If it ruins it you can see the full res pic on the blog (oldnerd.net)
Mezco builds are fascinating. Metal frame from neck to knees, soft squishy torso and thighs, plastic overlay arms and legs, bodysuit, traditional hands, head, and boots.
It feels incredibly sturdy compared to similar imports.
FIG PIC: “Velvet Dashboards”
The Tangerine Saga continues! Each of the pics so far has one small thing I’m especially proud of. Yesterday it was the reflections on the car. Here it was turning the dashboard into velvet. Dunno what Bsky is gonna do to it though.
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The full assortment of my Fortnite Weirdos Collection stand in a group on a Fortnite football field, fronted by their final member, Brat (Jazwares Legendary), a hot dog man with sunglasses and a trucker cap and a treasure trail of mustard, holding a giant two-promged fork with a hot dog on the end. He’s standing in front of the Upgrade Shark (Hasbro Victory Royale), which is lying on the ground in front of Mancakes (Has) and Beef Boss (Jaz), and behind them is a semicrcle of, L-R: Rabbit Raider (Jaz), DJ Yonder (Jaz), Peely (Jaz), Cluck (Has), Atlantean Fishstick (Jaz), Agent Peely (Jaz), Fishstick (Jaz), Shadow Meowscles (Has), Tomatohead (Jaz), and Potassius Peels (Has). Everyone except Brat and the Shark have their arms raised in triumph.
Flashback to… six weeks ago. We’re all looking for the guy responsible for this.
RNG Vault 896/927 (3/8/26) is the triumphant completion of what I consider to be my personal list of Fortnite Weirdos, all shown here celebrating the final member of the team, Brat.
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Bugs Bunny in a mask trying to grapple the head of a giant, yawning wrestler.
Lio Rush vs. Brody King
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MY SHADOW KNOWS MY STAMEEEEEEEN!
I feel like Im just the right distance from the Bluesky drama du jour now - able to enjoy it via snark inference and context clues without seeing it directly or, heaven forfend, being involved.
Not sure how the tahini would play with the mustard but I’d 100% try it.
By the end of 2022, after eight months, she was off the meds (that happened fast), reasonably comfortable, and we were at the point where “If she never gets any friendlier than this, that’s OK, we can happily live with this.”
She’s gotten better and friendlier every day since.
She was tiny, still shaved from the second surgery to clean up the infection caused by the post-spaying neglect from the first foster. Full of energy, on gabipentin, so food insecure she ate two Hershey’s Kisses out of a bowl including the wrappers.
Kimchi, a tiny calico cat, sits alertly on a shelf in front of a white wall, in the first room she got to explore in her new home.
The same cat, larger, less scrawny, but still pretty small, relaxing on her side, belly towards the camera, in a black-jean-clad lap.
How It Started / How It’s Going.
Four years ago today, Kimchi (kda, somehow, “Delphinia”) came home with us from her second foster after being neglected by her first foster.
The second foster did his best but it was his first time fostering and Kimchi was… a lot.
Well, he does give off “the half of the 2-pack I’m gonna try to get rid of on eBay” vibes* so hopefully you’ll have options for future disassembly and repurposing…
*And not in a “gonna ask for 80% of the 2-pack price” way cough cough astonishing colossus cough cough.
We’ll make a deal, just between us.
I’ll mention on here that if the pic in my e-mail is correct, Friday will be “You Can Buy Koi Boy” day at Fore Horsemen and we’ll all get excited about it and maybe chat a bit it and in return, you won’t buy the last one before me, OK?
OK.
Not that I’d want that dingy-ass barely red costume made entirely of beard stubble Daredevil (no shade if you do) but I look at that new Jessica Jones fig and all my brain does is scream KNEEEEEEEEEEEES!
I can’t see the rest of the figure. All I can see is those jean-hole knees.
I have, as a rule, been locked out of Rumble Society by the very tiny preorder windows before sellout, the high price points, etc. But I’ve clicked with a lot of the designs like Gomez and Crab Louie but the stuff I like the best is all aftermarket madness - Tangerine was cheap by comparison.
