I Am Legend (44/54) - I Am Legend Film Cast and Crew Hats (2006)

I got my first I Am Legend crew hat, with a cool IAL logo, from the same crew member from whom I purchased all of my screenplay revisions. I subsequently picked up a second that still had the original tag.

Years later, I came across a Panavision New York hat with the embroidered title, and couldn't pass it up. 

 Check back next week for another item from the I Am Legend Archive. 

Happy 70th Birthday Godzilla (43/54) - Clear Card Collection (2024)

In honor of Godzilla's 70th Birthday, I thought I'd focus on a very cool new trading card set from Japan that I recently added to my collection.

Technically, the packs and packaging all refer to Clear Card Collection Gum — and sure enough, you'll find a stick of gum in every pack of two cards. Each 16 card box also contains a bonus Box card (I don't know how many Box cards there are, as the one I opened was #1).

While I knew each box contained 16 packs of 2 cards, and that there were 32 cards in the set, I didn't want to take it for granted that each box contained a complete set, so I purchased a few, just to be safe. 

I was pleasantly surprised to find that I did in fact receive a complete set in the first box I opened (plus the bonus Box card). Best of all, the cards exceeded my expectation. I didn't realize they were clear cards, printed on transparent plastic. In the photos below, I purposefully held the cards so you could see my fingers behind the card, and get a clear sense of how the transparency was handled.

It's a great set of cards, with both classic and cool images spanning the length of the Big G's career.

The only question that remains is whether I open the extra boxes I procured in order to assemble a set of the Box cards, or if I should be satisfied with the complete set and one Box card that I've opened.

Check back on Wednesday for another item from my Godzilla collection!

Creature from the Black Lagoon (43/54) - Super7 Visible Creature Model Kit (2022)

Our clever friends at Super7 came up with another interesting idea in 2022. They re-issued the classic Aurora Creature model kit in clear plastic, and added interior 'guts' a la the classic Visible Man kit of years past.

To be fair, it's not exactly the same as the Visible Man, which had an internal skeleton and separate organs you built and populated within his accessible body cavity, but they do earn points for effort. 

And who's going to argue their claim of the kit including REAL MONSTER GUTS anyway?

Here's a look at said guts!

 Be sure to check back next week for another item from my Creature collection!