As you can see, a lot of of my recent collecting efforts have been around Mighty Muggs. The more than I’ve gotten, the more that I’ve been determined to grow the collection. I’m sure at some point either I’ll collect them all, or will slow down at least, but that time is still a way off!

For this Mighty Muggs Alert, I wanted to especially mention that I’ve finally added the last missing Mugg to the Indiana Jones part of my collection – The SDCC Exclusive Fertility Idol! I was looking like having to import him from overseas which (at the moment with the Aussie dollar exchange rate) was looking like being quite an expensive little exercise. Luckily I found him from a local supplier and now have all of the Muggs from the short-lived Indiana Jones range.

Of course, I’ve also picked up some more recently as well:

• Indiana Jones: Fertility Idol (SDCC Excl.)
• Star Wars: Shocktrooper (Target Excl.), Grand Moff Tarkin, Darth Vader (Unmasked), Darth Maul (v1), Admiral Ackbar and Shadow Stormtrooper (Diamond Preview Excl.), Commander Gree (SDCC Excl.)
• Marvel: Captain America (Classic), Punisher and Jigsaw (TRU Excl.)

My Muggs have started to really dominate the collection, and the new shelves and bookcases that I recently put into the man-cave are fast filling up. My next round of Mugg hunting will center around the new Star Wars and Transformers waves, and slowly back-filling the Marvel range. I’m just not a big GI Joe fan in general, so I’m not in any real hurry to start on those, although I’m sure I will eventually.

I went on a Mugg hunt into the city today and took my 7yr old daughter with me. We had a lovely afternoon together, and she didn’t even complain at the amount of time we spent in the comic shops! Isn’t it nice when you can spend quality time with your kids AND Mugg hunt at the same time?! It was also very exciting because I picked up my first “exclusive” Muggs today along with a few others :

• Indiana Jones (Entertainment Earth Exclusives) – Short Round, Sallah
• Marvel (Preview Exclusives) – Thanos, Red Skull
• Marvel – Thing, Dr Doom (Wave 2)
• Star Wars – Plo Koon (Wave 6)

I’m hoping to pick up some more Star Wars exclusives shortly, namely Admiral Ackbar, Shadow Stormtrooper, Commander Gree, Shock Trooper … and then I’m onto Wave 8 & 9 of Star Wars and keeping on through the Marvel releases. I only need to get the SDCC Exclusive Fertility Idol now and I’ll have the full Indiana Jones line, but trying to find him locally is proving a bit difficult. But that’s what makes the hunt so much fun! You can see the full list of Mighty Muggs in my collection here.

Ever since my 30th birthday party (which was a super hero costume party) when I put on the invitation “Gifts not required, but if you do they must be bough from these toy stores …”, I’ve been getting some cool pressies at the annual ritual of getting older.My wife, my kids, parents, in-laws, brother, friends – all have been gracious enough to indulge my geek-hood. Geez, even my 90yr old grandparents gave me the Mutt Williams Mighty Mugg for Christmas last year!

Another present from Christmas 2008 that I wanted to share with you was my Indiana Jones Mr Potato Head.

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Simple – they’re made from 100% recycled awesome. That’s what the box says, and I’m inclined to agree with them! (more…)