For all my love of land before time sequels I haven't really watched past 8 too much. I've watched the show more than I've rewatched the sequels 9 and on.
'twas lurking upon my doorstep after work. The paper cutouts may give a sense of scale if you know your Beistle.
My dude had to take a month off, so this is actually a twofer. Along with a special order that won't be in this particular post.
Starting off strong with some random animals. Jigglers include a classic gator, gorgeous longhorn beetle, and a seriously kickass brick red whale. The swollen frog charm is fun, and tinysaurs are always welcome. The caterpillar's a rare single; they usually travel in groups.
Things that are Also Other Things (and trust me, the color isn't any stronger in decent lighting) are mostly Munch Bunch, a series of vegetal charms/pencil toppers in hats that always seemed to find their way into our lives back then whether we actively bought them or not. The Tool Birds are going to have to be bagged with the rest of the flock until I can find a proper tree to put them in.
For a late dose of Halloween, here's a Keshi Surprise Dracula riding a carpet bat perched atop a bleeding skull. Also a few Hong Kong scorpions (both types) and a pocket skeleton, but those are less noteworthy. Also, dig those stickers. Bloody skeleton posing like a frog skeleton. I dig it.
From the Island of Misfit Inclusions, we have a couple more stacking tiki heads and a lone clown in blood red plastic. Probably works for a children's hospital. There were more bootleg keshis when I unboxed this, but a friend of mine collects them, so I threw him the three M.U.S.C.L.E. ones and the third Kitaro piece. Glow necklace is charming, and Tiny Baking Soda Submarine is surely at least somewhat functional.
Arts are oddly bright this time: pretty much everyone is blacklight reactive neon, which requires a more experienced hand to light properly. And possibly a lightbox. Anyway, it's four Dumpties and Cousin Itt, all looking cute as hell, along with the Saucerman's Shadow. Day-Glo E.T. feels like a repop or bootleg, but may have once dangled from some manner of official merchandise. I dunno, it's cool. The button is, well, a button, but it has come days after mine fell off The Bag someplace, so that worked out well.
I still can't figure out what I'm doing wrong with links, but know that these are the high end of the Patreon goodies (even the basic level membership gives a truly fascinating look into the process of keeping the old ways of toys alive), and also available on Storeenvy along with piles and piles of singles. Just look for that Greasy Creeps logo!
The Tinysaurs Go to School by Patricia Hegarty, illustrated by Dean Gray
The Tinysaurs Go to School by Patricia Hegarty, illustrated by Dean Gray. Caterpillar Books, 2023. 9781680102895
Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4
Format: Hardcover picture book
Genre: Humor
What did you like about the book? Spike, Roary and Clawdie are going to school for the first time! The tinysaurs are going to school and they get to do so many new and different…
Professionally released my first game today!! Hurrah!! :)
For anyone interested, it’s a mobile app called STARS Anatomy! It’s geared towards high schoolers to help them learn/study human anatomy, specifically, the skeleton! You can grab it FREE for iOS or Android! :3
what's wild about the Swan Princess sequels is they made two back-to-back in the 90s, called it a day, and then resurrected the franchise in 2012 and haven't stopped making them since. Just casually take a fifteen year nap before making yourself the next Land Before Time.
The franchise needed an incubation period to evolve into its final form
Before someone comes at me laughing about my lbt ocs names heres my very long list of canon names that do just that.
With all seriousness:
Strut the Struthiomimus. (Ozzy might come from Ostrich, since the name means Ostrich Mimic)
Bron the Brontosaurus
Doc the Diplodocus
Ichy the Ichthyornis
Rinkus the Rhamphorhynchus
Sierra the Cearadactylus
Mo the Ophthalmosaurus
Pterano the Pteranodon
And because of that you literally can’t stop me from calling Petrie’s Mom Donna.
Hyp the Hypsilophodon
Mutt the Muttaburrasaurus
Nod the Nodosaurus
Thats all the ones I remember.
In all seriousness, I worked pretty hard for this one. I’ve never drawn the ocean before, and I had to figure out a bunch of techniques that I’ve never used. I’d like to think this is a pretty good first try! ^^
Okay, minor shakeup. All better now. Let's hit the backlog!
Greasy Creeps has sent a big one! Again, it is the legend.
First off, mad props for this mask book. It's yellowed and.... like a slightly different grade of paper than I'm used to. Something obsolete. And yet so fun. For that alone, it will serve as background for this round.
A couple of nice jiggly carpet spiders eye up the modular caterpillars. Probably just going to take the unused heads and leave. They're not violent people, really.
In the almost-licensed department, we've got a rare near-vertical specimen of the Kinniku Zebra finger puppet, Kitaro himself (with Oyaji!) and a fairly bland Neko Musume, and the disembodied head of Gordon Shumway. His fur is held on by a few shreds of glue and a dream. I admire his tenacity.
Flat Fun this time is two stickers, repro X-Ray Gogs, and generous helpings of business cards and stickers upon request. If I'm spreading the love, I'm spreading the word too.
Dinky oddballs include another four Stacking Tiki Heads, a witch finger, UV-reactive Mini Wolfman, a couple 90s tinysaurs, and an absolutely hilarious rat.
Look at it
And we end on a couple of Arts (the Wolfman really should have been in this shot), a Palmer Frankenstein recreated in recycled plastics, and one of those Freakies cereal mascots- Boss Moss, or Moss Boss. For some reason, I never could keep them straight. You'd think BM/MB would be the blacklight reactive one, but nope, it's actually several swirls on Frank.
Well, it's all downhill from here. Nah, not really, but this one was spectacular. Almost all keepers. And that's high praise from me as far as mystery boxes go. Go get yourself one, or find some options on Patreon. https://greasycreeps.storenvy.com/