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I have been
getting LootCrate for 4 months now and this is the first time I had the bright
idea to just post pictures of the stuff on this blog, I have no idea why as it
is accessible content that appears regularly and my initial experience in
getting the stuff was as a birthday present from my roommate so it makes for a
good story about friendship… I guess I just blanked on it. Regardless of past months, let’s look at the
items this month.
First up is
a Los Pollo Hermanos kitchen apron from one of the best TV shows ever, “Breaking
Bad”. Since I do not cook this is one of
those fun but impractical (for me) entries in the crate. Most likely the use I will find for it is as
a display medium for the numerous pins and buttons that come in a typical
crate.
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| "Breaking Bad" |
Next we
have a wooden Joker Toy with a switchable face.
The arms, hands, and to a lesser extent the legs have movement and can
be posed. It is a quirky display item
and I like it except for one issue: what do I do with the second face? There is no storage slot or place to put the
extra piece, so it is destined to get lost.
I still like it, stylized representations of characters are always cool.
This is the
highlight of the box, one of a pair of mugs, I of course got the Carnage
mug. Carnage being a popular villain
character of the 90’s Dark Age of comics. He is a symbiotic alien monster like Venom,
but instead of being attached to a jock loser like Eddie Brock, Carnage instead
attaches to a serial killer. The
murderer’s mania allows him to bond more perfectly with the alien and they go
on several thrill killing adventures in the Marvel universe. I don’t really like Carnage as a character,
but the mug looks awesome.
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| "A gun that shoots good feelings" |
Lastly we
have the LootCrate magazine and the box itself which depicts a Joker hideout
where he is building a giant attack size version of the wooden toy. The magazine is a little thin, it talks about
each item and has an article about people in your own life whose toxic
personalities might mimic those of Batman’s list of foes, kind of a heady
article with a strange framing device. The magazine’s real drawback is the use of
dark red font on black backgrounds which makes some words hard to notice or
read.
The Box is
actually badly designed. There seems to
be no logical way to fold it to show all the art it offers. There are 6 surfaces with art, one is on the
bottom of the box, and another is covered when it is folded into a box with the
art facing out. It almost works, but
falls short.
Overall I
think the mug makes up for a lack of a t-shirt (I usually find the shirts to be
the highlight of any crate) and the other stuff is of high quality and cleanly
on theme. Not a lot of clutter or fat to
be cut.
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