Just Doodling - Bats, Man!

Take your pick...

 Or...

On an unrelated side note, I'm not gonna lie, I'd totally watch this movie.

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Scandalous Honey (Prince)

Prince
Scandalous Honey
1989 

Musician. Actor. Bee keeper?

Back in 1988, Prince took on the task of creating the soundtrack for the up and coming Batman film from Tim Burton. To get an understanding of the movie, he would make visits to the set, and it would be here that he would meet actress Kim Basinger.

Prince being Prince, soon began a relationship with the actress, leading to her joining him in the studio for vocals on the song, Scandalous. It was during this session that a story would unfold about the two being left alone for the evening, just as Prince was opening a jar of honey. When the engineer returned the next day, he found honey all over the mixing board. I'm sure your imaginations can fill in the rest. If not, you can find more on that story "HERE".

The alleged encounter led to one of the most bizarre promotional tie-ins. To promote the release of the single, which Prince named The Scandalous Sex Suite, Prince created a jar of honey, which had a simplistic label on it which read, "Prince The Scandalous Sex Suite Featuring Kim Basinger".

While it's not commonly found these days, considering honey doesn't expire if stored properly, it supposedly could be just as fresh today as it was back in 1989. However, you're not usually going to find one cheap. I've only seen two, and while the first sold for $25 in 2010, the one I found in 2025 was priced at $300!

If you're a big Prince fan, and looking for unique, or frankly, weird merchandise from him, this one would definitely fit that bill.

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Just Doodling - Peanuts...Er...Batman...?!

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Batman Apelsin Kolsyrad Läskedryck (AB Pripps Bryggerier)

 

Batman Apelsin Kolsyrad Läskedryck
AB Pripps Bryggerier
1989

Why is it that foreign countries always get the cool and unique movie tie in promotions? Sure, the USA got Batman cereal, but where was our Batman soda?

In 1989, Sweden brewer, AB Pripps Bryggerier licensed the rights to produce a limited run of orange (Apelsin) carbonated (kolsyrad) soft drinks (läskedryck) based on the upcoming Tim Burton Batman film. The flavor was equivalent to popular brands of the day, most notably, Pepsi's Sunkist. The reason for this specific comparison is because Pripps was also licensed to produce and distribute Pepsi products in the Baltic States, Russia and Ukraine. As such, they would have had access to the drink.

The soft drink came and went quickly, and for many collectors of 1989 Batman related merchandise is highly sought after. Particularly in areas where it was never available. Though rare, empty cans don't typically sell for much, often under $10.00. While I'd love to tell you what a full can could fetch, I honestly have never seen one.

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Just Doodling: Batman 89

My top two comic book movies would easily be The Crow, and Batman Returns. This picture captures the latter, with a smidge of the 1989 Batman mixed in. 

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Birthday Gifts From My Girl And The Cake

Wrapping up my birthday was some really nice gifts my girl gave me, as well as the cake.

What we've found is that ever since Christmas last year, when there's a gift around, the dog thinks its his, and therefore, he wants to open it. As such, we've had to start wrapping toys for him during birthdays, and ensure he has something to keep him occupied. Otherwise, he pouts.

We ended up having to stagger three different packages to him to keep him happy while I opened my gifts. These gifts!

I couldn't believe after spending what we did on DVD's earlier in the day that my girl would then have wrapped gifts. It was generous, and totally awesome of her. Did she win the lottery and not tell me?

I dug this Super Mario Bros. wrapping paper. That's just cool!

It didn't go unnoticed that I was opening up packages. This was despite him shredding through not only the paper of one of his already, but the toy itself, ala all the fuzz all around him. Messy!

As if I needed it, I got all the more DVD's! Ha! This time cartoons for my ever growing cartoon collection, a collection which I keep very separate from our movies. She also got me a really cool color changing Spider-Man coffee mug, and a sealed box of 1989 Batman cereal, complete with the shrink wrapped premium coin bank! That's good stuff!

I'm by no means a cereal box collector, and no, I'm not going down that rabbit hole...yet. But, if I did, I have long since looked at this particular one as a "must have' for that type of collection. For now, the intended purpose for this will be to sit on my very limited Batman 89 shelf. I just need to re-arrange some things to fit it in there.

As I noted in my post yesterday, I'm reaching the tail end of my eights cartoon collection. There are only a handful more that were released in the USA, and having the Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy now, checks one of those off. Of course, also as I said, that now opens the flood gates for shows from the 70's and prior, as well as 90's and beyond, which my girl has given me a bit of a kick start on. Oh, those pesky rabbit holes.

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Returning to the Estate Sale

 

While out and about running errands, we found ourselves arriving too early for one particular store to open. With time to obviously kill, we headed down the street back to yesterday's estate sale. It wasn't that we were necessarily looking for more things to pick up. Rather, we just needed somewhere to spend an hour.

With prices cut in half for the final day, it wasn't necessarily hard to find things to buy. However, the majority of what I picked up were intended to be for someone else. Still, there are a handful of things that will go into my collection, such as these sweet Batmobiles!

This DVD is one that I accidentally missed, and then forgot again when I returned the second time yesterday. It was still there today.

My plan is to put the smaller Mystery Machine on my cartoon DVD shelf. The figures and bigger one will be exiting soon to someone else's collection.

