Happiness is an Open Blister....

Today I got to experience something that has become rather rare in my collecting "career".  I received two packages today (no...that's not rare..:-) )...one from a friend in Ireland and one from an ebay purchase...and both were loaded with UNopened Blister packs...7 of them in fact!  Now if you are an old lead head like myself...and I know most of the people reading this are...you probably understand how rare an opportunity this is.

Here they are in all their glory...

I know there is some dispute in the collecting world about blisters...many folks seek these treasures out so that they can keep them intact...forever preserved on a shelf or in a box...never to be molested by human hands.  On one level this seems a laudable goal...but to me it just seems a waste of good figures!  These babies were cast with the intention that they would some day see the table top...and perhaps a lick of paint along the way.  I am NOT a keeper of unopened blisters...nor will I pay extra for privilege of owning one...because...well... I'm just going to open it anyway!

So I took these gems out of the boxes they were shipped in...ogled them through the somewhat discolored and brittle plastic of the blisters...took moment to imagine what path they had traveled since the early 90's when they were cast and packaged away. (hey I'm an archaeologist...thats what we like to do! haha)

 And then....

Well....

I had a lot of Fun opening them!

Ahhhhh...thats better...now the former inhabitants of those plastic cages are free to mingle with the other unpainted members of their units...and dream of a day when they will be wearing a fresh coat of paint and facing off against a worthly opponent across a misty battlefield.

More about the contents of those blisters at a later date...

Cheers,

Blue