New Website Design

I decided to go for a new website design to upgrade the old one. This is still the same website with the same owner. I know I haven’t been posting a lot in the past long while, but as I mentioned in a previous post, Grand Theft Auto 5’s online mode kept me busy for quite a while and then a friend of mine mentioned a Minecraft version that came out for PS3 and talked me into starting that. For a game that doesn’t look all that great with not a lot to do at a first glance, it sure can keep you busy. Especially when you have projects in the game you are working on. I just liked the exploring and mining at first, but then I started working on projects. That and working a lot has kept me away. Anyway, I knew the website needed a new look and thought the new look would help get me back into posting again. I was just too busy to focus on it before and I needed help with the design since I wasn’t a designer, so I enlisted the help of the guys at thinkalee.ca to help me with that. They are currently making a new website so there is a splash page at the moment, but eventually it will be a new website. We sorted out what I was hoping for with the new design and for the most part the new design is up, but some details are being worked out as they come up. They are very helpful and work to get everything working for you. All you have to do is ask and they will present you with the options you have and they do their best to find a working solution for any problem. I also wanted to have a forum added so people can talk and discuss things outside the individual posts about anything dollar store, bootlegs or just whatever is going on or on their minds. Stayed tuned for details on when that is up and running since I am trying to sort out what categories I want on there. When it is ready, I will write a post that it is up and running and list any information people might need when using...

Dollar Plus Store Closes One Year After Opening

The Dollar Plus discount store that replaced the Dollar Bazaar in the plaza about a year ago has closed up after only being open for just over a year. Someone told me they were closing down last month and sure enough, there were signs that everything was being marked down and it was going out of business. When got back from vacation, just into January, it was closed down so I figured the end of December was when it actually closed up shop. I don’t like to see businesses go out of business, but as I mentioned before, I wondered why anyone would put the same type of store where another closed down. Did they think the previous owner wasn’t good enough and that they would do better? The problem with the smaller dollar and discount stores is that they sell stuff for more than the standard dollar. I would go in to look for other unique/odd toys and many of the more interesting toys would be like 5 to 10 dollars whereas the bigger stores would be much cheaper, not necessarily a buck, but cheaper. More selection and cheaper, by dollar store standards, has made it tough for the little guy. But isn’t that just the way business goes? One more thing, if you paid attention, my last post was about the dollar store in Grand Theft Auto V and playing that is why it has been so long since my last post. Playing online can be quite fun and time...

Knocking Off Website

Knocking off is a website that posts a lot of funny bootleg products from a wide variety of sources. Anything that is a blatant trademark infringement seems to be fair game on this website and they have plenty of really good examples posted on their blog. The site is run by Robert Cop and Special Man, knock offs of Robocop and Superman if you needed to know who they were knock offs of. The most notable categories they have on their website include video games, products, movies and TV. Don’t worry, they have a toy category to and the toy category has more than double of the entries the 2nd highest category has in it I don’t even think I can describe knock off toys they have showing there. There are plenty of toys which are combinations of two or more things that you just have to see to believe. You’ll just have to go and check it out, Knockingoff.com. They also take submissions if you happen to have any funny knock off items you want people to see, but have no other way to get them online. Unless you have some toy related knock offs, then feel free to send them...

Weirdo Toys Website

One of the big reasons I started this website was to find and show the most interesting, funny or stupid cheap toys you might see at dollar and discount stores. I have found some really good bootleg toys, some of which were good enough(or bad enough) to be included in Cracked.com’s article “The 15 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Bootleg Toys“(#6 and #3). Thanks for finding them Cole Gamble. Unfortunately, I haven’t found as many good ones as I had hoped and other responsibilities have kept me from posting on a regular basis the past couple years. This is something I am hoping to rectify now that I’m not that busy and I have some pretty good funny toys in the post cue, but if you want to see a bunch of weird toys, go to the Weirdo Toys website. The website owner and author is Justin Gammon and the site is just post after post of really weird toys. Some of the weird toys I sort of recognize due to some resemblance of characters I know are He-Man, Transformers, Batman, Robin and a combination Superman/Batman/Spiderman toy that is just like the City Nimrods and the Super Hero Batman action figures I posted earlier and he even has the stupid chest light. His website also has a video section to show off some of the weird toys and he has an auction section where you can buy some of the weird toys he is selling to have your own weird toy to call your own. I don’t really sell anything because with the cheap dollar store toys, anything more than a dollar would be too much, although it would be interesting to see if I could get more than a dollar for some of them. Anyway, check out weirdotoys.com, if you haven’t already, for a really good laugh at some of the hilarious toys Justin has found and posted. Good...

Monopoly Adds New Piece While Retiring Another

Hasbro has announced the winner of an Internet poll which decided the new game piece that was going to be added to the Monopoly games. The new token is going to be a cat token and it will be replacing the iron. I think the iron was one of the pieces no one ever really took unless they absolutely had to. The cat token beat out the other contenders the robot, ring, helicopter and guitar. A ring would have been kind of lame no matter what type of ring it was. The guitar might have been cool but Guitar Hero seems to have lost its novelty and people were probably sick of it anyway. The helicopter could have been cool to but I think the piece would have been too complex. The robot was quite popular, but seeing as how it was an internet poll, that shouldn’t be all too surprising since robots are popular on the Internet. The problem is, so are cats. You have LOLcats and constant postings of videos with cats doing funny things and I think they are enjoyed by more people than the ones liking robots. Everyone can enjoy cat videos whereas not everyone enjoys robots. Since Hasbro took to the Internet to decide their next token and are going with a cat, they should model the new token after the most popular cat video/picture on the Internet. It seems fitting. What do you think of the new token being a...