I don't know if there was a lot of stuff that was stuffed in boxes from the day prior that got spread out to compensate for empty spaces around the home. I swear I saw stuff that I didn't see the day prior. I actually had about five to ten graphic novels as well, but when I saw someone on the floor going through a stack in a different area of the house, I pulled them out and told him he could have the ones I was carrying if he wanted them. He was happy to take them. Saved me money.

My first visit to this estate sale is "HERE".

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An Estate Sale Like I've Never Seen Before

 

If there's one thing I enjoy, but which isn't typically very fruitful, is a good ol' fashion estate sale. My girl and I will not only hit these and local yard sales over the weekends, but watch a select few Youtubers who specialize in picking at them. What we'll often say to each other while watching them is, "Why aren't there any sales like that around here?" Well...We can't say that anymore.

My usual checklist item I ask about is CD's, which when people do have them, are usually the same rinse and repeat country or classic albums. While this particular estate sale at 21 Halifax Court in Sterling, Virginia, didn't have any of those, the site we were about to behold was truly amazing.

Every room, and I do mean EVERY ROOM, in this house was stuffed to the hilt in toys, comic books, games, DVD's, and all sorts of nostalgia and collectibles in between. This house was the equivalent of a local toy convention unto itself! If you couldn't find something here you wanted, then toys simply aren't your thing.

It was almost to the point of overload with how much was there, and with this being the second day of the sale, impressive with how much remained. I can only imagine what was there the day before.

I fired off photos to George of G.I. Jigsaw, knowing that this would pique his interest. He loves him some toy dioramas, and this background piece would probably work well for him.

Prices were ridiculously cheap. Well, cheap for what they certainly could have been, and the woman at the table made sure to let everyone know they'd be even better on the final day tomorrow - half off everything.

This was the kind of place you really had to look in every nook and cranny, and dig through boxes to find hidden treasures. I ended up spending way more than I thought I would, but man oh man, was I happy when I left.

It's one of those things you don't know you need until you come across it randomly. G.I. Joe juice. Infantry Orange, Gung Ho Grape, and Platoon Punch flavors. Commando Cherry is the fourth flavor released in the beverage line, but this one was not among them. These are all brand new / sealed, with the juice still inside. They're not very common on secondary markets, so at $8.00 a piece, I was down with snagging them. The woman at the sale even gave me an additional empty Gung Ho grape for free.

Mail away G.I. Joe Colton still sealed int he bag with his gun and file card for $12.00? Yes, please! I already have this figure in my collection, but I wasn't about to leave it behind for that price. Not when it's worth $25 - $40!

Many of these super hero figures were purchased with someone else in mind. It was easy to drop the cash when the above were only $6.00 each, and the below carded ones were only $3.00 each.

I saw these 1989 Batman film candy heads and Ertl vehicle, and immediately yoinked them to come with me. These are super sweat and sweet, and will go great on my Toy Biz shelf!

All four of these figures were picked up for someone else, as I already have them in my collection.

The internet wasn't exactly a thing for many people in the early 90's, so when it came to collecting G.I. Joe figures, you either knew all about them, and what to look for, or you were among the elite collector's who had the Official Collector's Guide to Collecting & Completing Your G.I. Joe Figures and Accessories, volume I and II. These were in pristine condition, and though I don't personally have a use for the information inside, other than looking at the fantastic photographs, I was all in on grabbing these. Especially at $2.00 each.

This Flash Gordon movie adaptation comic piqued my interest big time. Mainly because Sam Jones frequents the conventions in my area, and I wanted to have this available to get signed should he come around in the near future.

When I saw the familiar cover below sitting on the corner of a table, I thought, "It can't be." Sure enough, it was. I have been kicking around getting this Treasury Edition of Superman and Spider-Man for months at this point. I never would have thought I would have found one in the wild, let alone in this pristine of condition, and for a mere $10.00! It's easily a $50.00 book in this condition.

I walked past this last piece multiple times, and even left the estate sale once, only to come back inside to look for something which George texted about when he got my photos. Even during my second visit, I picked it up, and put it down two additional times.

The treasure inside of this thing kept calling to me, not specifically for what they were, but because I could feel the love that the person who owned it had put into it. This was their personal collection of fan club memorabilia, and memories of Star Wars from their youth through a series of news clippings, photographs, and fliers, among other items. I ended up picking it up because I honestly felt drawn to give it a good home where it would be appreciated for what it was, and not necessarily because it had monetary value (if it even does).

When taking these photos and researching what everything was, I saw someone on ebay had paid $75 on ebay just for the above papers. I would have never guessed they would have had such value.

The packet has a mish mash of items from the original 1978 and 1980 fan club kits, the latter year and subsequent photos which I remember receiving as a child with my membership kit.

The first items I actually saw, and gravitated towards upon my arrival were animated DVD's. With a price tag of $4.00, and a promise from the woman that the more I buy the lower the cost, I went all in. At the end of the day, I don't need ALL of these, nor do I necessarily want them. But, at $2.00 a piece when it was all said and done, I'll take them, and figure it out later.

These Scooby Doo DVD's are what I initially started pulling. There were several on my want list, mostly the collection ones which feature the classic episodes. I've looked at these many times, and at the average five to ten dollar price (plus shipping), $2.00 each was a steal!

This was an amazing estate sale. I've never personally seen one like it before, but I am certainly glad we went.

My return visit to this sale is "HERE".

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