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So I'm having a couple of little conundrums.
First, I've always tried to be at least somewhat practical where plushies are concerned. I rarely understand the pull for some people to collect more than one of the same character. But, if the plushies are vastly different, then sometimes it makes sense to me. And in the case of my two very different Shadow the Hedgehog plushies, I occasionally indulge in it.
I wasn't interested in the Build-A-Bear version of Twilight Sparkle, not just because they're going with the new alicorn look but because the promo picture made her mouth look really, really weird. But ...
... Yesterday I was at a Build-A-Bear and I saw her in person for the first time.
She looks nothing like the promo picture. She is drop-dead gorgeous. And I really, badly want her. Twilight is my favorite Pony and somehow it seems perfectly logical to want this version of her because it's so amazing and well-done and big and soft and she has brushable hair and gaaaah.
At the same time, sentimental illogic creeps in and makes me feel like I'd be betraying my beloved talking Twilight to bring home another Twilight. **headdesk.**
Somehow I just can't seem to look at it the same way as I look at figures. With figures it seems perfectly logical to have different sizes and versions of the same character. Maybe because figures are way cheaper than plushies? And also maybe because I usually don't quite think of figures as "buddies" the same way I think of plushies.
**throws hands in the air.** If we could have made it to that mall on my birthday as well as the one we did make it to, I would have seen the Build-A-Bear Twilight two weeks ago and could have thought about it all this time. As it is, I only saw her last night and had to think about weighing her against some of the other things I want right now, and there really wasn't the proper time to make a decision. I have no idea when I might make it out that way again. And if I keep wanting her as much as I want her right now, I think I may go a little stir-crazy waiting to get her.
I also, incidentally, finally saw some of the Funko vinyl figurines. They're smaller than I thought, to my disappointment, and I definitely saw the crafting flaws in them that a lot of people have complained about. Plus, they're more expensive than I thought they were (about $16.50 instead of $14.99). I kind of wanted the Octavia one (didn't see her, though), because she's totally my favorite background Pony, but now I'm not sure if I want to bother.
I did see the new miniature Octavia figure, though. I'd like to get her, but I wish those little figure sets would be cheaper than $8.99 sometimes.
Also, Amazon sent one of those emails about their weekly deals, and it just so happens that the weekly deal is for Beetlejuice, the TV series version. I don't have any intention of buying it (too many other things I want more), but it sent me spiraling off on a nostalgia trip for the show the likes of which I haven't had for years.
I really got a kick out of the show as a kid; I loved the characters and the friendship squee and I wasn't bothered by all the weirdness. Or should I say ... most of the weirdness. Some things, even as a kid, did not roll with me. And stumbling across one of those things, an episode I had somehow amazingly never seen previously on the show that I recall, completely turned me off of the show. (It was an entire episode involving the same type of thing that made me flee in absolute horror from Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? during the first season and required much, much coaxing and amateur therapy in the form of Mom watching episodes with me to get me to feel okay about the show again.)
Well, so I have balked against smaller bursts of nostalgia for Beetlejuice because of what I stumbled across that time. I know it would bother me far more now. And I have the feeling I wouldn't go so much for the literal translation nonsense these days, either. (Although some of it would likely still give me a giggle. Even today, I remember silliness like "time on my hands". LOL.) But ... it's been bugging me for the last several days because of that dang email, to the point that I really want to at least dig up an episode that I distinctly know I loved and see how I feel about it now. Most of them I barely remember, but the one where Beetlejuice and Lydia are celebrating the anniversary of the day they met and weird things happen with time is one that sticks out in my mind as something very good. Mom really liked that episode, to the point that she wanted it recorded. (Yes, Mom is awesome that way. She watched most of the cartoons I enjoyed. She even liked Beetlejuice better than Darkwing Duck, and I have no idea why, since she really isn't fond of macabre things in general. I think she was fond of the character, mostly, because dang, he was lovable in spite of and sometimes because of his faults.) I enjoyed that episode too, and grew to love it even more because Mom loved it. So if I could find that one, it would be my pick for trying out again.
Also, I realized a curious thing about myself. When I was reading over an episode guide and recalled the show's element of Beetlejuice often transforming into bizarre disguises (like Betty Juice, for one), I remembered that I had never really liked that. I was disappointed whenever an episode involved an episode-long transformation. And I realized it was because I wanted to see Beetlejuice fully as himself, not as disguise characters.
That realization made me aware of the explanation as to why I never really cared for a friend of mine inserting Marik and certain other YGO characters into a situation where they were acting in a play. Aside from the fact that I felt it was OOC for most of those particular characters and they wouldn't be interested in acting, I simply wasn't comfortable with Marik and company playing at being other people. I wanted to see them and picture them as themselves.
EDIT: Well, I found that episode, and wow, that was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen in my life. But there were cute friendship bits, and it was definitely nostalgic. There was a few second bit of that phobia/trope of mine I hate, and I recall being so dense as a kid that the bit kind of went over my head. (Or I should really say, even then the trope was so alarming to me that it was inconceivable to me that I was looking at it, so I insisted on believing I wasn't looking at it.) But still, a few seconds is nothing compared to a whole episode devoted to the topic. Blech.
Hopefully my nostalgia will now be at rest, although I'm slightly curious to look up one of the few other episodes I remember. I would prefer not to, since I know all the more now that I don't know when something could suddenly appear that I would rather not see. But who knows what will happen.
