Weird....

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I have such weird dreams. Like today, I dreamed I found what was either a sequel or a TV series based on Oliver and Company. I popped it in and started watching it. At first it was a fairly normal adventure with the dogs and Oliver, and there was some friendship squee with Oliver and Dodger.

Then another of the episodes (ah, it must have been a television series) was about one of the characters (Rita, I think) having previously been a witness to something they were calling the CloudKicker Murder. I thought, Oh wow, Disney is crossing this over with TaleSpin? How does that work when they're different time periods?

But I went with it and watched. It was based on TaleSpin and Don Karnage (who was apparently the murderer) showed up to silence the witness(es).

That episode resulted in the characters first becoming anthro animals to better interact with Karnage and later, ending up human and being tortured. I remember one scene of one of them, with long kind of auburn hair, chained up. He kind of reminded me of Tiger's-Eye from Sailor Moon.

I don't recall how things got resolved, but Kit CloudKicker was apparently not dead and suddenly appeared to help out in the climax. The dogs exclaimed they were glad he wasn't dead and it ended with them back to being regular dogs, striking a pose with Kit.

Weird, weird stuff. I'm guessing my interest in the Amazon Trio from Sailor Moon helped inspire some of that, but I don't know where Oliver and Company came from. I mean, I love it, but I haven't thought about it in a while.

And speaking of Sailor Moon, I keep debating whether or not to buy the big Sailor Mercury doll. I have a set of the 6-inch ones that I treasure from Aubrie, but I still hope to get the big ones too, or at least Mercury if not any others. (I have civilian clothes Usagi, Sailor Pluto, Sailor Uranus, and two Chibi Moons.) I'm following two listings right now for MIB Mercurys. It's very difficult not to just snap one up. One of them ends in two hours.

The problem today is that I'm also waiting on the delivery of one or two gift cards from Amazon. I'm wondering just what I want to buy in this batch of Amazon stuff and how far over the gift cards' price it will take me. The prices keep fluctuating, so I can't just pick the stuff now and know what I want. If the prices go up again, I'll have to pick something different for now. I don't want to pay $31 for the Perry DVDs, for instance, when at their lowest price they can be $21. But no matter what I pick, it will probably go over the gift cards' price by at least a few dollars, so I like to have as much on hand as possible until I've decided and made the purchase.

So I'm up in the air wondering when the gift cards will come; one of them is overdue. And I don't know whether to buy the Mercury doll because of waiting on the gift cards and the Amazon purchase. And I don't have much time to decide, with one listing ending tonight and the other tomorrow. Bleh.

Comments

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a very... interesting crossover, to say the least. Wow. I'm glad Kit was okay in the end, too.

And ah, yes, the eternal "Should I buy it?" dilemma. That being said, if the price is down now, jump for it; that out-of-print DW novel had dropped down to $20, which was a bit more than I wanted to pay for a used book, but knowing its rarity, I jumped on it, and I'm so glad I did--used copies are now going for $70 (and new? Over $200!). Granted, I doubt the things you're after will be that fluctuating, but I totally believing in striking while the iron is hot (and, the corollary--waiting for the iron to get hot), so to speak.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Weird, weird dreams.

As it was, the price of the Perry DVDs was back up to $25, so I wasn't that keen on buying when sometimes it's $21. But $4 difference is certainly no comparison with $50 difference! **headdesk.**

I think Mercury dolls usually go for anywhere between $15 and $70, depending on seller preference. She's at the cheaper end of the spectrum. Neptune has been almost impossible to obtain so far. Same for Jupiter. I haven't even found any auctions to watch for them. At least not with the pretty Irwin America dolls. Irwin Canada made their own line, and it looks downright creepy most of the time because of how they did the eyes and noses.

My gift card ended up showing the day after I wrote this entry, so I was glad I'd waited. I decided to buy Amazon stuff for now and maybe save the rest of the money for my birthday, since there's no telling how much I'll earn this month....

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

Yikes. Are they a limited series of dolls? You would think they'd be re-issued with the new series up and about...

But yay, stuff!

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Well, they were originally released in 1995 and released again in 2000, and then Irwin America went out of business. Sigh. So there won't be any more of those. Italy made some dolls a couple of years ago, but the prices for those aren't much better and I like Irwin America dolls the best. I was hoping an American company would make some more dolls too, but so far that hasn't happened. There's new plushies, though.

Yes! I got stuff with Richard and Simon and Chrissy!