothing more than pure greed."
While Herndon's case is an extreme example, there are plenty of people who never intended to become addicts, but began abusing prescription drugs given to them after an accident or illness, according to Washington Drug and Alcohol Commission Executive Director Cheryl Andrews. She said her organization's philosophy is to invest in lives and get people to fully commit to their treatment.
"You're going to see people from all walks of life that abuse prescription drugs," said Stephanie Henson, an intelligence analyst for the Drug Enforcement Administration. "There is no stereotype you can apply to the abusers of these drugs."
She advised parents to talk to their children about prescription drugs like they do with those found on the street.
One person who never got that parental guidance was a young woman named Ashley, who shared her personal experience. She said she took her first Oxycotin at the 13 and did cocaine for the first time in eighth grade during study hall. By the time she was 20, she was a homeless heroin and crack user. After her family stopped bailing her out and ostracized her, she eventually found to courage to seek help and was given a second chance, crediting a halfway house in Washington County for saving her life.
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It's not because the pay sucks. I've grown wise enough to avoid comparisons (like how many at bats it takes Alex Rodriguez to double my yearly salary), grateful enough to accept an occasional check from my parents and humble enough to dine from the Crock-Pot when the coffers run low. I can hack the salary.
It's definitely not the kids. Sure, they ramble into class 10 minutes late, pencil-free, uninterested in learning anything that doesn't pay in the next 15 minutes. They seem, at times, allergic to poetry. Drunk on Red Bull.
Irrationally pissed at their bewildered parents. This time of year especially, with summer break just a few bells away, some of the kids appear hardly aware they're in your classroom at all. But that's the beauty of public education: You work with what comes in the door and, the truth is, the vast majority of kids are decent, motivated, responsible people more than willing to meet you halfway if you just flash them a little respect.
And no, I'm not leaving because I feel oppressed by the administration or burnt out by the misguided mandates foisted on us by the federal government. I'm no fan of standardized tests and jargon-filled professional development checklists, but I've been blessed to have spent the bulk of my nine-year teaching career at Monte del Sol, a public charter school here in Santa Fe, where decisions are made more or less collaboratively, and teachers are treated with professionalism and respect.
So why am I leaving?
The answer has to do with childhood idealism, dreams of bringing social justice to Santa Fe. It has to do with hundreds of kids and adults who were willing to take a risk on a makeshift school in a shopping center, and then stand up when it seemed certain to fall. And at the heart of my decision to leave Monte del Sol and Santa Fe lies a golden opportunity just missed—a revolution in education that never came to be.
Today, Monte del Sol Charter School occupies a pink, concrete block building on the juniper and sage frontier of a Southside sprawl called Nava Ade. From its outlying portable classrooms, you can hear 16-wheelers downshifting on I-25, watch the Rail Runner slide past. Some 360 kids in grades seven-12 call the school home, and each year another 500 or so vie to get in through the lottery application process. Word around town is it's a solid secondary school—a bit liberal, perhaps, but with a good arts program, a low teacher-to-student ratio and a highly dedicated staff.
Eight years ago, things were very different. Hardly more than an idea, Monte del Sol Charter School was camped out, refugee style, in the downtown Boys & Girls Club. Teachers carved classrooms out of the gym by lining up vertically folded cafeteria tables. The idea of publicly funded "charter schools" was new to Santa Fe, as was Monte del Sol's founder, a 6-foot-something man with a booming voice and the decidedly un-New Mexican last name of "Gerlicz." Tony is the type of guy, as one of my colleagues puts it, who will pound a couple stouts with you after a 10-hour day, then dash off to the school board meeting on his road bike, chatting up a funder on his cell as he pedals. He had led independent schools from Oregon to Chile and was determined to take advantage of New Mexico's open-ended charter school laws to create a new type of school in Santa Fe, a place where students would call teachers by their first names, every kid would be treated as an individual, and teachers would feel respected and empowered.
Somehow, Tony won over the local school board, roped in some motivated teachers and, in the fall of 2000, started classes for 120 ragtag middle schoolers, whose parents were either so fed up with the larger schools or so dedicated to creating more options in Santa Fe, they were willing to stake their kids' education on Tony's dream.
By the time I arrived in the fall of 2001, the school had found more permanent digs in its second home, an empty office space in the Solana Shopping Center on West Alameda. The classrooms were funky, poorly lit inventions in drywall, but you couldn't beat the location: We were a stone's throw from the arroyo and Alto Street Park, and a short walking field trip to the Plaza museums and the Roundhouse. And you definitely couldn't beat the imaginative and hard-working staff. We marched the kids downtown for Plaza scavenger hunts and anti-war demonstrations. We stopped the school for catapult contests, mixed science with English, math with art. You might come in one morning to find the students gathered in the lobby space, gravely discussing the suspension of a classmate; the next morning you'd find your classroom empty of furniture, your students sitting obediently at their tables in the parking lot while the Spanish and bio teachers hid, giggling, behind a parked car.
Not once did it occur to me that our classrooms were too cramped, our textbooks were outdated and our "computer lab"—four PC's in a hallway—inadequate. We had the arroyo. We had piles of donated lumber, open permission slips for walking field trips. We had the kids, who embraced our chaos with open arms, giving us hell for our mistakes and kudos for our successes. But above all, we had the sense that we were on a mission. We weren't just opening a school; we were redefining the educational landscape in Santa Fe.
It was, for me, a dream come true. Like many people who become teachers, I'd been a top-notch student. Santa Fe's public school system served me well, and I'd been fortunate to land in classrooms with inspired teachers. But my Jewish upbringing had made me sensitive to social injustice and susceptible to guilt, and I found myself questioning, by the time I was 13, why a school system that worked so well for me failed so many of my classmates. By senior year of high school, I'd decided I was going to do something about it. I would get my degree and teaching license, return to Santa Fe and change the schools so every student would find success. I didn't know how. I didn't know what these new schools would look like. But I knew I was going to do it.
