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10/18/2006: The Jason Voorhees Living Dead Doll.

I’m taking what’s become my traditional “Wednesday off” from doing a Countdown entry, because I’m tired and useless and all that jazz. Instead, here’s something that I thought would’ve made for a perfect Countdown post, but there just wasn’t enough for me to say about it beyond AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME.

I know that “Living Dead Dolls” have a pretty poignant poser punk pseudogoth stain on them; at the same time, they’re really cool and they make me wish I wasn’t in my sixties. For those unaware, the collection consists of well made (speaking both of materials and craftsmanship) “baby dolls,” all vamped up to look like corpses, psychos, slashers or all of the above. If you can get past the visions of misguided little girls in Sad Emily shirts carrying these things around the back aisles of bookstores, they’re really nice display pieces, assuming you have a place in your home private enough to display baby dolls with blood all over them.

As a special promotion at last year’s Comic-Con, Jason Voorhees became a Living Dead Doll. I wasn’t there, but apparently, the only people who bought the dolls at Comic-Con did so with intentions of an eBay mark-up. Normally, I’d balk, but for baby Jason? Hells bells, yo.

The neatest thing about the Jason Living Dead Doll is that it specifically references our hero’s look in Friday the 13th Part 3. They could’ve just as easily made him more generic — hockey mask and black shoes, not that he doesn’t have those — and totally gotten away with it. It was definitely made with hardcore fans of the series in mind, which makes sense, because only hardcore fans of the series would pay up to and over fifty bucks for a Jason Voorhees Living Dead Doll.

I loved the way Jason looked in Parts 3 & 4, and I’m really glad that they didn’t explore his later, zombie years. Every detail is correct — he’s got the right clothes in the right colors, and there’s even a big mask gash from the axe Jason took to the head at the end of the film.

The doll comes with Jason’s machete, which is also nice and bloody, but I couldn’t get the thing to actually fit in the doll’s hand. I guess they never expected people to open the boxes, because then they’re worth NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING! Pish and a posh and a 1-2. More incredible is that the mask is removable, revealing a baby-faced Jason Voorhees that increases the likelihood that I’ll kiss something today by 10,000%.

Everything about the doll is just…right. The box utilizes the right color scheme and font; the doll utilizes the right color scheme and, uh, feet. Knowing that my eternal love for all things Jason isn’t something shared by every X-E reader, I should also mention that there’s an Edward Scissorhands Living Dead Doll.

Great doll, great thing, great big waste of money that I don’t regret. I’ve always wondered what Jason’s ass looked like, and now I know. I’m schooled.

On another note, in yesterday’s Countdown entry, I got all whiny about how Toys ‘R” Us stores aren’t organized like they used to be; particularly that they’ve switched out the supermarket-style aisles for randomly placed standees. Well, I went to my local TRU for the first time in weeks tonight, and what do I find? Supermarket aisles. Wow. I don’t know if it was a mandate from HQ or one specific manager’s decision, but if yours is doing the same, and you’re around the same age as me, go there now. Holy memories. I was five-years-old again. Everyone was giving me lollipops.

Hellz ya!!! That is by far the coolest thing I have seen today I need one now. Off to Ebay

I tottaly get what you mean about the misguided little girls. I would go in to a local movie store to check out some decorations and I had to almost push my way through black makeup and black armbands. It was rather annoying… kids these days.

Hey! I’ve come THIS close to ordering a My Chemical Romance armband. So, you know, be nice.

My TRU is a huge cesspool next to an Old Navy outlet that no one ever goes to. I’ve been there on Friday evening with less than a dozen cars in the lot and practically had the whole place to myself. It’s kinda sad, actually…

Back on topic, I haven’t been to a TRU in a while, so I wonder if I’ll find supermarket aisles again. Those surely did kick ass. When I walk in the ones I always do, I still remember where everything used to be, like the books & video used to be where the baby stuff is now, etc.

And the rows of bikes & Power Wheels cars were the 3rd best aisle in there, aside from the Action Figure aisles and the video game asisles wityh all the slips, not to callback to that kickass hole in the wall where the actual games were kept I mentioned last blog.

All TRU should have changed the action figure section back into aisles. Some have the hot wheels and cars like that as well.

Still its great to see aisles again although the site of the stained floors by the X shelves is a sight for sore eyes….

