Summer Project!

Next month will not only be the long awaited summer break, but it will also be my last year of high school. And to celebrate such an achievement, I want to do a Summer project! 

See, ever since I was a kid, I've always had a soft spot for those crummy little vending machine toys you could get for just 25 cents at the store. 

With these, you could pick from a wide selection of toys or candy. One machine in particular was what caught my attention. While I can't find an image for this particular machine, it was called "Lucky Lucky Me" and housed a variety of figures and shitty yarn bracelets. But one of the things I loved getting the most were these little plastic monkeys. 

The first round of these figures were titled "Monkeyin Around" where if you simply inserted a mere 25 cents, you could wind up with 1 of 10 monkey figures! I remember getting one of these way back when, it was specifically the one standing on its head. Either way, these (and a few other quarter machine toys) caught my attention. 

Later down the line, they released a new set of these things. 

Funny Monkeys is pretty much the same as the previous, except the monkeys were given a variety of different colors! I also had one of these, it was a purple one that was laying down (in the pose of that blue one in the right hand side). Sadly, both monkeys are lost in the zillion bins in our basement, I'll find them someday though. 

But as fate would have it, I got another one of these figures this past Saturday when dad and I went to see Sonic 2! 

Meet SPIKE, everybody!

Unlike my previous two, the paint job has had a massive downgrade. Which I'm guessing was just the luck of the draw with the batch that was in the machine. Guess I found another reason to stop by the regal cinema!

But what is this "Summer Project" you might be asking.

Well its basically just me buying these puny little figures in bulk off Ebay and maybe making a little something for the channel for my blog that my dad and I use!