The first thing I did when I got to college was weasel my way into a highly popular course taught by professor Ted Sizer, a slow-speaking bear of a man, considered by many to be the senior statesman of public education reform in America. His organization, called the Coalition of Essential Schools, has brought commonsense change into hundreds of schools across the nation. Sizer's course, called High School in America, required students to work in small groups to design a fictitious high school, from the philosophical principles to the daily schedule. Like nearly every group in that 300-student class, mine was determined to create something never seen before, a school that blurred the line between teacher and student, where learning was a daily adventure that had little to do with classrooms and bells. But in the end, in spite of our heated 3 am dorm-room battles, we defaulted—like nearly every other group in the class—to a traditional Western-style high school, with a traditional Western-style buffet of classes.
I was disheartened. How could I help change the schools in Santa Fe if I couldn't even come up with something innovative on paper? For the next four or five years, I continued my study of education. I student-taught in Spanish Harlem, researched for the US Department of Education, took jobs as a day camp counselor and teacher's aid here in Santa Fe. I began considering seeking a job at Santa Fe High School, to get my foot in the door and begin plotting a revolution.
Then Monte del Sol appeared and my dream hit fast forward. Here was a school that built its schedule to fit the learning instead of the other way around. Here was a school that wasn't afraid to make classrooms out of parks and museums and hallways; a group of teachers who treated their students not as empty containers to be filled with facts, but as thinking people, capable of posing their own questions and seeking their own answers. There was something real happening at Monte del Sol, something I wanted to ride out.
It seemed too good to be true.
It nearly was too good to be true.
It was a simple bookkeeping error, an honest mistake on a single line item. The local school district, which had approved our budget that fall, hadn't caught it, but the state finally did in February of that year. The Department of Education contacted Tony to inform him he'd been operating on a falsely inflated budget and suggested he start making some serious cuts—trimming out arts programs, for example—because at the rate we were spending, we were going to be broke by March.
The idea of Monte del Sol closing then, when we were just getting going, was at once depressing and infuriating. We began scrambling for solutions, pulling every string we could find, meeting with the local school board and community leaders, anyone who might be able to lend us a hand. The days ticked off, and it became clear we were in need of—I hate to say it—a government bailout. But the man who could arrange it for us—Michael J Davis, New Mexico's superintendent of public instruction at the time—didn't have time to meet with us. He was presenting, we learned, to the State Board of Education.
That presentation was to be held at the New Mexico State Land Office, which just happened to be walking distance from the school.
Time for action. We gathered the oldest students, maybe 60 of them, and wrote out an oversized letter on a flip chart. We marched out of school—thank God for those open permission slips—and up Alameda to the auditorium of the State Land Office, where the superintendent was midway through his half-hearted report to the 15 men and women of the board.
The student body of Monte del Sol filed in silently, removing their hats. A kid named Mike McGiffin set up the flip chart letter in the aisle, and we waited. The superintendent didn't notice us until one of the board members interrupted.
"Seems you've got some visitors, Superintendent Davis," she said.
He turned around. No one spoke.
"Would someone like to read me that letter?"
Mike stood up and did so, then sat back down.
"Where are your teachers?" the superintendent asked.
No one answered.
"I need to talk to someone," he said.
"We just want a meeting," Mike said. "Can you do it or not?"
The meeting, which was held that Friday evening, went the only way it could. We packed the house with parents and students, ready to defend Monte del Sol to the death. Davis, who was a dead ringer for Bill Clinton, tried to diffuse the energy by rambling for 20 minutes about all the pressure he was under, how he admired our gumption and so on. When he finally ceded the mic, our parents and students spoke passionately about what we were doing, trying to convince him to commit to a loan, if nothing else. The superintendent was unmoved. The night dragged on. Children began to fall asleep. By the time it was my turn to speak, I could hardly hold back my tears of frustration.
"Look," I said. "We're doing our jobs. We're getting up at 5 am to grade papers and plan lessons and organize field trips. We're working our butts off trying to reach kids and create a new type of school. Now you do your job and support us."
The superintendent didn't like that. His exact words, in fact, were that he wouldn't stand to be "upbraided by a schoolteacher," at which point I walked out of the room, leaving it to the cooler heads to prevail.
It's hard to say if our student/faculty march helped move the process along, but it did help me, and many others, realize just how much we cared about our shopping center experiment. When Tony announced the following week that the local school board and the state were going to help us out, that the school would in fact march on, I felt more invested than ever. I felt we could do anything. It was time to take Monte del Sol to the next level.
If professor Sizer is the John Adams of public education reform, Paquita Hernandez is the Che Guevara. A strong-willed, staunch independentista from Puerto Rico, Paquita is a graduate of one of the first Peace Corps classes and creator of a model of education that just might transform the world. Tony brought her onto the Monte del Sol team in its first year to create the school's flagship mentorship program, in which students are matched with community mentors for a yearlong exploration of culinary arts, medicine, Tae Kwon Do, bicycle maintenance—whatever the students feel passionate about.
By my second year at Monte del Sol, it was clear to me that Hernandez' program was the most innovative aspect of Monte del Sol and, more than any of my work in the classroom, had the power to change the lives of students and mentors alike. So when Tony asked for volunteers to begin a study group on how we might make the mentorship program even stronger, I jumped at the chance. Led by Hernandez, a few of us teachers began meeting for coffee during prep periods and red wine on weekends. We studied other models of schools that dared to bust out of the classroom walls, drew up mock budgets and daily schedules, and sketched out a way in which Monte del Sol could revolve—as a community—around mentorship; a way to place the student's passion at the center of his or her learning.