Tangerine: Bad-Ass For Hire (Mezco 1:12 Collective Rumble Society), a late 60’s / early 70’s style Black woman in an orange jumpsuit, with white accents, belt, and holster harness, stands next to a red 70’s Lincoln Continental, left hand on the hood, right hand waving at Black Widow (Marvel Legends classic look update version) and Zarana (GI Joe Classified) as they approach. Black letterbox-style bars are at the top and bottom of the screen - in the top bar, “TANGERINE IN” is showing (Tangerine’s name in orange letters). In the bottom bar, in quotes, “Slip Inside My Big-Ass Lincoln”.
GOT: Tangerine!
I’ll go into detail in replies more pics bshort version: she’s always been at the top of my Want/Can’t/Shouldn’t list. #1 with a bunch of bullet effects. And now I have one.
The Sifl and Olly song “Tangerine” has ten lines.
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Goro (Storm Collectibles Mortal Kombat 11) holds Spiral (Marvel Legends) and her six arms in his four arms, carrying her over the threshold, as it were, in front of a very tacky red bed in an even tackier red and pink honeymoon suite.
Pics are behaving again (I hope), I got my shots done for tonight, and I LOVE ME AN ARMS JOKE.
RNG Vault 344/926 (4/10/24) is a bonus pic I made after getting this Goro and also the closest I’ve ever come to maybe tickling someone’s kink on accident.
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Yeah, Art of Noise was one of my eeeeeearly loves.
There’s an 8 minute “AON Mix” that I wouldn’t necessarily recommend but it’s full of riffs on other Art of Noise tracks so I dig it too.
So, who is it that hates pics and videos today? Iranian hackers or Claude Code?
Well, if we’re doin’ this, I’d never, ever say it’s “better” per se but I do love it more.
FIG PIC: “Chonky Clankers”
The quoted pics put the idea in my head last month, and since I was rattling around a bit this weekend and digging through bins for other reasons, I decided to knock it out quick.
Just non-stop jet boots and rivets.
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I know why it happens, but the most exhausting part of many of the Big Accounts is this sequence that frequently plays out.
1) People are yelling at me about it!
2) People are still yelling at me about it!
3) Remember last week when people were yelling at me about it? I still think it!
Oh, right, tiny-ass dumbbell wrist joints.
AKA Bryansbane.
See also Dungeon Master on the Amiga, played the hell out of both.
In an office with standard cube wall counter / storage bins lining the back wall, “Pete” (Total Anime Denji from Chainsaw Man with an animated Peter Parker head) sits across the desk from Ryu (Jada Toys Street Fighter II), holding up some papers and explaining some bureaucratic aspect of the Street Fighter tournament to Ryu, who’s holding his hands palms up as if to say, “Whatever.” There’s a “Street Fighter: Red Tape” logo in the upper left.
RNG Vault 559/925 is the kickoff from my rare practical project, the homage to the Street Fighter Red Tape sketches feat. Ryu.
Hard to believe this was 8 months ago (8/3/25). Feels like I just finished these.
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Oooh I’m glad I didn’t see them on that discount. I’da bit on all three even though I’ve got no real use for ‘em.
Having just been properly exposed to Nu Lio this week, this PERFECTLY captures what he’s got going on right now.
The -second- most important acquisition of April 20, 2026 has also occured.
Think of it as MY “InfoWars”.
Oscillating between “Happy for everybody involved” and “man, news about The Onion shows up in my timeline about 30% more than I need it to” this afternoon, heh.
Blade (Deadpool and Wolverine) dropkicks Blade (Toy Biz first movie figure) in the stomach, causing him to fly backwards, his slightly bulky soft goods coat flying out behind him, doubling over to the very limited extent he’s able to, all in a grey dark alleyway.
GOT: Blade!
Also an excuse to bring out my weird old Toy Biz first movie Blade, who has no torso articulation beyond a waist swivel but somehow toe joints.
Anyway, I solved the MCU problem - just rip off Looper!
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Biggest prediction I ‘ve ever gotten wrong was that if weed got legalized the big corroborations would come in and Monsanto a bunch of weed that smells like vanilla and strawberries when you smoke it.