The PopCulteer
August 2, 2024

We have even more photos from a big toy show this week. The wild thing is, this gigantic, largely captionless, photo essay is not the last of it. You can expect another twenty or so pictures from the weekend before last’s 2024 Kentuckiana GI Joe Toy Expo next week.

Your PopCulteer is still a little train-lagged from our quick trip to Chicago earlier this week, and has to ease back into the blogging routine while getting ready for his first non-travel weekend in four weeks.  Since running huge photo essays makes our blog template cranky, we are about at out limit for this post anyway. Next week we have even more pics of custom figures, rare toys and a few shots of cool Super Joe, Adventure Command and Astro Command figures.

We had a great time at the 2024 Kentuckiana GI Joe Toy Expo, and this is our second photo essay. You can see the first one HERE, and the music video, featuring a tune by Sgt. Van & The Highway Dogs can be seen HERE.

I like to try to get the photo essays and video of toy shows online in a timelier manner, but spending consecutive weekends in Wheeling, Louisville and Chicago sorta throws a blogger off their game. That’s why this post is still being written the morning of the day it’ll be posted.

So…without any further blathering, here are tons more photos, with only a few captions…

Many of these photos are from the preview night event, while vendors were still setting up, so don’t freak out over the occasional empty table. By showtime Saturday all the vendor spots were filled.

Above and below was a vendor who had great prices on a lot of cool stuff. He did a quick interview with me for his podcast, where I showed and talked about some custom 1/12-scale original-style GI Joe heads that were made by Chad Gordy and painted by Tony DiTrapano, which I brought down from the MEGO event in Wheeling the week before. Scan the QR code to check out his podcast.

Even a wide-angle shot did not capture all of Steve Stovall’s booth. He’s the daddy of Kentuckiana.

This shot and the ones above and below are Dave Roth’s booth. Dave always has the coolest Marx stuff, including that cool wagon he customized in the photo below.

More old friends from JoeLanta were on hand, even a Brit!

We wrap up this batch of photos with the man, the myth, the legend…”Tanker” Dave Matteson. It’s always a kick to see my old Sandbox buddy in person.

And that is this week’s PopCulteer, hastily-assembled as it is. Expect at least one more batch of Kentuckiana photos, and check back for our regular features. We might even spring a Chicago surprise on you.