Unlike the fictional school I'd designed back in college, this school was truly something different. Instead of starting the week off in English or biology class, students went to a small group—10 people at the most—where their "teacher" helped them plan out their weeks. Part of the week would be spent, yes, sitting in a classroom, working on academic skills, but the other part would be spent out in the community, working with mentors or researching a question that was central to their group. What would it take to get to Mars? What is beauty? How can society alleviate poverty? The student who was doing a mentorship in contemporary dance would work on choreographing a piece that expressed exploration or beauty or hunger; the student who was in an architecture mentorship would design a space capsule, a temple or a homeless shelter. At the end of the year, each group—we called them "clans"—would put on a performance or a conference or in some other way share what they'd learned with the other clans in the school.
Sound crazy? No less crazy, one could argue, than forcing large masses of teenagers to sit through seven entirely different disciplines in 50 minute periods for 180 days a year. As Hernandez likes to quote from Einstein, what's really insane is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Which, despite all the wonderful, hard-working people who have dedicated their lives to public education over the last 200 years, just about sums up public education in the United States. We tinker with the system, add tests, take away tests, try block scheduling, take away block scheduling, and the results? Kids drop out. Those who are most prepared and best supported by their families, like I was, succeed, go on to become teachers and keep the system running.
A bleak outlook, I know. But I've come to believe over the past eight years, working in what I consider to be a very fine public school, that all those great moments in public education—and there are many—come in spite of the structure and not because of it. They come because teachers and students reject the idea that they show up each morning simply to spit out or gobble up information: They come each morning to interact, to challenge each other, to engage and learn. Tony, like Sizer, was a master at tweaking the industrial school model so that teachers and students could build positive relationships, despite the dehumanizing effects of standardized tests, mechanical report cards, outdated curricula and bell-schedule discipline. All our little group proposed to do was discard the parts of school that get in the way of learning and replace them with real inquiry and positive interactions with members of the larger community. To us, our "clan model" didn't feel like a revolution in the least. It was a logical extension of the work we were already doing at Monte del Sol. It never occurred to me it might fail.
I wish I could say a team of military-industrial agents in dark sunglasses swooped in from DC or Texas or wherever those agents are stored, infiltrated our little group, sabotaged us and destroyed our plans. But what really happened is far less exciting, and much harder to swallow. Our plan was presented to our volunteer board. Some parents and faculty expressed that they were, understandably, hesitant to have us experiment on their kids and careers. Better an imperfect system you know than an untried system you don't. The board had to reject the redesign, and Monte del Sol's fate was decided: It would not be a revolution. It would be a small, relationship-based school with a strong arts and language curriculum, and a dynamic mentorship program that amounted to, basically, a highly structured extracurricular activity.
Those of us who had pushed the clan model retreated to our classrooms. The school expanded, moved to its relatively luxurious Southside campus and, in many ways, flourished. At our graduation ceremony this May, students from all walks of life spoke eloquently about the relationships they had formed with their teachers and classmates. They felt valued at our school. They felt they had learned valuable skills and changed for the better. Listening to them, I felt privileged to have begun my teaching career in such a creative and caring public school environment. For a classroom-based school, Monte del Sol may, in fact, be as good as it gets.
But a part of me can't stop wondering if there's another way. Do we really have to spend so much time in classrooms when we've got a world full of settings in which people learn? Must we invest so much energy in mastering academic minutiae when there are endless amounts of valuable, instructive hands-on work that needs to be done? Wonderful though it may be, Monte del Sol is not the place to fully explore those questions.
And so I'm leaving. My wife and I are traveling to Latin America for a while, where I'll work in a far more traditional private school and reflect on what I have learned.
Because I fully intend to continue my quest for the school different, and I fully intend to help build that school here in Santa Fe. My teenage dream is alive: I still believe public schools can change, and I plan to be a part of it. Like so many schools across the country, Santa Fe's schools are going to shift, slowly, away from the old model of sit-down-and-listen and toward the newer get-out-and-do-it design.
In today's world, our schools have to change. Anything else, to paraphrase Mr. Einstein, would be insane. SFR
It's not because the pay sucks. I've grown wise enough to avoid comparisons (like how many at bats it takes Alex Rodriguez to double my yearly salary), grateful enough to accept an occasional check from my parents and humble enough to dine from the Crock-Pot when the coffers run low. I can hack the salary.


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Numerous people recently appeared in Washington County Court on criminal charges.
Appearing before Judge Janet Moschetta Bell were:
Mac J. Molek, 32, of 250 Grange Road, Coal Center; theft by deception; charged for stealing two empty beer kegs from the parking lot at Lagerhead's in Coal Center; sentence – 3 to 23 months of probation.
Kristie A. Huseman, 24, of 145 Washington St., Apt. 3, Cokeburg; simple assault; charged June 13, 2011, for assaulting a man on Lone Pine-Marianna Road in Amwell Township; sentence – 67 days to 12 months in jail.
Jeremy T. Leadbitter, 26, of 133 Arrabella St., McDonald; theft by unlawful taking; charged for stealing jewelry from 114 Arrabella St., McDonald, in June; sentence – 9 to 23 months in jail.
Appearing before Senior Judge Linda Wallach Miller were:
Robert P. Knapper, 54, last known address is the Washington County jail; two counts of possession with intent to deliver cocaine; charged for selling cocaine to a confidential informant Aug. 12, 2010, and March 10; sentence – 2 to 5 years in prison.
