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thelibrarygeek Spent most of my afternoon scoping Furuta Star Trek and NASA spaceships on eBay. [#].
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thelibrarygeek Furuta is a Japanese company that manufactured this miniature snap-on plastic models. They measure between 3 to 5 inches… [#].
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thelibrarygeek …but the attention to detail is top notch. These minatures are not available locally though and most of the series collection… [#].
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thelibrarygeek …are only available in Japan or Hong Kong. So eBay is it. The sellers are making a killing charging high since there is a market for… [#].
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thelibrarygeek …these collectibles. I was not able to control myself and bought some of them. I was clicking on buy-it-now like there was no… [#].
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thelibrarygeek …tomorrow. I can’t wait to get them. [#].
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thelibrarygeek Come to think of it, a decade ago there was a company that also miniature models, Galoob and later on, Playmates. [#].
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thelibrarygeek The miniatures were called Micro Machines. They also looked amazing, but I think more toy-like overall compared to Furuta’s. [#].
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thelibrarygeek Micro Machines also came with clear stands, while Furutas have these black or clolored stands with the name of the model printed on it. [#].
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thelibrarygeek Geesh,I am still on eBay. I got to stop. =0 [#].
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thelibrarygeek Lately, I noticed a surge of interests and materials on the undead that it seems that vampiric lore is coming into its own renaissance. [#].
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thelibrarygeek Years past you only have Anne Rice’s vampire chronicles, two novels of which became movies, with the first one earning critical success. [#].
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thelibrarygeek You also have the regular rehashing of Stoker’s Dracula, and the long-running TV series of Joss Whedon, Buffy the vampire slayer. [#].
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thelibrarygeek Now its like a buffet of gore and fangs. And not only that vampires are now seen in a different light. These creatures of the night are… [#].
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thelibrarygeek …not your grandfather’s coffin-dwelling/blood sucking one dimensional monsters that Van Helsing or Buffy hunts. [#].
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thelibrarygeek Nope, they are now the heroes of the stories, having trilogies and series to their name their stories and travails… [#].
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thelibrarygeek …presented in a sympathetic light. You have Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series, Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stockhouse series, and… [#].
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thelibrarygeek …Darren Shan vampire blood trilogy. Twilight was made into a movie that hordes of preteens and teens raised into a box office monster… [#].
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thelibrarygeek its lead star into an overnight celebrity and virtually guaranteeing that all the other books will become movies. [#].
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thelibrarygeek In fact, I believe that filing for the second book is already done and is planned for a late this year showing. [#].
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thelibrarygeek The Harris’ series became an HBO production under Alan Ball of Six Feet Under fame. [#].
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thelibrarygeek And Darren Shan’s The Vampire Assistant is now a movie starring John C. Reilly and directed by Paul Weitz. [#].
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thelibrarygeek I saw Twilight on DVD and watched three episodes of True Blood’s first season so far and, frankly, it did not really grab me… [#].
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thelibrarygeek as something I will be excited to look forward to. Maybe I need to read the original source the Meyer anHarris books because the Twilight… [#].
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thelibrarygeek movie and True Blood seem a bit lacking for me. I love horror films and I am really partial to vampires, but I just don’t feel it here. [#].
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