December Already?

Wow, where does the time go?

I've been slow with new posts lately for three reasons: travel, pre-holiday planning, and the fact that Fallout 4 has eaten up most of my free time lately. Still, I'm moving forward with my sales list, have taken a few one-off comparison photos, and we're getting closer to the shipment date for a couple of pre-orders, so there are posts dedicated to those things in the pipeline.

In the meantime, enjoy a quite shot of a new Funko mini that I picked up (a Fallout Pip Boy) in a cafe in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (which I was visiting for a wedding a few weeks ago):

Passing through: Fallout 3's The Lone Wanderer (male) by Funko Pop!

The Lone Wanderer

Folks who know me from a variety of doll forums may recall that during the 18 months I lived in the DC area, I usually had my location listed as "The Capitol Wasteland", a reference to the video game Fallout 3, where your character ("The Lone Wanderer") wanders the post-nuclear wasteland of an alternate-1950s DC. Having played the game several years before moving there (and since most of the game's locations were based on actual geography), I secretly always expected to run into ghouls in the metro.  And sometimes called my dog "Dogmeat" when we were going for walks.

So seeing a series of Funko Pop's released, I of course picked one up.  Unfortunately the one I ordered turned out to be damaged, so I ended up sending him back. To be honest I was relieved to have the excuse - the figure is fairly plain, and since the player character is customizable in-game, I didn't feel particularly drawn to him in the end. Still, I did take some photos, so let's take a look.