Matthew R. Myers, 36, of 23 Old Monongahela Pike, Apt. C, Eighty Four; terroristic threats; charged June 13 for making threatening phone calls to a South Franklin Township woman; sentence – 12 months of probation.
Amber L. Roberts, 24, of 454 Fourth St. Rear, Donora; corruption of minors; charged July 7 for giving a 14-year-old boy marijuana at her home; sentence – 12 months of probation.
Benjamin L. Kissell, 22, of 2044 Brownsville Road, Pittsburgh; retail theft; charged March 24 at Walmart in South Strabane Township; sentence – 24 months of probation.
Jonathan D. Mowery, 20, of 1252 Amity Ridge Road, Amity; possession of drug paraphernalia; charged Feb. 26 following a traffic stop on Jefferson Avenue in Washington; sentence – Probation Without Verdict program for 12 months.
Melissa L. Eakin, 42, of 829 Milledgeville Road, Hadley; possession of drug paraphernalia; charged July 28 following a traffic stop on Waterdam Road in McMurray; sentence – 12 months of probation.
Raphael M. Dorsett, 21, of 4106 Green Ridge Road, Apt. 2, Pittsburgh; theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, fleeing from police; charged Aug. 24, 2011, for stealing copper pipe and brass fittings from 62 W. Walnut St., Washington; June 8 for stealing checks from 24 Rosewood Ave., Marianna; and July 27 for fleeing following a traffic stop on South Jefferson Avenue in Canonsburg; sentence – 12 months of probation.
Joshua Derosa, 23, of 3754 Dry Run Road, Monongahela; possession with intent to deliver marijuana; charged July 24 following a traffic stop on Route 837 in Carroll Township; sentence – 2 years of probation.
Michael B. Davis, 26, of 107 Lincoln Ave., Charleroi; defiant trespass; charged July 28 at 63 Gallenton Drive, Donora; sentence – 6 months of probation.
Jerry E. Hollerman, 38, of 130 51 Manor Trailer Park, Belle Vernon; disorderly conduct; charged June 6 at 616 Fallowfield Ave., Charleroi; sentence – 90 days of probation.
Stacey M. Elliott, 39, of 11 Birch St., Avella; accidents involving damage, driving with a suspended license; charged June 22 after a vehicle collision on Franklin Farms Road in North Franklin Township; sentence – 12 months of probation, $200 fine.
Isaiah Calloway, 21, of 127 Maple Terrace, Washington; flight to avoid apprehension, terroristic threats; charged Feb. 24 for threatening a woman at 237 Lincoln Terrace, Washington, and April 22 at Hazel Day Personal Care in Washington; sentence – 18 months of probation.
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Blend Roy Hobbs and Francis Ouimet, the first amateur to win a U.S. Open, together and who would that produce? Thomas Steve of Upper St. Clair. See, the 17-year-old is "The Natural" when it comes to "The Greatest Game Ever Played".
Having never taken a golf lesson, Steve shot a 3-under-par 68 to claim the Section 7 championship and advance to this week's WPIAL semifinals for the fourth year in a row. Steve grabbed the bronze medal in last year's district championships and finished tied for 16th in the state. He garnered medalist honors as a sophomore with a 72 when USC captured its last WPIAL team title in 2011.
"To my knowledge, Thomas has never had a lesson," said USC golf coach Todd Flynn. "He's a natural, one of those amazing athletes that come down the pike once in a lifetime."
Of the 68 he shot at the sectional, Flynn added, that showed Steve's dedication. "He's watching, learning and practicing all the time. You can't do that without putting in the hours and hours of practice."
Since he shed his football shoulder pads in ninth grade, Steve has focused on golf as well as baseball and basketball for the Panthers.
"I'm sort of small. I would not have lasted long in football," Steve said with a laugh. "I felt I had a better opportunity and future in golf.
"So I just started practicing. No, no lessons," he added. "It's been all on my own. I'd watch other people play and study how to swing. It's a feel mainly. It just came natural."
Some of his talent, Steve inherited from his parents. His mother, Gina, earned All-America honors as a gymnast in college. Plus, she's been inducted into the Indiana University of Pennsylvania athletic Hall of Fame. His father, Greg, was a standout athlete in multiple sports in high school before he matriculated to IUP.
"Having athletic parents always helps," conceded Flynn. "But his parents have been great and Thomas is very cognizant of what they have sacrificed for him."
Steve agreed. "My parents have been very supportive and they have been all for me doing this on my own (no lessons). I've seen kids who were good athletes and the parents pushed them too hard and the results were not good. My parents do everything to help me and I am thankful for that."
Thomas is grateful for his athletic ability, too. He was a contributor on last year's section championship basketball club that reached the Elite Eight in the WPIAL playoffs. Plus, he's been a pitcher on the Panthers' baseball team.
"I'm nothing special as a pitcher. I just throw strikes," said Steve. "In basketball, I don't run fast and I can't jump but I'm a good shooter. I have pretty good hand/eye coordination and that definitely helps me in golf."
In the sectional, Steve's ability to card birdies helped him post the lowest score. In winning the event on the par 71 Red course, Steve recorded seven birdies.
"I was hitting my drives real well. A lot of wedges," said Steve, who shot a 65 during the practice round prior to the match. Because his shots landed inside of three feet of the hole, the birdies afforded Steve short putts. "It was relatively stress free," he said. "All the birdies allowed me to play real well."
In reality, practice has made perfect for Steve. This fall, he is putting better than usual and that has helped his average, which is 33.5 for nine holes. "Putting is the main reason you play well," explained Steve, who is a member of Valley Brook Country Club. "And, putting is just practice and a lot of repetition. It's the most influential part of anybody's game."
