Yes kids, it's time for another edition of 3 Random Things here on the blog that nobody knows exists!
Shhh, it'll be our little secret.
This time, we stray away from the normal "look at 3 things from Mr. Ghostbuster's colletion" and put a little twist on it.
This edition of 3 Random Things will be all about our friend, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!
Stay Puft has long been my favorite character in Ghostbusters. He is just so darn cute. How could you not want to give him a big hug? Even when he is sent to destroy all of humanity, you can't help but love him, and have a very soft spot in your heart, to the point to shedding a few tears, when the boys in grey roast him.
Yes, folks, this time we check out 3 Random Stay Puft items in the biggest Ghostbusters collection you will ever see.
1: Singing Stay Puft!!
A few years ago, I was able to score one of these at our local Toys R Us for about $20., which is a real shock.
See, our TRU is typically the last store in the world to get anything good, and if they luck out and do, they get one case of it. Once that case hits shelves, there is nothing but douchey Ebay dealers lined up at the door (every Friday morning at 10am!!!) waiting to get a hold of it to flip it for seven times the retail price.
Push the little blue sticker on Stay Puft's torso and you'll hear roughly 20 seconds of the Ghostbusters theme!
2: Stay Puft Plushie!!
I have several of these, but the first one was the worst one to get.
We were down in Memphis, TN on vacation for a week back in 2012. We had gone into Wal-Mart and spotted him trapped inside of the evil claw machine.
Oh, but he could be ours should we be lucky enough to master the claw at only $1.00 per play!
$1.00 per attempt to watch this fat chunk of fluff fall out over and over and over and over....you get it by now.
By the time he was rescued and in my loving arms, roughly $30 had been spent. I could have done so much more with $30, but I'll never pass up the chance to bring home a stuffed Marshmallow Man.
3: The Stay Puft Army!!
Over the years, I have seemed to acquire 10 of the original Kenner Stay Puft figures.
On average, I seem to gain around 2 of them a year from various sources locally.
I'll never forget the first one. I was about 4 years old, at day care. I was wearing a Ghostbusters 2 logo shirt.
Some of the other hillbilly kids decided that they wanted to play Ghostbusters. Shit, man, I was down! They quickly turned me away because I was wearing a Ghostbusters 2 shirt. I should be mad about it to this day, but chances are, those little kids, mullets and all, are probably toothless and digging in the dirt, only dreaming to live in the "big town" these days.
I decided to go off and do my own thing, which I would grow very accustomed to throughout my life. Soon enough, my Dad was there to pick me up and free me from the clutches of the evil day care provider.
In his hands, he had the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!
I could not have been more excited in my 4 years on Earth than I was at that moment. Holy hell, my own Marshmallow Man!
To this day, no matter how many of them I have, I always get just as excited when I get another. Stay Puft always has and always will hold a special place in my collection.
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