I like monsters but not babies. So baby monsters don’t light my fire. If Jason was wearing R/B 3D shades, though, I’d probably get pumped. Anyone going to a haunted theme park this year like Fright Fest, Knott’s, or Horror Nights? Share your tales so I may live vicariously through you, please

Oh, I completely allow people to listen to whatever music they like, I just don’t like little 7 year olds that think they have problems:
“Dearest diary,
My parents made me do chores today and that is totally going against my rights. They are just trying to suppress me, they don’t understand what’s good for me. No one has ever felt this way before, I don’t think I can stand it.
Wilted_Flower6″
Sorry if I offended anyone there, I just really don’t like fakers like that.

Get this…I DON’T HAVE a local TRU. Not a one. Where do people buy their kids toys? From what I understand, there USED to be a KB at the mall, but it is no more. How can these people live without a store dedicated only to toys and such?

On the happy memory tip…growing up, my neighbor across the street was a TRU Store Manager. He and his wife couldn’t have kids, so guess who reaped the benefits until they adopted when I was 14?

Man…I don’t live anywhere close to a TRU, but I think there might be one near where I work. I at least know that there’s a Babies R Us, but that sure as hell doesn’t count. Get some sleep, Matt, and keep up the great countdown!!

I do miss the smell of a Toys R Us. So many memories. But do you know what I really miss? Babbages.

Man it shoots me back 15 years ago when I used to walk in, look for the bike aisle and walk straight down that to get to the figure aisle.

Baby Jason is cool and all but.. Well Edward sounds better. Better still would be a baby Crypt Keeper or Freddy.
There I said it.
Does this make me a bad person?

I doubt that my local TRU will be back to back in the day, they just changed it and did some renovating like 3 years ago. I can’t see anyone being that motivated to change something again for another 20 years.
As for that doll, It freaks the hell out of me when the mask is on, but not so much when it’s just the face. Something about thoughs eyes looking through that mask. He’s sending me telpathic messages that he’s going to kill me.

Unfortunately, after all the crap my local TRU went through to look like the way they all do now, I’m not expecting a return to the cool old ’supermarket’ style.

I don’t know what the whole deal is. My local TRU never lost the whole “supermarket aisle” setup. Guess I’m just lucky.

I do miss the smell of a Toys R Us. So many memories. But do you know what I really miss? Babbages.

They’re mostly EBs in their place now, at least by me. Speaking of which, how about FuncoLand? I’ve only found one left on LI, and it’s 30 minutes away from me!

Ahhh…Funco Land….many a game bought and traded there. Mine was next to a Stop & Shop. Don’t know what’s there now…haven’t lived in Rhode Island in sometime. Fond memories though…I think I got my first PS2 there.

all the funcoland’s here got bought out by gamestop. when they first opened it was great, they used to pay more for games than u could buy them for at walmart. my mom thought they were laundering money

Invader Norbert:
Funcoland is owned by Gamestop. If there’s still one around, it’s becuase they’re too lazy to change their sign.

Now I have another reason to go to Toys ‘R Us this weekend besides picking up a Booker T action figure and a lollipop with Batman’s head on it.

I have to drive 45 minutes to get to my nearest TRU, and it’s a poor excuse for a toy paradise. Also, creepy dolls.

Why Do action figures have age ratings, this doll says its for 15 yrs and up, who care? its a toy an awsome toy

Dolls are pretty scarey regardless. But if they ever make a linda blair doll from the Exorcist I am game. That will haunt your dreams.

I know damn well that Funcoland is owned by Gamestop, and the place I saw the only stubborn one left on LI was in Lake Grove past the Smithaven Mall on 347, near Sports Plus.

Don’t feel too alone, because I saw one a Funcoland month ago in either Dallas or Ft. Worth.

By the time we finally got a TRU in my town, I had grown out of toys. They closed it down earlier this year, so if I wanted to go to one, I’d have drive a couple hours to get there.

Last time I was in TRU, it was the Times Square location doing the boss’s Christmas shopping.

Check this out though, I was thinking about the deplorable lack of Halloween parades in my grade school days. Lamenting to my older brother on how much we missed out, he reminded me of something — that in the third grade, they had hurded everyone from the sixth grade down into the gym for a special Halloween movie. They gave us soft pretzels (this *IS* right outside of Philadelphia, after all) and popcorn and orange drink. And the movie was … The Worst Witch. No lie. I had to read the review to corroborate it.