Upper St. Clair has influenced scholastic golf since it's inception, winning 17 WPIAL titles. Eight championships have been recorded since the millennium. Thanks to Steve and his senior teammates, including Grant Engel, Patrick McDonnell, Corey Wilding and Nelson Zacur, the Panthers have compiled a 13-1 record overall. Last week, they avenged their lone loss, defeating Peters Township by three strokes, 192-195, at Rolling Hills Country Club.
Freshman Louis Olsakovsky, who qualified with Steve, Engel, McDonnell and Wilding for the WPIAL semifinals, Zach Barone, Jackson Sandusky, Austin Cassidy and Brooks Wilding have also contributed to USC's success and stand poised and ready to help the team challenge for the WPIAL team title. The finals are set for Oct. 10 at Cedarbrook Golf Course. Last year, the Panthers failed to qualify for the championships, falling in the semifinals.
"Last year was a real shock to them," said Flynn. "I told them that what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. And, you see what has happened. They are focused. They are on a mission."
For as long as he can remember, Steve had been on a mission to gain acceptance to Notre Dame. Though recruited by Virginia Tech, Davidson and Dayton, among others, Steve recently committed to the Fighting Irish's program.
"Notre Dame has always been my dream school. You cant beat the academics," said the prospective business major. "They have good coaches and a good team. It's a good fit. My goals are to get a great education and see how good I can get at golf and see if I could go professional."
Because Notre Dame boasts certified coaches, Steve plans to learn from them the way he has from Flynn. Now or in the future, will he consider lessons.
"I seem to get better on my own," he explained. "I know exactly what I do with my swing and no one is going to mess with it.
"I think I can learn from the coaches at Notre Dame just like I have with Coach Flynn. He has been a big help. He keeps my head in the right place and makes sure we are all in the right mindset when it comes to competing."
Competing for Steve is all about his teammates as opposed to himself. His goal is to go out as a WPIAL team champion and make it back to states and be competitive there.
"Winning the WPIAL team title as a sophomore was the most fun I've had playing golf," said Steve, who shot a 72 for medalist honors. "So I'd like to do that again. It would be a great way for the five seniors to end their high school careers. To go out on top," he continued. "So I am going to do whatever I have to in order to help the team win."
That camaraderie endears Steve to others. According to Flynn, there are none like him or his teammates.
"Thomas is nice beyond belief. An unbelievable young man," he said. "This team is so close. It's an amazing group of kids." So remarkable, Flynn adds that "if something would ever happen to any of them or their parents, then they would have a place to live at my house."
NOTES: Lauren Waller earned medalist honors during the girls' qualifier held at Rolling Hills Golf Course. The Canon-McMillan junior cared a 76. Mia Kness and Syncliare Kuhn of Peters Township followed Waller in second and third position.
Upper St. Clair's Mariah Kelly and Melissa Kearney as well as Mt. Lebanon's Lily Oppenheimer also made the cut for the WPIAL finals.
In the boys' Section 7 qualifier other local golfers to advance included: Cody Ruffing, Ryan Pollack, Jake Sollon and Josh Verner from Peters Township; Drew Harris and Gino Dipardo from Chartiers Valley; Ben Setar, JD Oddi, Kevin Rush and Clark DePolo from Canon-McMillan as well as South Fayette's Corey Long, Anthony Vallelunga and Tyler Vidak
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Age: 17
Birthdate: Oct. 19, 1996
Parents: Gina and Greg
Siblings: Ally, 16; Jack, 13; Sara, 11
Sports: Golf, basketball, baseball
College: Notre Dame
Major: Business
Favorite class: Calculus
Favorite color: Blue
What's in a name: Having two first names is confusing but I'm used to people mixing up my name. I let them now though. But I like (my name). It's unique. People remember it.
Favorite food: Spaghetti
Dessert: Ice cream cake
Restaurant: Moe's Southwestern Grill
Top sports team: Pirates right now. I think they will hold on and be all right. They folded last year but I don't think they'll screw up in the end this year.
What's on TV: I never watch it. When I do I guess it would be Friends
Best book: Great Gatsby
Who would play you in a movie: Corey Wilding. He knows everything about me.
Life lesson golf has taught me: Enjoy life. People spend too much time getting worked up and when things don't work out they get depressed. Life is like golf in the fact that if you shoot a bad hole, then shake it off and move on. It absolutely helps me. You have to maintain calm. When you get frustrated, it doesn't end well.


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I stumbled upon Kitchen Angels by accident.
In September, 2005, while still a student at the College of Santa Fe, I attended a volunteer-opportunity fair and stopped at a table manned by a person wearing an animal shelter T-shirt. I had planned to volunteer for the shelter, but it turned out that person was there talking to the actual proprietor of the table: Joy Martindill, administrative associate of Kitchen Angels.
It was a Friday; I started volunteering the following Monday and, every Monday night since, I've deliver hot meals on the Southside to between five and eight people.
My two-hour route is easy in the warmer months. I drive with the windows down, listen to music, visit with friendly people while the smell of amazing food wafts through my car. It starts to get a little difficult once the days start getting shorter. By the time November hits, it's usually sunset when I pick up my meals in the afternoon, and it's pitch-black even before I reach Calle Atajo. The Southside can be really dark at night. A lot of the new subdivisions don't have streetlamps. More than once I've had nightmares of being caught off-guard by an undesirable in one of the less-friendly apartment complexes.
But I like my Southside route, mostly for the people. There is one person who has been on my route for all three years that I have been volunteering. Alan (whose name has been changed to protect his identity) lives alone in a trailer park off Airport Road. He is always polite, smiles, thanks me, we banter about the weather and…the weather, and then I leave.
