Your humble blogger finds himself, once again, behind schedule. This time it’s due to a combination of inexplicable internet outages, a nonstop barrage of telemarketer calls and more pressing paying gigs getting near their deadlines.

So, it’s time to run down to the still-being-built photo studio, grab a stack of toys I just got recently, and bring you a quick photo essay so you have something new and cool to look at today. I promised you fresh content every day, and this is as fresh as it gets!

Tomorrow you’ll get another photo essay, finally wrapping up our look at Kentuckiana, and next week I plan to dig into an ever-growing stack of really cool books that need to be reviewed.

Some of today’s pics are also previews of upcoming posts. A lot of this cool stuff deserves more in-depth looks.

Let’s jump in, shall we?

Ashland Kentucky’s Juggulator, a local wrestling hero, has appeared in action figure form. Seen here having vanquished Tommy Dreamer. Juggs had a short run of these. I’ll let you know if he has more made. This is one cool figure.

While we’re on a wrestling kick, Sabu and Raven have joined the (much larger) Tommy Dreamer as Big Rubber Guys. I really didn’t need to start collectiing a new action figure line, but they keep pulling me back in.

Like I said…so we stopped in Lexington on the way back from The Kentuckiana GI Joe Toy Expo, and I picked up this Big Rubber Guy of Dusty Rhodes, both as a fond rememberance of Danny Boyd (who cast Dusty in (Paradise Park) and because I like this version better than the polka dot one that Mattel/LJN/WWE did recently. I got this at Toy Headquarters, AKA Toy Vomit.

This is a detail of the final photo in today’s essay, just to show that I snagged both Terry Funk and Bobby Heenan at KrugerFest in Wheeling. These are the vintage LJN figures, from 40 years ago.

Both Zuru Mini Brands and MGA’s Miniverse are creating miniature working record players, with mini-vinyls. It took a long time for the Miniverse versions to arrive, but in the coming weeks you’ll get a comparison of the two.

Meanwhile, at Kentuckiana, I picked up this cool reproduction of an LJN “Mr. Action” vehicle, 3D-printed, from my friend Brad Curry of Bee Active Toys. He’s doing these in many colors, and some will be sold through Cotswold too.

Brad also made these cool GI Joe Adventure Team accessories, which I needed for my guys.

I had to pick up this Cobra Driller, based on a vehicle from the GI Joe cartoon that Hasbro never bothered to make, from YoJo Java, who also has many other amazing 3D printed creations to compliment your 1980s toys. This pic of Plankton commandeering the Driller in the trunk of our car came out better than my studio shots, so I’m sharing this one.

These were the Adventure Command/Super Joe-sized convention figures, created by Steve Stovall with White Elephant Toyz. They’re a tribute to the 1969 “Adventures of GI Joe” line, which makes them way cool.

Also created for this convention were these three basic accessory outfits…

…and these deluxe, themed, but totally different, boxed sets. To be honest, the spy guys among these exclusives will probably commandeer the Black ATV I got from Brad.

These two figures from Two Guys Toys will get a full photo essay in a week or two.

We wind up this photo essay with a group shot of what I got at KrugerFest. Well, most of what I got, anyway. Much thanks to Chad Gordy and Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum for hosting such a great show, which will only grow every year going forward.

That is not all that has come into Stately Radio Free Charleston Manor lately, but it’s a good sample of the cool stuff that’s just out there to be found and enjoyed.

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