January 15, 2016, 08:31:22 AM
Hi there. It's the middle of the month...and I'm back, as promised. It was sooooo HARD to stay away, In all fairness, I have popped on momentarily now and again (whenever i get a notice that something new has been added to a thread I follow...)--but never stay long enough to write a response. I'm trying to avoid the forum to damper my poster mania and save some money. How is that working for me? Well...It's really too early to say. i do have a whole lot of new posters to share with you (I'm breaking this post into two posts. i'll post the other half of it later tonight when I get home from work...). While that might SOUND like failure (and it kind of is), the bulk of them (especially the ones on this posting) were made via pre-bidding and or setting up snipes prior to my Dec. 31st, 2015 self-imposed deadline. Others have been acquired in the same way. I don't think--except for one instance which I will explain in the next posting---that I've even bothered to watch (or even remembered to watch) the auctions as they happen live. I consider that a good thing. That means whatever I was outbid on I did NOT fight (and bid higher) to get.
Okay--it's poster time! Let's get part 1 of the January Shock-A-Rama Poster Show going... (but fair warning. i'm saving the better stuff for tomorrow...)!.
CALIGULA AND MESSALINA (Italian 4F):
This poster, and several of the posters below, was part of the bidding frenzy I found myself in on Dec. 31st. I bid on almost anything and everything remotely interesting that was due to close after the 1st. I did this because of my self-imposed restrictions on what i could buy this year. This was my last free-for-all. And I learned a lesson, too. Most of the really good stuff ended up getting outbid on...and the stuff that was "just okay" that i didn't really need...became mine. And...eeek! This is a 4F. I never buy 4Fs. I don't do well with posters in two parts. Oh well.
CALIGULA AND MESSALINA (Italian 2 F):
Another mad-dash bid...and another poster I could have lived without.
NIGHTMARE ON PORN STREET(Japanese B2):
Speaking of posters I did not need...here's THIS! What was I thinking? Ha-ha...a porn parody of the Elm Street series...but did i need it? NO!
METAMORPHOSIS (Japanese B2):
This one was kind of interesting...but nothing I really had to have...
MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (Japanese B2):
I bid on several Japanese/Asian Bond posters...and was outbid on all of them except this one...which was the one i most wanted to be outbid on. Why? Because i already have the US one sheet...which this looks just like minus the Asian characters. Oh well.
SPECTRE (Advance):
Now that SPECTRE has come and gone, the posters are more affordable. I got the advance poster and...it's kind of dull actually. Hmm.
JOURNEY BACK TO OZ (Video):
I bought this earlier this week---so my end of the year last minute bid-o-rama does not explain this. I'm using self-imposed rule #13--finishing off series I have already started. i have a collection of OZ posters and while I already have the one sheet for this flick, I thought I'd pick up this video poster for it as well.
TRON:
I already had some posters from TRON 2 (whatever it was called), so...
HERCULES AND THE MASKED RIDER (French Affiche Grande):
Hercules/sword & sandal/peplum flicks are a fave. This French poster is cool...and one of the last of the last minute bidding frenzy bids made before 2016. Notice how HERCULES is someone else when released in France? Ha!
THE GOONIES:
A end of the year snipe that ended up as a win this year..
HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE (French Affiche Grande) :
Another poster I didn't really need...but won anyway.
BLOOD OF THE EXECUTIONER (French-affiche grande):
I like this one--and another bid last year/won this year thing. I know nothing about the flick though.
While none of these posters are bad...for the most part they really do not "do it" for me. This was a HUGE lesson for me and my buying/bidding habits. I really need to focus on things I really like/need/want...not just things that are "okay".
The batch I'll share later tonight (?) has much better stuff...but a few more bid on whatever oops-es. Hopefully when I am back in February I'll have fewer posters--but nicer ones still.
CHEERS!
Hi there. It's the middle of the month...and I'm back, as promised. It was sooooo HARD to stay away, In all fairness, I have popped on momentarily now and again (whenever i get a notice that something new has been added to a thread I follow...)--but never stay long enough to write a response. I'm trying to avoid the forum to damper my poster mania and save some money. How is that working for me? Well...It's really too early to say. i do have a whole lot of new posters to share with you (I'm breaking this post into two posts. i'll post the other half of it later tonight when I get home from work...). While that might SOUND like failure (and it kind of is), the bulk of them (especially the ones on this posting) were made via pre-bidding and or setting up snipes prior to my Dec. 31st, 2015 self-imposed deadline. Others have been acquired in the same way. I don't think--except for one instance which I will explain in the next posting---that I've even bothered to watch (or even remembered to watch) the auctions as they happen live. I consider that a good thing. That means whatever I was outbid on I did NOT fight (and bid higher) to get.
Okay--it's poster time! Let's get part 1 of the January Shock-A-Rama Poster Show going... (but fair warning. i'm saving the better stuff for tomorrow...)!.
CALIGULA AND MESSALINA (Italian 4F):
This poster, and several of the posters below, was part of the bidding frenzy I found myself in on Dec. 31st. I bid on almost anything and everything remotely interesting that was due to close after the 1st. I did this because of my self-imposed restrictions on what i could buy this year. This was my last free-for-all. And I learned a lesson, too. Most of the really good stuff ended up getting outbid on...and the stuff that was "just okay" that i didn't really need...became mine. And...eeek! This is a 4F. I never buy 4Fs. I don't do well with posters in two parts. Oh well.
CALIGULA AND MESSALINA (Italian 2 F):
Another mad-dash bid...and another poster I could have lived without.
NIGHTMARE ON PORN STREET(Japanese B2):
Speaking of posters I did not need...here's THIS! What was I thinking? Ha-ha...a porn parody of the Elm Street series...but did i need it? NO!
METAMORPHOSIS (Japanese B2):
This one was kind of interesting...but nothing I really had to have...
MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (Japanese B2):
I bid on several Japanese/Asian Bond posters...and was outbid on all of them except this one...which was the one i most wanted to be outbid on. Why? Because i already have the US one sheet...which this looks just like minus the Asian characters. Oh well.
SPECTRE (Advance):
Now that SPECTRE has come and gone, the posters are more affordable. I got the advance poster and...it's kind of dull actually. Hmm.
JOURNEY BACK TO OZ (Video):
I bought this earlier this week---so my end of the year last minute bid-o-rama does not explain this. I'm using self-imposed rule #13--finishing off series I have already started. i have a collection of OZ posters and while I already have the one sheet for this flick, I thought I'd pick up this video poster for it as well.
TRON:
I already had some posters from TRON 2 (whatever it was called), so...
HERCULES AND THE MASKED RIDER (French Affiche Grande):
Hercules/sword & sandal/peplum flicks are a fave. This French poster is cool...and one of the last of the last minute bidding frenzy bids made before 2016. Notice how HERCULES is someone else when released in France? Ha!
THE GOONIES:
A end of the year snipe that ended up as a win this year..
HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE (French Affiche Grande) :
Another poster I didn't really need...but won anyway.
BLOOD OF THE EXECUTIONER (French-affiche grande):
I like this one--and another bid last year/won this year thing. I know nothing about the flick though.
While none of these posters are bad...for the most part they really do not "do it" for me. This was a HUGE lesson for me and my buying/bidding habits. I really need to focus on things I really like/need/want...not just things that are "okay".
The batch I'll share later tonight (?) has much better stuff...but a few more bid on whatever oops-es. Hopefully when I am back in February I'll have fewer posters--but nicer ones still.
CHEERS!
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