Alan isn't old; I'd peg him at about 40, 45 at most. He's never told me explicitly why he is homebound, and I haven't asked. A few times he didn't answer the door when I knocked, so I peeked inside. His home is impeccable. It is clear, though, that he doesn't have much money; he possesses the tidiness that often comes with austerity.
Alan caught me off guard one day when he called me by name. I had gotten so used to our routine—hello, weather, thanks, goodbye—that it was a great surprise when I opened his gate and he began cheering, "Char-lotte! Char-lotte!"
It's a small thing to be called by name. Most days, I'd rather not hear my name, simply for what it's followed by. It's probably just my boyfriend calling to ask where the peanut butter has disappeared to, a co-worker asking if I'm done with the project I was supposed to have finished last week. But for Alan, it was a big thing—both to hear his own name spoken and to speak mine. He told me one cold day, as he gripped his winter coat around him and we stood on his porch, that I'm the only person he sees all day most Mondays.
The basic task of a Kitchen Angels driver is to deliver hot meals to homebound people all over Santa Fe. The broader task of a Kitchen Angel is much harder to describe. It doesn't simply end with delivering a meal to someone who can't often leave home. For the people we help, we're someone to check in on them once a day to make sure everything's OK. We become friends. By coming right to their door with a delivery, we bring them an ounce of humanity that they may not see otherwise.
Sometimes, in wintertime, it isn't easy to finish my route. If I get lost or have a late start or find a stray dog while I'm driving (that's happened more times than I can count), I'm often driving around Tierra Contenta until it's cold enough that I can't feel my nose. Each time I get out of the car on a cold, dark night, I can practically see puffs of precious heat escaping through the driver's side door, then again out the trunk when I open the hatch to get out the brown bag. On the worst nights (remember last winter when we had a full month of temperatures in the teens?) it takes me a moment to warm my tingling hands in front of the vents 'til they can grasp the wheel at all. As I drive from one destination to the next on especially cold nights, I sometimes can't imagine doing it again the next week; Mondays are bad enough without having to be out an extra couple hours.
The thought that most convinces me to do it again is of Alan opening his soup container. Like being called by name, it's a small thing: the steam of warm soup. But I like to think the soup will help him tonight—feed him, yes, but also let him know he's not alone.
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VanRoekel was appointed federal CIO in August 2011, replacing Vivek Kundra, now a senior VP with Salesforce.com. Kundra launched several major government-wide IT initiatives, cloud computing and open government programs and data center consolidation among them. VanRoekel continues to push those projects forward while introducing new ones of his own, such as shared services, a "digital government" strategy and IT portfolio management.
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Here's a link to my toy room and hopefully it will give you some ideas. Good luck!
OK, so he'es a quick rundown on what i need help with:
With luck, by the end of this month, my wife and I will be moving into our first home together. I am lucky enough that she is letting me have one of the rooms all to myself to do whatever I please... so naturally it is becoming a toy room! It's not going to be a huge room, but a full room nonetheless. The hard part is deciding how I'm going to design it. For now, the only MOTU items i have out are figures from the classics line spread across 4 of the famous Detolf cases from IKEA. I have other figures from various toy lines (DCUC, Thundercats, TMNT, TFs) on miscellaneous bookshelves spread around that I would also like to bring into this room, in addition to busting the vintage and 200x toys from storage. What I'm mainly looking for are any ideas you may have in mind for how I can make the room amazing.
I can certainly add many more Detolf cases for a slightly higher end look than $30 walmart bookshelves provide.... I can paint the walls with murals depicting the scenery from various properties (Here is a link to an unfinished mural i did for a friend)... I can put up framed vintage MOTU posters like the ones from MOTU magazine... or if space isn't TOO limited in the end... maybe even build some sorta landscape similar to how Mattel displays MOTU at SDCC (although this may severely limit how much i could display).
The room will mainly focus on the figures and accessories, while i have been granted "permission" to have cooler, larger items like the NECA Skeletor statue, and things like that in more common areas of the house.
I am begging for any and all advice you can offer either from experience, or cool stuff you have seen. ANY pictures you can provide will also make things a thousand times easier a month from now! MOTU will certianly be the main focus of the room for sure, but I'd like to squeeze some of the key pieces from other lines in as well.
I promise tp update with pics as the project begins after move in day
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Here's a link to my toy room and hopefully it will give you some ideas. Good luck!
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Wow - how lucky that your wife is "is letting me have one of the rooms all to myself to do whatever I please... " and that you "have been granted "permission" to have cooler, larger items like the NECA Skeletor statue, and things like that in more common areas of the house."
I have a Comic/Figure room I just did it and my girlfriend didn't have any say. And if she did, I'd have let her go very quickly.
I think the main motivation for the room is that when we first moved in together, and I started displaying things that I had in storage, while collecting new figures at the same time.... it didn't take long until about any horizontal surface in the condo became a toy shelf.. and I do mean about anything. Looking back, it was a very sloppy hodgepodge approach to showing things off. She's all for the idea of showing off our combined nerdy side stuff from toys to video games and such all over, just so long as it's not college dorm looking, lol. If I recall correctly, she described the idea as a classy Big Bang Theory sorta feel to it.
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THese need some updating, but this is how I have things set up:
My thing is stacking the shelves basically up to the ceiling, as you can see. The shelves are actually made from foamboard, covered with posterboard. This allows me to actually use small wood screws and screw the figures onto the shelf, which makes dusting and moving the shelf a lot easier. I use some regular shelf brackets for bigger displays, but for smaller shelves, I use door mending brackets, little metal brackets that form a nice right angle and hold the shelves nicely. As long as the room is air conditioned, it works nicely and allows me to fit the shelves to the figures and maximize space usage. The best part is that the stuff I'm not displaying is stored in cardboard storage cartons which are actually under and behind the displays closer to the floor, so I have a good amount of storage space, as well. And if I need to get at those boxes, I simply move the displays in one piece, since everything is fastened in place.
