Comments on: The shared nerd urge…

By: ExistentialMan

ExistentialMan — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:08:48 +0000

No, really, the time travel/money route is close, but what you really want to do is go further back and set up a time travel/land scheme. Instead of digital watches (which would CLEARLY wreak havoc with the time-space continuum), grab some beads, moonshine and wool blankets laden with smallpox. I’m thinking late 1700’s. You could snag the whole Louisiana Purchase territory and west coast for a song. Then travel back to the present, walk into your local small claims court, present the land deed and buy every 60’s vinyl model kit on eBay for the next five years!

By: stephen singer

stephen singer — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:09:22 +0000

I’ve given the whole time travel/money thing some thought. Go back in time earlier than the stuff you want to buy is. Set up a bank account. Bring back some cheap crap from today that would be mad-expensive and exotic, to say 1920′s people… something like dollar store digital watches. Sell them to people for 5K+ each. deposit in bank. Jump forward. Buy stuff.

Although I’m sure there’s better ways to abuse time travel.

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:37:31 +0000

So you’d like to be Jefty from Harlan Ellison’s “Jefty Is Five” — without, you know, the whole being five years old forever thing.

By: Cole Moore Odell

Cole Moore Odell — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:09:28 +0000

I’m pretty excited for the reissue of the Superboy and Krypto model kit later this summer. One of my absolute favorite things from childhood.

http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=MM478

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:32:37 +0000

Whenever I see an old ad like that I automatically translate the price into comic books of the period. 1966 would be 12 cents a comic (and man, could you have bought some good ones in 1966), so that's 16.5 comics. At today's prices, even using the increasingly-less-common $3/comic, that's about $50. No thank you, I'm going to buying some great Kirby and Ditko comics from Marvel and a whole bunch of DC comics with go-go checks.

By: Andres

Andres — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:12:40 +0000

The ‘real bunny rabbit ears’ antenna is what creeps me out. What did they do to a poor rabbit to make him into an antenna?

By: Erik

Erik — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:52:20 +0000

I JUST ordered the Polar Lights reissue from Amazon! Like two days ago!!

By: Johnny Bacardi

Johnny Bacardi — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:08:02 +0000

I wouldn’t have nearly as much trouble- I used to own one of these when I was 6 years old! All I’d have to do is go back in time to my own house, wait till I went to bed (ooh, paradox!) then grab the model kit.

I don’t know what happened to it now, so it’s possible that some alternate reality me has already done this.