The TrU in my old stomping grounds is like a super market too. My favoirte part of it is the section in the back corner where they have all the mishmashed action figures that arn’t very popular or used to be popular but are now old hat. You know, the wwe, lord of the rings, van helsings, dragon ball z, and of course any other crazy anime line of figures they might have. My friend and I went there over the weekend and just walked around, commenting on the various toys. Fun times. One odd thing was the 17 different sizes of GI joe figues they have on sale now. The sad thing is aunt edna’s chances of getting you the correct size compatable GI joe vehicles for those figures YOU have are about 1 in 80 billion.

I haven’t been in a TRU in quite some time. I’ve afraid I don’t know what all the talk of “supermarket aisles” is all about. Did they switch to stacking the toys vertically or something? 55 gallon drums? I’m going to have to go to a TRU to check this out.

I saw the most amazing toy I have ever seen yesterday at Hasting’s… a talking 3-foot-tall Jack Skellington with fully-poseable limbs. *drool* It was $40 and I think I’m in love.

Eddie Lightning Frog -
As per your request in regards to Haunted attractions…I have not been to any, but I do work at one…and this past weekend we were successful at having some customers pee their pants, and I personally made a girl hyperventilate & not even go into the main attraction :-) Good times.

Tonight starts another 4 days of mischief. But I have a feeling we will be slow due to the Mets game tonite.

You’re a perfectionist…Not that I’m complaining, mind you, but I would’ve slapped a black background on this bitch and called it a Countdown.

My local TRU sucks- it’s in a mall, and there is not much of anything in it if you’re not 0-11 months old. Seriously, 3/4 of the store is baby junk. They have a decent board game section, and a ton of bikes, but all I care about is action figures and it is slim pickings. The action figure aisle is continually messed up and all the toys are old and discarded- they’re still selling stuff like Shrek 2 characters and shit from the 1st Pirates of the Carribbean….God, maybe my TRU gets the reject toys from other TRUs and it’s like my own personal island of lost toys or something…either way, my TRU depresses me.:( And depression is NOT what you normally look for in a toy store…

Raptorgirl- I remember Childrens Palace. I also remember Child World. I think I may have like the Child World panda better than Geoffery the Giraffe.

That doll is sweet! I primarily collect all that is Friday the 13th, but, as of late I have had to stop.
I have way too much stuff. It’s gotten out of hand. I wish someone would do a Jason Vorhee’s pillow person in the vein of the Darth Vader done last Christmas. I need to snuggle me a mongloid killer.

I went to a haunted theme park. Phantom Fright Nights at my local Kennywood Park is voted the #3 haunted attraction in the WORLD. It totally deserves the title as there is freaky shit EVERYWHERE, and they run the Steel Phantom (best rollercoaster EVER) backwards AND in the dark. I highly recommend going even if you live light years away.

That doll looks kind of cute with it’s mask on. It’s when it’s off that he looks ugly.

I haven’t been to my TRU in a year, so I wouldn’t know if they did the remodel back to the old aisles. The thing I remember most about those aisles is that all the expensive electronics would be in a locked glass case, they looked so cool. Also, they had what I call the “Wall of Board Games” It was literally what it sounds like, a wall filled from top to bottom with every board game (popular and very obscure) you can imagine. Nowadays, you have to go to a specialty shop (we have Games by James) to find weird ones.

I don’t go to TRU basically because I rarely buy toys now (so expensive plus no room). When I do buy toys, I can get it cheaper at Target or Wal-Mart.

Wow, I really miss the old TRU. I still go occasionally, and it does make me sad. I miss the aisles upon aisles of action figures… Back in my “little kid prime,” there was everything I liked. Cartoons were great, the toys were great, video games were great… Ah, the 90’s. Well, 1999 sucked but still. X-Men had one of the best cartoons ever, if not the best. The Superman comics had become popular again, because of his “death” in ‘93. SNES and the Genesis were out, and producing great games. Also, for some reason, Godzilla was really popular, and I mean before GINO(Godzilla in Name Only, damn you Ferris Bueller!). Beast Wars was on, another of the greatest cartoons ever, and had some awesome toys. I remember getting Scorponok one Christmas, and dammit I loved that thing. The same Christmas started a tradition between my mom and me; We have to say “What are you waiting for, Christmas?” wheneer we’re in traffic. She said it by accident and we never let it go. There were so many action figures back then, and now…

My TRU has a little nook in the corner of the store with all the figures. They just recently reverted it to aisles, but they are still facing a different direction than the other aisles in the store, and they’re tiny. There are a lot of unbought toys from years past, too many wrestling toys, and too much anime crap. I still look forward to the Transformers and… well, Power Rangers, mainly because I like robots more than anything.