Good luck with the room, and keep us posted. Can't wait to see how things turn out.
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Setting up a single room is a great idea! Not that stuff can't also be elsewhere, but you know what I mean.
It's always a good idea to ask for your significant other's input. And it's great that you have her support! I would think the person doing it anyways, without asking, and implying that the decision would make or break the relationship, is the weak link of the pair.
You got it made now though!
Here are my suggestions, but of course, it's different for everybody...
Glass! Dusting is okay, but eventually simply dusting things won't clean them like you would expect, and the dust ultimately gets more and more stuck on. Keeping them behind glass prevents your collection from getting grimy, and saves you time, as cleaning glass doors is much faster that dusting shelf by shelf. The Detolf cases you already have are legendary for collectors. Cheep and efficient. If they work for your collection, you are in luck! Also the adjustable Billy cases. They have optional glass doors, and you can buy the parts as your budget sees fit.
Also, glass shelves. Just like the Detolf, you can get glass shelves for all but the center shelf of the Billy cases. This let's nice light in, and gives you a better view of the lower shelves when standing up close. I use these for my lego wall. Four of them side-by-side. They aren't as deep, but the customization is great!
Also, keeping the major display areas organized and letting the items have room really helps me enjoy my collection. Even if this means rotating pieces in and out, almost like a museum would do.
I have two walls of glass shelves, and I give everything nice space, and in one closet I jam it packed. I also have another lower shelf that I put slider drawers in, so that I can pack storage in there, and not clutter the room. I would suggest thinking of out-of-site storage as well as display area. I know that seems counterintuitive when designing a display room, but the help in organization really goes a long way.
Also, I use my room as an "office," ~wink~. A desk sitting in the middle of the room with a laptop is really all it is. I like it getting a little use other than nerd room, and being around all your favorite stuff really helps your creativity flow. My wife likes to go in there and do her work as well. It's actually become a rather relaxing room, but again, I do keep it as neat as possible.
Sunlight. I've learned to totally keep it out, no matter how nice it makes the room feel. Anything that's white or clear will get hurt the most, but honestly, it's not just plastic that sunlight will destroy, and it will do worse things than just fading or discoloring. Time will always be the death of things, but the sun really helps it along.
At first my friends thought I was crazy. I put thick white sheets up in the window (so it still looked normal from the outside with our white blinds behind it), and then I actually covered the window wall with shelves. The back of these shelves is solid and completely blocks out the light. I even have special lightbulbs for lighting, and defuse them so it's not so harsh. People don't even notice that I've covered windows. A nice, intentional looking design will do the trick.
Airflow. When measuring for the placement of you cases, don't cover any vents. This is a no-brainer, but sometimes slips the mind. You need to keep the room climate controlled, and you want the moister to have an escape. Also, don't place shelves in such a way that they'll get too much heat or air conditioning from a vent. Extreme temperatures draw the moister from the air, and it will accumulate in the shelves and on your items. Extreme heats, both ways, is just bad. In my last room I noticed a shelf was too close to a heat vent, and it had boxed items (like a roton and night stalker I think), which could have warped or easily caught moister. I had to rework the room, and this was after I had them all filled with toys. I knew better this last time.
Anyways, that's just some of the stuff I've been through. Every time in my life where I've had the opportunity (and permission!) to hook up a nerd room, I did it, and enjoyed even minute of it.
Don't let people put you down because of it. Everybody on the org will probably support you 1000%! But there are people out there that are rude, and might make you think your room is either overly self involved, or more often childish. I found that displaying stuff nice and organized, and not cluttered, gets a good response from tough crowds. I like to share my junk with everybody, even though it is mainly for me (and the cleanliness of the house for it being in the room), so I still try to keep things digestible.
If your style is ultimate clutter madness though, then that's awesome too! Do what you want, have fun, good luck, and congratulations!!!
I could have taken my whole office, but instead I chose to use the closet. I had Transformers hanging on strips I made from Vertical blinds, split in half and tabs cut in them. They were made for Hot Wheels, so the tabs were close together, but still spaced decently to use for Transformers. Basically, those hanging strips you see in grocery store aisles holding little stupid crap....that is what I based my strips on, but mine were the length of the blinds I used of course, like 5" I think.
But I changed my mind, and sold off some of the lesser wanted Transformers, and Hot Wheels, so, the strips weren't a necessity any longer. And instead of opting for walls full of shelves for displays, I chose to leave the Office as it was, an Office, and use the Walk In Closet for my display room instead. At the moment I don't have every single thing on display, I don't want every single thing on display, I have small dresser with 5 drawers, that I keep the other stuff in. I have what I want on display, and have plenty of room left for more MOTUC and even Transformers. If I need even more room, I can get a few plastic shelves from Meijer or something.
I have a small collection of things unlike some, but I am happy with my little display room, it's just hard to take pictures sometimes, other than that, I love it.
Recent.... HATMOTU Beast Man & Evil Seed
Wanted.... Filmation Mer-Man, Teela & Sorceress
Needed.... MOTUC Lord Masque
Oh man, did I forget to use these [sarcasm][/sarcasm] again? Sorry....
So don't let the small handful of naysayers take the fun out of it. Far, far more folks will get something positive from it, if not just being reminded of cherished toys or characters from their youth.
"I will use this power for all the good that can be done, to work for peace, to encourage virtue, and above all, to preserve life in all its forms..." Superman
They do have a show about it (collector intervention), that puts a negative light on it. That show probably has all of ten viewers, but the network had to think there was a large enough schadenfreude audience out there ready to consume it.