First, I've always tried to be at least somewhat practical where plushies are concerned. I rarely understand the pull for some people to collect more than one of the same character. But, if the plushies are vastly different, then sometimes it makes sense to me. And in the case of my two very different Shadow the Hedgehog plushies, I occasionally indulge in it.
I wasn't interested in the Build-A-Bear version of Twilight Sparkle, not just because they're going with the new alicorn look but because the promo picture made her mouth look really, really weird. But ...
... Yesterday I was at a Build-A-Bear and I saw her in person for the first time.
She looks nothing like the promo picture. She is drop-dead gorgeous. And I really, badly want her. Twilight is my favorite Pony and somehow it seems perfectly logical to want this version of her because it's so amazing and well-done and big and soft and she has brushable hair and gaaaah.
At the same time, sentimental illogic creeps in and makes me feel like I'd be betraying my beloved talking Twilight to bring home another Twilight. **headdesk.**
Somehow I just can't seem to look at it the same way as I look at figures. With figures it seems perfectly logical to have different sizes and versions of the same character. Maybe because figures are way cheaper than plushies? And also maybe because I usually don't quite think of figures as "buddies" the same way I think of plushies.
**throws hands in the air.** If we could have made it to that mall on my birthday as well as the one we did make it to, I would have seen the Build-A-Bear Twilight two weeks ago and could have thought about it all this time. As it is, I only saw her last night and had to think about weighing her against some of the other things I want right now, and there really wasn't the proper time to make a decision. I have no idea when I might make it out that way again. And if I keep wanting her as much as I want her right now, I think I may go a little stir-crazy waiting to get her.
I also, incidentally, finally saw some of the Funko vinyl figurines. They're smaller than I thought, to my disappointment, and I definitely saw the crafting flaws in them that a lot of people have complained about. Plus, they're more expensive than I thought they were (about $16.50 instead of $14.99). I kind of wanted the Octavia one (didn't see her, though), because she's totally my favorite background Pony, but now I'm not sure if I want to bother.
I did see the new miniature Octavia figure, though. I'd like to get her, but I wish those little figure sets would be cheaper than $8.99 sometimes.
Also, Amazon sent one of those emails about their weekly deals, and it just so happens that the weekly deal is for Beetlejuice, the TV series version. I don't have any intention of buying it (too many other things I want more), but it sent me spiraling off on a nostalgia trip for the show the likes of which I haven't had for years.
I really got a kick out of the show as a kid; I loved the characters and the friendship squee and I wasn't bothered by all the weirdness. Or should I say ... most of the weirdness. Some things, even as a kid, did not roll with me. And stumbling across one of those things, an episode I had somehow amazingly never seen previously on the show that I recall, completely turned me off of the show. (It was an entire episode involving the same type of thing that made me flee in absolute horror from Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? during the first season and required much, much coaxing and amateur therapy in the form of Mom watching episodes with me to get me to feel okay about the show again.)
Well, so I have balked against smaller bursts of nostalgia for Beetlejuice because of what I stumbled across that time. I know it would bother me far more now. And I have the feeling I wouldn't go so much for the literal translation nonsense these days, either. (Although some of it would likely still give me a giggle. Even today, I remember silliness like "time on my hands". LOL.) But ... it's been bugging me for the last several days because of that dang email, to the point that I really want to at least dig up an episode that I distinctly know I loved and see how I feel about it now. Most of them I barely remember, but the one where Beetlejuice and Lydia are celebrating the anniversary of the day they met and weird things happen with time is one that sticks out in my mind as something very good. Mom really liked that episode, to the point that she wanted it recorded. (Yes, Mom is awesome that way. She watched most of the cartoons I enjoyed. She even liked Beetlejuice better than Darkwing Duck, and I have no idea why, since she really isn't fond of macabre things in general. I think she was fond of the character, mostly, because dang, he was lovable in spite of and sometimes because of his faults.) I enjoyed that episode too, and grew to love it even more because Mom loved it. So if I could find that one, it would be my pick for trying out again.
Also, I realized a curious thing about myself. When I was reading over an episode guide and recalled the show's element of Beetlejuice often transforming into bizarre disguises (like Betty Juice, for one), I remembered that I had never really liked that. I was disappointed whenever an episode involved an episode-long transformation. And I realized it was because I wanted to see Beetlejuice fully as himself, not as disguise characters.
That realization made me aware of the explanation as to why I never really cared for a friend of mine inserting Marik and certain other YGO characters into a situation where they were acting in a play. Aside from the fact that I felt it was OOC for most of those particular characters and they wouldn't be interested in acting, I simply wasn't comfortable with Marik and company playing at being other people. I wanted to see them and picture them as themselves.
EDIT: Well, I found that episode, and wow, that was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen in my life. But there were cute friendship bits, and it was definitely nostalgic. There was a few second bit of that phobia/trope of mine I hate, and I recall being so dense as a kid that the bit kind of went over my head. (Or I should really say, even then the trope was so alarming to me that it was inconceivable to me that I was looking at it, so I insisted on believing I wasn't looking at it.) But still, a few seconds is nothing compared to a whole episode devoted to the topic. Blech.
Hopefully my nostalgia will now be at rest, although I'm slightly curious to look up one of the few other episodes I remember. I would prefer not to, since I know all the more now that I don't know when something could suddenly appear that I would rather not see. But who knows what will happen.
