Guest Spot on The Radioactive Lounge Comics Podcast

Art by Sacha Bryning.

Oh hi.

HRU?

Good I hope.

I'm well too.

One long vanishment from this ye olde blogge later, I have returned, yet again, to let you know about a guest spot I did on another podcast - The Radioactive Lounge: A Comics Podcast.

This time around, I was invited to be on a Melbourne based podcast to act like a conduit for two of the co-hosts in particular to have a rolling chat about toys and toy lines they thought were "weird."

Whether a toy is weird or odd or outrageous can often be entirely subjective and the basis of many podcast segments but within the context of this particular discussion, the main points they wanted to cover included the M*A*S*H toy line, Dukes of Hazzard's Vance and Coy figures and Mego's The Love Boat line as well as random anomalies from licenses like Harry Potter and Masters of the Universe.

I'm not on the show until around the 75 minute mark BUT if you want to hear about other stuff not said by yours truly...be my guest, I'm not your real parent figure!

Here's the link if you'd like to listen.

Note: Content and language warning applies to this show.

Podcast Guest Spot on The Lachlan McLeod Show

Hoard World, Lachlan McLeod and Ghostbeard13

HELLO.

After years of refusing to be on other people's podcasts because I'm a goddamn diva, I finally buckled when my good pal Lachlan McLeod put the hard word on me last Saturday. And boy did we podcast.

In the recorded 150 minutes that transpired we covered  FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2018 at All Star Comics Melbourne, what people were wearing on the day and a selection of FCBD titles as well as 108 minutes of topics like MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE TOYS , GROWING UP IN THE 80S AND 90S, SUPER POWERS TOYS,  BATMAN, JACK COLE'S UNTIMELY DEMISE, THE LONGING FOR MARVEL MERCH AND DECENT MARVEL MOVIES AS A KID and much, much more.

If you've ever wanted to listen to two unashamed Aussie nerds talk shit for as long as the running time of Avengers: Infinity War, now's your chance!

Listen to Hoard World's very first podcast as a guest on The Lachlan McLeod Show HERE.

EDIT 29/5/19: SADLY, THESE PODCASTS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE ONLINE. THIS BLOG POST REMAINS FOR ARCHIVAL PURPOSES ONLY.

TONNES OF NEW STUFF FOR SALE IN THE ALL STAR COMICS MELBOURNE TOY CABINET! HULK! STAR WARS! SPICE GIRLS! HE-MAN! MAD MONSTER PARTY! SIMPSONS!

Whenever Anti-Venom attends a Mad Monster Party, he always brings some Los Pollos Hermanos chicken.

Hi everybody,

As some of you may already know, for a good while now, I've been fortunate enough to have been given the unique opportunity to host some of my wares for sale in the Toy Cabinet at All Star Comics Melbourne.

Yes, it's all true. If you're a local you totally have a shot at owning items that have been personally fondled by yours truly.

That said, while the allocated shelf space has varied from one to a couple over the last almost three years - All Star Comics move to Queen Street heralded a new age of display option wonderment for this little plastic dog and pony show of mine. An entire cabinet!

As awesome as that is, I have even better news.

For TWO DAYS ONLY this weekend May 30th - May 31st I have been given access to an additional TWO cabinets.

This is a dream come true because not only do I love selling off my pieces from my personal collection to new forever homes, I really dig creating toy displays. During my previous life as a comic shop worker back in the early to late 00s, it was one of my favourite things to do! (Apart from being lovely all the time and obviously spending most of my earnings on STUFF.) Some of my fondest memories at that now defunct store include re-arranging entire walls of action figures to pretty much whatever I felt like. Good Times.

Here's the other two spaces I'm occupying for this very limited period......

90s Star Wars figures! Whoa. They're super rare, right? Right?
And yes, those are Spice Girls dolls.

Is there any other store in Melbourne that has an entire toy shelf dedicated to The Hulk? You're welcome.

And here's the toy section as it looked right before I left it earlier this afternoon.....

So if you're living or staying in Melbourne right now and feel like dropping some coin - there's no better time than now!

But don't take my word for it, check out this special video sneak peek courtesy of The Hoardstagram.

And that's it!

yr pal,

HOARDAX.

TROMA 4 LYFE.

SNEAK PEEK: KRANG AMAZEBALLS by HUGGINGTONS TWISTED TOYS

About 9 seconds ago, on the Huggingtons Twisted Toys Facey B page, I saw some WIP (work-in-progress) shots of the first entirely sculpted piece 'KRANG AMAZEBALLS' by J-F Tranquille.

You might have already realised this but it's a genius (and completely fitting) mash-up of Krang from TMNT and Madballs.

Yes.

Source: Superhero Wiki

Source: Memoirs Of A Roving Mind

WHAT HAS HONG KONG PHOOEY DONE FOR ME LATELY? aka HOW TO KENNY ROGERS.

The answer is: Not enough.

Sometimes you have to be Kenny Rogers.

You have to Kenny Rogers the heck out of an aspect of your life.

And that can be a gamble.

But knowing when to fold 'em. When to hold 'em. When to walk away. And when to run, is how you be Kenny Rogers successfully.

And sometimes you have to be Kenny Rogers about something. You have no choice.

The time for me to be Kenny Rogers is NOW and that "something" I mentioned earlier is my vast collection of things I quite like.