What-What?! Week of September 15th

Yesterday, I took the boys to the Funko main store in Everett.  We've been a few times before and always have fun, and I thought it was about time to go again.  This time they had the "make your own pop" set up with a variety of monster bits, so the boys each made themselves one.

Had to check out the Batmobile again

Maleficent is one of the favorites over in the Disney section

After visiting the store, we hit up the bakey/cafe next door and got donuts, milk, and coffee

Osric's was messy -- his frosting just got on everything!

Osric and his Monster King

Corwin's Space King

What-What?! Week of February 25th

Okay, now that our little power outage is done, we'll write a blog post. xP

While Johnny was visiting, we hit up the Funko store; this is the kids' first time going, and they had a lot of fun.

Sitting in the Batmobile with Batman:

Getting run over by the Batmobile:

Iron Man in his hulkbuster armor

The Star Wars zone -- this tauntaun is so cute!

And with the adorable snow trooper

And Chewie

This is Maleficent, from Sleeping Beauty, as a dragon... she also appears as herself in a different part of the area.

Godzilla; this is one of those places where taking a picture sucks because of the lighting on the sculptures

What-What?! Week of October 15th

Yesterday, the husband and I got to have a date night with just the two of us.  Since we didn't have any kids with us, we decided to go to the Funko headquarters, located in downtown Everett.  Funko makes collectable licensed vinyl figures, t-shirts, and other accessories.  The most common style they make generally looks like this, with the big square head:

(source: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0552/1401/products/4780_Avengers_2_Thor_hires_large.jpg?v=1417639793)

Funko recently moved to downtown Everett, and afterwards opened their headquarters up with a new store and what can only be described as attractions.  The outside of the building has giant-sized figures:

(source: https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/funko4-630x354.jpg)

Inside, there are various themed areas; superheroes, Disney, Harry Potter, Star Wars...  There were tons and tons of people there, so we didn't take any pictures, but here's some from the local newspaper:







One of the coolest things they have is a full-sized Adam West-era Batmobile model that you can actually sit in:

(source: https://13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-20-at-1.48.05-PM-copy.png)

Overall, it was much cooler than I had expected.  We will be taking the kids back at some point, though preferably sometime when there are fewer people.

Oh, and I bought myself an MLP -- Daring Do (essentially, Indiana Jones):