Car Clutter Cleaning

English: At a car accident, Newstead, 1952. Onlookers gather around a car accident in Breakfast Creek Rd, Newstead. The car skidded. (Description supplied with photograph.). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I had planned to do another book report for this week’s article but it’s been a long time since I’ve done a clutter clearing project, and I had a good opportunity to do one. Sadly, it came after I had a car accident. The car is repaired (after the body shop and insurance company wanted to total it), so I now I have to get my “road legs” back and get myself back to driving. Nobody was hurt but I was the rear ender on this one and that tends to shake one up. I hope never to cause that again, or end up on the other end.

Still, it means organizing the stuff in my car, seeing what I needed, and getting rid of the rest.

Toy Report: Excalibur MKVI

When the Robotech series (a combination various Japanese animated series, using altered dialog to form them into a complete narrative, and rather well if you ask me) hit the US, Matchbox of all toy companies, licensed the property to produce a line of toys while Revell produced a series of model kits. A friend of mine had a couple of the model kits and outside of being transforming planes they weren’t all that impressive. I have a few action figures and mecha but all but one are packed away.

Above is the Excalibur MKVI, or as it is officially know, the Destroid Tomahawk or MBR-04-Mk VI. I’m not sure why the name change, unless it has something to do with early translations. Destroids come from the first Robotech War (taken from the Japanese series Macross). While the main fighting craft, the Veritech fighters (or Valkyrie for the Macross purists), were transforming airplanes, the various model Destroids were robotic tanks that protected the ship…and always got destroyed because the heroes all piloted the airplanes and not the Destroids.

As cool as the robots that can turn into planes are, the non-transforming robotic vehicles are cool in their own right. I think I got this one for Christmas. While Matchbox have created toys besides little toy cars, it’s what they’re most known for so it will surprise you that not only does this not have any die-cast metal (going for all-plastic) but it’s actually well made for its time.

Introducing The Clutter Reports Sell Page

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I’ve been doing this site for a while now, and it has included reviews of items to decide if I want to get rid of them or now. And yet those items I said I wanted to get rid of are still here. I was planning on selling them on eBay. I even have an account. What I don’t have is money in my PayPal account to serve as a buffer in case something happens. So I haven’t done it. With my current situation it will be impossible to ever do so. Therefore I’m cutting out the middle site.

If you look above you will see a new tab has been added: “Clutter For Sale”. It’s all the items I know I want to get rid of, broken down by type, plus a miscellaneous section for anything that doesn’t fit. So far there are categories for books, comics, toys, and video games, with only comics and toys currently having anything to offer. At least for now; as we continue there will be more there. When available there are links to reviews I’ve done here and at my other site so you can’t say I’m being dishonest about anything. If you get a comic with a bad story or a toy missing a feature I said so at the time. I don’t want to screw over anybody and hopefully nobody wants to screw me over.

Right now I can only do domestic shipping, and you’ll have to pay for the shipping. As I get more money in reserve I may be able to be more flexible. Orders can be paid through PayPal or by check (or cash if you’re really that trusting…I wouldn’t be). Contact information is on the page if something is there that you want. And if there isn’t keep looking back. As I review stuff here or at the other site things I don’t want will end up here. (Some comics are also multiples.) If you have questions let me know. Hopefully I can get rid of some of this stuff at last.

Comic Report: Essential Godzilla

By now you all should be aware that I’m a Godzilla fan and a comic book reader, so it shouldn’t surprise you that I would collect Godzilla comics. There have been three runs that I know of available in the US, a run by Marvel, one by Dark Horse, and the current IDW printings. While a video production this week slowed the intended project and my review of the Marvel run has come to a close, I thought I would give some final thoughts on The Essential Godzilla a black-and-white collection of all 24 issues of Marvel’s series. Down below should be some samples of reviews I’ve done of the individual issues. Zemanta, the service WordPress uses to find related links, probably won’t have all 24 reviews.

I have managed to pick up a handful of issues of the actual comics but these are old and probably hard to find. So Essential Godzilla was my best bet to follow the whole run, and thankfully it lived up to expectations…most of the time.