Topps WWE Heritage Cards

I'm not really a huge wrestling fan, but I'll admit that I do love the history and really appreciate the general idea of real life superheroes and villains come to life in the ring. So with that in mind, any kind of tribute to the past, especially in the form of a trading card series, is going to catch my eye.

Topps put out a Heritage edition of WWE cards this past year, and I finally picked up a few packs to check them out.



As with all Topps Heritage cards, these are really nice. They're based on the 1985 card design from the first ever WWE card set, and come with a seemingly massive variety of extras and inserts.



So like I said, I may not be a die-hard wrestling fan, but this set of cards by Topps is enough fun that it may just satisfy my endless need to collect something by Topps at all times.

A Penny for Your Thoughts

It's been a long time, but I vaguely remember putting a photo of this sad hound dog coin bank up on my now long (looong) extinct MySpace page several years ago.



It was made by My Toy Inc. in 1971, and is probably one of the most pathetic looking things that I own... and that's saying a lot.

Well, it was one of the most pathetic, until I came across this coin bank by Play Pal Plastics, also dated 1971.

I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Tatooine

Some of the best parts from the early Star Wars movies, were the parts that took place on Tatooine. I've a real soft spot for anything to do with that horrible desert planet, including a few of the vehicles (re)released over the last few years by Hasbro.



Of all the Landspeeders, the version from the Saga Collection has the coolest packaging.



I'm a big fan of window box packaging, and so getting a nice and simple version of the Sandcrawler was well worth the hassle that I had to go through in order to track one down.



Even though the Luke figure that's included kind of sucks, the Tatooine Skiff from The Power of the Force line is cool, and stands out as one of the few (if not only) really iconic representations of the Tatooine scene from Return of the Jedi.