Things I Love #67

Things that have been awesome about this week:  my skates are almost here, I haven't had to drive in the rain because its been perfect weather for days now, I downloaded Adventure Time Card Wars and it's been another super fun weekend.  Here's what's been awesome on the internet:

Lego movie posters for Best Picture nominees.  And a few other movies too!

These shoes were made for walking (and toothy grins)!

Stones & Bones:  Illustrations on rocks and skulls.  So amazing.

Funko Pop!  Ghostbusters figures are coming:

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Heartwarming Cartoon-like portraits by Geoffrey Guillin.  Love the big eyes.

Mutant Veggies.  That is all.

The world's 19 most imaginative insults.

Olympic skiing is better with AT-ATs:

Sports Illustrated's absurd, trolling Barbie cover,  This is lame on so many levels...

Rodarte's Fall-Winter Collection is Star War-themed.

9 Haiku poems from deep-thinking cats.

11 Untranslatable words you didn't know existed.

And finally, pandas in the snow:

Seen anything you love this week?  Let me know in the comments.

Things I Love #49

Happy Spring guys!!  I am so excited about the end of winter it's a little bit ridiculous.  I am excited for less layers, potential water world visits and the ability to wear the other half of my closet.  Also, it's my birthday in a month and eleven days...the big 3-oh.  Very excited to celebrate even if it is the end of a decade!  Now, on to this week's list:

Finally got my hands on The Ocean At The End Of The Lane...yay!

Funko are adding to their Adventure Time range with Fionna, Cake, Gunter, PB, Lemongrab and BMO.  I can't decide which ones I want more....leaning towards PB and BMO right now.

18 Ways Adventure Time is making you a better person.  I can think of more the 18 but this is a good start.

And my last Adventure Time link for this week, here are the show's 28 best guest voice actors.  Quite surprised by some of these!

I don't wear heels but these Star Wars heels make my heart happy.  The Pantone ones are pretty cool too.

Here's a photo of my favourite artist, Salvador Dali, skipping rope.  Love it!!

How amazing does this candy sushi look?  Super tempted to do this for my birthday party...

This is the best prank I have ever seen:

 

I love these retro Pokemon ads, especially the Jigglypuff one.

No, Pandas are not a hopeless and wasteful species.  Seriously, it bugs me that anyone could think this in the first place!

Pictures of cats in the sink.  I really have nothing to add to this.

28 Things that happened after the Harry Potter books ended.  A collection of all the bits and pieces JK Rowling has revealed over the years.  It always makes me smile that Neville ends up happy.

Gummi Storm Troopers.  This is such a cool idea and I can assure you that I will be purchasing a bag of gummi bears and adorning them with all our mini figs head gear.

I got to meet my friend Liz's new gerbils this week.  Their names are Mac and Cheese and they are the friendliest little dudes:

And lastly, Anna Grape's super awesome illustrations of different pug species.  I want them all!!

I am off to track down the band announcements for next year's Ramfest.  Considering they are bypassing Durban again despite a good response this year, I am secretly hoping the line-up sucks.  Or not...there's been rumour that Biffy Clyro are coming to our part of the world.  I'll forgive them if it's Biffy. 

Finn & Jake & Marceline

So I pre-ordered these Adventure Time Funko Pop Vinyl toys way back in January and after A LOT of impatient waiting they finally arrived last week.  First impression?  They are huge!  Not really but I was expecting them to be only slightly bigger than my 2 inch Domo figurines.  They are no where near that size.  Not that I am disappointed, just surprised.  

Although I love them all, Finn is my least favourite. While Jake and Marceline look exactly like their t.v. counterparts, Finn seems to be missing something.  I think it might be the fact that his head looks a bit strange.  Or not, I don't know...

Jake is fantastic.  Unlike the other two, Jake has no moveable parts but I love the pose they have chosen for him so I don't even mind.  He reminds me the most of his t.v. version!

And finally, Marceline.  She is my favourite Adventure Time character and my favourite of the three.  And the heaviest...I think it's her hair.  Anyway, she even has the little bite marks on her neck!  I am so glad they did the Marceline figure before they did PB.  Don't get me wrong, Bubblegum is great but Marceline appeals to me more and it's very seldom that my favourite characters get any favour! 

So there you have it!  Funko have announced a second Adventure Time collection that includes Princess Bubblegum, Lemongrab and BMO.  I am definitely pre-ordering BMO.  I think I am going to order LSP too...I am having a little bit of regret over the fact that I didn't include her in this pre-order.  

The quality of these toys makes me keen to order more of the Funko range.  They have an awesome Spongebob Squarepants series, some great Star Wars characters and an equally great set of Nightmare Before Christmas characters.  They are also behind the Domo x DC mashup!  

Do any of you guys have Funko toys?  What do you think of them?