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Friday, October 30, 2026

Boley No. 51103 Scooby-Doo Train (1999) - Pt 1 Box and Contents

A few photos of this set were featured in posts back in 2023 but I never got around to posting the whole set as a series. As a fatter-of-mact, I totally forgot about this set until stumbling upon the photos today!! Okay, let's finally take a look at this set which has hanging around here since at least 2016 - or longer.

Ed





The cardboard graphics were scanned but now I can't find the scans for them!! I'll do a separate post if I end up locating them

Play Along Toys AOME LOTR Battle Scenes Bridge at Khazad-dum #48301 (2003) - Pt 1 Box and Contents

In our continuing look at Play Along Toys AOME LOTR sets, we have the first of three in the 'Battle Scenes' series: Bridge at Khazad-dum set #48301. Sequentially by set number, this is actually the second set but the photos are ready now so hey, let's do this thing. This was the only set I photographed back in 2017 when I was into my second round of Lord of The Rings posts - except for Gandalf and the Moria Orc Bowman, those guys had to be photographed from scratch this year.

Ed











I never got around to doing the photo essay on this guy. Oh well.

Tim-Mee 65mm Air Force Figures - Pt 9 Pose 8

Finally, someone who's not hanging around the control tower. Here we have a munitions troop with a belt of ammo slung over his shoulder, getting ready to re-arm an aircraft.

Ed












Thursday, October 29, 2026

Pirate Captain from Davy Jones Locker - Happy Halloween!

I covered this Greenbrier Haunted Hull playset back in 2023 but decided to play with Chat GPT to give me a better background than I'm capable of doing myself. I'd rather use the Chat for backgrounds although occasionally it screws up and enhances the entire photo. This time though it worked out well.

Ed



Ghostly Pirate Treasure - Happy Halloween!

I try to set up my Halloween trains every year and this year was no exception. However, the progress was real slow going this year and the layout isn't quite finished yet. Granted, it's just a temporary setup and 'finished' isn't entirely appropriate, but I had hoped to get a bit more done by now. This year's theme is Harry Potter and it's gonna stay that way through Christmas as well. Hopefully, there will be a few photos to post tomorrow on the progress, but for today we'll focus on this fun little ghost pirate setup. While the photo itself was taken back in 2023, the ghostly editing was only done just today!

There will be a couple of other haunted photos to share with you over the next couple of days. Until then - Happy Halloween!

Ed