There was an old woman all skin and bones,
Oo-oo-oo-oo.
SHe lived down by the old graveyard,
Oo-oo-oo-oo.
One night she thought she’d take a walk,
Oo-oo-oo-oo.
She walked down by the old graveyard,
Oo-oo-oo-oo.
She saw the bones a-lying around,
Oo-oo-oo-oo.
She went to the closet to get a broom,
Oo-oo-oo-oo.
She opened the door and ——-
BOO!!!

(nothing to do with the post. this song just scared the CRAP out of me when I was small)

My TRU went back to the “supermarket style” aisles,but its not quite the same.There are not two big,long aisles,but about 4 or 5 smaller rows. Atleast its better than the x’s.

Matt, You have inspired a mandatory “It’s the Great Pumkin Charlie Brown” viewing at work next Thursday for all my employees and co-workers. It’s ment to keep traditions, traditions and not screw with what is already great. It actually has a point to it. Thanks Matt. Let you know how it goes.

You know, I honestly think you guys are trying to make me go off. Too bad, it’s not gonna happen.

Ok, now you’ve crossed a line. Green Day doesn’t suck, it’s all the crappy bands that were “inspired” by them that’s giving them a bad name.

But anyway, I went to 2 TRUs today…SUPERMARKET AISLES!!!! But, like mentioned, it’s not completly back to it yet, but it’s better!!

So it IS happening? Amazing! Aside from the nostalgic fun, it’s also just nicer to have aisles like that when you’re an adult in a toy store without a kid to serve as your cover. Little more privacy. Little less amount of mothers bumping strollers into your ass and yelling that you had no right to be there anyway.

Yeah, if I were Betsy Palmer and my kid came out looking like Clint Howard, I’d turn into a psychopath too.

I’m with Norbert on this one. 12 years and counting. Half my friggin’ life.

I wish the TRU I work at would convert back to ALL supermarket aisles. Like The Joker mentioned, our Boys section is the only one that got changed… and yeah, that floor looks horrendous from moving the X!

I suspect they are doing it because people bitch cause they can’t find anything, and the fact that there are just too many nooks and crannies for people to steal stuff in. In my store, there are no cameras in the juvenile/preschool sections, either. One time I found 2 huge bags of clothes and tons of baby stuff (including about 4 $130 monitors) in the preschool section which was pretty obvious someone was trying to steal.

But ya know what pisses me off about TRU’s HQ? They do everything after the fact. For example, we revamp an entire section, they they decide to change all the endcaps a week later. The big thing right now is the “data strips” they sent us to cover all the shelf lips. They are hard as hell to put on, and just as annoying to change the labels. Then, we had to make ALL new price labels for all the peg hooks and their stupid plastic clip things… Grr. Sorry, I’ll stop bitching.

I was at TRU today, and as I was walking towards the door I was thinking about your recent lament for the supermarket-setup and how much I missed those days, too. Unfortunately, this one was still the “new” style.

The last time I was at a TRU was when I talked my dad into buying the GI Joe aircraft carrier only to find out that is was $100. We comprimised on the oil rig water platform thing. Lucky we had blue carpet. I still wish I had the carrier.

i had the carrier.. that damn thing took up as much room as my bed! now that i think about it maybe it shouldn’t have been a permanent fixture on the floor..

my chemical romance is totally underrated.. their last album had much more artistic integrity than green day’s imo.. that one green day track sounded like a direct lift off bowie’s “all the young dudes”

My Chemical Romance and Green Day suck, and neither band is better than the other one. Actually, I might say Green Day is better. Dookie was ok.

and why do people tell eachother what bands “suck”? it’s all based on goddamned opinion. it’s like you’re actually gonna convince someone that a band is terrible, or something.

i haven’t been in TRU since my older brother made me go with him bi-daily in search of all the new MOTU toys. he was obsessed…. in the end of it all, he even got ahold of Moss Man, Keldor, and Snake Teela..

I think talking about how bad a band sucks really sucks, and that when something sucks it does not really belong on this blog. But then again, you might think that opinion sucks. If that is the case, then I suck for posting something that sucks on a blog that most definitely does not suck.

UMMMM. Are we talking about Massapequa? If so, I must see ASAP. I have some found memories of my aunt purchasing me Darkwing Duck toys in that piece.

Also, I always left Funcoland feeling like I had less of a soul because I traded in most of my SNES games there for next to nothing when I was in like, third grade.

As the resident cranky old man of the X-E blog (is anyone else in their 30s?) I just want to say that all of your music sucks.

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