There are more positive reactions than bad ones (providing it's not reaching the super creepy levels), but those rare bad ones stand out is all, and they shouldn't. People will use it as a jab, and to me it says tons about their character and nothing about yours. Actually, having a room shows a good amount of responsibility and respect to the rest the house and those you live with. Which is very important to me anyways.
Now the people on Toy Hunter, not sure how real that one is, but I know people with collections like that, that store them in boxes only remember half of what they have and really never see 3/4 of it again in their lifetime. Nor is it ever seen by eyes again until the collector is long gone, and someone has to clean it out.
Sorry, but that's not the way I want to collect, I will never store a garage full of boxed toys away, I'd turn the garage into a showroom before that, I want to physically see 3/4 to all of my collection, only storing away extras or pieces I am not overly fond of, but then again those pieces....I'd rather sell than box up. That is why I sold a lot of my lesser wanted Hot Wheels and Transformers. My collection was much greater than it is now, I had over 400 Hot Wheels, now about 150, almost 150 Transformers, now down to about 80, and all of my Hot Wheels and Transformers are not on display, but they are accessible in my toy room, either viewable in drawers in a dresser, or on my shelves. I just don't have room for 150 Hot Wheels on the walls in my toy room (closet) so I have my favorites on display. But I may put the rest in the main Office space, I haven't decided yet.
Recent.... HATMOTU Beast Man & Evil Seed
Wanted.... Filmation Mer-Man, Teela & Sorceress
Needed.... MOTUC Lord Masque
Oh man, did I forget to use these [sarcasm][/sarcasm] again? Sorry....
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A well displayed collection is actual more about restraint and good design sense than anything else. Not saying I have a lock on this aesthetic, but I see too many collections which are the polar opposite of this. Again, a few shelves spaced evenly apart on the walls, a few detolf's also spaced and lined appropriately, and most of all... remember to dust and change out your collection every so often. I have many more figures in storage then on display, but that gives me a chance to put things away and pull them back out later on if I choose. Helps bring a sense of both the old and the new together, which only further adds balance.
Harken the coming of Dragstor!!
I've always imagined displaying my collection on tables with scenery and backdrops. But as I don't have anywhere near the space for that, my figures sadly live in boxes most of the time for now. Keeps them clean and safe though.
Vaults of Grayskull - www.vaultsofgrayskull.co.uk
Yup, totally agree.
Although I do know people that buy stuff with hopes of presenting it one day, and it does end up being a boxed up hoard, so I'm not knocking the situation, as some people just can't display their stuff as they would like to. Money, space, all kinds of stuff can impede. Also, often times people might fall in love with everything little thing they buy, and not know how to focus things down.
Collection Intervention was awkward, and pretty lame. Not sure if it was fake, actually I think there were blogs and junk that followed up and were pretty consistent, but either way they were extreme, and highlighted some people with semi personality disorders. Not representing the larger percentile of collectors. That was the point though I guess, showcase crazy people with an over attachment to their stuff. Didn't last long enough to give a bad name to us all I'm sure. Or if it's still on, then yeah, nobody probably knows about it.
One thing they did mention every single time, was to refine, and weed your collection, and I've learned that lesson myself and completely agree. A large collection doesn't make a great collection. I'll always take down what's no longer working, and if it's obviously not fitting, or I just don't like it, I'll sell it. I got enjoyment out of it at some point (for the most part *cough* spector *cough*), so I don't feel like I've wasted time or anything.
In any case, when you co-habitat with someone else (your spouse, partner, parents, roommates, girlfriend/boyfriend), you have to respect each other desires and come to a good compromise.
Some people's husbands/wives have a no toys displayed throughout the house rule... I'm glad the OP was able to convince his wife to let him have a whole dedicated room to toys in their home.
All of us would like our own mancave, but sometimes our relationships (or space restrictions) dictate otherwise.
Alas, a man in his mid-30s decorating his house in toys is not sociallly acceptable to everyone.
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MOTUC MOC Want List: SDCC 2008 King Grayskull
Vintage POP MOC Want List: Bubble Power She-Ra, Loo Kee, Spinnerella
How lucky that your girlfriend "didn't have any say" and if she did you would "let her go very quickly."
She should treasure the love you have for her, and the value you find in her input.
I will just echo what others have said, in that relationships change once you put a ring on it. And if you're in the right kind of relationship (i.e. one in which BOTH parties understand the concept of give and take), then it changes for the better.
I think it is very generous for a spouse to give up an entire room for his or her partner's hobbies. That's a room that could have been a guest room, a study, an entertainment room, a nursery, a home office, a room for the OTHER person's hobbies, etc.
Anybody that doesn't recognize what a treasure that is needs to take a step back and reevaluate.
As for the OP, I've got no suggestions, as I just pile mine wherever there is space, but please share pics when you're done!
PoP Variants are part of the vintage line, too! Starburst She-Ra, Shower Power Catra, and Scratchin' Sound Catra for 2015!!!


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1. crispy m&ms
met its tragic, untimely death in the united states in 2005.
2. pepsi blue
discontinued in the us and canada in 2004.
3. french toast crunch
ripped from grocery store shelves in the us in 2006. via.
4. butterfinger bbs
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finished its impressive run in 2006.
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entered the grocery store of the great beyond in 2005.
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7. magic middles
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8. ecto cooler
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9. 3d doritos
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10. crystal pepsi
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11. squeezits
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15. four loko
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18. wonder balls
what's inside a wonder ball? magic. and nestle killed magic in 2004.
19. pb max
discontinued sometime in the 90's because the mars family didn't like peanut butter. seriously.
20. orbitz
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