What's in the Box?!? Funko Marvel Collector Corps April 2018

I’m feeling a little down today, I have to admit. It’s just been a crazy week, with another crazy week ahead, and a busy weekend in the middle. However, yesterday, I got to take a break and go see Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War with my wife. I thought it was a great Avengers movie. The filmmakers managed to capture on the big screen the same feelings I got reading comics like Infinity Gauntlet and Crisis on Infinite Earths and all those other great superhero crossover stories when I was a kid.

Tying in with the release of the movie, Funko delivered what appears to be their final Marvel Collector Corps box. The theme this time around is Infinity War, and when I picked it up off the porch, it was a big one. (You’ll have to take my word for it; for once, Gizmo wasn’t interested in jumping inside the box to show the scale.) Do the contents live up to the excitement of the huge box? Is the Marvel Collector Corps going out with a bang? Let’s check it out!

What's in the Box?!?: April Funko Disney Treasures

Welcome back! Sorry I missed posting last week; once again, I was feeling overwhelmed by the world. I did finally get to see Black Panther with my wife, though, and we loved it! This week, I’ll be talking about the contents of the latest Disney Treasures box from Funko. Is this the last box  they’ll be producing in this subscription? I’m not even sure what’s going on with their subscription boxes any more, to be honest. Just taking it one box at a time any more.

What's in the Box?!? Funko Star Wars Smugglers Bounty April 2018

This past week has been frustrating for a number of reasons. There’s the general atmosphere of the world around us, which just depresses and upsets me. Then there have been more than a couple of personal frustrations, both at home and at work. On the other hand, my wife has been trying a new job from home, and it looks like it might be starting to pay off. And today, we had my car washed at a student fundraiser to raise money for a local high school’s robotics club. I felt good about that. 

Overall, though, I’ve been feeling pretty stressed out. I took an extra day off from work, which helped a little. I’ve also been retreating into my happy place a bit, which—as you can probably guess from last week’s entry—is Star Wars right now. So when I got a text from my wife the other day that the new Funko Star Wars Smugglers’ Bounty box had been delivered, I was pretty excited.

Star Wars Rebels

I first saw Star Wars in 1977, when I was eight years old. My parents took me to see it at the Coronet Theater in San Francisco, and it changed my life. I had loved other things—Sesame Street, Mister Rogers, I don’t even remember what else—but Star Wars was the first thing of which I became a passionate fan. Over the years, my interest waxed and waned; I drifted away after the first trilogy ended and came back when the second began. Now that we are getting annual Star Wars movies, I’m very much obsessed again. However, it may come as a surprise that my favorite iteration of Star Wars isn’t any of the nine movies (although I love them all, to a greater or lesser degree) but the animated TV series, Star Wars Rebels.